Re: Re: Pentagon's New Map / New Book

"Show me where globalization is thick with network connectivity, 
financial transactions, liberal media flows, and collective security, 
and I will show you regions featuring stable governments, rising 
standards of living, and more deaths by suicide than murder."

so if globalization continues, should we hope for increases in suicide 
rates?  (god knows we're not gonna stop killing our brothers and 
ex-wives here in the great us of a)

but seriously, this is a scary quote:
"In sum, it is always possible to fall off this bandwagon called 
globalization.  And when you do, bloodshed will follow.  If you are 
lucky, so will American troops."

David Van Horn wrote:
> (Yeah, I know nobody read the last selection.)

ah, but that's where you're wrong.  for one of my best friend's bday 
here on the 3rd of july, i gave him a copy of the zine, paperback copy 
of the book, and a bh stenciled helmet t-shirt.

he was stoked.

waiting for him to get back from vacation so i can steal a read.

-j

MY VOTE FOR NEXT BOOK: "Still Life with Woodpecker" by Tom Robbins

I'm half way through this right now, and it's a great read.  Nader is an 
integral character too.  Fiction, but funny, smart, witty.  I nominate 
this book as an easy light read that will *possibly* change your life. 
Or so a lot of people say.  I feel strongly with this following piece:

"Victim? The difference between a criminal and an outlaw is that while 
criminals frequently are victims, outlaws never are. Indeed, the first 
step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized."

"All people who live subject to other people's laws are victims. People 
who break laws out of greed, frustration, or vengeance are victims. 
People who overturn laws in order to replace them with their own laws 
are victims. (I am speaking here of revolutionaries.) We outlaws, 
however, live beyond the law. We don't merely live beyond the letter of 
the law--many businessmen, most politicians, and all cops do that--we 
live beyond the spirit of the law. In a sense, then, we live beyond 
society. Have we a common goal, that goal is to turn the tables on the 
nature of society. When we succeed, we raise the exhilaration content of 
the universe. We even raise it a little bit when we fail."

user reviews at amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553348973/104-5372081-2567928?v=glance
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