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Global Warming – Africa

Levis Semakala Ljungkvist — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:16:57 +0000

Global Warming – Africa

Climate situation is critical in Africa where it clearly appears that the arid areas of Africa are becoming even drier and coastal water level is increased and therefore creates a heightened risk of flooding, which altogether cause problems for agriculture and population. If this problem continues to get worse not only the average life span but also the fight against poverty whitch is said to have halved during the year 2015^th. For years the world has tried to help Africa with the economy in an attempt to create a kind of global equality, and where today there is lot of aid organizations such as UNICEF and a lot of others, and then we will have other problems which create an extremely difficult situation for both organizations and Africa.

One might think that despite all the problems of diseases and viruses that Africa has been affected by can be enough, Africa is, after all, a country which is largely innocent of global warming. It is said today that Africa is the continent that suffers most from global warming, it is because Africa has the poorest countries in the world which makes it difficult for countries to work against global catastrophes, unlike Europe, which in all cases, good economy and opportunities to support their country at almost 100%, not only that but also adapt to problems that arise. If we for example were to pretend that there would be a giant wave of water in Europe we could take shelter in our homes because we have a good enought economy to use sustainable materials for buildings, on the other hand, if you would look at Africa’s most building structures you would see that they would not keep so well and therefore creating a higher amount of death counts during a natural disaster. And this is just one of the cases where economy might kick in.

What can the world do about this? Well the question has always been a major problem and say there’s not much Africa can do about it, because they neither cause the global warming effect nor have the economy enough to help other countries in order to reduce the problem, so it is up to other countries trying to help create a good environment for the whole world, which will not only help them but also life span for everything and everyone in the world and a much safer environment. Another problem to be solved is the distribution of the economy so that not only money sent to Africa and disappears on unnecessary things. These measures would then be an attempt to increase democracy in Africa, people also have a large application, and it is after all the people affected. Increased democracy will lead to better economics of distribution, city and state even more global cooperation, which hopefully will create a better environment.

// Levis

Google displays all requests from governments for shutdown

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:57:43 +0000

Government requests directed to Google and YouTube

Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products. The map shows the number of requests that we received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, with certain limitations.

We know these numbers are imperfect and may not provide a complete picture of these government requests. For example, a single request may ask for the removal of more than one URL or for the disclosure of information for multiple users. See the FAQ for more information.

http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/

Just received a photo from Palestine

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:30:29 +0000

On both sides of that wall, regular people like me and you are stuck.

I am so proud to tell you about this photo that I received from Palestine. This is what you can see there right now.

No one is alone in this world, not anymore. This project shows how a simple idea can move the world and hopefully bring everyone closer and open the eyes.

Please support our friends at www.sendamessage.nl

Can you feel the winds of change?

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:41:37 +0000

I´m not talking about Obama, nor Google leaving China, nor Iran, Thailand or other. I´m talking about We The People.

I´m talking about the new times where more and more people migrate from Facebook, couchsurfing, aimless consumption of media and become involved. They begin to share, to spread, to interact. Never before has the opinions and the knowledge of the grassrots been more effective, saught for or relevant. We are used to listen. We are used to look upwards to leaders for guidance bur now projects like ours builds forces on connecting the dots. On harvesting the wast ammount of knowledge that you and your friends might have.

Please share your cognitive surplus and do some good.

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http://laughingsquid.com/clay-shirky-on-cognitive-surplus/

http://www.shirky.com/

Write your own message on the Palestinian wall

Hank Nokanami — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:23:49 +0000

The Wall won’t fall just because your text is written on it. True.
But your message reminds Palestinians trapped inside the Wall they have not been forgotten. You help to keep hope alive. ‘Our’ Palestinians want to send you one single, simple message: “we are human beings, just like you, with sense of humour and lust for life.” That’s why they do this, and enjoy it.

http://www.sendamessage.nl

Wikileaks ensures our freedom. Now they need your help!

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:35:32 +0000

“ Wikileaks has probably produced more scoops in its short life than the Washington Post has in the past 30 years ”
— The National, November 19, 2009

They have received hundreds of thousands of pages from corrupt banks, the US detainee system, the Iraq war, China, the UN and many others that they do not currently have the resources to release. You can change that and by doing so, change the world. Even $10 will pay to put one of these reports into another ten thousand hands.

Courage is contagious.

Please do something important today here:

http://wikileaks.org/

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The Idea of the Year AWARD

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:02:56 +0000

We are announcing “The Idea of the Year Award”. The first annual prize to the best idea received to IdeasForChange from 2010 -01 -01 untill 2010-10-01. The prize and the amount is growing for each day and consists of all of the donated amount, google ad revenue and some other. If you have a good idea, want to share a great idea, know about a great idea for our world please Contribute or if you wish to donate please use the DONATE button on the top right corner and help us build the funds and make the prize bigger. Any ammount big or small will be highly appreciated and used in fully for the prize.

The 10 finalists will be presented on october 02 and the winner will receive the prize on October 30.

For more information please e-mail daniel@ideasforchange.tv

/Daniel Daboczy

“HOPE – the Obama Musical Story” World Premiere

HOPE-Musical — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:43:27 +0000

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“HOPE - the Obama musical story” celebrates its world premiere on 17 January 2010!The venue Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt will experience a sound it has never heard before: formed to a huge percussion ensemble, the audience accompanies US president Barack Obama on his successful way into the White House. The event organizer MOVE GmbH promises a double world premiere: at the premiere of “HOPE – the Obama Musical Story” on Sunday, 17 January at 8:00 pm, the audience will rhythmically participate on specially developed percussion chairs – for the first time ever worldwide. “Hope is the first interactive musical of a new generation”, says musical producer Roberto Emmanuele, CEO and creative director of Move GmbH based in Bad Soden. “This is an enormous sound and a great musical experience for the audience.”

The musical stages two moving and exciting stories in parallel plots. The audience looks behind the scenes of the presidential election in 2008 and follows the career of the present US president Barack Obama. The main character is presented less on a political level, but rather as an emotional person who fights for a new, more forgiving and peaceful world and a better future. At the same time, the viewer experiences the societal events from the point of view of a multi-cultural apartment-sharing community in Chicago. Caused by the prevailing tight political and economic situation, societal and social frictions and emotions arise. The people are given new hope by the new spirit of the age.

Author and composer Randall Hutchins works with the best Afro-American singers and actors of the German musical scene. He produces inter alia for “The very Best of Black Gospel”, “Musical the Gift” and he participated in “Starlight Express” as a musician. In “HOPE”, he combines an affectionately arranged mix regarding taste and aesthetics of different music styles in the field of Pop, Soul, Gospel, HipHop and Rock. The diversified mixture of catchy melodies electrifies the audience right from the beginning. Undoubtedly, the songs have what it takes to become hits.

For “HOPE”, 30 world-class artists, singers, dancers and actors perform on stage. They participate in the production with great enthusiasm and dedication. “The spirit of the show is carried by the spirit of the entire team”, praises the producer Roberto Emmanuele. Della Miles and Jimmie Wilson, known as the dream duo of the Michael Jackson musical “Sisterella”, as well as Dynelle Rhodes, the original lead singer of the Weather Girls, join the cast as soloists. They are supported by well-known performers who are leads in “Cats”, “The Lion King” and “We will rock you”. The rehearsals took place inter alia at mediaArt FORUM in Bad Soden.

The production is realized in German and English, so that the story line can be followed by everyone.

On percussion: the audience sitting on specially developed musical chairsIn the course of the musical, the audience develops to co-musicians. For they sit on a musical instrument with an astoundingly high sound quality. Approximately 1200 of the 2000 available seats in the domed hall of the venue Jahrhunderthalle will be equipped with design chairs which house the smallest set of drums worldwide. The special construction of this musical furniture allows for a distinctive bass and snare sound. The people play while sitting, drumming with their hands on the percussion surface. Inspired by this characteristic sound, Roberto Emmanuele and his partner Patrick Strese call the innovation “BAFF musical furniture”. The other musical spectators do not sit quietly on their chairs either. They are handed out rattles, so that the sound of “HOPE” will fill the entire hall. The producers want all people to have access to music as a strong medium.

As early as in September, the musical company enthused about 45,000 viewers with a first musical foretaste during a successful performance at Commerzbank Arena next to stars like Bob Geldorf and Samy Deluxe. After only a short period of time, the entire stadium swung and clapped along to songs never heard before like “Rock the Vote”. Experts of the German music scene praised the high level of the American Pop music and certified the sound to have “Earth Wind and Fire quality”. The most important concert organizer worldwide, Fritz Rau, says: “Respect and two thumbs up for this musical”. According to the slogan “Yes we can”, the musical is to tour in Germany after having premiered in Frankfurt.

Tickets for the premiere can be purchased via the ticket seller EVENTIM within the price scope of 40 to 149 Euros in several seat categories. Following the premiere, a VIP premiere party will take place, at which special culinary refreshments will be served to the guests and the musical performers can be experienced up close in an “unplugged performance”. The VIP tickets can be bought for 99 Euros directly from the HOPE production.

Important note from the HOPE production team:
The “HOPE musical production” does not pursue any political interests with their production. Being artists, we merely stage a piece of attitude to life of the “historic year 2008″ with topics still prevailing today as well as good entertainment and music!

The grassroots are the real power

Hank Nokanami — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:30:16 +0000

We always believe that we need change to come from above.

But we the grassroots are more powerfull and influential then any of them. Societies are build by us, for us, from us. Therefore change can only come if we believe that we can make a change. Obama and his change is amazing, but still, we expect leaders to change for us. Be aware of being confortable, change comes from us. Obama is one man, Kim Il Jong is one man, we are 6,5 billion.

/dr Hank Nokanami

Powerless or powerfull

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:46:32 +0000

In these times, the days before COP15, when the Nobel prize is handed out, when the Right Livelihood Award is given to people that have done something good or right, when everybody looks at TV for salvation. When we have become confortable, I stand and wonder if the methods we use today still work in these times. Does manifestations or other methods still apply for the 21:st century? Is media still the way to go through when we need publicity? Does politicians have real power anymore? Should we unite and create a massforce that no one can ignore? Should we do as we always have done?

Or should we be individualists and do whatever we can in our own backyard? Maybe it´s enough to quietly protest by choosing other paths then the easy ones?

But I can tell you something, the world will not change itself. But the world hasn´t either been destroyed by the common man, but by companies and organizations trying to make a quick buck because we thought that we need cheap and massive ammounts of stuff. And they obliged, found cheap stuff for us. And we believed that cheap is better. We built a culture that chases the best deals. But somebody, somewhere always pays the difference. What you gain on a bargain is paid somehow else, by poor people slaving for you, by nature or other.

Do you think that we would have chosen the cheap but bad way instead of the expensive good way? I can tell you that even the poorest of us would do good first. I am sure of that.

So instead of butting our heads together and acomplish almost nothing, or little in a very long time, we should go to the source, to the power, to the money. We should go to the companies and ask them, make them, convince them to be part of this movement. Companies are made by people. People are made the same as you, think the same as you and act the same as you. There for it´s given how you can change.

Just put yourself in their shoes and make a good argument!

/Daniel Daboczy

http://en.cop15.dk/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/01/q-and-a-copenhagen-summit