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This is the first of a series of articles co-written by D.J. Mitchell and Susan Cain on how YouTube is used in politics. Susan has done most of the research. YouTube, the free video sharing site offers an incredible medium for uploading and watching videos. People love it as a free avenue for airing [...] Some years ago I visited two villages near Gampaha, Sri Lanka. Both were small and poor. Both were inhabited by members of Rodhi caste, the Sinhalese version of untouchables. But there, all similarity ended. In the first, families of five and six lived in palm-leaf huts just large enough for them all to lie down [...] Reminiscent of attacks on the Italian state during the 1970’s and 1980’s by leftist Red Brigades and Mafia, the drug cartels of Mexico are hobbled neither by antiquated Marxist ideology nor old-time, rustic, crime family traditions. They are adaptive, professional, transnational in outlook and far better equipped than state police forces on either side of [...] Many of the Web 2.0 crowd are clearly smart, but what they do is far removed from the current focal point of global change. As a result, indulging in clever Web 2.0 thinking is akin to eating intellectual fast food, it satisfies but its clearly not good for you. This is why I bailed on [...] John McCain strikes a blow for free speech. No, hang on. Sorry, that should be “strikes a blow against free speech”. John Robb on how small terrorist attacks can disrupt an entire system. The networks of our global superinfrastructure are tightly “coupled”—so tightly interconnected, that is, that any change in one has a nearly instantaneous effect on the others. Attacking one network is like knocking over the first domino in a series: it leads to cascades [...] From Bruce Sterling, commenting on the recent deluge of rain in Texas. In other and even weirder Texan news, Texan state officials ignore the incompetent feds and rely on big-box commercial retail outfits to respond to weather emergencies. Can secession and the Greenhouse Republic of Wal-Mart be far behind? If the government of a nation-state [...] Pakistan from the about-to-be-launched new insurgency aimed at the government and Mexico, well, the story starts with $217 million found in a drug dealer’s home he says was for the president of Mexico. John Robb, author of Brave New War, in a Spot Report inteview Remember, a major reason for 9/11 was to get the US into a guerrilla war in Asia and repeat the experience of Russia’s Afghanistan. The Afghanistan war was a major factor in the collapse of the USSR, as the military and financial cost [...] Shloky notes that John Robb’s new book, Brave New War, has gotten just one major media review yet is #214 on Amazon best sellers now. Blog reviews, and there’s been many of them (including here), are what’s helping the book sell. Given that the book is selling – #214 on Amazon – this is indicative [...] |  | ||||
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