Friday, October 17, 2003

Our best weapons are prosperity, generosity, kindness, and reason Hey, Beltway! Anybody listening? Snip from Joshua Stanton on Free North Korea: ( emphasis is mine) What should the American answer to this kind of venom be? When it comes to hatred, we cannot outcompete the North Koreans. Our best weapons are prosperity, generosity, kindness, and reason; when applied to North Korean society, these would be powerful solvents. Our answer should be to defy the blockade of ignorance and hatred and show the people of North Korea that we genuinely seek the end of their suffering--eventually though liberation, but in the meantime, with hope, with medicine, and with food. The North Korean government has built a house of hatred upon a foundation of misery. When the crumbling house collapses, those who built it will be unable to escape from the weight that collapses on top of them. Hmmm... Could project-based primaries be part of open-source democracy? 3:15:18 PM  permalink

River Bend: an Iraqi 24 year old, girl blogger Snip from 'Shadow Government' posted by River Bend, an Iraqi 24 year old, girl blogger: Al-Sadr announced the following: "...I have formed a government made up of several ministries, including ministries of justice, finance, information, interior, foreign affairs, endowments and the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice" So what if this new 'shadow government' has orders or laws that differ with the Governing Council? What happens when the hundreds of thousands (some say millions) of Sadr supporters decide that Al-Sadr's word is law? Discovered at isen.blog. 3:01:04 PM  permalink

Revisiting Project-based Primaries: North Korea and the DOP I've had this crazy idea disrupting my sleep that has me hosting a project-based primary for the Sufficiency Party Presidential candidates. The project would take a real-time issue, such as our disconnectedness from North Korea, and illustrate possible conversations using the Department of Peace as the market maker. With that in mind, I decided to do a little Googling on North Korea. Man, oh, man! I found the mother load on the page: Free North Korea. I don't yet know Chris, but he gets my vote for the Nobel Blogger's Peace Prize. North Korea and Iraq, hmmm... I need to check out the People in Iraq links on candidate Isenberg's blog. 2:44:31 PM  permalink