.... contra el Fraude, NO con López Obrador.


Weno. Pues parece que la “Señora Sociedad Civil” sigue resistiendo. Sup, con todo el respeto que me merece, sigo leyendo sus comunicados, porque las lecturas políticas me parecen muy precisas, ...

Fidel Castro, un ejemplo para Africa: Nobel de Literatura Soyinka

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2007/02/15/fidel-castro-un-ejemplo-para-africa-nobel-de-literatura-soyinka

M@: Good, o sea, no sólo los renegados pensamos que, con todo y su infinidad de defectos, el comandante es un ejemplo. Un nobel africano. Weno, a lo mejor esto último lo descalifica de entrada. ¿No?

La Comuna de Francia
por Narciso Isa Conde*

http://www.voltairenet.org/article131062.html#article131062

M@: ¿La Comuna? Me suena, me suena …

¿Abdicación de "Felipe El Breve"?: el
"síndrome Idomeneo"

www.vocesdelperiodista.com.mx/ants/156.pdf

M@: Como lo escribe uno de mis gurús me ahorro “mis” comentarios …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xadn1aI-60

Tello es una cortina de humo. Para los Perredistas: hasta Marcos lo descalificó en un santiamén. No se pierdan. Llega con una sincronía perfecta. La verdadera frase contundente es: "Me desquité" (Fox dixit). Esta es la que debería provocar toda una Revolución ... Pacífica, por favor.

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2275265.ece

World leaders reach climate deal

By James Watson, PA

Published: 16 February 2007

M@: OK. Va el beneficio de la duda. Espero no terminé como aquel de Kyoto …

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2274474.ece

Proof that chillies were used in recipes 6,000 years ago

By Steve Connor

Published: 16 February 2007

M@: Interesante. Lo que me llama la atención es que los rastros más antiguos estén en Sudamérica …

http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article2274448.ece

Leading article: A swamp of alienation, deprivation and despair

Published: 16 February 2007

A spate of fatal shootings in south London has thrust the issue of gun crime back into the headlines. On Wednesday, 15-year-old Billy Cox was shot in his home in Clapham. Last week, another 15-year-old, Michael Dosunmu, was gunned down as he slept in Peckham. A few days before that, 16-year-old James Andre Smartt-Ford was shot at an ice rink in Streatham …

M@: Don’t know. No comments …

http://elvaledor.com.mx/index.php/2007/02/14/humanismo/

Los afectos del hombre, mis valedores. Ayer se los dije: yo, que detesto el culto a la personalidad y esa admiración bobalicona que los pobres de espíritu profesan al futbolista, al cantante o a la estrellita de gran canal del gran canal de desagüe que nombran “de las estrellas”, tengo y mantengo una admiración si titubeos y un afecto entrañable por mi don Gabriel Vargas, …

M@: Humanismo. Lo mejor del ser humano, a pesar del posmodernismo, quedan anhelos mientras resollemos …

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/02/16/index.php?section=politica&article=003n1pol

Matiza el llamado al referirse al problema del narco y no a las advertencias de Al Qaeda

Calderón pide a la población estar unida ante ''cualquier amenaza''

''Van más o menos 75 días (de su mandato), pero ya han sido como siete años'', expresó

CLAUDIA HERRERA BELTRAN , DAVID CARRIZALES ENVIADA , CORRESPONSAL

M@: … Siete años de “vacas flacas”.

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2003/01/15/014n1pol.php?origen=index.html

Sólo pedimos una oportunidad a la palabra. Si no la quieren dar, ni modos, sostiene

No pretendemos decirle a nadie lo que debe hacer, responde Marcos a ETA

Lanzamos nuestra iniciativa sin consulta previa, porque los zapatistas no hacen acuerdos en lo oscurito Garzón también nos acusó de haberle faltado el respeto al pueblo vasco

M@: … "Luchar con honor".

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/editoriales/36095.html

El alto vacío
Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
30 de noviembre de 2006

M@: … let her talk about the things you CAN'T explain, - Mysterious ways (U2)

http://www.voltairenet.org/article145388.html

Evo Morales, indio con criterio geopolítico
por Ted Córdova-Claure

M@: ¡Uchales! Hasta en eso, ahora estos huarachudos quieren aspirar a subirse a las barbas.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2278044.ece

Suppressed report shows cancer link to GM potatoes

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor

Published: 17 February 2007

Campaigners against genetically modified crops in Britain last are calling for trials of GM potatoes this spring to be halted after releasing more evidence of links with cancers in laboratory rats.

M@: FISH and Chips, mate?

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2278101.ece

Honoured at 80: the race activist who stood by Mandela

By Andy McSmith

Published: 17 February 2007

There were two separate public galleries in the old Synagogue courtroom in Pretoria when Nelson Mandela was on trial for his life 43 years ago - one for whites, one for blacks. On some days, the "whites only" gallery was empty, except for one brave woman. Mandela would turn to her to her as he entered the dock, and they would exchange clenched fist salutes.

M@: One brave WOMAN …

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2278049.ece

Putin lays foundation for succession as he promotes former KGB defence minister

By Andrew Osborn in Moscow

Published: 17 February 2007

Russian President Vladimir Putin has carried out a radical government reshuffle a year before he is due to step down in a surprise move aimed at safeguarding his political legacy.

M@: Tarea. ¿Cuál es el legado del Zar Vladimir?

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2014931,00.html

The lost boys

In Los Olvidados, surrealist director Luis Buñuel created an unflinching portrayal of poverty and injustice. Booker prize-winner DBC Pierre, who grew up in Mexico City where the film is set, salutes an unforgettable work

M@: Esta masterpiece ya la habíamos abordado juntos en el blog.

http://marcosalas.spaces.live.com/?_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart&_c02_owner=1&partqs=amonth%3d7%26ayear%3d2006

"...there's none of that hope for Jaibo"

http://communication.ucsd.edu/raj/latime.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqkud9EeqIA&search=Los%20Olvidados%20Bu%C3%B1uel

DIALOG(R)File 630:Los Angeles Times

(c) 1995 Los Angeles Times. All rts. reserv.

01875253 05368

Bunuel's 'Los Olvidados' a Brutal Masterpiece

Los Angeles Times (LT) - FRIDAY October 18, 1991

By: MARK CHALON SMITH; SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Edition: Orange County Edition Section: Calendar Page: 25 Pt. F Col.

1

Story Type: Motion Picture Review

Word Count: 475

TEXT:

Since 1950, when "Los Olvidados" was released to angry cries from

Mexican officials who thought it would ruin the country's morale, Luis

Bunuel's early masterpiece has been going for the gut.

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Weno. Pues parece que la “Señora Sociedad Civil” sigue resistiendo. Sup, con todo el respeto que me merece, sigo leyendo sus comunicados, porque sus lecturas políticas me parecen muy precisas, y tal vez apoye a la Otra Campaña (aunque no necesiten mi hombro, lo sé). Pero, aquí no se trata, repito, si somos impolutos o no. Sí se mencionó (por lo menos de mi parte) la idea de apoyar el movimiento pro VxV, más no es porque crea ciegamente en AMLO. El, como muchos otros agazapados en las sombras, son parte del sistema de poder, como diría Mojarro. El meollo es: No podemos permitir que se nos arranque la elección, porque entonces estaríamos enviando el mensaje de que, en lo sucesivo, es posible, sobre todo si ésta es pre-cocinada por Washington. ¿Recuerdas que mencionaste cuando lo del desafuero que era una cuestión ética? ¿Que así fuera a Marthita a la que se tratara de desaforar era el deber del EZ apoyar la causa justa? (http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/03/02/006n1pol.php). Regreso al punto, es la Sociedad Civil la que lo exige, aquella misma que detuvo los enfrentamientos en Enero de 1994 y que también salió a las calles después de la cobarde matanza de Acteal. A menos que no necesites a esta respetadísima dama, como alguna vez mencionaste del movimiento magisterial en Oaxaca, antes de que se conviertieran en la APPO. ‘tonz que la frase fuera: El EZLN contra el Fraude, NO con López Obrador. Que es en lo que creo vehementemente, aunque tenga mis contradicciones, que espero purificar pronto, para ser digno del movimiento de “La Otra”. Vaya pues un abrazo solidario, sin rencores.

M@rcontaminado.

Norwich, U(na) K(ampaña)

17/2/07

... stand alone mode.

Correo de noticias de aquí y de allá. (15/2/07).

Los archivos de Freedom House

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=44516

Alright. Este no necesita mi comentario.

ExxonMobil: las mentiras sobre el cambio climático

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=44715

Tarea: ¿Quienes son los cabilderos de la muerte en México?

Bush set for climate change U-turn

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1989997,00.html

Oh, yeah! A ver si encuentro ese artículo de Ballunas y otro, ya ni me acuerdo, y se los comparto. De Ahí comenzamos a sacar un par de conclusions. Ok, pa’ darle the benefit of doubt. ¿Cuando firmamos el protocolo de Kyoto? ¿Japón? ¡Ah, esas japonesitas tan hermosas y "obedientes"! Perdón, ¿que decía? ¡Ah, sí! Ese protoloco ya tiene acta de defunción. Ahora quieren pasar la bolita a la sociedad civil. ¿O no, Tony?

Nota de opinión

Amenazas a la información

por Ignacio Ramonet*

La prensa escrita atraviesa la peor crisis de su historia. En todo el mundo, muchos periódicos, incluido Le Monde diplomatique, se enfrentan desde hace tres años a una constante disminución de su número de lectores. Esta disminución fragiliza el equilibrio económico de las publicaciones, pone en peligro su supervivencia y podría, con el tiempo, amenazar la pluralidad de opinión en nuestras democracias.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article144648.html

Reportaje imaginario a Julio Cortázar

Las palabras también se enferman

por Gabriela Sharpe*

http://www.voltairenet.org/article144643.html

Johan Cruyff - Memories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21d8_BqMaMw

http://senderodelpeje.blogspot.com/2006/04/campaas-de-la-derecha-en-internet.html

www.mexicohonesto.org

Sharon Stone: This heart of Stone

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article2152831.ece

Nicolo Paganini Documentary - "Paganini's Daemon" - Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os2tQz3YyAw&mode=related&search=

La resolución del misterio de la trinidad neoliberal

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=44574

The Drug Years Ep 3 Teenage Wasteland p1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRyg9Y6fedM&mode=related&search=

Guillermo Almeyra

¿Socialismo del siglo XXI?

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/01/14/index.php?section=opinion&article=014a2pol

Bob Dylan

Interview with Time Magazine from "Don't Look Back". Best part of the documentary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB0rEkC6PtM&NR

CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS

http://images1.americanprogress.org/il80web20037/ThinkProgress/2006/60min.320.240.mov

el tema: Acción Nacional, con fisuras en Yucatán

http://www.milenio.com/index.php/2007/01/16/31912/

Ana Rosa renuncia a su militancia panista

http://www.milenio.com/index.php/2007/01/16/31847/

Duele a panistas yucatecos dimisión

http://www.milenio.com/index.php/2007/01/16/31936/

En el PAN se hacen cosas que se criticaron del PRI: Payán

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/400805.html

Las500cancionesmásimportantesdelrockiberoamericano

www.alborde.com/images/PDF/AB_Edicion_174.pdf

Revelan cintas de Hitchcock sus gustos y fobias: críticos

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2007/01/17/revelan-cintas-de-hitchcock-sus-gustos-y-fobias-criticos

La mafia católica en la secretaría de Salud

http://contra-la-derecha.blogspot.com/

La historia de Norberto Rivera

http://contra-la-derecha.blogspot.com/2006/12/la-historia-de-norberto-rivera.html

Los prolegómenos del 2010

http://www.proceso.com.mx/palabralector.html?idp=140059

Sus vivencias en cinco entregas

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/forums/espacio_del_lector/newsid_6268000/6268775.stm

Gordita Linda ¿HACKEADA?

http://gorditalinda.com/2007/01/19/gordita-linda-%c2%bfhackeada/

Inteligencia, acompáñela con palomitas…

23-enero-2007

http://weblogs.eluniversal.com.mx/weblogs_detalle2924.html

Saramago presenta en Madrid sus recuerdos de infancia

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2007/01/25/saramago-presenta-en-madrid-sus-recuerdos-de-infancia

Escena - "El Gatopardo" (1963)

Escena final de la película "El Gatopardo" (Il Gattopardo) (1963) dirigida por Luchino Visconti y protagonizada por Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon y Claudia Cardinale ... (more)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH1cugAk3NI

http://www.eme-equis.com.mx/004MXPRINCIPAL.html

http://bp1.blogger.com/_kMsE-EryXQ4/RcDRJ7qMIdI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DQY5Cv8ie1Y/s1600-h/el+asalto.jpg

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2007/01/31/ordena-fiscalia-alemana-arrestar-a-13-supuestos-miembros-de-cia

http://www.contralinea.com.mx/archivo/2007/febrero/htm/fraude_mediatico_calderon.htm

http://www.poresto.net/v06/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20443&Itemid=55

http://www.literaturainba.com/escritores/entrevista_armando_ramirez.htm

Persiguen el pensamiento crítico en la web: James Petras

Ricardo Martínez Martínez

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=46263

Iran Sends Iraq Bomb Parts, U.S. Officer Says

By STEVEN R. HURST

AP

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/iran-sends-iraq-bomb-parts-us-officer/20070211155209990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

Oligarquía, logias, filántropos y la CIA

Cómo el Imperio mueve sus piezas en Latinoamérica

http://www.rodolfowalsh.org/spip.php?article2428

Official Report Released

on Mexico's "Dirty War"

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB209/index.htm

Bien, se supone que cada noticia iba a llevar un pequeño comentario mío. Pero, pus ya me conocen. No prometo mejor que en la nueva entrega

Del correo de noticias lo haga, porque luego ni cumplo.

Que las disfruten pues,

M@rcorreo.

Norwich, G(ran) B(olseado)

15/2/07

P.D. Por ahí insisten en abrir la boca. Sólo que están entrando en un terreno demasiado escabroso. Les paso el chisme. La verdadera RABIA de la “Sociedad Civil” fue lo obvio del fraude. No le echen sal a la herida. El pueblo mexicano es supermacho pero … tiene sus límites. Se los paso al costo.

… el alto vacío.

... I did know what the end was going to be ...

Leave me alone

On Wednesday Stef Penney won the coveted Costa Book of the Year award. She tells Stephen Moss about her long battle with agoraphobia, why she shuns celebrity - and why this could be her last ever interview

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2009095,00.html

Friday February 9, 2007

The Guardian

The morning-after interview with the winner of a big literary prize is a time-honoured ritual. Bleary-eyed journalist turns up having speed-read book; equally bleary-eyed prize-winner makes allowances for thinness of textual detail in interviewer's questions; publisher and bookshops look forward to large boost in sales. Stef Penney, winner of the £25,000 Costa Book of the Year award, plays the game - but only up to a point. She is here - fortunately in a bistro-style restaurant in Hackney rather than the soulless hotel usually reserved for these encounters - but says she loathes doing interviews and that standing in front of a dozen flashing cameras at the prize dinner the previous night had made her feel like a criminal emerging from court.

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She is serious, too: this is no arty pose. When she is having her photograph taken - looking far more severe than she really is - her phone goes off. She looks at the number. "Private caller - another journalist," she says, and ignores it. This reluctance to engage, the refusal to accept that writing an award-winning book makes you public property, could be frustrating, but she is so upfront about it, and so charming and wry when she chooses to be, that she doesn't seem testy or evasive. Her sculpted beauty also helps me forgive her for letting my questions hang on the rusty hooks of their own banality. "Why is he gay?" I ask of one key character. "Well some people just are, you know," she says, simply and crushingly.

Her book, The Tenderness of Wolves, is a gripping adventure story set in Canada in the 1860s - part detective story, part romance, but most of all a western. Penney loves westerns and was determined to write one. I don't think I could have put it down, even if I had had more than six hours to read it.

Its pace may owe something to the fact that before writing this debut novel, she wrote screenplays. But novel-writing, she says, gave her a new freedom. "With screenwriting you're much more aware of the fact that it's a collaborative process and you're always going to be talking to directors and producers. You might be able to see pictures and have this wonderful, perfect creation in your head, but you know you're going to come up against reality. There are going to be this series of steps when you make little compromises, and you end up stepping further and further away from this perfect film. You might end up with something that's great in a different way, but it's still a bit of a disappointment."

She finished the book four years ago, and has spent the time since cutting, honing and, more importantly, finding a publisher. Plenty turned it down, some put off by the mix of first-person and third-person narrative. The former is supplied by her main protagonist, Mrs Ross, a character who featured in one of Penney's early screenplays. The screenplay, called Nova Scotia, which she hopes will shortly be made into a film, had Mrs Ross marrying and then leaving her Scottish home for Canada; the novel picks up her life in the wilds of North America 15 years later, trying to resolve a multiple mystery and falling in love again.

"At the end of the screenplay I'd sent these characters off in a boat to Canada," she says. "I really loved them and I wanted one day to go back and do something with them, but the more I thought about it I realised that I couldn't do this as a screenplay because I wanted to weave in too many stories. It was such a pleasure in the book to be able to digress and to think, 'Well, I know this isn't strictly relevant, but I don't care - it's my book.' I didn't know everything that was going to happen, but I did know what the end was going to be - a shootout, like a real western."

Mrs Ross shares one characteristic with her creator - agoraphobia. Shortly after leaving Bristol University, where she studied philosophy and theology, and before she began a film and TV course at Bournemouth College of Art, Penney started to suffer agoraphobic panic attacks. "My fear wasn't of crowds or being out in the open," she explains. "It was more a fear of losing control. For me it was public transport, and the bigger and faster, the worse it was, so planes were the scariest thing. Once you're in a plane you really can't say, 'Actually, let me out here'; there's nothing you can do. It's that feeling that it's totally out of your control."

Mrs Ross was a direct response to those attacks. "She came very specifically from thinking about how someone with agoraphobic panic attacks would have been dealt with or would have coped in the Victorian, pre-Valium era," she says. "It's very appealing setting something in the past, and speculating on what it would be like. Agoraphobia is a difficult thing to explain to people, so perhaps it was an attempt to try to explain what it's like. This was what was happening to me."

Agoraphobia is central to the screenplay Nova Scotia; in The Tenderness of Wolves it provides a backbeat, as it now seems to in Penney's own life. "It is under control now," she says. "I can manage it. I can fly now, and that's fantastic. I gradually worked my way up through bus, tube, coach, train, plane. I did all sorts of things to get it under control. I had hypnotherapy and I went to group therapy, which was brilliant. At group therapy there were people with different problems, not just agoraphobics, and it gave me a different perspective." The improvement, however, came too late for her to visit Canada to research the book; she relied instead on intensive reading in the British Library and an imaginative re-creation of the struggle to survive in a wilderness.

She says she has no idea what originally triggered the attacks. "That's the million-dollar question. Everyone asks that and you personally want there to be a simple 'Oh, this caused it' because if something simple caused it, maybe something simple can cure it. But it's not that simple. It's always going to be a combination of all sorts of things." The attacks persisted for more than a decade and restricted her chances to direct. "It made it much more difficult to go out there and say 'I'm a director' because you have to do anything, go anywhere. That was a factor in making me lean towards writing." She has, though, managed to direct two short films, one of them - she admits with a flicker of embarrassment - about agoraphobia.

The fact that her condition has been a factor in her work makes it a legitimate subject for discussion - it is the one aspect of her private life she will talk about freely - but she is also wary of it dominating views of her. It was certainly the angle taken in the coverage of the Costa award; she has become the "agoraphobic novelist" - in part, she says, because publicists are desperate for a label to attach to a writer.

"When you initially have your meeting with the PR company, they say, 'What angles can we take? Are there any exciting stories? Do you know any famous people?', and you go, 'No, no, no, no, I'm not related to anyone famous.' And then I said, 'Given that the main character is agoraphobic, I don't mind talking about my agoraphobia,' and everyone seized on it in a really big way. But I think it will all die away eventually, and everyone will move on. I'll probably take forever to write the next book, so everyone will have lost interest."

Her next novel - it's not about Mrs Ross or Canada is all she will say about it - is already well under way, though not yet sold to a publisher. More pressing, however, is a screenplay that she is willing to describe. "It's a road movie set in Lapland about two girls driving through northern Finland. It's contemporary, quite comic, and very different from The Tenderness of Wolves."

Is she now a novelist or a screenwriter? "You can't write one novel and say, 'Now I'm a novelist.' At the moment I'm working on a screenplay, so I feel like a screenwriter." Having won the Costa prize for her first book, she worries about second-novel syndrome. "It would be very scary to do this again but with a load more expectation. When you write a first book, no one is expecting anything, which is a nice, free situation to be in. I can't ever have that again, which is a shame."

I try asking some personal stuff, but don't get very far. In fact, I don't really get beyond "You're 37, aren't you?" "I don't think age is particularly relevant," she says, nicely, charmingly. The biog, however, reads something like: grew up in Edinburgh (all trace of a Scottish accent now gone, replaced by a London twang); middle-class (and religious) parents; librarian mother; demanding, headstrong child; didn't like school; rejected the church but enjoyed intense discussions with a friendly minister - hence the philosophy and theology degree; became a screenwriter and film-maker; and headed for London - which she loves because it allows you "to choose where you want to be and who you want to be".

All this, though, she would dismiss as "pop psychology" and, worse, an intrusion. "I've written a book, I've sold the book, and the book's public - fine. But I haven't gone on Big Brother. That's not me. I'm a writer, and I want to go and sit in a room on my own." Then she goes to the loo, signalling that our conversation is over. "I hope this is the last interview I will ever have to do," she says a few minutes later as we head to an appropriately snow-clad London Fields to take her photograph. This may be directed at me, for asking dumb questions and forgetting Mrs Ross's first name (mentioned only once in the book), but I don't think so. She really does believe you should read the book, not the life.

· The Tenderness of Wolves is published by Quercus at £12.99

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M@rco

Norwich, GB

11/02/07

… un repliegue estratégico.