December 17, 2004 at 5:31 am
· Filed under smart arse, shadow boxing
Date: Fri Dec 17 10:47:58 2004
lectures
Hi all,
I am not sure if people have seen this but as part of the Federation
Festival next month a number of international and national speakers will
bee in Melbourne talking about topics as broad as globalisation,
e-democracy and IT innovation. Some of the speakers include Edward Said,
Amartya Sen, and Susan Greenfield.
Some of the more relevant sessions for individuals from this list may
include the session on globalisation and the session on e*democracy and IT
innovation. Perhaps people could go to these sessions and be “democratic”
and “innovative” and introduce the speakers to more immediate and
challenging forms of democracy.
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December 11, 2004 at 5:18 pm
· Filed under battler, bored, aggressive, beligerant, depressed, attack, delusion, flame, corporate
Date: Fri Dec 17 10:48:11 2004
CHOGM
Hi all,
I don’t know if I am missing something here, if the corporate media sphere
has fried my brain, but here are some of the democratically elected
governments that will attend CHOGM in Brisbane.
Bangladesh (I think the world’s poorest country)
Swaziland
Tuvalu
Tonga
Ghuna
Fiji
Lesotho
CHOGM has only 4 developed countries (5 if you count New Zealand 
out of
its 53 members.
I note that on the http://www.stopchogm.org/workers.htm Stop CHOGM web
site, that it says that CHOGM is “no different than the WEF or the WTO?” Am
I missing something here, how are they the same? I think that something
else looks mysteriously the same here (baaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr) Sorry,
I am more interested in what the elected government of Tonga has to say
about the world than
some Australian radicals.
I wonder, since when has being misinformed been radical? And what is
British Imperialism, sorry what Century are we in?
My grandmother from Lesotho is going to be at the meeting, talking about
the good old days in 1907 when she could spank naughty boys and girls on
the bottom for targeting the wrong people. CHOGM is one of the very
institutions that is and can be used to manage globalisation. Is the truth
too hard to engage with, or now we have ’self-publishing’ we are so much
better informed?
have a fine day old Chaps,
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