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11:28:26 03/06/11
[Ai] "Helping" Eri Tv To Serve The Truth Part Ii
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Fellow Eritreans, The third installment on the Ministry of Information’s famous “Mideast Papers” has just arrived. So far, we wouldn’t be surprised if fellow readers have been impatient with the Ministry of Information Serving Truth, and kept asking: “Where is beef?” This time around though we are indeed served the beef – in fact, three kinds of beef! The Ministry of Truth has identified with pinpointed precision the three main reasons as to why the people in Middle East are fed up with their governments that were unable to implement, the way Eritrea has done, three key policies:(a) National Harmony - “Hade Libi, Hade Hizb i” (b) Economic and Social Justice – Wefri Warsai-Yikealo (c) Independent path – Self-Reliance or “bitsifrna ”Hade Libi Hade Hizbi The Ministry of Truth’s first insight into the Mideast unrest is that nations like Egypt have failed because they have no “National Harmony” programs similar to PFDJ’s immensely successful and popular “Hade Libi, Hade Hizbii ” policy: “Its actual implementation calls for firm conviction and commitment on the part of the government. The realization of such a major national objective requires continuous campaign, cultural programs and follow ups. The main failure of governments in this regard lies not in the theoretical concepts but rather the scope of commitment for its actual implementation.” If the Egyptian government have had the number and duration of elaborate festivals the Isaias regime conducts – Fenkil Festival, Nadew Festival, Women’s Day, Martyrs’ Day, Labor Day, The Independence Day, etc – [and in all cases, the term “day” is misnomer, for in some cases the festival lasts weeks], where every ethnic group is allowed to drink, dance and sing to their hearts’ fill, all proudly clad in their ethnic dresses, the nation’s harmony wouldn’t have frayed and, in the end, caused such an upheaval. The Ministry of Truth’s golden advice on how a nation attains “Hade Libi, Hade Hizb i” status: Middle East is burning because, unlike Eritrea, they don’t have cultural troupes – made up of the likes “Gual Ankere”, “Fihira” Faytinga, Kuni, Bekhita Ali, etc – criss-crossing the nation in order to cement the national harmony.Wefri Warsai-Yikealo Here is what the Ministry of Truth says regarding “Economic and Social Justice”: “A just political system cannot be instituted short of a developed and just economic order. Political democracy too does not have any foundation without socio-economic. ” We get it: democracy has to wait until the nation develops economically! For the record though, isn’t that what Tunisia and Egypt have been doing? Have Gaddafi, Ben Ali or Mubarak ever got Isaias’ lovely order of “development first, democracy second” wrong? Isaias, Isaias, please be fair when it comes to your former friends! It is true that they failed to implement your impressive Wrasai-Yikealo project, but to blame them for having put democracy first and development second is tantamount to treason in the Book of Authoritarian Leaders.On the merit of Wefri Warsay-Yikealo, this is what the Ministry of Serving Anything but the Truth says: “In light of this, nation-building and upgrading people’s standard of living is a process that cannot be viewed in isolation. It is obvious that nation-building could not be achieved short of active popular participation which could only be ensured through implementing development programs in the interest of the entire population .” Of course, the popular participation that the Ministry is alluding to is nothing but the spectacularly successful Warsai-Yikealo project. That is to say, if Egypt had tied all its youth in a slave labor in the Egyptian desert building micro dams (forget the non-selfreliantly built Aswan dam – that is the root of the problem!), it wouldn’t have had to face the uprising from the youth. After all, however perverted it is, the Ministry of Truth seems to have finally blurted out some truth: do not allow the youth to sit idle in the cities! Bistifrina – Self-reliance Now we have come to the icing in the cake: nations like Libya, Tunisia and Egypt are falling like a house of cards because, unlike the glorious Eritrean economy that is the envy not only of our jealous neighbors but also of the entire world, their economies were never self-reliant! There you have it: the truth, nothing but whole the truth! Here is how the notoriously truthful Shabait.com puts it:“Under this global scenario, it demands the requisite political will and strong courage to pursue political and economic path free from dependency. … In this regard, resorting to the principle of self-reliance is imperative. Viewed within this framework, the nations that resolutely pursued an independent path are the ones that emerged victorious, while those which compromised their independent choice are being exposed to all-round failure.” Of course, the nation that has been most victorious in this regard is none other than our dear Eritrea – a shining example to the rest of the world! And so what does the Ministry of Truth tells the world as to the secret ingredient to Eritrea’s exemplary success: if the Arab citizens were to be made to queue for “riga bani” in the wee hours of morning under a self-reliant economy like Eritrea’s, and were consistently made to think only of where the next meal would be coming from, they wouldn’t have been rioting in the streets. The advice: keep them half-starved. Again, the Ministry of Truth seems to have stumbled on some kind of truth – however pervert that truth happens to be.Conclusion: The Ministry of Information is trying to justify the three main policies of the regime that have been instrumental in controlling the masses: (a) Give the masses one festival after another – “guaila” has been the Eritrean version of the opium of the masses; (b) Kick the youth out of the cities – wherever they may end up. (c) Keep the nation insulated from the rest of the world – hence, the need for self-reliance.Below is the third installment on the “Mideast Papers” from the Ministry of Information as put in Shabait.com..............................................................................................................................................Popular Unprising: Eve of the End of Era of Domination and transition to New World Order (P.II)Key factors for national security and stability As mentioned in the first part of this article, the current stage in world history is characterized with monopoly and marginalization in different parts of the world in conflict with mounting popular resistance. It is a historic junction in which people all over the world are demanding social justice and coexistence in harmony. Although popular opposition manifested in various corners has distinctive feature of its own in one way or the other, the overall cause, however, is not that different from one another. Hence, in order to have profound understanding of this basic fact, it is imperative to identify the decisive factors that determine the stability of a given nation and society. What distinguishes humans from other creatures is the fact that they lead a social life. As communal pattern of living gains momentum, the guarantee for having better control over resources and the possibility of leading improved life becomes possible. Thus, the formation of nation states which opened bright prospects for higher lifestyle constitutes the highest form of social organization in the contemporary world. Peoples and nations everywhere strive for a common goal towards leading improved standard of living under conducive atmosphere. However, social stability and integrity are decisive factors to achieve this lofty objective, which in turn determine the success of the nation-building process. The main indicators of a stable society could be classified under three categories: 1. National harmony 2. Economic and social justice 3. Independent path 1. National Harmony Although national harmony and integrity are the decisive factors for realizing the objectives of peoples and nations, it is an asset that cannot be attained easily, for building a nation involves a long and protracted process. The majority of states, especially those that were under colonial rule comprise nationals divided along the lines of ethnicity, language, culture and religious groups. Such pattern of nation formation makes nation-building a demanding task. Hence, it is imperative that any government seeking to build a viable nation needs to seriously ponder over the task of governing the people without any discrimination based on ethnicity, language, religion, gender, class and others. In doing so, it could promote social harmony and mutual respect among the people. Although goodwill and awareness, as well as the formulation of the necessary laws and policies make due contribution to this end, the mere incorporation of these factors in the national charter could not at all ensure national harmony. Its actual implementation calls for firm conviction and commitment on the part of the government. The realization of such a major national objective requires continuous campaign, cultural programs and follow ups. The main failure of governments in this regard lies not in the theoretical concepts but rather the scope of commitment for its actual implementation. 2. Economic and Social JusticeA just political system cannot be instituted short of a developed and just economic order. Political democracy too does not have any foundation without socio-economic democracy. Hence, the nature of the economic order is the one that determines the type of a political system. Regardless of political will and pledges, such goals cannot be attained without building a strong national economy that ensures the participation and benefit of all, equitable allocation of natural resources, and above all equitable opportunities. In light of this, nation-building and upgrading people’s standard of living is a process that cannot be viewed in isolation. It is obvious that nation-building could not be achieved short of active popular participation which could only be ensured through implementing development programs in the interest of the entire population. It is imperative for any government keen to build a viable nation to clearly spell out objectives and principles aimed at ensuring equal participation of all citizens in national issues and equitable allocation of resources. To this end, it should formulate the necessary policies and regulations, as well as strong commitment for attaining the set goal. Special attention should also be given to improve the lifestyle of marginalized sections of the society. In other words, a just economic growth must be instituted, as equitable development of all sections of the population constitutes the yardstick of justice. 3. Independent Path In the contemporary epoch, the progress that any people or nation could achieve is limited in isolation from its surroundings and the world at large. For this very reason, fostering foreign relations is significant so as to register economic, trade, cultural and technological development. However, such relations should be cautiously handled. It is indisputable that the prevailing relations between the developed and developing countries is essentially unbalanced and based on exploitation. Besides, such pattern of relations strives to nurture political and economic dependency, and thereby ultimately ensure all-round monopoly. This unjust ties not only paralyzed a number of nations but also exposed them to the brink of total demise. Under this global scenario, it demands the requisite political will and strong courage to pursue political and economic path free from dependency. In the final analysis, becoming master of your own programs and decisions is the sole path for the effective realization of national objectives. Any government committed to develop the people and the nation should, therefore, keep intact its independent political and economic path through coping with possible hostilities. In this regard, resorting to the principle of self-reliance is imperative. Viewed within this framework, the nations that resolutely pursued an independent path are the ones that emerged victorious, while those which compromised their independent choice are being exposed to all-round failure. It should be emphasized that the stability of societies rests on national harmony, socio-economic justice and independent path. Looking from the standpoint of the aforementioned three fundamental factors, it is not that difficult to comprehend the domestic and external causes for the current popular uprising and turmoil in different parts of the world. The next article would deal with the causes for popular uprising in general, and that of the ongoing protests in North Africa and the Middle East in particular.
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22:19:49 12/04/10
Dr Lorandos Cross Exam Of Freudian Psychoanalysis
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http://www.falsely-accused.net Dr. Lorandos demonstrates a cross examination of Freudian psychoanalysis LORANDOS: It appears that you subscribe to Freudian theory, correct? Witness: To a certain degree, yes. LORANDOS: Alright. Freudian theory assumes that emotional and behavioral problems originate as a result of some significant childhood experiences, correct? Witness: Correct, yes. LORANDOS: And in particular Freudian theory would be interested in 1) a history of family conflict in childhood, correct? Witness: It could be, yes. LORANDOS: And Freudian theory would be interested in 2) the extent to which someone recalls their mother as, being depressed for example, correct? Witness: That might be another issue of interest, yes. LORANDOS: And Freudian theory would be interested in 3) how attached someone felt as a child to their family, correct? Witness: Yes, that could also be an issue of interest LORANDOS: Now previously we talked about journals and I want to ask you if the Journal of Psychological Assessment is a generally accepted and recognized peer review journal in your field. Witness: Yes it is, yes. LORANDOS: And a 1994 study by Henry and his colleagues published in the Journal of Psychological Assessment, titled, On Remembrance of Things Past: A Longitudinal Evaluation of the Retrospective Method, might be relevant to your opinions in this case, correct? Witness: It could be, yes. LORANDOS: Id like you to consider this research study which involved the following 5 steps and Im going to give you a hypothetical. 1) Children were interviewed at the ages of 7, 9, 11, 13, and 19. 2) The mothers of these children were also asked questions regarding a) the extent of conflict in their families and b) the degree to which they felt depressed. 3) At the ages 13 and 15 the children were also asked how attached they felt to their families. And 4) At the age of 18 these children were asked a) between the ages of 7 and 15, how much conflict was there in your family b) when you were between the ages of 7 and 15, how often did your mother seem depressed and c) when you were about 13 to 15 years old, how close did you feel to your parents. Ok? Got that? Witness: I think so, yes. LORANDOS: And the last part of the hypothetical, the childrens responses to these questions at age 18 were correlated with the information obtained when they were younger, ok? Witness: Yes. LORANDOS: In particular, the childrens responses to these questions were expressed in terms of a correlation coefficient and a correlation coefficient can range from zero to one, correct? Witness: Correct. LORANDOS: And a correlation coefficient of one corresponds to an exact one-to-one relationship between previous information and present replies, correct? Witness: Yes, correct. LORANDOS: And a correlation of zero corresponds to no relationship whatsoever between previous information and present replies correct? Witness: Again correct. LORANDOS: Would it surprise you to know that when asked between the ages of 7 and 15 How much conflict was there in your family? the mean correlation between the previous information and the present replies was .19? Witness: Yes it would surprise me. LORANDOS: Because .19, thats not a very high correlation is it? Witness: No. LORANDOS: And a correlation of only .19 indicates that what these 18 year olds thought they remembered about family conflict between the ages of 7 and 15 was not very accurate, correct? Witness: Thats what that study would indicate, yes. LORANDOS: Would it surprise you to know that when asked between the ages of 7 and 15 How often did your mother seemed depressed? the mean correlation between the previous information, that that was taken at the time by the evaluators, and the present replies of the children was .16? Witness: Yes, I am surprised by that. LORANDOS: Indeed. A correlation of .16, thats also not very high is it doctor? Witness: No its not. LORANDOS: And a correlation of only .16 indicates that what these 18 year olds thought they remembered about their mothers being depressed was not very accurate, correct? Witness: Thats what that study indicates. LORANDOS: Would it surprise you to know that when asked while between the ages of 7 and 15 years old, How close do you feel toward your parents? the mean correlation between the previous information and the present replies was only .36? Witness: Yes, I am also somewhat surprised by that. LORANDOS: Indeed, because a correlation of .36; thats not a very high correlation is it doctor? Witness: No.
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19:03:53 04/15/09
Answering Obama’s Call An Open Conversation About The Palestinian Zionist Conflict By Dan Walsh
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"Answering Obama’s Call: An Open Conversation About The Palestinian-Zionist Conflict"with Dan WalshIn February of 2008 then-candidate Barack Obama said:“…one of the things that struck me when I went to Israel was how much more open the debate was…I think the U.S. pro-Israel community is sometimes a little more protective or concerned about opening up that conversation…I'm saying though that actually, ultimately, should be our goal...” Source.Dan Walsh will present parts of a new high school curriculum specifically designed to open up the conversation President Obama alluded to in 2008. This new curriculum titled: Teaching the Formative History of Political Zionism (1897-1947) through Poster Art: A Plain Language/Language Rights Curriculum Model for American High School Educators uses historical poster art to engage American students and teachers in a more open, natural conversation about the Palestinian-Zionist conflict. It differs from existing high school teaching resources that cover the conflict in a number of ways including that it is dedicated to the concept of “civic competence”. This approach puts the students needs for jargon-free language foremost and evaluates its usefulness based on whether or not the students can carry on a civil and historically holistic discussion about the conflict. All lessons include opportunities for students to analyze the content of Zionist and/or Palestinian nationalist posters—symbols, colors, texts, styles—allowing them to engage their own critical faculties.Dan Walsh is a graduate student at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. He was first introduced to the Palestine poster genre as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco in the mid-1970’s. While there he collected several hundred Palestine posters. Over the years he has continued to acquire Palestine poster art and he now curates what many specialists believe to be the largest such archives in the world, containing approximately three thousand original posters. Press TV news story here. Dan Walsh's PowerPoint outline here.
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13:38:45 10/12/06
History Of A Conflict Part One
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In this three part series, Charles Smith, professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona gives an account of the history of Palestine and Israel. In the first part Smith describes the period from the first wave of Zionist immigrants up to the end of the British mandate in 1948. The second part takes us from the foundation of the State of Israel to the 1967 war and the occupation of the West Bank. In the third segment, Smith covers the 1967 and 1973 wars, the land-for-peace agreement with Egypt up to the Olso Accords and the first and second intifadas. Producer: John Odam (2006)Alternate Focus is available on the Dish Network, Free Speech TV, Channel 9415, Saturdays at 8:00pm EST and on cable stations near you.? Check website for details.
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20:24:15 01/25/06
Interviews from an Open Source Intelligence Conference
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I attended a conference on Open Source Intelligence and collected over 3 hours of interviews from the 10 of the presenters. My citizen journalism coverage was looking through the following two lenses: >
* What types of insights could intelligence analysis provide to journalism?
* How can information and communications technologies be used to help avoid and prevent armed conflict? >
UPDATE: Here is a 90-second video introduction to these interviews
Music: On The Moon (Trip Hop mix) by disharmonic
FYI: You can use this feed to download all of the interview audio.
More information below ...
Here are the 10 people I interviewed: Congressman Rob Simmons Chairman of the Homeland Security Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment Subcommittee Robert David Steele Open Source Intelligence Evangelist, Retired CIA Case Officer Michael Andregg Intelligence Reform Consultant and Professor of the Causes of War Carolyn Stewart Retired Colonel with Military Intelligence Mats Bjore Retired Lt. Colonel with Swedish Military Intelligence & Founder of Infosphere & Silobreaker Ralph Peters Retired Army Lt. Colonel, Author and New York Post Columnist Robert Young Pelton Adventurer , Journalist and Author of "The World's Most Dangerous Places" Stephen E. Arnold Technology Consultant and Author of "The Google Legacy" Peter Morville Information Scientist, Information Architecture Pioneer & Author of "Ambient Findability" Elliot Jardines Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source
AUDIENCE AT THE OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE CONFERENCE
* What type of people attended this conference?
There were over 300 people from within the intelligence community, retired analysts, other corporate contractors as well as other attendees who were interested in the concept of open source intelligence.
One of the common values that seemed to unite all of the attendees was the perspective that classified sources of information do not necessarily mean that the information is any more relevant or useful than information that can be collected from open sources (i.e. newspapers, Internet, academic literature, reports from non-governmental organizations, etc.)
Another common value seemed to be that open source intelligence provides a more collaborative and transparent environment for generating knowledge. There were many people who have been fighting the compartmentalization of intelligence for many years.
Open Source Intelligence has also been traditionally underfunded and undervalued within the intelligence community, partly because of the vested interests of defense contractors have been influencing the political decision makers, who have been continuing to invest in very expensive satellite equipment and other types of fancy signals intelligence collection technologies.
Robert David Steele has been advocating for Open Source Intelligence for the last 18 years, and there has finally been the first government official assigned within the intelligence bureaucracy to lead the government's open source intelligence collection efforts. Elliot Jardines has been assigned as the first Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Sources, and I was able to interview him at the conference.
PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS
I went in with a specific hypothesis that intelligence analysis has a specific tradecraft that could easily process and help make sense of facts and information over long periods of time. I've written about some of these techniques here and listed some references here.
I was surprised to learn that a lot of the sense making capabilities come from the more qualitative aspects of interpreting information. When comes to understanding other cultures and societies, it is often much better to talk to many different subject matter experts and gather a wide range of perspectives and worldviews than it is to try to break a problem into component parts and try to quantify the individual pieces.
It is my sense that the quantitative tools and tricks of the trade within the intelligence agencies are too reductionistic for practical sense making purposes because they don't actually help explain the nuances or complexity of cultures.
As Charles Cameron, a former Arlington Institute analyst, described to me last year: >
"It's my contention, however, that they are heavily weighted towards the quantitative, and are not of much help in dealing with the subtle complexities that arise when people, their motives, histories, traditions, beliefs, emotions, reluctances, denials, prejudices, clarities and insights are involved."
So even though the US intelligence agencies do a great job of collecting and gathering dots, but they have a much more difficult time connecting these dots back together in a useful or predictive context.
In Robert Steele's conference presentation , he describes some of the characteristics these "dots" that intelligence agencies are collecting: >
* Dots don't know they are secret until some human decides this.
* Dots gain value from swarming, lose value within compartmentalization
* Dots gain value from history and context.
* Dots gain value from speed of delivery.
* Dots in a foreign language are smarter.
These granular dots that are collected through classified sources and methods are just raw nuggets of information, and the "knowledge" is added to them when analysts are able to make contextual links and qualitative associations between these dots.
So it seems as though that journalism and academia actually has a lot to teach the analytical tradecraft of professional intelligence. The openness and transparency of journalism and the scientific method creates generates knowledge from the feedback and conversations that are started -- while the sense making capabilities of classified world of intelligence analysis is limited by the obsession with secrecy and a closed infrastructure that blocks the flow of information and context between compartmentalized silos.
Intelligence agencies have to pay subject matter experts while experts will talk to a journalist or other academics for free because there is an open exchange of information and knowledge. The public exposure also helps create a positive reputation of expertise, and more of an exchange of social capital.
I still think that there is a lot of potential for a finding a hybrid between combining more sophisticated analytic tools with interviewing a large set of domain experts. In our interview with Stephen E. Arnold , he describes how technology is going to continue to help analysts on the front-end and the back-end of the sense making process -- and he points out that he doesn't see technology completely replacing the sophistication of human analysis and judgment.
So openness, transparency, authenticity and a dedication to education seem to be the key differences that allow journalists and academics to create symbiotic relationships and better networks of distributed knowledge than the governmental intelligence agencies. And I see that my collaborative filmmaking schema could actually provide an interesting catalyst and mechanism for making this distributed knowledge more explicit by aggregating additional context and meaning from a diverse audience on the 50+ hours of multimedia sound bites.
INFORMATION PEACEKEEPING
I discovered that there is a difference between "Information Peacekeeping", "Peacekeeping Intelligence" and "Information Operations."
"Information Peacekeeping" is how information and communications technologies can be used to avoid and prevent conflicts by creating the means for the creation of indigenous knowledge and wealth creation. This is a term that Robert Steele has coined and a concept that I talk more about in this post: "Can Open Source Intelligence Be a Non-Violent Alternative to War?"
"Peacekeeping Intelligence" is the information that is used by military forces after conflict has already broken out, and peacekeeping military operations have come in to stabilize a region.
And Information Operations are the combination of Strategic Communication with a foundation from Open Source Intelligence. The intent of information operations is to explain and offensively communicate US Foreign Policy and our National Security interests.
Robert Steele sees US National Security as being fundamentally interconnected with Global Security, and that the free and open distribution of information helps to stabilize countries and avoid and prevent conflict.
"Information Peacekeeping" seems to be quite separate from the mandate that have been given to the US intelligence communities or the Department of Defense with regards to Open Source Intelligence. It is certainly a related concept and a potential application of Open Source Intelligence, but the application of OSINT products in this way would probably fall underneath the umbrella of diplomacy and the State Department. There are also some who suggest that there needs to be a new institution like a Department of Peace that would be explicitly tasked with coming up with these types of best practices for avoiding and preventing conflict.
In a lot of ways, I'm trying to achieve a lot of the goals of "Information Peacekeeping" with The Echo Chamber Project in that I'm trying to create mechanisms for people to be able to explore and experience complex issues in a comprehensive way that promotes critical thinking and education.
More Information:
* Powerpoint Presentations from the conference
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12:43:22 11/08/05
Wage Peace
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I came across this display yesterday on my way back from lunch. It was quite a moving installation.
Many people, like myself, just happened upon it.
A good number of people were photographing it with their camera phones. Capturing the moment.
I had my Canon S400 in my pocket, and made this video. It's a combination of video and still photos set to music, and the reading of the names of the 2,049 dead US soldiers.
One of the sadest parts of this experience was that on the way home I heard on the radio that the number of US Casualties had increased by five.
Eyes Wide Open , the American Friends Service Committee's widely-acclaimed exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq War, features a pair of boots honoring each U.S. military casualty, a field of shoes and a Wall of Remembrance to memorialize the Iraqis killed in the conflict, and a multimedia display exploring the history, cost and consequences of the war.
Copley Square, Boston - November 7-8, 2005
Music: Alter Der Ruine World War III
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