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Category Archives: Politics
Free culture
Lawrence Lessig convinced his editor to release the book under a creative commons licence. Now Aaron Schwartz took it and put the complete book online – as wiki, so anyone can contribute and change the content.
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The humanism of media ecology
Neil Postman – Media Ecology Association: “As far as I can tell, the new media have made us into a nation of information junkies; that is to say, our 170-year efforts have turned information into a form of garbage. My own answer to the question concerning access to information is that, at least for now, [...]
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That did not help
But I was wondering about this weblog anyway: Graphic Designers for Dean.
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Pentagon: climate change will destroy us
Guardian Unlimited: “You’ve got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac river you’ve got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars.” And: Key findings of the Pentagon. Reading the key findings I feel the Pentagon has hired some freaks that want to draw a scenario that would keep the defence [...]
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Why Bush must go to war
Almost a year ago I posted a link to an interview with Eugen Drewermann about the psychology of Bush. Somebody pointed me to an inofficial english translation of some passages. Still worth a read.
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The Howard Dean Reading List
Wired.com has published a list of books about social networking theory and how the Dean campaign translates the concepts. It is part of the article “How the Internet Invented Howard Dean” from Gary Wolf.
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Shared vision
Bill Clinton: “When good people, with great energy, have shared vision, all the rest works out.”
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Quote of the Day
“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.”George Walker Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003 [via Schockwellenreiter]
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Landscapes of Capital
“This project is an ongoing attempt to write a multimedia web-based book dedicated to studying how corporate television commercials portray a world shaped and defined by global capitalism during the last years of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st. Drawing on a set of 800 TV commercials sponsored by corporate firms [...]
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20 lessons learned from 9-11
Unfortunatly this article seems to be only available in German (and unfortunatly it is not a followup to the numerous consipracy-theory rants).
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Software patents narrowed by EU
The EU today has rejected a draft to enable patents on algorithms and business processes.
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California race
That’s not a political race – that’s a freak show…
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Howard Dean Weblog
Howard Dean is one of the next presidential candidates and he runs a weblog. Is weblogging a better way run a candidacy? Dan Gillmor is at the campaign headquaters and reports.
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WMD and lies
This article by John W. Dean reads like the worst thing that could happen to the world is an impeachment of the president of the United States. The article is titled “Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?” What a strange question is that? If there is something that seems to be [...]
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How to deceive
Someone called »Billmon« made a collection of statements about weapons of mass destruction from members of the US administration.
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What experts say now
The Guardian: »Denis Healey, Labour ex-Foreign Secretary: “[...] The really criminal thing was that they wouldn’t let Blix go back. Here is a man of outstanding ability and honesty. I think this will be very damaging in Britain. Unfortunately, less so in America where the public doesn’t care as much.”«
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IRAQWAR.RU
The IRAQWAR.RU analytical center was created recently by a group of journalists and military experts from Russia to provide accurate and up-to-date news and analysis of the war against Iraq. The following is the English translation of the IRAQWAR.RU report based on the Russian military intelligence reports. This site posting reports that draws a different [...]
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Practice to Decieve
Joshua Micah Marshall: »Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks’ nightmare scenario – it’s their plan.«
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Step 3? – There is no step three…
Skimming the news about ground battle of the »coalition of the unwilling« I more and more come to the conclusion that there is no real plan for Baghdad.
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Software patents in Europe