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Greetings.  Never, ever search for Steele, he is “ever-present” and had to be taken off of the author tags otherwise it would be Steele and then a tiny small dot representing everyone else.

<Climate Confusion> by itself brings up two hits:

Journal: ClimateGate 19 December 2009 Morning

Journal: UN IPCC, Al Gore, & Big Doubts

“ClimateGate” is your hint–that is how we handle both the reality of climate change, and the fraud that characterizes Al Gore, Maurice Strong, and all those associated with the IPCC and the fraudulent carbon marketplace–they are the Enron of the environmental movement.  Searching for ClimateGate bring up the master list with all links:

Reference: ClimateGate Rolling Update

Climate Change is real–it is also 100 years away and a tiny fraction of Environmental Degradaton, which the vastly more responsible High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change put at #3 for the simple reason that poverty does more environmental degradation than all the corporations on the planet, and infectious disease (#2) further reduces diversity and impact on the environment.  Carbon is also a small part of climate change–paving over the wetlands, the HAARP Project, sulfer, mercury, all the toxins in our foods, all of these add up to climate change impacts–they just cannot be fraudlently traded the way the carbon market scam has been devised.

NIGHTWATCH on Afghanistan Open Source Video

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AfghanistanSpecial note. Lessons from the PBS show, Frontline, titled Behind Taliban Lines.

The first-hand video by Najibullah Quraishi is worth viewing on the PBS home page where it was posted today. Quraishi accepted an invitation by a Hizbe Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) commander to live with a HIG anti-government fighting unit in Baghlan Province.  Until the arrival of two men from Pakistan on his tenth day, he had unrestricted permission to video record the fighters.

During his ten days with the fighters, they attacked once. Their primary task was to detonate two homemade bombs on an improved road and destroy “enemy” vehicles.

A few points are worth noting.

Identification of the force. First, this video is the first open source medium to identify the affiliation of the fighters in Baghlan Province, a northern province south of Konduz that has experienced a rise in fighting in the past two years. They are not Taliban, but they are Pashtuns. They called themselves the Central Group, in the sense of the leadership or coordinating group, though no significant coordination with other groups took place in the ten days.

Leadership. The video confirmed that the Central Group is led by a local man and at least some of its members were locals. They were protected or given refuge by villagers who formed for the camera at least a part time militia that claim to support the Central Group.

Walk to work. It also showed that the men walk to their attack sites, sometimes six to ten kilometers.  Vehicles in this video were for courier duties or for travel to meetings, to get guns and so on. The HIG are bureaucratic and decentralized.

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Journal: US Counterterrorism Hosed, EOP/OMB AWOL

08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 11 Society, Ethics, Government, Law Enforcement, Methods & Process, Military, Peace Intelligence
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Hurdles Stymie Counterterrorism Center

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER, The New York Times (Syndicated)

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WASHINGTON — The nation's main counterterrorism center, created in response to the intelligence failures in the years before Sept. 11, is struggling because of flawed staffing and internal cultural clashes, according to a new study financed by Congress.

The result, the study concludes, is a lack of coordination and communication among the agencies that are supposed to take the lead in planning the fight against terrorism, including the C.I.A. and the State Department.

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Journal: Individual Dignity & Collective Defense

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, Civil Society, Law Enforcement, Mobile, Tools

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Google execs convicted in Italy for Down syndrome video

MILAN (Reuters) – A Milan court convicted three Google Inc executives on Wednesday for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with Down's syndrome by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.

Phi Beta Iota: The Italians made a mistake.  Instead of using the video to aggressively convict the bullies of the Down's syndrome boy, they are shooting the messenger.  This is just as ignorant and ill-advised as the police trying to criminalize Twitter  texts and cell phone video of police brutality.  The right of the people to bear witness cannot be undermined by the courts, IOHO.

Worth a Look: War-Evolution Blog (Mostly in French)

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We've held off on inserting multi-lingual access to this web site, still under development, but since it and other sites can be easily translated using Google Translate among others, that has not been a priority.

This recommended website is mostly in French, and comes recommended by a past director of the French national policy planning staff, the youngest person to ever hold the position and one of the most brilliant scholar-practitioners of knowledge as an economic good (or bad) we've ever met.

Search: archive oss.net

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Not happy with what came up for this search, so here is the human-in-the loop answer.

The OSS.Net, Inc. archives, including all electronic copies of all proceedings, training, lectures, and so on, is forever.  In the second column of this web site, under Antecedents, you will find a direct link back to OSS.Net, Inc.  At OSS.Net, Inc. all of the original front page categories still have hundreds of links that are not represented here at Phi Beta Iota.  Everything else (documents) is represented here at Phi Beta Iota.  All things being equal, you are better off searching here unless you are looking for links you remember, e.g. under Information Operations (IO) at the OSS.Net site.

The two organizing documents, www.oss.net/LIBRARY and www.oss.net/COMMUNITIES both remain active and cover OSS.Net, Inc. web site contents from the past, they are not updated to reflect all that has been added to Phi Beta Iota from Earth Intelligence Network and from Amazon.

HOWEVER, Phi Beta Iota, this web site, was created for three reasons:  1) because we finally got fed-up with Amazon's unrealiability and capriciousness in censoring and gutting original works; 2) as a better front end for OSS.Net and EIN, both of which are now “static” as sites but active as archives (we load all the new stuff to the server in Sweden, and then link to it from Phi Beta Iota); and 3) to serve as the virtual index and endnotes for the new book, INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability, which is being translated into multiple languages and will also have this web site easily accessed in multiple languages.

Journal: Multi-Lingual Social Networking, Arabic First

04 Inter-State Conflict, 08 Wild Cards, Civil Society, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process, Technologies, Tools
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Site Hopes Automatic Arabic-English Translation Translates into Peace

A new site hopes the seemingly simple idea of eliminating the language barrier, letting you write in English and be read in Arabic — and vice versa — will cultivate citizen diplomacy between the Middle East and the West. It aims to reduce tensions at the grassroots level between two cultures that increasingly co-exist but seem a world apart.

Meedan, which officially launches Monday, lets users post stories and comments in English and have them automatically translated into Arabic, or the opposite. People who don’t share a common language can have an online discussion in near real time. The name, appropriately, means “gathering place” or “town hall” in Arabic.

Think of it as a social network filled with people you don’t know, but want to understand.

Phi Beta Iota: This is righteous, but as Howard Bloom addresses in Global Brain, it will taqke 50 years and it will not achieve the intended result until the children who START with this are adults in power.  In the meantime, the adults in power who are both digitally and ideologically impaired, will continue to favor war to profit the few over peace to provide prosperity to the many.

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