Revolution 2.0

"OBAMA "HAS HIS DREAM TEAM""(eddiewhere 2008).. I am surprise that no one has used this term. I am sure I will hear it tomorrow. OBAMA HAS SELECTED HIS DREAM TEAM. THIS TEAM HAS ALL STAR CREDENTIALS. EACH OF THEM ARE HALL OF FAMERS. HILLARY, GATES, RAHM.
HOPEFULLY, THIS DREAM TEAM WILL KEEP THEIR EYES ON THE REAL THREAT RUSSIA AND CHINA. These two countries have already launched a very successful CYBER WAR against AMERICA. They are able to spy on our networks and steal our technological secrets and our patented software.
RUSSIA, INDIA AND CHINA ARE THE SUPERPOWERS OF THAT SIDE OF THE WORLD. They are the key to a multinational strategy. Managing these realtionships is like walking a tight rope(eddiewhere 2008). China and India are always at odds and have a delicate relationship to say the least. I know ZaKaria wrote an article on this relationship six months ago. He needs to write another one.
Another situation that needs to be monitored closely is ORGANIZED CRIME IN EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY when it comes to cyber crime and nuclear weapons. These Eastern European countries are a potential conduit for passing NUKES to terrorists.

These Terrorists will be based in the Five MUSLIM breakaway REpublics in Central ASIA( Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistanan) . They can potentially form an alliance with China, who has a long history of strained relationships with INDIA. To the MUslims India is an enemy and a traitor. Remeber how Hitler rose to power, a depressed economy in EUROPE. THESE REPUBLICS in Central Asia have all the same elements.. Russia and CHina will form an alliance based on their mutual FRICTION with INDIA(WHO IS CHALLENGING TO BE THEY PREMIER SUPERPOWER IN ASIA).

LOOSE NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS IS A BIG PROBLEM BECAUSE ORGANIZED CRIME GROUPS IN EASTERN EUROPE CAN GAIN ACCESS to them and sell them to terrorists.
THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE 5 MUSLIM STATES IN CENTRAL , AND CHINA IS A Big Threat.

"OBAMA IS NOW THE WORLD"S FIRST PRESIDENT" eddiwhere 2008.. CAN HE SUCCESSFULLY MANAGE RELATIONSHIPS WITH RUSSIA AND CHINA INORDER TO PREVENT THESE FIVE MUSLIM REPUBLICS FROM SLIPPING DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO ECONOMIC DEPRESSION. ONCE AGAIN REMEMBER HOW HITLER ROSE TO POWER A DEPRESSED ECONOMY IN GERMANY WHO WAS TORCHERED ECONOMICALLY AFTER WORLD WAR ONE BY THE ALLIES RUSSIA, FRANCE AND BRITAIN. RUSSIA IS DOING THE SAME TO ITS FORMER REPUBLICS UKRAINE ect.....

OBAMA IS LIKE THE COACH OF THE DREAM TEAM(BASKETBALL) TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT HE HAS A PLAN TO MAKE JORDON, BIRD AND MAGIC WORK TOGETHER AS ONE FORCE TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. OR LEBRON, KOBY AND PAUL PIERCE. I AM SURE HE CAN AND WILL DO JUST FINE AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE THE ENVY OF THE WORLD AGAIN.

OBAMA HAS HIS DREAM TEAM AND ALL THE TOOLS FOR A MUCH NEEDED GLOBAL STRATEGY.

P.S. REMEMBER BARAK YOUR BLACKBERRY HAS ALREADY BEEN HACKED.

arab foot fetishist dickey compares netanyahu to zawahiri and newsweek continues to sponsor him

Dickey, holy cow. You wrote this on the red eye while tapping into the airline cocktails right? Web based tools have been around for a few years now. Al Qaeda had websites before Obama I believe. The key you're missing here is its not the tech, its the message. Radical Islam only appeals to a tiny fraction of the Islamic world, so Al Qaeda is probably not going to raise 600 million dollars in a year, even if it could use the banking system, which it can't.. All kinds of hate groups have had web presence for years now without them showing a significant ability to gain money or adherents. It's amazing to me that a guy smart enough to be a major writer for a major media outlet would have actually tried to make this idea into a meaningful analysis instead of just laughing about it and forgetting it as soon as it occurred to him.

Oh dear!

People can use the internet as an organizing tool -- and it's all Obama's fault!

From the article:

"The Obama campaign developed powerful Web tools that might shape government but are more likely to build opposition movements, revolutions and possibly terrorist cells."

Good Lord. When are you Yanks going to get over your national nervous breakdown?

What a ridiculous straw man. Wasn't that famous journalist Christopher Dickey seen driving a car the other day? Before you know it these terrorists will be following his example and carpooling on their way to jihad.

The article brings forward an interesting premise. The web based items used in the election of Mr. Obama can easily be duplicated. Its akin to a one time breakthrough in a product innovation that is quickly copied by competitors.

Its also pointed out that the general barriers to entry of using web based items as described in the article are low. Further the cost component of "barrier to entry" is at a realitively low cost..

The tagret audience of the web based items described in the article appear to work best on extreme left and extreme right ideologies and/or causes.

Please grow a brain, PLEASE! You have NO idea what you are talking about. Will Newswek be folding soon? If Mr. Dickey continues to represent your endeavors then the answer would have to be YES. What DRIVEL.

Dickey is wrong: Terrorists couldn't use Obama's web tools to organize a mass movement, because most people who join such movements won???t be violent, which is why there has never been a mass violent political movement. One more thing: The Obama campaign was innovative, but it didn't organize anything like the nonviolent insurrections that happened in Poland, the Philippines, Chile and Serbia.

Dickey is wrong: Terrorists couldn't use Obama's web tools, because they work only as a digital adjunct to traditional organizing in an open society. And guess what? Terrorists haven't organized mass civilian-based movements, because most people won't be violent. The Obama campaign was innovative, but it didn't organize anything close to the nonviolent revolutions in places like Poland, South Africa and Serbia.



There is no such thing as a broad-based political campaign (such as the kind that Obama partly organized) that uses terrorism, because 95% of ordinary, politically minded people in civil society won???t be violent. That???s why nonviolent mass movements produce revolutionary change far more often than violent insurgent or terrorist groups.



There is one other mistaken idea in your article. Obama did not create a ???state of the art??? movement that can compare to the great civilian-based movements of modern times (e.g. the American civil rights movement, Solidarity, the movement that brought down Milosevic). All the Obama campaign did was to marry an advanced social-networking web tool to traditional get-out-the-vote operations. Period. There was no training of activists in strategic planning and tactical decision-making. No engagement in any tactics of pressure on unresponsive authorities, such as the use of civil disobedience. I could go on and mention a dozen other critical dynamic factors that were missing from the Obama ???movement.??? The ???fire hose of activism??? that Thomas Gensemer says Obama developed is a squirt gun in comparison to what most nonviolent revolutionary movements have summoned. It???s a ???fire hose??? only in the context of recent anemic efforts by American political campaigns to get their followers to do something.



The Obama campaign should be congratulated for an important innovation in American political campaigns: They invented a form of pyramid political marketing that can run on the web ??? in an open society. It won???t work anywhere very substantial civic space for organizing and public speech doesn???t already exist. And unlike the historic movements I???ve cited above, the Gensemer approach does not contain any training for how to open up that space to begin with.