US-Korea Trade “Deal” is Dumb & Dirty

02 China, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corporations, Corruption, Government, Misinformation & Propaganda, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Waste (materials, food, etc)
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“What will N. Korea do with the money it gets from the U.S.- Korean Trade Deal?” Watch the video | Stop U.S.-Korea NAFTA

Conservative Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC) explains why Korean trade agreement threatens national security | Stop U.S.-Korea NAFTA

Conservative Pundit and Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on the Loss of U.S. Sovereignty under KORUS | Stop U.S.-Korea NAFTA

The North Korean Kaesong Sweatshop Zone

Libya Internet Flatlines–Spurs Autonomous Internet

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Autonomous Internet, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Government, Peace Intelligence, Technologies

Libya Internet is down again, according to Google tool

March 4, 2011 | 10:22 am  Los Angeles Times

Libya-traffic

Libya has shut off the Internet again, according to a Google monitoring tool.

As of about 8 a.m. PST Thursday (or 6 p.m. in Tripoli, Libya's capital), the nation's Internet traffic began to flatline, and has been at zero since, says Google's Transparency Report.

Phi Beta Iota: While the world watches Libya, the USA is in the process of making the Internet a monopoly that can charge by the application instead of by the packet.  In brief, Internet “neutrality” is a  fraud in the USA, and the FCC is a front for the very large ISP's just as the Federal Reserve is a front for the private banks.  Autonomous Internet is something that matters everywhere, including especially the USA.

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Autonomous Internet (55)

Crisis Mapping Libya: This Is No Haiti…

05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Mobile, Peace Intelligence, Policies, Real Time
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Crisis Mapping Libya: This is No Haiti

Patrick Meier

March 4, 2011 at 8:14 am

We activated the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) on March 1st and quickly launched a Crisis Map of Libya to support humanitarian preparedness opera-tions. This is the largest deployment of the Task Force since it was formed at the 2010 International Conference on Crisis Mapping in Boston (ICCM 2010). I'm amazed at how far we've come since the response to the Haiti earthquake.

Phi Beta Iota: We've been championing Open Everything since 1988, each year growing from our first realization that Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) was urgently needed to bring government back to accountability, legitimacy, and sanity through transparency.  Below are two graphics, two briefings and two chapters that summarize our recent work in this area.  Here we want to emphazize the emergence of the Autonomous Internet Road Map and the fact that the Crisis Mapping initiative is a very strong manifestation of the power of public intelligence in the public interest.

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Graphic: Open Everything

Graphic: Intelligence Maturity Scale

2010 M4IS2 Briefing for South America — 2010 M4IS2 Presentacion por Sur America (ANEPE Chile)

2010 The Ultimate Hack Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth (Chapter for Counter-Terrorism Book Out of Denmark)

2007 Open Everything: We Won, Let’s Self-Govern

Seven Answers–Robert Steele in Rome

Field to Fork: Tracking produce back to farmers

01 Agriculture, Technologies, Tools, True Cost

Harvestmark offers a mobile phone application and website that allows consumers to trace their food back to the farmers who grew it.  How much do we know about what is on our plate, and how easy is it to trace its source?

Source BBC

Phi Beta Iota: This is HUGE because it enables “true cost” information for each individual product to be posted on the web and instantly available to the smart phone user (the billion that buy most of the toxic products).  In many ways, this one capability marks the beginning of the integration of the Internet of people, the Internet of things, and the Internet of facts.

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True Cost Wiki

Sourcemap.org

Reference: Crisis Mapping

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Augmented Reality, Autonomous Internet, Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Ethics, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), International Aid, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Key Players, Maps, Methods & Process, microfinancing, Mobile, Open Government, Policies, Real Time, Reform, Threats, Tools
Michel Bauwens

Recommended:

see http://p2pfoundation.net/Crisis_Mapping,

part of http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Geography

and updated via http://delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Mapping

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Autonomous [Free, Distributed] Internet

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