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Swedish regime falling freely

peter@karlberg.org (Peter Karlberg) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:52:37 +0200

Swedish filter regime charges critical blogger: “Swedish spy authority FRA today filed a complaint with the chancellor of justice (state’s attorney / judicial watch dog) concerning a secret document published by libertarian blogger Henrik Alexandersson. The move is the latest in a longstanding effort to crack down on online content and stifle bloggers, which are seen by the government-media complex as irresponsible anarchists in a traditionally unidirectional system governed by consensus policies. The action taken by FRA has also given rise to the latest in a series of protests in media and among blogs.
At the core lies an attempt to bring the national intelligence service up to par with modern technology, effectively allowing it to monitor the entire Swedish internet flow. A law to that end was passed in June by the Swedish rubber stamp legislature, the Riksdag, after several failed drafts. Four members of the center-right conservative Alliance government threatened to strike down the law in an unusual protest, but were eventually brought back into line by the party whip after a heated debate. Ultimately, only one member of the parliament had the courage to go against the government – as a result, she was bombed with flower bouquets by the populace.”

Blogge Bloggelito is a well known Swedish blogger with strong libertarian believes. So far so good, he makes a reasonably fair description of the FRA-affair. He just stumbles on one thing – ultimatly there was tre parties from the opposition opposing the FRA-legislation and one member of the majority voting against. So the law passed with just a handful of votes.

The three parties against the privacy violating law are the social democratic party, the greens and the left wing party (vänsterpartiet).

Swedish regime falling freely

peter@karlberg.org (Peter Karlberg) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:52:37 +0200

Swedish filter regime charges critical blogger: “Swedish spy authority FRA today filed a complaint with the chancellor of justice (state’s attorney / judicial watch dog) concerning a secret document published by libertarian blogger Henrik Alexandersson. The move is the latest in a longstanding effort to crack down on online content and stifle bloggers, which are seen by the government-media complex as irresponsible anarchists in a traditionally unidirectional system governed by consensus policies. The action taken by FRA has also given rise to the latest in a series of protests in media and among blogs.
At the core lies an attempt to bring the national intelligence service up to par with modern technology, effectively allowing it to monitor the entire Swedish internet flow. A law to that end was passed in June by the Swedish rubber stamp legislature, the Riksdag, after several failed drafts. Four members of the center-right conservative Alliance government threatened to strike down the law in an unusual protest, but were eventually brought back into line by the party whip after a heated debate. Ultimately, only one member of the parliament had the courage to go against the government – as a result, she was bombed with flower bouquets by the populace.”

The three parties against the privacy violating law are the social democratic party, the greens and the left wing party (vänsterpartiet).

Olympic Games should permanently be held in Sweden

peter@karlberg.org (Peter Karlberg) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:16:02 +0100

Olympic Games should permanently be held in Sweden (Blogge Bloggelito regeringsblogg): “As Gert Gelotte so eloquently puts it, it is certainly no secret that Communist China is a Communist dictatorship, that Tibet is occupied and that ethnic minorities in China are oppressed – in fact, every single one of the fifty-five minorities that coexist with the Han Chinese majority group are oppressed, for instance by letting them be fruitful and multiply to the extent that they grow seven times faster than the majority group – clearly a measure of genocide. As for Tibet, every nation in the world, including the United Nations, recognize that Tibet is and always was a free and sovereign nation, a lost paradise that had its magnificent culture devastated by the brutal Communist oppressors. This is according to the trustworthy Tibetan gubmint in exile in India, the true and legitimate ruling body of Tibet which we credit for their independent statistics of casualties in Tibet, ranging in the hundreds or thousands or even millions – we don’t really know – over the last week.”

Although there is a possibility to have some objections, Blogges ironic piece on having the Olympic Games permantly in Sweden is really something to think about. Categoriesed as fun:-)

Bourgeoisie lackeys like Aqurette

peter@karlberg.org (Peter Karlberg) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:34:21 +0100

Aqurette.com: Bourgeois Pigs: “The Swedish Social Democratic Party has bought the domain name “borgarsvin.se”, Björn Pedersen reports. “Borgarsvin” is a pejorative word and an insulting epithet often used by hardcore communists. It derives from the term Bourgeoisie, which is synonymous with “middle class” and found in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.”

(Found by knuff.se.)

It is interesting to see that the bourgeois lackeys now round up to attack the so far not confirmed social democratic registration of the domain borgarsvin.se. So far we only know that the domain points to the IP-address of the social democratic party and that the owner of the domain is Thomas Söderlund (who is so far unknown).

As you of course would expect these lackeys don´t no a thing about marxism. They cant even read! Agurette thinks bourgeois is middle class. From Wikipedia (captured on Februari 29th 2008) I give you a pretty good piece about the marxist view:

One of the most influential of the aforementioned criticisms came from Karl Marx, who attacked bourgeois political theory and its view of civil society and culture for believing these concepts and institutions to be universally true; in Marx’s view, these concepts were only the ideology of the bourgeoisie as a new ruling class, which sought to reshape society after its own image.[citation needed] Marxism defines the bourgeoisie as the social class which obtains income from ownership or trade in capital assets, or from commercial activities such as the buying and selling of commodities, wares, and services. In medieval times, the bourgeois was typically a self-employed proprietor, small employer, entrepreneur, banker, or merchant. In industrial capitalism, on the other hand, the bourgeoisie becomes the ruling class - which means it also owns the bulk of the means of production (land, factories, offices, capital, resources) as well as the means of coercion (national armed forces, prison systems, court systems). Ownership of the means of production enables it to employ and exploit the work of a large mass of wage workers (the working class), also known as the industrial middle class, who have no other means of livelihood than to sell their labour to property owners; while control over the means of coercion allows intervention during challenges from below.[1]

By the way, of course it happens that social democrats in Sweden sometimes play a little dirty - it´s sort of comes with the game. For anyone interested it could perhaps be a good idea to study the bourgeoise lackeys campaigns against social democratic party leaders especially from Olof Palme and onwards. You know - from pretty innocent remarks to celebrating the anniversary of the murder of Olof Palme.

Bourgeoisie lackeys like Aqurette

peter@karlberg.org (Peter Karlberg) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:34:21 +0100

Aqurette.com: Bourgeois Pigs: “The Swedish Social Democratic Party has bought the domain name “borgarsvin.se”, Björn Pedersen reports. “Borgarsvin” is a pejorative word and an insulting epithet often used by hardcore communists. It derives from the term Bourgeoisie, which is synonymous with “middle class” and found in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.”

(Found by knuff.se.)

One of the most influential of the aforementioned criticisms came from Karl Marx, who attacked bourgeois political theory and its view of civil society and culture for believing these concepts and institutions to be universally true; in Marx’s view, these concepts were only the ideology of the bourgeoisie as a new ruling class, which sought to reshape society after its own image.[citation needed] Marxism defines the bourgeoisie as the social class which obtains income from ownership or trade in capital assets, or from commercial activities such as the buying and selling of commodities, wares, and services. In medieval times, the bourgeois was typically a self-employed proprietor, small employer, entrepreneur, banker, or merchant. In industrial capitalism, on the other hand, the bourgeoisie becomes the ruling class - which means it also owns the bulk of the means of production (land, factories, offices, capital, resources) as well as the means of coercion (national armed forces, prison systems, court systems). Ownership of the means of production enables it to employ and exploit the work of a large mass of wage workers (the working class), also known as the industrial middle class, who have no other means of livelihood than to sell their labour to property owners; while control over the means of coercion allows intervention during challenges from below.[1]

Institute of Education University of London

peter@karlberg.org (Peter Karlberg) — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:35:00 +0100

Institute of Education University of London

The Institute is the venue for the SC36 March 2007 workgroup and plennary meeting. This Sunday I have spent in workgroup 4 on Management and Delivery. Behind this title the work on MLR – Metadata for Learning Resources. The discussion so far has been to some extend focused on questions about the framework – but a little to much on the structure of the document and details.

Now – at the end of the day – the discussion moved towards more interesting things. What is the purpose of MLR, what should be mandatory, should anything be mandatory, which are the real value MLR can bring to the learning community.

Can you be conformant to MLR without using some mandatory MLR-element? For leagacy systems which uses other schemas perhaps the use of MLR would be just to add the specific learning information, not nessesary any mandatory, from MLR. This would suggest the “user” to create an application profile which consists of their legacy schema and part of MLR.

E-learning Nordic 2006 - Uncovering the Impact of ICT on Education in the Nordic Countries

peter@karlberg.org (Peter Karlberg) — Tue, 16 May 2006 10:23:17 +0200

The study we (together with the ministries/agencies in Denmark, Norway and Finland and performed by Rambøll) recently published has now been granted some attention at the European level. There is now an article published at Insight.

E-learning Nordic 2006 – Uncovering the Impact of ICT on Education in the Nordic Countries: “ICT has a positive impact on the schools’ overall target E-learning Nordic 2006 shows that ICT has a positive impact on the schools’ overall target – improving the pupils’ learning. However, the study also shows that the full potential of ICT is not being fully realized in many schools. Teachers are mostly focused on using ICT to support the subject content. Still, a positive impact of ICT on teaching is also seen on pupil engagement, differentiation, creativity and less waste of time. The study also shows that the preconditions for using ICT for knowledge sharing, communication and school-home co-operation are at hand, and ICT is indeed being used for this in many schools. However the positive impact of this is as yet only moderate.”

(från Insight.)

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Bildt Comments: Something Rotten in the State of Sweden (4)

peter@karlberg.org (Peter Karlberg) — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:43:05 +0200

Bildt Comments: Something Rotten in the State of Sweden (4): “Legal cases were opened – with considerable publicity associated with them – against three prominent representatives of the party.

The first is against no lesser person than Prime Minister Göran Persson himself.

For the time after he is Prime Minister he is busy building a rather impressive manor house in the countryside south of Stockholm. It is obviously more feudal than proletarian in inspiration. That fact in itself has been the subject of lots of comments.

But it now turns out that the building works – done by a firm run by his brother – has not been respecting elementary parts of the legislation for the protection and safety of the workers. And infringements are so serious that he will now be prosecuted for the violations of the law.

Needless to say, these laws are a key part of what the Social Democrats consider their contribution to a good society.

In my opinion, the case says more about the complicated laws than it says about the Prime Minister, but that’s not necessarily the way the media sees it.”

(från Bildt Comments.)

Interesting. I found earlier the comment from Bildt about the Palestine issue (or rather the absurd EU policy towards the democratically selected Palestine government) and that lead me to this comment about mr Persson – our Prime Minister. To my surprise I do agree with mr Bildt on both these issues!

I am sorry to say that despite beeing a social democrat myself mr Bildt is right about how we with good intentions made our legislation to complicated. This is not just the case only with the regulation protecting the safety of workers, its the same with for example the legislation about serving alcohol and running restaurants.

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Lärresursarkiv i Europa hopkopplade

peter@karlberg.org (Peter Karlberg) — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:10:33 +0200

Connecting European Learning Resources: “Last week I was at a “Learning Resource Exchange Seminar” aranged by the European Schoolnet (EUN) . The seminar gave a good overview of a couple of the European projects lead by EUN . A good summary of the seminar is avaliable at Norwegian eStandard . Only in Norwegian I am afraid.

At the seminar we presented the Fire system to which we have now connected SCAM . This means that SCAM-based archives can participate in Learning Resource exchange through Fire. The presentation was held by David Massart, Sylvia Hartinger and me. I think it went quite well..”

(från frepa.)

Jag var också där och kan bekräfta att presentationen gick mycket bra. Särskilt imponerande var det att se Frepa lägga till en resurs i det svensak arkivet som sedan via en Fire-sökning hamnade överst i det gemensamma sökresultatet (svenska resurser kom för övrigt överst varje gång då vårt arkiv är snabbast på att svara).

Jag rekommenderar också den utmärkta rapporten från seminariet som finns på norska eStandard.

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Presentation of SCAM e-portfolio (e-portfölj)

peter@karlberg.org (Peter Karlberg) — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:24:04 +0100

My friend and colleague Frepa has recently made a presentation in which he explains the information- and metadata structure in ePortfolios. The presentation is available at Frepas blog in pdf-format.

Presentation of SCAM ePortfolio: “I held a presentation about SCAM ePortfolio at Umeå University today. The presentation was from a technology perspective, focusing on information- and metadata structure in ePortfolios as well as why standards are so important for interoperability and transferability. The objective was to point out that the right choice of technological architecture gives an added pedagogical value that would otherwise be lost – despite providing the wanted functionality.”

(från Frepa blog.)

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Peter Karlberg: Category In english

Swedish regime falling freely

Swedish regime falling freely

Olympic Games should permanently be held in Sweden

Bourgeoisie lackeys like Aqurette

Bourgeoisie lackeys like Aqurette

Institute of Education University of London

E-learning Nordic 2006 - Uncovering the Impact of ICT on Education in the Nordic Countries

Bildt Comments: Something Rotten in the State of Sweden (4)

L&auml;rresursarkiv i Europa hopkopplade

Presentation of SCAM e-portfolio (e-portf&ouml;lj)

Lärresursarkiv i Europa hopkopplade

Presentation of SCAM e-portfolio (e-portfölj)