was the slogan of an advertising campaign by the left leaning American Political Action Committee (aka interest group) MoveOn. Now they offer everyone to participate in this effort by organising an online Democratic primary. So go their site to have your say in deciding which Democratic candidates will get kicked out first…
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And The Winner Is…
Spiegel Online has all the winners of the magazine’s 2003 pupils’ magazine competition. Looking at the winners’ (semi-)professionally produced magazines and online publications makes me partly jealous and partly reminds me of the good ol’ times when desktop publishing still meant typewriter, paper, pen, glue and carpet knive. And yes, that was in 1992…
CAP. Again.
However much I am fascinated by institutionalised European cooperation (aka EU), there’s one policy area in which even the most pronounced criticism is likely to be insufficient: The Common Agricultural Policy – reform resistent. Not that the US is only concerned with its effects on the world’s poorl, given the US farmers’ export interests, but disregarding underlying interests for the moment – the criticism sticks (from the NY Times).
Body Mutilation Efforts.
You know how people say that there’s nothing you can’t find on the internet? Well, a quick look at the page of the “Body Modification Ezine” increases the likelihood of you believing in that statement, too. And doesn’t their logo sports someone wearing handcuffs for earrings?
Double-check.
And why, exactly, is it that this new Blogger version always creates two posts when I post just one?
Want A 3G Mobile Phone For Free?
Here’s how to do it – from theregister.co.uk.
The Banality Of The Good.
Sometimes I wonder how Timothy Garton Ash finds the time to talk to people given the amount of well-written, thought-provoking stuff he publishes – in “Elf” (English As Lingua Franca), to help foster a European public sphere. Today, Eamonn Fitzgerald links to his latest piece in the New Statesman. I think he is clearly more right than wrong, but I do have some objections I will share with you tonight.
Done. For The Time Being…
The EuObserver oberves that the historic EU constitution has now been approved by the European convention. Now let’s see what the governments will make out of it…
Inappropriate.
Very much so. In pretty much all possible respects. I wonder if this kind of service was what the mobile handsets’ manufacturers’ marketing department had in mind when developing the idea of mobile handsets with cameras?
Here’s to the dead. And the living.
The four German soldiers who died in last week’s Kabul suicide attack, Jörg Baasch, Andrejas Beljo, Helmi Jimenez-Paradies, and Carsten Kühlmorgen – the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th German soldiers to die in a (publicly known) sort-of combat situation after World War Two – were honoured today in a special ceremony at Cologne airport.
Earlier today, they were bid farewell by their comrades and Acting Commander ISAF, the Dutch Brigadier General Bertholee, at Camp Warehouse, Kabul. As any decent leader, he knew he had to adress the future while not forgetting about what happened –
“We can show our respect for the sacrifice that our comrades made in only one way. Continue our mission as well as we can; show determination; and make clear that we will not be intimidated. That will also help to overcome our grief.”
Not surprisingly, their work has seen a spark of interest in recent days. I suppose one thing the public could do is preserve this interest and remember that all those international troops are in Afghanistan not only to help an increasingly isolated Afghan central government survive against resurfacing warlords, but because we believe that our very personal security is enhanced by doing so.
They are some some of those who make people carry balloons instead of bombs. And they have a website that describes some aspects of their life – and sometimes their death – in Kabul.