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    Seif al-Qadhafi explains...
Ed Webb

How social media users are helping NATO fight Gadhafi in Libya « Shabab Libya - 0 views

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  • a committed cadre of social media users who have become, in effect, volunteer intelligence analysts. On Twitter, Facebook and other services, they discuss satellite images, vessel tracking data and the latest gossip from their sources inside the country. In the past few days, NATO officials have acknowledged that social media reports contribute to their targeting process
  • In a press briefing on June 10, Wing Commander Mike Bracken, a NATO spokesman, described the so-called “fusion centre” that pulls together intelligence. “We get information from open sources on the Internet; we get Twitter,” Wing Commander Bracken said. “You name any source of media and our fusion centre will deliver all of that into usable intelligence.” Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, the Canadian who commands the operation, ultimately decides whether to trust what he’s hearing. “He will decide, ‘That is good information and I can act on it,’ ” the spokesman said. “Where it comes from, it’s not relevant to the commander.”
Ed Webb

A Song Contest Becomes a Hot Spot in Feud Between Countries - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 01 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The simmering conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has entered a new theater: the Eurovision Song Contest.
  • some Azerbaijanis who took impartiality to impressive lengths, voting for the Armenian entry in the 2009 final in May, reportedly were called in to the Azerbaijani National Security Ministry
  • Previously, the Armenians had raised tensions by slipping images of a memorial in Nagorno-Karabakh, the enclave at the center of the dispute between the countries, into the video presentation that introduced their representative in a preliminary round.
Ed Webb

Boston Review - Democracy and Muslim Minorities - 0 views

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  • In this issue, we consider three democracies and their relationship to Muslim minority communities. Martha C. Nussbaum examines how the stereotype of the “Muslim terrorist” is further marginalizing Muslim liberals in India John R. Bowen probes how the emergence of sharia tribunals serving a Muslim minority will affect English law and women David Mikhail on what the experience of Shakir Baloch, a Muslim moderate detained after 9/11, means for the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world
michelle benevento

Top Jewish groups denounce cartoon about Gaza - CNN.com - 0 views

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shared by michelle benevento on 01 Apr 09 - Cached
  • The cartoon was published Wednesday in newspapers and on the Internet.
  • michelle benevento on 01 Apr 09
     
    Gaza, cartoon, jewish, palestine, israel
  • michelle benevento on 01 Apr 09
     
    I thought the article was interesting considering we just had a discussion about cartoons...
Jim Franklin

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jewish-Arab crime film captures tensions - 1 views

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  • Next year, the gritty tale about mafia-style murders will become the first Arabic language film to represent Israel at the Oscars.
  • Impoverished Israeli Arabs shooting one another in the shadow of the gleaming towers of Tel Aviv is far from Israel's preferred international image.
  • dark underside to the ideal of coexistence sometimes touted in mixed Jewish-Arab areas like Jaffa.
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  • "It's nothing but shooting and drugs, shooting and drugs - it's true, but it will ruin our reputation," says one youth.
  • Until the war which led to Israel being founded broke out in 1948, Jaffa was the considered the cultural capital of what was then British Mandate Palestine.
  • A young man in Ajami "doesn't know if he's Palestinian or Israeli, he's confused, he doesn't know what he is, what he wants to do," says Ms Rihan.
  • "I'm shocked that Jews like the film more than Arabs, even though it shows that we are like this because of them!", she adds.
  • The actors were not given the script, just thrown into scenarios and told to react.
  • Over seven years, Mr Shani learnt Arabic and says he spent more time in Ajami with Mr Copti than with his own wife, immersing himself in "a totally different world".
Ed Webb

Roots of consumerism may lie in Disney cartoons - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 06 May 11 - No Cached
  • “The viewer must fill in so much of the detail that they feel they are participating in the image-world,” Jenkins said.
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      Ed Webb on 06 May 11
       
      In other words, to use McLuhan's language, animation is a cool medium that requires more participation of the audience - more investment of emotion and attention.
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