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  • Reply to: Good and Bad News on Government Information   17 years 6 months ago

    I believe this could be a very interesting mesure to increase civilian awareness, though the structure surrounding the respect of this human right might be quite challenging. This mesure might be ignored by a government who refuses to put in the time and money for proper legislation and organization for this access.

  • Reply to: New Zealand Police End McDonald's School Marketing Program   17 years 6 months ago

    Several points here:

    1) It would be a welcome change if the kids of the world might realize that things like safety are a subject apart from hype. It does not cost hundreds of dollars to teach kids to be careful when they cross streets.

    2) Also kids might as well catch on to the fact that in our world today, MARKETING seeks to parade around under different guises like safety, or whatever. If I was a kid, I would be very tempted to think that a staple diet of McDonalds' hamburgers were also perfectly safe, and why not, if Ronald himself endorses them, just as he endorses "safety."

    Seems there were some other points that have already slipped my mind on this, but this world is FULL of hype about different subjects, and this hype has nothing much to do with the subject matter over which it looms/capitalizes.

    I'd like to write more on this, but I've gotta go.

  • Reply to: Rebuttal of the Radio-Television News Directors Association's "Fake TV News" Report Critique   17 years 6 months ago
    I don't believe there is any question about the viewing publics' intellegence level.
  • Reply to: Rebuttal of the Radio-Television News Directors Association's "Fake TV News" Report Critique   17 years 6 months ago
    I have read both parties positions. I find it a bit disconcerting the implications the CMD concerning the intellegence level of the viewer. It appears that the CMD is making judgement calls on the viewing publics' comprehension of the content.
  • Reply to: Hiding 650,000 Dead Iraqis   17 years 6 months ago

    President Bush declared The Lancet "not credible" when it announced over 650,000 Iraqi deaths, but The Lancet already was "not credible" for supporting science over creationism, intelligent design and other revisionist theories.

    President Bush proudly signed the death certificate of Habeas Corpus over a "Protect Amerika" billboard Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of. Dubya even dared add this was "a rare occasion when a president can sign a bill he knows will save American lives".

    Tell that to the relatives of the 2,783 Americans "saved" from life in Iraq (3,020 overall for what's left of the pretended coalition, according to Icasualties.org). Not to mention non-lethal US casualties (somewhere between 30 and 50,000). So far.

    The fact is Bush has never had any occasion of actually saving American lives. Beyond his own, that is, for instance during the Vietnam War as an outfielder Washington Dodger.

    I'll tell you what Dubya : not only American lives are not saved, America's soul his being repeatedly tortured and raped by your abject Administration.

    As far as I'm concerned, I don't know if I should visit the US again. I love the country but I don't feel quite secure under a fascist regime where anyone can be abducted anytime anywhere, deprived from any justice, tortured and even supersized (in Amerika, even Guantanamo residents are overfed with junk food). And even before landing I'm compelled to sign a paper where I give up my rights. After landing it's rather Get Up Stand Up, Just Give Up Your Rights.
    I don't know if I should confess... Are you or have you ever been a humanist ?

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