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steve santos

Bystanders to Genocide - Magazine - The Atlantic - 1 views

  • They can defend the U.S. policy. This is the position of Richard Clarke, who believes, all things considered, that he and his colleagues did everything they could and should have done. "Would I have done the same thing again?" Clarke asks. "Absolutely. What we offered was a peacekeeping force that would have been effective. What [the UN] offered was exactly what we said it would be—a force that would take months to get there. If the UN had adopted the U.S. [outside-in] proposal, we might have saved some lives ... The U.S. record, as compared to everyone else's record, is not something we should run away from ... I don't think we should be embarrassed. I think everyone else should be embarrassed by what they did, or did not do."
    • steve santos
       
      in the american sense of justification for the lack of probable involvement in the prevention and halting of the events at the time, in following the turn of social protocol and a country-state scale means of approach to handling the issues with militant and government officials. The two only being issue when they are one in the same entity and backed by the US already having previous engagement with the region, only then would more have been readily done with information being concrete if already stationed to a degree in the area, also taking into account the reservations of black hawk down, in the recent past
steve santos

Timeline: 1940s - YES! Magazine - 0 views

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      Personally I am very fond of this turning point era in US history because it was the peak of civil and economics stirrings since the great depression. From a score board perspective, every group and ideal gained favor and support from the private sector that did not stir any elements of what the war was about in a hindering perspective or holding semblance to the cultural sense of how America and this nationalism sweep defined the enemy to be.
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      (the turning point I refer to is the 1940's. I am not so sure this sticky note will stick to the era referred to in my comment)
steve santos

http://www.astcweb.org/public/publication/documents/Burkley Sept 2008 TJE1.pdf - 0 views

    • steve santos
       
      I do enjoy the differentiation between the two on the case of the subtle nature at the approach to giving arguments. For law, I am biased considering its the field I want to go in, but the power of the argument isn't always the forward notion of play in creating intent or persuasion in a court system. even a subtle lowly argument can be highly aided by a strong presentation if the legality persists. The science of persuasion is different per situation and need mold for its field of play especially within the legal system, but for the sake of the article it shows to be definitive in a footnote in policy in the courts where it is tested before it goes into the real world where it then has more freedom to expand and network. 
Felecia Russell

Science of Persuasion in Courtroom Questions by Felecia Russell - 29 views

started by Felecia Russell on 29 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
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    it is possible to discern them through their intent. Lawyer knowledge and persuasion techniques can be separate from morality and justice. justice can have different interpretations and ways of being enforced in the legal system to different people. the intent principle comes into effect and is blurred by the lines of the system. in an ideal means thought it is a black and white principle, forced to be hindered so the two can be present to be presented in a system that can be defined to be exact through the jury and the other people it must come to be inferred through.
steve santos

Steve Santos' questions on inducements (Nov 11th, 2:45 Class) - 32 views

inducements discussion
started by steve santos on 10 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
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    1) Consider the nature of Jay Z's approach to managing his persona and his subtle influence in handling the challengers in the hip hop/rap industry.

    From a policy standpoint, how is it that this may be registered to the people were it a political debate between candidates? and in regards to our modern issues of war and the economy, what combination of pacifism and relentlessness would be favored between handling enemies and then the people governed/influenced?

    2) Now think about Dan Pink's video and how money was viewed negatively as a motivator, but as an inducement it was beneficial. what draws the line between the two and how might that be present in our modern issues today?
Jonathan Omokawa

Two Questions on Healthcare - 22 views

started by Jonathan Omokawa on 03 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
  • steve santos
     
    I would agree that healthcare has been turned into a commodity more than anything. Our market capitalism has turned it void of the just moral sense of going about the notion of a fair system or what health care should entail. We've become infamous for only what is produced.

    In the market system in general I feel there has to be a social reformation of it. At the trend of Keyenesian economics the internal stabilizations of the system is constantly at odds with people prompting the desire for an input of the fair market system of the polis and its input. Essentially its policy gridlock where not one can flourish at the detriment of the other.
Claudia Rios

Question on Hans Rosling: New Insights on Poverty and Life Around the World. - 24 views

started by Claudia Rios on 11 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
  • steve santos
     
    Money often times is the means thats forwards even some sense of culture. It envelops universal means to a status and structure for governance. Money in itself with nothing to give it ends and a purpose is essentially useless since it entails the basis for any foundation. Virtuous notions intended or not, the tendencies to be part of a collective does accrue for a need of a source of income to really buy a way into that collective and more over function into it. Culture can be skilled and detail oriented in being more over developed rather than money alone accounting for the the style of capitalism the united states essentially is diluted in amongst its melting pot collective of communities. each community really holds a foot due to paying its dues; in a literal and figurative sense. Culture is rich in certain spheres, just not so widespread as Rosling would intend.
steve santos

PublicAffairs Books: THE POLITICAL BRAIN - 8 views

  • managing positive and negative feelings should be the primary goals of a political campaign
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      This is how I always felt of the ideal means of a reform to the process of choosing a candidate and a general approach to issues of policy in america.  Its more of what they stand for to how they stand for the people rather than presenting that yes, they will have agreeing terms within the people of their political party but presenting that there is not one main means of appeal for all. coming from different faiths, economic situations and nationalities, the appeal to all is not realistic and in the awareness of that more compromise can be made and the retrospective of the state of affairs can be seen for people to be complacent with any step, minuscule or otherwise, towards a policy that works to accommodate all and be okay knowing in order to all share part of the policy "pie" people need to take cuts to divide it evenly as many would rally to include as many as possible. Rather it'd be best to know that it will not be full to what people request and a means to manage that is just as vital as enacting any one particular policy
steve santos

Edge: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? By Jonathan Haidt - 9 views

  • Religion and political leadership are so intertwined across eras and cultures because they are about the same thing: performing the miracle of converting unrelated individuals into a group.
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      this i found very ironic with the explicit divide drawn from church an state as a means of policy in itself and then how Durkneim's statement shows how even if it is said they are to be separate, the structure of society and the basis of any one faith have systematically been intertwined to meet a means of advancing any one collective's ideals. Its a presentation of faith and religion as a ends to a means of structure and justification to the way in which things are done in government and within the personal experience in defining which is the one right way to cultivate the beliefs of a majority and all things unrelated into a group. As its stated in this segment: a miracle.
Mike Frieda

Question on "How to Cheat at Everything" - 18 views

framing heuristics cheat
started by Mike Frieda on 28 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
  • steve santos
     
    I absolutely say this framing technique has been going on for years. In the old west days of american civilization, "medicine men" would sell you concoction of a plethora of absolutely nothing significant to yield results for their claims of living forever. They would set up a public expo at a time and before hand meet with a friend who would arrive either before or after and rise to the claim of "trying it out" and then saying "I feel great. you do feel younger and stronger after drinking this!" Logistics of this method were short hand then so a man's word was his worth and people wanting to believe people can be good would buy into this illusion in good faith, other placed in the wrong people. Luring in with a scapegoat like that is no different today. Taking this innocent mind set of faith into this next example, If Beyonce says this makeup is wonderful for her, everyone who wants to be like her will more or less buy it. Same for David Beckham; he appears in GQ wearing this, this this and that, even guys would have a notion in mind that maybe its worth the added charisma you'd get to be more like him. It comes down to principle of how people carry themselves. Too optimistic and too much faith sets you up to be used by the good of people out for nothing of your well intent. They just come off as so. Too pessimistic and no one will want to be involved with you. Only so many people want to be saviors and even that role of oneself is dying off. In good faith and good mind you have to no reasonable warning signs or positive reinforcement of when to back off and when to push forward to know the set of circumstances you as the consumer desire an if they can yield from what is in front of you when you rise up to them respectively.
steve santos

Joanna Moorhead on the best country to give birth | Life and style | The Guardian - 18 views

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      its very interesting to think of these notions of morality and personal motif in the definition of defining the line between the polis and the market when there are many limiting factors dissolving the two of them. where there is no gubernatorial sense of how to allocate resources to feed people; very little is any, and then the polis struggling to make ends meat and water of daily survival to bring into consideration that of others. certain things then become "nice problems to have" in western civilization when drinking water is abundant and famine is not an actuality as opposed to how it is in Niger where life to death is over, or under depending how you look at it, in regards to the access to something so crucial as clean water
steve santos

Reconsiderations: John Rawls and Our Plural Nation - June 11, 2008 - The New York Sun - 6 views

shared by steve santos on 10 Sep 11 - Cached
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      in this statement alone it shows the constructs for society in the sense that past the foundation of a sphere of thought can arise a newer notion and connection of old world ideals to the development and spread of them in the existential realm of modern society from faith basis to that of the developmental acceptance of multiple doctrines of thought
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