Texas MassacreAmeri stalno nešto rade i onda kad ništa ne rade a mi , kako da kažem Evropljani težimo ništa da ne radimo čak i onda kad nešto ozbiljno, ružno ili lepo i važno radimo. Ako ne daj bože da te neko ovde u Bushlandu uhvati da buljiš u prazno , pitaće te da li ti treba pomoć i sprovesti do obližnje "radi obavezno nešto stanice": popij kafu, kupi nešto...vozi dalje. Eto tako na vrhu Kolorada, Mountain Pike, 14.000 feet, magla, grad, strašno ali prodaju se hot dogs i naravno suveniri. Moj American friend kaze , souvenir shops su zanimljvije od samih muzeja i mesta. U povratku, vrlo strmom stazom, svuda upozorenja, pazi na kocnice, na svakih desetak milja uniformisana lica sa kaubojskim šeširima mere usijanje guma i zahtevaju pauzu u radnji gde je besplatna kafa a užasno skupo sve ostalo. Pada kiša već danima ali ima i sunca, tu je i duga. Na jednoj steni čuče dvoje starijih ljude . Milicijski auto se zaustavlja, gume škripe, vidim ljude kako se pravdaju šire ruke, ali nema spasa, trpaju ih u kola i sprovode...

Days of Darkness

In attachment PDF text July 30, 2006

Gidon Levy July 16, 2006

Gidon Levy July 30, 2006 

   Nesrećne 1986., 26. aprila bila sam na Divčibarima i pokisla kao miš, zajedno sa svojom dvogodišnjom ćerkom. Kada sam saznala 27. iz "pouzdanog izvora" da je kiša bila radioaktivna da je stepen ozračenosti u Beogradu i okolini neverovatno visok, doživela sam nervni slom. Naročito zato što je taj pouzdani izvor bio funkcioner na visokom položaju koji, iz meni nepoznatih razloga, nije hteo, kao i ostali pouzdani u vlasti, da kaže narodu pravo stanje stvari.

July 28, 2006

Dear Jasmina,

We have exciting news to share with you today! After being rebuffed in our numerous attempts to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, including setting up "Camp Al-Maliki" across from the Iraqi Embassy and publishing an open letter to him in one of the largest Iraqi newspapers, we received an amazing invitation: Five members of the Iraqi Parliament who are working on a Reconciliation Plan to end the violence in their country contacted us. Moved by the commitment of the long-term fasters and dismayed by their prime minister’s refusal to meet with us, these parliamentarians asked us to join them in Amman, Jordan next week to discuss their Reconciliation Plan, on condition that we break our long-term fast with them!

Scorpions Trial

July 3, 2006

   Today in the special court we have a highly educated witness, a legal  expert in security who is the  owner of a company called  Aleksandrija. In the nineties he was a deputy minister during the  genocide in Srebrenica.  Later he was Minister of  Police for the  Republika Srpska Krajina, the rump state in Croatia which no longer  
exists.  In 1999 he was also  in Kosovo as police and security.
    "Twenty-five thousand members of the police were under army command",  says the witness. Gosh that makes me shiver.  Twenty-five thousand  people? All soldiers, all agents, all secret?  Yet that was typical  of Yugoslavia: my own father was highly placed in a thriving import-
export company that was basically a front for the secret police.   
Nobody mentioned such realities to anybody; it was simply understood.

Top-Secret World Loses Blogger
CIA Contractor Is Fired When Internal Post Crosses the Line
By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 21, 2006; Page A15

Christine Axsmith, a software contractor for the CIA, considered her
blog a success within the select circle of people who could actually
access it.

   Svojevremeno dok sam čitala i prevodila Hanu Arent naletela sam na jednu za mene ključnu priču, koju ću slobodno prepričati... Za vreme Hitlerovog režima u Nemačkoj sreću se dve prijateljice , jedna Jevrejka jedna ne/Jevrejka. Upravo zato sto su drugarice pominju tu razliku.
    Toliko o jednakosti, ne postoje apstraktna a priori jednakost izmedju živih/ mrtvih, žena/ muškarca, gejova/ strejtova, bogath / siromašnih, zdravih i bolesnih...Od konteksta, od različitosti, od diskriminacije polazimo i učimo solidarnost, toleranciju, istoriju i političku angazovanost.

Pise mi drug iz domovine Srbije: Mladice, bio sam pre neki dan na planini rajac, nesto kao relaksirajuce a tamo cuvena i tradicionalna "kosidba na rajcu". milioni ljudi, na svakom koraku tresti, cesto uzivo, najgora moguca muzika koju ni ni pinku nikada ne mozes da cujes, peku se ogromne kolicine masnog mesista na vrucini, u ogromnim zagusljivim satrama smrknuti muskarci i zene zderu to meso, a izmedju satri se setaju citave porodice sa cetnickim kapama na glavi, prodaju se i majice na kojima pise "jebem ti zemlju koja nema drazu", a ima majica i sa mladicevim slikama. e, tu je vec napredak, mladic je prikazan u potpuno pop art fazonu, gotovo da sam kupio jednu majicu.

Zene u crnom u nedelju, 23.07.2006. godine, u 19.30h, na Trgu Republike, organizuju protest u crnini i cutanju, protiv rata u Libanu, stradanju civila i unistenju zemlje.Pozivamo sve zainteresovane da nam pruze svoju solidarnu podrsku i pridruze nam se.

Holly BeachWe just missed a twister. We saw its black cloud in the sky, lit by lightning. In Louisiana, some miles after Cameron, a small tornado has toppled trees into the road. Police blocked the highway, workers cleaned the branches away and cool people sat on the porches, watching it all happen. Mostly old people. Why do people stay in disaster sites, living under the volcano? Why do they watch? We enter the tourist center at the border of Louisiana. We want to go to Holly Beach, we say. Holly Beach isn't there any more, says the clerk, politely smiling.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/27/jasmina_tesanovic_lo.html 

Jasmina Tešanović , Žene u Crnom, Beograd

 dakle, 37 most u Parizu je ujedno i prvi koji je nazvan po nekoj zeni...

 Paris bridge named after feminist Simone de Beauvoir. The 37th bridge over the Seine bears the name of a literary icon. A footbridge in honour of the French writer and leading feminist Simone> de Beauvoir has been opened in Paris. Designed in the form of two steel intersecting curves, it is part of a regeneration effort in south-eastern parts of the French capital. This is the city's 37th bridge and the first to be named after a woman.

BBC news http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5175808.stm _______________________________________________

Bila sam noćas u čuvenom klubu Continental u Austinu, live music country blues, whatever...Austin je poznat po muzičkoj live sceni...Ovako to izgleda, svi u crnom, samo ja u šarenoj drečavoj cigovanoj haljini. Kažu mi, you don’t belong here, vidi se s milje, kažem ja, šta izgledam european, ne, izgledaš mexican, kao da si stigla iz Guadalahare...onda tetovaže ama po celom telu...naročito na vratu otpozadi, po koji kaubojski šešir, manje nego što bi se očekivalo. I margerite, piva, viski u ruci. Nema cigara niti vidljive droge.



SKANDALOZNA OSLOBAĐAJUĆA PRESUDA VLADICI PAHOMIJU
Saopštenje za javnost

U normalnim demokratskim zemljama nije dozvoljeno ni pristojno komentarisati pravosnažne sudske odluke. Zahvaljujući sprezi sudske i izvršne vlasti, Srbija, nažalost, ne spada u takve zemlje. To dokazuje i najnovija presuda kojom je drugostepeni sudski organ u Nišu proglasio Tomislava Gačića, vranjskog vladiku Pahomija, nevinim, oslobodivši ga optužbi za gnusna krivična dela kojima je povređivan elementarni integritet većeg broja maloletnika.

U.S. Government Increasingly Blocking Entry at the Border
Because of Ideology, ACLU Says

ACLU and NYCLU Release Government Records on "Ideological
Exclusion" Policy

NEW YORK -- July 12 -- The American Civil Liberties Union
and the New York Civil Liberties Union today released new
documents that indicate the government is broadly
interpreting and using a controversial Patriot Act power
known as the "ideological exclusion" provision to block
people from entering the country. The ACLU is concerned that
the provision is increasingly being used to target foreign
scholars and others whose politics the government disfavors.