April Post Re-Cap

The following headlines and links are extracted from the Earth Intelligence Network Twitter feed while this site was down in April: » FOIA document on counterfeit $100 note connection to North Korea http://is.gd/bRq31 + US dept of Treasury & ‘federal’ Reserve reveal new $100 bill design to combat counterfeiting (newmoney.gov) http://is.gd/bDDvQ » New global CrisisWatch …

ADMIN: Malware Defeated, Google Helped, Lessons Learned

We have eradicated the Malware that snuck in with a comment. It was a two-step process. 1) Delete all comments and then Close Comments. 2) Find the infected file that reactivated itself each time an unsecured computer visited Phi Beta Iota–evidently the robots are resident everywhere. We should have reacted to Google’s warning signals sooner. …

Event/Expo: May 1-Oct 31 2010, Shanghai World Expo

(from the expo website) With a long civilisation, China favours international exchange and loves world peace. China owes its successful bid for the World Exposition in 2010 to the international community’s support for and confidence in its reform and opening-up. The Exposition will be the first registered World Exposition in a developing country, which gives …

North Koreans + Cellphones = Subverting Oppression, Citizen Intelligence, Baring Secrets

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea, one of the world’s most impenetrable nations, is facing a new threat: networks of its own citizens feeding information about life there to South Korea and its Western allies. The networks are the creation of a handful of North Korean defectors and South Korean human rights activists using cellphones …

Journal: Pentagon Strategy & Policy Oxymoron Squared?

Phi Beta Iota: We don’t make this stuff up.  The Pentagon has no strategy because the U.S. Government has no strategy.  The National Security Council is managed by a General who emphasized getting along with the Chief of Naval Operation, never-mind leaving Marines wounded on the battlefield for lack of Naval Gunfire Support (NFS). Join …

EVENT REPORT: State of the Planet 2010, Columbia Univ, New York City

Panels and keynotes program schedule I was told via email from someone involved in the event that a video will be posted online.I will be posting this over a the Earth Institute blog (especially since it has zero comments for the March 25 event) as a challenge to improve the overall framework of the “State …