The sunday Review/Preview/View the sunday papers.

Sunday September 14, 2003 22:52

by the way.

just like you get on the street. (incoporating the Rival sunday Review/Preview/View the sunday paper

It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking back at “topical issues” including September 11.

Dangerous places of which we shall never pretend there are not many :
Falluja is fast being recognised as one of the most dangerous points in Iraq for US soldiers. Only At 0800 (midnight EDT) this morning in Falluja, a vehicle convoy hit an IED (improvised explosive device)... one U.S. soldier was killed. There are Irish people in Iraq and one Caoimhe (pronounced kwee’vah) has previously sent accounts of the conditions in Falluja moving consideration of humanity. See the work of one half of that humanity:
http://www.peacewomen.org/resources/newvoices/OWFI.html
Equally we must always remember that there Iraqis in Ireland and increasingly their voices are being heard and their stories finding space.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61091

Famous People: Yassar Arafat is still alive and appears to be well, it It would be a pity if you recognise his face and have forgotten to find out why he has been on TV since the days of black and white. How much do you know about “the man behind the scarves”? The sunday Review/Preview/View recommends http://www.ungoogle.com

Sensible Saving Options: The residents of Fingal are doing very well. They are continuing a campaign to stop the unfair extensión of municipal taxation which shall without doubt have serious implications for the environment, fortunes of many, and the continuing problems afflicting Future trading and perhaps Ireland’s internacional image as the Celtic Tiger.

Sport: Autumn begins and most workers especially parents are in debt. More employers are liquidated, globally crops are ruined and balls are still getting kicked. Pretty young Hungarian Zsazsana (17) has won the Miss Europe title and promises to work for world peace and global justice whilst finishing her university thesis.

Interesting Facts:
The rich live longer than you do.
The poor live shorter than you do.

Topical Issues.
As we all noticed by an odd twist of phonomic resonance this week say a Korean Farmer mr Lee Kyong-hae commited self-sacrifice in protest at the WTO meeting in Cancún http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61057 whilst Mr Tommy Chong of the FBIstooge movies of the 1970s got charged with the corruption youth by being an example of the American dream.

IT. Can you protect your computer from virases or spam?

Mr Monbiot is coming to Belfast. What would you hear if you paid the eight pounds less fifty pence to attend his monster meeting? Would it be better than buying a copy of The Guardian? Would it buy you a cream pie. (please note that cream pie is a figurative term, a paper plate and lots of aerosol cream or shaving foam Works quite well and do remember to be gentle, the man isn’t a monster and noses are very sensitive) and all the people there will be really nice and are easily shocked.

The living section.
-Used to be called lifestyle
-before that it was called Women’s page
There is currently a vacancy for some decent living contributions.
Normal conditions will apply

Holidays: The assemblea de Okupes of Barcelona have convened a three day seminar highlighting the issues effecting European occupation, open and free spaces and a demonstration against the eviction of the oldest of those spaces in BCN against the backdrop of property speculation which has seen the cost of property increase by 125% in six years. They have issued an invitation to all to attend or support with information, ideas, diplomatic pressure, boycotts. UN resolutions, full page newspaper advertisements and of course lighting candles.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/09/277500.html

Horoscope: How did you ever think, when you were so gullible? You need to be more assertive but don’t forget to always have that conciliatory side when its needed. The figure $ or it’s equivalent will feature strongly this week.

Media supplement:-
All the brain rotting TV drama series and comedy shows you saw on British channels whilst growing up are dubbed and broadcast throughout Europe.
including Yes Minister.

Health:-
In the last 2 weeks sufferers of MS, cancer and chronic artritis were allowed by law to be given Cannabis on prescription in the Netherlands after extenisve medical research and lobbying had satisfied the Dutch Authorities.

Problem page.
Many people wrote in with their worries, rest assured none of you are alone in your plight. Try talking to trusted loved ones or getting to know your neighbours by name. Never be afraid of admitting how stupid you can be. If you’re rude say sorry. If you drink or take drugs don’t drive. If you use a mobile phone, TV, or microwave try and maintain at least three metres distance from your internal organs at all times. If you cross the road look both ways. If you’re in a shop check your change before you leave. If you’re on the telephone try smiling before you call strangers. If you goto the toilet wash your hands afterwards. If you wash your feet regularly they’ll last a lifetime.
If you pick your nose make sure your fingernails are clean. If you go out in the Sun be careful of UVA. If you get caught in the rain wash it off. If you see shellfish near Dublín on the beach don’t eat them. If you notice a dolphin take it seriously.

Editorial.
This week the editorial team of the sunday Review/Preview/View the sunday papers have allocated space to an Irishman abroad and his diary in the traditional pompous tone of "irishmen's diaries". [oh the poor legacy of Gagesby]

{“In the brief time since I arrived as guest, friend, worker, and sometime ideological refugee in the city where I live and its country, I have learnt that any society that has sustained for almost half the length of it’s democracy a world recognised network of reclaimed liberated space has demonstrably developed a distinct approach to its problems. And that such a network has extended the expression of those problems to not only the citizens of this city but the world at large. It is my understanding as a European that contemporary global cities are of several types. But only one type is to be found in the European Union, that where the regional state maintains urban order by the continuation of an urban state. Whose existance is guaranteed by varying apparata of both state and extra-state nature. Not alone in the apparata of the urban state but significant to my understanding of this city at the current point in it’s relation to other urban states of Europe, are Municipal Authority, Police and economic changes imposed by Superstate market forces. Too often the liberated spaces of community centres, squatted homes, social centres reclaimed from the city have not been thought of as the prisons of the poor and marginalised not as the departure lounges of liberation,self-sustainability, creativity, self-esteem all of which trace lines of escape from the misery being imposed from without. Yet no liberated space before or alter eviction has ever been reduced to Four walls, mortar and plaster. “it is an error to think of squats there are only those who squat”, & yet more beside those who value their role. The distinct approach to the problems of this city which have been informed by it’s peoples interaction with its liberated spaces appears to me to have served the greater good and identity of all.
maybe that observation is too honest for the future envisioned by some to whom power is ascribed in this city.
They who would send it to the four walls.
They who would rather build urban regeneration masked as a world forum on peace.
They who accepted sponsership from an arms manufacturer to promote peace. They who allow a brewer to sponser appeals for world understanding. They who allow the exploitors of sweatshops to sponser debate on sustainability.

I may be a guest, a friend, a sometime ideological refugee, a fellow European and as such my words be considered insulting to some but with respect, the values which are equally esteemed in this city as the world are attacked and undermined by such hypocrisy and it is my duty as a citizen of the wider global community to write as I do.
I beleive It would be a great mistake for the future of this city’s people, their value of self-sustainablity, their respect for the silenced dissenting voices of its past if they do not attend, assist or support the campaign to fight the sustained attack on occupied social centres, squatted homes, and liberated spaces.”}
Also Published as “an excerpt of the permenant record of iosaf, the silly young Mr O’as if".

Competition.
Three occupation symbol lapel pins made from recycled steel are to be won in this week’s sunday Review/Preview/View. To enter the competition just write a 1000 word essay on the need for occupation. You will need to be over 18 years of age. Send your completed essays to any print or radio outlet. Relatives of the Indymedia network are excluded from the competition. Employees of multi-national-corporations are likewise excluded. Judge’s decisión is final. Winner to be announced March 2004. Bribes may be considered.

The sunday Review/Preview/View strives to be a _transparent_ concern and accordingly all emails and letters into and out of the office are available to peruse on the internet.
Link to last week’s edition:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60983

You know who to do.