I dare to imagine that researchers, experts and scholars who have
recognized the potentiality of Systems Thinking supported when
necessary by Cybernetic Interactions when searching to deal
'scientifically' - therefore ethically - with the worst crisis ever
faced by humankind might immediately offer enough light for helping
millions of people to change consciously the political climate that
has been intelligently structured --but derived from narrow minded,
short-sighted and even blind appraisals-- for organizing another
World War against humanity.
elohimjl
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From: Thommandel@aol.com
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 13:48:50 EST
Subject: [issues] bushwacked by the Republicans.
To: issues@isss.org
Americans have been bushwacked by the Republicans. First there is the
black and white division of "Either you are for us or you are against
us," followed by the outright lie that we are in a declared war. And
due to this pseudo war, our rights have been threatened if not taken
away, the government reorganized such that the president is directly
in charge of it all, and now our CIA can take anyone out without a
trial. To finance all this, money will be diverted from social
programs, (taken from the poor) with tax breaks given to those who
have too much already, and will use the money to buy the land.
We have become like them.
>From: Thommandel@aol.com
>17 Dec 2002 [issues] bushwacked by the Republicans.
>To: issues@isss.org
>
>In a message dated 12/15/02 1:24:32 PM Central Standard Time,
>gianfranco.minati@airs.it writes:
>
>>I'm really afraid we are very close to the end of democracy when
>>consensus may be bought. I presented for the next ISSS2003
>>Conference in Crete an abstract: Buying consensus in "free"
>>markets: the end of democracy?
>>I think that we systems scientist must take action making the
>>consensus manipulating processes by using marketing techniques,
>>making equivalent to buy a product or to vote for a candidate, very
>>evident.
>>
>>Thank you Tom
>>
>>Gianfranco
>
>I know some would say the problem is very complex, and there isn't
>much we can do about it. But I like to think in a simple way, and in
>that simple way it appears to me that certain people are using the
>language to create a situation, and then once the masses are
>convinced this situation is real, the certain people ask the masses
>"how are we doing?" and the masses approve. I am certain that the
>government knows all about mind-control and manipulation of the
>masses.
>
>I wonder why though. What is the ulterior motive? Is it to gain
>control over the oil? Or is it to divert attention away from the
>plight of the common man?
>
>In any case, it appears that money is the reason for everything.
>Everything the government is doing revolves around money. It used to
>be that America was about the people, of the people and for the
>people now it is of the people, by the people with money and for the
>people with money.
>
>How did it get to be that this entire world exists only for the
>benefit of people with money?
>
>Think about it, isn't money is like blood, flowing from here to
>there, carrying nourishment and wastes? But what happen if one or
>two organs start to collect blood? Pretty soon other organs will
>starve, one way or the other, and begin to feel pain. Who kows what
>they will do next...
>
>tom
From: <answer.general@action-mail.org> (A.N.S.W.E.R.)
Subject: [ANSWER]: What to expect from Bush
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:44:44 -0500
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM BUSH
Frustrated that Iraq appears to be cooperating with the United
Nations' intrusive weapons inspections, the Bush Administration is
rushing this week to proclaim that the so-called disarmament effort
has failed: that inspections are an empty effort and the 12,000 page
Iraqi declaration is insufficient.
It is urgent that the anti-war movement not be lulled into a false
sense of optimism because Iraq and the UN are cooperating. Various
governments are reporting that they are hopeful that the inspections
process can help avoid war. UN General Secretary Kofi Annan went out
of his way to say that war is not inevitable.
However, the extent to which the world is voicing cautious optimism
about a peaceful solution, is also the extent to which the Bush
foreign policy team is racing to dash all hope for such an outcome.
There is now an almost perfect inverted ratio between the worldwide
clamor for restraint and peace and the Bush Administration's
eagerness to publicly announce that war is certain.
By the end of this week, we can expect that Bush will try to announce
that Iraq has failed to come clean about its purported weapons
program. Then the war mobilization can go onto automatic pilot and
the gauntlet will be thrown down to the vacillators: "Are you with Us
or Them?" In so doing, the White House will inadvertently reveal a
truth known to all objective observers of this conflict -- that the
disarmament of Iraq was never really the issue. The nuclear scare was
to keep Americans frightened of the "enemy" as the Bush Hawks
frantically prepared to wage aggression against a country that
possesses 10% of the world's known oil reserves.
The administration has a real objective and a stated objective. The
real objective is to wage war against Iraq and conquer and occupy
that country. To do so requires 1) overwhelming force and 2) the
elimination of dissenting opposition that can derail Bush's dreams of
empire. The U.S. has massive force. But it has encountered formidable
opposition from people around the world and in the United States. So,
the Bush administration shifted its claimed objective from regime
change to disarmament, a much more palatable purported objective for
public distribution and one that can be embraced by even those who
support peace.
The White House wants to get the people of the U.S. behind this
claimed objective of "disarmament." Once having done so, the
administration can insist that the mechanisms in place for the
purported disarmament have failed, or cannot accomplish the task, and
that military might is necessary.
There is only one reason that makes the war drive rapidly escalate in
the face of the apparent success of the new inspections process: The
Bush Administration has never intended the "inspections" process to
serve as anything but a trigger for war. This is why the Iraqi
cooperation with the inspection process and disclosure has failed to
produce even the slightest slowing in the preparations for war and,
in fact, has seemed to produce an escalation in the rhetoric from
Washington, including recent policy statements confirming Bush's
plans for first-use deployment of nuclear weapons. The Washington
Post reported that a classified version of the new Bush Doctrine
"breaks with the fifty years of counter-proliferation efforts" by
planning for the use of nuclear weapons against countries that not
only have not attacked the US but that do not themselves possess
nuclear capability ("Preemptive Strikes are Part of U.S. Strategic
Doctrine," front page, December 11, 2002).
These signals from the White House and Pentagon provide no basis for
optimism to believe that the war has been averted. The inspections
process, whose true purpose is solely to serve as a trigger for war,
at the moment is not providing the political cover that Washington
needs to attack Iraq and seize its oil and land.
The warmongers in the Bush Administration will need now to
manufacture other circumstances to justify an attack and occupation
of Iraq.
The Bush Administration rammed Resolution 1441 through the Security
Council for one reason: to provide the diplomatic fig leaf for a US
war. To the extent that the process serves as a political restraint,
Bush and Co. will scuttle the process.
The Administration now needs a new trigger. It will use the
resolution 1441 to create an obvious source of provocation. The U.S.
forced language into the resolution that would allow for the forcible
removal of Iraqi scientists, government officials, and their families
and children to be held incommunicado in other countries and
interrogated by U.N. inspectors.
The U.S. wants to abduct Iraqi officials and interrogate them
planning that by threat or bribe one will help create the trigger
that the U.S. desperately needs and the "evidence" that the U.S. has
long claimed to have but has never put up. One need only remember the
Gulf of Tonkin resolution, the Pentagon Papers, or even the lie
manufactured about the Iraqi army throwing babies out of incubators
(put in cite) to judge the quality of results likely produced by this
effort.
In the New York Times for December 16, 2002, William Safire urges
that Iraqi scientists should be visited at home, removed to other
countries by helicopter on the spot, and be threatened that they must
provide the right answers in order to "ameliorate sentences at
war-crimes trials." And of course, any failure of Iraq to facilitate
these abductions will itself be considered "material breach" of the
Security Council resolution.
There is really only one restraint that can block the war. It lies
within the people themselves. Neither Congress nor the Security
Council will stop Bush's dangerous war drive. The optimism of the
antiwar forces must be premised on reality. If we can mobilize the
millions - in the US and around the world - and ignite a firestorm of
activism then the political climate can be changed, and changed
dynamically.
Public opinion is Bush's enemy. Time is also an enemy for the
war-makers. With each passing the day antiwar momentum grows. The
global desire for a peaceful outcome is considered subversive because
from that sentiment can emerge a potent mass movement - as happened
during the Vietnam era.
With the cooperation of the Corporate-owned media, the White House
has attempted to create a false myth of consensus about the war.
False polls, false reports and non-stop propaganda have filled the
airwaves so that the American people will be paralyzed and confused.
Yet people all over the country are talking to their neighbors,
co-workers, fellow students, and congregations and learning that they
too oppose Bush's war, that there is, in fact, widespread, deep, and
passionate opposition to the war.
When hundreds of thousands marched on October 26th, the same
corporate media tried to whiteout the sudden emergence of this
movement. But they were confronted by overwhelming demand for truth
from people across the country and some were forced to correct their
coverage.
The peoples movement continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
On January 18, massive protest will again fill the streets of
Washington DC and San Francisco. Thousands of cities, towns, college
campuses, high schools, religious and civil rights organizations are
mobilizing together.
The scenario for January 18th includes a brief rally on the West side
of the Capitol Building in Washington DC starting at 11 am, followed
by a massive march to the Washington DC Navy Yard -- a massive
military installation located in a working class neighborhood in
Southeast Washington DC that parks warships on the Anacostia River.
We will demand the immediate elimination of US weapons of mass
destruction and a people's inspection team will call for unfettered
access and a full declaration of U.S. non-conventional weapons
systems.
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