JOURNAL: The PCC's currency

Brazil. The PCC is keeping up the pressure on Sao Paolo through attacks on government facilities/personnel and economic infrastructure (transportation and finance). One of the mechanisms by which they are maintaining the pressure, looks like an innovation in open source warfare. Here's an interesting note on the micro-market currency used in the recruitment of attackers (Guardian): According to Mr Amorim, one of the PCC's key strengths is its capacity to recruit "freelance" members to carry out specific actions. Many see involvement as a means of self-protection. "It is a kind of seguro-cadeia [jail insurance]," Mr Amorim said. "You know you will be arrested one day, so it is better to arrive in prison as a friend or at least someone who is known [to the PCC]."

Comments

[Duncan Kinder]

This sounds much like the underworld in Elizabethan and Jabobean England.

In those times, the traditional agrarian way of life was being disrupted by the closing of the monasteries, inflation caused by Spanish gold, the enclosure movement, and the transformation into a commercial, rent-based, wool-oriented form of agriculture. In short, peoples' lives were being unsettled by forces resembling contemporary downsizing, outsorucing, and the like.

As peoples' lives were being re-adjusted, widespread fringe elements emerged. Shakespeare's Falstaff is but the most famous of many such rogues who appeared as characters in Elizabethan theater.

A light but good discussion of these fringe elements is Gamini Salgado's _The Elizabethan Underworld_
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0750943149/sr=8-1/qid=1155392134/ref=sr_1_1/104-2490266-8172765?ie=UTF8

[P-]

Thought it interesting... your latest piece highlighted attacks on infrastructure, transportation and finance. I was looking the other day at a news article about the destruction of some oil infrastructure in the latest Israel/Palestine War and affected areas listed by the disruption of oil distribution was transportation and electricity. Infrastructure is infrastructure but in the 21st century when we maybe looking at infrastructure as nations and its people to build and use but GG will be looking to tear it down...