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In Issue 1: Bush and Star Wars / World Bank Gets Pissy / Plan Colombia



George Bush; the Son of Star Wars, "Hasn't the idiot seen Return of the Jedi?"
Defence Consultants earning huge amounts of cash have been drafted to analyse the plans for the US missile defence shield on behalf of various nations. Not to be outdone, PLF consulted PoliteGent, an online gamer and self-confessed fanatic of George Lucas's Star Wars films. In-between bouts of the online shooting game 'Unreal Tournament' he spilled pearls of wisdom, "Bush is a fool, I mean hasn't the idiot seen Return of the Jedi? In Jedi the Death Star is protected by a shield generated from the Ewok planet of Endor. So far so good for defence right? But all the Luke Skywalker and the Rebels had to do was destroy the tiny generator Station on Ednor, and 'pop' - down comes the shield. If you see what I'm saying; read the Deathstar as the US, Britain as Endor and Luke Skywalker as a rogue state. All the rogue state has to do is take out the UK and bang!"

Coincidentally while we were chatting, Secretary of State of Defence, Colin Powell was in Prague discussing the plans for the Son of Star Wars with the Russians to little avail. Perhaps they too had seen Return of the Jedi. PoliteGent finished our chat by posing the penitent question; "Who will shield the shield-bearer?" Colin Powel, when faced with PoliteGent ‘s strategic criticisms nearly said, "We like to think of the shield as more akin to Phantom Menace than Return of the Jedi", but didn't. He also refused to comment on how safe the UK instillations would be if a rag-tag band of over-grown teddy bears (The Ewoks - Ed.) managed to shut the one on Endor down. Who calls their Secretary of State for Defence 'Colin' anyway?
More info at - EStarWars.net and funny image here

World Bank Closes Barcelona Account "..poverty alleviation is not or has ever been the World Bank's main agenda.."



"Years ago people used to burn books to try and clamp down on academic freedom - now they try to prevent academics from reaching debating halls." A PR gimp for the World Bank moaned following the decision to abandon the Barcelona summit due to fears of confrontations by anti-globalisation protestors, "for god's sake I wish you lot would just buzz off, you're making my job a nightmare and to think I turned down a PR job on Big Brother for this..." she didn't add. She also didn't go on to say how World Bank support of various dictators over the last 50 years had allowed them prevent critical academics and thinkers from breathing again. Ever. "These institutions are fundamentally undemocratic despite whatever PR effort they put on," said Warcry, a New York activist who planned to attend the Barcelona protests. World Bank PR claimed the meeting was about poverty reduction, "But poverty alleviation is not or has ever been the World Bank's main agenda," said Warcry. You don't need a PhD in economics to see that 50 years and billions of dollars later the countries the World bank has been helping are still dirt poor.
More info from - Moviment de Resistencia Global and Barcelona IMC and see graph of inequality here

Plan Columbia: It’s All Gone Pear Shaped
Plan Columbia is rated by many as the worst idea since Kevin Costner sat in a Room full of movie executives and said, “I’ve got this great idea for a film, imagine a world flooded with water….”. Why such a bad idea? Because the plan proposes that escalating a virtual civil war situation will some how prevent rich westerns from snorting cocaine. The plan calls for spending millions of US built combat helicopters and virtually ignores the social situation either in Colombia or here in the west, where the drugs are consumed. PLF asked Hannibal, former ‘A Team’ member and strategic advisor to DynCorp, a private Military Consultancy Company involved in executing Plan Columbia for comment on these issues, he replied, "I love it when a plan comes together." Thanks, real insightful, next time well ask Howlin’ Mad Murdock instead. Still, the silly comments still make far more sense than Plan Columbia.

Take for example a reporter who asked to speak to DynCorp about the issue: A spokesdrone for DynCorp said she could not discuss DynCorp's operations in Colombia because of its contractual obligations to its client, the state department. A spokesdrone for the state department said he could not comment because of the contractor's right to privacy. That clears up any questions us taxpayers may have about our funding of Plan Columbia (yes taxpayers in Europe and the US are funding all this). Some claim that Plan Colombia is more about destroying the FARC and other leftwing Guerrilla groups. The evidence for this view is pretty overwhelming considering the plan ignores one of the major trafficking groups - the right-wing paramilitaries.

In the words of Bill Simpich, an attorney for the Crack The CIA Coalition, "All this is going to do is move the drugs trade from the people the CIA doesn’t like, to those they do like." (Following this article, PLF has learnt that Howlin’ Mad Murdock has also been hired by DynCorp as a ‘Strategic Advisor’ due to his “extensive experience in ensuring plans come together”.)

Web Info - drugwar.co.uk and guardian.co.uk

For more on this - Subscribe to the Columbia Solidarity Campaign magazine; £5 unwaged / £10 waged, £20 institutions. Payments to 'Columbia Solidarity Campaign' send to: Columbia Solidarity Campaign, PO Box 8446, London N17 6NZ Web Info - http://www.drugwar.co.uk and http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4197028,00.html

Why Don't You Just Turn the TV (or PC, Games Console, PDA, DVD, Video etc..) Off and Do Something Less Boring Instead?
"Like what" you ask? Learn Something: The word 'Anarchy' is from the Greek meaning 'no leaders' and in essence is the social/political belief of collective organisation and action. How can you have a society with no leaders? Simple, rely on natural authority not institutional authority. As the Anarchist FAQ notes;

"it is necessary to indicate what kind of authority anarchism challenges. As Erich From points out in To Have or To Be, "authority" is "a broad term with two entirely different meanings: it can be either 'rational' or 'irrational' authority. Rational authority is based on competence, and it helps the person who leans on it to grow. Irrational authority is based on power and serves to exploit the person subjected to it."

Go to anarchistfaq.org to learn more!
Popstar Liberation Front laments the death of culture and artistic questioning under weight of commercial pressure, "...you who are poets bear the responsibility for everything concerning human kind. You shall redeem concentration camps and the bestialities of police and the purification of affluent regimes."
Egon Bondy (in prison) Prague, 1976. As such, we organise to resist this...
contact: hearsay@popstarliberationfront.org.uk

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