An ideological war is like guerrilla war, since the enemy is an idea whose proponents are not in uniform but are disguised as ordinary citizens, a situation that can scare a lot of people to death.
Unfortunately for Venezuela's long-suffering citizens, the situation is almost exactly the reverse.
They need solutions right now to very difficult issues and it's a little hard to imagine, at this point, the government and the opposition sitting down to change the economy and take care of social issues like the terrible citizen security situation.
Hardship waivers are granted to spouses or children of lawful US citizens in situations where deportation would cause "extreme hardship".
But many French citizens saw the situation differently: Kerviel was the victim of a profit-obsessed bank, which largely existed to extract revenue from the struggling working and middle classes while enriching its top officers and shareholders.
A guild member in San Francisco, John Hamasaki, said that his client had been indicted, and he described the investigation into Anonymous as "the almighty power of the federal government cracking down on ordinary citizens in a situation where nobody was hurt".
It also shook the confidence of the town's citizens that their situation in the upper Breede River Valley — isolated by a ring of mountains, dependent on a cannery and a shoe factory and the vicissitudes of agriculture — was secure.
In the blink of an eye, 40 unarmed citizens assessed their situation, took a vote and decided to take back the plane or die trying.
First, we describe some applications in security and intelligence that would benefit from massively collaborative problem solving, including how such a framework can leverage citizens to increase situation awareness and responsiveness to significant events.
Our nuclear cult has six defining characteristics: First, people are placed in a "physically or emotionally distressing situation;" citizens are warned that if we don't build nuclear power plants we will run out of electricity.
