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Alan Dojoji Pushes Fau Ferdinand in the Water because She's not Paying Him
any ATTENTION!
so the story will be about I'm trying DESPERATELY TO GET YOUR ATTENTION,
but you're ignoring me because you're away or sleeping or not watching the
terrific goings-on in OpenSim so I sneak up on you (because you're not
looking) and push you into the water which is very difficult because
pushing avatars requires the greatest skill, making sure that the pusher
is right behind the pushee, otherwise the pushee escapes, so you're pushed
into the water and just as you're falling you wake up and type "UOY" which
can only mean it's a backwards world, and then we're both in the water and
I'm dancing furiously and AGAIN YOU'RE PAYING NO ATTENTION!
http://www.alansondheim.org/overtheedge.mp4
(watch the action!)
http://www.alansondheim.org/heylook1.png
http://www.alansondheim.org/heylook2.png
http://www.alansondheim.org/heylook3.png
http://www.alansondheim.org/heylook4.png
(I'm trying to get her ATTENTION!)
the shaman
or the body of the shaman, and the shaman is androgynous,
substance. that object cures; you are a curing shaman, mediating the
speech, song, ownerships, shamanic practices, ours is the life,
devouring is a decathexis returned to our fetishistic/shamanic
pill or secrecy of the fetish-object. which means that this has
gathered within the shamanistic fetish for the expulsion of male,
kill all priest. worry lama. hunt rabbi. kill shaman. kill all grand
shamans, of s shaman, a appealing t to t the s spirit o of s swan.
surely the result is a form of prosthetic shamanism, the fetish
draws us within the museum of interiority.
the elder shamanic ascent and descent, recognition of alterity, altered
spaces of dreams, shamanic spaces,
runways laid out in shamanic configuration,
oh my sisther told me she was a vary big shaman
oh my mother told me she was a vary big shaman
the gestures are those of the mad shaman conjuring or producing spirit.
for this interweaving - at least in a world where shamanisms are suspect,
we are cyber-shamanisms, we extend the body into blank spaces behind the
perfect power and cleanliness, empathy, we learn
the sacred paths of prostitution and shamanism. you are our fantasy,
yes, we must first learn the knowledge of prostitution and shamanism.
i will not be a shaman. i do not have the training to be a shaman. i will
from home of home. i do not have the knowledge to be a shaman. i do not
i will not stand on sky-pole of arctic sickness,
not being a shaman: topology order zero.
not being a shaman cross-the-bridge: topology order one.
not being a shaman cross-the-bridge: topology order zero.
i become shaman, unknown,
our pottery is covered with intricate designs. our shamans
kill all priest. worry lama. hunt rabbi. kill shamans. kill all grand
shamans then i die shaman then i die oh oh you can tell oh oh
o of s shaman, a appealing t to t the s spirit o of s swan.
o shaman, what speaks through the shaman, through the materiality of the
shaman in order to speak of the other that is human?
gathering within the shamanistic fetish for the expulsion of males,
good, the battle of the shamans and the warriors - the warriors
fighting forever, the shamans healing the warriors -
now there's a skeleton behind the shaman and the shaman is controlling the
skeleton or the skeleton the shaman because they
gathered within the fetish, i have told you.
[12:05] you: ghost-traps? i think come into play; shamanism is
chthonic ritual, abjection, the power-holder doll, who brings the power?
i am a shaman without redemption or belief,
i promulgate the notion of veracity or shamanism, and even animal
movements.
we are cyber-shamanisms, we extend the body into blank spaces behind the
double of the body of the shaman, and the shaman
curing shaman, mediating the real,
nothing spiritual here,
o tiger-riding shaman several centuries old
shamanistic passage, but the secrecy of individual power and shame, the
shaman in order to speak of the other that is human?
fighting forever, the shamans healing the warriors,
fighting forever, healing.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:54:57
From: Portside Moderator <moderator@PORTSIDE.ORG>
To: PORTSIDE@LISTS.PORTSIDE.ORG
Subject: Wikileaks - Julian Assange - "The Truth Will Always Win" and
War.Wikileaks.Protest: Why New Evidence Demands End to Wars
Wikileaks - Julian Assange - "The Truth Will Always Win" and
War.Wikileaks.Protest: Why New Evidence Demands End to Wars
1. The Truth Will Always Win by Julian Assange
(The Australian)
2. War.Wikileaks.Protest: Why New Evidence Demands End to
Wars by Medea Benjamin, Leslie Cagan, Tim Carpenter, Gael
Murphy, Cindy Sheehan, David Swanson, Debra Sweet
(Progressive Democrats of America)
==========
The Truth Will Always Win
by Julian Assange
The Australian
December 7, 2010
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/australianmedia/comments/julian1/
In 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of
Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and
truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win."
His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's
expose that Australian troops were being needlessly
sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores
of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith
Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the
termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign.
Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly
publishing facts that need to be made public.
I grew up in a Queensland country town where people spoke
their minds bluntly. They distrusted big government as
something that could be corrupted if not watched carefully.
The dark days of corruption in the Queensland government
before the Fitzgerald inquiry are testimony to what happens
when the politicians gag the media from reporting the truth.
These things have stayed with me. WikiLeaks was created
around these core values. The idea, conceived in Australia ,
was to use internet technologies in new ways to report the
truth.
WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific
journalism. We work with other media outlets to bring people
the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific
journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click
online to see the original document it is based on. That way
you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the
journalist report it accurately?
Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is
part of that media. The media helps keep government honest.
WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and
Afghan wars, and broken stories about corporate corruption.
People have said I am anti-war: for the record, I am not.
Sometimes nations need to go to war, and there are just
wars. But there is nothing more wrong than a government
lying to its people about those wars, then asking these same
citizens to put their lives and their taxes on the line for
those lies. If a war is justified, then tell the truth and
the people will decide whether to support it.
If you have read any of the Afghan or Iraq war logs, any of
the US embassy cables or any of the stories about the things
WikiLeaks has reported, consider how important it is for all
media to be able to report these things freely.
WikiLeaks is not the only publisher of the US embassy
cables. Other media outlets, including Britain `s The
Guardian, The New York Times, El Pais in Spain and Der
Spiegel in Germany have published the same redacted cables.
Yet it is WikiLeaks, as the co-ordinator of these other
groups, that has copped the most vicious attacks and
accusations from the US government and its acolytes. I have
been accused of treason, even though I am an Australian, not
a US, citizen. There have been dozens of serious calls in
the US for me to be "taken out" by US special forces. Sarah
Palin says I should be "hunted down like Osama bin Laden", a
Republican bill sits before the US Senate seeking to have me
declared a "transnational threat" and disposed of
accordingly. An adviser to the Canadian Prime Minister's
office has called on national television for me to be
assassinated. An American blogger has called for my 20-year-
old son, here in Australia, to be kidnapped and harmed for
no other reason than to get at me.
And Australians should observe with no pride the disgraceful
pandering to these sentiments by Prime Minister Gillard and
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have not had a word of
criticism for the other media organisations. That is because
The Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel are old and
large, while WikiLeaks is as yet young and small.
We are the underdogs. The Gillard government is trying to
shoot the messenger because it doesn't want the truth
revealed, including information about its own diplomatic and
political dealings.
Has there been any response from the Australian government
to the numerous public threats of violence against me and
other WikiLeaks personnel? One might have thought an
Australian prime minister would be defending her citizens
against such things, but there have only been wholly
unsubstantiated claims of illegality. The Prime Minister and
especially the Attorney-General are meant to carry out their
duties with dignity and above the fray. Rest assured, these
two mean to save their own skins. They will not.
Every time WikiLeaks publishes the truth about abuses
committed by US agencies, Australian politicians chant a
provably false chorus with the State Department: "You'll
risk lives! National security! You'll endanger troops!" Then
they say there is nothing of importance in what WikiLeaks
publishes. It can't be both. Which is it?
It is neither. WikiLeaks has a four-year publishing history.
During that time we have changed whole governments, but not
a single person, as far as anyone is aware, has been harmed.
But the US , with Australian government connivance, has
killed thousands in the past few months alone.
US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates admitted in a letter to
the US congress that no sensitive intelligence sources or
methods had been compromised by the Afghan war logs
disclosure. The Pentagon stated there was no evidence the
WikiLeaks reports had led to anyone being harmed in
Afghanistan . NATO in Kabul told CNN it couldn't find a
single person who needed protecting. The Australian
Department of Defence said the same. No Australian troops or
sources have been hurt by anything we have published.
But our publications have been far from unimportant. The US
diplomatic cables reveal some startling facts:
The US asked its diplomats to steal personal human material
and information from UN officials and human rights groups,
including DNA, fingerprints, iris scans, credit card
numbers, internet passwords and ID photos, in violation of
international treaties. Presumably Australian UN diplomats
may be targeted, too.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia asked the US Officials in
Jordan and Bahrain want Iran `s nuclear program stopped by
any means available.
Britain's Iraq inquiry was fixed to protect "US interests".
Sweden is a covert member of NATO and US intelligence
sharing is kept from parliament.
The US is playing hardball to get other countries to take
freed detainees from Guantanamo Bay . Barack Obama agreed to
meet the Slovenian President only if Slovenia took a
prisoner. Our Pacific neighbour Kiribati was offered
millions of dollars to accept detainees.
In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US
Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can
effectively expose deception in government". The swirling
storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend
the right of all media to reveal the truth.
[Julian Assange is the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks.]
==========
War.Wikileaks.Protest: Why New Evidence Demands End to
Wars
by Medea Benjamin, Leslie Cagan, Tim Carpenter, Gael
Murphy, Cindy Sheehan, David Swanson, Debra Sweet
Progressive Democrats of America
December 2, 2010
http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/alliances/2010-12-02-02-54-52-alliances.php
With Wikileaks Revelations, Peace Community Redoubles
Demand for End to Wars and Voices Support for
Whistleblowers
While only a tiny fraction of the U.S. diplomatic
cables scheduled for publication by Wikileaks have thus
far been made available, some conclusions can already
be drawn. These cables and the Iraq and Afghan War
Diaries provide an opportunity for Americans to see our
government for what it is.
Our government is seen here as controlling a global
military and espionage empire that impacts every region
of the globe and deceives its own population. Secrecy,
spying, and hostility have infected our entire
government, turning the diplomatic corps into an arm of
the CIA and the military, just as the civilian efforts
in Afghanistan are described by Richard Holbrooke, who
heads them up, as "support for the military." Secret
war planning, secret wars, and lies about wars have
become routine. The United States is secretly and
illegally engaged in a war in Yemen and has persuaded
that nation's government to lie about it. The United
States has supported a coup in Honduras and lied about
it.
We have long known that the war on terrorism was
increasing, rather than diminishing, terrorism. These
leaks show Saudi Arabia to be the greatest sponsor of
terrorism, and show that nation's dictator, King
Abdullah, to be very close to our own government in its
treatment of prisoners. He has urged the United States
to implant microchips in prisoners released from
Guantanamo. And he has urged the United States to
illegally and aggressively attack Iran. Congress should
immediately block what would be the largest weapons
sale in U.S. history, selling this country $60 billion
in weapons. And Congress should drop any idea of
"updating" the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force
to permit presidents to unconstitutionally launch more
wars. We see what sort of wars our allies urge on our
presidents.
We learn that while dictators urge war, other branches
of the same governments, the people, and the evidence
weigh against it. We learn from a cable from last
February that Russia has refuted U.S. claims that Iran
has missiles that could target Europe. We learn from
September 2009 that the United States and Britain
planned to pressure Yukiya Amano, the then incoming
head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to
produce reports suggesting Iranian nuclear
developments, whether or not merited by the facts, and
that National Security Adviser Gen. Jim Jones proposed
the propaganda strategy of baselessly tying Iran's
nuclear program to North Korea's.
Much of the pressure for war appears to come from
within the United States, whose representatives treat
the entire world as a hostile enemy to be spied on,
lied to, and exploited. The secrecy that permits this
behavior must be broken if the United States' approach
to the world is to change. Those who have helped to
fulfill President Obama's campaign promise of
transparency must be protected from his vengeance,
while those who have abused positions of diplomatic
trust to advance agendas of espionage and war planning
must be held accountable.
While other countries may offer residency and
protection to Wikileaks' Julian Assange, it is the
United States that has most benefitted from his work.
We encourage U.S. cities to offer him sanctuary.
Our Department of Justice has granted immunity for
aggressive war, kidnapping, torture, assassination, and
warrantless spying, while pursuing the criminal
prosecution of Bradley Manning for allegedly leaking
materials to Wikileaks. Were our government to indict
Assange or support the extradition or rendition of
Assange from anywhere in the world to Sweden, while
maintaining that his work and not the Pentagon's has
endangered us, our nation's moral standing would reach
a new low.
Our government should cease any actions it is taking to
prosecute Julian Assange for absurd criminal charges,
to pressure Sweden to do so, or to sabotage Wikileaks'
servers. Coverups of leaks have a history in Washington
of backfiring in the form of larger leaks and scandals.
Our State Department should focus on diplomacy and
mutually beneficial partnerships with the world
community.
The undersigned express our gratitude to those doing
the job a representative government and an independent
media are each supposed to do. We demand an end to all
overt and covert wars, a ban on the use of State
Department employees and contractors in spying or
warfare, and a full investigation of the facts revealed
in the Wikileaks cables.
We support the protest of our current wars planned for
December 16th, 10 a.m., at the White House.
Signed,
Medea Benjamin, Leslie Cagan, Tim Carpenter, Gael Murphy,
Cindy Sheehan, David Swanson, Debra Sweet, Ann Wright,
Kevin Zeese
==========
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