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Sunday February 16, 2003 16:52
by ipsiphi
ipsiphi at mindless dot com
from irelands 'down with this sort of thing' to Vancouvers 'Bush is a racist'.
posted at Belgium a global picture book. We guestimated 12 million last week would march. Estimates at Belgium are 10 million. We do appear to be quorate in many cities and lands. That is a wonderful feeling but we ought now be discussing where are we going to go with that "feeling".
The Apparata of inequality continue to work. This weekend many global institutions have continued to deal badly with the needs of the global poor.
Tomorrow the heads of state of the EU will meet in Greece to discuss Iraq and the USA.
For many of us the most important question of what is the nature of "war" and how it is fought against the poor is now being addressed with more popular participation than before.
the beckett mangle quote...
"intent-ho una vegada, fracas una vegada, intent-ho altre vegada fracas mejor."
remangled back to english from the catalan ..."try once fail once try again fail better" though he wrote in in french.
-he got a nobel for it too when eventually everyone started to read it carefully. I bet you he would have been out marching/concentrating/mingling.
saying
"we have had enough of being terrorised, and we have had enough of seeing all the problems made worse, and we will never let you bring back the horrors of our collective past never never never again". "nunca effin mas" a contemporary european might say.
The cost of this war before Brown revised the UK economy was equal to twenty times the cost of providing the children of this planet with preventative vaccines.
That is the cost of providing preventative vaccines against TB, Polio, etc., were equal to 5% of the cost of the Iraqi war buildup at the end of JAnuary 2003. Today the percentage is neglible. The estimate was provided by the World Bank.
what does war mean to you?
ya basta!
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2There is marked difference between mainstream reaction to the global day of action yesterday against War. Varying from Ireland´s RTE and unison.ie mix which decided that the Government of Spain would stand firm in supporting Bush but declined to think too much about Italy. Italy in the hands of Burlosconi´s media is naturally focussing on the football clubs of Burlsonconi´s pals. That is modern Italy. In Spain the media has passed comment on the occupation by "a hundred" pacifists of the old Council "hacienda" building. The estimates that are being pitched and ignored are all now statistics for deomgraphic and democratic/social study. That is wonderful for the post-graduates of today and so they ought be very happy. Get writing your essays. The shares of numerous corporations in the entertainment sector are well chuffed too with the level of film sales and such like. Everyone has memories and is probably printing ´em up now. The lovely people in Belgium have provided the above links and numbers but you will observe that many were "a-priori" quite right bit of overestimating there Belgium! But the Belge are playing a nice game with court actions at the moment. I shall write 2mrw of the Kingdom of Belgium.
means exactly what it means.
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