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Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:00:19 From: "piet bouter" <poetpiet@hotbot.com> To: wam@mir.org I wish we could chase all inclined to fight into the fray and entice 'm to go with a load of their favorite hardware other than the just too toxically hazardous kinds Chossodovsky says are in use already as they were in the Gulf war. I guess too little time has elapsed for megalomonstrous bodies to exhaust let alone much less change and/or remodel their inventory). All would be well if we could and would sluice refugees to all parts of the world (preferably islamic regions for the mostly islamic displaced peoples as I understand they are). I wish we could thus end up with a pile of corpses soon ploughed under to fertilize the fields and a heap of scrap metal to start making rock grinders. In the most recent Groene Amsterdammer I read that instead of protecting minorities and allowing them to carry on their own (however offensive in surrounding majority eyes) ways, most conflict resolvage success rates benefit more from the fit in or lose benefits, forfeit protection etc type strategies. They call this a reversal of sorts. The problem with such half way sound principle is that it requires a counterpart for completion, namely, the get back to where a traditional guarantee is given. The parable of the prodigal son is all very well for some but for people like say: James Joyce? Mavericks, originals, clowns, hybrids and other absolutely unique characters thriving in the often dangerously anonymous masses represent the more or less voluntary type 'misfits' who are best of and blossom in a rainbow gathering type communal social safety net however chaotic but we are talking refugees here!!!! Islamic hinterlands are by nature more (and more) barren owing to the frequently feudally proportioned gulf between rich and poor, not to mention the patronizing, patriarchal, pastoral and other patrist "cracked-her-i-s-t-akes" and tactics standing in the way of marginals fitting (back) into baring rather than bearing and 'aridding' rather than bearable, lessening rather than listening lebensraum. A leading Dutch daily recently spoke of 'reversals of sorts' also, to wit: Nato's announcements of goals and aims are obscure but 'it' divulges all methods clearly and in advance. Perhaps it is a manifestation of the still all too dearly wanting psychological insights concerning the "step at a time" approach. And indeed, on nettime which I took a good look at for the first time today, the suspicion crept up on me that a lot of impartial/amateur and other flavors of do gooder commentator/instigator/referee types sling concepts which grow a corresponding amount of guilt/fingerpointing more sweeping (and broodingly, suffocatingly, oppressively, constrictingly conspirational and feverish) the less these people work within their means and tackle the nearest fucking rubble heap in their own neighbourhoods. Not that I do not like to look at the matter in a broader perspective. I think gorbatsjov's comment in the NRC Dutch daily last week failed the first test for a Russian perspective for never mentioning the chechnia and grozny situation. And take it down the centuries from there. Bottom line is: the west shows that the leadership status is untouchably taboo. They'd rather attack supporters from the lowest rung on up, the order following soldiers, than offer them better and fairer terms after the manner indicated in my http://members.tripod.com/~poetpiet/guest_appearances/Beckerath_on_peacemaking.htm And just to show that this by hook or crook sacred cow can demand, justify and direct the sacrifice, mobilization, form, function and whatever other way our silly 'follow the leader' herd mentality support allows it to mutate and muster us into monstrous masses, we (the west) allows, nay, needs, nay, verily creates the big bad booger man with clout enough to give cause for a grand hype arms bazaar. The bully boys throughout islamic and white western realms are hereby cordially invited to travel to the front and do each other in till there are none left, if they run out of arms before we reach that clean slate state (after which attention must be payed bully babies are not left to flex their by nature pervy will on inferiors such as women or contemporaries; they must receive the best education and be shown how indispensible their inspirations can be for the ankurbelung, aanzwengeling and whatever that translates to in english, of the chain of beings in the simplest shapes of specky tickle <see my site>) they will be supplied with handily sized rocks to heave after and into each other's skulls to finish the job. PS. I enjoyed talking to you at the Polish Ecotopia. I had that painted sheet up in the tree remember? come see my site http://members.tripod.com/~poetpiet/Blabsabs_Index.htm http://members.tripod.com/~poetpiet/recent_links.htm has a balkan section headed thus: Two nono's Too bad the navo hasn4t provided the following links their makers with money to burn, fuel to spend and protection to operate let alone paid or pays them any heed. Gorbatchov is in the NRC on friday the 8th and doesn4t even mention Chechnia when defending Primakov!!! Have we no sensible leaders left??? Proyect at pen-l (wellknown to pietpiet4s linklist lovers) has posted a Chossudovsky piece (others coming up below) about the Gulf-war sicknesses already Entering ex-Yugoslavia..... Here are my type of solutions: If a quarter of the money spent so far would have been the price put on Milosevic head and maybe another quarter on something more substantial than aireally dropped flyers (anybody know the text of it by the way?) like a powerful radiostation (surrounded by tanks if need be) we would have been closer to doing the type of damage which really needs be done badly (albeit not savagely): c(or)racktion of market share and privblic rating of the armament industry!!!!!! Instead the musical rock grinding/wetting/spread-spraying can and for the sake of the good aspects of civilization as we now know and as far as we've managed to salvage it, take up that slack a bit (....a whole lot even!!!) easier than that the damage done now can be reversed. PS 2: you may forward this to nettime if you like. I don't know how to post there unless this does the tricks. ps3 what do you think of Michel Chossudovsky I sent him the following recently: You are cordially invited to a site quite complementary to your expertise: concise, clear and thorough analysis. Like most people with such skill and an overly heavyhanded emphasis on reality, you but all too rarely escape its taints for a stay with some saints....well I got some waitin for ya at: http://members.tripod.com/~poetpiet/guest_appearances/intro_to_currency_issues.htm HotBot - Search smarter. http://www.hotbot.com --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl