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2011/10/142011/10/17

Tom Atlee: #OWS How Do You Make a New World?

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, IO Deeds of Peace

Occupy Wall Street: What is involved in making a new world?

My sleep was cut short last night by waking up worried at 3:30 a.m. PST about NYC Mayor Bloomberg's ultimatum that the Occupy Wall Street protesters leave Zuccotti Park – aka Liberty Square – at 7 a.m. EST so the park could be cleaned. I won't share the nightmare scenarios my mind concocted, but I finally got up and was profoundly relieved to find that the intervention had been “postponed”. The Mayor's office said that park owner Brookfield Properties “believes they can work out an arrangement with the protesters that will ensure the park remains clean, safe, available for public use and that the situation is respectful of residents and businesses downtown, and we will continue to monitor the situation.” When it was announced, the massive crowd of protesters went joyfully wild.
http://bit.ly/oFLevN

Apparently a number of factors made a difference: massive protest from many quarters (including Canadians protesting to Brookfield, which is a Canadian company); the occupiers thoroughly and very visibly scrubbing down their already quite clean site during the night; a LOT of supporters showed up overnight; and they were visibly preparing for a lockdown resistance – explaining on their site how to lock arms, bike lock themselves to things, etc. Many observers (including me) suspect Bloomberg's “clean the park” project was a thinly disguised attempt to end or cripple the occupation, but at least he recognized what a mess it would make – in SO many ways – to proceed. So these determined interesting folks have made it over one more dramatic hurdle in their quest for a better world.

Several days ago I sent free copies of my two books (Priority Mail) to the Occupy Wall Street library. I'm happy they escaped the “cleaning” intervention. I encourage any other authors on this list to consider donating copies of their works. The ideas of people interested in co-intelligence should be made available to the protestors. The address is

The UPS Store
Re: Occupy Wall Street
118A Fulton St. #205
New York, NY 10038

While proceeding with work on my new book on empowered public wisdom, I continue to be fascinated by the ever-expanding Occupy movement. I find myself spending about half my time tracking it and its impact. It is quite a remarkable phenomenon. In this posting, I'm especially interested in their process.

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2011/10/142011/10/17

Koko: Teacher Burns Herself to Death in Playground

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of Peace, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call

Koko Signs: Koko sad. Governments fiddle, people burn.

Teacher dies in France after setting herself on fire

An apparently depressed maths teacher in southern France has died after setting herself on fire in the playground of her secondary school.

Students and teachers rushed to help the woman, 44, after she doused herself with petrol during morning break and set herself alight.

Read full story.

Phi Beta Iota: The USA has already had one veteran burn himself to death, while 18 a day are committing suicide (and in Iraq, more die from suicide each month than from combat). The US Government is very, very sick of mind, lacking soul and heart, completely divorced from reality and integrity. A couple of soccer moms are next–are you ready?

He may be an example of what is to come – people throwing themselves violently up against the system in order to bring it down.

G.I. Wilson: Killer Drones, Moral Disengagement, + War Crimes RECAP

Joseph Stiglitz: The True Cost of 9/11 — Includes 18 Veteran Suicides a Day

2011 Thinking About Revolution in the USA and Elsewhere (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

2008 The Substance of Governance ELECTION 2008 Lipstick on the Pig (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Review: Shooting the Truth–The Rise of American Political Documentaries

2011/10/142011/10/17

#OWS Deputy Major Stops Confrontation Over Cleaning

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Blog Wisdom, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Government, Law Enforcement, Mobile

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 14, 2011
www.nyc.gov

STATEMENT OF DEPUTY MAYOR CAS HOLLOWAY ON BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES POSTPONING THEIR CLEANING OF ZUCCOTTI PARK

³Late last night, we received notice from the owners of Zuccotti Park Brookfield Properties that they are postponing their scheduled cleaning of the park, and for the time being withdrawing their request from earlier in the week for police assistance during their cleaning operation. Our position has been consistent throughout: the City¹s role is to protect public health and safety, to enforce the law, and guarantee the rights of all New Yorkers. Brookfield believes they can work out an arrangement with the protesters that will ensure the park remains clean, safe, available for public use and that the situation is respectful of residents and businesses downtown, and we will continue to monitor the situation.

Phi Beta Iota: NYPD and Bloomberg both understand that flash mobs can hand them their ass.

See Also:

John Robb: Bloomberg Cleaning Out OWS

#OWS Letter Seeking Eviction of OWS in NYC (sic)

Graphic: Twitter as an Intelligence Tool

Journal: PA & NYPD Criminalize Twitter

2011/10/14

Penguin: Patraeus Orders Analysts to Consult Military

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Analysis, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Government, Intelligence (government), IO Deeds of War, Officers Call

Corruption cubed.

Petraeus tells CIA analysts to heed troops on war

AP, 14 October 2011

WASHINGTON – David Petraeus, the former general who led the Afghanistan war and now heads the CIA, has ordered his intelligence analysts to give greater weight to the opinions of troops in the fight, U.S. officials said.

CIA analysts now will consult with battlefield commanders earlier in the process as they help create elements of a National Intelligence Estimate on the course of the war, to more fully include the military's take on the conflict, U.S. officials say.

John Robb: Bloomberg Cleaning Out OWS

09 Justice, Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government

BLOOMBERG VS. OCCUPY

New Rules from Zucotti ParkMayor Bloomberg is moving to shut down Occupy Wall Street at Liberty Square tomorrow at 7 AM.

The ruse he is using: the need to clean the “park.” He has promised that Liberty Square will be reopened after the cleaning but nobody will be allowed to set up anything in park, nor will sleeping bags be allowed (click the sheet to the left for larger version).

bloomberg notice — Click on Image to Enlarge

This is going to get interesting. Will be working up some ideas for how this could play out. Let's start off with an assumption. This is Bloomberg vs. Occupy. One mind vs. many minds. The goal is to coerce him into changing his mind. Dissuade him. Get inside his OODA loop.

Go straight for him. Maximize the eviction's taint on Bloomberg's personal brand. Personalize the protest/eviction by attaching the blame to him personally. Pierce his shield of bureaucratic impersonality. Brand the eviction with the name: Bloomberg. This is/will be a global stage, use it.

Confuse him. Lots and lots of Flash Mobs. Shut down bridges and major streets. Overwhelm with volume/speed. Non-violent disruption. As soon as police arrive in force, disperse and reassemble at new location. Bikes + Kids. Disrupt, disrupt, disrupt. More flashmobs = more disruption. As long as the square is under attack, keep the city tied in knots. NOTE: If they lock down the area, flashmobs are the best way to participate (and get some exercise).

Connect with more people than him. Best way to do this: Eyes in the sky. Get a camera/cameras above Liberty Square. Stream the feed. The better the quality the more impact it will have. It will play across the world. Think about how important AJs video feed over Tahrir was when things got hot. Better yet, get AJ to cover it and stream it.

If you have additional ideas, add them below. Good training in tactical thinking.

Hoisted from the comments:

The flashmob tactic was tried here in Panama couple of years ago by the SUNTRACS construction workers union, and with very small groups pre-planted all over the city they drove the police absolutely crazy. Police would show up at location A, mob would disperse immediately, two text messages and now TWO flashmobs would block streets at different locations. They never followed up with it (preferring massive marches to display force) but it worked very well and with much less people than #ows has available. [courtesy: Okke]

2011/10/14

Marcus Aurelius: North Korea Murder Plot and South Korea Counterintelligence MUCH Cooler (and More Credible) than Iran-US Goat-Fest

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, Government, Intelligence (government)

Marcus-Aurelius-150x150 — Marcus Aurelius

James Bond-style weapons found on North Korean assassin

Weapons straight out of a James Bond film have been put on display in Seoul after authorities found them on a North Korean assassin.

EXTRACT

The weapons include an innocent-looking black torch, complete with a wrist strap and the word “Police” along one side, that is actually a gun capable of firing a bullet.

Prosecutors in the South Korean capital say the weapon had a range of around 30 feet and was loaded with a bullet that was coated in a poisonous chemical. A mere 10 milligrams of the poison is sufficient to cause breathing problems or heart failure, they said.

In a televised demonstration of the gun, a bullet fired from the torch penetrated deep into a mattress from a distance of 16 feet.

Read full article.

Phi Beta Iota: The contrast to the Iran plot farce in the USA could not be sharper, especially when the bloated insane US budget of pasty-faced white guys engaged on “domestic security” is taken into account.

David Isenberg: Jim Clapper Claims Transformation — Robert Steele Comments on Each Misrepresentation

Dr. Russell Ackoff on IC and DoD + Design RECAP

Campaign for Liberty: Steele on IC and DoD

2011/10/132011/10/13

Video: Edible Education: Food Politics (Cal Berkeley)

01 Agriculture, 07 Health, Corporations, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Videos/Movies/Documentaries

Edible Education: The Politics of Food

Sep 23, 2011

Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor in Dept. of Nutrition at NYU.

A fantastic overview of the state of the American food system from food safety to marketing to children (Frosted Flakes & Froot Loops marketing budgets = $20million+), corporate lobbying against soda sugar tax, to the “food revolution” of more people demanding local organic foods, farmer's markets (over 6,132 in 2010), calorie labeling, and much more.

At this mark she mentions that campaign laws are the source of all government corruption and that “we” should run for office, inserting ourselves into the job positions filled with corrupt persons.

Also see:

USDA's distribution of food dollar (foodpolitics.com)
Letters and Science/Journalism 101: Edible Education: The Rise and Future of the Food Movement
Edible Schoolyard Project