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Irreplaceable Intelligencer
The following is a direct quote from a brief report titled "ISIS Continues to Agitate for European Attacks: Is Germany Next?", by International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, founders Yayla, Ahmet S. & Speckhard, Anne (March 30, 2016):
The biggest question is how we are going to prevent the next terrorist attack? How long this mayhem is going to continue? What is the end game? Do you see the bigger picture and root causes of this “new world chaos” rather than a “new world order”?
Well, this is what I consider the bottom line and end game for this political vis-à-vis socioeconomic dilemma.
My name is Kagusthan Ariaratnam and I am an undergraduate student at the University of Ottawa. For the record, my wife Zufishan Malik, a graduate from McGill University and I have established an Ottawa, Ontario based independent and nonprofit think tank. It is provisionally titled "The 05 File Foundation". Its vision and mission is to bring about world peace by the "STATE OF GLOBAL DETERRENCE". Its ultimate goal is "ONE WORLD" by ensuring geostrategic-***-borderless global village for the modern citizens of the world. Its motto is "Irreplaceable Intelligence". To give you an idea regarding our planning, preparing and executing counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency and counter-radicalization are the subjects we are focused on.
As combating terrorism is increasingly becoming complex and involves different dynamics, we have created this group on November 23, 2015 in the wake of the Paris attack to engage the public to debate about how to approach the phenomena anew and to rethink strategy. While counterterrorism is most often linked with the exercise of "hard power", which includes intelligence, law, policing, and military power, it must gradually make use of "soft power" that consists of political, social, cultural and economic control, together with broader policy initiatives dealing with the environment, development, critical infrastructure, migration, and humanitarian intervention, in which a nation's civil society plays a vital role. That's why Professor Joseph Nye, who coined the term "soft power”, wrote that a viable civil society would help mitigate violence. As Nye concluded, a great nation's interests in world politics can be better achieved through the use of "smart power", a combination of both soft and hard power!
So why we need ONE WORLD solution?
Let me quote from my first year sociology class book, “Exploring Sociology - A Canadian Perspective” by Bruce Ravelli and Michelle Webber:
Well, currently our initiatives are mainly focused on social media but we have to take it to another level thus looking for volunteers with innovative and creative ideas from around the world. If you think you can contribute to this project leave your comments here. Thank you!
For more info about me please refer my profile and facebook page below:
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“ISIS has issued a statement on the Brussels attacks sharing the pictures of two perpetrators of the Brussels airport attacks, Brothers Khalid El Bakraoui, on the left, and Ibrahim El Bakraoui on the right as reported by Raqqa is Silently being Slaughtered.
ISIS claimed in its An-Naba' Newsletter that their Brussels military campaign was successfully executed. In the newsletter, they praised their fighters’ efforts and how bravely they completed their mission to attack against the heart of Europe. They referred to the Brussels attacks as their “Brussels military campaign.”
They also challenged the West with the following statements (roughly translated):
“ISIS soldiers are from now on from the countries we are attacking. Why? Because it is easier for us to carry out those attacks simply because they know the terrain, culture, language and basically all the necessary information regarding that country.”
“Those attacks also show to the whole world how the European countries’ intelligence is weak and incompetent. WHY? Look we can easily carry the explosives and the weapons at the heart of the airport without any problems. According to us, it is more important for us to scare the Europeans rather than killing them in large quantities. These Brussels attacks proved to the whole world that we can attack anytime and anywhere we would like to.”
“We have many fighters in Europe on hold, so we can carry out simultaneous attacks as we wish in different locations.”
“We can very easily carry out our operations against the European intelligence agencies without any difficulties and you will continue to see that.”
“Oh our brothers, as you can see we can strike their capitals, their propaganda is a complete lie. Look we struck them at their heart, in the middle of Brussels, by only using light weapons and explosives. This alone proves you how vulnerable they are and that they are not winning against us.”
The biggest question is how we are going to prevent the next terrorist attack? How long this mayhem is going to continue? What is the end game? Do you see the bigger picture and root causes of this “new world chaos” rather than a “new world order”?
Well, this is what I consider the bottom line and end game for this political vis-à-vis socioeconomic dilemma.
My name is Kagusthan Ariaratnam and I am an undergraduate student at the University of Ottawa. For the record, my wife Zufishan Malik, a graduate from McGill University and I have established an Ottawa, Ontario based independent and nonprofit think tank. It is provisionally titled "The 05 File Foundation". Its vision and mission is to bring about world peace by the "STATE OF GLOBAL DETERRENCE". Its ultimate goal is "ONE WORLD" by ensuring geostrategic-***-borderless global village for the modern citizens of the world. Its motto is "Irreplaceable Intelligence". To give you an idea regarding our planning, preparing and executing counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency and counter-radicalization are the subjects we are focused on.
As combating terrorism is increasingly becoming complex and involves different dynamics, we have created this group on November 23, 2015 in the wake of the Paris attack to engage the public to debate about how to approach the phenomena anew and to rethink strategy. While counterterrorism is most often linked with the exercise of "hard power", which includes intelligence, law, policing, and military power, it must gradually make use of "soft power" that consists of political, social, cultural and economic control, together with broader policy initiatives dealing with the environment, development, critical infrastructure, migration, and humanitarian intervention, in which a nation's civil society plays a vital role. That's why Professor Joseph Nye, who coined the term "soft power”, wrote that a viable civil society would help mitigate violence. As Nye concluded, a great nation's interests in world politics can be better achieved through the use of "smart power", a combination of both soft and hard power!
So why we need ONE WORLD solution?
Let me quote from my first year sociology class book, “Exploring Sociology - A Canadian Perspective” by Bruce Ravelli and Michelle Webber:
“Understanding the historical footprint of sociology is important, as is an appreciation of the contributions of Canadian scholars. However, it is equally, if not more, important to look beyond our own Western boundaries and consider the dynamic forces of globalization , a process involving the production, distribution, and consumption of technological, political, economic, and sociocultural goods and services on a global basis (Hedley, 2002). Globalization is discussed in more detail in Chapter 19 , but suffice it to say that our world today is increasingly interconnected and intermingled. As news events are presented in real time around the globe (e.g., terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center), we realize that the world feels as if it is becoming a much smaller place.
Canadian media scholar Marshall McLuhan is recognized for coining the term global village in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962). 2 He used the phrase to describe how media collapse space and time and enable people everywhere to interact and experience life on a global scale. In effect, technology has shrunk the globe to the size of a village where we perceive a closeness that transcends the traditional boundaries of time and space. This discussion certainly relates to one of our questions at the beginning of the chapter, as it appears that communication technologies have in fact changed how we perceive and understand each other.
However, there is much more to a global perspective than simply an analysis of technology. Globalization also implies a realization of the primacy of capitalism as a defining feature of the global economy. Just as we investigated your identity as being defined by your socioeconomic class, gender, etc., as a sociologist you need to realize that Canadians have been taught to assume that capitalism is by default the only economic system possible. While it is hard to argue that another economic strategy can rival the dominance of capitalism, using your sociological imagination and seeing the strange in the familiar means asking whether capitalism is the right option or the only one available. Capitalism has enabled a great deal of wealth to be produced around the world; however, for many the concern is where that wealth has ended up.
As the map in Figure 1.1 demonstrates, much of the world’s wealth is held in the Global North and the world’s poverty in the Global South (Shah, 2009a). In fact, of the roughly 6 billion people alive today, only 1 billion live in developed countries. The remaining 5 billion live in developing countries, where many survive on less than a dollar a day. We must realize that poverty is not just lack of money but also lack of basic nutrition, health care, education, freedom, and personal autonomy. Poverty, then, is about being invisible, having no voice, and feeling powerless to improve your life or the lives of your loved ones (World Bank Group, 2010). To some extent, McLuhan was right in perceiving that everyone today is linked through such factors as international trade and migration, yet clearly our relationships are not equal. The world is out of balance: the 1 billion who live in developed countries control 80 percent of global resources. This leaves the other 5 billion people to try to survive on the remaining 20 percent. Is this fair? Is it justifiable?
Sociology studies how and why human beings interact and by doing so attempts to understand how to confront social issues such as poverty. Sociology is unique in that it can investigate human phenomena from local, individual realities to global, collective consciousness.”
Well, currently our initiatives are mainly focused on social media but we have to take it to another level thus looking for volunteers with innovative and creative ideas from around the world. If you think you can contribute to this project leave your comments here. Thank you!
For more info about me please refer my profile and facebook page below:
https://about.me/kagusthanariaratnam
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1673073239603268/
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