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Reflecting on Human Rights.
Northern Ireland
Reflecting on The Prosperity of Humankind:
At the heart of the discussion of a strategy of social and economic development, therefore, lies the issue of human rights. The shaping of such a strategy calls for the promotion of human rights to be freed from the grip of the false dichotomies that have for so long held it hostage. Concern that each human being should enjoy the freedom of thought and action conducive to his or her personal growth does not justify devotion to the cult of individualism that so deeply corrupts many areas of contemporary life. Nor does concern to ensure the welfare of society as a whole require a deification of the state as the supposed source of humanity’s well-being. Far otherwise: the history of the present century shows all too clearly that such ideologies and the partisan agendas to which they give rise have been themselves the principal enemies of the interests they purport to serve. Only in a consultative framework made possible by the consciousness of the organic unity of humankind can all aspects of the concern for human rights find legitimate and creative expression.
Much is needed to reflect upon today’s framework of human rights and how a consultative structure is required in championing the rights for humankind as a whole.
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Don’t Click It!
Have you ever felt the urge to click?
What if one day there isn’t a click on the mouse anymore, and all you need to do is move your cursor to a particular spot and pages requested will be shown. Is it true that clicking your mouse is one method of spurring consumerism, the urge to click (on sites such as amazon or ebay) similar to the urge to shop, to consume every now and then in order to fill the gap which our materialistic self occassionally miss?
Do a little test on this page and see how this affects you. Please do leave a comment and let me know how it went. 
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Open Video?
From the Open Video Alliance:
Open Video is a broad-based movement of video creators, technologists, academics, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, activists, remixers, and many others. When most folks think of “open,” they think of open source and open codecs. They’re right—but there’s much more to Open Video. Open Video is the growing movement for transparency, interoperability, and further decentralization in online video. These qualities provide more fertile ground for independent producers, bottom-up innovation, and greater protection for free speech online.
What do you think?
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Departure
Trafalgar Square
I finally come to terms that we are leaving the UK end of this month. Decision to stay or to leave has been up in the air for few months. As much as we would like to stay, in fact, we have decided to stay, until an offer for an amazing project came in and got us so excited that we would leave. Ah, imagine how amazing that project is considering its ability to get us moving again. We hope to write more about the new project once we are back in Malaysia with more concrete outline and we will definitely keep our readers in the loop.
At the moment, we are just enjoying bits and pieces of London and be a tourist ourselves, and hoping to catch up with some friends before we go.
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A Tribute to Yasmin Ahmad
Sad to see the leaving of a dear talented Malaysian filmmaker, whose films and works have inspired many other Malaysians to embrace one another as brothers and sisters despite racial differences. The stories she tells were simple yet touching and never fail to show the real essence of being a Malaysian. She made us proud.
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A little bit of Internet.
We just got back from a cabin the Laddon, somewhere north of Sweden outback an hour and a half from JokkMokk. It just occurred to me that the isolated cabin we were in, no people, no running water, no electricity etc. is almost no different then the some of the villages in I’ve been in South East Asia, except that in this case we had to bring food from town (as opposed to the available rice/chicken/pigs etc in the SE Asian Villages). However we did have a sauna, which helped in the bathing process as we could jump into the cold lake and rush back into a HOT room. Hopefully will be able to post some pics. Now off to another remote place to check out the wilderness of the north (Sweden still)
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