The Office of Special Plans

The Office of Special Plans (OSP), which existed from September 2002 to June 2003, was a Pentagon unit created by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, and headed by Feith, as charged by then-United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to supply senior George W. Bush administration officials with raw intelligence (unvetted by intelligence analysts, see Stovepiping) pertaining to Iraq.[1] A similar unit, called the Iranian Directorate, was created several years later, in 2006, to deal with intelligence on Iran.[2]

Interesting Video

Attached is a piece by David Harvey, an awesome geographer. Details systems flaws in capitalism while focusing on the current cycle of crises ... very interesting. Video also has an amazing mind map by a group that has done several of these super intricate maps detailing complex topics ...
Also way to go Dante with all of your posts lately. I check the blog when I get an email and it requires someone commenting on the post to receive notification ... but when I have time I am excited to look through all of the stuff you have been posting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

List of unsolved problems in philosophy

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