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Sebald-Shor synchronicities
by mattd 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

>>It's rare to read a book that isn't comparable to any others that I've read. Sebald covers every topic imaginable as we walk with him through Suffolk -- from Darwinism, to Borges, to Leopold's Congo, to herring fishing. This all occurs from taking small steps through Sufflok, and by noticing the details of everything that surrounds him, and by showing how everything is connected. I really think that Sebald has created a new kind of philosophy with this book; it's part existentialism, part metaphysical, and totally unique. Rings of Saturn review at Amazon. >>In her book "Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine" (Methuen, 1987), she argued that men, in taking the universal view, have historically tended to de-emphasize the importance of details. She suggested that details were considered ornamental or mundane, and as such, were deemed women's stuff. But at the same time, theorists like Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher whom Dr. Schor knew and interpreted in her writings, were coming to consider traditional visions of universal truth irrelevant. To them, the truth was in the meaning of details. "Does the triumph of detail signify a triumph of the feminine with which it has long been linked?" she asked. "Or has the detail achieved new prestige by being taken over by the masculine, triumphing at the very moment when it ceases to be associated with the feminine?" She relentlessly challenged conventional understanding in her teaching and writing as well as in a feminist journal she helped found in 1989 at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. Even the name of the journal "differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies" reflects her idiosyncratic outlook. She suggested putting the "s" in italics to make people think. (The lowercase "d" was chosen by graphic designers.) "She had this amazing way of making the familiar look unfamiliar," said Elizabeth Weed, the other founding editor. Dr. Schor was born on Oct. 10, 1943, in Manhattan. Her father, Ilya, was a painter, goldsmith and artist of Judaica. Her mother, Resia, was also an artist. They had fled from Poland to Paris to escape the Nazis, eventually reaching New York, by way of Lisbon, on Dec. 3, 1941. From nyt piece on the passing of naomi shor.Devils in the detail.

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Americans like killing, but hate being killed
by measl＠mfn.org 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

What's funny is how fast this would change if we were just to get a few more bodybags back... http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/15/ret.assassination.poll/index.html (CNN) -- A majority of Americans support giving government agents the power to assassinate terrorists despite a U.S. policy forbidding such actions, according to a Newsweek poll released Saturday. In addition, more than three-quarters of 1,003 people surveyed -- 78 percent -- said they favored using military force against Saddam Hussein's forces in Iraq, with 75 percent supporting operations against terrorist targets in other Middle Eastern nations and 66 percent backing those in countries outside the region. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin(a)mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Anarchy in the UK.
by mattd 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Police chief volunteers for the soft drill. Subject: patriot games Police chief hits back over Omagh. http://www.observer.co.uk/nireland/story/0,11008,619650,00.html Henry McDonald, Ireland editor Sunday December 16, 2001 The Observer The police chief at the centre of the row over the Omagh bombing last night launched a savage attack on 'highly unreliable' informants who claimed the RUC had ignored advance warnings of an attack. In his first newspaper interview since the controversy began, Sir Ronnie Flanagan - who had said publicly he would 'commit suicide' if allegations of incompetence were proved. ALSO The coming crypto-pedo crackdown. Subject: The Pedo-crackdown Police want new powers to lock up paedophiles. Martin Bright, home affairs editor Sunday December 16, 2001 The Observer Senior police officers last night called for powers to lock up dangerous paedophiles without charge to avoid a repeat of the Sarah Payne murder case. Sir John Stevens, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, believes that the authorities should have the power to 'section' high-risk paedophiles in the same way as schizophrenics can be removed from the community for treatment if they are judged a serious risk to themselves or others. More on... http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,619619,00.html The dickheads are getting desperate as JOG might say.

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Re: OBL's public key
by Anonymous 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Major Variola wrote: > If no one has already done this, the humor value in publishing a public key > under names like OBL would certainly collect some interesting messages. There are at least four keys on the PGP public key servers for OBL: Type Bits KeyID Created Expires Algorithm Use pub 1024 7D6B7194 1999-05-01 ---------- DSS Encrypt only sub 3072 A467CF86 1999-05-01 ---------- Diffie-Hellman uid Osama Ben Laden <fraud66(a)yahoo.com> pub 1024 E26E586C 2001-05-01 ---------- DSS Encrypt only sub 2048 6603204E 2001-05-01 ---------- Diffie-Hellman uid Osama Bin Laden pub 1024 54A68C12 2001-10-13 ---------- DSS Encrypt only sub 1536 CA5B39D2 2001-10-13 ---------- Diffie-Hellman uid osama bin laden <cyberkmeleon(a)hotmail.com> pub 1024 7AD74ED0 2001-10-23 2002-10-23 DSS Encrypt only sub 2048 8F6E73AA 2001-10-23 2002-10-23 Diffie-Hellman uid Osama Bin Laden <WTC-Lover(a)hotmail.com>

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ATTN.JYA.
by mattd 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Operation Soft Drill.Website. A website is under development and construction in the wildnets.Expressions of interest invited from www.cryptome.org addicts. Site shall have the names of prominent criminals such as Somoza,Shah P,Marcos, W.Colby,Mountbattan and so on,all crossed out. Visitors to the site may vote as to who's next.The name with the most votes going to the top of the list.Site will list Quad anon surfing and sending advice and crypto download sites as well as links to various quality anarchist pages. "Whoever places their hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant.I declare them my enemy." PJ Proudon.

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OBL's public key
by Major Variola (ret) 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

At 10:16 PM 12/15/01 -0800, John Young wrote: > >Wonder if there are publics keys in the registries for AF? If no one has already done this, the humor value in publishing a public key under names like OBL would certainly collect some interesting messages. It would also demonstrate something about the (lack of) value of a claimed (but personally unverified) association of a Real Meat Person and a key. (A good prankster would of course create other IDs which would vouch for OBLs.. much like when a CIA agent gives out a number which will vouch for his employment in a benign industry..) ---- Font: Daschle-Anthrax-Bold

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Tailgunner jamesd and the year of the rat.
by mattd 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

1976 -- Jamesd, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months, dies returning from the evening meal. His last mortal words: "I'm stuffed." 1983 -- Columnist Lars-Erik Nelson after checking the citations on all 434 Congressional Medal of Honor awarded during World War II, reveals that not one of them matches the story acting President Reagan told the other day. "It's not true," writes Nelson. Responds Reagan's man, Larry Speakes, "If you tell the same story five times, it's true." 1998 -- Author William Gaddis dies. The day on which a libidinal American President, counting the hours before his impeachment, launched yet another series of bomb attacks on an Iraqi population already unconscionably squeezed & starved, America's most proficient satirist died.... http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/gaddis.html http://home.pacbell.net/freeron/gaddis/ 2000 -- US: The president of the Florida Holocaust Museum recently noted that George W. Bush's grandfather derived a portion of his personal fortune through his affiliation with a Nazi-controlled bank. John Loftus, a former prosecutor in the Justice Department's Nazi War Crimes Unit, said his research found that Bush's grandfather was a principal in the Union Banking Corp. in the late 1930s & the 1940s. That money flows into American politics today, he said, from "a series of multinational corporations behaving like pirates. They don't care about ideology; they care about money." "That's where the Bush family fortune came from: It came from the Third Reich," Loftus said. http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115 http://www.geocities.com/dudar2000/Bcc.htm http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/ratline.html ________________ "The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe." Frank Rizzo, Philadelphia Police Chief, Resident Philosopher http://users.lanminds.com/zapoid/p-dem-env-061899-432-jkap.jpg URLS on breaking au news...above's from http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/calmast.htm http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20530&group=webcast Biker's blues http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=9337&group=webcast Reactor rats.

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Government Grants Information Package........... 3878
by j8012＠mailme.dk 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

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Terrortorial:Mc Donalds bombed,Reactor hijacked,Intenational bikie terror alert.
by mattd 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

The latest in a series of bombings in China has killed one person and injured 30. The explosion ripped through a McDonald's outlet in the western city of Xi'an at the weekend. The blast, timed for the evening meal rush-hour at 6.30pm, has been blamed on "international terrorism". The story of Mark and Jacqueline Hinchcliffe is so dark, so bleak, and at times so vile, as to be almost unimaginable. What's extraordinary is that we know it from their own mouths, because in the months leading up to the killing of Wright, Perth detectives were legally intercepting calls on Mark Hinchcliffe's mobile phone. http://smh.com.au/news/0112/17/national/national2.html International terrorists have just stormed a nuclear reactor in breaking news out of sydney au today.Full report on this and mass civil disobedience/sabotage in au to follow.Also a massive black economy is developing in OZ,similar to UK's.

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Who's on first?
by mattd 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Your taxes at work dept; Massive increases in Humint and NSA,etc.2002 (cryptome) >>the intelligence community has got to be better focused on strategic intelligence and better positioned to be able to get access to so-called plans and intentions, that is, what is going on in the minds of the evil-doers, the mischief makers, in order to prevent the crisis. We do not want to be just great at sweeping up after the tragedy; we want to stop the tragedy before it happens<< Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad of Malaysia said that the United States has been learning from his country how to combat terrorism and that the West, which once accused him of trampling on human rights, now is following him. "It's no good taking action after the crime," Mr. Mahathir said. "We have to act in anticipation, and not in the usual manner, because having to find proof of a crime which has not yet been committed is difficult." Timmy preserve us! >>Direct action_ is what it's all about. Undermining the state through the spread of espionage networks, through undermining faith in the tax system, through even more direct applications of the right tools at the right times. When Cypherpunks are called "terrorists," we will have done our jobs.<< Or,when we get called evil-doers,mischief makers and/or pedophile pornographers? A Chinese guy just pulled 4 years for a post re.Tienamin square.As crypto winters getting nippy I suggest a pre-emptive strike.Soft drill fort detrick,anyone theres fair game.No jury would convict.

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