Re: Ten Theses on the Panama Papers
§I like these points (yours I guess? As you could have got them form someone-else by a simple cut & paste) On 5 Apr 2016, at 15:17, Patrice Riemens wrote: 7. Leaks have become unquestionable. With earlier disclosures, the authenticity of documents leaked could always be credibly disputed. Nowadays the authenticity of materials obtained thru electronic leaks, due to its sheer magnitude and the one to one nature of a digital reproduction, is much more difficult to question. Hence my disagreement with point 7. There are - in my view - as many options to fake, as there are to scrutinise the origin of digital data... The old adagios of 'theft' of ideas or identity hold. When I was reading awhile ago Valentin Groebner. Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe. New York: Zone Books, 2007. 349 pp. the pleasure of it was of course how well situations from a far away past could be imagined in our present. Especially where there is a bulk of data, one could slip in easy say 5% of fake documents... which would really hurt someone who is publicly exposed as part of a data set that for 95% is true. This is in itself an example how of why I do not agree with your "unquestionable" leak idea. For the rest of the point... I like them. tjebbe # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: nettime a graceful exit
that involved over one thousand of police troops with all kinds of gear)... militancy had been on the order of the day... and once the main confrontation was over we felt it was necessary to liquidate the structures that had grown in what in teh end was a real 'battle' (though Amsterdam style, nobody died in it). Nettime is of course an entity that I do not want to compare directly with what is described before... still the circumstances of it coming into existence do have changed and waht was 'tactical media' for a cause that felt to be worthwhile at that time - twenty years ago - has long be recuperated by now. Nettime needs to move from 'the actual' to 'the historical'. When we compare one of the triggering events in 1990 - the amateur video captured of a police beat-up of a black man, Rodney King in Los Angeles, that reached a national and international audience through distribution over the internet and mirrored in main stream media as well - with the interplay of 'social media' and 'mainstream media' like recently in Baltimore building up into a revolt against another police aggression against blacks, the idea of 'tactical media' as expressed during a series of conferences under the name Next 5 Minutes, do no longer apply. [see my rendering of the Baltimore revolt: iPHONE AGE iSTONE AGE phone stone as tactical media from 1965 Watts to Baltimore Rebellion 2015 https://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213@N04/17093712617/ ] In my view the 'old style' newsgroup format of nettime that has been kept strictly over twenty years, banning all direct use of images and other media to be included in messages and debates, have been both a power of simplicity and a weakness that gave too much value to textual arguments (fitting very well in the academia exercise to write about images without showing them]. There was is a limit to ekphrasis (from the Greek description of a work of art, possibly imaginary, produced as a rhetorical exercise). As for the future of a well appreciated circle of communicators, please do make several archives, that rest a several digital deposit sites. It is because of the diaspora of information carrier and not because of their centralisation that the information they carry has survived. This is even more so for the versatile but most fragile form of information carriers that reside only on digital carriers. How could we thank Ted Byfield and Felix Stadler for their dedication during so many years? To keep it available for all of use who engaged in it and for next generation who might be willing at some odd moment in time to peruse the stream of tactical nettime messages left behind. If I can be of service to make that real... please feel free and contact me Tjebbe van Tijen 7/5/2015 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime From Deng Thatcher 1984 to the Hong Kong 2014 OCCUPY CENTRAL movement: winning something by loosing
From Deng Thatcher 1984 to the Hong Kong 2014 OCCUPY CENTRAL movement: winning something by loosing the illustrated version can be found on my Flickr web page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213@N04/15249240100/ TWO SYSTEMS ONE COUNTRY FREEDOM FOR BIG BUSINESS YES FREEDOM FOR CITIZENS NO... ...that was and will remain the basic recipe of the People's Republic of China, since the rise of Deng XiaoPing in the mid seventies did put China on a two rail track: combining market economy with state socialism. It was Deng who ceremonially struck the deal with Margaret Thatcher in 1984 to be given back in 1997 what had grown over a century into a colonial crown jewel: Hong Kong. (1) Another 'double dealing' was agreed upon then: 'one country two systems', promising Hong Kong population something - in the future - their British overlords had not been able to provide them with in all the years they could have done so: 'universal suffrage'. It comes as no surprise that a state - formally - unified under a one party system failed to supply the citizens of Hong Kong was an undiluted suffrage system for Hong Kong. Hence the 2017 proposed election system for a city-adminstration-leader, from appointed candidates by the PRC only. What the Brits left behind in 1997, though, was a juridical system that - compared to that of the PRC - was reasonably independent, one could say that the successful 'freedom of trade' of Hong Kong was very much dependent on such a 'rule of law' system, as capitalist big business needs the assurance of a set of rules independent from a single party power government to prosper. 'Rule of law' did not only benefit big business, but also functioned as social leveller for the less affluent citizens of Hong Kong, because a successful economy is only hampered by too blatant social unequally in its direct realm. After a week or so of large demonstrations by Hong Kong citizens against the paternalistic system of voting for a new chief-city-administrator in 2017, the voice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Peoples Republic of China has uttered a commentary, which should be read as 'a decree': Firmly safeguard the rule of law in Hong Kong. The article launches a warning to he peaceful HK demonstrators: These acts will undoubtedly end up with the rule of law violated, severely disrupted social orders, huge economic losses and possible casualties. Reference: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/1004/c90785-8790857.html 'Possible casualties' is a way of saying that a hard hand will come down on demonstrators who dare to go any further. The article is cleverly formulated by schooled party ideologues and so it turns the main argument of HK democracy demonstrators against them, as it is not the Chinese state that violates rule of law promise of universal suffrage made to Hong Kong, it is the Hong Kong demonstrators who are violating it. The defamation campaign in local newspapers (readers comments often anonymous) (2) and the pro China counter-demonstrations and delivered bruisings to young students (3), was the overture for the Chinese Opera that will be put on stage in the coming days. The demonstrators are declared a minority and thus the ground is prepared to get them out of the way: A democratic society should respect the opinions of the minorities, but it doesn't mean those minorities have the right to resort to illegal means. There are 7 million Hong Kong inhabitants, and even when there were one million protesters out in the streets, the far way rulers in Beijing can declare them 'a minority'. It seems an easy game for the Chinese rulers, as the state is always 'legal' and using force against 'illegal actions' is what a state is supposed to do. This is formulated in the opening of the Peoples Daily article: Democracy and the rule of law are interdependent, and a democracy without the rule of law will only bring havoc. There is of course a deep oddity in the demands of the movement for democracy in Hong Kong, as its main aim was the right to choose their own leader. One can distinguish between a social movement and its own inner dynamics from the formal demands it makes. The show of ability for self-organisation of the people that have massed the streets of Hong Kong these last days, is an achievement in itself and does even overshadow the somewhat meek demand to be able to vote for someone who will then have a mandate to rule you. This is a simplified argument, but necessary to get some understanding of what is won and may be lost in the Occupy Central movement. A real choice of a new 'leader/administrator' for Hong Kong, necessitates a platform or party with a set of principles and practical proposals and the figure head to be voted for is supposed to attempt to put these into practice. Anybody living in a parliamentary democracy knows the limits and shortcomings of this social construction. Less so -
Re: nettime meanwhile in Hungary
Janos that is an awful lot of detailed information on the electoral system changes practices in HUngary in these two simple links. The details - necessary as they are - swallow up an outsider without enough focus on the Magyar Dystopia of the 21st century. Did I miss your own comment on all this? Or would you be able to formulate it with this detailed information just as a reference? I do have odd memories of the political landscape of Hungary in the mid eighties of last century and the dismay of seeing people I licked at that time drifting into ultra-right/nationalistic directions (Inconnu group among others). In a way all those numbers and the concept of a super majority made me think back to a book of Miklos Haraztsy Opposition = 0,1 pour-cent. Extraits du samizdat hongrois présentés par Miklós Haraszti. Traduit du Hongrois et préf. par Georges Aranyossy (Edition du Seuil 1979). I have it at home. Remember meeting him in Budpaest and being introduced to the circle of dissidents around Krasó György by Haraszti. Krasso having house-arrest at that time. Now the cynical opposition 0,1 % in the title of that book seems to come into view of what is a parliamentary democracy (however manipulative it's functioning, and politics without manipulation do not exist). Orbán and the Fidesz party have been watched over in their cradle by Haraszti Miklos and looking around I spotted an article by Haraszti The real Viktor Orbán published in OpenDemocracy in 200, where he hails the elections of that year that did send Orbán back to a role of opposition and wonder (also) how the actual state of affairs is seen by him. As for the Hungarian diaspora of 1956 and their part in the recent voting... that seems logic when one looks into the forces that were revolting against party communist rule in 1956. One sees there a whole spectre of ideologies and practices under the banner of freedom (as there was a common enemy to be fought), with several rooting in a not so far away reactionary past of the Horthy regime. In the year 2005/2006 I did a study of many of the Hungarian exile communities and it was often hard to stomach their racist and ultra nationalist viewpoints. Is it not so that in Hungary the process of coming to grip with its own past has been neglected? The simplifications as expressed in the representation of history as in the House of Terror are an expression of the dichotomy of freedom versus communist repression... It suffices to reas some documents on the 'white terror' of the Horthy regime already published in the twenties of last century and his actual rehabiliation, to know what is to be done. Tjebbe van Tijen = On 13 Jun 2014, at 12:11, Janos Sugar wrote: Hungary and the End of Politics Kim Lane Scheppele ... Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects dramatising historical information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ Flickr: Swift News Tableaus by Tjebbe van Tijen http://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213@N04/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime To-morrow the Minitel! (!)
Thank you Robert Adrian for your remarks, you focus on art-projects using telecom... which was not my intend. Also we have forgotten here to mention the FIDO (dial-up network) which was fully alive and had some kind of a global span at that time. The bottom up node system may be an inspiration for independent data-communication in our times, by combining it with short wave radio. You may like to check out this article: AIRLIFT YOUR DATA: alternatives for a blockaded internet January 26, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/airlift-your-data-alternatives-for-a-blockaded-internet/ You say Who, in the early 80s, could have predicted the coming Internet Tsunami? One can say that even at the end of the 19th century there were plenty of phantasies about instant world wide data communication, inspired by the early telephone like in the famous book/drawings of Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique (1890) by Albert Robida... which even shows a videophone projection of a gentleman in Europe watching a reportage - live cast - of the Boxer rebellion in China from his feauteuil. I would say 'prediction' of future technology has been with us, human kind, from the beginning. My favourite book on this is: Wilkins, John, and Brigitte Asbach-Schnitker. 1984. (first published in 1641) Mercury, or, The secret and swift messenger shewing how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance ; together with An abstract of Dr. Wilkins's essays towards a real character and a philosophical language. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Pub. Co. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10513352. Which is now even available as an ebook... (not yet pirated as far as I can see) but there is a digital facsimile at archive.org based on a microfilm... enjoyable media-history! https://ia601202.us.archive.org/28/items/gu_mercuryorthes00wilk/gu_mercuryorthes00wilk.pdf Here ideas for the future are based on on references to a past as understood from what by then had already been established as a canon of references, the 'classical past'. The book is more often noted for cryptography and artificial languages, but it serves a study of media-history/tele-communications as well. Ideas about the relation between 'medium' and 'message' have also been understood way before the popularity of Marshall McLuhan. Like in the book of Comenius Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart dated 1631 in which there is a humorous description of the way the carriers of the latest news should be understood: XXII The Pilgrim Finds Himself among the Newsmongers http://babel.mml.ox.ac.uk/naughton/labyrint/labyrinth_frame.html I know these are derivations, but they serve a purpose as it is a pledge to have a wider view on communication technology beyond the specifics of technical contraptions. Tjebbe On 10 Jun 2014, at 02:58, rax wrote: Since we are in old-timer mode, here are a few additional remarks about the pre-historic media world of the 80s ... Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects dramatising historical information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ Flickr: Swift News Tableaus by Tjebbe van Tijen http://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213@N04/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime TakeOver.app / BEYOND SIMULATION a post Flight MH370 no more pilots passenger application
TakeOver.app / BEYOND SIMULATION when passengers pass from the virtual into the real a safety .app for when the pilots are not anymore in control - this is a text belonging to a tableau picture that can be found at https://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213@N04/13714352273/ It seems 'a bad joke' but one can also think it as an airplane safety option in the future. Think back art all those airplane disaster movies, whereby a non-pilot, or someone who knows a tiny bit about airplanes is guided over the radio to land a plane full of panicking passengers, hard but safe in the end. With the sophisticated interactive software of our time and many people using it just for fun in gaming or dedicated simulation systems, one could imagine such a contraption as a last resort solution. The mere thought also makes us ponder over how 'the real' the so called 'virtual' relate in our times which we wrongly perceive as an area of 'absolute control'. Though... we can not even think such an option, as immediately one imagines any terrorist breaking into such a system. Still with the 'precise attacks' by remote controlled airplanes, drones, being a daily reality one keeps thinking if such switching from the 'virtual' to the 'real' could be thought in a positive way also. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT 2014: Don't feed the doves as long as the eagles of war still have their nuclear nests in the Netherlands
Palace in 1913, the First World War broke out. http://www.vredespaleis.nl/index.php?tl=1 (3) See my news-tableaus on the subject: - 18/9/2013: 2013 Dutch JSF Decision? It is just an old secret deal! After decades Parliament outmaneuvered by Spin Doctors Lobbyists http://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213@N04/9801217683 - 17/9/2013: STRAALJAGER POLITIEK: Nederland Sterker Socialer door het breken van verkiezingsbeloften steun aan de oorlogsindustrie en NAVO-koloniale Atoomwapen-avonturen http://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213@N04/9783881013/ (4) Netherlands and weapons of mass destruction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction (5) One constant good source on European involvement in American nuclear weapons is Hans M. Kristens: After a US Air Force Blue Ribbon Review in 2008 discovered that ?most? U.S. nuclear weapons sites in Europe did not meet U.S. security requirements, the Dutch government denied there were security problems. Yet more than $63 million of the over $80 million spent on improving security since 2000 were spent in 2011-2012 ? apparently in response to the Blue Ribbon Review findings and other issues. The additional $154 million suggests that the upgrades in 2011-2012 did not fix all the security issues at the European nuclear bases. (6) Nuclear sharing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_sharing (7) On the tower of the Congress Building in The Hague a huge banner has been hung with a pure decorative euphemistic design, as can be seen in this photograph on Flickr: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3759/12904685034_a638cbbe7b_o.jpg --- Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects dramatising historical information http://imaginarymuseum.org Flickr: Swift News Tableaus by Tjebbe van Tijen http://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213@N04/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime ARTIST WITH BALLS ON RED SQUARE: an attempt at understanding the self-mutilation protest of Pyotr Pavlensky
) but good version of a video registration, without initial advertisement and so on. One has to click first to agree not to be younger than 18 years. This is the caption: Guy nails his scrotum to the ground as protest against police brutality Artist Peter Pavlensky nailed his testicles to a nail on the cobblestones of Red Square, the correspondent of Fringe.The action is timed to the Day of Police, which is celebrated on November 10. The action began at 13:00. Around 14:30 the artist was taken by ambulance to the First City Hospital. After going to the hospital to deliver him to the police station, China Town. In a statement about the artist's action, called Freeze, it is noted that it can be regarded as a metaphor of apathy and political indifference and fatalism of the modern Russian society. Pavlensky known for other high-profile protests. May 3 this year, he went to the building of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg naked and wrapped with barbed wire. Campaign Carcass symbolized man's existence in a repressive legal system, where any movement causes severe reaction of the law, bites into the body of an individual. In July last year Pavlensky held a rally in support of prisoners participating Pussy Riot. He sewed his mouth and stood at the Kazan Cathedral with a placard Speech Pussy Riot has been famous action replay of Jesus Christ (mf.21 :12-13).http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=777_1384084283; (2) Anne Applebaum cites Anatoly Marchenko's book MY Testimony (trad. Michael Scammel, London, 1969). I see that the eBook edition (what a shame does have neither page numbers nor foot- or end notes, so I can not give here the right page number.) Let me give at least a link to worldcat.org, as many libraries in the world do stock this book in one of the many editions that exist.http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16922410 Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects dramatising historical information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ Flickr: Swift News Tableaus by Tjebbe van Tijen http://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213@N04/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime BILDERBERG 2013: 100% privacy 100% security 100% convenience YES SOME CAN HAVE IT
Apart from the regular conspiracy reactions to the Bilderberg Conferences (a tradition that exists even longer in the Netherlands because the Prince/business-man of the House of Orange, Bernard has been its founder) there is the aspect of the difference between privacy, security and convenience for the elites and the masses. That is what this picture alludes to first of all... http://flic.kr/p/eH5ZeN Tjebbe van TIjen No snooping on the 134 Bilderberg participants in the neatly sealed of premises of the Grove Hotel - former home of the Earls of Clarendon - near the British village of Watford, not far from London. Three days of seclusion from June 7th onward a forum for informal, off-the-record discussions about megatrends and the major issues facing the world. No intrusive cameras. No journalists. No declarations afterward. No demonstrators, as the hotel area and it's surroundings are placed under a restricted access order. 100% privacy, 100% security and 100% convenience, yes it can be done (*) for some who are not part of the suspected masses that are put under constant automated surveillance by their states. (*) Paraphrase of the Obama speech of June 7th 2013 on the scandal of USA intelligence agency NSA mass snooping of citizens data communication and the sharing of this surveillance data with their British counterparts: “I think it’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience.” Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects dramatising historical information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ Flickr: Swift News Tableaus by Tjebbe van Tijen http://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213@N04/sets/72157630468570982/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime LEADERS DIE - the past does not last - ultimos momentos del librador from Bolivar to Chavez the process of beatification has begun
, that obsservers: After the scientist heading the 3D image project explained on Tuesday how it had been created using multiple scans and the latest forensic facial reconstruction methods, Chavez said Venezuelans were jubilant to see Bolivar's “real face” at last. a href=http://www.tehrantimes.com/world/99980-chavez-unveilsnsimon-bolivarsnreconstructed-3-d-image-; rel=nofollo.tehrantimes.com/world/99980-chavez-unveilsnsimon-boli.../a (4) Chavez unveils Simon Bolivar's reconstructed 3-D face Bolivar is the hero of independence in Venezuela and five other countries Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has unveiled a 3-D reconstruction of the face of Simon Bolivar, who died in 1830 after leading the fight against Spanish colonial rule in the region. The computer-generated image was created by artists studying Bolivar's remains. It looks remarkably like known portraits of the South American liberation hero. Two years ago Mr Chavez ordered that the remains should be exhumed. Bolivar was widely thought to have died from tuberculosis aged 47. But the Venezuelan president had a theory that Bolivar had been poisoned in revenge for his fight against the Spanish empire. Forensic tests were inconclusive. a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18977143; rel=nofollo.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18977143/a (5) Simón Bolívar's new tomb is monument to Hugo Chávez, say critics (...) More than 180 years after his death, the independence hero Simón Bolívar will be given an ostentatious and controversial new resting place in Venezuela thanks to his most famous modern-day follower, Hugo Chávez. The Venezuelan president has commissioned a £90m, white-tiled and domed mausoleum in Caracas to pay homage to his political inspiration, the nation's founding father. a href=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/21/bolivar-tomb-chavez; rel=nofollo.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/21/bolivar-tomb-chavez/a (6) SON FALSAS LAS FOTOS DE CHAVEZ, SON UN MONTAJE, NO PODRÁN CONTENER LA VERDAD POR MUCHO TIEMPO a href=http://www.taringa.net/posts/imagenes/16391181/El-Montaje-Fotos-Chavez.html; rel=nofollo.taringa.net/posts/imagenes/16391181/El-Montaje-Fotos-.../a Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects dramatising historical information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ Flickr: Swift News Tableaus by Tjebbe van Tijen http://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213@N04/sets/72157630468570982/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Hurricane Sandy and Human Encroachment on the Waterfront as a real estate crime
News Tableau posted today on my Flickr page http://flic.kr/p/dqQVHT Hurricane Sandy and Human Encroachment on the Waterfront as a real estate crime HURRICANE SANDY AND HUMAN ENCROACHMENT on the water front of rivers and oceans... The text below (*) is from a real estate agency selling off the last meters of a what was once a stretch of beach and dunes, centuries ago a place for hunters and whalers. Multi million dollar mansions are now crowding within the direct reach of what is a vast ocean with powers beyond any property deal and counter measures with heaping up a bit of sand with a few bulldozers. The richer class urge for closeness to beach and sea, swallowing up most of the beach in the process, should be critically viewed when there is moaning about human suffering and damage because of a hurricane. The picture explains the actual urbanised ocean front situation. There is no shortage of reasons for why Long Beach Island is one of the most prestigious and desirable areas to live in along the northeast shore of the US. This beach front community family vacation spot is just a short drive from Manhattan, and has ocean front properties, gorgeous beaches and outstanding shopping for residents to enjoy all year long. This 18 mile long island is located on an island off of the coast of Ocean County NJ yet is close enough to Philadelphia (1 hour) and New York City (1.5 Hours) that commuting to either city is a breeze. (*) Source of this example of real estate vision is taken from: www.dealwithrealtor.com/ -- All 168 News Tableaus (as on 5/11/2012) can be found at this address http://flic.kr/s/aHsjAuj1xh Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime CATALAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT is a belated form of nationalism and a denial of what the economic crisis is about
CATALAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT is a state of denial of what produced the economic crisis. Eager nationalist who will ride on the social discontent to just impose yet another exploitative class... as if Catalan banks and eager speculators and so on were not involved ... it will bring turmoil and has - historical speaking - a lot of reactionary effects that could lead to an Iberian Civil War, as ugly as the Yugoslavian one. When Catalonia breaks off, you may imagine what the Basques will do and what violence they have in stock. Sheer mass-stupidty in my opinion. There is plenty of regional autonomy in the Spanish federal like monarchy. They better get rid of the institution of the Franco imposed king and make finally a real (confederate) Spanish Republic. Belated 21st century nationalism has nothing good in stock for any future. Let 'nationality' be first of all and last of all 'a cultural identity' ... Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Rodney King the Dutch way... PURE DENIAL
Rodney King the Dutch way... PURE DENIAL ... or in other words believe the police and not what has been filmed by a passerby through the yes of his phone camera. A video witness movie put on the Internet about two Rotterdam police functionaries doing an arrest of what had now come to be knows as a non-aggressive drunken man from Letland, was shown last week on television. People trusting their own experienced eyes of knowing how the arrest of a non-agressive drunk should look like, felt this to be the non-professional way of doing such a thing. Also the trained eyes - we assume - of the editorial board of Dutch National television (NOS Journaal) thought so and they did broadcast theYouTube witness movie, A Rodney King incident in the style of the 3 March 1991 beating up of a black man beaten up by Los Angelus police, an event by chance captured on video by someone with an amateur video camera, and subsequently broadcasted on public television. The video can be watched at this URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWBRCB4HkXY The Dutch way is that the whole affair is in process to be smoldered and extinguished by Dutch police and justice authorities, who do carry such a strong feeling, that anything they do must be right, and even more so because it concerns a non-Dutch so called East European and on top of that 'a drunken man', that they simply close their eyes to what can be seen on the video and state that the whole procedure was correct. In de doofpot stoppen we call that in Dutch, it translates formerly as hush up a thing but the Dutch metaphor is more material and points back to the time of the use of small pieces of coal for heating contraptions that would keep your feet warm in winter. As coal does not 'switch off; when you do not need it any more, there was the invention of an extinguisher of burning coal: a metal pot with a lit that fitted so well that no fresh oxygen would reach the piece of burning coal, resulting in it being extinguished. In - now - historical cartoons one sees often a depiction of the 'doofpot' to illustrate a political 'cover-up'. The authoritarian nature of Dutch society - often not recognised as such - with a press that does little counter-play when it comes to such blunt denials of given facts, has once more been proven. Recently the formal head of the local police of Amsterdam, the mayor of the town Van der Laan, had the courage to comment on a series of mobile phone movies, showing a group of policemen (and women) beating along into a non-resistant trained group of squatters, had the courage and wits to say on television this does not look good and adding that he would have had the case researched. It was an exception that proves the rule, I have to say with regret. Police, Rotterdam mayor and a Justice spokes-woman have tried to throw lots of sand in our eyes, speaking about an incomplete documentation and that without what happened before one could not judge what can be seen on the video. Another bystander, the girlfriend of the man who was taking the video was quoted by them as having said that the man before the violent arrest was behaving aggressive. In a later reaction that same lady said that the authorities had twisted her words and she also has taken contact with newspapers to have her words corrected in that way. See this link (in Dutch) about her views: http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3277405/ 2012/06/26/Dronken-Let-was-niet-agressief.dhtml#.T-nxqnTjF9Q.facebook A nice example of the Dutch 'doofpot' metaphor can be found on this independent critical media web site: http://www.argusoog.org/spotprent-vd-week-wk15-?-doofpot/ Tjebbe van Tijen 26/6/2012 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Rodney King died, the man whose beating up in 1991 triggered this mailing list: Nettime
Rodney King died today under still unclear circumstances The man whose beating up by LA police was documented - by chance - by an amateur video camera user, which footage reached within a short time span, a local, national and international audience. It heralded the moment in which main stream media became a channel for local activist material. His case not only triggered a local and national uproar, but also a new ideology of what was soon to be called 'tactical media'. Grass root activism explained away by post-modern media theorists. It became a social movement with often more high brow theories than down to earth actions, with its first conference in Amsterdamin 1993: Next 5 Minutes. The - yet - unclear death of Rodney King, is a marker in time that challenges us to look back and see the same events with other eyes, now, almost twenty years later. Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and an unseen participant of the Thames flotilla
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and an unseen participant of the Thames flotilla June 3, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen The illustrated version with links is available at: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/queens-diamond-jubilee-and-an-unseen-participant-of-the-thames-flotilla/ [tableau of the swimmer activist in front of the big ship Queen Elizabeth] The unseen participant is Trenton Oldfiled who swam into the line of rowing boats during the yearly Oxford/Cambridge rowing competition on April the 7th this year and caused quiet a stir with his non-violent direct action. The Diamond Jubilee Flotilla of today would have been yet another excellent occasion for his daring protest swimming, but I failed to spot him in the live coverage by the BBC, yet in my mind’s eye I saw him courageously crossing the path of the ‘ship of state of the United Kingdom’… I am sure that Trenton Oldfiled has been put under special surveillance during this River Thames event preventing him from participating. Apart from waving and cheering, the audience at such events is supposed to be not involved in the action. [front page of Oxford Student magazine of the swimming activist intervention on April the 7th 2012 and their comment; they called him “a crazed Marxist”…] I had made – in the beginning of April thus year – a note of his personal web pages with his extensive somehow confused ‘manifesto’ “Elitism Leads To Tyranny” on the server of squarespace with the URL http://elitismleadstotyranny.squarespace.com/ , but his site had disappeared. If this is because of his own will or that of others, I can not tell. So, because I had neatly documented his ‘manifesto’ web blog (posted before his action on April the 7th 2012), I can reproduce the full text hereby for posterity. It does not mean that I do fully agree with his way of arguing, but as someone who has studied and documented ‘social movements and direct action’ for decades, I try to understand how someone choses a ‘social issue’, reasons his or her intervention, and what are the reactions. Trenton Oldfiled, worked in the tradition of the British ‘suffragette’ movement. The use of his own bare body as a weapon during an elite sport event, links to an historic action back in the year 1913 by the British suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who threw herself during a Derby attended by the King before the king’s horse, an action that toppled the horse and the jockey and hurt herself so much that she died of the wounds. “DEEDS NOT WORDS” was the slogan of that time of the militant fighters for equal rights of women. Trenton Oldfiled does make a direct reference to the historical – catastrophic – action by Emily Wilding Davidson, he fails – though – to make a good analysis of the different meanings of that action at that time (*) and links it in too few words with the practice of what he calls “anti-imperialism activists and guerrillas” and the sabotage survival tactics of ”trans-Atlantic slaves.” Nevertheless Trenton Oldfiled was on my mind today and others may have had similar associations seeing the royal pomp of the Brits and thinking about what social realities are hidden by such spectacles and how someone swimming in the pathway of a Royal Flotilla would have been a refreshing addition. That is why I choose this day to republish his somehow clumsy manifesto to honour the River Thames Swimmer Activist of the year 2012. [screen shot with sorry elitismleasdstotyranny blog is not available] --- start of quoted manifesto --- ELITISM LEADS TO TYRANNY THIS IS A PROTEST, AN ACT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, A METHODOLOGY OF REFUSING AND RESISTANCE. THIS ACT HAS EMPLOYED GUERRILLA TACTICS. I AM SWIMMING INTO THE BOATS IN THE HOPE I CAN STOP THEM FROM COMPLETING THE RACE AND PROPOSING THE RETURN OF SURPRISE TACTICS. THIS IS ‘PEACEFUL’ … I HAVE NO WEAPONS (DON’T SHOOT!) MY ONLY FEAR, IS NOT SWIMMING FAST ENOUGH TO GET IN THE RIGHT POSITION TO PREVENT THE BOATS. PERFORMANCE UPON THAMES This part of the River Thames is very well known to me having previously worked in the area. I have continued to visit it as often as possible as it is one of the London reaches I became most fond of, mostly because of its unregulated Wooded Tow Path, the expansive foreshore at low tides and the wildlife habitats in the adjacent Leg of Mutton Reservoir. It is a beautiful place, one of the more serene spots in London. Best to visit when it has been dry for a few days as the path can be very muddy and puddled. Setting aside the compelling natural environment for a moment, this reach is also the site of a number of past and present elitist establishments; Fulham Palace, Chiswick House and St Paul’s Schools and a large collection of other ‘independent/public/free schools’. It is also where Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minster of the Government lives with his family, despite his constituents living hundreds
nettime JORGE ZORREQUIETA and the DISPOSICIÓN FINAL: when will he show any remorse?
JORGE ZORREQUIETA and the DISPOSICIÓN FINAL: when will he show any remorse? May 22, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen For the full illustrated and documented article will links go to: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/jorge-zorrequieta-and-the-disposicion-final-when-will-he-show-any-remorse/ This is old news about a book by the Argentinian author Ceferino Reato who managed to interview the former Argentinian dictator Jorge Rafaela Videla in prison and for the first time having Videla speak about the real numbers of people killed by his regime in his vision (7 to 8 thousand persons). The book was published in Argentina a few months ago, but it merits special attention in the Netherlands because the Dutch Royal House has a family relation with one participant in the Videla regime. This relationship has been constantly half denied and underplayed. The policy of the Dutch Royal House and Dutch governments is one of low profile on this issue, in the hope it will be forgotten. When I checked today the Dutch library system I did not yet find a single copy in any Dutch public library (available or on order), including the Royal Library of the Netherlands. I will certainly write the last institution about this omission! (*) “Disposición Final”(final disposal) is the military jargon – of the Argentinian generals and government – for the murder of those that were seen as a danger to Argentinian society. (...) # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime WHAT WHEN ALL DISSIDENTS IN THE WORLD COULD STUDY LAW IN AMERICA?
WHAT WHEN ALL DISSIDENTS IN THE WORLD COULD STUDY LAW IN AMERICA? May 5, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen The illustrated version with links is avialbale at: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/what-when-all-dissidents-in-the-world-could-study-law-in-america/ [tableau with scissor cut paper puppets and one paper puppter on a string held by a manipulating hand] I was reading yet another article about the case of the Chinese dissident Chen Guang Cheng (陈光诚) in Le Monde today which mentioned that his case may be head lines in the world, but not so in China itself (it almost sounds like a definition of what ‘a dissident’ actually is). Chinese media if mentioning the case at all are referring to him as “a marionette of the USA.” The article brought some emblematic pictures to my mind and so I did an image search on Google on marionettes and ‘puppets on a string’ and the last one brought me the image that opens this small note. Paper puppets that when they act become puppets on a string. It is a typical ready-made image to be sold to web sites for may different uses. So I will put the allegory of the picture to my own use here…. [screen shot of puppets on a string Google Image search] With the Chinese dissident case in the head lines of the “free world” we seem to be back all the way in the Cold War and its definition and use of ‘dissidents’ who would raise issues felt as a danger to the existing rule in their own countries. There are always many more dissents around in far away countries than we will ever hear about, protesting paper puppets hidden from our view. The ones that manage to come on stage are the ones that will get strings attached to them, if they want it or not. The hand of the puppet player may change during the performance. Smart and lucky dissidents would manage at one moment or another to get their message across their state borders and raise enough attention elsewhere to create – at some moment in time – an opportunity to be shuffled into what is supposed to be a heroic exile. The same kind of dissident criticism at home can also be applied to similar circumstances in any of the dissident hosting countries, but as courtesy and realism makes an exiled dissident cautious, exiled dissidents tend to be silent about their host. This is the sad fate of who – in order to safe his own life – is forced to become a hero-dissident, who will nevertheless have a hard time to defend her/himself against accusations of being just a marionette of a foreign power. The possible hosting country of Chen Guang Chen – the United States of America – does have a long long history of schizophrenic political morality and changing interpretations of the the word ‘freedom’. It is unavoidable that the shadow side of a rescuing power will reflect on a rescued dissident. The manipulating hand of state power with the people as multiplied paper puppet marionettes in the picture is reflecting in the floor space and so the position of the expelled dissident elsewhere becomes a mere mirror image. Chen Guang Chen – when he manages to get out safely – is said to get the opportunity to study law in the United States. He is not the first and certainly not the last getting such a chance. Imagine when all the world dissidents would gather in the United States and study, discuss and further their insight by exchanging experiences. Then, the mere quantity of dissidence could create a new quality and such a combined insight in world political matters could reflect back onto the United States itself. The marionettes would come alive and become players without strings. Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime The Limping Messenger: Warrior President Sarkozy proves it: “A friendship bought will be betrayed.”
Warrior President Sarkozy proves it: “A friendship bought will be betrayed.” April 29, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen A sitting president of any nation at the end of his term always has stains on his/her presidential uniform and the frequency with which the presidential suit has to be brought to the state-media-dry-cleaning-services may increase when she or he is so bold to want a second term. Sarkozy is no exception to this rule and indeed his stains are numerous, some are hard to remove older stains on the shirts he was wearing during earlier stages of his career: Karachi-gate (1994) Bettencourt (2007), La Garde-Tapie (1993-2007), and several stains by ‘the always well documented slander’ of Le Canard Enchainé (like the October 2011 article on how a death sentence of Gaddafi has been instrumented by French Military Intelligence). Last stain thrown at him was by Dominique Strauss Kahn saying his sexual misconduct in New York was manipulated by the French government to keep him from running for President . Yes, the same DSK who is like Sarkozy a master of doing things and than saying he has not done them. There is a method to remove such scandalous stains in one go from the president uniform and that is an old governmental recipe: WAGE WAR! War is is something as glorious as it is dirty and a president that leads a nation into war – even when it is just a small one – will not be judged anymore for his civil stains. A president in the double role of a warrior wears the military stains that come with that exercise like medals of honour on his uniform. This understanding of the manipulation of the mood of a nation made me write several weeks ago this small article which may have still some informative relevance today, only one week from the final decisive presidential elections in France. The rest of this fully illustrated and documented article can be found here http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/warrior-president-sarkozy-proves-it-a-friendship-bought-will-be-betrayed/ Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime IRON BRAINS keep playing their war games over Israel and Gaza: everybody loses, except war-industry.
IRON BRAINS keep playing their war games over Israel and Gaza: everybody loses, except war-industry. March 12, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen The fully illustrated and documented version can be found at: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/iron-brains-keep-playing-their-wargames-over-israel-and-gaza-everybody-loses-except-war-industry/ [tableau showing launching of rockets by Islamic Jihad from the outskirts of Gaza City and Iron Shield system launching a rocket that captures these rockets mid air. In the background a photograph of a dog in the field and a thin white stripe in the sky of a Jihad rocket being destroyed] I have a hard time understanding the aerial combat over Israel and Gaza. What is the idea of the Palestinian brigades to fire their low tech rockets to penetrate the Iron Shield protected area of Israel?90% of such rockets – it is said – are now destroyed in mid air by the the Israeli defence system, whereas the people in Gaza have no defence whatsoever against incoming retaliation bombardments from the endless military arsenal of Israel. The picture with the dog in the foreground and the smoke trail of the Israeli anti-rocket system intercepting a Gaza-strip fired rocket, was taken on Saturday the 9th of April 2011 in the field near Ashkelon in Israel with the following command: “Nicole was out walking her dogs when she heard the distant siren and the booms. In the fields there is nowhere to hide, so she just watched the Iron Dome shooting the rocket out of the sky, leaving a puff and white smoke trail.” (3) I need two arms and two fingers to point at all those despicable missile launchers. The only ones gaining from this ‘iron brains game’ is the weapon industry that uses the territories of Israel and Gaza as a testing grounds for the most advanced military products as is summarised in these visuals from trade brochures… [visuals of trade brochures: Israel's Innovative Homeland Security Solutions] More than one hundred rockets fired from Gaza at Israeli territory, 6 Israelis’s wounded, retaliation attacks on Gaza 21 dead (March 12, 2012). There must be an immense hatred for all those ‘iron brains’ launching their explosive devices, from whatever side, for whatever ideological or security claim. But, who can earnestly express such a view, either in Israel or Gaza? [tableau showing buildings on fire and wounded children in Gaza as a result of Israeli retaliation attacks] --- notes with all three tableau picture elements in full original format and with their original captions. Also link to YoiuTube movie showing The Iron Shield System operating from a field. Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Stimulating ‘PowerPoint’ presentation of Dominique Strauss Kahn at The Cambridge Union Society
Stimulating ‘PowerPoint’ presentation of Dominique Strauss Kahn at The Cambridge Union Society to see the documented news tableau published on March 10, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen check out the latest Limping Messenger: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/stimulating-powerpoint-presentation-of-dominique-strauss-kahn-at-the-cambridge-union-society/ or short link http://wp.me/pw0cu-1fe --- Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Historical handshakes confirming Oil Ententes of the Elysée with Libya and Syria 2007 – 2009
Historical handshakes confirming Oil Ententes of the Elys?e with Libya and Syria 2007 ? 2009 March 1, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen The full illustrated and documented version with web links can be found at: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/historical-handshakes-confirming-oil-ententes-of-the-elysee-with-libya-and-syria-2007-2009/ [tableau with Sarkozy shaking hands with Gaddafi (2007) and Assad (2009) on the steps of the Elys?e] [visual statistics on oil production and oil export of Libya and Syria, with the caption: The backdrop of the policy for Libya and Syria by European Union and associated NATO countries is always painted with oil. (1) British/Dutch Royal Dutch Shell, French Total, CNPC from China and ONGC of India are main investors in Syrian crude oil and gas. (2) 13 November 2009 humanitarian oil diplomacy by Assad, the other way around: ?I asked President Sarkozy to interfere as to stop the daily killing of the Palestinians by the Israel Army,? said H.E. President Al-Assad citing today?s killing of a Palestinian citizen. (3) ] [news photograph of Al-Assad delevring a speech at the Elys? in Paris in 2009, with this caption: His Excellency President Al-Assad described his talks with President Sarkozy as 'very successful'', 'constructive'' ''transparent'' and as ''bolstering the confidence built between Syria and France'', ''dealing with many international as well as regional issues, bilateral relations, the Iranian nuclear file, the recent positive developments in Lebanon, particularly following the formation of the Lebanese Government, which we expect to be an important step for the stability in Lebanon.'' (...) ''The talks, further, dealt with the situation in Gaza from a human perspective; I asked President Sarkozy to interfere as to stop the daily killing of the Palestinians by the Israel Army,'' said H.E. President Al-Assad citing today's killing of a Palestinian citizen.] ?? discovery of treasure, a huge oil and gas in the basin of the Mediterranean is estimated reserves to 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 107 billion barrels of oil.? [map of oil concessions in Syria with this caption: SYRIAN OIL AND GAS NEWS: Announcement for International Offshore Bid Round 2011 Category: Oil Ministry Decisions Declarations | Posted on: 30-03-2011 The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and General Petroleum Corporation (GPC) invite international petroleum companies for an International Bid Round to explore, develop and produce petroleum from three offshore blocks in some areas of the territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone of the Syrian Arab Republic in the Mediterranean Sea according to the production sharing contract.The announcment contains three marine areas ( block I, block II, blockIII) with covarage area estemated by 3000 cubic kilometers per one block. the annoncement date starts in 24/3/2011 for six monthes and closed on 5/10/2011.The modern American studies recently confirmed the discovery of treasure, a huge oil and gas in the basin of the Mediterranean is estimated reserves to 122 trilli on cubic feet of natural gas and 107 billion barrels of oil. (4)] ?? (1) oilprice.com 14/4/2011: ?Oil Production Figures in Areas of Unrest (Middle East North Africa)? (2) royaldutrchshellplc.com 3/12/2011: ?E.U. sanctions force Shell to leave Syria.? (3) www.presidentassad.net: Presidents Al-Assad/ Frnace visit statements (13/11/2009) (4) Syrian Oil and Gas News; 8/2/2010:International announcement for developing 7 oil field in Arraqah Posted in European politics, Africa, Middle East, news-tableau | Tagged Bashar al-Assad, human rights, Nicolas Sarkozy, Colonel Gaddafi (1942-2011), Oil Entente, State visit Al Assad to France 2009, State visit Colonel Gaddafi to France 2007, oil export Libya, oil export Syria # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime 1967 GREECE ANOTHER COUP – ΕΛΛΆΔΑ ΑΛΛΟ ΠΡΑΞΙΚΟΠΗΜΑ 2012
News-Tableau on The Limping Messenger GDP statistic 1961-2009 and 2 coup d'état link = http://wp.me/pw0cu-1bA Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime MOE-landers: statistical category as a basis for discrimination by Dutch PVV VVD political parties
MOE-landers: statistical category as a basis for discrimination by Dutch PVV VVD political parties February 9, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen The fully illustrated (including videos) and documented version can be found as always on: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/moe-landers-statistical-category-as-a-basis-for-discrimination-by-dutch-pvv-vvd-parties/ [tableau/détournement: Meldpunt MOE-landers, with elements of PVV web site] A ‘détournement‘ for the latest campaign of PVV/Wilders group targeting Middle East European workers… what I see when I check out the Complain Web Site of the PVV. The word ‘MOE-Landers’ is a post Cold War invention, before there was the monolithic term ’Oostblok (East-block from the East germany/DDR all the way to Vladivostok in Siberia ). MOE is an ‘acronym’ of Midden Oost Europees (Middle East European), which is then glued to the word ‘lander’ (someone from a certain land or country). The word ‘MOE’ in Dutch means being tired. This is an interesting association as the MOE-landers may be coming to the Netherlands because the Ducth lower paid classes are tired (moe) of working for too low wages and in too bad circumstances. The Dutch entrepeneurs are of course the last to complain about willing Middle-East-Europe employees. Wilders and his PVV movement specialise in using generalised ‘statistic group names for humans’ as a basis for their pointing-a-finger-to-others politics. It is not just those belonging to a religious entity like Islam that are targeted by the PVV. The party of Wilders also points to other groupings of people, often groups that have been defined as a specific statistical category by the State Statistical Bureau (CBS). Autochtoon (Old-Greek: αὐτος; autos = “self” and χθων chthoon = “land/earth”) and Allochtoon (ἄλλος (allos) = other; + land/earth) are important ‘catchwords’ to be found in the ‘policy nets’ of the PVV. ‘Native’ and ‘alien’ to use other dividing terms, or simply ‘us and them’. Sub-categories – all neatly defined by the Dutch State Statistic Bureau – are singled out by PVV strategists for their populist campaigns, like the seemingly geographic notion of ‘Niet Westerse Allochtoon’ (non Western Allochtones). NWAers would be an acronym for this group, proposed to us as a non-adaptive foreign element in the mythically national entity of ‘echte Nederlanders’ (real Netherlanders) originating from ‘non Western countries. The last thing is such an general absurd notion that it will take a separate article (in the making) to explain it by showing tis category in maps. For the rest I need not detail here the fact that all nations exist only by the grace of migration. The ethnographer searching for a real aboriginal Dutch will have a hard time finding one. [Statistic of Middle and East Europeans in the Netheralnds 2007-2011: Middle and East Europeans in the Netherlands: (blue) not registered employee in the GBA (Gemeentelijke Basis Administratie Persoonsgegevens/Municipal Basic Administration of Persons Information); (brown) idem registered. Source CBS .] The singling out of MOE-landers as a target is not a new PVV policy. It fits in their long term structural policy of ‘the Netherlands for the Netherlanders’ (Nederland voor de Nederlanders). The definition of what a real Netherlander is according to the PVV remains kind of vague. I do not see a ‘jus sanguinis‘ (the fact of being born in a country) approach by the PVV as a basis for citizenship, as Dutch citizenship is something in the opinion of the PVV that can be taken away from first, second – who knows where it ends – generations of migrants, that in their view do misbehave. “Send them back to their homeland” is the adage. It is certainly not only the PVV who is campaigning against former East-blockers, East-Europeans or MOE-landers. The Liberal Party for Freedom (VVD) – the main power in government now – is in fact the main motor behind the PVV action against MOE-landers. The VVD minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Henk Kamp, proposed already a year ago to expel unemployed Polish workers, not withstanding European accords on free movement of employees. The number of problem cases of such economic migrants, as suggested by the minister last year, have been criticised and relativized by informed sources and members of parliament, accusing the minister of a party-politic election show over the backs of EU migrant workers. What we see is an orchestrated campaign whereby the PVV takes an extremist stand by actions like the call to complain on a web site about MOE-landers (anonymous and without check on double entries if wanted), while the VVD plays it more subtle and indirect. Minister Kamp has a personal campaign, often televised by the NOS TelevisionJournal, whereby he draws his double sided sword: threatening to scrap the welfare benefit of Dutch unemployed workers, if they refuse to do the jobs now done
nettime SOPA, PIPA, ACTA what is all the fuss about?
This is a visual object, so you can see it at: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/sopa-pipa-acta-what-is-all-the-fuss-about/ Posted in Consumerism | Tagged ACTA, PIPA, planned obsolescence of media industry, SOPA # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime AIRLIFT YOUR DATA: alternatives for a blockaded internet
AIRLIFT YOUR DATA: alternatives for a blockaded internet January 26, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen The illustrated version with many documented links can be found at my blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/airlift-your-data-alternatives-for-a-blockaded-internet/ Below is the text-only version: -- [tableau Berlin Airlift with airplane/Berlin Wall 1948 + copyright symbol: LIFT THE BLOCKADE] Newspaper heading these last days on the Dutch Stichting Brein (Foundation Brain) forces providers to effect an INTERNET BLOCKADE against Pirate Bay web sites“. The Foundation Brein received on January the 11, 2012 a court order that forces some of the big internet providers in the Netherlands (Xs4all and Ziggo at first, T-Mobile and UPC are on the list) to block internet services that Brein claims to be infringements of copyright and intellectual property. The blockade is aimed at sites of, and related to, ‘Pirate Bay’. The court order (1) mentions 24 internet addresses to be blocked. Already at court, Stichting Brein did make some changes in this blockade-list by taking off 4 addresses, that would take off-line web services that had little or no relation with Pirate Bay activities seen as infringements (one of them was a web site with educational movies for young people). It is in the same week that Dutch internet service providers (and 20 search warrants in eight other countries) have been forced to take the domain MegaUpload off line. The Dutch firm LeaseWeb – working for MegaUpload – saw 690 computer servers sealed (storing 15 of the total 25 ‘petabyte’ of data used by MegaUpload) by the Dutch Tax Authority (FIOD), executing an order of the American FBI. This series of events prompted a Green Left member of parliament (Arjen El Fassed) to ask questions to the Dutch government about this whole sale anti-piracy operations, whereby illegal and legal forms of data-traffic are not properly separated: “Operations like this cause huge damage to the freedom and openness of the internet.” I see as much Right as Wrong with CopyRight as it is practiced by the actual Media Content Industry – and Stichting Brein is – first of all – a tool of those corporate interests, though they like to pose as defenders of creative workers. There is much to debate about copyright: what it once was, what it became and how to rethink the idea of claiming ownership on things reproducible for the future. As our media have changed dramatically, the idea and practical application of ownership of content should also be open to change. The same firms that invent and produce – endless and more and more quickly outdated – hardware devices, are producing and monopolising the content to be displayed on them, making profits on both software and hardware. There are many creative alternatives for intellectual property of content and distribution of “profits” in the making, that go beyond the singular ‘big players only’ approach, where content creators have little to no say and the content consumers are only seen as cattle to be exploited. ‘Creative Commons‘, ‘The Future of Music Coalition‘, and many more… When analysing how profits are made and revenues are distributed fairness for those who actually do the ’creative work’, is hard to find. [Two piecharts: on the divide of the videogame industry (consoles, games, accessories for playing/gaming, rentals) and The Great Divide of the music industry with a band ending up with 13% of the revenues] Two recent examples that show how media industry both pushes and earns from selling hardware and software (content) and what the practice of sharing is when it comes to those actually producing 'intellectual property'. For sources see note (2) We are all aware of the ‘digital gluttony’ that has been wakened in us by constant propagated consumerism. One’s personal economy to get unlimited access to content may deprive others from income, but to what extent ‘personal piracy’ hurts ‘corporate business’ is up to debate. The history of piracy in publishing and distribution tells another story than what the lawyers of content business want us to believe. The title of cultural historian and media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan’s book published in 2003 says it all: “Copyrights and copywrongs : the rise of intellectual property and how it threatens creativity.” In the chapter “the digital moment” he sketches the impact: The digital moment has also collapsed the distinction among three formerly distinct processes: gaining access to a work; using (we used to call it ‘reading’) a work; and copying a work. (…) Copyright was designed to regulate only copying. It was not supposed to regulate one’s right to read or share. But now that the distinctions among accessing, using and copying have collapsed, copyright policymakers have found themselves faced with what seems to be a difficult choice: either relinquish some
nettime Cohn Bendit teaches Orban: “information must derange politics”
Cohn Bendit teaches Orban: “information must derange politics” January 19, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen in the Limping Messenger the illustrated and annotated version can be found here: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/cohn-bendit-teaches-orban-information-must-derange-politics/ [tableau: l'information doit déranger la politique] Daniel Cohn Bendit is an old style orator who loves to be on stage and debate, from the university back rooms of Nanterre in the mid sixties as a ‘young European anarchist’ and explicit anti-parlementarist, to the the front room of the European parliament in Strasbourg and Bruxelles as an elected deputé of the Green Party. Yesterday I saw on French television TV5 a snippet of his discourse against Viktor Orban, Hungarian President, comparing Orban’s position with that of Chavez and Fidel Castro. To me his way of arguing on television seemed to be a fallacy, as Orban is a member of a neo-liberal right wing party – Fidesz – that came to the fore because of its fierce anti-communism. When I tried to find a more complete registration of that yesterday debate, I failed to do so, but I did stumble upon a similar oration of Cohn Bendit versus Orban exactly one year ago on January 19. 2011. Here Cohn Bendit’s discourse is less crude and more to the point when he attacks the new press laws of Hungary, which lets a (Fidesz) committee decide on the objectivity and balance of news reporting. State censorship in short in the name of “balanced information” (l’information équilibrée). It is the European Parliament meeting where the EEC presidency of Hungary for that year is inaugurated. “L’information équilibrée n’existe pas” (balanced information does not exist) declaimed the Green tribune, facing and pointing to Hungarian President Orban and sums – apostrophic and repetitive in the form of rhetorical questions – cases from history where state authority has been challenged by news media: from the Watergate scandal of burglary in the offices of the Democratic Party under Nixon to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse under George Bush. “L’information doit déranger la politique..” (information must derange politics). With a grim face and fierce gestures Cohn Bendit finishes his display of exemplum by adding after a short pause ”et ça fait mal quelquefois: (sometimes that hurts). Cohn Bendit is fully equipped to propose this dictum, as he has been fiercely attacked personally several times in his life – often unjustly – by news media that had to fear no state control in his favour. From the right wing news papers in 1968 calling him ”un juif allemand” (a German Jew) (*) to the more recent attacks on him linking his sexual mores of the sixties and seventies to pedophilia (**). [link to Youtube video] When one sees this Youtube version of the Cohn Bendit debate in the European Parliament not embedded here but on the Youtube page, scandalous racist hate viewer comments are on public display, as well as the moderate and supportive ones. All this seems ‘unmoderated’. This is not “information équilibré” and one must have a harnessed soul to read many of the comments. The relative anonymity of the internet produces such reactions and its is up to any internet community to keep excesses under control. We remain with the question whether the dictum ‘information must derange politics’ should also be applied to the public realm of digital social media. [screen shot of insulting comments to Cohn Bendit on youtube] —- (*) 2 mai 1968 extreme right wing journal Minute writes: “Ce Cohn-Bendit, parce qu’il est juif et allemand, se prend pour un nouveau Karl Marx.” (this Cohn benit, because he is a jew and a German, takes himself for a new Karl Marx) (**) ”German MEP open about his paedophilia” is just one of the many descriptions (British Democracy Forum) of the belated reactions to a passage in his book “Le Grand Bazar” published in the year 1975 in which sexual tinted activities between him and some children are described. It took 26 years before a political opponent (German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel of the FDP/Free Democratic Party) grabbed the opportunity to confront Cohn Bendit with his escapades in the early seventies of last century. In January 2001 Cohn Bendit answered by way of an interview in The Observer: “I admit that what I wrote is unacceptable nowadays.” Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Centennial of Aerial Bombing 1911/11/11 – 2011/11/11 Primordial Air Power
Full article with illustration and links can be found at: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/centennial-of-aerial-bombing_primordial_air-power/ 11 November 2011 ~ 11 November 1911, today is the centennial of one hundred years of aerial bombing, the first example being the bombing of Turkish troops by Italian airplanes during the Italo-Turkish War in Libya in 1911. Some grenades hand held, dropped onto troops below. Aerial bombing is in fact incorrect as the launching of airborne missiles date back much further in time. Balloons have for instance been used by the Austrians when they beleaguered Venice in 1849 using unmanned balloons filled with explosives that could be triggered by electro-contacts using long wires (the idea of drones which are used in a more advanced way nowadays is born here). So today it is the centenary of airborne attacks by humans launching explosives from flying contraptions. The idea of airborne attack goes back into mythical times, though. […] We are one century from the moment that a grenade was dropped by hand from an Italian airplane circling over an oasis in the Libyan desert onto the heads of a few Ottoman soldiers. The Italian colonization of Libya that followed the break down of the Ottoman empire – at that time – created the circumstances that lead one century later to renewed usage of air force. We may have progressed in technical sense a lot, but politically speaking we have not yet freed ourselves of crude imposture of imperial power. written on the aerial bombardment centennial day in Phnom Penh Tjebbe van Tijen # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Who will be responsible for the ‘de-gaddafization’ of Libya?
Who will be responsible for the ‘de-gaddafization’ of Libya? October 22, 2011 by Tjebbe van Tijen, the illustrated version of this text with a few links has appeared in the Limping Messenger: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/who-will-be-responsible-for-the-de-gaddafization-of-libya/ How anybody can protect civilians by throwing bombs from the air? When we find the sight of the mutilated body of Gaddafi on show in a freezer of a butcher store appalling, what about the multiplication of the principle – now in Libya – on the backstage of global news? Which accounts are settled in the shadow? Who gets hold of whom for what, in a situation without rule of law? What has been the example given by the Alliance forces dropping explosives from the air, not bringing members of the contested regime to justice, but to punish them on the spot by attempted annihilation? When it is true that a fleeing or escaping convoy of Gaddafi has been attacked by NATO airplanes with their deadly load just outside of Sirte, why to muddle about the subsequent lynching that seems to have taken place? NATO tried to lynch from the air, long distance and ’high tech’, opposition forces finished the job by hand on the ground. Who will hold out her or his phone camera to document the revenge between civilians triggered by such examples, raging now in Libya? It is sufficient to have read the recent report of Amnesty International “LIBYA: THE BATTLE FOR LIBYA: KILLINGS, DISAPPEARANCES AND TORTURE” published on September 13. 2011, to know that the perpetration of violence was/is not only a monopoly of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, but has entered the veins and bloodstream of this society. [photograph showing many people with phone camera's stooped over the dead bopdy of Gaddafi in a freezer with the orginal caption:Muammar Gaddafi's 'trophy' body on show in Misrata meat store Libyans queue to see dictator's body as wounds appear to confirm he was killed in cold blood (The Guardian October 22, 2011)] These are the days of the ‘little axes’, in so many hands, falling down on so many heads… How dare heads of state – like Sarkozy – speak through broadcasts to the Libyan people, “Its time now for reconciliation” , whereas those that need to be reconciled have been left behind with a collapsed state and hardly any governmental or citizen’s networks to undertake such a huge task of building a civil society and reconcile? The nazi regime lasted a mere twelve years and ‘de-nazification’ several decades. We Europeans have not been able to stop the wild enforced regime change by an outsider high technology military force. NATO has been send in, paid by our tax money. What has been sold to us by Aljazeera and the like as a ‘people’s revolution’ may in the end well have been mutated into a ‘coup d’état’ where the top have been toppled, but the echelons just below it remain in control. Who will be responsible for the ‘de-gaddafization’ of Libya? --- Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Nijntje het copyright konijntje/ Miffy the little copyright rabbit
An illustrated and documented version can be found at http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/nijntje-het-copyright-konijntje-miffy-the-little-copyright-rabbit/ [tableau with two Nijntjes and the hand of the designer] Nijntje/Miffy may sniff cocaine and be a terrorist has said a Dutch judge today in a courtcase where the creator of ‘Nijntje het copyright konijntje’ (Miffy the copyright rabbit) Dick Bruna (1927 -) had asked the court to forbid several Nijntje impersonations on the web. Dirk Bruna – for decades – is the Dutch champion and pioneer of licensing and royalties, censoring whatever urban culture derivation of his creation. Thus he has for long become the censor of the offspring of his own drawing board creation, or was it the late designer and founder of the merciless copyright exploitation bureau Mercis, Pieter Brattinga (1931 – 2004) that has aborted and killed most of the unwanted progeny of this imaginary rabbit? Pencil and eraser in one hand. Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime A MONUMENT FOR ALL RETALIATION VICTIMS OF 9/11
A MONUMENT FOR ALL RETALIATION VICTIMS OF 9/11 September 11, 2011 by Tjebbe van Tijen This is mainly a pictorial comment which can be seen at: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/a-monument-for-all-retaliation-victims-of-911/ A MONUMENT FOR ALL RETALIATION VICTIMS OF 9/11 let their names be written on water and float across all rivers and oceans… [photograph of hand writing on water] [photograph of 9/1/ monument in New York] — * the first photograp is by 艺 术 家：火风（Huo Feng); the second by the ‘National September 11 Memorial’ organisation. Tagged: 9/11, commemoration of victims of mass violence, ephemeral monuments, retaliation victims of 9/11, writing on water Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime What will be the last view of Gaddafi of this world?
What will be the last view of Gaddafi of this world? August 21, 2011 by Tjebbe van Tijen For the version with two tableau pictures and links see The Limping Messenger: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/what-will-be-the-last-view-of-gaddafi-of-this-world/ [tableau: which way up?] What will be the last view of Gaddafi of this world? which way up? which way down? what will be our last view of him? the anti-colonial guerilla fighter hero he associated with Omar al Mukhtar ? Lion of the Desert ? hung in 1931 by the Italian fascist colonial regime under Benito Mussolini (Gaddafi wore the last photograph of Mukhtar alive just before his execution as a badge on his military uniformwhen visiting Berlusconi in Italy in 2009) or the ruthless dictator Benito Mussolini, as captured by Italian Partisans in 1945, when he tried to flee to Switzerland and executed on the spot, hung by his feet ? the flag of his copy cat green revolution waved four decades the regime he helped create repressed as many people as it did bind, to its peculiar form of common wealth despised and embraced at the same time, by other leaders from other countries who drew their plans for his removal while celebrating their meetings with him those from his own camp, who now leave him to face up to his last days will trample on his face to hide their own past will his court be in the streets or in The Hague? there will be no singular view of Gaddafi as with all dictators both his face and the way we see it are split. [tableau: which way down?] --- Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Gay Pride Canal Parade 2012: who is next to come out?
Gay Pride Canal Parade 2012: who is next to come out? August 8, 2011 by Tjebbe van Tijen A fully documented version with web-links and a 'tableau' illustration can be found at: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/gay-pride-canal-parade-2012-who-is-next-to-come-out/ Gay Pride 2012, who is next to come out? The Dutch army and the National Bank (DNB) are only a few official institutions that participate with a boat of their own in the yearly Canal Parade of Gay Pride Amsterdam. Themuseum and cultural sector is presented with their own boat (Amsterdam Museum | Bijbels Museum | De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam | EYE/Filmmuseum | FOAM | Hermitage Amsterdam | Het Concertgebouw | Het Nationale Ballet | Joods Historisch Museum | Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest | Museum Van Loon | Nationaal Historisch Museum | Nederlands Bureau voor Toerisme en Congressen | Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest | Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder | Rijksmuseum | Scheepvaartmuseum | Stedelijk Museum | Tassenmuseum Hendrikje | Tropenmuseum | Van Gogh Museum) a never ending list. Even the government has their own (contested) boat - though the prime minister Rutte choose to profile himself at a more straight mass party around the corner on the same day as the Canal Parade: ‘Dance Valley’ . A Dutch Hindu boat was a newcomer this year following the trend of Christian, Islam and Jewish gay representation, during an event that seems to aim at embracing ‘the whole’ of Dutch society. But certain key sectors of the Netherlands keep ‘missing the emancipation boat’, fail the institutionalised ‘coming out’: Dutch football business, the Dutch Royal House of Orange (and they have several nice boats ready to take part) and a boat of a section of this society that is thought to consist mainly of macho heteros, the Dutch Mafia. Here is an underworld that should be targeted, stimulated to ‘come out of their closets’. One can already enjoy the vision of a ‘parade of sails’ of hash and cocaine boats chaperoned by armoured speedboats, with the crew dressed in proper t-shirts and sunglassed criminals with their water-pistols doing ‘bang, bang, bang’. [tableau with a movie poster, a pink t-shirt and pink water-pistol] Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Emblem for the International Criminal Court: Iustitiae Languor
Emblem for the International Criminal Court: Iustitiae Languor August 2, 2011 by Tjebbe van Tijen The illustrated version with a link to the emblem source can be found at http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/emblem-for-the-international-criminal-court-iustitiae-languor/ [tableau with 17th century emblem and picture of the International criminal Court in The Hague] Iustitiae Languor/Justice Falls Down: Indictment for Gaddafi but not (yet) for Assad makes one wonder and the symbol of Justitia as an impartial being came to mind and it made me search in one of the emblemata databases for the word ‘justice’, this one popped up and though made in the 17th century it is still fitting four centuries later, where the geo-political situation in the world often gets out of control, like an unbridled horse. The emblem book (*) has the old German text on the facing page and it reads: motto (de) Gerechtigkeit gehet zu Grundt. subscriptio (de) GLeich wie ein wildes/ freches Pferdt Stelt sich die Welt jetzundt auff Erdt/ Das wildt Pferdt leydet kein Gebiß/ Die welt die leydet kein Verdrieß/ Doch haßts vnd scheucht insonderheit/ Der Gesetz Recht vnd Gerechtigkeit. A quick rendering of the somewhat obscure German – with an eye to the Latin – could read in English: Like an untamed horse The world puts itself on earth A wild horse not bridled by a bit A world not guided by remorse But hating and dossing off especially Law, righteousness and judiciary. ——– (*) Proscenium vitæ humanæ siue Emblematvm Secvlarivm, Ivcvndissima, artificiosissima varietate Vitæ Hvmanæ seculi huius deprauati mores, ac studia peruersissima. Versibvs Latinis, Germanicis, Gallicis Belgicis ita adumbrantium … (1627, Frankfurt) Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Geo-politics come before human rights: the case of Syria and the legacy of the city of Hama
Geo-politics come before human rights: the case of Syria and the legacy of the city of Hama July 31, 2011 by Tjebbe van Tijen The illustrated version with embedded video and links can be found at: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/geopolitics-come-before-human-rights-the-case-of-syria-and-the-legacy-of-the-city-of-hama/ [tableau of International Criminal Court logo with the balance of justice swung one way and tanks advancing on Hama and demonstrations in that town of these last days] ”Syrian tanks storm the city of Hama” I read today and the mere name of that haunted town makes me shiver, as tens of thousands of people were massacred there in the year 1982 on orders of Assad Senior, the death toll ranges between 20 and 40 thousands. A genocide forgotten – some say – a political mass-murder would be a more apt classification. The movie below commemorates the 1982 ordeal of Hama in Syria. [embedded Youtube movie] The well documented Syrian Human Rights Committee has this report on the 1982 Hama Massacre:http://www.shrc.org/data/aspx/d5/2535.aspx Infringements on human rights in Syria have been documented for decades by organisations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. This has not led the ‘international community’ to take any serious action against the Assad regime. The Assad dynasty is a stabilising power in the region, as was the Egypt of Mubarak. The fate of Syrian citizens is judged as being less important than the Middle East Entente. Also the International Criminal Court in The Hague – sadly enough – is more lead by the geo-politics of its constituent states, than by the rule of international law. Whereas the UN Security Council asked the ICC to research whether the Libyan government should be indicted for its threats to the civilian population. No such actions have been taken against the Syrian government of Assad Junior. The balance of power in the Middle East is more important than the balance of international justice. Or will the attack of tanks on demonstrating citizens of the town of Hama make the bascule of justice move to its proper position? Of the 139 states that have signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 34 have not ratified the treaty, Syria is one of them. Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Dutch police training Afghan colleagues without knowing local reality
Dutch police training Afghan colleagues without knowing local reality July 21, 2011 by Tjebbe van Tijen De geïllustreerde versie staat op http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/dutch-police-training-afghan-colleagues-without-knowing-local-reality/ ”Kennis Nederlandse trainers over Kunduz lijkt beperkt” (knowledge of the Dutch trainers about Kunduz seems limited) is the headline of De Volkskrant daily this morning and I imagine how an ignorant Royal Dutch Marechaussee (military police) officer instructs the local Afghan police force: “Look that is how we do it in Holland!” [tableau showing a Dutch military policeman training an Afghan police class] At the same time I imagine the improbable reversed situation of an Afghan military or police functionary training Dutch police officers at the Dutch Police Academy in Apeldoorn: “Do you understand? That’s how we do it in Afghanistan!” Should it be rather the Dutch politicians who need such a training before deciding to send a police training mission to Afghanistan? An impossible proposition almost for sure, because who would determine who would be the Afghan trainers for such a mission in the Netherlands, which fraction of Afghan society would such an instructor represent? Now we are ready to reverse this question and think about who has been selected in the Netherlands to train Afghan policemen. Or can policing be made in something blank and objective non dependant on local standards and social complexities? I doubt it. [tableau showing Afghan policeman teaching a Dutch police class] Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Octave Mirbeau and the turpitudes of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Octave Mirbeau and the turpitudes of Dominique Strauss-Kahn July 3, 2011 by Tjebbe van Tijen For the illustrated version see http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/octave-mirbeau-and-the-turpitudes-of-dominique-strauss-kahn/ [détournement of a film scene of the 1964 Bunuel movie 'Diary of a chambermaid'] My morning association reading the news of the release of DSK: Strauss-Kahn and Octave Mirbeau who wrote in the year 1900 the novel ‘Diary of a chambermaid’ (Le Journal d’une femme de chambre) giving voice to a maidservant: “Through her eyes, which perceive the world through keyholes, he shows us the foul-smelling hidden sides of high society, the ‘moral bumps’ of the dominating classes, and the turpitudes of the bourgeois society that he assails. Mirbeau’s story undresses the members of high society of their superficial probity, revealing them in the undergarments of their moral flaws: their hypocrisy and perversions.” (1) Here we see Strauss-Kang enacting a scene of the novel for filmmaker Bunuel together with Jeanne Moreau, if only DSK had limited himself to shoe-fetishism... --- (1) citation from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Chambermaid_(novel) Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Libya: I have always had a suspicion when ‘civilians’ are protected and 'soldiers' are open for lawful slaughter.
a show of force to help topple the tank based Assad family from power in Syria, in the near future. Political leaders must by now have received the message of the international legal community, that only in China it is allowed to use tanks against demonstrators. Both politics and justice in Africa and the Middle East seem to be in the hands of NATO generals, they take the initiative while parliaments have lost all control over this theatre of war. Happily the International Criminal Court in The Hague – that has no own police force to arrest indicted war criminals – still has a telephone line, to prove things can be done differently. Or, one musty believe that the members of Gaddafi’s claque and clique needed some bombs to rain next to their front doors before they would call The Hague, as if the downfall of the Gaddafi reign had not been imminent for many months already, without NATO airplanes. Why diplomatic forms of subversion have failed to be used to oust the regime of Gaddafi? Who does the body count in Libya irrespective on which side death occurs? Who are those Libyan army soldiers that are legitimate targets now? I read the army consists of 25.000 volunteers and 25.000 conscripts and that their equipment is rather outdated. So what chance they have against the ultra up to date NATO forces? NATO does not have smart bombs that can decide who to kill and who not, bombs that can distinguish between a conscript, a volunteer, a Gaddafi guard or an insurgent. Too many unanswered questions. I have always had a suspicion when ‘civilians’ are protected and soldiers are open for lawful slaughter. We need to widen our vision on such conflicts and develop new tactics for more peaceful methods of transition of power. Full text and image at: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/yet-another-telephone-call-from-libya-to-the-hague/ NB this is an extended version of an earlier post Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Muammar Gaddafi 1942- …. Looking from the past to the future
Muammar Gaddafi 1942- ?. Looking from the past to the future May 12, 2011 by Tjebbe van Tijen This is most of all a tiny story told through two pictures... which can be seen at the following address http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/muammar-gaddafi-1942-looking-from-the-past-to-the-future/ [tableau Gaddafi 1969/2011] Wednesday May 11th 2011 Gaddafi comes to one of the most safe places for him now-a-days the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli where most of the international journalists accredited by the Libyan Government are staying, though they are having dinner elsewhere in the hotel and know nothing about this meeting of Gaddafi and a whole parade of Libyan tribal leaders that come to him one by one and shake his hand, all the while being photographed as loyal chiefs. On a screen in the room a program of Libyan state television is projected in the background so the date and time of the meeting is documented. The video of this broadcast by Libyan State Television can be seen at YouTube under the title: ?Gaddafi Live on Libya State TV May 11 ? NATO Assassination Attempt Fails Again !? The video is not subtitled and not translated. It leaves the non Arabic speaking with only the body language of those acting out this scene. It looks to me very much like a farewell meeting with someone who is going to die soon, knowing his day are counted. I look in some old archives with different spellings of his name: Khadaffi, Qadhafi and see a young man right after having taken power in 1969: with sparkling open eyes and a smile, looking ahead. Gaddafi has been born ? it says ? in a Berber tent in 1942, where will he die and how, nobody can look into his eyes anymore to find the answer? Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
