[p2p-research] ABSOLUTELY VERY IMPORTANT TO WATCH THIS or we...

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Tom,

feel free to remove it if you believe it violates these standards .. I was
weary seeing the title alone, but didn't see the video,

Michel

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Tom Rawlings <tom at fluffylogic.net> wrote:

>
>  I posted it on this site in the video section.
>>
>> http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/
>>
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> The top video on the list is one by Alex Jones.  I have to say I am very,
> very, very wary about anything he puts his name too - he is convinced there
> is a conspiracy by the new world order to impose world government via
> climate change and considers the UK conspiracy theorist David Ike a
> 'visionary'.  David Ike thinks giant lizards control the world.
>
> This is not the same as saying that corporate interests are not looking to
> shape the net for their perceived needs - I don't doubt that all all - but
> that discussing such an important via via the rantings of a paranoid
> ultra-right-wing conspiracy theorist who has been proved wrong time and time
> again seems a bad way to go about it.
>
> I thought that we were aiming for high standards of scholarship, debate and
> transparency - Alex Jones represents the opposite; shrill, paranoid and
> deceptive politics.
>
> Thanks
>
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