Jo&Sanja on Thu, 9 Sep 1999 15:33:35 +0200 (CEST) |
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nettime-nl: East Timor |
Another fall-out from the "realpolitik": East Timor. The same pattern: the U.S. guided by Kissinger or somebody from his "school" (Eagleburger, Scowcroft, Baker, Vance, Holbroke...) lets a local strongman oppress his people and his neighbours unchecked. Then the strongman grows old, or dies, or gets weaker by the turn of global markets, and the chaos sets in. The new interactive electronic media brings that chaos painfully close to everybody and suddenly those who thought of themselves as the world's moral authority are embarassed into having created the worst of all possible world for millions around the globe: Chile, South America in general East Timor and the rest of Indonesia Iran Iraq Congo and Central Africa in general Yugoslavia or what was of it and I am sure I missed something, but it will reveal itself sooner than later.... Check this out: East Timorese have their cyberhome in Ireland - and it is invided by Indonesian hackers! http://www.freedom.tp/press.htm ivo ps - there is highly interesting development in Venezuela - the LARGEST exporter of oil to the U.S. raised the price of its oil from $7 to $17 in the past six months bringing its oil price in sync with the world markets under the new political leadership. Venezuela also held meetings with Mexican and Saudi oil ministers (2nd and 3rd largest oil exporters to the U.S.). This is a serious threat for American way of life, so, I guess, we should expect Venezuela engulfed in some sort of the civil war soon. Please, check: http://balkansnet.org/raccoon/torres.html -- * Verspreid via nettime-nl. Commercieel gebruik niet toegestaan zonder * toestemming. <nettime-nl> is een gesloten en gemodereerde mailinglist * over net-kritiek. Meer info: list@dds.nl met 'info nettime-nl' in de * tekst v/d email. Archief: http://www.factory.org/nettime-nl. Contact: * nettime-nl-owner@dds.nl. Int. editie: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime.