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Du bist Terrorist (You are a Terrorist) english subtitles on Vimeo Video - 0 views

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Du bist Terrorist (You are a Terrorist) english subtitles on Vimeo Video

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  • thinkahol * on 13 Aug 11
     
    Collected from vimeo.com Jun 2, 2009 with the description: You are a Terrorist! A Campaign against Terrorists. United for a safer Germany. The Campaign „Du bist Deutschland" (You are Germany) in 2005 was the beginning of a wave of positive spirit in the whole country. This combined energy has turned backwards in 2009, because now you are a potencial Terrorist and you have to be watched closely. DubistTerrorist.de.
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Slavoj Zizek: 'Now the field is open' - Talk to Al Jazeera - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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Slavoj Zizek: 'Now the field is open' - Talk to Al Jazeera English

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  • thinkahol * on 01 Nov 11
     
    The philosopher discusses the momentous changes taking place in the global financial and political system.
Johann Höchtl

Stjórnlagaráð 2011 - English - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 13 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • The role of the Constitutional Council is to discuss the Constitutional Committee Report and prepare a bill about a revised constitution, taking into consideration the results of the National Forum 2010.
  • The candidates could also place introductions about themselves on the webpages: dv.is, svipan.is, wikipedia.com and on facebook.com/stjornlagathing.
  • Johann Höchtl on 13 Jun 11
     
    Island is asking for collaboratory drafting the constitution using GB, twitter et.al.
thinkahol *

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 *

For Activists, Tips in Safer Use of Social Media - Noticed - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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For Activists Tips in Safer Use of Social Media - Noticed NYTimes.com

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  • thinkahol * on 06 Apr 11
     
    several groups of free information advocates have emerged to help educate the latest generation of activists. To that end, one such group, Access, just released its guide to maintaining online and mobile phone security, with versions in Arabic and English.
Parycek

SMALL CHANGE Why the revolution will not be tweeted - 2 views

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  • The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns
  • There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.” The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. Twitter is a way of following (or being followed by) people you may never have met. Facebook is a tool for efficiently managing your acquaintances, for keeping up with the people you would not otherwise be able to stay in touch with. That’s why you can have a thousand “friends” on Facebook, as you never could in real life.
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  • “Social networks are particularly effective at increasing motivation,”
  • But that’s not true. Social networks are effective at increasing participation—by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires
  • social media are not about this kind of hierarchical organization. Facebook and the like are tools for building networks, which are the opposite, in structure and character, of hierarchies. Unlike hierarchies, with their rules and procedures, networks aren’t controlled by a single central authority. Decisions are made through consensus, and the ties that bind people to the group are loose.
  • There are many things, though, that networks don’t do well. Car companies sensibly use a network to organize their hundreds of suppliers, but not to design their cars.
  • The drawbacks of networks scarcely matter if the network isn’t interested in systemic change—if it just wants to frighten or humiliate or make a splash—or if it doesn’t need to think strategically. But if you’re taking on a powerful and organized establishment you have to be a hierarchy.
  • it is simply a form of organizing which favors the weak-tie connections that give us access to information over the strong-tie connections that help us persevere in the face of danger. It shifts our energies from organizations that promote strategic and disciplined activity and toward those which promote resilience and adaptability
  • Parycek on 13 Dec 10
     
    Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell
thinkahol *

Is Capitalism Doomed? - Nouriel Roubini - Project Syndicate - 0 views

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Is Capitalism Doomed? - Nouriel Roubini Project Syndicate

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    Karl Marx was right, it seems, in arguing that globalization, financial intermediation run amok, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self-destruct. So what can be done to prevent that outcome?
thinkahol *

Fars News Agency :: Iranian Students to Stage Rally in Support of Wall Street Uprising - 0 views

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Fars News Agency :: Iranian Students to Stage Rally in Support of Wall Street Uprising

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  • thinkahol * on 30 Oct 11
     
    TEHRAN (FNA)- Millions of Iranian students are due to stage nationwide rallies on November 4 to voice their strong support for the Wall Street protests which have now overwhelmed all the western countries ruled by the capitalist system.
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