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Servisne obavijesti

Nekoliko kratkih, a servisnih;

  1. Jučerašnji tekst Croatian parliament in turmoil over YouTube (again!?) je napisan na engleskom jer je BoingBoing objavio tekst o našem dičnom ministru Ivici Kirinu, pa da ljudi ne bi morali pogađati o čemu se radi, napravio sam summary na engleskom jeziku (iako je kasnije uskočio i reuters i AP). Za one koji žele znati više, boingboing je najveći/najčitaniji blog na svijetu i objava vijesti mi dođe kao malo priznanje. Ovo je drugi puta u mjesec dana da je mrak.org osvanuo na boingboingu.
  2. Raspitao sam se i majce koje su SDPovci nosili su dio Project Sabotage priče, i mislim da se mogu kupiti u jednom od dućana na zagrebačkom Jelačićevom trgu (ima i web shop za vas izvan zagreba) – a ovo je bila totalno besplatna propagandna poruka.
  3. Čitam komentare na jutarnjem i večernjem za jučerašnju SDPovu akciju pa neki spominju kako bi trebalo poštivati dignitet sabora, pokušati ću pronaći slične primjere iz vana da vam dokažem da to uopće nije tako. Parlament je najskuplje i najozbiljnije kazalište u svakoj državi, u njemu se demonstrira politička moć i igraju se igrokazi kojima se to dokazuje. JuBiTo majce su samo instrumental kako bi se ukazao na puno veći problem, jer u svojoj biti, nije problem niti Kirinova optužba, pa čak niti Kirin sam, nego je u pitanju to da ministar jedne ozbiljne države koja teži prema nekom visoko demokratiziranim i uređenom društvenom poretku jednostavno ne smije raditi takve stvari; a ledeni brijeg samo pokazuje Kirina no srž problema je daleko dublji. Da li je rušenje digniteta sabora ako se pojavite u kratkoj majci, ili je vrijeđanje sabora kada vam premijer gleda u lice i laže ili daje obećanje za koje zna da ga ne može ispuniti, kada vam zastupnik kaže kako on nikada ne laže samo ponekada ne govori istinu, ili je to fino odjeveni zastupnik koji prosipa seksističke ili bilo kakve druge uvrede? Da li je važno da u saboru svi budu u opeglanim košuljama i tamnim odijelima, da li se dignitet sabora može svesti na košulju, sako ili kostim? Ja tvrdim da ne!

Misao dana:
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

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Croatian parliament in turmoil over YouTube (again!?)

On May 25th 2007, Social Democratic Party – major opposition party walked out of Croatian parliament. They walked out because they were accused by interior minister mr. Ivica Kirin as authors of series of youtube video clips. This video clips are wildly popular and they Jubito motive used on parliament members t-shirtwere seen (as of today) by more then 600.000 Croatian citizens (compared to 4.5 million of total population and 1 million internet users in Croatia). This clips generated hundreds of newspaper articles, they were subject of number of political TV and radio shows.

Summary about this (in english) you can read on my blog here: “Ivica Kirin, Croatian story“, read my report on BoingBoing, or see latest Reuters report, or Associated Press, International Herald Tribune.

Main reason why SDP walked out is not only because they were accused of creating this clips, but because interior minister claimed that he discovered this by “following the trail of (internet) servers”. This basically means that police were used in order to monitor and track people who upload satirical content on youtube (which is btw. renamed by our minister to “jubito” probably in attempt to rename YouTube to particular and extremly graphical curse which I do not intend to translate), and therefore this is serious violation of our citizen rights and potential clear abuse of power.

Our interior minister later on denied that he ever made this claim, regardless of two journalists who were present while he actually made the statement.

(It is to be said that what he described does not seem technicaly plausible, but nevertheless, person of his position should not allow himself to make such statements)

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Today, new session of Croatian parliament started, and SDP representatives walked in wearing white t-shirts with stylized YouTube logo in sniper crosshairs, and they demanded interior minister resignation as well as formation of investigating comitee which will find out if there were abuse of power, and if not, why minister lied.

In the meantime, merely ten days after election of mr. Zoran Milanović as new SDP leader, videos featuring Zoran Milanović showed up on youtube as well. This videos are interchanging images from our Yugoslavian communistic past as well as his responses during TV interview where he mentioned few times “I do not know”, “I have no idea”.

Internet and specially video content is proving to be major tool in campaign for new parliament assembly due to be elected in November this year.

Videos mocking interior minister mr. Ivica Kirin can be seen on “bijesprvi” youtube channel. There is also a song about Ivica Kirin (with english subtitles).

Thought of the day:
‘They can ta’k our lives but they can never ta’k our freedom!’ Now there’s a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker…

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Ivo Sanader je IPAK pokrenuo Hrvatsku

U nedjelju sam propustio gledati “Nedjeljom u 2” i sada sam naletio na slijedeći isječak:

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Kao što se može vidjeti iz ovog video uratka – koji će sasvim sigurno ući u All time classics kreativne statistike; u doba kada je Ivo Sanader preuzeo vlast jedan stanovnik ove države bio je dužan svega 4.200USD, no danas je dužan 7.600USD.

Da li je ovo itko skužio osim mene?

Naime, nakon SDPove vladavine četveročlana obitelj je mogla tim dugom kupiti auto srednje klase, recimo Opela Astru, a danas možete kupiti bez problema pravog pravcatog BMWa!!!

Misao dana:
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.