en https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v97/ http://www.newciv.org/news/Images/ncnicon2-s.gif https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v97/ 88 31 OrgSpace NewsLog 1.87 Wed, 28 May 2008 17:17:38 UT Wed, 28 May 2008 17:17:38 UT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 180 https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000104/#com93282 2008-05-28 17:17: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v97">quidnovi</a> on "oble ies?":<br/>hile a lot has been said on the topic, either in attack or defense of the ush administration, this new and long awaited account presents the unusual perspective of being reported from the inside by one who was at the time one of eorge . ush's closest aides.<br/><br/> : is the memoir of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cott_clellan" id="posts_0x1_000097-000104_outside_link" target="_blank">cott clellan</a>, who served as the hite ouse ress ecretary from 2003 until 2006 under resident eorge . ush.<br/><br/>he following is an excerpt form the book due to be released on une 2, 2008:<br/><br/>"n the fall of 2002, ush and his hite house were engaging in a carefully-orchestrated campaign to shape and manipulate sources of public approval to our advantage. e'd done much the same on other issues--tax cuts and education--to great success. ut war with raq was different ur lack of candor and honesty in making the case for war would later provoke a partisan response from our opponents that, in its own way, further distorted and obscured a more nuanced reality. nother cycle of deception would cloud the public's ability to see larger, underlying important truths that are critical to understand in order to avoid the same problems in the future.<br/><br/>he book includes a scathing criticism of the role of the press corps and the media in enabling and reinforcing the administration's propaganda with regard to the invasion of raq:<br/><br/>"nd through it all, the media would serve as complicit enablers. heir primary focus would be on covering the campaign to sell the war, rather than aggressively questioning the rationale for war or pursuing the truth behind it the media would neglect their watchdog role, focusing less on truth and accuracy and more on whether the campaign was succeeding. as the president winning or losing the argument? ow were emocrats responding? hat were the electoral implications? hat did the polls say? nd the truth--about the actual nature of the threat posed by addam, the right way to confront it, and the possible risks of military conflict--would get largely left behind"<br/><br/>he collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should have never come as such a surprise. he public should have been made much more aware, before the fact, of the uncertainties, doubts, and caveats that underlay the intelligence about the regime of addam ussein. he administration did little to convey those nuances to the people, the press should have picked up the slack but largely failed to do so because their focus was elsewhere--on covering the march to war, instead of the necessity of war. https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000104/#com93282 Wed, 28 May 2008 17:17:38 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000104/#com73347 2006-08-24 17:05: comment by anae on "oble ies?":<br/> <br/>n a packed hearing room on an rmy base south of eattle last hursday, rmy t. hren atada argued that the .. decision to attack raq in 2003 without .. authorization made the war illegal from the beginning. e went further, arguing that the failure of the ush dministration to find either weapons of mass destruction or a provable link between raq and the ept. 11 attacks showed that ongress was persuaded "by means of fraud" when it voted to authorize the war.<br/><br/>ore about this, here, on ime agazine: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0%28599%21228779%200.html" id="posts_0x1_000097-000104_outside_link" target="_blank">here</a><br/><br/>nd here, on ing he echanic: <a href="http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001688.htm" id="posts_0x2_000097-000104_outside_link" target="_blank">link</a> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000104/#com73347 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:05:26 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000063/#com54790 2005-05-01 19:32: comment by <a href="http://www.kabbalaonline.org">afed</a> on "ionist abbi uestions "fficial" ssertions about eborn nti-emitism ":<br/>or those with the sincere intent to truly delve into the wisdom of the sacred ewish kabbalah, here is an authentic "kosher" website for you all. www.kabbalaonline.org tart with the beginners section and see where it takes you. https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000063/#com54790 Sun, 1 May 2005 19:32:03 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000105/#com48484 2005-01-03 18:22: comment by astrid on "ut of ime":<br/>t is so nice, fun and important, think, to create images of nergy-processes, to give us a better chance to grasp he low of ife-energy/he oly pirit! hanks rancis fo these images! https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000105/#com48484 Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:22:45 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000106/#com48478 2005-01-03 16:59: comment by astrid on "he ath ess raveled":<br/>description /definition of , the proverbial ( read: iblical ) "alley of eath" ! https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000106/#com48478 Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:59:40 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000107/#com48476 2005-01-03 16:21: comment by astrid on "amhain":<br/>... never noticed your blog before????? ooks very intriguing and 'm going to spend this snowy day reading your ords of isdom. up. 2005.... and like hsanti says; whatever that means!... think it means a lot of !... o, we might as well get used to more coming "this way"<br/>lad to have found you, rancis! https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000107/#com48476 Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:21:29 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000106/#com48452 2005-01-03 02:25: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v257">b</a> on "he ath ess raveled":<br/> wish you a happy new year uidnovi. https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000106/#com48452 Mon, 3 Jan 2005 02:25:40 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000107/#com48451 2005-01-03 00:28: comment by swan on "amhain":<br/>it has been a long time. arrie is standing right next to me saying hello. like the image of the ool, very nice. h, falling back to ugust 10, 2002, does the figure appear or disappear... am not sure and maybe it is both.<br/><br/>free<br/>association.....<br/><br/>appy ew ear https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000107/#com48451 Mon, 3 Jan 2005 00:28:33 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000106/#com48444 2005-01-02 22:47: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v193">newdawn</a> on "he ath ess raveled":<br/>what a stunning image! ouches the heart https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000106/#com48444 Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:47:15 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000009/#com48442 2005-01-02 22:31: comment by ho on "he hild ext oor":<br/> <br/>"f could describe a 'human being' would be more than amand, probably living in the future, because think of human beings as something to be realized ahead... ut clearly 'human beings' have something to do with the luminous image you see in a bright childs eyesthe exploring, wondering, eagerly grasping, undestructive quest for life. see that undescribed spirit as central to us all."<br/><br/>iptree/heldon https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000009/#com48442 Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:31:42 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22053 2003-09-19 00:21: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v63">jazzolog</a> on "eing here":<br/>es, certainly agree; however, getting out of a "pointless spar" with a friend find one of the most difficult tasks of life---and especially so here in . nevitably the spar one finds pointless turns out to be a matter of life and death with one's friend. --sigh--<br/><br/>he actual benefactress for jazzo is indy, with tech help from magine---and so we should add another way in is [<a href="http://sparkle.shorturl.com/" id="posts_0x1_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">link</a>] clicking ightews when you get there. ou'll find indy's delightful og there (different from here) and that ay writes there now too. here are a couple others as well. indy does what she does quietly and carefully---rather different from the side of her she dances in the hats---and never has wanted any publicity or to attract ers away from what goes on here. o 'm a little hesitant to reveal the parkle site---but 'm hoping readers of this og will be respectful if you visit. parring of any kind just doesn't happen there---and personally find it impossible to argue with her about anything. verytime 've tried end up laughing. ushman's a little like that too. :-) https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22053 Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:21:22 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22046 2003-09-18 16:26: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v97">quidnovi</a> on "eing here":<br/>is now (as most people already know):<br/><br/><a href="http://www.upsaid.com/jazzolog" id="posts_0x1_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">http://www.upsaid.com/jazzolog</a><br/><br/>nterestingly, also found it listed under<br/><br/><a href="http://www.espoir.upsaid.com/jazzolog" id="posts_0x2_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">http://www.espoir.upsaid.com/jazzolog</a><br/><br/>spoir is not only a beautiful word meaning hope, but it is also, feel, one of the most pleasantly sounding word there is. t's sound even better in talian ("la speranza"---pretty isn't it?)<br/><br/> say high, you say low <br/>ou say why, and say don't know <br/>h, no <br/>ou say goodbye and say hello <br/>ello, hello <br/> don't know why you say goodbye <br/> say hello <br/>ello, hello <br/> don't know why you say goodbye <br/> say hello <br/><br/>hy, why, why, why, why, why <br/>o you say good bye <br/>oodbye, bye, bye, bye, bye <br/><br/>h, no <br/>ou say goodbye and say hello <br/>ello, hello <br/> don't know why you say goodbye <br/> say hello <br/>ello, hello <br/> don't know why you say goodbye <br/> say hello <br/>hello, hello <br/> don't know why you say goodbye say hello <br/>ello <br/><br/>ela, heba helloa <br/>ela, heba helloa<br/><br/>nd, ichard, always have time to spare for friends--- just don't always have time to spar with them (not pointlessly so, that is ;-) https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22046 Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:26:13 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22042 2003-09-18 13:14: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v63">jazzolog</a> on "eing here":<br/>nd similarly shall not speak of all the snakes in my ceiling. lready 2 people have told me they'll not read any of my essays ever again. omehow all senses of dread descended upon them...and they walk about fearing a snake will fall around their shoulders at any moment. did not intend such a catastrophe...and shall be more careful what write about in the future.<br/><br/>or will discuss my experiences with milk snakes. ontrary to the well-known myth that milk snakes suck milk from the udders of cows, the little constrictors are so named because they actually can entwine the teats in such a way to thoroughly and gently milk a cow completely. once trained an entire fleet of milk snakes for a dairy farmer...and thus now live in financial independence just like the professor-squires at hio niversity, who also do no work. ut shall not speak of it. or be tempted to write here anymore. e just can't spare the time. <br/><br/> still have a few milk snakes of my own though, rancis. f you're in the neighborhood, stop by for a glass of fresh-squeezed. https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22042 Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:14:36 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22033 2003-09-18 10:01: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v97">quidnovi</a> on "eing here":<br/>...after some work with a colored pencil succeeded in making my first drawing. y drawing number 1. t looked like this: <br/><br/><a href="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/232/000232-000086.jpg" id="posts_0x1_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">drawing no. 1</a><br/><br/> showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.<br/>hey answered me: "hy should any one be frightened by a hat?"<br/>y drawing was not a picture of a hat. t was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. hen, drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. hey always need to have things explained. y drawing number 2 looked like this:<br/><br/><a href="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/232/000232-000087.jpg" id="posts_0x2_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">drawing no. 2</a><br/><br/>he grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. hat is why, at the age of six, gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. had been disheartened by the failure of my drawing number 1 and my drawing number 2. rown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.<br/>o then chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. t a glance can distinguish hina from rizona. uch knowledge is useful, if one gets lost in the night.<br/> have had, in the course of my life, many encounters with many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. have lived a great deal among grown-ups. have seen them intimately, close at hand. nd that hasn't much improved my opinion of them.<br/><br/>henever met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, tried the experiment of showing him my drawing number 1, which have always kept. would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. ut, whoever it was, he, or she, would always say: "hat is a hat."<br/>hen would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. would bring myself down to his level. would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. nd the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man. <br/><br/>---ntoine de aint-xupery, he ittle rince https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22033 Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:01:51 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22006 2003-09-18 00:00: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v63">jazzolog</a> on "eing here":<br/>o, never said wanted to be silent...or to quit this joint. erhaps you were busy and missed it at one of the other ogs. azzo got taken down when a 6th grade friend of my daughter's found it through oogle, apparently, and posted a couple of delightful comments. realized then that this child was just a few clicks away from investigating at least one other public og in which was described as a sexual pervert. hen expressed this concern to the ower-hat-s, he shrugged the libel stuff off and said it was my own fault for getting myself into the mess. (he guy would make a great judge at a rape trial.) resigned my "assistant administrator" position here on the spot, and began to relocate jazzo to a site with a little more law 'n order...if not compassion. ou can visit it easily, rancis--- [<a href="http://www.upsaid.com/jazzolog/" id="posts_0x1_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">link</a>] and there's a cool new article too, called nakes n y eiling. ho would want to miss that? nyway, that leaves me back where started at ...wandering through these labyrinthine halls looking for an honest man and/or woman. https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22006 Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:00:51 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22001 2003-09-17 16:34: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v97">quidnovi</a> on "eing here":<br/> do (and did) totally understand what it was the "wild mountain monk" was doing (and why), which is why have never made a big deal about it.<br/><br/>1. he omment thingie:<br/>he comment thingie has been turned off because am a little bit short on time right now and do not feel it fair to invite people to post comments when know that am not going to be around (or that just simply won't have the time) to answer. <br/><br/>2. ootprints:<br/>ou remind me of that absurd commercial about those monks who find a way around their vow of silence by resorting to martphone technology as a palliative to their (self-imposed) inability to speak. or goodness sake, ichard, if you want to be silent, be silent, but, hey, if you want to speak just speak. ou know how popular azzoog was. f you want to talk about ee yung-hae or the , why don't you just re-open your newslog and post an entry about it? https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com22001 Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:34:55 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com21994 2003-09-17 14:13: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v63">jazzolog</a> on "eing here":<br/> meant no offense...nor did know your comment thingie was turned off. onest! would not intrude. <br/><br/> thought there was sort of a connection...but you are the boss, and please delete my above and this if you wish. e wild mountain monks without ogs sometimes have to look for a place to park our thoughts...and often the hats whiz by so fast that the impact is lost. h well, that's my problem and not yours. regret horribly leaving footprints where none is desired. dieu. https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com21994 Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:13:23 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com21993 2003-09-17 12:36: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v97">quidnovi</a> on "eing here":<br/>orry ichard! am normally a big fan of your posts and of your occasional comments (even unauthorized ones such as this one which keep popping up on my log even though the omment ption is turned off ( don't mind), but this comment of yours does not address the topic at hand. urthermore, its content does not inform the reader about the issue you have chosen to bring up, its importance or your point of view (see <a href="http://www.solonschools.com/eachers/languagearts_rubrics/r%206%20ersuasive%20ubric.pdf" id="posts_0x1_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">ating able</a>---you are a teacher so know you can relate ;-)<br/><br/>ont get me wrong, here, understand that the <a href="http://www.wto.org" id="posts_0x2_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank"></a> is a most serious and pressing issue:<br/>"ow can market forces and technological progress be directed to serve humanity, instead of enslaving humanity to markets and technologies? ow will democracies function if their most important laws are subject to an unelected international bureaucracy? hy are the rights of investors granted precedence over the rights of workers and the preservation of the natural environment?"<br/>---<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/1999/11/30/labor/index.html" id="posts_0x3_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">oe anason</a><br/><br/>ome think the is a great thing (<a href="http://aworldconnected.org/article.php/446.html" id="posts_0x4_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">n efense of lobal apitalism</a>) other think the is the wrong world institution run by the wrong people for the wrong reasons (<a href="http://www.speakeasy.org/peterc/wtow" id="posts_0x5_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">hat's wrong with the ?</a>)<br/><br/> am sure you mean well, but dont you think, ichard, that the or <a href="http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/82389_comment.php" id="posts_0x6_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">ee yung-hae</a> s death are respectively a serious topic and a tragic event that both are deserving maybe of a little better than a snide comment lazily dropped on a post unrelated to that issue? https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com21993 Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:36:28 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com21978 2003-09-17 07:01: comment by <a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v63">jazzolog</a> on "eing here":<br/>e took a patch of harsh mountain land and turned it into a thriving farm. ut when orea was flooded with foreign imports he was ruined---and last week, during the world trade talks, ee yung-hae plunged a knife into his heart. ho was he?<br/><br/>[<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/wto/article/0,2763,1042865,00.html" id="posts_0x1_000097-000099_outside_link" target="_blank">link</a>] https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000099/#com21978 Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:01:53 UT https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000088/#com17782 2003-06-16 18:22: comment by istvan on "cean":<br/>in this post can fill the universe with movement,the dance, the only real. https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000097-000088/#com17782 Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:22:25 UT