22-11-2011, 06:34 AM
- A Frozen Zone is a US government term for an area that has been locked down, blocked off, and barricaded by the police or the military. A place where normal commerce and foot/vehicle traffic is not allowed. A place where the bill of rights does not apply. A frozen zone can be as small as a building or an entire downtown area of a major city (this is done for G20 conferences and political conventions). Here's a mini frozen zone set up around Bloomberg's home.
- Auto-cuts to the US federal budget are about to occur. Lawmakers are lining up to protect their pork. This is a big test of the Tea Party as an opens source movement (since a balanced federal budget has become its raison d'etre or plausible promise).
- Egypt. Lots of blood in the streets as protesters attempt to force the military government from power. Modern protest basics: open source protest can only be used to block, stop, or deny things. It can't build anything.
- Sydney Morning Herald. Outlawing resilience on the West Bank. Using the future is already here but it's not evenly distributed yet line of thinking: Israel is pioneering the legal methods by which a capitalist democracy can repress or cleanse unwanted groups from valuable areas. One method, as seen in this article, is to deny connections to national infrastructure (particularly energy) and then prevent (using zoning/etc. regulations and legal maneuvers) the use of resilient technology. This tactic is also central to efforts to eliminate Occupy camps. We, in the US/EU, are going to see this lawfare on a grand scale in the future as IN/OUT groups (if you think you will be on the IN group, you are probably wrong) develop due to prolonged economic failure. Homework for global guerrillas: think of the ways to defeat this method of attack (is there any method besides counter-lawfare?). I'll post the best answers.
by John Robb on Monday, 21 November 2011 at 08:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (13
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