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It's All In The Swagger
May 7, 2001
(NYT) News Analysis: To European Eyes, It's America the Ugly
By ROGER COHEN
BERLIN, May 6 — Before becoming president,
George W. Bush seemed acutely aware of the need
for a country as powerful as the United States to
show restraint. "If we are an arrogant nation, they will
resent us," he said. "If we're a humble nation, but strong,
they'll welcome us."
The words appear to have been forgotten. A torrent of
hostile articles in Europe has greeted Mr. Bush's first
three months in office. Their chief theme has been the
arrogance of what the German weekly Der Spiegel
recently called "the snarling, ugly Americans."
On its Web site, the respected Munich daily Süddeutsche
Zeitung lists seven articles summing up the themes of Mr.
Bush's first 100 days. They are not unrepresentative of
widespread European views.
The titles include: "Selling Weapons to Taiwan: Bush
Throws His Weight Around in the Pacific"; "North Korea:
Bush Irritates the Asians"; "World Court: No Support
From United States"; "Iraq: Bombing Instead of
Diplomacy"; and "Climate Agreement: The United States
Abandons the Kyoto Protocol."
cont.
"Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy," Dick Cheney says. In other words, "Ride your bikes around the commune all you want, hippies, but the rest of us have to get to work." According to today's front page New York Times article, Cheney's nominal boss uses energy efficient heat-pumps to cool the ranch in Crawford; meanwhile the rest of us are burning high-cost, polluting fossil fuel (which, of course, we are expected to buy at a premium from his business cronies). I'm reminded of Philip K. Dick's novel The Penultimate Truth, where the masses live in crowded bunkers deep underground, hoodwinked that there's an atomic war going on topside, while an elite is in fact basking in green estates on the underpopulated surface, living off the masses' labor while simulating news reports of an ongoing "crisis." Science fiction? Not if you believe Cheney's BS.
linda said to say hello from Costa Rica--she left a meeage on my voicemail that she cant log on to DMTree or Inch for CR--wierd
mother gong
eX- giRL
space acapella from japan
i,m mostly braindead but one circuit thats firing is helped by the good doctor wilson--the seasons i see more, mainly in the hood and today was a special day--one type of tree was sheading its seeds and they are blowing everywhere all over 14th between 7/8--its like a parade, i throw handfuls up in the air to join the celebration--i,m kicking the piles like crazy not looking where i am going and almost bump into a guy whom was kicking them in my direction--rock on earth and love you alex
from JAPAN :
Ghost
acid mothers temple
The King Brothers
Add fuel to the fire : Sqrat
YAT 5/31 lets hope i dont have a biz thing pop up cause we can meet over here and do El Cid....
"Boogie Bass" and the shameless imitator "Billy Bass" are the runaway popular novelty items of the day. To wit, if you've been watching The Sopranos season III, you are aware that Boogie Bass throws Tony into mad hysteria (once at the "Botta Bing" and again last week implied via the glazed look & fade out ending after Meadow gave him one for x-mas). Hack
Boogie or Billy to cuss like a mook.
Take me to the river.......
Reflections from the think tank.
YAT (Yet Another Thursday.) Back to Rivington Street for this week. Fun starts at 5:30. We'll have food and wine.
Lightning Bolt
Providence, RI.
Spirit , the tree
Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds
Randy California
"Dear Visitor, I’m happy to report that the people have selected the oak as their choice for America’s National Tree in the nationwide vote hosted by The National Arbor Day Foundation on this Web site."
Heart of Gold
, Neil Young's that is
Lucinda Williams, preview sound clips from new album : Essence / due out 6/5
The United Lodge of Theosophists
what's up with these cnet auctions? some people at my office have gotten very cheap computers, laptops, all (i think) new.
A few years back you could easily find a video moniter to buy and hook up to your vcr to receive cable. No need for the duplicate receivers in both your TV and VCR. Now all those moniters seam not to be avavilable as much. (Tom got one back in the day.) Whats keeping you from plugging any old computer moniter into a vcr for cable purposes ? The plugs are different ? How about adapters ? This is a cross post and should realy be filed under alt.sytstems_junk , but what the hey.
Seems like this happens every week: it's Thursday again. Local? Back to 8 mile Creek? Sunset in Central Park? More art? What say ye socialites?