Dr. John v. Kampen

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Egypts Revolution - another surprising analysis from James Corbett

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 12:40:55 PM

Corbett Report, politics, egypt, Arabic revolution ...

Is the real 'Arabic revolution' starting as off now? Who or rather 'what' is behind it? Where are we looking at and what is the part propaganda plays? James Corbett has a few very surprising answers...

John

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Spain - why the others envy us...!

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:53:33 PM

Music, life, som sabadell, emotions ...

Link: http://youtu.be/GBaHPND2QJg

A formidable PR-campaign from the Banco Sabadell. This ingenious movie goes about the following. "On the 130th anniversary of the founding of Banco Sabadell we wanted to pay homage to our city by means of the campaign "Som Sabadell" (We are Sabadell) . This is the flashmob that we arranged as a final culmination with the participation of 100 people from the Vallès Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder, Amics de l'Òpera and Coral Belles Arts choirs." Enjoy this performance.

John

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Does Europe need its own Internet?

Friday, January 20, 2012 9:20:40 PM

Anonymous, communication, SOPA, internet ...

The war is on!

The war about the Internet and the politico-economic 'culture' of the USA. Its bull-headed behavior over the last 15 years starts to get annoying people worldwide. So much so, that the reckless bills SOPA and PIPA to protect US domestic commercial interests overseas already had several important websites close for 24 hours out of protest.
The US Justice Department now shut down Megaupload, a cloud-based file-archive service and indicted en passant several persons for allowing assumed "illegal files" to be distributed. As a response the 'Anonymous' hackers shortly closed down several official US websites, amongst which the Justice Department. The actions do raise several questions. The most important one: how safe are our data stored on the Internet, f.ex. at DropBox and similar services? It is suddenly becoming clear, that the protection of the integrity of the global internet, privacy and freedom of communication can be compromised by unilateral politico-economic decisions from one player. Legitimate e-commerce is threatened by it. What could be the consequences?

Can a Free Press mark the End of Industocracy?

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:01:27 AM

citizens, industocracy, press, investigative journalism ...

Watering down what you intend to write is that the way modern journalism works?

Isn't investigative journalism a part of the media-landscape that holds up the true spirit of the profession: to educate, inform and hold power to account ? Or should it go the 'citizens' way, where everybody can Twitter his/her comments, blog opinions or send comments to editors about items like "wage-cut helps council but not enough", the piddling 'news'? Not every news item needs to be of WikiLeaks quality, of course. However, the fact that 'WikiLeaks' exists, proves that something is darn wrong in society. For journalists in many countries it still is running the gauntlet to write about high placed fraudsters, lies from a kleptocracy or similar displeasing revelations that expose entrenched power-structures in our societies, acting only to their own benefit. For them a free press is felt as a real existential threat. Iceland -after its bank collapse, trying to suppress that news- learned and seems to be paving the way for the coordination of a 'new' free world press...

Superpower - Super power...?

Sunday, November 22, 2009 9:08:27 AM

people, superpower, history, democracy ...

Some don't like to see the truth for a thousand reasons. Some shake their shoulders about any truth and in fact anything not touching them directly. Who cares? That our world has NOT become a safer place for instance. In fact things have gone worse since World War II. Did somebody notice? Just this is theme of a multi-awarded new movie and TV documentary from Barbara-Anne Steegmuller: "Superpower". The essence of Superpower is the analysis and re-examination of a part of the history of the USA. The United States emerged from World War II as an island, with its industrial base still intact and having the atomic bomb. It was without question the most powerful country on earth. What did it do with this potential and what were the effects on the Republic and the rest of the world? Experts and scholars such as Bill Blum, Chalmers Johnson, Michel Chossudovsky, and Noam Chomsky, and others with expertise in this subject such as the Executive Producer of The Unit, Command Sergeant (Ret.) Eric Haney; former Chief Economist for the US Department of Labor, Morgan Reynolds; three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Kathy Kelly; and Lt. Col. (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski, examine the key moments in modern America's history, revealing a truth that some might not like to see...