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WiliLeaks Publishes Homeland Security-Connected Files Of Global Intelligence Contractor pictures and video
WikiLeaks continues to show that everything is not what it appeards to be. On the surface, many NGOs and “not for profit” organizations appear to work for the public good. Dig a little deeper and all kinds of suapect connections get uncovered,
On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.
[alpha] INSIGHT- US/MENA- Movements.org
Released on 2013-03-04 00:00 GMT
Email-ID 5216972 Date 2011-03-29 23:04:09 From [email protected] To [email protected] SOURCE: n/a
ATTRIBUTION: STRATFOR source
SOURCE DESCRIPTION: Main organizer at movements.org
PUBLICATION: Some is not for publication. Rest is background
SOURCE RELIABILITY:
ITEM CREDIBILITY: [in terms of knowing what movements.org is doing, they
are A-1, but in terms of what the other groups are doing, source is not
great]
SPECIAL HANDLING: none
SOURCE HANDLER: SeanMy Notes:
How Movements.org got started: [This part is not for publication]
in 2008 it became apparent to the USG that they needed to do public
diplomacy over the internet. So Jared Cohen was at DoS then and played a
major role in starting the organization. The main goal was just spreading
the good word about the US. Similar inititiaves have come aobut in 21st
Century Diplomacy and Civil Society 2.0, but movments.org has since split
from the US government. A key turning point in leading to its creates was
seeing Oscar Morales organize a Global Day of Protest against FARC in
2008. This is the first time social networking was really used to
organize a protest. [This part is not for publication]Three goals- Taking people wanting social change from the internet to
constructive activism by:
1. monopolizing on initial success (this generally means getting
popular on facebook)
2. Staying secure
3. Peer-to-peer trainingCurrently choosing “Unlikely Leaders” to be invited to the next Global
Summit. These are people that for example start a facebook activisit
group that becomes very popular and then suddenly are completely
unprepared–much like April 6 in Egypt. CANVAS will also be invited.
Source is familiar with them, but has not been through their training.they are part of a network of NGOs ready to negotiate with Facebook when
activist accounts are deleted or hacked. Movements.org wants a sort of
Facebook customer service to be created just to deal with activism, since
there are positives and negatives to allowing anonymous accounts, and
those will probably never be allowed anyway.Movements.org is engaging with these groups once they actually get
popular. This is the main criteria for their involvement, or inviting
them to their Summits.Answer to the neutrality issue– “we are by no means trying to overthrow
governments.” Movements.org goal is to develop civil society and social
movements.[Not for Pub. And don't let this get back to RS501, for now]
“Serbia is exactly what we don’t want to see”—Otpor needed a political
leader and was able to create that, but Dindic was assinated in 2003 and
the momentum of Otpor has not been maintained afterwards. [Not for pub]The Internet is helpful in bring people together, but the hard part is
keeping them together. The first real examples politically were the color
revolutions and now MENA. But the challenge has been keeping the momentum
going to keep these social movements alive. They were a case study in the
power of technology for short-term political change, but that’s it.Movements.org was communicating with someone at April 6 who said they had
established different cells across Cairo in case one group was arrested.
[not sure if we knew this]Egyptians are now presented with two choices–1. to find a political
leader and take power or, 2. To create a sustainable social movement.
Source sees this as a dichotomy.
Manuel Castells is the only academic to have really examined the internet
in terms of social networks.Agrees with S-weekly on Social media. The impetus for these revolutions
is there already, social media is just tapping into that.MY THOUGHTS AND IMPRESSIONS
First, to explain the thing about Serbia- the source is pretty set on
trying to create these long-term sustainable social movements that are
effective over various issues, rather than new political parties that take
power. The criticism of OTPOR is interesting, and is telling about how
Movements.org would like to work.I get the idea that this organization is actually farther behind then we
are–understaffed and inexperienced. I don’t mean this critically,
because really no one is that experienced in online organization–they are
breaking new ground. They have a pretty good understanding of the
challenges presented by social media–and that is really what they are
focusing on, but don’t really have solutions yet. Their main response to
this is to develop this peer-to-peer training done through people they
designate as ambassadors to work with others in their own country or
region. So really what Movements.org is doing right now is creating a
database of training materials and valuable networks for groups to learn
from each other–not doing direct training like CANVAS.They are also doing everything after things get started–waiting for these
groups to get big, then trying to work with them. This means they aren’t
identifying countries or groups to start some shit in. Though, I get the
impression they would like to be more active in th emore oppresive
countries like Cuba and Myanmar. You can probably see how the idealism
bleeds through. --MOREHERE
It would be strongly recommended that readers go to Movements.org themselves and explore the website, in particular the 3 summits they have held and those that were in attendance. Everyone from the RAND Corporation to the Council on Foreign Relations comes to “prod.” Movements.org truly is a new tentacle for manipulating and undermining the sovereignty of foreign nations.2008 Summit New York City .pdf NIEWGWEW
2009 Summit Mexico City .pdf
2010 Summit London
do wars ‘just hapen’ anymore?
They never did !!!!!
Google Rothschild and the battle of Waterloo. To see how the 1 percenters play both sides of a war for profit and control.