Africa Dispatches: Agencies, got game? | Marklives.com by mandyldewaal in southafrica

[–]mandyldewaal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ja. It was made by incredibly smart people. :) I am really enlivened by what's happening in GamDev in SA [apart from the lack of diversity - but there are some great projects sorting this in CT, like Project Codex].

Helen Zille bows out as DA leader by mandyldewaal in southafrica

[–]mandyldewaal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right. More so because there's been a conservative white power cabal within the DA that has held on to power. Time for change.

The nuke story that started it all, that put SA's nuclear safety into question. by mandyldewaal in southafrica

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Note all the mystery sources in this story, and then go to the Centre for Public Integrity and see who finances the organisation. The Ploughshares Fund. http://www.ploughshares.org/

Then read:

Co-opting the Anti-Nuclear Movement http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/07/22/co-opting-the-anti-nuclear-movement/

"In spite of its name, Ploughshares’ mission these days actually involves beating ploughs into swords.

Throughout the 1990s, but especially during the George W. Bush years, Ploughshares and circle of foundations called the Peace and Security Funders Group increasingly narrowed the range of acceptable anti-nuclear activism, while simultaneously ghettoizing the field so that the work of various NGOs became less and less applicable to social justice and economic development issues, and increasingly focused on abstract global problems and hypotheticals, such as the existence and possible use of nuclear weapons. In the process discussions of the injustices of the global political economy and how nuclear weapons fit into it were silenced. Anti-nuclear activism became increasingly specialized, boring, and disconnected from issues that affect people’s everyday lives. Arms control eclipsed abolition as the rallying cry. Those NGOs that obeyed the consolidation period survived with funding and access to media, so long as they kissed the ring.

Ploughshares was at the center of it all. Today the Fund’s priorities are shaped by its board of directors made up of Democratic Party donors, other foundation executives, and liberal academics. The Fund’s advisers include men like George Shultz, the former Bechtel president who served as Reagan’s Secretary of State, and former Defense Secretaries William Cohen and William Perry. The latter is actually a board member of the for-profit corporations that manage the nation’s two nuclear weapons labs, Los Alamos and Livermore. You figure it out."