Who paid the piper? The CIA and the cultural cold war

 ”Through myriad projects, from cash- heavy prizes to magazines such as Encounter and international conferences, the beneficiaries included WH Auden, AA Milne, Nancy Mitford, Mary MacCarthy, Stephen Spender, Jackson Pollock, Isaiah Berlin and George Orwell.”

Monday Book: Intelligentsia and the CIA
Independent, The (London), Jun 28, 1999 by Julie Wheelwright

Who paid the piper? The CIA and the cultural cold war. - Stonor Saunders

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990628/ai_n14226234

Ulster Unionists and Irish republicans

Ulster Unionists and Irish republicans formed a coalition government for the first time - 29 Nov 1999.

TV networks turn a blinkered camera to the violence of Seattle

WTO Protest: TV networks turn a blinkered camera to the violence of Seattle
Independent, The (London), Dec 2, 1999

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991202/ai_n14271332

Protests - Seattle - end of 1999

The problem with violent films

Professor Kevin Browne

The “volatile combination” - children from violent families will be influenced by violent movies.

But maybe more important is the way violent films desensitive people to violence - they become passive to violence?

Drawings of Gulag life made in secret by an NKVD officer, Colonel Danzig Baldayev.

http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9906&L=dsch-l&T=0&I=-3&P=17166

His tattoo work seems well know - but why aren’t Baldayev’s drawings of Gulag life on the web? Still no interest?

The web has maded information more accessible - but is it getting to the point that it doesn’t exist if not on the web? Cos the kids don’t read books? I dunno. Just a thought.

Cloning embryos

The rich will want the best and will pay for their children to be engineered.

But how can any child live up to that?

Unhappiness follows?

Throw in chance and…

When the rich make war

When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die.

JP Satre

Chris Grimshaw

 http://www.ukwatch.net/author/chris_grimshaw

Is this the same Grimshaw who was called an Oxford educated anarchist - June 1999?

J18 etc

Beware a knock on the door by the information police

Chris Gulker 1999 - I’ll come back to this - nothing much has changed. http://www.gulker.com

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/beware-the-knock-on-thedoor-from-the-information-police-743209.html

Nature tends not to favour large, isolated aggregates of anything. This is whythere tends to be air in every corner of a room - air doesn’t naturally accrete to some mysterious central power in one corner, leaving a vacuumelsewhere in the room. Well, information tends to behave similarly. The adage “information wants to be free” underscores the tendency ofinformation to spread rapidly in all available directions. Evenly distributedinformation empowers all equally.

Western history is full of examples ofsocial arrangements where wealth and power were not equitably distributed,and life was rough in those times. Few of us, probably, would bewilling to trade our life for that of a feudal serf, for example.

Thusan arrangement that allows the unequal distribution of information is the firststep toward the unequal distribution of other things. Yet the mere gatheringof information isn’t illegal - students and researchers do it everyday, and much good has come of that. In any case, it would bedifficult to prevent, even if it were to be outlawed.

Wave goodbye to the nine to five, and say hello to virtual enterprise

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/mar/14/workandcareers.worklifebalance?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

Necro war

Sarjevo, August 1994

Serbs and Muslims exchanged their dead. It could be said that  the dead marked out their territory? Dig up the dead enemy and that land is no longer the enemies’ ?

The fall of Saigon

Twenty-five years ago next week, James Fenton found himself at the centre of one of the most extraordinary events of the 20th century. Here, the poet and former Independent journalist recalls how, as a 26-year-old freelance reporter, he witnessed the chaotic and terrifying final act of the Vietnam War. Friday, 21 April 2000

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/the-fall-of-saigon-720619.html

Ciceronian structure

Ciceronian

www.sas.upenn.edu/cwic/docs/so2.doc

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peroration
[pe‐rŏ‐ray‐shŭn], the conclusion of a formal speech (or written argument), in which the previous points are summed up in a forceful appeal to the audience; or any formal and impassioned speech, in its entirety.

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Ciceronian structure prepares the audience to be as receptive as possible to the speaker’s thesis, which is not given until the middle of the speech, and to assent to the speaker’s conclusion or call to action, which is reserved for the end of the speech. Below is a minimal version of the structure. As with any organizational structure, the elements listed below should be moved, modified or abandoned as is necessary for the creation of a convincing argument.

 

Exordium: introduce the topic; define ethos, logos and pathos appeals (or appeals of credibility, reason and emotion). Demonstrate that the topic affects the audience directly

 

Partition: introduce the major sub-topics of the presentation (this is a “preview”)

 

Narration: give important and non-controversial background information

 

Confirmation: cite sources and authorities

 

Refutation/Concession: minimize resistance by dispelling opposing arguments or by demonstrating that they do not apply to the topic of the presentation. One might also think of this part of the speech as an attempt to establish a common understanding with the audience by conceding their viewpoint, before presenting the argument

 

Definition: define the THESIS of the argument, and define important terms used in the thesis

 

Evidence/Digression: present evidence/examples in support of the thesis

 

Prolepsis/Anticipation: respond to possible rebuttals to evidence/examples

 

Peroration: climax of speech; appeal to the audience to affirm the thesis of the speech and therefore affirm a specific course of action or belief

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White House and Capitol built by slaves

White House and Capitol built by $5-a-month slaves
Independent, The (London), Jul 14, 2000 by Andrew Marshall in Washington

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000714/ai_n14329241