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Sunday December 05, 2004 15:59 by iosaf read and iosaf understood-

a round up of weekend news links.
A Polish general once remarked that the diplomacy was the war carried out through other means. A Chinese sage once founded a school of War which was through the milenia as influential as the school of debating at Rhodes.
I have like many others been exposed by others to terror again these last days in Spain as five bombs exploded in Madrid and I watched others wait for that half hour before they knew via the TV that no-one was killed another day till they spoke to their parents and friends.
 it will take you a long time to make a good crane, but you will learn - of Peace of Patience and of Thaumaturgy The Art of diplomacy continues.
Bush talks to Pakistan.
Putin talks to India.
you could call them the WMD club.
Ghandi wouldn't be happy, he knew about the arts of peace, sewing, and so on et cetera et cetera et cetera...
Thailand to mark the King's birthday will drop thousands of origami cranes from the back of military aircraft suitable to deliver aid and move refugees over the Muslim dominated southern region.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/120751/1/.html
Germany has outlawed Human Cloning.
Reclaim the Genome!
The move by the Berlin federal parliament will ensure that even if the European Constitution as drafted these last years is not accepted (with it's ban on human cloning) by the peoples of the contintent, that at least one economy wealthy enough to clone won't.
The UK could move to emulate the USA and stop its experimentation.
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,330835,00.html
Ramon Rivera the released Cuban dissident journalist and poet has published 11 poems in today's El Pais, which is subscription only here is one, I will not without permission translate it-
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Noticias de Turquía
Maya, ¿por qué has ido a morirte a Estambul
si en Grecia y en Caracas te querían
y el La Habana una persona seguía pensando en tí?
¿Por qué, solitaria, tuviste que cerrar los ojos verdes en esa cuidad donde dijeron:
mirad, se ha suicidado la extranjera?
En Atenas, en tu casa vacía, Maya querida,
te queadaban aún penas para vivir.
- Raúl Rivero written whilst imprisoned-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67753
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Ryanair the Irish company has been allowed to take over the running of failed airline Volare which due to European competition rules and the laws of free markets could not maintain it's operations.
Ryanair will be expected to treat the staff nicely and
not go annoying anyone over wheelchair charges.
http://www.repubblica.it/news/ired/ultimora/rep_nazionale_n_893551.html
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It takes a long time to make a good origami crane.
You must practise, like any art for a very long time.
There are no quick fix Quentin Tarrantino masters who will impart the craft of patience and practise.
Before you make a good crane, you will make many bad cranes. There is an ancient legend that simply by surrounding a sick person with a thousand cranes, they will be cured. Perhaps this means that they must be cared for by those with patience, whatever the meaning the legend is found from Vietnam to Japan. Here is a link to monkey.org where Aidan Dysart brings you through the process step by step photo by photo.
http://www.monkey.org/~aidan/origami/crane/
I agree with Raul Rivera that life as either a journalist or a poet is filled with fear. But with practise you get over it.
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