Wallensteinism

[joeallonby]

Personally, I liked the fact that what is apparently German public radio is
Deutschlandfunk. I was disappointed to learn that this has nothing to do
with George Clinton or Curtis Mayfield. Funk is apparently simply German for
radio. Oddly enough, while researching this I learned "sich von Angst in die
Hosen sheissen" and "die unter-hosen straffziehen". Mein schmerz! I wonder
what the German phrase for "give someone a swirlie" is.

Friede,
Joe

on 6/1/04 12:42 AM, barbara100 at barbara100 at jps.net wrote:

> Try dyncorp's, no "e" and with an apostrophe. 2500 hits on Google.
> CorpWatch, TalkLeft, The Nation, Alternet among them...
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
> To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 9:54 PM
> Subject: Wallensteinism
> 
> 
>> Wallensteinism
>> 
>> While doing my job yesterday evening I was able to listen to some
>> interesting stuff on Deutschlandfunk (my favourite German radio station)
>> about the "outsorcing" of violence; those modern mercenaries fighting for
>> the US-government for example in Iraq and Columbia.
>> 
>> There's a "Radio on demand"-button on the DLF-website, so it's possible to
>> listen to that broadcast again (sorrily the first ten minutes are
> missing),
>> which is what I did this morning because I had missed the last part.
>> 
>> I learned the name "DyneCorps," so I did a web-search for that name. To my
>> astonishment I only got three hits on Google and Yahoo. The assertion
> being
>> made in the broadcast that the increasing use of "private contractors" who
>> are operating in a grey zone (paid by US-taxes via the Pentagon) has
> hardly
>> been perceived by the public seems to be true:
>> 
>> "There were no matches for your search DyneCorps"
>> (New York Times-search)
>> 
>> 28.5.04: 18:40 - 19:00 Hintergrund Politik
>> Krieger gegen Bezahlung. Die Rolle von Privatarmeen in Kriegen und
>> Bürgerkriegen
>> http://www.dradio.de/dlf/vorschau/
>> 
>> 
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