Category: Key Players

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End operations in Afghanistan, Karzai tells NATO

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence
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ASADABAD, Afghanistan: Emotional Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday urged international troops to “stop their operations in our land”, his strongest salvo yet in a row over mistaken civilian killings.

Karzai's comments came after a week in which a relative of his was killed in a raid by foreign forces and he rejected an apology by the US commander of troops General David Petraeus for the deaths of nine children in a NATO strike.

“I would like to ask NATO and the US with honour and humbleness and not with arrogance to stop their operations in our land,” Karzai said, visiting the dead children's relatives in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan.

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Texas Rally to Vote on Secession from US

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence

Commentary: Texas secessionists want a revolution and members

Bud Kennedy

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

It's almost mid-March.

Do you know where your Texas lawmakers stand?

If you're from Tyler, your state Rep. Leo Berman gave the OK for a rally last Saturday at the Capitol to promote a November vote on whether Texas should secede from the United States.

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Phi Beta Iota: Texas is not alone.  The most likely states to secede are Vermont and Hawaii, followed by Texas and Alaska.  If the US Government continues on its present course, we speculate that at least ten to fifteen states will evaluate, if not execute, secession options that include the recovery of federal lands, the exclusion of federal forces, and complete tax moratoriums.

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Self-Determination & Secession


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Revolution 2.0: Global Strike Proposed

08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process, Peace Intelligence, Reform, Tools

Time:  Friday, July 1 at 6:00am – July 8 at 11:00pm

Location:  GLOBAL

Created ByAwake And United: International Seekers Of Truth United!, Suzanne Az McHenry, Nelson Legacy, Justin Cooke, Chris Freedom Flowers III, Christopher R Flowers, Chris Freedom Flowers II, Mark A Jones, Fedge ‘Dnb' No, Gerry Hood, Huxley Steven Anderson, Wearechange Montreal

More Info GLOBAL STRIKE! 2011  ..  1.  Boycott  ..  2.  Strike  ..  3.  Prepare

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Phi Beta Iota: A one-day global block party or a one-day sick-out would make much more sense.  This is however an important example of both the scale that is possible and the seeding that is emergent.  The times they are a-changing.

 

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Worth a Look: Open Enterprise

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, IO Multinational, Key Players, Methods & Process, Open Government, Policies, Threats

The Open Enterprise is a new organizational design. Unlike organizations using traditional management structures, Open Enterprises replace the command and control hierarchy with a meritocracy based on collaboration and open participation.

Open Enterprise Manifesto

Open Enterprise Governance Model

BetterMeans Open Project Management Software

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Israel Wants Billions From US After Sticking It Hard…

08 Wild Cards, Corruption
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First they stick it to the US generally and Barack Obama specifically on the matter of the settlements, and now they want $20 billion from the US.  Note that the source of this report, “Ynet,” is an Israeli news outlet.

Israel seeks $20 billion in US military aid

Defense Minister sees no immediate threat in Egypt but fears repercussions of Mideast unrest. In Wall Street Journal interview, he says military upgrade can turn Israel into regional stabilizer

Ynet, 8 March 201103.08.11, 10:15

Defense Minister Barak said Israel might request an additional $20 billion in military assistance from the United States in order to prepare for possible threats, given the recent unrest in the Middle East.

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Reference: The Global Democratic Revolution Anew

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Analysis, Articles & Chapters, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence, Reform

The great events in tthe Arab world are part of a wider hidtorical process of worldwide democrativ advance.But the distrous events of the post-9/11 decade have made it far slower and more conflictual than needed, says Martin Shaw*

EXTRACT:  “…everywhere, the unifying thread is opposition to authoritarianism and aspiration to democratic rule; and the sense of a psychological break with the dictatorial past is unmistakable.”

* Martin Shaw is professorial fellow in international relations and human rights at Roehampton University, London, and an honorary research professor of international relations at the University of Sussex. His books include War and Genocide: Organised Killing in Modern Society (Polity, 2003); The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq (Polity, 2005); and What is Genocide? (Polity, 2007).

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Phi Beta Iota: One of the most concise, thoughtful, and inspiring summaries of both the present prospects and the recent failed past, all in the context of the past half century.

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HISTORICAL: Jack Davis, The Bogotazo

05 Civil War, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Analysis, Cultural Intelligence, Government
Jack Davis

The declassified version of my 1968 Studies in Intelligence article can be found in a couple of different formats under “Jack Davis, Bogotazo.”  Please post it. I think this is my first published work.

Take a look at the conclusions of an article I wrote 43 years ago, and substitute “North Africa” for “Latin America” and “al Qa’ida” for “Communists.”

Jack

APPROVED FOR RELEASE 1994 CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM 2 JULY 96

SECRET

Distant events shape the craft of intelligence.

THE BOGOTAZO

Jack Davis

On the afternoon of 9 April 1948, angry mobs suddenly and swiftly reduced the main streets of Bogotá to a smoking ruin. Radio broadcasts, at times with unmistakable Communist content, called for the overthrow of the Colombian government and of “Yankee Imperialism.” Many rioters wore red arm bands; some waved banners emblazoned with the hammer-and-sickle. A mob gutted the main floor of the Capitola Nacional, disrupting the deliberations of the Ninth International Conference of American States and forcing Secretary of State Marshall and the other delegates to take cover. The army regained control of the city over the next day or two. But not before several thousand Colombians had been killed. It was the bogotazo.

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