Dr. John v. Kampen

Posts tagged with "geopolitics"

Zbigniew Brzezinski on the shift of power in this world

Sunday, March 10, 2013 7:20:28 AM

geostrategist, Europa, geopolitics, Brezinski ...

Zbigniew Brzezinski is a prominent Polish-American geostrategist. Since 1997 I follow him and his opinions after he published his for Europe so determining book: The Grand Chessboard. Has his vision of a "greater America" with the pre-eminence of the USA changed? Listen to this interview.

John

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Stratfor CEO and How to handle a Crisis

Friday, January 13, 2012 10:09:42 AM

world, news, security, hackers ...

One of my important geopolitical sources of information is Stratfor. Not only for me, but for many thousands of professionals and organizations who need solid information about the world we are in. Stratfor delivers that. December last year computers from this publisher were hacked. It revealed serious flaws in the data-management of this company. Credit card numbers and contact names appeared not to have been encrypted and could be stolen. Anonymous hackers put acquired data on the Internet and succeeded in bringing down the operations of this company.
Dr. George Friedman, CEO of Stratfor and his managements team took decisive actions. They immediately called in the FBI and several top-experts to minimize the damage and restore the operations in a more secure way. One wonders what the purpose of this 'attack' was? Who has any interest to know the names of individuals who f.ex. watched the Stratfor website, or who ordered some publication? The company is running again, their important information is flowing and data is stored in a new, secure way. There are lessons to be learned here. The most important one for hackers: their Stratfor data is useless and worthless. Had they informed Stratfor, I think they might have earned a few generous dollars instead, for their useful information about some internal system-flaws!

Greece out of Europe? What does that mean? Watch this Stratfor analysis...

Friday, September 30, 2011 7:52:44 PM

people, money, crisis, geopolitics ...

Is it by overlooking the Greek history, is it its geography or something else that caused the hair-raising crisis that its population must suffer. There is no discussion about: Greece is bankrupt and will -miracles excepted- never be able to stand on its own feet for the rest of this century. Although: neither did it before. This observation lies at the very foundation of a recent analysis by Strategic Forecasting, Inc. or STRATFOR, from Austin, Texas. It's one of my trusted sources for geopolitical information. It provides quality-intelligence to broadcasters, politicians, companies and people like you and me. The current analysis of Greece is very clear and informative. It leaves little to be desired to put the crisis in a proper geopolitical perspective. Can Greece be saved by pumping hundred of billions of Euro into its economy? What is the outlook for creditors and the rest of Europe? Politicians are dragging their feet to tell the truth. Now STRATFOR does it for them...