NATO Against Libya: Piracy on a Grand Scale

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society
Cynthia McKinney

From Tripoli, Cynthia McKinney recommends this media report.

NATO operation in Libya is “piracy on an international scale”

Russia Television (print and video), 2 June 2011

NATO is not interested in a ceasefire in Libya as it craves regime change inthe country, believes International Action Center activist Sara Flounders.

”What NATO wants is regime change. They want absolute and total control of the largest oil resources in Africa,” she said. “They want ownership of the billions of dollars, more than $70 billion that Libya holds just in immediate assets from those past oil and gas sales. They want control of the whole infrastructure. None of this is about the humanitarian defense of the people of Libya, or of any group in Libya.”

”It really is piracy on an international scale,” Flounders added.

Read article and select two short videos if desired.

GIS Coming Of Age–Tufts 2011 GIS Expo

Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Earth Intelligence, Geospatial, info-graphics/data-visualization, IO Sense-Making

Phi Beta Iota: All of the posters (use link) are expandable and printable. Below are just a few examples. Visit the 2011 GIS Poster Expo Gallery for all the others.  These are generally GIS 2.0, and do not yet focus on “deltas” between collected data sets (e.g. Chinese investment and corruption), nor do they question standing assumptions (e.g. that wind farms are the answer vice individual windmills).

Identifying Strategic Protest Routes for Civil Resistance
Identifying Strategic Protest Routes for Civil Resistance


Chris Sall
Climate Change Vulnerability: Mekong River Delta, Vietnam_


Patrick Neeley
Salt Lake Country Accessibility Model


Kirsten Wallerstedt
Chinese Investment in Africa: Good or Bad?


Jessie Pearl
Ground Source Heat Implementation in Massachusetts


Nicole Henretty
Food Security in Guatemala after Tropical Storm Agatha


Samantha Harris
Suitable Locations for Wind Farms in Mat-Su Borough, Alaska

GIS and Civil Resistance Route Planning

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Patrick Meier

Identifying Strategic Protest Routes for Civil Resistance: An Analysis of Optimal Approaches to Tahrir Square

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Patrick Meier| Leave a comment

My colleague Jessica recently won the Tufts GIS Poster Expo with her excellent poster on civil resistance. She used GIS data to analyze optimal approaches to Tahrir Square in Cairo. According to Jessica, many previous efforts to occupy the square had failed. So Egyptian activists spent two weeks brainstorming the best strategies to approach Tahrir Square.

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Phi Beta Iota:  GIS is a two-edged sword, oppressive regimes can do this also.  However, the “crowd” is more agile so on balance, GIS favors We.

Australians: Our Shit is Pure, No E Coli Possible Here

01 Agriculture, 07 Health, 08 Wild Cards, Civil Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Government

Just too funny to not post.  Evidently the Australian government has not made the connection between animal and human shit in the groundwater causing E. coli and other forms of disease migrating into vegetables–as occurred in the USA when spinach and cow shit combined.  Immaculate Australian shit–perhaps it's all the beer they drink.

Deadly E. coli outbreak ‘won't happen here'

ABC News (Australia), 5 June 2011

Deadly: The E. coli outbreak has so far killed 22 people in Europe (AFP : Christian Charisius )

Australia's peak vegetable group says the E. coli outbreak which has killed 22 people in Europe is unlikely to strike Australia.

FBI Success Story on IEDs in Afghanistan

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Government, Intelligence (government), IO Sense-Making, Law Enforcement, Methods & Process
Marcus Aurelius Recommends

Sometimes there are good things to report.  Part 7 is the one to reflect on.

FBI Mission Afghanistan

Part 1: Our Role in a War Zone | Video
Part 2: Major Crimes Task Force | Video
Part 3: Contract Corruption
Part 4: Biometrics, a Measure of Progress
Part 5: Pamir Air Crash | Video
Part 6: Analysts in the War Zone
Part 7:  An Early Presence, IED Task Force

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Index to FBI Intelligence Stories Online