Mini-Me: Boston Casualties Vanish Into Thin Air + Boston/Texas Meta-RECAP

Huh? Treating the Marathon Casualties: Inside One Boston Emergency Room Ellen Harrell TIME, 15 August 2013 EXTRACT: Before long, they had set up a makeshift triage center in the lobby of the ER and began to treat the incoming — sewing up victims’ wounds and sending those with more-serious injuries through to be admitted. “We …

Owl: Micro-Nuke in Boston, Someone Planting False Evidence? Staged Fireball, Most Injuries Staged? + Meta-RECAP

The author of this article makes a good case for the claim that at least one of the bombs in the Boston marathon bombing was a tiny micro-nuke. When reading the start of this article, keep in mind what appears to be an error in the placement of the picture links or confusion in the …

Neal Rauhauser: Investigating Wikistrat & Comment on Twitter with Links

Wikistrat Investigation Summary Having had some success in domestic policy decision making, with Progressive Congress News being the final result, I thought I would see if there was anything that needed doing in the realm of foreign policy.  Wikistrat, [allegedly] the world’s first Massively Multiplayer Online Consultancy (MMOC), was something that was immediately visible once I …

Berto Jongman: World Citizens’ Truth Network Begins?

How might we gather information from hard-to-access areas to prevent mass violence against civilians? Worldwide Information Network System A web-based, open platform for actors in all sectors to share, visualize, and analyze data related to the underlying conditions of conflict that exist in areas prone to violence and mass atrocities globally to inform policy and …

Koko: China Rules Africa — and Ghost Towns…. + China Meta-RECAP

2013-04-03  Applause for China-Africa cooperation (Zambia) 2012-09-18  In Africa’s warm heart, a cold welcome for Chinese (Malawi) 2012-09-03  China in Africa, a Sierra Leonean viewpoint 2012-07-04  Why has China built a ghost town in Africa? Eerie footage shows brand new Angolan city designed for 500,000 lying empty 2011-07-19  Cameron warns Africans over the ‘Chinese invasion’ as …

Berto Jongman: New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict

New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict CONTENTS Executive Summary iii Introduction 1 Francesco Mancini Big Data for Conflict Prevention: New Oil and Old Fires 4 Emmanuel Letouzé, Patrick Meier, and Patrick Vinck Using Information and Communication Technologies for Violence Prevention in Latin America 28 Robert Muggah and Gustavo Diniz Early Warning and …