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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

Garland On Oil, Energy, & Presidential Non-Sense

05 Energy, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government, IO Sense-Making

Garland: “Pres. Obama, I too am exhausted defending you.”

What finally knocked me out of your camp was your speech last Friday…the one about energy. Let's break it down into specifics.

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Phi Beta Iota: Worth a full read for two reasons:

1. Demonstrates the non-sense a President can spout when his speeches are written based on the lack of coherent (holistic) open source intelligence within the US Government; and

2. Raises the rather fascinating idea that those regions that refuse to permit alternative energy (e.g. windmills) or refineries or other elements of a national energy infrastructure in their backyards should be limited in their access to domestic energy from others.

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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2011/03/172011/03/17

Climate Change as a Culture-Information Challenge

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 07 Health, 11 Society, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence, IO Sense-Making, Key Players

Study Says Climate Debate Is Largely Cultural

SustainableBusiness.com News, 03/17/2011

While debate on climate change often strikes a caustic tone, the real impediment to meaningful dialogue is that the two sides often talk past each other in what amounts to a “logic schism,” says a University of Michigan researcher.

America’s absurd stab at systematising sock puppetry

IO Impotency

America's absurd stab at systematising sock puppetry

The US has a chance to move on from a history of clandestine foreign policy – instead it acts like a clumsy spammer

Jeff Jarvis

The Guardian, 17 March 2011

The US government's plan to use technology to create and manage fake identities for social interaction with terrorists is as appalling as it is amusing. It's appalling that in this era of greater transparency and accountability brought on by the internet, the US of all countries would try to systematise sock puppetry. It's appallingly stupid, for there's little doubt that the fakes will be unmasked. The net result of that will be the diminution, not the enhancement, of American credibility.

But the effort is amusing as well, for there is absolutely no need to spend millions of dollars to create fake identities online. Any child or troll can do it for free. Millions do. If the government insists on paying, it can use salesforce.com to monitor and join in chats. There is no shortage of social management tools marketers are using to find and mollify or drown out complainers. There's no shortage of social-media gurus, either.

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.