London streets Bush 3 and Europe and open space and republics...

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday February 18, 2003 22:01 by iosaf = o as if = ipsiphi bcn

news-less.

you know what happened. you know how it happened. and you knew what they would say. they can handle that so it happens again. it goes on happening. that is what they cant handle.

Young Socialists held a rally in Madrid yesterday outside the US embassy with plackards asking Aznar what orders he had been given by Bush.

Aznar had a heavy day with Bush3 turning up in Madrid. Bush3 is Jeb Bush present governer of Florida. His visit has long been scheduled and though proving embarassing for a PP government somewhat taken aback by larger than usual popular demonstrations in Spain over the last weekend.
Jeb3 is the only Reublican who has been twice elected as Governer of Florida. It is a very important job and he saw to it that the Bush2 election was just so as it was just so in his state. Well though his website is based at "myflorida.com" he actually isnt a Floridan.

He was elected Florida's 43rd Governor in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. Since taking office, his top priority has been creating a world-class educational system through high standards and increased accountability. To achieve this goal, he has provided a record four-year increase of $2.9 billion (26 percent increase) in K-12 funding. He believes passionately that all children should learn a year's worth of knowledge in a year's worth of time. Governor Bush also boosted the state's reserve funds while reducing the state's tax burden to its lowest level in a decade. He has focused the state's resources toward protecting Florida's natural environment with an historic $2-billion commitment to saving Florida's Everglades. He has also increased health insurance coverage for needy children and provided unprecedented levels of funding and services to the elderly and the developmentally disabled. By taking advantage of online technology such as the state's web portal, www.myflorida.com, and thanks to outreach programs like his monthly "Open Office Hours" around Florida, Governor Bush continues to be the most accessible Governor in the state's history, providing all Floridians with greater opportunities to directly participate and communicate with their government and elected officials.

Could you tell that I didnt write all that?
yes Mr Bush3 did.
anyway last friday on the eve of the Global Day of Action against War, which some of you may have noticed, I wrote another piece of my "republics" series. I focussed on Berlusconi and Aznar. The work entitled "what is in it for them" suggested that Aznar and Burlosconi "Señor A" and "Senore B" were a focus of global attention.

Some readers quite rightly thought carefully to themselves and subsequently kept the secretaries most rightously busy with postal sacks of queries. Quieries Along these lines.

Q. Is not the modern State of Spain a Kingdom said these arranged in many substates called autonomies which somewhat reflect older ethnic linguistic cultural nations or regions?
A. well yes. The Spanish Republic is of course an "idealised" republic. It doesn´t exist at the moment. Unfortuantely Mr Jeb Bush (Bush 3) didnt go to the bother of clarifying this very same issue. He introduced Mr Aznar yesterday as "President of the Spanish Republic" to a group of Floridan business men who after helping Jeb (BUSH3) celebrate his birthday last week decided to come to Madrid to see what they could invest in. Jeb (bush3) is 50 years of age. (Capricorn). JEB BUSH (not bush 2 nor bush 1 he is bush 3) was born in Midland, Texas just like Bush2.

Anyway what do you think they were talking about?

what is in the valued support of the USA (under the Bushes) for España. [the kingdom not the republic]. Now I told everyone last week but some people are still poorly informed. Mr Jeb Bush (BUSH3) is a fluent speaker of spanish just like Mr Aznar and thus his words were "Aqui el presidente de la reublica de España".
and more....

"Spain can look forward to unimaginable benefits for supporting the War"
oh dear....unimaginable...just like the Prestige?
or.......larger than usual demonstrations?

Mr Jeb Bush (Bush3) has decided to stay on longer in Madrid and is reported by todays La Vanguardia newspaper to be staying till friday next.

London is as of yesterday subject to the long discussed imposition of a charge to motorists to enter the centre of the city. In the first day of its working nearly 85,000 cars have been caught.
That is my friends two cars every second.

This is a sign of the efficiency of the computerised system which combines street vigilance with optical recognition software. The recuperem els carrers bit of me is glad to see less cars in central London but that it must be achieved by penalising the poorest rave van operators who live just up the islington road is very bad. Also that it be achieved by continuing use of Londons CCTV computer control net I find in the words of one of my students "horrorificifying". I am most naturally very proud of the progress we are making. horror like terror is a difficult noun at times to manipulate into adjective.

Mr Jack Straw he of the London Yard has quite interestingly commented that to wage war is difficult with such popular support. The Reader will remember I earlier made reference to the larger than usual protests last weekend. A eager and hyperactive duo in Belgium have provided photos of all cities at the link below.

I though, think it might have more to do with the cost. I remember Mr Brown being very upset last week. So musing this I thought to wonder again the cost of the USA war for the Bush family finance. by the way Bush3 will stay in Madrid till Friday next but in office till 2007.when of course he can get another job.

let's look at a NYT (New York Times) estimate of the cost of a Bush war on Iraq.

Military Deployment = $79 billion
Military Occupation = $105 billion (First 5 years only.)
Humanitarian Aid = $10 billion
Governance = $12 billion
Reconsrtuction/Recovery = $105 billion
Debt/Claims/Reparation = $361 billion
Aid To Allies = $10 billion (Does not include quid pro quo deals)
TOTAL: $682 billion

The Bush budget assumes a deficit of $5.4 trillion by the end of ten years, but the addition of a Bush Iraq war deficit of .7 trillion will push it up to $6.1 trillion

trillions are very big and i never get feedback when i go into the effin big numbers so let us remember a starting point floated long ago.
uncivilization conference 2002 BCN.
We need two trillion dollars or euros to put everything right. = food & water & health products & sanitation & stuff like that.
"the basics".

Now Mrs Robinson has been busy for little Ireland that lovely place that punches well above its weight, and with her new Global thinktank/lobby block On January 14, 2003, "the Steering Committee of the Ethical Globalisation Initiative (EGI)" has been thinking of ways to cut down that two trillion to more easy to bear costs for the West. You can be pretty sure. I tell you! that politicians of the "tinker with figures" ilk are right now giving the "ethical investment solution" lots of support.

This is their interpretation of what occured last weekend. Though the reader ought remember that none of these people appeared on the street.

The Catalans back here at crazy BCN have gone to Quebec in the form of Maestro Jedi almost Yoda Jordi Pujol´s nominated succesor Mr Mas.
Mr Mas hopes to get the job of President of Catalonia. (for Mr Bush(3) advisors that is part of the Kingdom of Spain constitutionally. Mr Mas is bound to be on the scene for a while as well and has presented Quebecan (or is it Quebeqi) ok less messing.
Mr MAS has presented the Quebecois with his vision of "external association".

Isn´t the "external association" thing great? The Quebecois you will remember are looking forward to a referendum on independence in 2005.

now back to the high finance i love that stuff.

The Bush deficit of $304 billion, the largest in history as well as the most precipitous, (see above) is pre-budget. With the new Bush budget in place, our deficit is $5.4 trillion over ten years. (Bush is back-loading the deficit so the entire economic penality of what he is doing will not be readily apparent until after he is out of office.)oh....out of office? are the good people of the free west thinking that will be 2004/2005/2009/? and when will Bush3 pop up?

Other than that, it has occured to me having spent many days in discussion with ariticulate and brilliant minds as well as less than toned ways of saying how it is, that something has most definitely changed.

Some ten million and more of us have left our homes to enter the common space which is the streets of our cities. I think that continued "open space" need be afforded to those who did so. This last few days have been spent not only in various assemblies but in the metro with strangers (at their initiative) talking over "what is War?" "what means "peace"?"

I believe that a good part of those who gave the street their carnival like issue wished to not only be counted by various political parties but also articulate their hopes for the future.

I wrote long ago that we had the solutions to the problems. And often I have written the time has not yet come where we may safely pùt those solutions. -But it appears tobe sooner in many cities and countries. But most importantly not all. And so many of us feel yet again frustration at the ignorance of the causes of conflict and the dynamics of resolution. But if you only wish tinker with the problems 2 trillion dollars would help.

I had thought to write on the Kingdom of Belgium today and it has appeared "to chastise Bush 3" i have written of the Kingdoms of Spain and England instead- for not the first time.

Belgium is rich.
It has a king. He is very rich. Belgium gave the world and Northern Ireland the Hondt mechanism. Like Ireland it has suffered generations of state and authority collusion in Child abuse and serious negligence concering its investigation. It was the imperial power in central Africa was associated with extreme excesses. oh back back in Roger Casement days, before the Irish UN forces were eaten. (Ireland lost soldiers to cannibalism in former Belgian territory). The kingdom of Belgium is currently opposing "an illegal war" and seeking to bring international court actions against Mr Sharon of Israel. The Belgians are very good at law both internal and international as their natty little Hondt Mechanism suggests.

So that might prove interesting in the future.

http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=28961
last A-b.
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=29123
belgian guesteimates.