The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Bahrain, Libya, and related reactions.
Phi Beta Iota: The ineptitude of the Western governments will go down in history. What started as a public uprising against dictators, with Muslim and Christian, Sunni and Shi'ite standing shoulder to shoulder, has now been flipped to military interim governments and a surge of Iranian proxies against Sunni allies of the USA.
Bay Area Community Exchange Presents John Robb's Open Source Ventures
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:30 PM (PT)
San Francisco, CA
The Bay Area Community Exchange presents John Robb, author of Brave New War and originator of the concept of “open source warfare” which predicted many of the patterns of conflict observed in the recent revolutions sweeping North Africa and the Middle East. Now he turns his attention from the future of war to the future of peace and presents the “open source venture” and his related startup, PictureThis, done in collaboration with bettermeans of Oakland.
Read his blog at globalguerrillas.typepad.com and his coverage of the ongoing revolutions at twitter.com/johnrobb.
Seating is limited, please reserve one here (even if you wish to make no donation, so that we can still assure you a place).
Donations will be accepted to cover event expenses and to fund BACE operations. BACE is an activity of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC), a non-profit organization concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity and emphasizing education for action – moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives.
Hacker Dinner III (open to all)
Date: Friday, March 18th, 7:00PM
Location: Heavenly Bamboo, 10 E. 39th St., between 5th and Madison
A gathering of tribes, for people to speak and think freely, while we still can.
Report on Hacker Dinner II: 20 people showed up.
Middle East 11 March general warning; Bahrain, Gulf Cooperation Council, Saudi Arabia, US-Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt (multiple), Libya, Libya-Netherlands, Benghazi Council-France; Warning doctrine and lessons.
Phi Beta Iota: The US Government appears to be lacking across the spectrum–no deep current knowledge and no contextual understanding of the difference between young digital natives and older dignity now protesters; no ability to differentiate or deliver covert no-obligation communications and small arms support or no-fly zones; and a very strong pro-dictator stance underlying the general grid-lock in US strategy, policy, and operations, none of which are intelligent or agile at this time. This is the wars of national liberation all over again, and US is blowing it…again.
Agora I/O is a new un-conference where you’ll find the greatest people, ideas and tools for advancing liberty. Agora I/O happens online, so anyone can participate. Plus it’s free! Our first conference, “Étienne,” runs from March 25th to 27th, 2011.
Egypt, Libya, Benghazi Council-Qatar, Morocco (the third way).
Sudan, Libya extended commentaries
