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Monthly Archives: October 2002

Declaration of Principles on Tolerance

Proclaimed and signed by the Member States of UNESCO on 16 November 1995.

“Ah consensus Ö the process

“Ah consensus Ö the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would [...]

Using the Delphi Technique to Achieve Consensus

“How it is leading us away from representative government to an illusion of citizen participation”
See also this excellent site: About Consensus and Facilitation

Nifty Cooking with Google gimmick

Put in ingredients and let the applet find receipts with those ingredients.

A woman claims she was raped…

…somsome, not the alleged victim, lets slip that some claims it might be Mr X, a TV presenter. Mr X gets fired for not responding to the allegation that no one has made.
In another case, a man, also a TV presenter, is aledged to have cheated on his girlfriend - twice. He [...]

Huxley of psychological compulsion

“It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free -
to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive,
compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national
state, or of some private interest within the nation, wants him to think,
feel and act.
The nature [...]

From “Historical Truth” by George Orwell

“In the last analysis our only claim to victory is that if we win the war we shall tell fewer lies about it than our adversaries. The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits “atrocities” but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well [...]

Superb cover art of George Orwell’s novels


Resonance104.4fm

“Resonance104.4fm is London’s first radio art station, brought to you by London Musicians’ Collective. It started broadcasting on May 1st 2002. It will continue for a year. Its brief? To provide a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting. It features programmes made by musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of [...]

Orwell site