My article above quotes [[Stewart Brand]]. The quotes are from Brand's letter below announcing Rendon's talk.
Also, you can help read and help edit and write an article about Stewart Brand on SourceWatch at: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stewart_Brand
John Stauber
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From: Stewart Brand <sb AT gbn.org>
Date: July 10, 2006 2:14:19 PM CDT
To: salt@list.longnow.org
Subject: [SALT] The long game against terror, FRIDAY, July 14 (for forwarding)
As "senior communications consultant" to the current administration and every White House and Defense Department leadership since President Carter, John Rendon, head of The Rendon Group, has been in the thick of combatting terrorism for decades. In his view, the US needs to deepen its thinking and activities against terror from tactical to strategic--- from short-term reactive to long-term systemic.
"Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short," John Rendon, Herbst Theater, San Francisco, 7pm, Friday, July 14. The lecture starts promptly at 7:30pm. Admission is free ($10 donation always welcome, not required).
The Rendon Group specializes in studying public opinion and media activities worldwide, in real time, and in devising appropriate responses. Some media characterize John Rendon as a right-wing information warrior, but it that is not my experience of him, and it belies his background as a campaigner for Michael Dukakis, Jimmy Carter, and John Kerry. What characterizes Rendon to me is that he is exceptionally informed, astute, and engaged. It should be a hell of a talk.
The Herbst Theater is at Van Ness and McAllister in the War Memorial Veterans Building, adjoining the San Francisco Civic Center.
This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking organized by The Long Now Foundation, usually on second Fridays. If you would like to be notified by email of forthcoming talks, please contact Simone Davalos--- simone AT longnow.org, 415-561-6582--- or go to: http://list.longnow.org/mailman/listinfo/SALT .
You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be interested.
--[[Stewart Brand]]
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Stewart Brand -- sb AT gbn.org
The Long Now Foundation - http://www.longnow.org
Seminars & downloads: http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
Maybe Joshua Belile was there when the soldiers raped that 14 year old girl in her home with her family present and when they killed the girl's family and the girl after they got threw gang raping her. As evidenced by his song he seemed to have known alot about that story before it was ever "officially" investigated or made US news. I watched his performance of "Hadji Girl" on the video several times and I got the impression that he had written that song straight from the gut, like he wanted the world to hear every line of the story. First time I viewed it I immediately thought he has either heard about this story or had witnessed it first, hand, that it had some personal meaning to him. Regardless alas, we all now know "Hadji Girl" is a true story. If he survives Iraq (G-d willing), maybe he will write a book about how he came up with that little number.
for some reason I doubt your reaction would be the same to the Islamist music videos floating around the Net.
But you do hit on a disturbing point...when people sing about killing as "humorous way to pass the time"...there are much deeper, darker, problems afoot.
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