few months ago I dedicated a post to what I thought (and I think) a nice speech, the Evangelina Carrozo of the EU-Latin America. In this post remarked the natural beauty of the girl being very attractive not exactly suited to the required parameters for the current female beauty. Slightly exceeded ass, tits notorious shortage, somewhat pointed nose and olive skin tone ... the girl was beautiful, but not the kind of artificial beauty and totally European Court that is being promoted in Argentina and worldwide. And he had a spectacular smile.
few months later, the Carrozo not smiling in a photo shoot showing her thinner, with another nose with white skin and moon as big tits. Days later appears as a dancing partner Uruguayan charming symbolic detail, the abominable Dancing with the Stars The most unfortunate product of the ugly bastard race irreducible Marcelo Tinelli. Makes a little speech about the problem but says nothing Gualeguaychú, plays his gimmick like a troupe of repeating his catch phrase Tinelli, and then subjected to the trial of someone as despicable as Gerardo Sofovich , who put a nuclear dump in the center of Gualeguaychú if he thought could win two extra dollars.
And you look at it and says nothing, because it accepts the fatalistic and pragmatic discourse: the "environmental activist" is above all a model that naturalism does not seem incompatible with the plastic filled silicone inside the body and is using his time . And he knew that would happen, but you look at the calendar and just spent the time necessary for the swelling will disappear operations. And you think, "at least until year's end, unless you have sacrificed time that , not next, unless did not get exactly the same tits all others, at least a small gesture signifying ...".
But nothing, I look hard dance, dances well, is funny and cute, like everyone in the world of the funny and cute, like everything else. ***
decide in Gualeguaychú and Colon bridges cut again to ruin the long weekend to protest against a third report (actually a reissue of the first) of the World Bank back to say what they do not want to hear: they consider the minimum risk of contamination it will give loans to Botnia.
few months ago I wrote a series of posts about the unheard deafness and arrogance of the Uruguayan government over the protests of Entre Rios and the inevitability and justice of the measures they had taken environmental assemblies. I wrote about the filthy chauvinist fever broke in Uruguay on the obsequiousness to foreign investment and the legitimate right of peoples to bristle against omnipotent multinationals and money as the measure of all things. I did not change my point of view which remains more or less the same, and apocalyptic rabid environmentalist, but things changed and insanity, idiocy and chauvinism also apparently changed the country.
In these months passed dozens of things went ENCE, spent the Hague Tribunal, passed the Mercosur Dispute Tribunal and, especially, became incredibly stupid the original attitude of the Uruguayan government. Somehow after the Hague Tribunal, a European legal body, yes, but seriously, rejected the request for precautionary measures that Argentina had high Vázquez administration wisely decided not to and triumphalist declarations, in contrast, offer something that had not offered before capriciously: the joint monitoring of the Uruguay River and the effect of pulp mills may have. In fact, taking into account the results of previous studies and the disappearance of ENCE, is the best result that can be achieved without putting entrerrianos bombs. And unless the fairest to undertake a vigorous campaign and equally ruthless about all Argentine companies that directly or indirectly affect the watershed in common and shared courses.
This is something that itself was understood by experienced Greenpeace activists -qualified at the peak of imbecility Uruguay as "terrorists" - who has now dedicated his gaze to the Argentine pulp mills unpresentable placed on the margin of the Paraná. Knowing this the issue on the sensitivity of the Rio de la Plata, Greenpeace decided to stop a particular focus on entrepreneurship as Botnia undoubtedly is environmentally risky, but with control and monitoring instruments that are entirely absent in the Argentine plants, minor size but higher-capacity production proven toxic. The decision of the NGOs was, among other things, fair, there is a limit to what can be require doing a little self-criticism. But the assembly decided to close the eyes, not to grant even the slightest benefit of the doubt even the people and organizations they chose to represent and trigger a crash again useless in terms known to affect Botnia, a company that like it or not already installed despite the efforts almost criminal, and self-destructive-of blackmailing workers plant the company. The environmentalists did not understand that it earned more than what they could expect, now, obeying assemblies further divided and poorly argued, detracted from the legitimacy of their protest turned into a mere abuse that bothers others essentially complete strangers to business pulp and dyed a repellent smell chauvinist nationalism, reinforced by the increasing use xenophobic anthem and flag.
I still think that probably the Botnia plant is polluting the Uruguay River and the orientation of the entire country to cellulose is a historic mistake, but I also believe that the degree of vigilance mounted around the factory makes any other measure of force is judged by suspicion and that, unless it is established a whole new environmental regulations to the Uruguay River and the Rio de la Plata, the inflexibility in this case is simply a wrong-sided and a clear interference in the decisions of another country . The Entre Rios had every reason in the beginning of this conflict, but the reason is not a permanent tattoo and now it's just an act of arrogance and blindness, so the Uruguayan accused of being conservative to the court a few months ago when they were a brave and necessary, when they spoke and covered her ears Uruguay insensitive to their doubts and sorrows. Exactly what do entrerrianos now.
But there also comes also another issue that makes this second wave of cuts in some infamous political moment. Uruguay has just completed negotiations to temporarily approve a free trade agreement with U.S. by the fast track, ie the fast lane and put the treated in the freezer thanks to strong opposition from progressive opinion that held, among other things, that the treaty was incompatible with the presence in Uruguay in the Mercosur and sabotaged the possibility of deepening the regional bloc. Sepoy always argued that Mercosur in Uruguay and that shit attached to it was tied to a stone that sinks into the deep ocean.
Less than a week after the Argentine government claims the right to request information on a chemical plant to be installed in Soriano without even bothering to go through the Foreign Ministry Reinaldo Gargano, controversial man but perhaps the most staunch defender Mercosur in the government of FA, and trascartón the Argentine government does not make a turd to sail to avoid the roadblocks that the Mercosur Dispute Tribunal stated as clearly illegal.
anyone who is screwing with laughter somewhere, and I think that every now and says "fantastic." ***
Among the comments the last post, talking about the tortuous passage of Pedro Bordaberry by two means supposedly serious and objective, I get confused names and claimed one of them belonging to someone that apparently was never in your return. A reader informed and possibly close to writes to Search correcting / denial with regard to this. But he added another three denials, saying the four are the most glaring errors of the post (which in some ways it is a mistake because he is talking about items that appeared in the comments, not the post) and serve as an example of what it's all nonsense. Barbaro, the only problem is that its four incontrovertible examples of mistakes only the first was a mistake and the other three one was a bad information from him and the other two views were not errors themselves.
It reminds me a recent interview I read the beacon of American right Carlos Alberto Montaner . In it, after trying to be funny with some jokes so hilarious as childhood cancer, Montaner said it was preparing a second edition of the Manual Perfect Latin American Idiot, a book published in the mid-nineties with the help of Pliny and Apuleius Mendoza Alvaro Vargas Llosa (son of Mario I do not know what he inherited his two names together.) A book can not and should not miss in the library of the modern right-wing columnist, but it is interesting for anyone interested in the semantics and manipulation of data.
This book, published at the height of the neoliberal and the only thought has been presented as anti- Open Veins of Latin America , but it is really a book of very different characteristics but are primed in the simplicities of Eduardo Galeano. The whole book was a compilation of phrases and truths of the main talking heads the Latin American left, which were submitted and denied in burlesque and devastating. The book was quite a pioneer in the use of insults ("idiot") in an orderly manner as a means to summarize arguments and problems, as if to refute a logical argument is required at least a theoretical development opposite and equal in length sources to refute told by an idiot not needed almost nothing reaches to define it as such. Because he knows that only idiots argue with idiots. The method has been very popular within the right-wing commentators and is almost endemic use between the right (and left part of the) U.S., where since the dogs bolted FOX up views of intellectuals of the stature of Susan Sontag have been dismissed as mere "crap", no one will pay the deserved attention.
But Manual ... has a particularity. Let us agree that if one puts together crap they have said the philosopher-poets of the Latin American left in the last 30 years, the result can not fill a volume but a and large library. But with all this raw material available, Mendoza-Montaner-Vargas Llosa used no more than a limited amount of pure crap and incontestable, and instead presented a curious mixture of nonsense unquestionable with views for them would be nonsense, or, possibly wanted presented as nonsense.
Invention examples similar to those presented (I sold the book on Tristan Narvaja a decade ago and do not want to quote from memory): The poet X said that in Cuba there is no poverty, but socialism has robbed its people hunger of the material. Well, it is obviously stupid, but then put N journalist's opinion who said that Cuba is a very poor country from a capitalist logic but if measured with other parameters (health, education) would not be such a poor country. This is a view similar in appearance to that of the poet X, but radically different in content, it does not presuppose anything romantic and open spaces to different ways of seeing a problem like poverty in Cuba. And the three mischievous boys of Manual ... put them on the same level of idiocy, and occasionally add another phrase in which the economist J says that the rate of malnourished children in Havana is less than in parts of New York, which is true But with the introduction chosen everything is wrapped in the same soup of "idiocy", all is not discussed, discarded, disqualified.
Imagine the second volume of the Handbook, only the speech of Comrade Chávez and his paladins there to fill several chapters, which may be filled with their opinions more respectable, deactivated by the context of "idiocy" and its own name, of course. There is only one antidote to books obscurantist, prejudiced and ignorant as the Manual ... and once again, the independent-minded and encouraged. It is important to be able to recognize that all or nearly all, we are interesting thinkers from Nietzsche to Žižek from Sade to Bangs - have said / written crap sovereign, many of which can be explained by a simple historical context (it is easy to describe the views of the Sunday newspaper on Monday) and others were already in pelotudeces moment of its utterance, but that's not why we read them, but by the other party. Jorge Luis Borges , perhaps the writer who more I read and re-read in my life, was a machine that abnormalities (not very useful from the perspective of the Manual ... because the "stupid" sign of old age very different from the examples from these three musketeers of the only truth, and also to theirs, would add), but not these that have made me read it, and I have not read "despite ...", but integrated into its chiaroscuro, in his arguments weak and stubborn blindness. But it is also important to recognize the lights and successes of authors thinkers who do not agree at all, I can say that I have read pages of the most sensible, and sometimes very attractive, I think people almost pathologically mistaken as Paul Johnson . Martin Amis or Carlos Maggi (never Carlos Montaner, which does not surprise me), because not only are many things that allow the diversity of perspectives without being relegated to the quarantine of "idiocy" but also because, as the Yankees say, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Carlos Alberto Montaner
, the great separator of reason and idiocy, has meanwhile got an interesting achievement: to be despised even by the Cuban-American right to whose defense has dedicated his life. The reason is simple: the Miami Herald found that the violent anti-leftist preaching Cuban was funded by the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, an entity of the U.S. government paid him for criticizing the government of Fidel Castro , Montaner was something that supposedly love for the cause. To defend, this genius had no better idea to declare their ignorance as Transfer Office did not pay him but to its distributor, Firms Press. The brilliant journalist obvious what a first year student of journalism found immediately: he was the owner of Signatures Press. Cornered, Montaner escrbió a long disclaimer in which he named several other names they had written on behalf of state agencies, but was saved by the fact that those names had done so unlike him honorary. Which produced a strong response from the conservative press against him, calling it directly from "informer."
When you're a spokesman for the right and even the Wall Street Journal treat you like a rat, obviously you're not the most qualified of the voices. But in his last visit to Montevideo, Montaner was received in the offices of The Country , journal regularly publishes his columns, like a giant of contemporary thought. Which, contrary to what seems, proof that idiocy is not so relative. ***
A runaway bus is worn checkpoint the taxi stand near where I live, and with it one of the veterans who work in it, leaving it in pretty bad shape. Step ahead of the twisted iron bars and see a tachero whom I know from talking to a weak view of thirty years. When the skinny will I go and ask the tachero by the accident and the wound veteran status. He tells me the detail of what happened and the current status of the type, saying that it is much better and recovering.
then laughs and tells me if I saw the skinny I was talking to him. He says he approached to ask exactly the same, but specifically on the hit status. "And you think it will work?" He says tachero who asked him a few times until finally propose, "because I could take care of the stop if the guy did not come back." The tachero tells me that at the end scared the vulture saying that there is a lot more people working at that stop. Both agree that people are very bad. ***
a couple of months ago I declared my intentions to close this blog, partly tired of it and partly overwhelmed by the growth of hearing the same growth that had been the end of their conversational exchange characteristics and intimate nicks functioning as mere formality and not as masks. I explained the reasons for this and, as often happens with things that are made on impulse for a long time, I followed along the same, just down the pace of tickets, but keep it as an escape valve.
(Un) fortunately the dynamic exchanges annoying it had reached the blog is maintained and deepened into reality thanks to the emergence of two or three scribes compulsive willing to challenge each and every one of my speeches, trying to play what appears to be understood as a space of power-when reality is just a space occupied by a large non-power-demanding, celebrating as victories each resigned and tired abandonment of some endless discussion-pulse, ignoring the characteristics and untimely blog-characteristics that imply that my opinion on, say The human race is diametrically different on a Saturday and a Tuesday hangover spring-seeking contradictions, inaccuracies, making this blog friends more or less invisible in a fucking internet forum, with all its evils, throlls and illegibility. Ok, can you tell me that the world is full of assholes and should not require greater attention, but they ruin the landscape enough for all this to be defaced.
never interested me FYT popularity, which always had good intentions elitist, but its comfort and space for free expression of people who have understood their characteristics. No sense arguing I spent twenty or deleting comments from fans who fell NTvG here because after the 200,000 visit the Google page ranks higher than some fan pages of the band. So one has to banks to be pissed by an idiot who can not write "idiot" with the B right and should not be reading a page that could be called "not skinny, I did not like" and never even raised considering the sensitivity of fan, which has been much considered by the sellers. This was raised as an open space but not for everyone, a place he did not think having to put a sign on the door for visitors to understand that it was not for everyone. "Elitist, snobbish ...? Of course, and proud of it: when all spaces are dedicated to taste and tolerance average, the lowest common denominator as a of all things, the celebration of mediocrity less exclusive, why not go the opposite way? Why do not discriminate and release a small amount of view representative of the market demands and respect, understood as a form of cowardice?. No, not here: human die. I began writing to friends and acquaintances with common interests, now I write for people who can not write and critique my writing, which does not share my tastes or aesthetic interest you but you need reviled, who does not have the slightest fucking idea about the topics I speak but look for crack in what I say to treat me as an ignoramus, who thinks but despises what I think, you do not like this blog but it seems a very special co-opt their differences. I required a democracy and openness that was always the enemy. No, I said, humans die.
(Leo as I write this that Practical Works, the often frustrating but sometimes fascinating conglomerate of Argentine journalists, bloggers also on the verge of disappearing. Many of the other blogs that interest me do not go up a moderately post interesting places for months and totally dull look. Perhaps the golden age of blogs and some overestimation is over.)
Actually I'm not complaining and I have a good excuse: I just want to warn that within a month ago, FYT is cleared, literally. Not only abandoned the blog but I think deleting each and every one of your entries, you do not do it for (pure) evil but for two reasons: I do not want are things that I said there, hanging on the web and helpless in a blog I do not plan to enter more. On the other hand there is a lot of what I wrote that I re-use it, so I prefer to disappear earlier. Nothing is lost, with the people we have already established contact can continue to do so through other channels, with no other hope to cross paths again in my fucking life, and they do not know what category they are, they can always invite a drink and find out.
In the coming days I will post up a final farewell, a post about music, as it should be, and that's all folks . Those who need their space of expression recall the basic philosophy of punk and become their own blogs. Either way it never was a kind of open mike . Many people do not understand that or simple environmental protocols.
I do not regret anything, in fact there were times he was so good, he should have made money, and maybe we did. But it's like poker, you have to go when you're winning.
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