peace,
the TWS team
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All apologies, or not online
By Michael E. Ross, MSNBC.
By Frances Stead Sellers
Sunday November 21, 2004; Page B01
Two and a half weeks ago, as news of President Bush's reelection whizzed around the globe, my brother in England dashed off an e-mail to me. "The world is going to be a warmer place," he quipped, "but much more uncomfortable." Never mind whether Rob is right in thinking that Bush's policies will increase global warming and warfare; what his shorthand reflected was a widely held view that the outcome of the American election would affect not just Americans but the rest of the world -- and that he therefore had a stake in it.
It is a short step from that belief to the conviction that, as long as the United States remains the world's sole superpower, Americans' business is anybody's business. Not surprisingly, that concept has flourished, both before and after the election, in the borderless universe of the Internet, where there has never been much respect for the conventions of state sovereignty -- and where more than one online "election" made Sen. John Kerry the occupant of the Oval Office. (continued)
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]]>Kenya's Vice President Moody Awori strongly expresses this sentiment. "I think we are going to see more dictatorship on an international scale," he said. "We are going to see more isolation, where Americans will not bother about the UN. To me that is a very sad affair."
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www.apologiesaccepted.com
"We, wanderers of the world outside the US, have been touched by the initiative of www.sorryeverybody.com, and the huge amount of photos they received. The initiators of this website would like to show back to the American people that they appreciated that message."
"Me being someone who doesn't like to miss out on a new trend, I decided to create notsorrynoteverybody.com, the site that responds negatively to the negative response."
On the negative response: "The key differences being twofold: one, the sentiment is the polar opposite in that they all ARE NOT SORRY and two being that most of the pictures look like they came from the local county jail."
Here's another NOT Sorry site called: www.werenotsorry.com
Don't visit this one if your belief in the future and beauty of global dialogue is shaky: www.sorryeverybodymyass.com
]]>Here's the intro: "Some of us — hopefully most of us — are trying to understand why so many on the liberal left believe that we - as a nation - have anything to apologize for in this election or why we should care what - if any effect - the results will have on you, the citizens of the rest of the world."
NOT Sorry Everybody
I'd better send him a link to "The World Speaks"...
And walking the same talk, there is also www.usaloveitorleaveit.com
]]>World Tribunal on Iraq in Stockholm November 13-14th
www.worldtribunal.org
MACH MIT UND ERHEBE DEINE STIMME!
*You've got a Voice*
Demonstration gegen George W. Bush
am 20.November 2004, 13:00 Uhr, Brandenburger Tor
for more info: www.vote44.net
BBC NEWS | Exiles from Main Street
Canada: Immigration web site flooded with anti-Bush visitors
In case you're considering emmigration here's a detailed guide from Harpers Magazine on how to do it: Electing to Leave
]]>The name of the website was http://killhim.nu/ (kill him now). Rap group Gatas Parlament say no one was actually threatening the president's life, and that the American authorities have "no sense of humour".
Norwegian newspaper, Dagsavisen says (in Norwegian): "That there is little room for freedom of expression in the USA is something American artists have felt in the last years. But that freedom of expression in Norway is being put under pressure by the USA, is testimony of a new form of aggressive arrogance."
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