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Tuesday, December 30, 2003 |
My News Day Pulling it together... or not :-)
| Neighbors Knocking on Doors | | 1/7/2004 |
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 Community communication services. Jim Moore writes: The Dean campaign is participating in the social software movement because we are committed to grassroots and netroots campaigning—and because members of the social software movement constitute a crucial part of our most active base of supporters. Members of the social software movement are us. We are in the innovation cycle, as well as a beneficiary of it. Thus we have deployed some community communication services including services now called DeanSpace and Dean Commons. Let me be clear: We are establishing our services to empower citizens, not to compete in the social software industry. Our aim is to compete in the presidential election and encourage the transformation of American politics. This is more than enough for us. Our aim is to elect Howard Dean, improve the presidency, and empower people.
Read more... Dean campaign software and services innovation
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| North Korea | | 1/7/2004 |
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Arguments: Why we don't get it. Fifth, we have tended to accept the popular notion that "globalization" -- i.e., increased trade, the spread of technology, and the movement of ideas and people across national frontiers -- would create prosperity and a sense of common interest that would ameliorate international tensions and hostile confrontation. This principle did not work in 1914 despite active trade between Britain and Germany and the German fondness for Shakespeare. It seems particularly unsound to expect it to work in the Korean case.
Source Document: North Korea's Strategy presented by Stephen Bradner
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| Tikrit | | 1/14/2004 |
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Dennis Kucinich - pls take this time - specially for this one. Email from a friend:
People wonder why a person as cynical and occasionally ration as I profess
to be can back with such passion the candidacy of Congressman Kucinich.
If you have 20 minutes the answers are to be found here.
1. An amazing article in the Village Voice about a reporter's
transformation and falling "in love," as I have, with
Kucinich <http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0402/essay.php>
The Essay is by Stephen Elliott "The Dennis Kucinich Polka - What's so
funny about peace, love, and the Dems' Great Ignored Candidate?" January 14
- 20, 2004 (2 minutes)
2. Dennis's legendary Prayer for America speech, in his own voice, yes
that's him singing at the beginning of the speech, can be heard without a
download at http://www.wewantkucinich.com/prayer.htm (18 minutes)
Listen to this guy. Do some multitasking so that you're not "wasting" 18
minutes of your life listening to his speech. Think about the way hope and
fear are playing out in our country, in our consciousness, and
subconsciousness. In our lives. Give voice to hope. Forward the article
and the speech as you see fit. Vote for Kucinich. Tell your friends to.
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Riba resonates Yesterday, and still this morning, befuddlement rules... Riba helps me through it:
Odd question plaguing my mind in the wee hours of the morning: is consistency in one's opinions a virtue and something that should be pursued, or is it (in Emerson's words) a "hobgoblin of little minds" and (in Wilde's) "the last refuge of the unimaginitive"?
Should one look for unifying themes and try to apply compatible values across them all (abortion and death penalty; Iraq and Korea; states rights)? Or should each issue be addressed on its own merits, and ignore similarities to other matters as superficial and possibly counterproductive distractions?Is it fair to call people hypocrites for having different opinions on issues you judge to be similar?
I'm sure the truth lies somewhere in the middle, between these extremes. But what do you do when formulating your opinions -- do you try to find grand unifying themes and judge new issues on how they conform to existing opinions, or do you treat each one independently?
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Party Poopers I am inclined to stand, walk, run, wait with Michael, but... not yet. However, I'll need a public response from Dean on this one:
CONCORD MONITOR NOTES DEAN'S CLAIM
On Saturday, Dec. 27, the Concord Monitor in Concord, NH, noted: "Dean recently mailed brochures to homes in New Hampshire with a headline stating that Dean is the only candidate who 'opposed the war from the start.'"
Here is an image taken from the brochure, which the Dean campaign has mailed to people in New Hampshire and other states:
It's hard to believe that Dean supporters would stand for this kind of misrepresentation. We won't stand for it.
From David Swanson, Kucinich Campaign:
If Dr. Dean chooses to gloss over the inconsistencies of the positions he took during the first stage of this war, that's his business. But when he denies Dennis's record, that becomes our business, and it ought to be the business of the media. Dean is misrepresenting a material fact, and doing so despite his demonstrated knowledge of the truth. It is the media's responsibility to find out why he is doing this. The public has a right to know.
"Only" one little word. But what a lie it makes.
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