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The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of "Terrorism" - Glenn Greenwald - Salo... - 0 views

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The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness Terrorism - Glenn Greenwald Salon.com

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  • thinkahol * on 25 Jul 11
     
    That Terrorism means nothing more than violence committed by Muslims whom the West dislikes has been proven repeatedly.  When an airplane was flown into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, it was immediately proclaimed to be Terrorism, until it was revealed that the attacker was a white, non-Muslim, American anti-tax advocate with a series of domestic political grievances.  The U.S. and its allies can, by definition, never commit Terrorism even when it is beyond question that the purpose of their violence is to terrorize civilian populations into submission.  Conversely, Muslims who attack purely military targets  -- even if the target is an invading army in their own countries -- are, by definition, Terrorists.  That is why, as NYU's Remi Brulin has extensively documented, Terrorism is the most meaningless, and therefore the most manipulated, word in the English language.  Yesterday provided yet another sterling example.
thinkahol *

GLENN GREENWALD- With Liberty and Justice for Some -Pt 1 - YouTube - 0 views

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GLENN GREENWALD- With Liberty and Justice for Some -Pt 1 - YouTube

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  • thinkahol * on 13 Jan 12
     
    Part 1: The definition of "Rule of Law". Glenn Greenwald speaks about America's two-tiered justice system and why he wrote his latest book, "Liberty and Justice for Some". (Available on Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/tAANlP) Recorded at Claremont-McKenna College on 4 November 2011.
Parycek

What is the Definition of Government 2.0? - 1 views

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gov20 opengov citizen20 participation

shared by Parycek on 27 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Parycek on 27 Mar 10
     
    This is about the merger of Government 2.0 and Citizen 2.0 = People enforcing their ownership of the Government. Not vice-versa.
  • Johann Höchtl on 27 Mar 10
     
    >> People enforcing their ownership of the Government. Not vice-versa. Das wäre eher die Definition für Open Government für mich, Gov 2.0 ist die Verwendung von Web 2.0 Komponenten im Government-Prozess. Was über Umwege "enforcing their ownership of the Government" bedeuten kann, aber eben nicht muss, weil es keine Garantie dafür gibt.
thinkahol *

Has Obama kept a single campaign promise? | Thinkahol's Blog - 0 views

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Has Obama kept a single campaign promise? | Thinkahol's Blog

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  • thinkahol * on 11 Jul 11
     
    Obama hasn't closed Guantanamo and people are still being tortured at Bagram[2], the U.S. is bombing at least six Muslim countries that we know of (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan)[3], and the healthcare bill fiasco in which he had secretly traded away the public option from the beginning[4] very clearly show that he definitely hasn't changed the way Washington works. If anything he's made every conceivable pernicious undemocratic influence stronger.
Johann Höchtl

Peer-to-Peer Governance, Production And Property: P2P As A Way Of Living - Part 1 - 0 views

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collaboration production governance

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  • Such free cooperation can only be hindered ‘artificially’, through either legal means ( intellectual property regimes) or through technical restrictions such as  Digital Rights Management, which essentially hinder the social innovation that can take place.
  • The expansion of peer production is dependent on cultural/legal conditions. It requires;open and free raw cultural material to use; participative structures to process it; and commons-based property forms to protect the results from private appropriation.
  • In most cases, distribution beats decentralization and centralization as the best way to deal with  complexity.
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  • The sphere of commons-oriented peer production, based on stronger links between cooperators, think Linux or Wikipedia, usually combines a self-governing community, with for-benefit institutions (Apache Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, etc…), which manage the infrastructure of collaboration, and a  ecology of businesses which create scarcities around the commons, and in return support the commons from which they derive their value.
  • Finally,  crowdsourcing occurs when it is the institutions themselves which attempt to create a framework, where participation can be integrated in their value chain, and this can take a wide variety of forms. This is generally the field of co-creation.
  • We must note that monetary value that is being realized by the capital players, is – in many if not most of the cases, not of the same order as the value created by the social innovation processes.
  • peer governance requires a priori consensus on the common object. But society as a whole lacks such consensus by definition: it is a decentralized collection of competing interests and worldviews, rather than a distributed network of  free agents. Therefore, for society at large, there is no alternative to a revitalized democratic political scenario based on representation.
Johann Höchtl

Obama's small donor base image is a myth, new study reveals | Top of the Ticket | Los A... - 0 views

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obama Barack fund raising small donors

shared by Johann Höchtl on 17 Sep 10 - Cached
  • In fact, Obama's base of small donors was almost exactly the same percent as George W. Bush's in 2004 -- Obama had 26% and the great Republican satan 25%. Obviously, this is unacceptable to current popular thinking.
  • The myth is that money from small donors dominated Barack Obama's finances
  • It comes down to which definition of "small donor" you accept
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  • But not as impressive as the $210 million he'd raised by then from bundlers and large donors
Parycek

Government 2.0 and the Social Media Bubble - 2 views

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      Parycek on 25 Mar 10
    • Johann Höchtl
      Johann Höchtl on 26 Mar 10
       
      Entscheidungen werden von mehr Leuten mitgetragen ... müssen dadurch aber nicht besser werden. Ich sehe die Gefahr des großen "Blufs" ... Zahlt es sich aus, die MAssen begeistern zu wollen (die anscheinend ja nicht von selbst kommen), ist eine kleine elitäre Gruppe hochgradig involvierter nicht besser? Surowiecky sagt, dass kogintionsprobleme (wie viele Drops sind im dem Glas, wie schwer ist die Kuh?) sehr gut von der Masse gelöst werden, über beteiligung im Government meint er: "making policy in a democracy is not a cognition problem; it is a cooperation and coordination problem with fuzzier and less definitive answers" und ist der Meinung Wisdow of the crowd wäre hier nicht direkt anwendbar.
    • Judith Schossboeck
      Judith Schossboeck on 06 Apr 10
       
      siehe auch die unterschiede in den verschiedenen prozessen: information pooling vs. discussions http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23822/1.html
Johann Höchtl

EUROPA - Press Releases - Neelie Kroes Vice-President of the European Commission respon... - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 17 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • I have said it before, and I say it again: yes to open data!
  • By involving third parties we can both improve services and be more transparent. That would be the definition of weGov.
  • Johann Höchtl on 17 Jan 11
     
    Neelie Kroes on Open Government Data for Europe
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