Public Intelligence Blog – Page 3314 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Vol 5, No 1 (2011): Perspectives on Terrorism

Table of Contents Articles

A Blast from the Past: Lessons from a Largely Forgotten Incident of State-Sponsored Terrorism Ken Duncan

Internet Websites and Links for (Counter-)Terrorism Research Berto Jongman

Reactions to the War on Terrorism: Origin- Group Differences in the 2007 Pew Poll of U.S. Muslims Clark McCauley, Sarah Scheckter

Situational Awareness in Terrorism and Crime Prevention Glenn P. McGovern

Click on Cover for Book Reviews, Resources, Research

Phi Beta Iota: We highlight with great regard the contribution of Berto Jongman from The Netherlands, whose map of World Conflict & Human Rights remains a classic reference work.

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Al Jazeera: Obama Does Not Get It…

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Sense-Making

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Obama does not get it

If independent, democratic, governments are formed in the Middle East, they won't follow Washington's orders.

Lamis Andoni

09 Mar 2011 11:45 GMT

Al Jazeera

Barack Obama, the US president, has still not fully grasped the essence of the revolutions underway in the Arab world. He genuinely seems to believe that the people rallying for democracy in the region are making a pro-Western, if not pro-Israeli, statement.

Read full article….

See Also (all but two best pals of the Obama Administration):

Review: Breaking the Real Axis of Evil–How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025

2011/03/13

Blog Wisdom: Seven Questions for Leaders

Blog Wisdom

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Seven questions for leaders

Do you let the facts get in the way of a good story?

What do you do with people who disagree with you… do you call them names in order to shut them down?

Are you open to multiple points of view or you demand compliance and uniformity? [Bonus: Are you willing to walk away from a project or customer or employee who has values that don't match yours?]

Is it okay if someone else gets the credit?

How often are you able to change your position?

Do you have a goal that can be reached in multiple ways?

If someone else can get us there faster, are you willing to let them?

No textbook answers… It's easy to get tripped up by these. In fact, most leaders I know do.

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End operations in Afghanistan, Karzai tells NATO

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence

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ASADABAD, Afghanistan: Emotional Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday urged international troops to “stop their operations in our land”, his strongest salvo yet in a row over mistaken civilian killings.

Karzai's comments came after a week in which a relative of his was killed in a raid by foreign forces and he rejected an apology by the US commander of troops General David Petraeus for the deaths of nine children in a NATO strike.

“I would like to ask NATO and the US with honour and humbleness and not with arrogance to stop their operations in our land,” Karzai said, visiting the dead children's relatives in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan.

Read full article….

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Texas Rally to Vote on Secession from US

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence

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Commentary: Texas secessionists want a revolution and members

Bud Kennedy

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

It's almost mid-March.

Do you know where your Texas lawmakers stand?

If you're from Tyler, your state Rep. Leo Berman gave the OK for a rally last Saturday at the Capitol to promote a November vote on whether Texas should secede from the United States.

Read rest of short article….

Phi Beta Iota: Texas is not alone. The most likely states to secede are Vermont and Hawaii, followed by Texas and Alaska. If the US Government continues on its present course, we speculate that at least ten to fifteen states will evaluate, if not execute, secession options that include the recovery of federal lands, the exclusion of federal forces, and complete tax moratoriums.

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Kajoo: Open Source Civic Engagement Platform

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Mobile

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There is no info on the homepage yet but the press release is below – http://kajoo.org + the code is available at http://github.com/mjording/kajoo.org

10th March, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Open Source Civic Engagement Platform “Kajoo” ready to launch at SXSW

2011 is already the year of Internet-fuelled civic revolution. The
immediacy and reach of the social media now provides not just a
powerful way of connecting, but also a new sense of citizenship to
communities around the world.

Kajoo looks beyond today’s revolutions and explores what civic
engagement looks like in the age of social media. It has an engaging
interface that enables users to earn points and rewards for reporting
opportunities for civic improvement, proposing solutions, and
implementing those solutions.

Continue reading “Kajoo: Open Source Civic Engagement Platform”

2011/03/12

Event: 18 Mar San Francisco Open Source Ventures

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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.