An INTENSE moment of TRUTH with MAINSTREAM Media – YouTube.
| 16 October 2011  |  | category: empires flux, film, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, Global Guerillas, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the law, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, tribal  | comments are closed  Is is possible to replicate what happened in Tunisia in other countries, like Egypt? Global guerrillas in Egypt are working on it. Here’s what is going on: Numerous attempts at self-immoliation. Six in Egypt. These attempts at martyrdom are meant to symbolically spark revolution. Protests are being organized online. This one, called “day of revolt” and organized via Facebook, generated 16k supporters (although I suspect most of them are from people outside the country who are immune from retribution). The protest it sparked in Cairo resulted in three deaths and numerous clashes with Police. The Egyptian government is [ continue reading CAN AN OPEN SOURCE REVOLT TOPPLE EGYPT? ] 26 January 2011 | | category: empires flux, Global Guerillas, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed DK Matai has a great little outline on how the open source revolt spread in Tunisia. It was very open much open source warfare (OSW, the dominant form of warfare in the 21st Century), but with a rapidly evolving protest/revolt twist (OSW + flashmobs). Thing is, the conditions within which the revolt spread are becoming pretty common. Here they are: Extreme price shocks in basic commodities. Food and energy. Extreme corruption. A globally connected elite appropriating everything. Extreme connectivity. Cell phones and other social media. Given that the global system is highly unstable (extreme leverage, concentration, tight coupling, [ continue reading TUNISIA and OPEN SOURCE REVOLT ] 21 January 2011 | | category: empires flux, Global Guerillas, nothing new under the sun, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed On the subject of those TSA “grope” scanners at airports here is an insightful, and very early prediction of the wonderful advances in technology that will spring from science. They don’t make them like that any more. Thanks to @tpaleyfilm and @Zerofee for the link. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» YouTube – The Man with the X-Ray Eyes: .) [ continue reading The Man with the X-Ray Eyes – coming to a perimeter near you ] 18 November 2010 | | category: empires flux, film, Global Guerillas, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, travel | comments are closed “Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!! #IAmSpartacus #twitterjoketrial “ 12 November 2010 | | category: Global Guerillas, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, social media tools, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, twitter | comments are closed Krav Maga (pronounced /ˌkrɑːv məˈɡɑː/; Hebrew: קרב מגע, IPA: [ˈkʁav maˈɡa], lit. ”contact combat”, “close combat” or “full contact”) is an eclectic hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel which involves wrestling, grappling and striking techniques, mostly known for its extremely efficient and brutal counter-attacks, as it is also taught to elite special forces around the world. [1][2] It was derived from street-fighting skills developed by Imi Lichtenfeld, who made use of his training as a boxer and wrestler, as a means of defending the Jewish quarter during a period of anti-Semitic activity in Bratislava[3] in the mid- to late 1930s. [ continue reading Krav Maga ] tumblr_l568crjBSw1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg 500×332 pixels. The most virtuous and exceptional feature of modern western civilization is that it created something new to history: an economically and politically dominant middle class. The stability (political), vibrance (economic growth and diversity), and innovation (technological) it produced is historically exceptional. Unfortunately, that singular accomplishment is soon to become a fond memory. Why? The social contract that enabled this success, particularly the post WW2 social contract that shared the increases in wealth generated by improvements in productivity with the more productive workers that enabled it, ended with the financialization of economic activity and globalization (and governments that [ continue reading JOURNAL: The Decline of the Western Middle Class ] Almost all of the current discussion on energy is focused on patching our wheezing, tired global system as it stumbles from disaster to disaster. Almost none of it is focused on energy independence at the community level, the place where nearly all of the real innovation and economic vigor will occur in the coming century. Here's a bit of an antidote to that, with more to come later. Energy independence at the local level is in large part achieved by eliminating reliance on any single energy source, whether that is oil, gas, natural gas, biofuels, wood, solar, or [ continue reading THE RESILIENT ENERGY BOW-TIE ] If Coke is somehow able to hold out and formally establish his community as a state within a state, then Jamaica's future is bleak Brian Meeks, a professor of government at Jamaica's Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (reuters). Jamaica has issued a month long state of emergency and sent troops/police into several slums in search of a local gang (the "Shower" Posse) leader, Dudus Coke. Gunmen loyal to Dudus have not only successfully defended these slums with barricades, they've expanded into an adjacent "parish." Gunmen have also attacked police stations across the cities of [ continue reading JOURNAL: Jamaica and Global Guerrillas ] Tensions between the Obama administration and the scientific community over the gulf oil spill are escalating, with prominent oceanographers accusing the government of failing to conduct an adequate scientific analysis of the damage and of allowing BP to obscure the spill’s true scope… The scientists point out that in the month since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, the government has failed to make public a single test result on water from the deep ocean. And the scientists say the administration has been too reluctant to demand an accurate analysis of how many gallons of oil are flowing into [ continue reading LEAKING LEGITIMACY ] “We now see … wolfpack behaviours, and if we will not stop these packs, even if it is self-inflicted weakness, they will tear the weaker countries apart“ Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg (at the EU Summit). In open source warfare, small independent guerrilla groups often using swarming tactics to take down large targets. Many groups converge on the target from all points on the compass, overwhelming defenses. Think of the above in terms of a war between nation-states and the global economic system. NOTE: The first downgrade of US government debt may occur as soon as 2013 [ continue reading QUOTE: On the EU Crisis ] If your interested in a very smart perspective on system collapse, please go read the anthropologist Joseph Tainter’s book, “The Collapse of Complex Societies” (I’ve been a big fan of his work for ages). In the book, he makes the compelling case that complex societies are, at root, very successful problem solving systems. If they weren’t, they would never have become complex in the first place. Why? Societies solve challenges by creating new rules and processes (new complexity) that are then added on to the existing system ad infinitum. More successful outcomes = more complexity. However, as noted above, [ continue reading THE SIMPLIFICATION OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES ] Last year, open source warfare received some exciting validation in the form of a scientific study that reached the cover of Nature Magazine (although the theory reached the pinnacle of scientific validation, nobody in the DoD noticed — wow, seriously, is there anybody with a working brain still working there?). Now Scott Atran, a sharp anthropologist that has been studying terrorism scientifically (although from his narrow area of specialization), has noticed some shifts in terrorist behavior that align more closely to Global Guerrillas using open source warfare than traditional Jihadis. Here’s a summary from some Congressional testimony [ continue reading JOURNAL: Scott Atran, Terrorists, and Global Guerrillas ] Here's a very interesting game called Walmapalooza that combines cell phones, flash mobs, and protest all in one package. Looks like fun. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Global Guerrillas JOURNAL: Games, Protest, and Cell Phones: .) Some random items of interest: LATimes. Police protest prison release policy in CA. One factor driving widespread disorder in the US will be rapid draw downs of US prison populations due to an inability to pay for continued incarceration. That’s starting to happen. There are nearly 2.5 m people in US prisons, an astounding number and a neon sign that the US political/economic system has been in deep decline for a while. When the damn does break it’s GG time. Detroit plans to turn urban blight into farmland. Operating on a scale never before attempted in this [ continue reading LINKS: 10 MAR 10 ] Some random items of interest: DIY drones and terrorism. PW Singer channels global guerrilla warfare over at Newsweek: "Such technologies have the potential to strengthen the hand not only of Al Qaeda 2.0, but also of homegrown terror cells and disaffected loners like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. As one robotics expert told me, for less than $50,000 'a few amateurs could shut down Manhattan…'Smaller UAVs' cool, battery-powered engines make them difficult to hit with conventional heat-seeking missiles; Patriot missiles can take out UAVs, but at $3 million apiece such protection comes at a very steep price. Even [ continue reading Global Guerilla LINKS: 1 MAR 10 – required reading ] Forget Paypal. Virtual currency and online payment systems are proliferating like weeds. These systems provide an alternative to the limitations of official banking systems (although at greater risk). Most of them integrate with credit cards and cell phones. In many cases it is possible to exchange cash between different systems. Here's a taste of some of the offerings (some of these do a huge volume of business). Moving money has never been this easy or anonymous. Liberty Reserve. Costa Rica. Yandex.Money Tied to the Yandex portal. Russia. Ukash. Ukraine. Webmoney. Russia. RBK Money. Russia. Roboexchange. Virtual Currency [ continue reading JOURNAL: E-Currency Systems ] ComputerWorldUK: Details of 176,000 Shell employees were e-mailed to NGO campaigners that have targeted Shell in the past (obviously, the leak was reported by one of the NGO recipients). The email of Shell data, sent this week, called for a “peaceful corporate revolution” at the company. There was a 170-page covering letter, which aimed to highlight human rights violations allegedly caused by Shell’s operations to Nigeria’s Ogoni people. The message also called for NGO staff to become undercover employees at large corporations, in order to push for a change in practices. This is a jump start to [ continue reading JOURNAL: ‘Piercing’ Shell Oil ] On Thursday 8 January 2009, then 18-year old Mahoud Samed Almahadin (aka Matt Connor aka Agent Pubeit) took off his shirt, proceeded to rub vaseline all over his upper body and subsequently used it to hold toenail clippings and pubic hair. He then ran into the New York Scientology building, tossed some books around and smeared the mixture on objects. After his greasy raid, Mahoud Samed Almahadin was charged with burglary, criminal mischief, and aggravated harassment as hate crimes. Weeks later, 21 year-old film student and Anonymous member Jacob Speregen was charged with the same crimes, bar burglary, because [ continue reading We Are Anonymous. We Are Legion. We Plead Guilty In Court. ] 24 February 2010 | | category: Global Guerillas, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the state we're in | comments are closed If you haven’t had a chance to read “Make” magazine yet, please do. It’s likely the coolest magazine on the planet right now. The current issue, 21, dives into the rapidly evolving world of desktop manufacturing (additive and subtractive 3D fabs). What should be apparent to anyone reading it, is that desktop manufacturing is on the cusp of becoming as mainstream, inexpensive, and easy to use as personal computers (with similar effect). What this means in the mid to long term is that manufacturing will quickly become more about manipulation of information (designs, controls, etc.) than materials. The [ continue reading DARKNET ECONOMIES ] 7 February 2010 | | category: empires flux, Global Guerillas, Nerds, prognosticators | comments are closed Some random items of interest: Portland Oregon. A public "tool" library. Very, very smart (via RanPieur).The library survives on donations that help it buy new and refurbished tools, small grants, tool sales, late fees — and the good will of members: Since the library opened in August 2008, it has lent about 5,000 tools, with only a dozen not returned… It lends from 75 to 125 tools each Saturday in winter and up to 200 a day in summertime, when it's open on Wednesday evenings as well as Saturday. This needs to go exponential (with more complex [ continue reading John Robb lays out some morsals ] |  
| |
Copyright © 2012 flakes of nuisance - All Rights Reserved ----------------If I have inadvertently infringed what you feel are your various rights, hard-earned property or considered peace-of-mind then let me know so I can try to fix it. Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa | |||
