Archive for July, 2007
« Previous Entrieset al.: don’t impeach Gonzales
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007The temptation, no matter how overwhelming, to impeach Gonzo can’t go forward. Instead, we must look to a sage predecessor as A.G. with equally high ethical and legal standards (kinda along the lines of it takes one to know one…) for the proper course of action: “Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.”
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Energy harvesting: walking can give you more energy (literally!)
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Don’t worry: I haven’t switched this blog to fitness (although Ms. Homeland Security and I bought talking pedometers this weekend, and have become born-again walkers…).
Remember the throngs running from the WTC on 9/11? Now there’s a new technology that might mean people fleeing disasters might be able to generate the power needed to run emergency […]
Time for a change: homeland security 2.0
Monday, July 30th, 2007You’ll notice this blog has a new title: Stephenson blogs on homeland security 2.0 et al.
Same basic content, but the name change reflects the fact that my vision of homeland security is largely congruent with the description Tim O’Reilly, generally acknowledged as the “father of Web 2.0,” gives it:
“Web 2.0 is the network as platform, […]
Google crowdsourcing Indian maps: good idea to copy
Saturday, July 28th, 2007Dan Karran blogs that Google Earth has enlisted public involvement in Indian 50 cities to flesh out details of its maps with information such as location of graveyards,
Google Earth CTO Michael Jones said at a recent conference:
“… I’ll show you one more thing. Lets say we go to Hyderabad, India. Now, it turns out […]
Republicans’ tipster immunity is half the answer…
Thursday, July 26th, 2007I support the measure that Republicans insisted be added to the Homeland Security bill to would give immunity to tipsters reporting possible terrorist acts, but only if that’s coupled with the kind of active, creative public outreach program by DHS I’ve called for in the past to educate us about what terrorism is — and […]
Terrorist dry runs: another argument for citizen involvement
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007The news of a variety of chillingly-similar incidents at airports around the country involving suspicious packages that included bomb components but where the “fuel” was bricks of cheese is a reminder that Al-Qaeda:
is extremely patient
puts a lot of emphasis on dry runs to check its plans
and that — unless these incidents are just caused by […]
Video sharing: great networked homeland security tool!
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007It’s in its infancy, but I suspect that video-sharing for video phones is going to be a great tool for networked homeland security.
As Carolyn Johnson reports, AT & T launched its new Video Share service yesterday in nearly 160 markets. It will let users who have compatible phones (at this point it works with 3 […]
Cuts in urban homeland security spending: more reason for considering ad hoc networks..
Thursday, July 19th, 2007DHS must be doing something right in doling out local funding assistance this year: everyone (even New York and DC, which were among the few locales to avoid cuts and get modest increases) has been screaming that they are shortchanged. The WaPo reports that the cuts will be particularly harsh for mid-sized cities, for whom […]
If terror threat persists and evolves, why no public involvement
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007I apologize for sometimes seeming obsessed with what, IMHO, is the glaring lack of attention to public education and outreach in the nation’s homeland security strategy.
OK, I lied: this is such an important issue and it gets so little scrutiny that I don’t apologize at all for being a voice crying in the wilderness!
Consider if […]
et al.: Shades of the Crusades — Benedict XVI throws fuel on fire
Monday, July 16th, 2007As if the Islamic world didn’t already have enough reason to suspect the West, Pope Benedict XVI, exhibiting an attitude that might might be more consistent with the 500’s (when Benedict I was pontiff), has reasserted that the Roman brand of Catholicism is the only “true” church . That leaves the rest of us […]
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