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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (123033)	1/11/2004 2:33:50 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Tito - in posting to boris just now i forgot the role of Tito in austrian developments mid-fifties .... it was when Tito developed some spine of independence and broke with the soviets, that a fair bit of tension was reduced, or at least became somewhat less complex .... before this he had been claiming further chunks of austrian territory, and the russians had been backing him up on it Aung San Suu Kyi on the ballot, sure, but not the Dalai Lama [imagine no religion, it's easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only sky] .... not Buddha or Zoroaster or any of them either, because while they may well be as securely dead as Octavio Paz [or John Lennon] [John Lennon! - there's an idea] [and Groucho too, ¡viva el marxista-lennonismo!], they retain connotations loaded up the ying-yang by the living .... 'non-pratiquant' is just not adequate, by itself -g- .... i've never been political either, by the time i was maybe fourteen and becoming aware of the existence of politics, the factions looked so much like religions ... to this day i am unclear on the distinction, not at all sure there is one that matters There have been periods of interest ..... 1966, Viet Nam .... 1986, Nicaragua .... August 2001, British Columbia .... these three developed through personal contact with victims of branches of US government .... but there's more, i know some cubanos too, and don't think it right that their Ashcroft du jour won't permit them to argue with us here, or even read what we type - #reply-19678221 Think cosmically, act in your own backyard, yes .... regime change begins at home ... that's just the beginning though - we are simian in nature, we like to throw stuff around, ideas, money, blunt objects, whatever comes to hand .... people were talking about this upthread - i stayed in a pensión with a changa ['spider' monkey] periodically for years, she was chained into a big tree but could move around to quite a few of the room doors and windows ..... she would sometimes throw things, but not much, and not at people, only to perform for their benefit ... the big thing with her, was never give her chocolate, as she wouldn't take fruit from a person who had ever given her chocolate ... quite a memory too, i could be away a year, and she wouldn't take an orange from me, she'd dig into pockets and insist on the Cadbury's .... could have been religion for her, but she was certainly political about it, a matter of taste in any case i guess