August 2010 – Page 17 – Public Intelligence Blog

This is a good idea/resource that needs a great deal of additional information and mobile SMS access.

Thanks to those posting at the Ushahidi Twitter feed

2010/08/13

Videos of Safer, Versatile, Durable, Open Source Wheelchairs for the Developing World

01 Poverty, 07 Health, International Aid, Technologies

"rough rider" made with local parts, modifiable design, and open source

+ Video of Whirlwind Wheelchair International's modifiable “rough rider” design (open source design)

+ Inspiring Frontline video segment of stories from Vietanam about the “rough rider” wheelchair from Whirlwind Wheelchair Intl

+ Whirlwind Wheelchair International website

This has been added to the “micro-giving” global range of needs product list

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NIGHTWATCH Extract: China – North Korea Law Enforcement…the Hybrid Model Advances

02 China, 08 Wild Cards, Collective Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), Methods & Process, Reform, Strategy

China-North Korea: China offered to help North Korea control cross-border crime and build law-enforcement forces, according to a report by Agence France-Presse on 12 August. A spokesman also said China provided military equipment to North Korea's National Defense Commission during a visit by China's Deputy Public Security Minister Liu Jing on 8 August.

North Korea's Security Ministry staff and a Chinese public security delegation met on 12 August, according to the Korean Central News Agency.

NIGHTWATCH Comment: The reports are intermittent in the public media, but cumulatively they establish a pattern of China using economic and law enforcement linkages to tie North Korea more tightly. When North Korean leadership has been strong, it strongly and successfully has resisted Chinese initiatives. That does not appear to be the case at this time. China's admission of providing “military equipment” is unusual and rare. The actors mentioned in the report suggest the reference is to crowd control equipment.

NIGHTWATCH KGS Home

Phi Beta Iota: Hybrid and M4IS2 (along with bottom-up self-governance) will be the defining attributes of local to global governance in the 21st Century. The USA has consistently made the mistake of selling arms and withholding information sharing and intelligence capacity building (providing stealable funds does not count). A mix of hybrid bi-lateral (such as Australian-Cambodian task forces on human trafficking) and hybrid multi-lateral (e.g. a regional intelligence centre for Central America) will flip the international relations and national security paradigms.

2010/08/122010/08/13

Search: american jihad

Searches

WordPress produces stuff in reverse chronological order. American Jihad, by Steve Emerson, was published 28 January 2003 and reviewed16 February 2003, which puts it at the very end of a long list of other relevant hits. This search focus will ensure it comes up fast next time.

Graphic: American Jihad Nodes

Review: American Jihad–The Terrorists Living Among Us

The below book may have drawn on Steve Emerson's accomplishments as if they were the author's. It is never-the-less a superb book that complements the work by Steve Emerson.

Review: Terrorist Hunter–The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America

See Also:

Wikipedia Steve Emerson

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Earth Intelligence Network Twitter Feed Links (that were not listed here)

02 Infectious Disease, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 06 Russia, 07 Health, 10 Transnational Crime, Geospatial, Mobile, Technologies, Videos/Movies/Documentaries, Waste (materials, food, etc)

Below are interesting links/stories from our Twitter feed that were not posted to Phi Beta Iota due to time constraints, etc:

2010/08/122010/08/23

CIA Deceives Supreme Court + Former Guantanamo Detainee Running For Office in Afghanistan

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, Corruption, Government, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy

CIA hid terrorism prisoners from US Supreme Court

August 12, 2010 by JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |

The Central Intelligence Agency purposefully concealed at least four terrorism detainees from the US legal system, including the Supreme Court, according to an exclusive report by the Associated Press. The news agency has revealed that the CIA secretly transported the four to Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp on Cuba in 2003, two years before it publicly admitted their capture. It then secretly transferred them again to other sites in its black site prison network in various countries around the world, just three months before their prolonged stay at Guantánamo would entitle them to legal representation. While at Guantánamo, the four prisoners, Abd al-Nashiri, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, Ramzi Binalshibh and Abu Zubaydah, were kept at a facility known as ‘Strawberry Fields’, which is detached from the main prison site at the bay. By hiding the four, the Bush Administration managed to keep them under CIA custody while denying them legal representation for two years longer than allowed by US law.

Former Guantanamo Detainee Running For Office in Afghanistan

Quil Lawrence, August 10, 2010 | wgbh.org |

Izatullah Nusrat, 42, was held at the U.S. facility in Guantanamo for nearly five years. Now he is back in Afghanistan and running for election to Parliament in the Sept. 18 election. Nusrat has harsh words for Americans, but he favors working with the current government over the Taliban and says he wants the fighting to stop.

2010/08/12

Headlines on Public Intelligence

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How News Organizations Should Prepare for Data Dumps

PBS MediaShift Idea Lab 2 August 2010 by Martin Moore

5 Questions

Here are just five (of many) questions news orgs should ask themselves when they get their next data dump:

1. How do we harness public intelligence to generate a long tail of stories? Though the Telegraph succeeded in unearthing dozens of stories from the Parliamentary expenses data, the handful of reporters in the bunker could never trawl through each of the millions of receipts contained on the computer disks. It was The Guardian that first worked out how to deal with this; it not only made the receipts available online but provided tools to search through them and tag them (see Investigate your MP's expenses). This way it could harness the shared intelligence — and curiosity — of hundreds, if not thousands, more volunteer watchdogs, each of whom might be looking for a different story from the expenses data. As a result, the Guardian generated many more stories and helped nurture a community of citizen scrutineers

Gen Pasha’s goal: Burnishing the ISIs image

RupeeNews, 31 July 2010

First, under his leadership the ISI has embarked on an unprecedented mission to revamp its international image. On the one side, this has led to a campaign of “public intelligence,” in line with the very fashionable public diplomacy concept. Never before have so many Western journalists and delegations been invited to visit ISI’s headquarters in Islamabad, where they are object of an intense PR campaign “over tea and PowerPoint briefings.”

Don't forget Rice »

NY Daily News, 27 July 2010 By Bill Hammond

Here's Nassau District Attorney Kathleen RIce's entry in the post-debate debate: “a Wall Street accountability plan”:

Some hallmark elements of DA Rice's plan include amending the Martin Act to grant the AG examination authority essentially akin to an open warrant over financial agents; expanding the Investor Protection Bureau and making it self-funding by diverting a percentage of penalties and settlements back to the OAG; putting information about financial agents in a new online database for consumers; and encouraging Wall Street whistleblowers to come forward with the help of a Special Deputy Attorney General for Public Intelligence.

Month: August 2010

Pakistan Medical Resource Finder, Millions at Risk of Fatal Diseases

http://pakistan.resource-finder.appspot.com