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2011/03/212016/03/26

Reflections on Revolution, Information & Civil Affairs

The globalisation of revolution Taral Barlaawi Al Jazeera, 21 March 2011 Revolutions are caused by human agency; not telecommunications technologies, scholar argues. To listen to the hype about social networking websites and the Egyptian revolution, one would think it was Silicon Valley and not the Egyptian people who overthrew Mubarak. Via its technologies, the West …

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2011/03/182011/03/18

Reference: Freedom & Sovereignty in the Cloud

I am cheerfully optimistic that truth and trust will be the common currency of the 21st Century. This effort out of Hungary offers useful reflections on the degree to which privacy and anonymnity are necessary to “out” the old sovereignty and achieve a new sovereignty of the whole. In Focus/data sovereignty Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy …

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2011/03/182011/03/18

Globalization & Anti-Globalization: Information War

Listening to the Foes of Globalization Laurence Brahm South China Morning Post, 11/22/2005 EXTRACT: Ironically, those in the so –called anti- globalization movement are all for the globalization of information. Mobile phone and the Internet are most critical tools, forming an underground media that people globally must now turn to in order to understand what …

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2011/03/082011/03/08

Michael Moore on the Class War & Looting of America

Recommended! Phi Beta Iota: Two items are included in full below the line in sequence. To read them in their original online form, here are the two headlines: How I Got to Madison, Wisconsin …a letter from Michael Moore Michael Moore: The Smug Wealthy Have Gone Too Far — And We’re Finally Fighting Back

2011/03/06

Review (Guest): The Pentagon Labyrinth

Disclaimer: Werther is my good friend, but that said, the attached is an excellent review, IMO. Chuck Spinney ————————— Imperial Hubris: A Review of The Pentagon Labyrinth By Werther Electric Politics, March 6, 2011 12:33 PM * Werther is the pen name of a Northern Virginia-based defense analyst. In a recent radio interview, the British …

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2011/03/062011/10/22

Four Time Bombs Centered on Wall Street

March 1, 2011, 12:01 a.m. EST Four time bombs that will blow up Wall Street Commentary: Too late to jail bank CEOs; only revolution will succeed By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch Phi Beta Iota: Highlights include extimate that US is 44 trillion in debt; that nothing and Administration does will stop Wall Street–this is now …

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2011/03/062011/04/21

Graphic: Dutch Information Infrastructure Core Slide

Source: Reference: Building National Knowledge Infrastructure–How Dutch Pragmatism Nurtures a 21st Century Economy (The Cook Report on Internet Protocol)