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Thursday, July 6, 2006 |
Guardian: "Haruki Murakami has spoken about his fears for his country amid a rise in Japanese nationalism, and revealed plans to deal with the issue in his next novel.
'I'm worried about my country,' the author told the South China Morning Post, an English-language newspaper based in Hong-Kong. 'I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.'
He singled out Shintaro Ishihara, the right-wing governor of Tokyo, for particular criticism, calling him 'a very dangerous man'.
'He's an agitator,' Murakami reportedly said. 'He hates China.'"
Haruki Murakami is one of my favourite writers. 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle' is an amazing piece of literature.
This is one of his short stories: A Perfect Day for Kangaroos.
1:14:58 PM 
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America is still the topper in everything. It's also the most locked up country around.
Watch the Fiore animation.
America has gulags abroad but also in the US. Freedom and liberty? Forget it!
Of course, some see it all as 'perception management' (see the warning on the Wikipedia page). Some would like us to see a 'different truth', in short a lie.
I have reported here before about the new detention centres planned by Bush, to internate 'illegal aliens'.
CorpWatch: "Five major military contractors are competing to design a system to tackle up to two million undocumented immigrants a year in the United States. Boeing, Ericsson, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are working on proposals that focus on high technology rather than high fences, but ignoring some of the fundamental problems of immigration.
At each checkpoint along the path to citizenship or deportation - from desert wilderness to urban labyrinth - private contractors are expected to be hired to detect, apprehend, vet, detain, process, and potentially incarcerate or deport people seeking economic and human rights asylum in the U.S."
And it is all done to benefit private enterprise. Perception management will put everything in the right(wing) perspective.
Forbes: "The Department of Defense is conscious that there is an increasingly widespread public perception that the U.S. military is becoming brutalized by the campaign in Iraq. The Haditha killings are the latest in a series of incidents in which actual and alleged U.S. military atrocities have been exposed to a global audience.
Perception Management: Recognizing its vulnerability to information and media flows, the DoD has identified the information domain as its new 'asymmetric flank'.
Counter-Insurgency Conundrum: These ethics have become somewhat blurred in Iraq: in part because it is a campaign in which both sides have invested huge symbolic significance, and in part because the fighting is taking place in an ambiguous and constantly shifting environment."
The problem is that Bush is not in full control of other countries, to his dismay.
Reuters: "An Italian court has issued European arrest warrants for 22 suspected U.S. agents over the abduction of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. Nasr says he was flown to Egypt and tortured."
Scotsman: "The CIA has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants."
Because, after all, it is not a matter of tracking down real terrorists, but of subduing the population to the dictates of the neocons. And Bush has a huge problem with the population everywhere. Counterinsurgence is big on the agenda.
FAS: "The U.S. Marine Corps has recently published a series of documents on counterinsurgency."
The US is fighting the people, abroad and in the Heimat.
12:58:47 PM
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