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Barack Obama let Ebola into the U.S. He could have instituted travel restrictions without much effort, but instead he allowed commercial flights originating in Liberia to continue. As a result, Thomas Eric Duncan traveled to the U.S. and infected at least two others.
All of that was preventable with commonsense travel restrictions that wouldn't interfere with the response to Ebola.
One argument made against restrictions is the economic cost to west African countries. What about the economic cost to the U.S. from not having restrictions?
In addition to lives that might be lost, here are some economic costs to the U.S. of Obama's negligence:
Putting estimates on each of those isn't possible, but will probably be at least $10 million. It could run into the billions.
All of that money would have been better spent fighting Ebola such as by enacting travel restrictions, quarantining those who'd traveled to west Africa, coordinating direct aid efforts, and flying aid workers and supplies in on military transport.
More costs may be added, but feel free to add additional costs in comments or by tweeting @24AheadDotCom_ .
Want to do something about this? Hold these Obama partisans who've argued against restrictions responsible:
[1] see finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^XAL and
"'I'm always worried:' Travelers reconsider holiday travel plans amid Ebola fears"
katu . com/news/local/
Travelers fear Ebola infection despite government screenings
[2] Authors of Vox's "Why travel bans will only make the Ebola epidemic worse", peekURL.com/zw3nyBq
A very curious phrase illegal immigration supporters use is a variant of "safe, legal, and orderly" when referring to movements of people between countries. For instance, George W Bush, a Mexican consul, and the Canadian government have all used variants of that phrase.
Now, ask yourself: would two unconnected people refer to the same process using a phrase like "safe, legal, and orderly"? If you asked two people who didn't know each other to describe an assembly line, what are the chances they'd both describe it as "safe, legal, and orderly"?
The only way that would happen is if they were reading from the same script. And, that appears to be the case with the Obama administration: they're reading from the same script that Bush, the Mexican consul, and the Canadian government were reading from. The only question is, who wrote the script for them?
The latest example of reading from the same script comes from today's White House announcement about a meeting on July 25. Obama will meet with the presidents of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Those four and Joe Biden:
...will discuss how to reinforce our ongoing collaboration to stem the flow of undocumented migrants from Central America to Mexico and the United States. This will include discussion of how the United States and Central American governments are cooperating to promote safe, legal, and orderly migration between our countries in a spirit of shared responsibility, including with respect to the return of family units, which began this week for all three countries. The leaders will also discuss how we can work together with other members of the international community to foster development, economic growth, and security in the region and address the factors that are causing Central American citizens to undertake the dangerous journey to the United States...
Note also the use of "migration", a favored euphemism of both the Mexican government and George Bush.
See Safe Legal Orderly for past examples of others reading from the same script. And, if you don't think Obama sounding like Bush, a Mexican consul, and the Canadian government are important, tell us where they all got their lines from.
[1] whitehouse . gov/the-press-office/2014/07/18/
Barack Obama spoke earlier today about the Trayvon Martin issue and showed yet again that he's either incapable of thinking things through, or he's just a sleazy seeker of racial power.
From Obama's remarks [1]:
There are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me -- at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often.
And I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African American community interprets what happened one night in Florida...
Obviously, Obama and others in his administration do want to exaggerate the issue even as they pretend they aren't.
As for those situations he describes, I've had similar things happen to me, and I'm an Ethnic American. Similar things probably have happened to large numbers of whites, Asians, and Hispanics; it's not just limited to blacks as Obama implies.
The reader is invited to imagine various scenarios: would a lone elderly woman of any race lock her car door if approached by a group of bulky male strangers of any race including her own? Would whites - implicitly demonized by Obama - lock their car door if approached by a lone elderly black female?
Would a lone black male lock his car door if approached by a group of young black males dressed in gang clothing?
Perhaps instead of implicitly demonizing white people and feeding black victimization, Obama should do something about thug culture.
[1] whitehouse . gov/the-press-office/2013/07/19/remarks-president-trayvon-martin
Here's how (link):
If [11 million illegal aliens] had been on the voting rolls in 2012 and voted along the same lines as other Hispanic voters did last fall, President Barack Obama's relatively narrow victory last fall would have been considerably wider, a POLITICO analysis showed.
Key swing states that Obama fought tooth and nail to win - like Florida, Colorado and Nevada - would have been comfortably in his column. And the president would have come very close to winning Arizona.
Republican Mitt Romney, by contrast, would have lost the national popular vote by 7 percentage points, 53 percent to 46 percent, instead of the 4-point margin he lost by in 2012, and would have struggled even to stay competitive in GOP strongholds like Texas, which he won with 57 percent of the vote.
That's a static analysis, and it would be interesting to know just how much of the "Hispanic vote" the GOP would need to get to stay even or turn things to their advantage. It would also be interesting to find out which universe someone lives in if they think the GOP could gain that share of the "Hispanic vote" any time over the next several decades.
See Hispanic vote for more. Note that the GOP is seeking a solution to their demographic problems by turning to the people who created the problem in the first place. In part due to corruption and in part due to the fact that they just aren't that smart, the amnesty many of their leaders support would make things far worse for them and they can't get behind an alternative to helping the Democratic Party get millions of new voters and a big electoral advantage.
Did Mitt Romney lose the 2012 election to Barack Obama because of immigration? In a word, no.
While Obama might have picked up a good share of the "Hispanic vote", he was always going to get a large share of Hispanics voting for him.
On the immigration topic, what hurt Romney was that he didn't use it correctly. Instead of Hispandering - a failed strategy that just helps the Democrats - Romney should have shown how Obama is wrong on immigration. That would have been incredibly easy for him to do; for instance, the DREAM Act is an openly anti-American bill that would (depending on the version) allow foreign citizens to deprive U.S. citizens of college educations and that would let former illegal aliens drive struggling Americans out of work. Instead of opposing the DREAM Act, Romney validated its concepts.
Expect illegal immigration supporters - that is, virtually the entire establishment - to try to blame Romney's loss in part on him being "strong" on immigration. That does not reflect reality.
The problem with Romney is that he was too weak on immigration and - instead of using the issue to undercut Obama - he validated the corrupt, anti-American concepts of the leaders of the Democratic Party.
See Mitt Romney for a timeline of how Romney hurt himself by going weak on immigration, and see Obama immigration for all the many ways a smarter, less corrupt Romney could have used the issue to undercut Obama with his base.
The shocking video below is a new ad from Mitt Romney that - quite understandably as you'll see - is only running in parts of the upper Midwest and in the so-called "Polka Belt".
On the video, Irmhild Weltgreifer - a lawyer from Duluth, Minnesota - takes Barack Obama to task for opposing Judge Sonje Untermayer, who Romney has stated he would like to appoint to the US Supreme Court.
In the ad, Weltgreifer is making an obvious appeal to not just solidarity among German-Americans, but whites as a whole.
To underline that point, on the video Weltgreifer only speaks in German. The English name of the video is "Pay the Bill", and here's a transcript in the original German:
Mein Name ist Irmhild Weltgreifer. Ich bin ein Rechtsanwalt, und ich bin Deutscher. Ich möchte mit Ihnen über Supreme Court Justice Sonje Untermayer sprechen. Als Mitt Romney sie nominiert, wir alle gefeiert, Deutsche und Holländer. Aber Barack Obama erklärte seine Opposition gegen Untermayer. Er beleidigt mich, als er erklärte, er würde gegen ihre Nominierung gestimmt haben. Und jetzt will er unsere Stimme für die Präsidentschaft? Mr. Obama, ist die Zeit gekommen, um die Rechnung zu bezahlen.
Here's a translation into English:
My name is Irmhild Weltgreifer. I'm an attorney, and I'm German. I want to talk to you about Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonje Untermayer. When Mitt Romney said he would nominate her, we all celebrated, Germans and Dutch. But Barack Obama said he would oppose Sonje Untermayer. He offended me when he stated he would have voted against her nomination. And now he wants our vote for the presidency? Mr. Obama, the time has come to pay the bill.
If you agree with me that such entirely race-based appeals and such raw tribalism have no role in American politics, I urge you to contact such groups as Media Matters for America, the Southern Poverty Law Center, those in the media, and others. After contacting them, be sure and leave replies you receive (if any) in comments.
Remember the phrase "Question Authority"? What the site Reddit [1] did yesterday is the opposite of that.
Yesterday, Reddit conducted an "Ask Me Anything" of Barack Obama in which he answered 10 user-submitted questions; you can read them at [2]. All of the questions were incredibly lightweight and didn't hold him accountable in any way. That isn't surprising, since user-submitted questions are usually very weak [3]. Politicians - many of whom are lawyers - are able to dance their way around those weak questions. Users voting up their favorite questions tends to result in the weakest questions rising to the top.
All of that has been covered for years here, see the entries on the popular voting systems page. Youtube, Google, and others have all engaged in what amounts to a scam and an attempt to make sure that politicians aren't held accountable. We get enough "enchanted" questions [4] from the establishment media, others need to step up and do the job the media refuses to do.
If you're a fan of the political class and you want them to be asked weak questions that allow them to just spout their talking points, then things like what Reddit did are great.
If, instead, you want to hold the political class accountable and make their policies better, then what Reddit did isn't so great.
Learn How To Ask Politicians Tough Questions. See many past examples of bad questions at the link. And, compare the questions at [2] to those in some of the posts on the Question Authority authority page.
Which is better for the U.S.: that politicians are asked for recipes, or that they're asked to explain the flaws in their policies?
Please contact @alexisohanian and others associated with Reddit and suggest they consider helping the U.S. rather than being just as bad as the MSM.
[1] Full disclosure: I've been banned from Reddit (username: blogmeister) for too much self-linking. I had posted an average of two links here per month over several months (along with a few links to others' sites), and an average of two links per month was just too much.
[2] This says he answered 10 questions, but only lists 9. Does anyone think the 10th was any different? He also dodged some questions (link). Does anyone think they were any tougher?
Here are the questions from the first link:
1. How do you balance family life and hobbies with, well, being the POTUS?
2. I am recent law school graduate. Despite graduating from a top school, I find myself unemployed with a large student loan debt burden. While I'm sure my immediate prospects will improve in time, it's difficult to be optimistic about the future knowing that my ability to live a productive life -- to have a fulfilling career, to buy a house, to someday raise a family -- is hampered by my debt and the bleak economic outlook for young people. I know that I'm not alone in feeling this way. Many of us are demoralized. Your 2008 campaign was successful in large part due to the efforts of younger demographics. We worked for you, we campaigned for you, and we turned out in record numbers to vote for you. What can I say to encourage those in similar situations as I am to show up again in November? What hope can you offer us for your second term?
3. What's the recipe for the White House's beer?
4. What are you going to do to end the corrupting influence of money in politics during your second term?
5. What was the most difficult decision that you had to make during this term?
6. What is the first thing you'll do on November 7th, win or lose?
7. How are you going help small businesses in 2013 and 2014? and what if any bills are you going to implement for small businesses, in 2013, and 2014?
8. We know how Republicans feel about protecting Internet Freedom. Is Internet Freedom an issue you'd push to add to the Democratic Party's 2012 platform?
9. Are you considering increasing funds to the space program?
[3] That doesn't necessarily mean that the questions are about unimportant topics, although many are. It just means that those questions which are about important topics need to be phrased in ways designed to encourage a rigorous debate about those topics.
[4] This is an actual question Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times asked Obama in 2009:
During these first 100 days, what has surprised you the most about this office? Enchanted you the most from serving in this office? Humbled you the most? And troubled you the most?
Even other members of the White House Press Corps laughed at him. The questions Reddit asked were just as bad.
A new and almost entirely worthless controversy involves Barack Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina tweeting a comment about chimichangas. No, really. But, it's not entirely worthless: I'll tell you below some of the things you won't hear from either side.
In case you haven't been following along, see [1] for a recap. Some notes:
1. There's nothing offensive about Milbank's comment or Messina's tweet of it that I can see. Neither are claiming that Hispanics are just about chimichangas, in fact both are claiming the opposite. Both are saying that Hispanics are about more than chimichangas, but that chimichangas are all the GOP has to offer.
2. The RNC is outraged by Messina's tweet, but the leader of the charge is the Hispanic Leadership Network, which is part of the American Action Network. The first supports illegal immigration, and the second is led by supporters of massive and illegal immigration. Do see the links for background on who's involved. That should be the issue here, but instead we're discussing a food item.
Here's what the Hispanic Leadership Network says (and with a straight face too):
"The fact that the campaign manager of President Obama's reelection campaign thinks it's appropriate to disseminate insulting jokes about the Hispanic community is a perfect example of the kind of empty rhetoric that characterizes this White House's so-called outreach to Latinos. We demand that Mr. Messina immediately apologize and we ask that President Obama disavow his campaign manager's ridiculous statement. Liberals are always trying to put Hispanics in a box. In typical fashion, when liberals cannot speak substantively to the top issues facing our community, they resort to name calling... The facts remain the same, and they are no laughing matter. President Obama broke his campaign promises to the Hispanic community on jobs and immigration. Our community is suffering from over 11% unemployment rate. In addition, President Obama has deported more immigrants than any other U.S. president in history. When confronted with his record, this President has no standing with Hispanic voters across our country."
Both the Democrats and the GOP "put Hispanics in a box", the box the GOP has is just smaller.
And, the HLN is on the wrong side of immigration and jobs and immigration in general. If their goal weren't obtaining race-based power, they'd support what little immigration enforcement Obama has done (see Obama immigration). Instead, they agree with many on the left who oppose immigration enforcement and who live in a fantasy world where illegal aliens don't take jobs that Americans could be doing.
3. Milbank's column includes this:
The party's presidential candidates have done long-term damage by vowing opposition to the DREAM Act (legalization for illegal immigrants who serve in the armed forces) and by trying to paint each other as too soft on immigration (highlighted by Herman Cain's call for a lethal electric fence). (Marco Rubio) and Jeb Bush have called for an end to what Rubio called "harsh and intolerable" rhetoric.
The DREAM Act is an openly anti-American bill that would let the former illegal aliens covered by it deprive some citizens of college; see the link. If the GOP were smart, they could discredit anyone who supports that anti-American bill, from Barack Obama and Dick Durbin on down. Instead, GOP candidates act like Sharron Angle and offer only weak opposition. Mitt Romney's opposition isn't that strong, and Newt Gingrich's opposition is even weaker. (Note also that Milbank might be intentionally misleading about the bill: illegal aliens can only serve in the U.S. military during time of declared war; under the DREAM Act they'd get provisional legalization while serving. They can also get that provisional legalization by attending college. See the first link in this paragraph for the details).
4. None that I can see are pointing out that chimichangas are a Mexican/Mexican-American dish, while Milbank's column discussed someone from Cuba. That aspect isn't "insensitive", it just indicates a lack of awareness: one very trivial data point illustrating how out of touch the mainstream media are on immigration-related issues.
5. The outrage (real or fake) over this puts the GOP in the position of acting just like the Democrats when it comes to political correctness. The GOP isn't smart enough and/or doesn't have the integrity to realize that they need to fight political correctness, not further it.
Instead of food products, we should be discussing how GOP groups are as bad as Democratic Party leaders when it comes to immigration and multiculturalism.
[1] Dana Milbank of the Washington Post wrote "Does the GOP care about Latino voters?" (link) which ends with this:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) spoke about the wonders of his state. "The lettuce in your salad this month almost certainly came from Arizona," McCain said. "It's also believed that the chimichanga has its origin in Arizona."
The chimichanga? It may be the only thing Republicans have left to offer Latinos.
Messina then tweeted (twitter dot com/messina2012/status/169784156123967488):
Line of the day from WAPO's Dana Milbank: "The chimichanga? It may be the only thing Republicans have left to offer Latinos."
The latest "Internet laughing stock" (link) is the new Democratic Party site attackwatch.com at which concerned citizens can report rumors and supposed lies about Barack Obama.
Rather than laughing, I'll briefly discuss Attack Watch itself trying to mislead people about Obama's mini-amnesty for up to 300,000 illegal aliens.
Under "Immigration Reform Inaccuracies" AttackWatch claims "Republican media figures have accused President Obama of refusing to deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants" (attackwatch.com/attack-files-entry/aw-immigration). The only media figures named are Rush Limbaugh and Mark Steyn, and they don't provide any quotes from either, so it's not clear whether they said that exactly or whether AttackWatch is putting words in their mouths.
While Obama hasn't come right out and said that he's not going to deport hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, one would have to be a fool to think that something other than that is the goal of his mini-amnesty. He will probably deport some of the 300,000, but he certainly won't deport most of them. And, the Obama administration has repeatedly sent the message that illegal aliens who don't commit crimes stand little chance of being deported (see Obama immigration, Janet Napolitano, and Department of Homeland Security). In some past cases, the Obama administration has even given work permits to known illegal aliens. They're going to continue that and give work permits to some of those who'll be released under the new mini-amnesty. So, clearly, the Obama administration is going to turn a blind eye to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who could be deported.
Or, to look at it another way, if Obama "refusing to deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants" were false, then Obama would be stringently enforcing the laws across the board in order to deport all the illegal aliens the DHS could find. Yet, they aren't doing that: they are deporting large numbers of illegal aliens, but they aren't appearing before Congress day after day demanding more funding and allocating their current resources to a 24/7 deportation program.
So, it all boils down to how you define "refusing". If you need Obama to pledge on a stack of 100 Bibles "I refuse", then Attack Watch is right. However, if you define refusing in anything less than that, then Attack Watch is misleading.
Note also that AttackWatch misleads by referring to "undocumented immigrants" when the legally-correct term is illegal aliens.
They also claim that Obama's "policy changes... will help make our immigration system smart and fair". That too depends on how you define those terms. Fair to whom? Certainly not to the hundreds of thousands or millions of unemployed Americans who could be doing jobs that illegal aliens are doing. From one perspective, it's smart politics: the mini-amnesty might help Obama's popularity with illegal aliens, American citizens related to them, and far-left racial power groups. But, it's also not so smart: at the same time, it will lower his popularity with the many Americans who oppose illegal immigration. It will also increase unemployment, when from a political and a patriotic standpoint he should be going in the other direction. From an objective public policy perspective, it's hardly smart: Obama's mini-amnesty will encourage more illegal immigration now or in the future and will also help illegal immigration profiteers like crooked banks, businesses, and politicians.
And, they claim the new policy will "suspend certain cases for immigrants who pose no threat to the nation". Which also depends on how you define things. Illegal aliens and illegal immigration present clear threats to the U.S. as discussed in the post about Adam Serwer spinning immigration for Obama.
On their page, Attack Watch uses two not-fully-administration sources to buttress their claims: Serwer and Robert Farley of Politifact. While Robert Farley of Politifact has misled before, he doesn't appear to have done so in this case. Their use of Serwer is in the following:
In the Washington Post, the American Prospect's Adam Serwer says President Obama's immigration plan "is not amnesty."
Do see the link in the paragraph above which discusses the post where Serwer said that, then evaluate his claim that AttackWatch is repeating.
Then, every time you see something, say something: send the link to this post to @AttackWatch and use the hashtag #AttackWatch.
Shortly before jetting off to Martha's Vineyard to dine in gourmet restaurants with America's Betters, Barack Obama's speech writing team wrote his Weekly Address (link) which he read. He was probably gritting his teeth as he read this:
Hello from the Country Corner Farm in Alpha, Illinois! For the past few days, I've been traveling to small towns and farm towns here in the heartland of this country. I sat down with small business owners in Gutenberg, Iowa; and ranchers and farmers in Peosta. I had lunch with veterans in Cannon Falls, Minnesota; and talked to plant workers at a seed distributor in Atkinson, Illinois. And to the girls volleyball team at Maquoketa High School, let me just say one thing: Go Cardinals... Now, I'm out here for one reason: I think Washington, DC can learn something from the folks in Atkinson and Peosta and Cannon Falls... ...We still have the best workers and farmers, entrepreneurs and businesses, students and scientists. And you can see that here in Alpha. You can see it along the country roads that connect these small towns and farmlands... These past few days, I've been seeing little kids with American flags and grandparents in lawn chairs. I've shaken hands with folks outside machine shops and churches, corner stores and farms. It reminds me why I got into public service in the first place. Getting out of Washington and spending time with the people of this country [note: #12] - seeing how hard you're working, how creative you are, how resourceful you are, how determined you are - that only makes me more determined to serve you as best I can as President.
While it's great that he's broadening his horizons a bit, it would be even better if he actually meant any of that. And, no, Obama isn't a COMMIE nor does he HATE AMERICA as deranged tea parties types claim. However, just as an example, his reconquista comments which he repeated just a year ago are probably a bit closer to his general mindset.
As is, of course, being a political hack. In the Weekly Address he urges "that folks in Washington put country before party" yet not two days ago he put his party obtaining race-based power ahead of what's best for unemployed Americans. And, his administration's other recent actions and statements make clear that the Obama administration doesn't really think that "[w]e still have the best workers and farmers, entrepreneurs and businesses, students and scientists." He claims to want to put American workers back to work, but his actions keep giving them competition for scarce jobs.
That doesn't mean that the Republican Party is any better. Just that some of their leaders are slightly less fake when they get folksy.
UPDATE: Video added. See the black border at the top of his white shirt? That looks to me like Obama used a green screen/chroma key, just like a TV weatherman. For an exaggerated example of greenscreen bordering, see this. The background - supposedly from a farm - never changes except for one or two flies that dart through. He could have actually videotaped it at that farm, or he could have done it outside against a background that was replaced later, or it could have all been faked. I don't want to make a big deal out of a minor issue, but if any video experts have input leave it in comments.
But, the most important thing is that he's fake when it comes to wanting to put Americans back to work.
Earlier today, Twitter Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey conducted the "AskObama" interview with Barack Obama in which - instead of doing a public service and holding Obama accountable - Dorsey simply promoted his company and asked Obama a series of very weak questions. A reporter from the mainstream media - which has likewise failed to ask Obama any questions that are even slightly challenging - said "this was an almost entirely news-less affair" [1].
The very weak questions Obama was asked are at [2]; if anyone can't predict almost exactly how Obama answered those questions [3], they haven't been following along with all his other bloviating opportunities. After those were asked there was a lightning round with comments about Obama's answers, those are at [4]. The "curators" who were in charge of choosing some of the questions and who enabled Obama to skate yet again are listed at [5].
There was only one immigration-related question, and it asked whether Obama supports visas for startup entrepreneurs. While Obama doesn't appear to have thrown political capital behind something like the Startup Visa Act of 2011, does anyone in their right mind think that Obama would have a conceptual opposition to such a bill? And, of course, such a bill might help Dorsey's investment portfolio or the bottom line of his associates.
As for Obama's supposed opponents (such as those in the tea parties, #tcot, and #GOP), they continued to help him. Almost all tweeted either stupid jokes or nonsense (samples at [6]).
Past Examples
For dozens of examples of similarly weak questions that were asked of Obama and others in the past, see bad questions, popular voting systems, CNN, debates, Youtube corporate, Google corporate, Facebook, and Steve Grove. For the other side of things, see my guide to asking politicians tough questions and the question authority plan.
My Failed Attempt to Make this Work
Note that six days before this event I posted a plan to make AskObama work, but I didn't get any help with that from anyone who'd benefit from Obama being held accountable. I also suggested the following question to each of the curators (except Wilkinson):
"Why was Cesar Chavez such a strong supporter of #immigration enforcement? What was his specific goal?"
Assuming whoever asked that forced Obama to answer that very question, it would force him to admit that his policies are the opposite of Chavez' (or, it would force him to turn on a Chicano icon). It would also bring up the topic of doing immigration enforcement in order to free up jobs and improve working conditions in those jobs currently mostly done by illegal aliens. Instead of trying to box Obama in to answering a tough question or two, all Dorsey and the curators did was present him with puffballs.
What You Can Do
As for what you can do about this, tweet @Jack. Then, tweet him again and again, and let him know that you know that he's just the high-tech equivalent of a carnival shill. And, do the same with the "curators", who are listed at [5]. And, if you're in the tea parties, #tcot, #GOP, or just support immigration enforcement, send this link to your leaders (broadly defined) and ask them why they didn't help me hold Obama accountable but instead just helped him yet again.
7/12/11 UPDATE: From this:
In some cases, participants weren't quite sure why they were selected. Times Picayune business editor Kim Quillen was surprised, she says, when she was approached by Twitter last week to act as a curator. "Gee," she recalls thinking, "I'm not really huge in the Twitter sphere." (Follower count: 1,100.) But Twitter offered Quillen an explanation, she says. "One thing that they complimented me on was that I was kind of a friendly presence. I wasn't picking fights with anyone." More than that, "they said that they were looking to reach outside the Beltway, to people who were communicating through Twitter on the economy, had a decent number of followers, and were exhibiting, I guess, good Twitter dynamics -- retweeting to people, interacting, and engaging."
So, Twitter chose at least one person specifically because they aren't aggressive and don't ask tough questions. And, another curator (kara_mcguire) is a "personal finance columnist, MN Parent columnist, coupon clipper, saving mama, financial literacy advocate", which doesn't exactly indicate that she's an investigative reporting bulldog.
Contrast that with how I and just a few others do things: aggressively asking tough questions designed to hold politicians accountable.
Twitter just wanted to put on a show, without having Obama asked any tough questions.
[1] Chris Cillizza says (washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/
As predicted, this was an almost entirely news-less affair that allowed Obama to talk about what he has done and what he plans to do in office. He almost never went off his message script — pushing Republicans to compromise on tax increases for "millionaires and billionaires," emphasizing the need for comprehensive energy and immigration reform and making sure people know that the economic stimulus money wasn't wasted.
As I mentioned earlier, Twitter did a good job of making it as interactive as possible, but the whole town hall would have benefited from more back-and-forth between the president and the moderator. We didn't learn anything new today. But President Obama and Twitter got some very nice media exposure for what was largely an event devoid of news.
[2] The questions; read them and weep (note that one is from John Boehner and another is from Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times and thus over 10% of the questions were from those who already had the ability to ask Obama questions):
"In order to reduce the deficit, what costs would you cut and what investments would you keep?"
"What mistakes have you made in handling this recession and what would you do differently?"
"Tech and knowledge industries are thriving, yet jobs discussion always centers on manufacturing. Why not be realistic about jobs?"
"Higher ed is necessary for a stronger economy, but for some middle-class Americans it's becoming too expensive. What can be done?"
"Mr. President, will you issue an executive order to raise the debt ceiling pursuant to Section 4 of the 14th Amendment?"
"Immigrant entrepreneurs can build companies and create jobs for U.S. workers. Will you support a startup visa program?"
"Will you focus on promoting alternative energy industries in oil states like Louisiana and Texas?"
"Mr. President, in several states we have seen people lose their collective bargaining rights. Do you have a plan to rectify this?"
"How will admin work to help underwater homeowners who aren't behind in payments but are trapped in homes they can't sell?"
"After embarking on a record spending binge that left us deeper in debt, where are the jobs?" (Boehner)
"Small biz create jobs. What incentives are you willing to support to improve small business growth?"
"My question is, can you give companies a tax break if they hire an honorable discharged veteran?"
"Was it a mistake to fail to get Republicans to commit to raise the debt ceiling at the same time tax cuts were extended?" (Kristof)
"What changes to the tax system do you think are necessary to help solve the deficit problem and for the system to be fair?"
"Is free-market an option? Obama on homeowners underwater: have made some progress, but plus needed looking at options."
"Public education here in California is falling apart, not graduating enough skilled workers or smart citizens. Privatization looming?"
"We definitely need to get more vets into jobs, but when are we going to support the troops by cutting oil dependence?"
"So will you raise taxes on the middle class at least to President George W. Bush levels?"
"Now that the space shuttle is gone, where does America stand in space exploration?"
[3] Obama's stock speech answers to the questions:
[4] These are the responses from Twitter users regarding Obama's answers that Dorsey read; they're even worse than the questions:
"Cut defense contracting, end war on drugs, eliminate agribiz and big oil subsidies, invest in public campaign financing."
"Stop giving money to countries that waste it -- Pakistan. Keep military, share the wealth between branches, and don't cut education."
"We need to raise taxes, period."
"Cut military spending on oil subsidies and keep education investments."
"Cut subsidies to industries which are no longer in crisis or are unsuccessful, cotton, oil, corn subsidies from ethanol."
"I would cut defense spending."
"I'd cut costs by cutting some welfare programs. People will never try harder when they are handed everything."
[5] These were the curators; contact them with your thoughts:
@willwilkinson Will Wilkinson
@steven_norton Steven Norton
@Kara_McGuire Kara McGuire
@AssignmentDesk1 Dorrine Mendoza
@RamanChadha Raman Chadha
@ModeledBehavior Modeled Behavior (Karl Smith and perhaps others)
@KimQuillenTP Kim Quillen
@DrewHampshire Drew Cline
[6] buzzfeed . com/mjs538/
[UPDATE: Things went exactly as expected, AskObama on Twitter was a sham.]
On July 6, 2011, Barack Obama will be answering questions sent to him via Twitter [1]. All past instances where Obama has been asked questions have been almost completely worthless shams that haven't held him accountable. This page presents a plan that - if I can get enough help - will finally hold him accountable and might force him to offer policies that are better for the U.S. And, if the plan gets enough participation from others, it will send a message to other politicians and might force them to offer better policies.
Under my plan, questions for Obama will be filtered through me or a small number of others who will review the questions for toughness. Then, everyone will ask Obama the same small set of very tough questions. If Obama is asked a thousand different questions by a thousand different people, it will be easy for his helpers to hide the fact that they're choosing the setup questions. But, if there are only a dozen questions from a thousand people, his refusal to answer one of those questions will be much more noticeable.
For those who haven't been following citizen-generated question events, such events have been almost completely ineffective at holding politicians accountable. Many politicians are lawyers or have a lot of experience with deflecting questions, and they're able to run rings around those who ask them questions. And, in the case of Obama, all the questions he's been asked that I'm aware of have been very weak. See bad questions and popular voting systems for dozens of examples.
Do you want to change that? Do you want to have Obama asked tough questions and held accountable for his policies?
OK, then here's what I need you to do:
1. Submit questions you want asked to the Twitter account I've established for this purpose: twitter dot com/#!/AskPols. Do not include the #AskObama tag.
2. I'll review the question, edit it for toughness, and then tweet it from that account with the #AskObama tag.
3. Everyone else can simply re-tweet what I tweet, or just tweet the question as their own, with the #AskObama tag.
That way, a large number of possible questions for Obama will be winnowed down to just a handful of very tough questions, and Obama will feel much more pressure to answer one of those questions. Imagine how Obama's screener is going to feel when they see the same very tough question asked by hundreds or thousands of people.
Now, of course, I intend to be selective about the questions I tweet. I'm not going to tweet questions involving fringe libertarians economic ideas, or fringe tea parties ideas, or personal matters, or gotcha!, or things that aren't really that important. I will concentrate on questions that seek to encourage immigration enforcement and finding jobs for my fellow citizens.
I'm telling you that ahead of time so you can start your own effort similar to what I describe above. Whatever you do, run your questions through someone else's filter first so Obama is only presented with a small number of very tough questions. If you start your own effort, feel free to leave the details in comments, but send the questions only to @AskPols.
[1] The webcast of him answering questions starts at 2pm Eastern/11am Pacific at askobama.twitter dot com and the hashtag for questions is #AskObama. It's not clear exactly how the questions he'll be asked will be selected and whether there will be shenanigans involved (see Steve Grove how Twitter might do things if they want to help Obama instead of hold him accountable).
Barack Obama spoke at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night and joked about Donald Trump and smeared millions of Americans who have valid questions about Obama's past. None of what Obama did was presidential, but it's what most of his supporters want and his detractors are generally unable to do anything about it.
Note that even the New York Times had questions about Obama's background and whether he was telling the truth about it [1]. But, according to Obama and the great majority of the others in attendance at the "nerd prom", all of that is to be made fun of. And, as he was leaving the dinner, Trump was booed by the supposed journalists in attendance. All of that actually helps Trump, but either they think it's in their interest to help Trump, or they just couldn't help themselves.
Video is below, and a partial transcript follows. Note that the opening video is of the Rick Derringer song I am a Real American ( peekURL.com/v7BHnvA ), but with pictures of Obama's supposed birth certificate thrown in.
THE PRESIDENT: All right, everybody, please have a seat. (Applause.)
My fellow Americans. (Laughter and applause.) Mahalo! (Laughter.) It is wonderful to be here at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. What a week. (Laughter.) As some of you heard, the state of Hawaii released my official long-form birth certificate. (Applause.)
Hopefully this puts all doubts to rest. But just in case there are any lingering questions, tonight I'm prepared to go a step further. (Laughter.) Tonight, for the first time, I am releasing my official birth video. (Laughter.)
Now, I warn you -- (laughter) -- no one has seen this footage in 50 years, not even me. But let's take a look.
("Secret Birth Video" plays.) (Applause.)
Oh, well. Back to square one. (Laughter.) I want to make clear to the Fox News table: That was a joke. (Laughter.) That was not my real birth video. (Laughter.) That was a children's cartoon. (Laughter.) Call Disney if you don't believe me. (Laughter.) They have the original long-form version. (Laughter.)
Anyway, it's good to be back with so many esteemed guests. Celebrities. Senators. Journalists. Essential government employees. (Laughter.) Non-essential government employees. (Laughter.) You know who you are. (Laughter.)
I am very much looking forward to hearing Seth Meyers tonight. (Applause.) He's a young, fresh face who can do no wrong in the eyes of his fans. Seth, enjoy it while it lasts. (Laughter.)
Yes, I think it is fair to say that when it comes to my presidency, the honeymoon is over. (Laughter.) For example, some people now suggest that I'm too professorial. And I'd like to address that head-on, by assigning all of you some reading that will help you draw your own conclusions. (Laughter.) Others say that I'm arrogant. But I've found a really great self-help tool for this: my poll numbers. (Laughter.)
I've even let down my key core constituency: movie stars. Just the other day, Matt Damon -- I love Matt Damon, love the guy -- Matt Damon said he was disappointed in my performance. Well, Matt, I just saw "The Adjustment Bureau," so -- (laughter) -- right back atcha, buddy. (Laughter and applause.)
Of course, there's someone who I can always count on for support: my wonderful wife Michelle. (Applause.) We made a terrific team at the Easter Egg Roll this week. I'd give out bags of candy to the kids, and she'd snatch them right back out of their little hands. (Laughter.) Snatched them. (Laughter.)
And where is the National Public Radio table? (Cheering.) You guys are still here? (Laughter.) That's good. I couldn't remember where we landed on that. (Laughter.) Now, I know you were a little tense when the GOP tried to cut your funding, but personally I was looking forward to new programming like "No Things Considered" -- (laughter) -- or "Wait, Wait...Don't Fund Me." (Laughter.)
Of course, the deficit is a serious issue. That's why Paul Ryan couldn't be here tonight. His budget has no room for laughter. (Laughter.)
Michele Bachmann is here, though, I understand, and she is thinking about running for President, which is weird because I hear she was born in Canada. (Laughter.) Yes, Michele, this is how it starts. (Laughter.) Just letting you know. (Laughter and applause.)
Tim Pawlenty? He seems all American. But have you heard his real middle name? Tim "Hosni" Pawlenty? (Laughter.) What a shame. (Laughter.)
My buddy, our outstanding ambassador, Jon Huntsman, is with us. Now, there's something you might not know about Jon. He didn't learn to speak Chinese to go there. Oh no. (Laughter.) He learned English to come here. (Laughter and applause.)
And then there's a vicious rumor floating around that I think could really hurt Mitt Romney. I heard he passed universal health care when he was governor of Massachusetts. (Laughter.) Someone should get to the bottom of that.
And I know just the guy to do it -- Donald Trump is here tonight! (Laughter and applause.) Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. (Laughter.) And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter -- like, did we fake the moon landing? (Laughter.) What really happened in Roswell? (Laughter.) And where are Biggie and Tupac? (Laughter and applause.)
But all kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. (Laughter.) For example -- no, seriously, just recently, in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice -- (laughter) -- at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team cooking did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around. But you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately, you didn't blame Lil' Jon or Meatloaf. (Laughter.) You fired Gary Busey. (Laughter.) And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. (Laughter and applause.) Well handled, sir. (Laughter.) Well handled.
Say what you will about Mr. Trump, he certainly would bring some change to the White House. Let's see what we've got up there. (Laughter.)
(Screens show "Trump White House Resort and Casino.")
[1] "Obama's Account of New York Years Often Differs From What Others Say" from 10/31/07
Barack Obama recently spoke with Brad Watson of WFAA in an interview (link, video below) that was sold by Matt Drudge and others as some sort of watershed moment ("FIRST TIME: REPORTER TURNS AGGRESSIVE WITH OBAMA" was his headline).
Certainly, almost all reporters have treated Obama extremely reverentially and from that perspective the interview is markedly different. However, the interview was basically worthless: it didn't hold Obama accountable and it didn't force him to answer the tough questions he's needed to be asked for years. I'm not surprised he'd get angry, but a politician getting angry is nothing; everyone can relate to someone getting angry. The interview is just entertainment, an Oprah/Springer moment.
I tried to ask Obama a question over four years ago, and it was much tougher than what's on the video below. And, for over four years, I've been promoting the question authority plan, encouraging people to go ask politicians tough questions. I've gotten almost zero help with that, and I've even gotten some opposition from commenters on sites like Protein Wisdom.
For an example of how worthless the interview was, consider this supposed question Watson asked:
"Was the shuttle not awarded to Houston because of politics?"
That's not a question, it's an allegation with a question mark at the end. When asking a question, one should be imagining how it's going to be answered and change the question to get a more preferred response. Unless the reporter's goal was simply to get an allegation out there, he did not do that. What would anyone expect Obama to say? "Yes, it was awarded because of politics"?
A better question would be something like, "Awarding the shuttle to Florida makes less sense than awarding it to Houston for [valid, documented reason]. Do you have a study showing that [valid, documented reason] is wrong?" If there's no such study, then find the rationale of whoever awarded the shuttle and try to find a hole in the rationale. Then, ask a specific question designed to force Obama into some sort of answer that exposes that it was awarded for invalid reasons (assuming it was).
Obama also denies being involved with the commission that made the shuttle decision. There are two possibilities: either that's true or false. If he wasn't involved, then why ask him the question? If he's lying about being involved, then ask specific questions designed to reveal that, such as pointing out who was on the commission and Obama's links to them (if any), pointing out who was not on the commission, and so on.
Please don't give in to Oprah/Springer-level entertainment: help promote the question authority plan.
Barack Obama spoke at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington DC yesterday at a townhall conducted in Spanish for the Univision network. The host was anchor Jorge Ramos, a U.S. resident who's a Mexican citizen, a Mexican partisan, and a strong supporter of illegal immigration.
And, of course, Obama was mostly aligned with him. After admitting the major problems caused by massive immigration, Obama took the side of illegal aliens and continued to promise them that he'd push for reforms. He also compared legalizing illegal aliens to the black Civil Rights and Women's suffrage movements.
A full transcript is at [1]. If there are other points not mentioned below, please leave them in comments.
1. He admitted the problems caused by massive immigration:
[Education particularly high school dropout rates] is an issue that's not just important for the Latino community here in the United States; this is an issue that is critical for the success of America generally, because we already have a situation where one out of five students are Latino in our schools, and when you look at those who are 10 years old or younger, it's actually one in four. So what this means is, is that our workforce is going to be more diverse; it is going to be, to a large percentage, Latino. And if our young people are not getting the kind of education they need, we won't succeed as a nation... Now, here's what's also important -- that eight out of 10 future jobs are going to require more than a high school education. They're going to require some sort of higher education, whether it's a community college, a four-year college, at the very least some job training and technical training -- all of which means nobody -- nobody -- can drop out. We can't afford to have anybody here at Bell drop out. We can't have anybody drop out anywhere in the country.
While there are possible good signs from Florida (link), what Obama would never, ever mention are things like the chart here showing high school dropout rates by country. The OECD average is 20%, and the U.S. is currently at 23.3%. The rate in Mexico is 56%. And, he'd certainly never mention the "controversial" IQ chart at:
en.wikipedia . org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations (remove the spaces). If we could trade the millions of illegal aliens from Latin America with millions of immigrants from Asian and European countries, would we be having these issues?
2. On an ironic note, he said: "I want you guys to be studying hard because it is critical for all American students to have language skills". This was at a forum conducted in Spanish on a Spanish-language network.
3. The video below has Obama saying the following to an illegal alien who promoted the anti-American DREAM Act:
We have redesigned our enforcement practices under the law to make sure that we're focusing primarily on criminals, and so our deportation of criminals are up about 70 percent. Our deportation of non-criminals are down, and that's because we want to focus our resources on those folks who are destructive to the community... And for a young person like that young woman that we just spoke to who's going to school, doing all the right things, we want them to succeed.
4. The only possible bright spot is that he realize that he can't declare amnesty through an executive order or through Temporary Protected Status.
5. He took the side of illegal aliens against U.S. citizens for scarce education resources and at the same time compared legalizing illegal aliens to the Civil Rights and Women's Suffrage movements:
If you think of the history of the civil rights struggle, though even after Brown v. Board of Education, there were still struggles to ensure that ultimately everybody was treated with dignity and respect.
I think with respect to the DREAM Act, as I said, it was very close to passage. We didn't get it passed this time, but I don't want young people to be giving up because if people in the past had given up, we probably wouldn't have women's rights, we wouldn't have civil rights. So many changes that we've made had to do with young people being willing to struggle and fight to make sure that their voices are heard.
And one of the things just to reemphasize is if we've got talented young people here in the United States who are working hard, who aspire to college, in some cases want to serve in the military, want to serve our country, it makes no sense for us to send them away.
One of the strengths of America, compared to other countries, is that we're always attracting new talent to our shores -- people who reinvigorate the American Dream. And that has to continue in this generation. And so they should know, these young people should know that they have a President who believes in them and will continue to fight for them and try to make sure that they have full opportunities in this country.
In some ways, even George W Bush wasn't that bad. On the other hand, Bush was enough of a quisling to pledge to push amnesty to the Mexican government, and Obama hasn't yet done that.
8/20/11 UPDATE: The video (Youtube ID 3eiZpN8gmxU, partial title: "Obama on Non-Criminal Illegal Aliens: We Don't") was removed. If anyone can find another copy, please leave a comment.
[1] whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/28/


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Tariq Hassan is vice president of worldwide marketing and communications for the Imaging and Printing Group at Hewlett Packard (HP). "This is really just a variation on a theme, with more opportunities for how you address your brand," says Hassan. "We were talking about the post-television era, now we're talking about the post desktop-computer era."
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"One of the things that we've seen is that when you start to think about building websites for mobile users and think of a post-desktop world, you have to turn on your head the way you think about the web," says Heise.
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Chase Headley doubled in three runs and the San Diego Padres roughed up Arizona rookie Trevor Bauer in his home debut 9-5 on Tuesday night, winning their fourth straight and sending the Diamondbacks to their fourth loss in a row. Padres starter Andrew Cashner left the game after two innings with a strained muscle in his right side. Leading 2-0 at the time, the Padres scored five in the fourth to break the game open. Ross Ohlendorf (2-0) went 2 1-3 innings to get the victory. Arizona's Jason Kubel hit his eighth career grand slam. Yonder Alonso hit a two-run homer for San Diego. Bauer (0-1), the third pick overall in last year's draft, allowed six earned runs and six hits in 3 1-3 innings. Bauer walked four and struck out six. Arizona's Paul Goldschmidt matched his career best with four hits, all singles, including one for an RBI with two outs in the ninth. Ohlendorf was responsible for three runs in 2 1-3 innings after leaving the game with the bases loaded and on...
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International Whistleblowing Conference Amsterdam, 18 June 2014
A great opportunity for the whistleblower protection community, journalists and technologists to discuss the opportunities and conflicts that can arise when working to protect whistleblowers in the information age. We hope to see you there!
Hungarian whistleblowing case unfolds
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (Tasz) is representing a former staff member of the Hungarian National Tax and Customs Administration, András Horváth, who went public with information about companies committing VAT fraud with the assistance of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) only after trying unsuccessfully on several occasions to raise his concerns within the Administration itself and to the Government.
This is exactly the type of case that all member states of the Council of Europe, the European Union (Hungary is a member of both) and signatories of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (Hungary ratified UNCAC in 2005) should want to get right. Hungary's new Whistleblower Protection law came into force on the 1st January 2014 so Horváth, unwittingly perhaps, is the first to test the strength of the new law which Tasz already considers weak in many regards. An earlier whistleblower law called the Protection of Fair Procedures Law failed to make much of an impact not least because the Hungarian government never set up the agency the law envisioned to receive whistleblower reports and enforce the law.
But the description of what has happened to András Horváth so far – the police raid on his home and the court's order upholding this action which Tasz argues was unlawful – does not bode well, at least in the short term, for those who hope the Hungarian Government will put its energies and resources into fighting corruption rather than attacking those who are trying to help it do the right thing.
For details of this case and the work of Tasz please see Why was the search of the whistleblower's home unlawful? published today (7 April 2014) on its website.
Please note that Tasz and other important Hungarian civil society organisations K-Monitor and Atlatszo.hu are participating organisations in the WIN network.


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30 October – 1 November, 2013, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin /Germany
The workshop takes place in the framework of the international, interdisciplinary symposium A Journey of Ideas Across – In Dialogue with Edward Said, 31 October – 2 November, 2013, at HKW.
Organizer: HKW, Berlin/Germany.
Concept and realization: Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, DAAR (www.decolonizing.ps), Beit Sahour and Campus in Camps (www.campusincamps.ps), Dheisheh Refugee Camp, together with HKW.
In Western political thought, the notion of public space is often associated with a "collective interest", a "common good". However, in other cultural contexts, such as in Arab countries, the notion of public space is seen as suspicious. In years of colonial direct domination, the public has never denoted the "collective interest" of the local population; rather it expressed the arrogant, violent and exploitative power of the white European élite. In the name of the public, state colonial authorities expropriated what people shared in common. For instance, the expropriation of land by colonial authorities in the name of the "public interest" shows how the public does not necessary coincide with the common good. The difference between a static and rhetorical notion of public and the inventing and interactive notion of common has been polarized by the obsession of states apparatus with security and control. The overregulation of public spaces expresses the fear of the authorities to see a plaza, a roundabout, a boulevard transformed into a political space able to undermine state authorities.
Unfortunately, most of the Arab regimes that followed independence from colonialism continue to suffocate the very existence of common spaces. Public spaces -instead of expressing freedom, people sovereignty and dignity- turned into the repressive and conservative face of the regime. The neo-liberal waves that invaded the Arab world during the last two decades dismantled any possibility of a public space linked to common unplanned uses.
However, since 2010, the Arab revolts have opened new political directions and possible re-articulations of the public, the common, and the private. These events could be fundamentally interpreted as the will to re-imagine and re-claim the existence of common spaces. The demonstrations in Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, the occupations of the roundabout in Tahrir square in Cairo, and Pearl roundabout in Manama are only a glimpse into a more profound struggle for the common political spaces in the Arab world.
During the weeks following the Egyptian revolt that began on January 25, 2011, we observed a public plaza transform into a common space owned by the people themselves. Tahrir Square became the political space where new claims were invented, represented, and translated into political actions. The day after President Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down, protesters began cleaning the space, an act that highlighted the end of a regime and the beginning of a possible new era for the Egyptian people. The space was no longer perceived as public—the space of authority—but rather as the space of the people. Owning the space implied owning the future of the country. Cleaning the square was a gesture of re-appropriation, ownership, and care. In fact, this apparently banal act demonstrated a sense of reconstituted community and collective ownership.
The power of people gathering and transforming public space into a constituent common space manifested itself in other places throughout the Arab world. In February 2011, people began assembling around the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, Bahrain, converting the anonymous infrastructure into a political arena. As in Cairo, this roundabout became a constituent assembly capable of undermining the political regime. Consequently, on March 18, local authorities brutally intervened, completely destroying the roundabout. This demonstrates the importance of a physical space where people can assemble and assert their rights—without it, the virtual space of social networks is ineffective.
The ambiguous nature of contemporary public space can also be observed in Western society. During the summer of 2011, a group of protesters tried in vain to assemble and camp out in several public spaces of New York. Paradoxically, their attempts were limited by regulations and curfews imposed on these spaces. Only on September 17 were the protesters able to set up camp in Zuccotti Park, a privately owned public space. This crack between the public and private perhaps represents all that remains of a shared collective space, what we call a common space, nether public nor private.
The aim of the workshop is to expand the reflection on public space beyond these events and exploring ways in which the public and common spaces are shaped and constituted.
We would like to propose a critical understanding of the contemporary notion of the public by re-imagining the notion of the common. Rather than the term "commons," more familiar in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, we prefer to use "common" in order to refer to its Latin origin communi. The latin communem is composed of com=cum "together "and mòinis, originally meaning "obliged to participate". This fundamental aspect of the common, a demand for active participation, is also present in the Arabic term al mashaa', which refers to communal land equally distributed among farmers. This form of "common land use" was not fully recognized under Ottoman laws – for this reason, masha was not acknowledged under a written title in the Ottoman Code – and was dismissed by colonial authorities for its supposed economical inefficiency. Colonial regimes, interested in territorial control, see in masha land a collective dimension beyond state control. Consequently, masha have been transformed into state land and therefore fall under the control of public land managed by state apparatus. Masha is shared land, which was recognized through practice in the Islamic world. It emerged as a combination of Islamic property conceptions and customary practices of communal or tribal land. Masha could only exits if people decided to cultivate the land together. The moment they stop cultivating it, they loose its possession. It is possession through a common use. Thus what appears to be fundamental is that, in order for this category to exist, it must be activated by common uses. Today we may ask if it is possible to reactivate the common cultivation, expanding the meaning of cultivation to other human activities that imply the common taking care of life (cultivation from Latin colere=taking care of life).
The Refugee Camp as Site of Political Invention
Refugee camps are definitely sites where the categories of public and private no longer make sense. Within camps, neither public nor private property exists. After sixty-four years, Palestinian refugees still cannot legally own their houses (though in practice they do) and the camp is a space carved from the territorial state. Though states and non-governmental organizations are actively participating in conceiving and managing camps, we are still struggling to fully comprehend how the camp form has contaminated and radically transformed the very idea of the city as an organized and functional political community. Thus, the birth of the camp calls into question the very idea of the city as a democratic space. If the political representation of a citizen is to be found in public space, in the camp we find its inverse: here, a citizen is stripped of his or her political rights. In this sense, the camp represents a sort of anti-city, but also a potential counter-site in which a new form of urbanism is emerging beyond the idea of the nation-state.
Considering the returns of Palestinian refugees will not only insist on the changing of the political system of Israel and Palestine, but it will also imply the transformation of the entire region. There are almost half a million refugees in Lebanon and Syria, and two million in Jordan. Exploring the present return means also exploring ways in which the figure of the refugee and its associated spatial regime of dislocation reshape the larger geo-political space of the present.
The format of the workshop
The workshop, that will take place at the Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, is centred on practices and conceptualization of common spaces in the Arab World. It will take the form of discussions around the idea of common space including and beyond the places of the Arab Revolts. There will be the participation of young collective, theoreticians, activists, artists and academics. The participants, some invited and some nominated through an open call, will come from the Mediterranean countries. In order to aloud lively and informal discussions, part of the conversations will take place in private and public spaces in Berlin, involving more directly its inhabitants and engage with local community.
Please submit an abstract not exceeding 500 words (1 page), explaining with what ideas, topics and projects you would like to contribute to the workshop, together with your CV to project assistant Fabian Ledwon, firstname.lastname@example.com by August 17, 2013.
Selected participants will be granted the journey to Berlin and accommodation in Berlin for the duration of the workshop and the symposium. All travel arrangements will be organized by HKW.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin – Germany
Tel: +49 (0)30 39 787 0
Supported by the German Federal Foreign Office and Goethe-Institut as part of the German- Egyptian and German-Tunisian Transformation Partnership.
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SUSAN WALLER, (Ph.D. Northwestern University) teaches nineteenth and twentieth century European art. She has taught specialized courses on representations of Paris and London in the later nineteenth century, the visualization of race, and self-portraiture and the social construction of the artist. She regularly teaches the Senior Seminar, which introduces students to the methodologies of art history and is required for all art history majors. Previously, she taught at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. Prior to completing the Ph.D., she held curatorial positions at Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine.
Professor Waller's publications focus on issues of gender and the social aspects artistic production. They include two books: The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) and Women Artists in the Modern Era: A Documentary History (Metuchen, NY and London: Scarecrow Press, 1991). Her other publications include essays in the Art Bulletin, Art History, History of Photography, Oxford Art Journal, Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide and Woman's Art Journal. Currently she is working on two projects: a monographic study of the artist/model transaction in the French Third Republic and a co-edited volume of essays on immigrant artistic communities in Paris between 1870 and 1914. Her research has been supported by fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the University of Missouri Research Board.
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Looks like the first episode will be on BBC Two Thursday the 31st but it's not been confirmed yet.
Well according to my TV guide, Charlie Brookers weekly wipe, does start tomorrow on BBC 2 at 10PM.
It looks like there are going to be six episodes.
Should be 52 weekly episodes.
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