Special Note: Check out the in-progress Disinfo Glossary: Specialist Terms page for details of the analytical language and tools mentioned throughout each entry. Check out the Expanded Spiral Dynamics® Bibliography for details of the color codes mentioned throughout each entry, and background/further reading suggestions. Two useful resources for understanding the daily shifts in the 3Gs (geoeconomics, geopolitics and geosecurity) are Foreign Policy Magazine and Stratfor Strategic Forecasting. For profiles of countries and non-governing self-territories, check out the annual CIA World Factbook. For information on global resources, check out the World Watch Institute's annual State of the World report, and the osEarth Resources and Worldometers™. For a different view of geostrategic space, check out the Dymaxion Map and Spaceship Earth™.

Wednesday, 3 April 2002

• BBC World News summary (audio and video).
• Ananaova Latest Video Headlines (video).
• United Nations Press Briefing (video).
• CNNTV.
• MSNBC Video.
• C-Span Recent Video (video).
• IndyMedia IMC Channel (video).
• Freespeech Internet TV.
• UN DESA Briefing on Monterrey and Johannesburg Summit (video).
• Washington Post Bush Backs Israel on Self-Defense (video).
• Washington Post Rumsfeld: Iran, Iraq Aid Terror (video).

Grid-Lock: North Korea will resume talks with the US. China frees its longest-serving political prisoner. One hypocrite's crusade against lawsuits. Why are drug firms silent online? Did games trigger a suicide? Bush's influence on debt-limits. Tom Ridge will brief panels on Homeland Security.

Hot-Spots: Stratfor situation reports. The US pursues a quiet agenda with Syria. Shootings in France reveal explosive social tensions. Britain's press on Zimbabwe and imperialist interventions.

Diasporas: Israeli troops invade Nablus, the West Bank's largest city. Girl suicide bombers. Blogging from Jerusalem. Wounded in Bethlehem. The pointless proliferation of peace plans. Critics attack Bush on his Mideast policy. The White House discusses a peace deal without a cease-fire. Arafat pleads for help, although Israel connects him with bombing. Egypt scales back their ties with Israel. Journalists attack Israel’s call for them to leave. Dispatches from Ramallah. Open letter to a Ramallah commander.

Flash-Points: A car bomb kills four people in Indonesia. Socialist analysts argue that the judge shows a pro-government bias at John Walker Lindh's trial. A US civil liberties group is challenging closed deportation hearings. Special Forces turn the tide in Afghanistan. The Afghan Army makes its debut. Hanssen spied for money. The ban on medical marijuana is overturned in Washington DC.

Cutting-Edges: Technology is altering how future wars are fought. DrinkorDie on piracy. Trying to solve the Turing Test. Digital pens are under development. Robots help hospitals. The Japanese are developing lip-reading cell-phones. Why Janna Levin is the latest star cosmologist. Revisiting the Robert Gallo affair. Clifford Pickover's latest book.

Regressions: Andersen staff were at odds with Enron.

Media Memetics: Why cigarette smoking is a metaphor for sex. The battle over Web radio. Video objectification. Why video games are sounding like movies. Filtering software is under attack. A Myst mini-series is in development. Phil Donohue gets a show on MSNBC. National Magazine Awards aren't 9/11 related. SouthHighSucks.com site gets teen reporter suspended. Michael Moore tours America. Outspoken media critic Robert McChesney. Why Viacom is a survivor. Eighteen tales of media censorship.

The World Is Getting More Like Disinformation Dept.: New York's controversial Nazi art show. Scientologists remember L. Ron Hubbard. What is queer food? A Boston student is caught with $15k worth of marijuana. An introduction to Patti Smith.

Personal Mutations Exercise: Get NLP savvy.

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