tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742Thu, 08 May 2008 20:48:50 +0000http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/noreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)Blogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-6925748959338772730Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:35:00 +00002007-01-18T06:43:41.564-08:00InterceptionThreatsUSPrivacy This video security brief demonstrates a real world vulnerability associated with the failure of the shielding component in the current proposed electronic passport design. When partially open, as could be the case when in a pocket, purse, or briefcase, the currently proposed passport can be detected by a nearby inquiring RFID reader. The security brief also demonstrates an improved shield http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2007/01/passport-insecurity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-3219174629888452816Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:16:00 +00002007-01-17T07:18:25.391-08:00ThreatsNuclearEarth Official board statement from The bullettin ,17 January 2007 We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices. North Korea’s recent test of a nuclear weapon, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a renewed U.S. emphasis on the military utility of nuclear weapons, the failure to adequately secure http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2007/01/follow-up-five-minutes-to-midnight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-4033325662255868530Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:01:00 +00002007-01-17T06:57:25.599-08:00ThreatsNuclearEarth Exclusive : un-confirmed sources told us that tomorrow the doomsday clock will be set to five minutes to midnight. Still we cannot confirm or denied. What's the doomsday Clock ( Wikipedia ) Official website Update: we can confirm. http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2007/01/esclusive-doomsday-clock-will-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-8250090181980276658Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:56:00 +00002007-01-16T05:15:59.585-08:00USPoliticFailure By Richard Morin and Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writers For the first time in his presidency a majority of Americans question the integrity of President Bush, and growing doubts about his leadership have left him with record negative ratings on the economy, Iraq and even the war on terrorism, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows. On almost every key measure of presidential characterhttp://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2007/01/bushs-popularity-reaches-new-low.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-3306169063419077366Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:27:00 +00002007-01-08T04:33:31.623-08:00ThreatsGlobal WarmingEconomyEarthPolitic Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. If that sounds http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2007/01/inconvenient-truth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-3569062430792517751Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:59:00 +00002007-01-03T09:04:07.125-08:00ONUFranceItalyThreatsPolitic A fundamental step in terms of democracy , respect of individual rights and a moral obligation, well done Italy! France is also supporting the appeal , time will tell if all the globe-players will think the same . We will keep a list on the blog and on The Direct Democracy archive's about documents and news on this matter. We will publish also the list of the governments not willing to adhere tohttp://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2007/01/italy-appealing-to-onu-to-stop-dead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-3145989696399773250Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:48:00 +00002007-01-03T03:03:45.559-08:00DefinitionsThreatsEarthFailureCarbon dioxide and other gases warm the surface of the planet naturally by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere. This is a good thing because it keeps our planet habitable. However, by burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil and clearing forests we have dramatically increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere and temperatures are rising. The vast majority of http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2007/01/global-warming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-1726838660665268717Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:19:00 +00002007-01-02T03:35:03.826-08:00InterceptionUSEUPrivacyPolitic From Telegraph "Europeans flying to America could have their credit card, email accounts inspected by the United States authorities following a deal struck by Brussels and Washington. By using a credit card to book a flight, passengers face having other transactions on the card inspected by the American authorities. Providing an email address to an airline could also lead to scrutiny of other http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2007/01/us-snooping-on-eu-air-travellers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-6878805448597305558Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:24:00 +00002006-12-29T04:54:02.279-08:00ItalyEconomyEUPoliticFailure Funny indeed today the Italian government decided to sell 30/100 to 49.9/100 of the global shares of the italian airline company : Alitalia in which the government is the major shareholder. The government sets some rules of its offert a really important one is : The buyer NEW CO must keep the same level of workers of Alitalia What can history teach us? After 2001 the most important http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2006/12/alitalia-best-price-guarantee.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-547402523490537678Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:13:00 +00002006-12-27T07:19:51.216-08:00ThreatsTubesInternetAPAC By Tim Culpan and Andrea Tan Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Internet and telephone services across Asia were disrupted, hampering financial transactions, after earthquakes near Taiwan damaged undersea cables. ``The repairs could take two to three weeks,'' said Leng Tai-feng, president of Chunghwa Telecom Co.'s international business. The Taipei-based company, Taiwan's largest phone operator, said http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2006/12/asian-internet-phone-services-hit-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-1505409087173696521Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:45:00 +00002006-12-27T02:59:22.899-08:00DefinitionsThreatsEUDebuggingPolitic From unitednuclear.com With the recent news of Polonium-210 being used as a poison, a good deal of incorrect information has been passed around (primarily by the media) concerning the Polonium isotope and radioactive materials in general. It's important to get the facts correct. The general public is quite ignorant when it comes to knowledge about radioactive materials and radiation in generalhttp://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2006/12/special-notice-about-polonium-210.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-2083381552207416753Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:38:00 +00002006-12-26T03:59:31.332-08:00InterceptionItalyThreatsEUPolitic What’s wrong with interception? Fried claims that “human feelings such as respect, love and trust are unimaginable without privacy, meaning that intimacy and privacy are essential parts in relationships. Thanks to privacy, it is possible for citizens, who might disagree on a topic, to communicate with each other without needing to reveal the details of their identity”. By its nature, http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2006/12/interception-this-page-intentionally.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-8879527578548246360Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:27:00 +00002006-12-21T08:38:14.834-08:00EconomyUSEUTradePoliticAPAC The new globalisation paradox fits together most naturally when thinking of globalisation as great unbundlings. The cost of moving goods, people and creativity has, since the dawn of human civilisation, tended to result in the geographic clustering of production and people. The Economics of Outsourcing Framing the Engineering Outsourcing CRS Report for Congresshttp://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2006/12/outsourcing-its-geographical-clustering.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-698512423402754200Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:36:00 +00002006-12-21T08:15:27.525-08:00ItalyThreatsIranDebugging Where do things stand now? From the source: Iran's Ambassador to Italy Abolfazl Zohrevand said that Iran is a democratic state and enjoys the right to make use of nuclear energy. "Tehran is a symbol of democracy and what happens in Iran is a positive sign of democracy," said Zohrevand in an interview with Wednesday edition of the highly circulated Italian daily Corriere della Sera. Real http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2006/12/misleading-political-marketing-irans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-8101393412900219088Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:08:00 +00002006-12-21T07:22:06.343-08:00ChinaEconomyEUTradePolitic Discussion of the naive topic of the moral obligation of democracy vs trade intervention -- not a trivial question -- is rarely tainted by concerns about such matters. EU website about relations with China EU strategy path and implications China's EU policiy paperhttp://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2006/12/china-trade-debate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-5382561447273670087Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:54:00 +00002006-12-21T07:32:47.654-08:00ChinaEconomyEUTradePolitic "We know what we are, but we know not what we may become" - William Shakespeare The EU-China Training Programme on Village Governance is one of the country's largest co-operative projects in the political sector. It aims to promote the development of village self-governance, improve villagers, elected representatives and officials' understanding and observance of existing laws and regulationshttp://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2006/12/chinas-rise-democracy-dimension.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-7530832062612663384Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:34:00 +00002006-12-21T03:48:55.236-08:00ChinaEconomyEUTradePolitic Apart from a sense of geographical attach- ment, in the context of European citizenship it is also vital that people feel psycho- logically attached to Europe and Democracy. Although at the end of the 20th century one can still not speak of the existence of a truly European identity, the majority of EU citizens feel to some extent European. Democracy in contrast is an eu-global http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2006/12/europeans-democracy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-860615562666975769Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:59:00 +00002006-12-21T08:24:06.615-08:00Direct Democracy Politics are currently focusing on direct democracy political and economical implications using differents ranges of data and agencies . Studies are tending to lead to the conclusion that it's a dummy alternative to other forms of democracy . This essay by Shaun Bowler of the Department of Political Science , University of California looks at that. Downloadhttp://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2006/12/measuring-effect-of-direct-democracy-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2953500733997215742.post-196310088888589606Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:18:00 +00002006-12-20T08:23:01.001-08:00Direct DemocracyDefinitions The word, from the Greek, means "rule of the people." In ancient Greece, it referred to a government where the people share in directing the activities of the state, as distinct from governments controlled by a single class, select group, or autocrat. The definition of Democracy has been expanded, however, to describe a philosophy that insists on the right and the capacity of a people, acting http://blog.thedirectdemocracy.com/2006/12/what-is-democracy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thedirectdemocracy)