17th CENTURY SPIN FOR FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE: Oráculo Manual of the art of prudence by Balthasar Gracián (1601-1658). Almost daily (on French news) we see the foolish triumphalist behaviour of one of the very few alternatives to the reign of Sarkozy, and his UMP, François Hollande of the SP. Mass rallies and visits to pre-arranged supportive crowds [...]
Archive for January, 2012
17th CENTURY SPIN FOR FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE I
Posted in Is everything propaganda then?, tagged Balthasar Gracián (1601-1658), François Hollande presidential election 2012, maximes, prudence, spin, spin doctors on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
ULTRASOUND music blast for the unborn
Posted in The downside of leisure industry, tagged fetus scans, male fertility, ultrasound on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
”Ultrasone geluiden kunnen mannen onvruchtbaar maken” (Utrasone sound can make men infertile) is a belated news article in a Dutch daily today, as the news item dates back to the year 2010. The research is financed by the Bill Gates foundation with the idea that it might be a tool to make men temporarily infertile [...]
SOPA, PIPA, ACTA what is all the fuss about?
Posted in Consumerism, Obsolete information carriers, tagged ACTA, PIPA, planned obsolescence of media industry, SOPA on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
— SOPA = Stop Online Piracy Act PIPA = PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act ACTA = Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement obsolescence = Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working [...]
GOED NIEUWS voor Ingrid Henk is bovenmodaal
Posted in goed nieuws, tagged donaties aan politieke partijen, giften, Henk en Ingrid, mazen van de wet, PVV, transparentie, vitrage on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
—- Waarom nieuwe wet politieke giften alleen PVV treft Anti-PVV-wet De PVV is dus de enige partij die hard getroffen wordt door de nieuwe wet. Vandaar dat Kamerlid Hero Brinkman gisteren al sprak van een ‘anti-PVV wet’. Hij heeft al ‘mazen in de wet’ op het oog. Zo zouden lokale partijen wellicht financiële steun kunnen [...]
AIRLIFT YOUR DATA: alternatives for a blockaded internet
Posted in Connectivity, Media history, tagged Berlin Blockade 1948-1949, blockade of goods, blockade of information, Blockade Wall Street, copyright, Cuba, EEC, FIFOnet, freedom of expression, internet blocking, Iran, MegaUpload, NETLESS, Pirate Bay, radio modem, shortwave data radio, Stichting Brein, UPC, Xs4all on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Newspaper heading these last days on the Dutch Stichting Brein (Foundation Brain) forces providers to effect an INTERNET BLOCKADE against Pirate Bay web sites“. The Foundation Brein received on January the 11, 2012 a court order that forces some of the big internet providers in the Netherlands (Xs4all and Ziggo at first, T-Mobile and UPC are [...]
Massa-arrestatie van Meeloophooligans
Posted in City riots, Justice, The downside of leisure industry, tagged CDA-Kamerlid Coskun Çörüz, massa-arrestatie, meeloophooligans, rechtstaat, voetbalhooligans, Voetbalwet, zingeving aan het bestaan, zinloos geweld on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“CDA: Meeloophooligans ook de klos” CDAer Çörüz legt uit in het massaochtendblad De Spits: “de minister moet bij het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) eisen dat ook de meelopers worden vervolgd (…) onder het motto ‘Je was erbij, je bent erbij’.” Het lijkt een aanpak met massa-arresaties zo overgenomen van kameraad Alexander Lukashenko uit Wit Rusland, nu [...]
Cohn Bendit teaches Orban: “information must derange politics”
Posted in European politics, tagged Daniel Cohn Bendit, European Parliament, freedom of expression, media law, rhetorics, state censorship, Viktor Orban on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Daniel Cohn Bendit is an old style orator who loves to be on stage and debate, from the university back rooms of Nanterre in the mid sixties as a ‘young European anarchist’ and explicit anti-parlementarist, to the the front room of the European parliament in Strasbourg and Bruxelles as an elected deputé of the Green [...]
