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Six searches so far this morning merits attention. Although the machine search produces both the master list hit and the original listing of all airfields (which SOUTHCOM never really understood, or they were just timid), it does not produce the much cooler graphics that bear on reverse TPFID and regional intermediate TPFID (breaking down big air loads into small air loads, big boat loads into small boat loads, and for the really clever, peace jumpers calling in the geospatially accurate para-drops. In Operations Other than War (OOTW), communications and intelligence from the bottom up rule–command & control is displaced by coordination & collaboration, and the “art” is in getting peace jumpers in IMMEDIATELY (like Smoke Jumpers, they don't assume a safe landing), and then start streaming in paradrops, small air, and so on. The locals are not stupid–they will connect peace jumper with salvation the minute the first pallet of water hits the dirt. Information is a substitute for violence. Alvin Toffler was the first to get it.

Machine:

Haiti Rolling Update from 20100120…

22 Jan Reference: Haiti Airfields 101

Human in the Loop:

12 Jan Journal: Haiti Earthquake CAB 21 Sequence of Events

18 Jan Reference: Reverse TIPFID for Haiti

22 Jan Journal Haiti: Silly Question–Regional Traffic Management? Strategic Resettlement?

New Since Then:

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2011/03/182011/03/18

Reference: Freedom & Sovereignty in the Cloud

Advanced Cyber/IO, Articles & Chapters, Blog Wisdom, Cultural Intelligence

I am cheerfully optimistic that truth and trust will be the common currency of the 21st Century. This effort out of Hungary offers useful reflections on the degree to which privacy and anonymnity are necessary to “out” the old sovereignty and achieve a new sovereignty of the whole.

In Focus/data sovereignty

Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy and Sovereignty in the cloud

Wikileaks represents a new type of (h)activism, which shifts the source of potential threat from a few, dangerous hackers and a larger group of mostly harmless activists — both outsiders to an organization — to those who are on the inside. For insiders trying to smuggle information out, anonymity is a necessary condition for participation. Wikileaks has demonstrated that the access to anonymity can be democratized, made simple and user friendly.

Being Anonymous in the context of Wikileaks has a double promise: it promises to liberate the subject from the existing power structures, and in the same time it allows the exposure of these structures by opening up a space to confront them.

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The true potential of the cyberspace is not that it enables anonymous observation of the state power, but that it offers its citizens the chance to hide from observation. In other words the identity-protecting side of technology has more emancipatory power than its capability to obtain and expose secrets. Maybe less, and not more transparency is the path that leads to the aims of Wikileaks.

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2011/03/182011/03/18

Globalization & Anti-Globalization: Information War

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence

Listening to the Foes of Globalization

Laurence Brahm

South China Morning Post, 11/22/2005

EXTRACT: Ironically, those in the so –called anti- globalization movement are all for the globalization of information. Mobile phone and the Internet are most critical tools, forming an underground media that people globally must now turn to in order to understand what is really happening.

In the mainstream, multinational corporate media realm, actual events are edited, watered down a misconstrued. Newsreaders and commentators who sing the praises of globalization dismiss what is becoming a global, people’s free democratic movement with the crude label “anti-globalization”.

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2011/03/17

Japan Nuclear Effect Felt in Louisiana USA

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 10 Security, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, IO Mapping, Key Players

GM Suspends Shreveport Truck Output on Japan Parts Shortage

Bloomberg March 17, 2011, 4:13 PM EDT

By Craig Trudell

March 17 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Co., the largest U.S. automaker, will suspend production at its Shreveport Assembly in Louisiana for the week of March 21 because of a parts shortage resulting from the crisis in Japan.

Bruce Sterling at SXSW 2011–Brilliance on Twitter

11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Augmented Reality, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Real Time

The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences & Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW is the premier destination for discovery.

Phi Beta Iota: Jon Lebkowsky, himself a hero of the Hacker Revolution, has done something cool here.

01 At Southby, science fiction authors talk like they know what’s going on.
02 “There are people here who are younger than the event.”
03 All the political language has been rendered toxic.
04 Polarizing brand management. Culture wars. Politics from POV of a design critic.
05 As a design critic, I criticize stuff that doesn’t exist yet.
06 Bruce Sterling shows Worldchanging 2.0 (the book) at sxsw.
07 Passionate virtuosity…. the ideas in Worldchanging 2.0 are passionate but lack virtuosity.
08 We’ve got a series of problems that are poorly recognized.
09 In our society, we don’t have any passionate virtuosity.Our political situation is the opposite, disgusted incompetence.

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2011/03/172011/03/17

TED: Salman Khan–Use video to reinvent education

04 Education, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at home, and do “homework” in the classroom with the teacher available to help.

Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

Phi Beta Iota: The huge insight here is that today's digital natives not only learn better with video than in person, but it optimizes everyone's time: the learners can “control” the content to repeat as needed, while not hearing “do you understand” over and over; and the teacher can do more and more videos that can be used by more and more people. This flips the system–the lectures become homework, and “homework” becomes interactive teamwork in the classroom. Technology humanizes the classroom by moving the rote outside the classroom.

Graphic: Digital Learners versus Analog Teachers

2011/03/172011/03/17

Afghanistan Elective War: A Study of Citizen Minds

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Government, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence

65% of Americans Believe Afghan War Not Worth Fighting

Tuesday, 15 Mar 2011 01:41 PM

By Henry J. Reske

Almost 65 percent of Americans now believe that the war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting. The number is up 20 points from results in 2009 when 44 percent did not think the war worth fighting, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.