2011년 1월 23일 일요일
2011년 1월 21일 금요일
소말리아 해적 잡담.
1. 소말리아 해적들이 해상 쓰레기 투기와 남획등으로 어업기반이 붕괴되어 이를 방어하기 위해 시작했다는 이야기.
그러니까... 서방국가들에게 책임을 미루는 이야기인데... 뭔가 똥 싸고 안 닦은 주장인듯.
70년대에 소말리아 농민들을 두고 N모 초국적 기업은 이렇게 꼬득였음. "거 쌀 같이 환금성 떨어지는 작물을 농사 짓지 말고 커피 같이 돈 되는거 농사 지으라고. 우리가 다 수매해주께." 커피값이 쌀 값보다 비싸기는 하니까 농민들은 쌀 농사 작파하고 커피 재배 시작... 그런데 커피는 지력을 상당히 심하게 빨아먹는 작물인데다... 물 없는 동네에선 특히 뿌리가 깊게 들어가 다른 작물로 작목 변경이 쉽지 않다는 문제가 있는 작물.
그리고 80년대 초반에 기근이 들고 전세계적인 커피값 폭락까지 합쳐져 다 굶어죽게 됨. 무엇보다 문제는 이 과정에서 표토층이 대량으로 쓸려 바다로 갔다는 것... 농사 짓는것도 조낸 어려워졌다는 야그..
2. Band Aid
기근은 이디오피아까지 확산되었고 수많은 이들이 굶어죽어 나가니까 얘네들을 살리자는 운동이 벌어짐. 대표적인 것이 바로 Do they know it's Christmas였음. 근데 돈은 모았는데... 이 동네 나라들 하나같이 인프라가 끔찍. 너무 많은 물량이 밀려들어가니까 하역도 못하고 무진장 기다려야 하니... 아무곳에나 하역해버림. 이 물자들은 고스란히 지역 군벌들 손으로 들어가 지역 군벌들에게 종자돈 역할을 하게 됨;;;
3. 블랙호크 다운.
대통령을 누가 할 것인가를 가지고 치고 받고 싸우는 동네를 진정시키겠다고 평화유지군을 집어넣긴 했는데... 평화유지군 자체가 총을 먼저 맞기 전엔 쏠 수가 없는 부대라는 거. 여기에 빡돈 미군 아저씨들 독자적인 군벌 체포 작전 입안... 그러나 자기네들이 탈레반에게 소련제 헬기 잡으라고 가르쳤던 RPG로 헬기 로터 맞추기 신공에 자기네들이 당함. 19명의 델타포스가 죽고 수천명의 소말리아인들이 죽는 사태 발생. 그 이후 미국은 발 뺌...
4. 이 상황에서 발에 차이는게 AK47과 RPG7. 조또 없는 동네에서 조낸 과잉무장하게 되고, 국가 자체가 사실상 붕괴된 상태다 보니 남획과 해상 투기 등이 이루어졌던 것. 근데... 사실 해양투기 자체가 바젤협약 위반이기 때문에 그렇게 많이 이루어졌다고 할 수 없었고... 문제는 남획이었음. 문제는 그 어민들의 보호자 역시 '군벌'이라는 사실. 해적이 자경단이었기 때문에 서방제국에게 책임이 있다는 주장도 좀 웃긴게... 그 나라 GDP의 60%는 아직도 '농업'임. 어업이 아니라 표토층이 다 쓸려나간 농지에서 하는 농업이라는 이야기.
5. 거기다 해적질이 더 돈이 된다는 거 확인하니... 군벌의 관심사가 이쪽으로 집중. 거기다 돈 되는거면 무조건 달라붙는 양넘들... Kidnap & Ransom 보험사의 일부 에이전트들이 소말리아 해적들에게 선박 운항정보들을 넘겨주기 시작.
6. 사실 해적들에게 돈을 준다고 하더라도... 해적들에게 떨어지는 돈은 전체 돈의 20~40% 정도임. 에이전트들과 K&R보험사가 챙기고 군벌에게 상납하는 돈이 상당하기 때문.
7. 이거 중단시킬 방법? 아마 없다고 봐야 할 듯. 국제구호가 군벌들의 돈줄이 되었던 경험이 있는 놈의 나라에 다시 돈 집어넣을 바보들은 없음. 그렇다고 돈 되는 것도 아닌 동네에 대규모 군대를 파병하고 질서 확보를 하는 것도 별로 답이 없다는. 이미 블랙호크다운 한 번 찍었기 때문에.
8. 사람들은 종종 잊어먹지만 수습불가한 동네들은 어느 누구도 일방적으로 선한 피해자는 존재하지 않음. 돈에 환장한 놈들끼리 벌이는 지옥도일 뿐...
9. 그리고 군 작전과 관련해선 딱 한 마디만. 뭔 인질구출 작전을 3시간이나 해?? 해적 위치도 모르고 진입했다는거 아냐? 태풍 찍을뻔 했던거 아님? --;;;
2011년 1월 19일 수요일
2011년 1월 12일 수요일
블로그 이전 후 첫 글.
2010년 12월 14일 화요일
나는 왜 어센지의 보석금을 송금했는가?
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the
lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a
document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to
help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.
Furthermore, I am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my
servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks
alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that
were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax
dollars.
We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Hundreds of thousands are now
dead. Just imagine if the men who planned this war crime back in 2002
had had a WikiLeaks to deal with. They might not have been able to pull
it off. The only reason they thought they could get away with it was
because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy. That guarantee has now
been ripped from them, and I hope they are never able to operate in
secret again.
So why is WikiLeaks, after performing such an important public service,
under such vicious attack? Because they have outed and embarrassed those
who have covered up the truth. The assault on them has been over the
top:
**Sen. Joe Lieberman says WikiLeaks "has violated the Espionage Act."
**The New Yorker's George Packer calls Assange "super-secretive, thin-skinned, [and] megalomaniacal."
**Sarah Palin claims he's "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands" whom we should pursue "with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders."
**Democrat Bob Beckel (Walter Mondale's 1984 campaign manager) said about Assange on Fox: "A dead man can't leak stuff ... there's only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch."
**Republican Mary Matalin says "he's a psychopath, a sociopath ... He's a terrorist."
**Rep. Peter A. King calls WikiLeaks a "terrorist organization."
And indeed they are! They exist to terrorize the liars and warmongers
who have brought ruin to our nation and to others. Perhaps the next war
won't be so easy because the tables have been turned -- and now it's Big
Brother who's being watched ... by us!
WikiLeaks deserves our thanks for shining a huge spotlight on all this.
But some in the corporate-owned press have dismissed the importance of
WikiLeaks ("they've released little that's new!") or have painted them
as simple anarchists ("WikiLeaks just releases everything without any
editorial control!"). WikiLeaks exists, in part, because the mainstream
media has failed to live up to its responsibility. The corporate owners
have decimated newsrooms, making it impossible for good journalists to
do their job. There's no time or money anymore for investigative
journalism. Simply put, investors don't want those stories exposed. They
like their secrets kept ... as secrets.
I ask you to imagine how much different our world would be if WikiLeaks had existed 10 years ago. Take a look at this photo.
That's Mr. Bush about to be handed a "secret" document on August 6th,
2001. Its heading read: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US." And on
those pages it said the FBI had discovered "patterns of suspicious
activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings."
Mr. Bush decided to ignore it and went fishing for the next four weeks.
But if that document had been leaked, how would you or I have reacted? What would Congress or the FAA have done? Was there not a greater chance that someone, somewhere would have done something if all of us knew about bin Laden's impending attack using hijacked planes?
But back then only a few people had access to that document. Because the
secret was kept, a flight school instructor in San Diego who noticed
that two Saudi students took no interest in takeoffs or landings, did
nothing. Had he read about the bin Laden threat in the paper, might he
have called the FBI? (Please read this essay
by former FBI Agent Coleen Rowley, Time's 2002 co-Person of the Year,
about her belief that had WikiLeaks been around in 2001, 9/11 might have
been prevented.)
Or what if the public in 2003 had been able to read "secret" memos from
Dick Cheney as he pressured the CIA to give him the "facts" he wanted in
order to build his false case for war? If a WikiLeaks had revealed at
that time that there were, in fact, no weapons of mass destruction, do
you think that the war would have been launched -- or rather, wouldn't
there have been calls for Cheney's arrest?
Openness, transparency -- these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt. What if within days of August 4th, 1964 -- after the Pentagon had made up the lie that our ship was attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin -- there had been a WikiLeaks to tell the American people that the whole thing was made up? I guess 58,000 of our soldiers (and 2 million Vietnamese) might be alive today.
Instead, secrets killed them.
For those of you who think it's wrong to support Julian Assange because
of the sexual assault allegations he's being held for, all I ask is that
you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go
after its prey. Please -- never, ever believe the "official story." And
regardless of Assange's guilt or innocence (see the strange nature of
the allegations here),
this man has the right to have bail posted and to defend himself. I
have joined with filmmakers Ken Loach and John Pilger and writer Jemima
Khan in putting up the bail money -- and we hope the judge will accept
this and grant his release today.
Might WikiLeaks cause some unintended harm to diplomatic negotiations
and U.S. interests around the world? Perhaps. But that's the price you
pay when you and your government take us into a war based on a lie. Your
punishment for misbehaving is that someone has to turn on all the
lights in the room so that we can see what you're up to. You simply
can't be trusted. So every cable, every email you write is now fair
game. Sorry, but you brought this upon yourself. No one can hide from
the truth now. No one can plot the next Big Lie if they know that they
might be exposed.
And that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. WikiLeaks, God bless
them, will save lives as a result of their actions. And any of you who
join me in supporting them are committing a true act of patriotism.
Period.
I stand today in absentia with Julian Assange in London and I ask the
judge to grant him his release. I am willing to guarantee his return to
court with the bail money I have wired to said court. I will not allow
this injustice to continue unchallenged.
P.S. You can read the statement I filed today in the London court here.
P.P.S. If you're reading this in London, please go support Julian Assange and WikiLeaks at a demonstration at 1 PM today, Tuesday the 14th, in front of the Westminster court.
명문!
2010년 12월 8일 수요일
2010년 12월 6일 월요일
트위터 백업2
흠... 아무래도 새해의 목표는 Anger Control이 될듯. --;;;