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Dear friends,

It is with great pleasure that I can introduce you to the International Civil Society Network on Infrastructures for Peace (I4P). The network and website are launched today: www.I4Pinternational.org

Many countries lack capacities and structures to deal adequately with on-going and potential violent conflict. This has emerged as a central obstacle to the attainment of equitable and sustainable development. In recent years, the number of conflicts has been increasing once again. We need comprehensive, inclusive and long-term approaches to peacebuilding, which involves the main stakeholders. Infrastructures for Peace and Local Peace Committees can be important pillars to counter these dangerous developments or substantially reduce their impact.

These months, several interesting articles on I4P are released: in the new Peacebuilding Journal, the Berghof-Handbook Dialogue Series on Peace Infrastructures, in Pensamiento Propio and soon a whole issue on this topic of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. Our website will tell you how to find the articles on I4P.

Several local peacebuilding NGOs and practitioners felt the need to exchange experiences and best practices about this approach and make I4P more recognised:the network was born and counts now some seventy members. We have established an Interim Steering Committee with members from three continents.

I invite you to see our website and join our network if you are interested.

Best regards.
Paul van Tongeren

2013/03/122013/03/26

Paul Craig Roberts: Huge Chavez – Challenging Imperialism

Ethics

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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is now available.

Hugo Chavez — Challenging Imperialism

On March 5, 2013, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and world leader against imperialism, died. Washington imperialists and their media and think tank whores expressed gleeful sighs of relief as did the brainwashed US population. An “enemy of America” was gone.

Chavez was not an enemy of America. He was an enemy of Washington’s hegemony over other countries, an enemy of Washington’s alliance with elite ruling cliques who steal from the people they grind down and deny sustenance. He was an enemy of Washington’s injustice, of Washington’s foreign policy based on lies and military aggression, bombs and invasions.

Washington is not America. Washington is Satan’s home town.

Chavez was a friend of truth and justice, and this made him unpopular throughout the Western World where every political leader regards truth and justice as dire threats.

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2013/03/122013/03/26

John Maguire: WikiHouse – An Open Source Construction Set

#OSE Open Source Everything

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How It Works: “WikiHouse is an Open Source construction set. It's aim is to allow anyone to design, download, and ‘print' CNC-milled houses and components, which can be assembled with minimal formal skill or training.”

WikiHouse is an important piece of the puzzle for developing local-resilience and self-sufficiency from the bottom up. WikiHouse and other ambitious projects such as Open-Source Ecology represent the new-wave of community development/empowerment. There is no shortage of solutions in this world; all the tools for creating a post-scarcity era are at hand.

2013/03/122013/03/26

John Robb: Life in a Networked Age

Advanced Cyber/IO

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Life in a Networked Age

Posted: 02 Mar 2013 02:08 PM PST

Here's some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter.

To access it, let's make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate.

A technological substrate is the family of related technologies that we rely upon. In the 20th Century, we were clearly reliant on an industrial substrate.

The challenges posed by industrial age technologies dictated the development of two management forms: bureaucracy and markets. Bureaucracies and markets are both decision making systems. These management forms dominated economics, politics, and warfare for centuries.

Neither system of management is sufficient as a solution for industrial economics, politics, or warfare.

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2013/03/112013/03/26

Eagle: Facebook Strike Two — “Likes” Reveal All — Like It or Not

Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Government

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300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

Facebook ‘likes' predict personality

What do your Facebook likes say about you?

Sexuality, political leanings and even intelligence can be gleaned from the things you choose to “like” on Facebook, a study suggests.

Researchers at Cambridge University used algorithms to predict religion, politics, race and sexual orientation.

The research, published in the journal PNAS, forms surprisingly accurate personal portraits, researchers said.

The findings should “ring alarm bells” for users, privacy campaigners said.

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2013/03/112013/04/04

2013 Sanando a las Américas con una Agencia de Fuente Abierta

Articles & Chapters

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Documento (ocho paginas): Sanando a las Américas con una Agencia de fuentes abiertas de información 2.0

En Ingles: 2013 Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency

AAIntelligencia Marzo 2013: AAIMARZO2013

Sanando a las Américas con una Agencia de Fuente Abierta

¿Puede Chile llevar a las Américas hacia un sistema total de Todo Abierto (Open Source)?

Robert David STEELE Vivas, CEO, Earth Intelligence Network

*El autor fue invitado a dictar una conferencia por la Academia Nacional de Estudios Políticos y Estratégicos (ANEPE) en noviembre de 2010, cuyo tópico fue “El impacto de la globalización en la Inteligencia: Contexto y Cambios”. Dicha exposición (videos y gráficos), se encuentra disponible en español en: http://tinyurl.com/SteeleCHILE. Aquí el autor resume su presentación en la Junta Inter–Americana de Defensa (JID) en Washington, D.C. Hasta el momento dirigida por un general canadiense, la JID pronto será encabezada por el general chileno Werther Araya Menghini. Este informe original en Inglés se puede ver en http://tinyurl.com/IADB-Abierto. Una explicación del logo y el escudo de armas se puede encontrar en http://tinyurl.com/OSE-LOGO.

Desde mi punto de vista, la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) está próxima a su fin. Su reemplazo es posible, la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), es un organismo recién nacido y que no tiene voz todavía. La Junta Interamericana de Defensa (JID), independiente de la OEA y ahora parte subordinada de la OEA, está en el limbo; sin visión, sin dinero o mérito. Sólo 26 de los 34 miembros de la OEA son también miembros de la JID. El Colegio Interamericano de Defensa (CID), que está ubicado en un edificio integrado en el campo de la US Universidad Nacional de Defensa en Fort Leslie J. McNair, es el elemento sustancial del JID, y está abierto a todos los miembros de la OEA, no sólo para los representados en la Junta.

Tomando en cuenta lo anterior, propongo a la consideración de Centro América, Sud América y el Caribe tres ideas:

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2013/03/112013/04/04

2013 Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency

Articles & Chapters

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Document (4 Pages): Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency 2.0

En Espanol: 2013 Sanando a las Américas con una Agencia de Fuente Abierta

AAIntelligencia Marzo 2013: AAIMARZO2013

Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency

Can Chile Lead the Americas Toward Open Source Everything?

Robert David STEELE Vivas, CEO, Earth Intelligence Network

Editor’s Note: The author spoke in Chile in November 2010, sponsored by the National Academy for Political and Strategic Studies (ANAPE), on the topic of “Impact of Globalization on Intelligence: Context & Challenge. His complete briefing, in video and in graphics, both in Spanish, is free online at http://tinyurl.com/SteeleCHILE. Here the author summarizes his presentation to the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) in Washington, D.C. Now led by a Canadian general, the IADB will soon be led by Chilean General, Werther Araya Menghini. The original briefing in English can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/IADB-Abierto. An explanation of the logo and coat of arms can be found at http://tinyurl.com/OSE-LOGO.

In my view, the Organization of American States (OAS) is near death. Its possible replacement, the Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), is newly-born and has no voice just yet. The Inter-American Defense Board (IADB), independent of the OAS and now a subordinate part of the OAS, is in limbo, lacking vision, money, or merit. Only 26 of the 34 members of the OAS are also members of the IADB. The Inter-American Defense College (IADC), located in a single building near the US National Defense University at Fort Leslie J. McNair, is the one substantial element of the IADB, and is open to all members of the OAS, not only to those represented within the IADB.

I propose for consideration by Central and South America, and the Caribbean, three ideas:

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