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possible courses of action. I.2.2. Do we need more control over credit? They say money makes the world go round. But it isn’t money: it’s credit. For when the corporations of the world buy, they buy on credit. And if your credit is good, no one asks to see the colour of your money. Indeed, if everyone were to demand immediate payment in cash, the world would literally go bust. But as Trevor Sykes points out in his book, ‘Two Centuries of Panic’, “there are few faster ways of going broke than by buying

evaluation of those candidates, particularly among less knowledgeable viewers. His findings illustrate that those who are only passively interested in politics are more likely to warm up to presidential candidates from the opposition party when they see those candidates on entertainmentbased talk shows. This is because soft-news programs, particularly entertainment talk shows, have less of an “edge” than hard news. When hosts speak to presidential candidates, difficult questions regarding policy and

communication with the audience and materialise its unconscious on stage. In the staging sense, on a certain level it poses the question what happens when an actor remains without a written text and is put in position on stage where she or he must, instead of written lines of a particular role, share her or his own opinion. Using the thematic frame of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the emergence of new countries with a nationalist connotation, we also witness the incessant disintegration

“I’m walking okay, and the holes are all filled in. See how much better?” I pulled down my jeans waistband to show her a spot that had been bitten out. The teeth marks were hardly perceptible, though the skin wasn’t quite smooth and was visibly paler than the surrounding flesh. If I hadn’t had a huge dose of vampire blood, the scar would’ve looked like a shark had bitten me. Amelia glanced down and hastily away, as if she couldn’t bear to see the evidence of the attack. “It’s just that Octavia keeps

American way of life was formed.”2 McLuhan understood that whenever a new medium comes along, people naturally get caught up in the information—the “content”—it carries. They care about the news in the newspaper, the music on the radio, the shows on the TV, the words spoken by the person on the far end of the phone line. The technology of the medium, however astonishing it may be, disappears behind whatever flows through it—facts, entertainment, instruction, conversation. When people start debating (as

Internet, see: Yang, Miao, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 113; Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Electronic commerce, Page 52 – 56; The World Information Society Report 2007, available at: http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/worldinformationsociety/2007/. According to the ITU, there were 1,13 billion Internet users by the end of 2007, available at: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/. 2 Regarding the threat of attacks against computer systems integrated in cars, see: BBC

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I I I I I I I I PREFACE Renewable energy has been an important political topic for a long time. 20-30 years ago there was an increasing realization that the earth’s resources are limited and that the world’s dependency on fossil fuel must be reduced. Today, climate problems are on the summit of the international political agenda. Climate change created by humans around the globe is the largest challenge humanity is currently faced with. EU and many national authorities have therefore

-the target’s reflection strength. This target is small and will be displayed as Green. This target is large and will be displayed as Red. This target medium sized will be displayed as Yellow. Receiver noise voltage (this is like the “snow” on your TV when it is not tuned to a channel). Signal amplitude B Red-color threshold (large targets) C Yellow-color threshold (medium targets) A Green-color threshold (small targets) 0 Transmitter firing signal Target return located at 25

action de fond contre le terrorisme en gagnant les batailles du quotidien, de la technologie et des idées Il faut enfin être présent dans les médias arabophones transnationaux (en 2006, les chaînes de télévision al-Jazira, al-Arabiya et Abou-Dhabi TV ou les quotidiens al-Hayat et al-Sharq al-Awsat). Ceci permettra de mieux nous faire comprendre et d’éviter des malentendus sur le sens de nos politiques. Privilégier une approche politique Au-delà de la définition de concepts d’analyse et d’un