[xmca] Coups, unaccountability, lies and something about it - [was: Online archive]

From: Ana Marjanovic-Shane (ana@zmajcenter.org)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2006 - 13:08:16 PDT


And yet, there are some people who are trying to do something
http://www.freewayblogger.com/
Ana

Mike Cole wrote:
> Yep, its real worrisome.
> mike
>
> On 9/21/06, Cunningham, Donald James <cunningh@indiana.edu> wrote:
>>
>> The way things are going in the US, I'm beginning to wonder about the
>> fit to democracy here as well..........djc
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
>> On Behalf Of Phil Chappell
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:34 PM
>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>> Subject: Re: [xmca] Online archive
>>
>> Hi Don,
>>
>> Yes, it has all been a bit surreal. Thailand has had nearly 20
>> military coups, and there appears to be general acceptance of them as
>> a means to "give power back to the people" after a megalomaniac
>> leader has assumed too much power, and all the trappings that go with
>> that power, including extrajudicial killings in the thousands and
>> blatant theft. Fortunately this one was not nearly as violent as
>> previous ones (1992), but there has no doubt been a lot covered up -
>> extended periods of automatic gunfire heard overnight left
>> unexplained, for example. Now the country is being run by a military
>> that is claiming to represent the monarchy in protecting the people
>> and the monarch. The constitution that was written and debated and
>> was considered progressive and liberating has been ditched, the
>> leader's main cronies have been locked up, a new prime minister is
>> being installed, and all sorts of people are being ordered to report
>> to the army headquarters for further orders. I am sure many others in
>> XMCA are familiar with these situations. In fact, a rather
>> insensitive colleague who has spent time in Sth. America claimed that
>> this coup was not a real one, and went on to tell me what it was
>> lacking. I have no answers, but democracy seems to be an ill fit in
>> many Asian contexts which I am familiar with.
>>
>> Phil
>> On 21/09/2006, at 8:18 AM, Cunningham, Donald James wrote:
>>
>> > WOW! Thanks Phil, what a great resource.
>> >
>> > This is by no means as rare but I really found them to be very
>> > interesting:
>> >
>> > http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/150-tech
>> >
>> > I have the full length articles if any of you are interested.
>> >
>> > PS: these must be interesting times in Thailand. Anything you can
>> > share?
>> >
>> >
>> > Don Cunningham
>> > Indiana University
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
>> > On Behalf Of Phil Chappell
>> > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:47 PM
>> > To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>> > Subject: [xmca] Online archive
>> >
>> > Legends online
>> >
>> > IT WAS a celebrated experiment demonstrating the electrical nature of
>> > lightning. And it's just gone electronic.
>> >
>> > Benjamin Franklin's 1752 paper describing how he conducted lightning
>> > with a kite is one of hundreds of landmark scientific papers now
>> > available to the public in an electronic archive compiled by the
>> > Royal Society in London. The papers date back 340 years to the first
>> > scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665.
>> > Among them is Edmund Halley's description in 1705 of the comet named
>> > after him; Isaac Newton's invention of the reflecting telescope; the
>> > first paper published by Stephen Hawking and details of the DNA
>> > double helix published in 1954 by James Watson and Francis Crick.
>> >
>> > Free for two months from 14 September, the archive includes reports
>> > of the discovery of penicillin and proposals for blood transfusions
>> > penned in 1665 by Robert Boyle, to see "whether a fierce dog stocked
>> > with the blood of a cowardly dog may become more tame". The archive
>> > is at www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/archive.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Announced in
>> >
>> > The New Scientist
>> > Volume 191, Issue 2569 , 16 September 2006, Page
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