Forced Labor

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, July 12^th 2009

Subject: people, Crime Organized, economy, people rights, security,  geopolitics, homeless, immigrants,  people displaced, people diseases, invisible people, massacre,  people poverty,  society, social research

 Info Source 1: ILO, International Labor Organization; ILO Forced Labor Statistics; NYT Forced Labor in China, by Howard French; A forced labor Blog;

Workers rescued in May from a brick kiln in Linfen, in Shanxi Province, in northern China, in what has become an unfolding labor abuse scandal, By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Published: June 16, 2007

 ILO Forced Labor Report

As per 12^th May 2009

“….At least 12.3 million people around the world are trapped in forced labour. The ILO works to combat the practice and the conditions that give rise to it. Forced labour takes different forms, including debt bondage, trafficking and other forms of modern slavery. The victims are the most vulnerable – women and girls forced into prostitution, migrants trapped in debt bondage, and sweatshop or farm workers kept there by clearly illegal tactics and paid little or nothing. The ILO has worked since its inception to tackle forced labour and the conditions that give rise to it and has established a Special Action Programme on Forced Labour to intensify this effort. “

 Forced Labor Statistics

 Asia

Asia accounts for by far the biggest share of the world’s forced labourers. Many are migrants, either from elsewhere in Asia or their home country. The ILO currently views three issues with particular concern:

 • Persistence of bonded labour systems, particularly in South Asia, despite longstanding legislation to ban and punish such practices as well as efforts to identify, release and rehabilitate bonded labourers.

 • Widespread trafficking of children and adults, for both sexual and labour exploitation.

 • Continued use of forced labour by the State and official institutions, notably in Myanmar.

 Research has also shown the existence of forced labour in sectors that had escaped previous attention, including Thailand’s shrimp, fishing and seafood processing industries and shrimp production in Bangladesh.

 Some of the highest recruitment payments in the world are found in China, with research showing that workers can pay as much as 2.5 times their expected annual income in recruitment fees to obtain jobs in the U.S.

 Americas

Latin America accounts for the second largest number of forced labourers in the world after Asia, according to ILO estimates. Those most at risk are migrant workers in sweatshops, agriculture and domestic service. The main form of forced labour is through debt bondage, involving informal and unlicensed intermediaries who pay advances to entice workers and then reap profits through inflated charges.

 Forced labour in Latin America is closely linked to patterns of inequality and discrimination, especially against indigenous peoples. As a result, action to combat forced labour must be part of a broad framework of measures and programs aimed at reducing poverty by fighting discrimination and promoting the rights of indigenous peoples as well as helping poorest workers in urban areas.

In Argentina, there has been a crackdown against garment workshops following evidence that Bolivian men and their families were being trafficked for employment in the sector. Coercive practices include removal of identity documents, locking workers in factories and compelling them to work for up to 17 hours a day. After a factory fire killed several Bolivians in March 2006, a government inspection program led to the closure of more than half of the workshops visited. The drive included the establishment of a telephone hotline “Slave Labour Kills” in April 2006.

Elsewhere in Latin America, abusive practices include compulsory overtime, with allegations that in Guatemala, for example, workers were threatened with dismissal for refusing to work shifts of up to 24 hours.

 Info source 2: BBC of London, In Pictures: Forced Labor and Trafficking; David Kilgour Website a director of the Washington-based Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD).

Some not so awesome Forced Labor Images

From Russia: These are orphans. Natasha is the last one in the row, hiding from everybody. She was taken to the foster home by police who found her at a train station. Natasha didn’t know her surname or her age. Her mother is said to have sold her to people who ran a “beggar business”. “If I didn’t bring any money, they would beat me and send me back to work next morning,” she told people at the home. Natasha later disappeared from the orphanage and has not been seen since. Her mother has been located – she denies selling her daughter, saying she “rented her so she could earn some money for textbooks”.

Butterflies made by Falun Gong practitioners detained in Heizuizi Women’s Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province. The above pictures are some products and children’s jewelry made by Falun Gong practitioners under duress in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. In addition to persecuting practitioners using brutal torture, murder, and sexual abuse, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) also uses forced labor and organ harvesting to make huge profits. Falun Gong practitioners are illegally arrested and sent to prisons, labor camps, and brainwashing centers just for remaining steadfast in their belief in Falun Dafa and the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. While they are subjected to physical mistreatment, they also have to do hard labor for over 10 hours a day in very poor working conditions to make products. These products are exported to the United States, Japan, Australia, Europe, and have brought in a huge amount of foreign currency for the CCP. The economic exploitation of practitioners is an important part of the persecution of Falun Dafa by the CCP.

 Comments: These two pills show us the remaining of an almost chronic social disease: slavery. Take into account that ILO statistics talk of about 13 millions of people suffering the cruelest forms of forced labor. However this is only the visible part of the people exploitation iceberg: people who are enforced to work more than 16 hours a day six days a week and living like animals. People working in Latin American “maquilas” and sweatshops working from 11 hours a day up whole weeks all over the world should be accounted for hundreds of millions. 

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War on Drugs

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, June 16^th 2009

Subject: Crime, Drugs, Addictions, Human Health, Crime organized,

Info Source 1: Drugs Won the War, by Nicholas D. Kristoff, NYT, Published June 13, 2009

This year marks the 40^th  anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.

 “We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. “What do we have to show for it? Drugs are more readily available, at lower prices and higher levels of potency. It’s a dismal failure.”

 Main Consequences:

First, we have vastly increased the proportion of our population in prisons. The United States now incarcerates people at a rate nearly five times the world average. In part, that’s because the number of people in prison for drug offenses rose roughly from 41,000 in 1980 to 500,000 today.

Second, we have empowered criminals at home and terrorists abroad. One reason many prominent economists have favored easing drug laws is that interdiction raises prices, which increases profit margins for everyone, from the Latin drug cartels to the Taliban. Former presidents of Mexico, Brazil and Colombia this year jointly implored the United States to adopt a new approach to narcotics, based on the public health campaign against tobacco.

Third, we have squandered resources. Jeffrey Miron, a Harvard economist, found that federal, state and local governments spend $44.1 billion annually enforcing drug prohibitions. We spend seven times as much on drug interdiction, policing and imprisonment as on treatment. (Of people with drug problems in state prisons, only 14 percent get treatment.)

 Note 1: Take into consideration that these entries are “semantic pills”, tiny pieces of meaning to be eventually connected by Knowledge Creation algorithms.

Note 2: The War on Drugs is a prohibition campaign undertaken by the United States government with the assistance of participating countries, intended to reduce the illegal drug trade – to curb supply and diminish demand for specific psychoactive substances deemed immoral, harmful, dangerous, or undesirable. This initiative includes a set of laws and policies that are intended to discourage the production, distribution, and consumption of targeted substances. The term was first used by President Richard Nixon in 1969,[1] and his choice of words was probably based on the War on Poverty, announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

Complementary sources

• Info source 2: War on Drugs, and Drug Cartels, from Wikipedia;
• Info source 3: Drugs Portal from Interpol, Office on Drugs, from United Nations,
• Info source 3: Drug Statistics, from drug-rehabs.org, More statistics, from Worldmeter.info;
• Info source 4: “The Argentine” Paco, from Wikipedia

Something about the use of the word “war”:

 The phrase “War on Drugs” has been condemned as being propaganda to justify military or paramilitary operations under the guise of a noble cause.

This form of language was previously used in Lyndon B. Johnson’s “war on poverty”, and later by George W. Bush’s “War on Terrorism”. The word “war” is used to invoke a state of emergency, although the target and methods of the campaign is largely unlike that of a regular war.

Like the War on Terrorism, the War on Drugs is a true war, waged by the US government against its own people.

 Note 3: This pill is a warning-advise to be as objective as possible when pieces are connected.

Major drugs:

•  Alcohol
• Caffeine
• Cannabis
• Cocaine
• Ecstasy
• Heroin
• LSD
• Meth
• Mushrooms
• Tobacco

Alcohol Consumption Map, from WHO

 Note 4: Taking a glance to credible major drugs mappings we may acquaint that Alcohol is a dominant factor and addictions pattern generation.

 Some alcohol statistics

• Alcohol is involved in 50% of all driving fatalities.
• Over 15 million Americans are dependent on alcohol. 500,000 are between the age of 9 and 12.
• Americans spend over $90 billion dollars total on alcohol each year.
• An average American may consume over 25 gallons of beer, 2 gallons of wine, and 1.5 gallons of distilled spirits each year.
• Pregnant women who drink are feeding alcohol to their babies. Unfortunately the underdeveloped liver of the baby can only burn alcohol at half the rate of its mother, so the alcohol stays in the baby’s system twice as long.
• Each year students spend $5.5 billion on alcohol, more then they spend on soft drinks, tea, milk, juice, coffee, or books combined.
• 6.6% of employees in full time jobs report heavy drinking, defined as drinking five or more drinks per occasion on five or more days in the past 30 days.
• The highest percentage of heavy drinkers (12.2%) is found among unemployed adults between the age of 26 to 34
• Up to 40% of all industrial fatalities and 47% of industrial injuries can be linked to alcohol consumption and alcoholism.
• In 2000, almost 7 million persons age 12 to 20 was a binge drinker; that is about one in five persons under the legal drinking age was a binge drinker.
• The 2001 survey shows 25 million (one in ten) Americans surveyed reported driving under the influence of alcohol. This report is nearly three million more than the previous year. Among young adults age 18 to 25 years, almost 23% drove under the influence of alcohol.
• Drunk driving is proving to be even deadlier then what we previously know. The latest death statistics released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), using a new method of calculation show that 17,488 people were killed in alcohol related traffic accidents last year. This report represents nearly 800 more people where killed than the previous year.
• Alcohol is the number 1 drug problem in America.
• 43% of Americans have been exposed to alcoholism in their families.
• Nearly one out of 4 Americans admitted to general hospitals have alcohol problems or are undiagnosed alcoholics being diagnosed for alcohol related consequences.
• Four in ten criminal offenders report alcohol as a factor in violence.
• Among spouse violence victims, three out of four incidents were reported to have involved alcohol use by the offender.

Drug Cartels

—— “Included in the list of government officials and officers on the Cali Cartel payroll were a reported 5,000 taxi drivers. The taxi drivers would allow the cartel to know who was arriving in the city and when, as well as where they were staying. By having numerous taxi drivers on the payroll, the cartel was able to monitor the movements of officials and dignitaries. It is reported by Time Magazine, in 1991, DEA and U.S. Customs Service (now ICE) agents were monitoring a shipment being offloaded in Miami, only to find out later that the DEA agents were the target of Cali surveillance at the same time” . …..

Mexico Cartels Map, from Stratfor.com

Border transparency from people promoting the “Big Fence”

Note 5: This textual-graphic semantic pill shows us that illegal drug activities pervade our daily life all over the world.  

Paco: The drug for the very poor people

 It is a low cost street drug elaborated on the residual chemical cocaine process –until recent considered as waste- treated with kerosene and sulphuric acid and occasionally chlorophorm, ether or potassium carbonate. It is extremely toxic and additive transforming people, most of them young and children, in “dead alive” because their external aspect. The smaller dose costs less than 35 cents of a dollar.

 It appeared as an underground criminal business in the Emergency Villages that surrounded Buenos Aires city when the 2001 Financial Collapse that suddenly impoverish this rich South American nation. Now it is estimated that only in Argentine are 500,000 children addict to it!.    

Its cycle from euphoria to “disphoria” is too fast – one to 6 minutes- and its feedback accelerate the harm effects on health and dependence.

 The Province of Buenos Aires, the largest Argentine State recently warns about its consumption because it may cause brain dead in less than 6 months. Economically and only in Argentina it moves 400 million dollars annually and its use is spreading all over the South American Region.

Comment: These pills are knowledge ingredients that trigger our mind about something “bad” within us as a whole because its reach, volume, harm, danger, diversity, and expansion. No doubt it may destroy us because it is evenly distributed no matter the variables used to potentially discriminate our intents of focusing somewhere. Could we tame it in a near future?. Could we restrict its expansion keeping it within very specific and agreed limits?. Will be enforced to engage in war against it -at large people like us!- in order to beat it starting a “Zero Tolerance” era?. Is this social syndrome a fatal consequence of our somehow intrinsic growing limitations?. Has it a close correlation with poverty and injustice?. There are too much questions without clear and consensual answers. However in the meantime somehow and both ethically and compassionately will be enforced to limit its destructive expansion?.   .

 At the edge of the abyss

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, May 16th 2009

 Subject: Youth Formation, Crime, Terrorism

Source Info: Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More, By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, NYT Published: May 13, 2009

Source: NYT: Explorers ready to enter a building taken by terrorists, in an exercise.

IMPERIAL, Calif. — Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor.

The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence — an intense ratcheting up of one of the group’s longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters.

“This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl,” said A. J. Lowenthal, a sheriff’s deputy here in Imperial County, whose life clock, he says, is set around the Explorers events he helps run. “It fits right in with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts.”

The training, which leaders say is not intended to be applied outside the simulated Explorer setting, can involve chasing down illegal border crossers as well as more dangerous situations that include facing down terrorists and taking out “active shooters,” like those who bring gunfire and death to college campuses. In a simulation here of a raid on a marijuana field, several Explorers were instructed on how to quiet an obstreperous lookout.

“Put him on his face and put a knee in his back,” a Border Patrol agent explained. “I guarantee that he’ll shut up.”

One participant, Felix Arce, 16, said he liked “the discipline of the program,” which was something he said his life was lacking. “I want to be a lawyer, and this teaches you about how crimes are committed,” he said.

Cathy Noriego, also 16, said she was attracted by the guns. The group uses compressed-air guns — known as airsoft guns, which fire tiny plastic pellets — in the training exercises, and sometimes they shoot real guns on a closed range.

“I like shooting them,” Cathy said. “I like the sound they make. It gets me excited.”

If there are critics of the content or purpose of the law enforcement training, they have not made themselves known to the Explorers’ national organization in Irving, Tex., or to the volunteers here on the ground, national officials and local leaders said. That said, the Explorers have faced problems over the years. There have been numerous cases over the last three decades in which police officers supervising Explorers have been charged, in civil and criminal cases, with sexually abusing them.

Several years ago, two University of Nebraska criminal justice professors published a study that found at least a dozen cases of sexual abuse involving police officers over the last decade. Adult Explorer leaders are now required to take an online training program on sexual misconduct.

Many law enforcement officials, particularly those who work for the rapidly growing Border Patrol, part of the Homeland Security Department, have helped shape the program’s focus and see it as preparing the Explorers as potential employees. The Explorer posts are attached to various agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local police and fire departments, that sponsor them much the way churches sponsor Boy Scout troops.

“Our end goal is to create more agents,” said April McKee, a senior Border Patrol agent and mentor at the session here.

Membership in the Explorers has been overseen since 1998 by an affiliate of the Boy Scouts called Learning for Life, which offers 12 career-related programs, including those focused on aviation, medicine and the sciences.

But the more than 2,000 law enforcement posts across the country are the Explorers’ most popular, accounting for 35,000 of the group’s 145,000 members, said John Anthony, national director of Learning for Life. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many posts have taken on an emphasis of fighting terrorism and other less conventional threats.

“Before it was more about the basics,” said Johnny Longoria, a Border Patrol agent here. “But now our emphasis is on terrorism, illegal entry, drugs and human smuggling.”

The law enforcement posts are restricted to those ages 14 to 21 who have a C average, but there seems to be some wiggle room. “I will take them at 13 and a half,” Deputy Lowenthal said. “I would rather take a kid than possibly lose a kid.”

The law enforcement programs are highly decentralized, and each post is run in a way that reflects the culture of its sponsoring agency and region. Most have weekly meetings in which the children work on their law-enforcement techniques in preparing for competitions. Weekends are often spent on service projects.

Just as there are soccer moms, there are Explorers dads, who attend the competitions, man the hamburger grill and donate their land for the simulated marijuana field raids. In their training, the would-be law-enforcement officers do not mess around, as revealed at a recent competition on the state fairgrounds here, where a Ferris wheel sat next to the police cars set up for a felony investigation.

Their hearts pounding, Explorers moved down alleys where there were hidden paper targets of people pointing guns, and made split-second decisions about when to shoot. In rescuing hostages from a bus taken over by terrorists, a baby-faced young girl screamed, “Separate your feet!” as she moved to handcuff her suspect.

In a competition in Arizona that he did not oversee, Deputy Lowenthal said, one role-player wore traditional Arab dress. “If we’re looking at 9/11 and what a Middle Eastern terrorist would be like,” he said, “then maybe your role-player would look like that. I don’t know, would you call that politically incorrect?”

Authenticity seems to be the goal. Imperial County, in Southern California, is the poorest in the state, and the local economy revolves largely around the criminal justice system. In addition to the sheriff and local police departments, there are two state prisons and a large Border Patrol and immigration enforcement presence.

“My uncle was a sheriff’s deputy,” said Alexandra Sanchez, 17, who joined the Explorers when she was 13. Alexandra’s police uniform was baggy on her lithe frame, her airsoft gun slung carefully to the side. She wants to be a coroner.

“I like the idea of having law enforcement work with medicine,” she said. “This is a great program for me.”

And then she was off to another bus hijacking.

Comment: Here we have a sample showing us that certain scenarios and circumstances may break the barrier that keeps us off humanity.  Did you remember the Karate Kid Series?. Two human fighting archetypes were put face to face: the “normal boy” versus the “fascist” super boy and as expected the first won.

Who write these lines is a martial arts expert, a Zen master and a Human Excellence trainer. I have trained many people to excel since soldiers and athletes to executives and people with terminal diseases. In any circumstances we should behave as humans having in mind that the worst enemy is our ego. The human history tells us that concerning extreme situations “saints” always behave as best fighters than wicked and show off people.  I am also admirer of the Scout movement that always from its beginning and along times, and all over the world differentiate deeply from “Hitler youths” and the fascist Mussolini’s “Balilla”, in its principles and even in its compassionate spirit.

The World Crisis may drive us to face ruptures of this kind at exponentially mode. As long as ruptures induce us to imagine new ways of living and survival they could be considered evolutionary positive but negative if they ignite our most primitive instincts.

And lastly concerning Robert Baden Powell, the Boy Scout Movement creator, was a pioneer of the World Peace as a masculine version of the Mother Therese of Calcuta

Its Last Message to Scouts:

Dear Scouts,

If you have ever seen the play Peter Pan you will remember how the pirate chief was always making his dying speech because he was afraid that possibly when the time came for him to die he might not have time to get it off his chest. It is much the same with me, and so, although I am not at this moment dying, I shall be doing so one of these days and I want to send you a parting word of good-bye.

Remember, it is the last you will ever hear from me, so think it over.

I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have as happy a life too.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so can enjoy life when you are a man.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best. “Be Prepared” in this way, to live happy and to die happy– stick to your Scout promise always– even after you have ceased to be a boy– and God help you to do it.

Your Friend
Baden-Powell

Categories: people, youth, crime prevention, immigration,

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e-Health Global Projects

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, May 4th 2009

Subject: e-health, IT&C, Social Networks, World Networks

 info source 1: Multi Knowledge Project, from e-HealthNews of European Union

Categories: e-health. Establishment, Establishment e-health, people e-health, social research, Information Society

 Comment: we select this subject because in despite of dealing with a Health System apparently restricted to United States was always a model of philanthropy an their works pioneers of “for everybody’s ” Health Systems from the point of view of the actual “establishment”.

Tags: e-health, EU e-health, e-HealtNews, e-Health News, MK, Multi knowledge, Multiknowledge Project, global cardiovascular risk assessment, cardiovascular risk profiling, CV risk factors, CVD, cardiovascular disease, systemic inflammation, gene expression profiling, molecular data, atherosclerosis, high throughput technologies, action grid, BMI, Biomedical Information, Bioinfomed, Symbiomatics, health reform galaxy, Minna Jung, RWJF, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Johnson and Johnson, American health care,

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Human Health Technologies

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, May 4th 2009

Source: e-health UE Logo

Subject: Human Health Semantic Pills Series – e-Health, Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, Therapy Games, War Games, e-Training

 Info source 1: eHealth Initiative Lauds Inclusion of Health IT Provisions in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, from e-HealthInitiative.org.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -  FEBRUARY 17, 2009 - The independent, non-profit, multi-stakeholder eHealth Initiative congratulates both Congress and President Obama on the enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which includes an estimated net investment of $19 billion for health information technology (IT). This figure is comprised of $2 billion in immediate, discretionary funding for the Office of the National Coordinator, an estimated $29 billion to be paid out through Medicare and Medicaid incentives, and estimated off-setting savings of $12 billion

Info source 2: Video game therapy for mental health, from Nathan Wilkinson, Institute of Health and Social Policy, McGill University, Canada; Rebecca P. Ang, Division of Psychology School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, rpang@ntu.edu.sg; Dion H. Goh, Division of Information Studies, Wee Kim Kee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

“Future research into online video game therapy for mental health concerns might focus on two broad types of game: simple society games, which are accessible and enjoyable to players of all ages, and online worlds, which offer a unique opportunity for narrative content and immersive remote interaction with therapists and fellow patients. Both genres might be used for assessment and training purposes, and provide an unlimited platform for social interaction. The mental health community can benefit from more collaborative efforts between therapists and engineers, making such innovations a reality.”

 Info source 3: BBC News, Games therapy for burns victims,

 Playing on a Wii demands a user act out all the physical movements involved in sports such as tennis, golf and boxing. Specialists say using the Wii brings back flexibility to damaged areas and that most importantly – patients actually enjoy their treatment.

“When recovering from an operation, such as a skin graft, patients may need recover normal use of their hands and arms,” said Maureen Adams, head of therapy at Queen Victoria NHS Foundation Trust in East Grinstead.

“Using the Wii is a way of significantly improving movement, while not seeing the activity as therapy, which helps motivate them. Wii can also be done at home, so patients are able to continue their own personal therapies.”

Info source 4: Playing a video game? No, it’s health therapy, by By John Gaudiosi, from REUTERS

“RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters Life!) – Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but can they help someone quit smoking or lose weight?

Hot on the heels of Nintendo’s smash success, “Wii Fit,” game makers are introducing new titles with a healthy focus, such as French game publisher Ubisoft’s “Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking” that hits on Nintendo DS in November.

Over 10 million smokers worldwide have turned to Allen Carr’s Easyway books, clinics or DVD in order to stop smoking but now smokers wanting to quit can instead play 14 mini-games.

Info source 5: Iraq War Veterans Rehabilitation Therapy, from GamePolitics.com and Virtual Reality Training, from Encyclopedia.com.  

Comment: Of course we are to be open minded in order to procure for a better world. So each idea about our body-mind health and improving must be heard, seen and tested. I’m a Zen master and supposedly a body-mind expert trusting in our innate abilities to maintain healthy, long lasting and aware as much as possible in any circumstances. However I believe that is perfectly possible to tune our body with all forms of environment energies. Even in Zen we extensively use imagery to enhance our body mind power for example by tuning with nature: the breath of trees, the flow of rivers and creeks, the calm of lakes so it is perfectly possible to tune with imagery waves thru animated computing. For example in Zen we advise athletes to continue their High Intensity training when injured, “playing and making gym by imagery seen others doing it!.”

Info source 6: Does violence in video games contribute to real life violence?, by Melinda Clayton from Helium.com

YES: 47%, NO: 53%

It is then a controversial subject!.

 “As a psychotherapist, I have often had to explain my techniques to concerned foster parents. In our play therapy room we had toy guns, toy handcuffs, toy knives, and empty liquor bottles. The children with whom we worked had often been through horrendous abuse. They were drawn towards these items in an attempt to “explain” to me, through their play, what had happened to them and how they felt about it.

I had to explain to the concerned foster parents that children need to be able to work through their feelings and issues in a safe place. To responsibly allow them to do so would not create violence. The violence that came out in their play in the play therapy room was a direct result of the violence they had experienced at home, and allowing them to process it through play enabled them to move through it towards a healthy resolution.

Do violent video games create violence? No. But children who are drawn to these games may be crying out for help due to violence and trauma experienced in real life.”

Info source 7: Games is in a saddle point in between e-health AND e-learning: article I by Hartmut Gieselmann and and article II by Christian Swertz from Eludamos.org.

Hartmut Gieselmann wrote:

Whenever war and computer games are discussed in public, politicians and educators are mainly concerned about the gruesome brutality that domesticates violence into children’s heads. Killing small figures on the screen and fountains of red bloodpixels coming out of the victimized bits and bytes make them fear that teenagers will become more aggressive in real life. This discussion is one of the oldest when it comes to criticising new media. The same concerns were raised about Greek tragedy, Goethe’s Werther, television, comics, and Rap music. But when you take a closer look at war games, you will realize that the violent scenes that are shown there are not nearly as gruesome as in fictional games featuring monsters and vampires. The main reason behind this is that here violence will only be recognized as entertaining for the gamer (or any other audience in literature or film) when he (much more than 90 Percent of war gamers are male) can draw a strict line between the real world and the non real gaming world – otherwise he would be scared by what he sees and stop feeling comfortable.

Horror games as well as splatter movies are turning violence so much over the top that everybody realizes that what is shown on the screen cannot be real. War games on the other hand try to be as accurate as possible: They try to emulate real battles. Showing too much gruesome violence would distract the gamer and the game could no longer be recognized as an accurate simulation of real wars. By just pointing at the most violent games, critics overlook that war games have a much greater impact on gamers’ opinions and their world views because they do not show the actual violence. It is hidden behind complex simulations of real guns, tanks, jets, and squad tactics. This is why authorities are more concerned about a gangster game like Grand Theft Auto than a recruitment tool like America’s Army.

When you compare recent World War Shooters to the older Doom Game you will find several differences, despite they both are referred to as First Person Shooters. In Doom, the player fights on his own against masses of monsters. He has no buddies at his side that he has to take care of. He is a one man army. The Doom plot was often copied to real war scenarios. But this type of lonely hero is a discontinued soldier model. It was popular during the Reagan era when the Rambo-movies were shown at theatres. Rambo was the prototype of a dumb muscle machine that was trained by the military to kill everything that moves: Very effective for covered actions in the jungle of ‘Third World’ countries but not appropriate to represent the intelligent and well organized army of the 1990s.

President Clinton had a different military doctrine. He transformed the army (again) into a world police that should fight for freedom and justice all over the world. The army should no longer be thought of as a group of aggressive Rambos but as a high tech machinery that tries to prevent civil victims with their smart bombs. The soldier was no longer an animalistic macho but a cool thinking engineer who merely followed orders and functioned like a gearwheel in a clockwork. The former mentioned technical war simulations of the 1990s supported the new image of the army and were in sync with the Clinton doctrine.

George W. Bush changed that. After 9/11 he had to galvanize the US society with a common destiny. Osama Bin Laden played to his hands since Bush was able use the fear of terror to justify a higher military funding and the cut back of civil rights for his homeland security program. And here come the World War Two games that make the gamer believe that he can take part in an important battle that changes history. He also has a common destiny with his comrades. It is no longer the Rambo type of soldier that was promoted by games in the 1990s. It is the figure of the caring father who has to look after his company, his “brothers in arms”. To free the world of tyrants like Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden, you have to fight for America like your grandpa did in World War Two against Hitler. You have to fight, as if you would defend your own family. That is the new picture in the games that support the Bush doctrine.

Christian Swertz wrote:

And now there are digital games and learning, acting as serious games. Serious games promise freedom and force at once, don’t they? Sounds like a vintage contradiction in the first place, a pretty good dilemma, or maybe just mucking around with the player, since selling hard work as fun and having people pay for it must be the robber baron’s dream. And then it’s a trap you don’t want anybody to stumble in, unless we are witnessing a dialectical miracle – the final synthesis of force and freedom.

A little step back to look behind the scene might shed some light on the issue here. The idea of combining games and learning is not exactly new. In the 18. century games were applied for educational purposes by Basedow (Parmentier 2004). He was picking up earlier ideas like the negative education by Rousseau (1972). Looking behind this concept shows that learning objectives were not explicitly taught but expressed in the rules of the games. The objectives are learned in the game by discovering the rules – and rules of games are forces, particularly if the toy is a computer, since computers can’t negotiate rules. But the player still experiences the game as play and thus the freedom in the game, even if it is forced, by rules. So playing games in general, and serious games in particular, is a kind of a dialectical miracle. But that’s the miracle that accomplishes all learning: On the one hand, the learner is forced to learn something, and thus forced by that something. On the other hand, learners are free to understand what and however they want to. The learner is free to play within and with the force of teachers rules (Litt 1952).

Comment: We in the Western culture used to sum ourselves to extremes keeping as much as possible off “middle ways” where however wisdom used to transit. Virtual words, games, virtual games, virtual reality, virtual body mind fitting are extreme options to enjoy, being healthier, and to be wiser as well almost without “effort”, privately and secure. On the other hand we have the “hard way” alleging that health, wisdom, and virtues are only obtained with sacrifice.      

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Pandemics – Swine Flu

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, April 15th 2009

Source: Spy vs Spy from MAD, AngelFire.com

Subject: epidemics, pandemics, plagues, conspiracies

Info source 1: Beware of swine flu conspiracy theories, by Mick Fealty at April 27, 2009, from Telegraph.co.uk

WHY NOT?

Military, Laboratories, Terrorism, Fundamentalism, or just crazy people?

Viruses are like cunning conspirators. They have the capacity to mutate and get around the bodies defences. As it happens the development track is often for it to become less virile as it becomes more contractable.

And it often comes in several rounds. The deadly 1918 flu was first reported in March of that year, but didn’t really get up and moving until the last couple of months of that year.

Like a financial crisis or man made climate change, intervention is desirable sooner rather than later… Mexico, one of those rising behind the BRIC countries, is being criticised for not being prepared and responding late to the problem. The latest death total is 103 (out of a reported 1,600 infections). 

With 40 cases announced in the US we may expect the news of the first deaths there in the next day or two. Early deployment of antivirals, and the rapid development of appropriate vaccinations may be critical to keeping its effects to a minimum.

On the other hand it may just burn itself out, relatively harmlessly. It’s the kind of challenge that the western world could do well enough without. And one, along with climate change we have yet to develop systems robust enough to deal with.

Info source 2: As Swine Flu Spreads, Conspiracy Theories of Laboratory Origins Abound , by Mike Adams, from Natural News, Monday, April 27, 2009

Perhaps due to the genetic makeup of the fast-spreading H1N1 strain of influenza — which includes genetic elements from bird flu, swine flu and human flu spanning three continents — there is considerable speculation that the origins of this virus are man-made.

It’s not an unreasonable question to ask: Could world governments, spooked by the prospect of radical climate change caused by over-population of the planet, have assembled a super-secret task force to engineer and distribute a super virulent strain of influenza designed to “correct” the human population (and institute global Martial Law)?

Info source 3: Conspiracy and Conspiracy theory, from Wikipedia

A conspiracy theory is a controversial term that has come to refer to any tentative theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful Machiavellian conspirators, such as a “secret team” or “shadow government”.

Comments: conspiracy is an always present ingredient in politics: people prone to believe in conspiracies think that in fact “someone” is behind catastrophes, massacres, plagues, disasters, evilness and wicked actions. We really ignore the reach of this potential pandemic and enthusiastically approve all preventing measures taken by most governments, institutions and people but at the same time pray for maximum objectivity and prudence. We suggest to go back to remind “anthrax” threat. We have selected the following famous conspiracies  

9/11 conspiracy theories, America.gov

Area 51, from area51zone.com

Bilderberg Group, from Wikipedia

The Illuminati, a video from Google

Jesuits, from Wikipedia

John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, from Ibliblio.org

New World Order, from Illuminati – Conspiracy Archive

Secret Team, from Bilderberg.org

Skull and Bones, from Voltairenet.org

Trilateral Commission, from Wikipedia

Vatican Secret Archives, from Vatican Portal

The X-Files, choose a source from Google video list

Categories: environment, people, people diseases, people health,

Tags: pandemic, pandemics, swine flu, anthrax, conspiracies, conspiracy, skull and bones. Trilateral commission, Vatican secret archives, X-files, secret team, new world order, NOW, Jesuits, John F. Kennedy assassination, The illuminati, Bilderberg group, area 51, 9/11 conspiracy theories, Mike Adams, Natural News, Mick Fealty, spy vs spy, mad,

Pandemic Threat – Now Swine – Flu

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, April 15th 2009

Subject:  epidemics, pandemics, plagues

Info source 1: Swine influenza frequently asked questions, from WHO, World Health Organization, 25^th April 2009

We suggest to carefully read two items of this authoritative FAQ:

What are the implications for human health?

Outbreaks and sporadic human infection with swine influenza have been occasionally reported.

Generally clinical symptoms are similar to seasonal influenza but reported clinical presentation ranges broadly from asymptomatic infection to severe pneumonia resulting in death.

Since typical clinical presentation of swine influenza infection in humans resembles seasonal influenza and other acute upper respiratory tract infections, most of the cases have been detected by chance through seasonal influenza surveillance. Mild or asymptomatic cases may have escaped from recognition; therefore the true extent of this disease among humans is unknown.

What about the pandemic risk?

It is likely that most of people, especially those who do not have regular contact with pigs, do not have immunity to swine influenza viruses that can prevent the virus infection. If a swine virus establishes efficient human-to human transmission, it can cause an influenza pandemic. The impact of a pandemic caused by such a virus is difficult to predict: it depends on virulence of the virus, existing immunity among people, cross protection by antibodies acquired from seasonal influenza infection and host factors.

Info source 2: Mexico Takes Powers to Isolate Cases of Swine Flu, By MARC LACEY and ELISABETH MALKIN, From NYT, April 25, 2009

White-coated health care workers fanned out across the international airport here to look for ailing passengers, and thousands of callers fearful they might have contracted the rare swine flu flooded government health hot lines. Health officials also began notifying restaurants, bars and nightclubs throughout the city that they should close.

Of those Mexicans who did go out in public, many took the advice of the authorities and donned the masks, which are known here as tapabocas, or cover-your-mouths, and were being handed out by soldiers and health workers at subway stops and on street corners.

“My government will not delay one minute to take all the necessary measures to deal with this epidemic,” Mr. Calderón said in Oaxaca State during the opening of a new hospital, which he said would set aside an area for anyone who might be affected by the new swine flu strain that has already killed as many as 81 people in Mexico and sickened more than 1,300 others.

Info source 3: PANDEMIC HYSTERIA: towards Tamiflu overstocks?. See also Poop Pandemic and WebMed Swine-Flu Faq

Info source 4 (Asian): Health Authorities Move to Contain Swine Flu Threat, from Don-A, South Korea, April 27th 2009

 
The National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service said, “Though influenza viruses are not transmitted through food, consumers are deeply worried about the safety of pork. We will conduct tests for the virus on all U.S. and Mexican pork imports, including those not yet inspected.”
Of pork imported this year, 208 tons from Mexico and 28,726 tons from the United States passed quarantine inspection as of the end of last month.
All travelers arriving from the United States and Mexico will be checked for fever and be tested for the swine flu virus. Those who enter Korea from a third nation after traveling to North America will undergo health inspection.
Mexico is put on high alert in the wake of a new strain of swine flu that has killed 81 people and infected 1,324. The World Health Organization held an emergency meeting Saturday to declare a public health emergency of international concern.

Other countries are scrambling to protect their people from the deadly disease by conducting quarantine inspections at all points of entry.
The outbreak was first reported April 13 and has spread. Mexico City’s 30,000 schools and those in two other Mexican states and San Luis Potosi will remain closed until May 5. Public events expected to draw large crowds of people were also canceled.
 
World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan warned that swine flu could evolve into a global pandemic. She convened Saturday the first meeting of her organization’s emergency committee comprised of influenza experts from around the world in Geneva.

Comment: The danger is real, planetary and next to all of us. However more than ever we all have to be rightly informed reading authoritative sources, mass media and people opinions. This danger should prevent us from being too light when judging crisis. World crisis do not occur of a sudden without a progressive series of warnings signs and alarms and even more: this progression tends to accelerate “exponentially” before the failure of the “system in this case The Gaia System, our planet. Even plagues and all types of epidemics arrive progressively.

Categories: people health, pandemics, people diseases, plagues

Tags: epidemics, pandemics, flu, swine flu, WHO, World Health Organization, outbreaks, influenza, quarantine, vaccines, vaccination, gaia, pandemic risk, pandemics threat, Margaret Chan, Mark Lacey, pandemic hysteria, global pandemics, health emergency, swine influenza, swine flu threat, seasonal influenza, Calderón,

Invisible People – Invisible Children

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, April 25th 2009

Source: UNICEF

Subject: nationality, birth registration, non person

Info Source 1: Child Birth Registration, from Childinfo.org of UNICEF, July 2008

A name and a nationality are human rights

Article 7 of the CRC gives every child the right to be registered at birth by the state within whose jurisdiction the child is born. This means that states must make birth registration accessible and available to all children including asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants.

 Drawing from the right to a name and nationality contained in this article 7, the 2002 General Assembly Resolution ‘A World Fit for Children‘ reaffirms governments’ commitment to ensure the birth registration of all children and to invest in educate and protect children from harm and exploitation. In order to achieve these goals, it is necessary for governments to have accurate population data in order to plan services provision for children and their caregivers.

 During the 1990s, there was growing awareness of the importance of prompt birth registration as an essential means of protecting a child’s right to identity, as well as respect for other children’s rights. The lack of a birth certificate may prevent a child from receiving health care, nutritional supplements and social assistance, and from being enrolled in school. Later in childhood, identity documents help protect children against early marriage, child labor, premature enlistment in the armed forces or, if accused of a crime, prosecution as an adult.

Infor source 2: Fact Sheets – Birth Registration, from UNICEF, April 25^th 2009

The right to a name and nationality is well established. However, in 2000 alone, some 50 million births went unregistered – over 40 per cent of all estimated births worldwide that year. These unregistered children are almost always from poor, marginalized or displaced families or from countries where systems of registration are not in place or functional.

Globally, South Asia has the largest number of unregistered children, with approximately 22.5 million, or over 40 per cent of the world’s unregistered births in 2000. In sub-Saharan Africa, 70 per cent of all births went unregistered in 2000. In South Asia, the figure was 63 per cent. In the Middle East and North Africa, nearly one third of the children born in 2000 were unregistered, while in East Asia and the Pacific, 22 per cent of births were not registered.

Info Source 3: The invisible children, report from Invisiblechildren.org, one recent and randomly selected, April 25^th 2009

THE RESCUE
The Lords Resistance Army’s violent tactics have devastated the populations of four nations in east and central Africa; we now have the opportunity to stand in solidarity with the affected populations and urge for action from the international community to protect innocent civilians and rescue children senselessly involved with this war. Join us April 25th in 100 cities in 9 nations for The Rescue.

Info source 4: statelessness people status ó NN, from Wikipedia

Statelessness is the legal and social concept of a person lacking belonging (or a legally enforceable claim) to any recognised state. Statelessness is not always the same as lack of citizenship.

De jure statelessness is where there exists no recognised state in respect of which the subject has a legally meritorious basis to claim nationality.

De facto statelessness is where the subject may have a legally meritorious claim but is precluded from asserting it because of practical considerations such as cost, circumstances of civil disorder, or the fear of persecution.

Comment: By undocumented people common people and media mean somehow illegal immigrants, refugees, gypsies, perhaps keeping our mind save. Unfortunately most invisible people are “native” children born in existent countries and many of them potentially leading the world development.

Categories: people, invisible people, establishment. people rights

Tags: invisible people, NN, invisible children, statelessness, statelessness people, gypsies, refugees, war children, De facto statelessness, De jure statelessness, UNICEF, China, India, Chindia, child birth registration, CBR, CRC, Beijing, citizens, citizenship, non person,

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What the IMF says about the World Crisis

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, April 15th 2009

Source: WEO, World Economic Outlook, IMF

Subject: Economy, finance, global finance

Info Source: Global bank losses likely to reach $4.1 trillion, says IMF, by Larry Elliott , The Guardian, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 22 April 2009.

The global financial sector faces write-downs of $4.1tn (£2.8tn) from the toxic assets that have crashed in value since the start of the credit crunch 20 months ago, the International Monetary Fund said today .

In its first comprehensive study of the impact of the crisis on banks and other financial institutions, the Fund said that it had increased its estimate of the potential losses in the US from $2.2tn to $2.7tn as a result of the deepening economic slump over the past three months.

Europe and Japan between them account for $1.3tn of the write-downs, with UK banks facing losses of up to $316bn (£216bn). The Treasury last night disputed the UK figure, saying the IMF had offered a range of costs between 6% and 13% of GDP, and that £216bn was at the highest end of this range

………..

The key challenge was to break the “downward spiral” between a weakened financial system and the global economy. The Fund set out a detailed program of reforms, including curbs on credit growth during booms, tougher regulation of a limited number of institutions ­considered “too big to fail” and better cross-border supervision.

In its breakdown of the losses on toxic assets, the IMF said two-thirds of the write-downs affected banks. But the FSR warned that pension funds had seen the value of their assets

Comment: This report could be interpreted as the first formal evaluation of the worldwide Crisis deepness and reach. However in despite of its dramatic tone it could be considered too optimistic. See our next entry SP0014 about the effect of “politically correct” measures in times of crisis. From a “systems” point of view the recovery trajectory towards the next future looks highly improbable. The history tells us that society inertia is so “high” that recoveries, whether occurred, take decades.

We mean that the failure is so big and extreme that a new system should be buildup and it takes time.

Tags: IFM, GDP, WEO, the guardian, guardia.co.uk, Larry Elliot, global bank losses, politically correct, credit crunch, society inertia, global economy, global finance, FSR,

The Future of Work – A Corporate Vision

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, April 22th 2009

Source: Business Week, August 20^th 2007

Subject: The future of work, labor utopias, labor trends

Info source 1: BW, Business Week Series about “The Future of Work” – 2007, 2008, 2009,…-, a sample of selected articles about labor trends all over the world: a corporate vision.

The Future of Work – The problem and the promise on the road ahead

BusinessWeek.com’s editor-in-chief, John Byrne, talks with chief economist Michael Mandel about how we will master technology, manage companies, and build careers in the world of tomorrow

And as an example of this “vision”:

What Good are Economists Anyway? – Is their help still crucial to a recovery?

Economists mostly failed to predict the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Now, they can’t agree how to solve it. People are starting to wonder whether they can really help

Info source 2: The Future of Work as per TheFutureOfWork,net: A “Big Ones” corporative vision about the “future of the workforce”

We help organizations reduce their cost of operations and workforce support by 40% or more while creating work environments that attract and retain the best and brightest talent – by providing strategic guidance, change readiness assessments, executive learning, and program management.

WDC has three primary capabilities, all focused on creating productive work environments and enhancing organizational effectiveness:

1.     Developing Knowledge

2.     Improving bottom-line performance

3.     Building new workplaces

WDC, stands for Work Design Collaborative intiative

Comment: These articles resemble arguments used by Big Corporations when justifying their sustained development policies violations. From Plato to Marx we human need to work (see our next entries about Utopias).

 Categories: establishment, corporate establishment, people, people displaced

Tags: the future of work, new work places, workforce, corporate workforce, labor utopias, labor trends.

Maps of Poverty

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, April 15th 2009

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Source: FAO, UNICEF, download from Environment and Natural Resources Service, FAO

Subject: People, people poverty, geopolitics 

Info source: PovertyMap.org that depicts poverty indicators for instance Chronic Undernutrition Among Children, sponsored by FAO. 

 Stunting is defined as height-for-age below minus two standard deviations from the international growth reference standard (National Center for Health Statistics/World Health Organization).

This indicator reflects long-term cumulative effects of inadequate food intake and poor health conditions as a result of lack of hygiene and recurrent illness in poor and unhealthy environments.

The prevalence of chronic undernutrition is a relevant and valid measure of endemic poverty and is a better indicator than estimates of per capita income.

Stunting has a negative impact on the intellectual and physical development of children, compromising the development of human resources in poor countries. Persistent high prevalence of stunting among children indicates chronic failure in poverty alleviation.

The reduction of chronic undernutrition will boost economic growth and help alleviate poverty.

Comment: In order to have a real picture of the World Crisis is fundamental to map poorness and wealth of nations and people. However these two crucial and opposite factors are too controversial. For instance China and India have hundred of millions of extremely poor people but both together as the virtual complex “Chindia” are striving to lead the World “management” as a supranational power

Categories: Geopolitics, people, people poverty,

Tags: Chindia, undernutrition, infantile undernutrition, fao, poverty indicators, endemic poverty, endemics, people demography, people diseases, poverty maps, poverty mapping, undervelopped countries,  

First “Semantic Windows” set trial
By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, April 15th 2009
 

Binghampton massacre

Source: Mark Ovaska, The American Civic Association building remained cordon off on April 4rd. The day before Jiverly Wong opened fire killing 13 people before killing himself.
 

For this experience – see SP0009- we have arbitrarily chosen a media, The Wall Street Journal comments surged as supposedly spontaneous reactions to the American Civic Association in Binghampton the April 3^rd 2009. These comments are like “windows” to the people’s opinions similar to a “virtual open poll”, Let’s remember that in Darwin Ontology we “see” the Web like a Two Domain System always striving for equilibrium: the K-side where we humans keep safe hosted in the Web space our “Established Knowledge” –under the form of Websites- and the K’-side where people interact as Internet users. In figures near 15,000,000,000 WebPages versus 800,000,000 daily!.

Complementary we took a glance to another source: ABC News with 433 comments.

Windows to “see” people behavior “as_it_is” in the Web
Towards an experimental people behavior prediction tune-up

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, April 5th 2009

Brain meanings

Source: Neurosciencemarketing, by Roger Dooley
Instead of  asking questions –or complementary to- we may unveil thinking by interpreting spontaneous reactions

 
Continuing with our Darwin project for hidden Web information and knowledge unveiling, we are going to explore now the semantic content asset of “people comments”. Sociologists and scholars of Political Sciences used to collect people comments, reactions and images closest as much as possible to rare and unexpected social events in time and space: for instance the first hours after a revolutionary coup, a massacre, a magnicide being where they occurred. Spontaneity is a treasure when studying behaviors but it decreases by virtue of speculation. However we may trust in the spontaneity of the first comments and reactions.

Note: In Systems Theory in Political Sciences this technique is used to know as much as possible about “black boxes” “outputs” to an ample spectrum of possible “inputs”. Most natural systems react pretty much around a universal pattern of “linearity” and within specific ranges outputs or “reactions” are approximately proportional to inputs “actions”. For example a human being may react “proportionally” to offenses, from feeling uncomfortable to attack personally to the offender. Reactions to extreme solicitations are a usual way of learning as much as possible, fast, and efficiently about an ignored system. In some extent rare and unexpected events are extreme solicitations of social system.

The financial crack of “derivatives” and the Madoff offense were examples of extreme offenses that affect all globally and it was extremely important the analysis about how people and institutions all over the world reacted to that extreme solicitation in the first two days. Another global extreme solicitation was the 9-11 attack and how the US people, government, special defense agencies, and institutions in general reacted, from the first minutes after till several days later.

For this experience we have arbitrarily chosen a media, The Wall Street Journal comments surged as supposedly spontaneous reactions to the American Civic Association in Binghampton the April 3rd 2009. These comments are like “windows” to the people’s opinions similar to a “virtual open poll”, Let’s remember that in Darwin Ontology we “see” the Web like a Two Domain System always striving for equilibrium: the K-side where we humans keep safe hosted in the Web space our “Established Knowledge” –under the form of Websites- and the K’-side where people interact as Internet users. In figures near 15,000,000,000 WebPages versus 800,000,000 daily!.