"...when the bells rings, the angel will fly..."

If you want to translates every dutch language post you can go to

http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo...

just copy all the words and paste and then translate to any language u speaking on.

Good luck

Indonesia's campaign is now active and has been launched under the name of 'Stop Pemiskan'.

To find out more and get involved please email: Avi Mahaningtyas at avi@indo.net.id

Campaign update
Groups in Indonesia have come together as part of GCAP to call for debt cancellation, shelter for all, universal education and real action to combat poverty. On 13th-14th January, 30 organizations came together for a GCAP workshop in Jakarta.
The organizations involved included those working on urban issues, the environment, micro credit, community empowerment, faith-based groups, HIV/AIDS, women and gender issues, health, debt and globalization. With these groups having such a bredth of knowledge, there is real hope that they can influence policy makers in their country. At the meeting the groups agreed to launch the "STOP PEMISKINAN" campaign on 19th January 2005 and to use the white band as the symbol.

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So Here It Is, Ayn Rand on
Nathaniel Branden, Circa 1968

by David M. Brown

Plumbing the depths of the soap opera with a fine-tooth partisan comb.

– 04-22-05 –

Dorothy Parker once said of a novel that it was not a book to be tossed aside lightly, but thrown with great force.

Here comes a book, not a novel, holding a morbid fascination for those interested in the life of Ayn Rand (1905-1982) and in the Objectivist movement born of her ideas and the organizational efforts of her erstwhile disciple, psychologist Nathaniel Branden, who met her when he was twenty and Rand was forty-five. The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics by James S. Valliant is an artifact of cultist mentality that should neither be tossed aside lightly nor thrown with great force but lifted by thumb and forefinger and dropped into the garbage chute across the hall. One can virtually hear the author yelling from the bleachers, cheering Ayn Rand on as she struggles to make sense of Branden's protestations during the long-drawn-out devolution of their affair; as if she were hitting lobs out of the park with each new observation and query.

There is a case to be made for publishing these excruciating notes, much as one suspects she would have preferred they never see the light of day. It is the only "response" Ayn Rand can ever make to the accounts published years later by Nathaniel Branden and Barbara Branden. Unless, of course, one regards James Valliant as channeling Miss Rand's ghost.

The first half of the book is a kind of tediously belabored book review of Barbara Branden's The Passion of Ayn Rand (1986), Nathaniel Branden's Judgment Day (1989), and "In Answer to Ayn Rand" (1968), the Brandens' response to an attack by Rand in The Objectivist. One debunking chapter, "Less Than Zero," expends ink on the question of how Rand picked the name "Rand" (she had been born Alice Rosenbaum); it apparently wasn't based on the typewriter, contrary to what Barbara Branden suggests in her biography. Well, assuming that Barbara Branden credited testimony she should not have credited, could this simply be an innocent mistake?

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May 18, 2005

Please read my "Your Papers Please" paper

A few years ago I wrote a paper, "Your Papers, Please," about the national identification regime that we're still being pushed toward. Because of a difference of editorial opinion with the think tank that commissioned it, I ended up not publishing the paper with them, although parts have been published elsewhere. I'm now making it freely available to anyone who requests it. It's a 296K pdf file. If you're interested, just send an email to me at LFBEditor [at] Yahoo.com with the message "send NID paper" and I'll zap it over to you. Here is the table of contents:

Introduction...1

A New Balance?...2

Through the Back Door...6
--Trusted Traveler Card...6
--Trusted Driver Card...9

What Is a National ID Card?...12
--A Slippery Slope?...15

Social Insecurity Number...16
--Tagging Persons...17
--Tagging Transactions...18
--Privacy Concerns...19

Data Use, Data Abuse...21
--Private Abuse of Private Data...22
--Public Abuse of Private Data...23
--Public-Private Cooperation...26
--Brave New World...27

Freedom and Authorization...28
--Social Control...29
--Authorizing Movement...30
--Domestic Disturbance...31

National ID Versus National Security...35

Fighting Terrorism...37
--Investigation...37
--National Defense...38
--Self-Defense...38
--Cultural Defense...39

Conclusion...39
Notes...40

I stand by the main judgments of the paper, but obviously a few years of news developments and my own further thinking would require some revision to make the discussion current.

Fortunately, a book that remedies much of the deficiency has recently been published by Jeffrey Rosen, The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age. Rosen argues that the urge of the "naked crowd" to find intimacy through public revelation that can only be found through actually knowing a person has much to do with the paradoxical belief that we can make ourselves more secure from intrusion and assault by, in point of fact, rendering ourselves more vulnerable to intrusion and assault. He devotes chapters to the ubiquitous cameras in Britain (Prisoner Number 6 seems to have had it easy by comparison); the psychology of fear (why we sometimes feel better as a result of nonsensical security measures--why, e.g., there has been public support for such measures as confiscating nail clippers from airline passengers in the wake of 9/11 so long as it is declared to be "for our security"); the search for a technological "silver bullet" to make security assessments that can only be made by human beings; and how we might best improve our security while retaining our liberty.

I have my disagreements on certain points, but Rosen's book is eminently readable and well-argued, and I strongly recommend it to anyone with a serious interest in these issues.

[read The Case of the Cockamamie Killer]

[davidmbrown.com]



Posted by David M. Brown at May 18, 2005 06:37 AM