Monday Jun 21, 2004

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After the U.S. military "liberated" towns and villages in Iraq, it wrapped barbed wire around them.

Any government using barbed wire risks alienating its people, and will use it only when the political costs do not exceed the advantages. Productivity depends on the efficient management of flux, and the ordering of space must ensure the greatest control possible over circulation, at the same time allowing for freedom of movement to the greatest extent possible. This is especially true for places of consumption, such as shopping malls and theme parks, which employ the most discreet tools of control -- tools which are no less violent for those deemed undesirable.

The fence and the door are either open or shut, allowing or denying access. Barbed wire, by means of its necessary connection with surveillance, represented a refinement in the techniques of filtering, and an interactive enclosure, allowing for an adaptive response to events based on information furnished by surveillance.

Olivier Razac, Barbed Wire: A Political History
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whiskeyfightpit:


Man, it's one of those days. You can't keep a good dictator down!
fonusa:
HEY . JUST THOUGHT I'D LET YA KNOW THERE'S A GREAT BAND FROM THE D.C OLD DAYS (80's / EARLY 90's)PLAYIN' THEIR REUNION THIS SATURDAY JULY 3 AT THE BLACK CAT. THEY'RE CALLED STRANGE BOUTIQUE . I GUARANTEE YOU'LL LIKE THEM IF YOU LIKE S.G . THEY'VE GOT KIND OF ETHERAL GOTH/ PUNK SOUND . HERE'S THEIR PAGE SO YOU CAN CHECK THEM OUT IN CASE YOU'RE INTERESTED .

http://www.mercyground.com/StrangeBoutique/reunion.html

JUST TRYIN' TO PUT FOLKS IN THE KNOW THAT I THOUGHT MAYBE INTETRESTED SINCE NOT MANY COOL SHOWS COME AROUND THESE DAYS. THANKS

THIS ASCENION & SIDDAL ARE OPENING.

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