Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Paul Fernhout: Global Groundswell Mad as Hell

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government
Paul Fernhout

Global Groundswell: Mad as Hell

Eric Best,

Truthout, 9 September 2011

EXTRACT:

These are just a few examples of grassroots reactions around the world to governments that appear out of touch with or indifferent to the lives of the people – and the people are not standing for it anymore. They are standing up. And in so doing, they are able to leverage the Internet to discover important truths, publicize their efforts, reveal the tyranny or venality of the opposition and draw those of like mind into efforts of resistance and change.

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It also suggests a world in which rapid collaboration can occur around an idea faster than at any time in history. And this will make for volatile politics. This should be contemplated by regimes that have lasted this long without attending to the fundamental needs of people – jobs, education, health, opportunity. Where the governments are failing to “do it all” – and it seems increasingly that all governments are – people are rising up with unprecedented power to do more – if not all – for themselves.

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It is not too much to imagine this will involve the United States, where many are now fed up with its intransigent if not incompetent government.

Read full article.

See Also:

Graphic: Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today

Paradigms of Failure

Legitimate Grievances (US Internal)

Legitimate Grievances (Anti-US Global)

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Reference: Stray Dogs and Virtual Armies – Radicalization and Recruitment to Jihadist Terrorism in the United States Since 9/11

03 Economy, 04 Education, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence

Since September 11, 2001, so-called “homegrown terrorists,” working alone or with others, have planned and in some cases implemented terrorist activities, contributed financial or other material support to others' terrorist activities, or become radicalized in the United States and then traveled to other countries to conduct terrorist activities directed against those countries or against the United States. This paper examines the cases of homegrown terrorism from 9/11 through 2010, highlights lessons learned from those cases that suggest actions for the future, and includes a chronology of numbers and case descriptions of terrorist events in the United States during that period. Most of the individuals involved are Muslim, but the numbers are small. A total of 176 Americans have been indicted, arrested, or otherwise identified as jihadist terrorists or supporters since 9/11. They were involved in 82 cases, a majority of which involve the actions of a single individual. Al Qaeda has increasingly used the Internet to build an army of followers. Many of the terrorists identified in this study began their journey online. However, al Qaeda has not yet managed to inspire its online followers to action. Few of the 32 locally hatched jihadist plots to carry out terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11 got much beyond the discussion stage. Nevertheless, al Qaeda remains a threat. More terrorist attempts will occur. Traditional law enforcement, in which authorities attempt to identify and apprehend a perpetrator after a crime has been committed, is inadequate to deal with terrorists who are determined to cause many deaths and great destruction and who may not care whether they themselves survive. Public safety demands a preventive approach — intervention before an attack occurs. In addition to law enforcement, intelligence collection, and community policing, public reaction is an essential component of such preventive defense.

Source

Tip of the Hat to Berto Jongman for the pointer.

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Search: citation indices services

Searches

The original citation service in the USA is provided by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), which publishes the Science Citation Index (SCI) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI).  These are both online at DIALOG, and can be searched using the RANK command to identify the top 10, 20, 100 authors based on a specified topic and how many times others have cited them.  Generally it is useful to also note the number of articles each author has published, and to create a visualization of the citation clusters that quickly identify both centers of excellence and citation “clubs” a form of citation incest.  Acquired by Thomson Reuters, and losing Eugene Garfield and Henry Small (the latter to Maps of Science, see below), this is still the primary service but not growing to its fullest potential.  We exploit this via specialist information brokers; Mary Ellen Bates in particular has pioneered use of the RANK command–someone who does not know what they are doing can run up a huge bill that is not necessary.

Elsevier, late to the game, publishes an online service, Scopus.

China has adapted the idea to its own publications, and this is an extraordinary resource, one that a multinational Open Source Agency would strive to rapidly extend to all nations and all languages.  This is not to be confused with the effort by Thompson Reuters to expand into Chinese citation analytics as described by Philip Purnell in “Citation Analysis in China,” Beijing, May 2011.

Maps of Science, founded by Dick Klavans, who is unique for having complete access to all ISA data for his company, recently confirmed by a court when ISI balked at honoring its original deal, is the best exploitation scientist and artist we know of, using citation to find clusters of excellence and to identify gaps at the national, industrial, or company level.

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Marcus Aurelius: The Covert Commander in Chief

Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Government, IO Deeds of War, Media, Military
Marcus Aurelius

The Covert Commander In Chief

By David Ignatius

Washington Post, September 11, 2011

Pg. 15

It's an interesting anomaly of Barack Obama's presidency that this liberal Democrat, known before the 2008 election for his antiwar views, has been so comfortable running America's secret wars.

Phi Beta Iota:  Full story below the line together with a detailed indictment of David Ignatius for spreading such blatant lies on behalf of the secret world and in direct contradiction to the President's actual fears and concerns.

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Marcus Aurelius: 5 Ways 9/11 Transformed US Military

Corruption, Military
Marcus Aurelius

Five Ways 9/11 Has Transformed The US Military

The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, fundamentally transformed the way the United States military wages war. With the invasion of Afghanistan and, months later, Iraq on the heels of 9/11, the wars have caused the Pentagon to rethink the way it fights, how it spends money in times of crisis, and what it values in both its highest and lowest-ranking commanders. The Monitor asked experts to weigh in on the Top 5 ways in which 9/11 has changed the US military.

1. How the US military fights on the ground

2. How it spends its money

3. The role of women in the ranks

4. Expanded Use of Special Operations Forces

5. What it values in its leaders – and how it cares for them

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Howard Rheingold: Art of Thin Web Collection

Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Methods & Process
Howard Rheingold

GoogleWebSearchEducation

01 Beyond The First Five Links (Tasha Bergson-Michelson–January 12/13, 2011–1 hour 9 minutes)

02 Tools for Assessing Authority on the Web (Julian Prentice–March 15/16, 2011–50 minutes)

03 Introduction to Maps for Research (Trent Maverick–April 12/13, 2011–1 hour 7 minutes)

04 Writing Successful Queries with Predictive Searching (Tasha Bergson-Michelson–May 4, 2011–57 minutes)

Gathering and Filtering Relevant Content: Introduction to Attensa & the StreamServer

Use Dapper To Create RSS Feeds From Any Page, Including Google Plus Posts

Phi Beta Iota:  Google is “thin web” not deep web.  For deep web other tools are required, such as Deep Web Technologies, and human networks that do pro-active sharing at the C drive level.

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