[Up!Open] [NetBehaviour] [spectre] looks like Slovenia might be next

Sat Jun 25 00:19:39 CEST 2011

Hey what's wrong with rediscovering Europe?

Columbus 4.0?

We welcome you back !-)

René

Op 16 jun 2011, om 17:51 heeft Alan Sondheim het volgende geschreven:

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> It's interesting that you write this; I look around me and the U.S. isn't the country I grew up in although the roots were there of course. Ignorance and religion and bigotry is rampant, as is fear of science; well more than half don't believe in evolution (we're second from the bottom of industrialized countries, just above Turkey); we're 17th in education and dropping, lower in quality of life; our health-care is the most expensive in the world and offers the least; 90 % of us believe in miracles; we're busting unions, creating enclaved neighborhoods that smack of old-time racism; and the top 1 % controls 90 % of the wealth. You can feel the anger on the streets, among the homeless, etc. It's hopeless; with China haunting our debt, we're not going to pull out. And we have fools like Palin and Weiner taking up our time. I won't even get on about education here, but even in liberal NYC 6000 teachers are being let go, and the average class size for even pre-schoolers starts at 30 up to 60. We're energy gluttons and have been busy continuing our attack on W. Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania for what little resources/ecology is left.
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> If we could, we'd leave, but no one would have us; we're broke.
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> We can't wait for the Fourth of July!
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> - Alan
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> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Ana Vald?s wrote:
> 
>> That's one of the reasons I am moving back to South America. Once, in the
>> Seventies, when we were young and a bit naive, we believed in the Messianic
>> Revolutions. We fought against rogue generals and corrupt politicians and we
>> paid a heavy prize, prison, torture, death.
>> Many of us come to Europe, the continent of our ancestors (I have Spanish
>> and Italian grandfathers and grandmothers) and got asylum and a time to
>> recover. Our ancestors fled from an empoverished Europe who prosecuted the
>> poor and the rebelious.
>> Now in South America every people in the region choose a leftist or social
>> democrat alternative, not because they dream about utopia but because they
>> are tired of neoliberal experiments.
>> Europe is going again the way of authoritarism and control who chased away
>> my ancestors from here.
>> I am going back to Uruguay to find a space and a place to resist and create.
>> I hope many of you in the list can be part of future projects linking the
>> North and the South. Maybe we can make the global diaspora to a borderless
>> creative world :)
>> Ana
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Simon Biggs <simon at littlepig.org.uk> wrote:
>>      It is something big; sweeping global social change arising from
>>      economic
>>      realignment. Post-crash Europe is going through a socio-economic
>>      realignment
>>      that recognises the emerging dominance of international trade
>>      and cultural
>>      exchange by countries such as China, India and Brazil. As part
>>      of this
>>      process countries that once sustained values founded on social
>>      democratic
>>      principles are having to adapt their economies (material and
>>      cultural) to
>>      the instrumentalist models that underpin the emergent economies
>>      capacity to
>>      out-perform their competitors. The Anglo-American model has been
>>      under
>>      pressure at the same time, leading to the progressive collapse
>>      of the social
>>      contracts that underpinned them. We are moving from the European
>>      millennium
>>      to the Asian.
>> 
>>      Best
>> 
>>      Simon
>> On 16/06/2011 10:55, "Andreas Broeckmann" <ab at dortmunder-u.de> wrote:
>> > the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio
>> euros.
>> >
>> > (is this an accidental series, or are we
>> > observing the erosion of something big?)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Delo - Slowenien
>> > Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen
>> >
>> > Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am
>> > Mittwoch ihren Entwurf f?r den Haushaltsplan 2012
>> > vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen
>> > Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei
>> > anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale
>> > Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verst?ndnis
>> > f?r die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur:
>> > "Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen
>> > Kulturrats eher zur?ckhaltend. Doch nun waren sie
>> > so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorw?rfen an die
>> > Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zur?ckhaltend
>> > waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte.
>> > Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt
>> > Maribor 2012 gro?e Probleme. Aufgeschoben w?rden
>> > zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper
>> > Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so
>> > weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte
>> > Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte
>> > Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grunds?tzliche
>> > Rolle der Kultur f?r die Entwicklung jedes
>> > einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats
>> > vergessen hat." (16.06.2011)
>> >
>> > http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html
>> > (externer Link, slowenisch)
>> >
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>> 
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