Tjebbe van Tijen: Amsterdam: “This station is closed” yet another example of the decline of public services: Amsterdam: “This station is closed” yet another example of the decline of public services
August 16, 2010 by Tjebbe van Tijen
Today the subway in Amsterdam opens again after being closed for six weeks because of an administrative mistake. This is NO joke, this is the infamous world village of Amsterdam. Working on a tramway or railway or whatever way in this muddy village most often results in closing off for what seems to be an unlimited time, whatever traffic passage may be concerned. The contract with the building firm that was at the basis of the decision to close down the metro for six weeks, was refuted because terms could not be met, but nevertheless the subway was closed down, because as a spokesman said the subway drivers all had been send already with holidays… This left me wondering about the sublime working conditions: 6 week sin one go? As this is a segregated town – though in full denial of the fact – it is “only” the predominant ‘non-wester-allochtones’ that suffered (sorry for the Dutch Apartheid vocabulary, you may need to check Wikpedia for this) they especially need to travel back & forward from the suburban Bijlmer-ghetto to the inner city.
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It is (only) thanks to the upcoming SAIL tourist event where eager – entrepreneurs hope to welcome a million extra clients – that the wind will blow some life into the subterranean public transport system. The photograph above shows a clumsy sign at one of the entrances of the subway system at the Central Station. At the most central Waterlooplein subway station that can be seen from my window there was NO sign whatsoever about why the doors were closed and how to get to the Bijlmer-ghetto…
the full illustrated article can be found at
http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/amsterdam-this-station-is-closed-yet-another-example-of-the-decline-of-public-services/
Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/

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Morlock Elloi: Forwarded article below on the Mosque controversies (fwd): There is nothing specific about "this country".
The Enemy is essential ingredient of the State, as the State is a protection racket. Advanced societies are running out of low-hanging fruit Enemies, so more elaborate ones must be constructed. I don't see anything to be ashamed of, as this is how every State functions.
The only problem is with victims of State's propaganda that invents fantastic theories to obscure the above, but hopefully such don't participate on nettime.
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Alan Sondheim: Forwarded article below on the Mosque controversies (fwd):
I just have to say I'm ashamed of this country, and scared - too much hatred against illegal immigrants (WHICH WE ALL ARE), and now Islam. Some of the protests are all too familiar Kristallnacht in tone - on Jon Stewart, there was a newsclip of a community going to burn a copy of the [...]

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Tjebbe van Tijen: “Hissing in the grass” free concert of unintentional art at the Oosterdok Amsterdam: Free concert via the Limping Messenger:
http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/hissing-in-the-grass-free-concert-of-unintentional-art-at-the-oosterdok-amsterdam/
“Hissing in the grass” free concert of unintentional art at the Oosterdok Amsterdam August 12, 2010 by Tjebbe van Tijen | Edit [...]

Morlock Elloi: Google in China, RIM in Saudi Arabia: Wikileaks, anyone ... ?
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Felix Stalder: Google in China, RIM in Saudi Arabia: What happened to the great showdown between freedom-loving tech-companies -- who were supposed to depend on earning their users's trust by protecting their privacy -- and authoritarian governments bent on all-around surveillance and censorship? [...]

yasir ~?? ??: Kashmir Comes to Jantar Mantar - Delhi: Shuddha of (Raqs & Sarai) from the protest for Kashimiri people held in Delhi. y
From: shuddha at sarai.net <shuddha at sarai.net> Date: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:32 PM
** Kashmir Comes to Jantar Mantar
Last evening I went to Jantar Mantar after many years. [...]

dr.woooo: Fwd: SAFE-Witness-broadcasting-tips - how to get your media out of struggle zones: -- Please find a media pack from supporters of the indigenous struggle in west papua in both english and indonesian. Thought it might be of use for others who use media work to aid struggles.
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Alan Sondheim: sondheimogram x15 [25 May - 2 Aug, partial]: [digested @ nettime -- mod (tb)]
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Morlock Elloi: The Return of DRM: Whether Wikileaks is an example of successful asymetrical warfare remains to be seen.
The state appears confident that the sufficient percentage of relevant population has been converted to zombies. See the intelligence-insulting rhetoric from the highest places, and imagine who it is targeted to. [...]

jaromil: The Return of DRM: hi Morlock,
just a late and short reply
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 05:12:09PM -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
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in our exchange 2 months ago you drawn some fascinating as well realistic scenarios, i especially appreciated your consideration the strained role of custody (hegemony? [...]

Niesyto, Johanna: Wikipedia Research Conference: CPOV in Leipzig: [[Wikipedia:Ein kritischer Standpunkt]] September 25-26, 2010 University Library Leipzig, Germany
On 25th and 26th of September 2010 the German speaking conference [[Wikipedia:Ein kritischer Standpunkt]] ([[Wikipedia:Critical Point of View]]) will take place at the University Library in Leipzig, Germany. The conference will gather Wikipedia researchers, critics as well as community-members from the German-speaking world for an interdisciplinary debate. In particular the significance of Wikipedia for education, politics, culture and society will be discussed.
Wikipedia is one of the largest, if not the largest, self-contained general knowledge reference of our time. It offers critical insights into the contemporary status of knowledge, its organizing principles, function, impact, production styles, mechanisms for conflict resolution, and relation to power (re-)constitution. New strategic and tactical operations of knowledge and power are clearly at work through Wikipedia. Of specific interest is the concept of 'the open', which is ambiguous within the social formation(s) constituted by Wikipedia, serving as both a rallying concept of digital democracy enthusiasts and as an ideoglical nodal point masking new agonistic encounters.
In both material and perceptional ways, every new technology modifies the conditions of possibility for knowledge. The logic of technologies bleeds into the very structures and organizing principles of knowledge, and today both medium and message may reflect the ideas of the (organized) network, multitude, or the Deleuzian machine. It is through a selected mix of technological and normative conditions – the distributed architecture of the net, the Wiki software platform, commons-based property licenses and the FLOSS zeitgeist – that Wikipedia as the encyclopedia of the information age emerges, both continuing and transforming the Enlightenment encyclopedic impulse or will to know.
The main topics of the conference are Wikipedia & The Politics of Open Knowledge, Digital Governance, and Wikipedia & Education. These topics derive from the significance of the online encyclopedia in the reconfiguration of knowledge (re-)production and its consequences for the public, architectures of participation, and political education in a media democracy. Alongside presentations of established scholars like Christian Stegbauer, Peter Haber, Rainer Hammwöhner, Ramón Reichert, and Ulrich Johannes Schneider, the programme of the conference will consist of a panel discussion of Wikipedia community-members and critics, as well as Wikipedia-workshops and a research network meeting.
The research network meeting addresses Wikipedia researchers to discuss their current research and draft new research projects. Especially aimed for young academics, the research network meeting is planned as open space, allowing its participants to actively engage in the event as questions and topics are shaped and discussed among the group. To participate, we ask for a registration by email not later than August 31, 2010 to info at cpov.de. Please include a description of your research interest or abstract of your research on one page and tell us, if you are interested to make a short presentation.
The Leipzig conference continues the series of international conferences of the Wikipedia Research Initiative Critical Point of View from January and March 2010 in Bangalore (India) and Amsterdam (Netherlands). It is hosted by cultiv – Gesellschaft für internationale Kulturprojekte e.V. in cooperation with the Research Initiative Critical Point of View and funded by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
The conference will be open to the public. There will be no participation fee. Conference language is German.
For further information please visit the conference website: www.cpov.de
Deadline for the Registration for the network meeting: August 31, 2010
Concept and Editorial board: Geert Lovink, Johanna Niesyto and Andreas Möllenkamp
Contact cultiv Gesellschaft für internationale Kulturprojekte e.V. Bernhard-Göring-Str. 65 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49-341-2228893 Email: info at cpov.de www.cpov.de

John Young: Blocking a website: Worse than torture?:
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Indeed. Assange wrote in 2006 that for an unnamed initiative an off-shore, secure reservoir was needed for a large amount of funds. He pointed to the website named thing2thing.com.
Thing2thing.com is currently a Chinese website, or appears to be, since it is easy to configure a spoof. [...]

John Hopkins: Blocking a website: Worse than torture?:
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well, for that matter, why no wikileaks from the Taliban and the Pakistani ISI, aren't they worthy of having brutal local (or even global) aspirations to control, kill, or maim other human beings?
why none from China?
The fact that wikileaks can't find any from those places simply [...]

Karin Spaink: Jay Rosen: Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization: [...]
There's something else at work, too. If you look at the dossier that The Washington Post compiled during their 2 year study of information services (the Top Secret America files), you'll find that there are 850.000 people cleared to access 'top secret' information. [...]

David Mandl: Blocking a website: Worse than torture?: Why do people continue to be shocked that the most repressive governments are not afraid of websites and their operators?
@wikileaks tweeted this earlier today: Iranians report that Iran has blocked WikiLeaks submissions again. This discredits Iran. *This* discredits Iran? [...]

James Wallbank: Jay Rosen: Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization: Hello Patrice,
I would suggest that the most significant issue around the Wikileaks situation is the question "How could Wikileaks get hold of so many classified documents?"
The answer is simple: the US military have begun to adopt a doctrine of [...]