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3 February 2004

Quote of the day

I noticed that 244 devout Muslims were killed in a stampede while on Hadj. [...]

One thing is for sure: the CIA probably caused it. We know they sent secret messages to all the Texans on the Hadj, so that none of them were killed. We know this because no Texans were among the dead, and because a grad student in Brazil told us so.

- Al Maviva
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Damian Penny on the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza:

There is no strategic reason why Israel should be building settlements in Gaza, and considering the resources put into maintaining them, I think Israel is doing the right thing. But if the Israelis think this will somehow turn international public opinion in their favor, they're sadly mistaken. Pulling out of Lebanon didn't help them - to Arabs (and the likes of Robert Fisk) the "legacy of Israeli occupation" is responsible for all of Lebanon's problems, and pay no attention to a civil war which raged for 7 years before the IDF showed up. Or the current Syrian occupation. Or the fact that southern Lebanon has been turned into a de facto Hazbollah statelet.

Israel could pull out of Gaza, and nothing will change. They can retreat to the 1967 borders altogether, and nothing will change. The Arabs want Israel destroyed, period - and most of the world really couldn't care less.

Indeed.
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Our favourite animated cadaver is reporting from the World Commie Forum in India.

Maybe the six week break between these entries was as much of a relief to you as it was to me. How sick I was in December at the sound of my impotent fury.

He reports on the exciting events:

For five days 100,000 delegates from all over the world crammed into vast, dusty exhibition grounds on the outskirts of Bombay, united in the dream that Another World is Possible.

Oh thank God these guys are on the case. I was getting so sick of modernity.

It was a non stop festival of singing, dancing and street theatre, with no Big Brother or revolutionary elite, no corporate sponsors, no imposed vision. In the thick of the crowds for several days I didn’t witness a single act of drunkenness or bad behaviour, (apart from two dreadlocked media reps), not even when delegates turned back the delivery trucks from Coca Cola.

Sweet jesus, I'd hate to get stuck in an elevator with this lot. You'd spend two hours discussing Lima Beans.

It was a riot of free speech and feisty debate.

Hey, sounds like Australia or something.

There was even a revolution against the revolutionaries, instigated by an aggrieved phalanx of the disabled: “Look us in the eyes”raed the banners.

"raed"?

Most of all, this was a solution-seeking celebration of ideas, of grass roots aspirations, and a living, breathing demonstration of the massive, multi-cultural yearning to turn the future into a friend, instead of a concentration camp.

Except you're not protesting against countries which actually have concentration camps.

This hasty report cannot do justice to the array of provocations lurking within the hundreds of seminar tents, many of which could be regarded as “weak signals” of oncoming issues of significance. Water, water everywhere, so much of it privatised, re-branded and being pushed upmarket by multinationals, who shut off the “blue gold” when payment is late.

Richard prefers people to die of thirst. It's authentic.

The sovereignty of citizens over natural resources, food, plants, DNA and even the building blocks of matter is slipping away.

What the....

Oh, and you must read his next paragraph, which I'll not paste here. It's about poison skin creams being sold by the Pentagon.

You just can't make this shit up.

Richard's finale is the usual we're-going-to-die gloomism:

Deep down I realise the forum will not change the world in a flash, that the gap between rich and poor is widening.....

Never mind that there are less poor, and many of them are getting wealthier.

....that sooner or later we are all stuck behind the sink with a mortgage, watching friends being carted off to chemotherapy....

Neville is horrified by home ownership and modern medicine. Does this man have even the slightest shred of sanity left?

....sighing as comrades are cajoled by a cynical media into fussing over the contours of Nicole Kidman’s lips, or is it her hips, turning our backs on our past, settling for the shopping religion, reeling from gadget envy …. no longer bemused by the wrinkled ex dope dealer’s offers of bulk Viagra & Prozac , no longer amazed by promotions of IBIZA HIPPIE CHIC the new perfume by ESCADA “ happy, wild, crazy, energetic, excessive, trendy”. And meaningless. We’ve lost the Balearic isles, we’ve lost Byron Bay. Can Brave New World be far behind?

Not if the World Social Forum can help it.

So, they're going to: stop the spread of drinkable water in the third world, prevent people from wearing sun cream, ban home ownership and cancer treatments. Not quite sure what the point of this is, but you can bet the explanation contains the words America, NeoCons, Israel, McDonalds and vegetables.

Richard Neville - humanitarian.
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