Re: [WDDM] Why bother?

["Jiri Polak" <jiri.polak(at)swipnet.se>]

Hello Ted!
Good to hear from you again. I believe you refer to the newly established
DDEV. More details will be presented in the next newsletter. It´s the idea
of Eng.Federico Tonini and  George Kokkas. They want to create a coalition
of DD organisations in Europe, which I consider to be more promising than
the WDDM which is an organisation of private individuals. Another good thing
is that Federico is manager of a successful enterprisse exporting some sort
of machine components to the whole world. He has probably more money than we
other DD people and declared to be willing to support financially my
Newsletter - provided that it would be transformed into a DDEV Newsletter
with only an international section. He wants to translate it into Italian
(he already started with the June issue) and distribute it in Italy. George
Kokkas is supposed to do the same in Greece, and perhaps Kevin Lone in
France. Federico has several Italian collaborators. Antonio Rossin is one of
them. We´ll see. In the international section of the newsletter, I want to
go on as until now. Federico is even more radical than we others. He is
furious about the corruption of the Italian system and wants to abolish all
parties. He accepts DDD.
As to the WDDM, I regret it has been flooded by messages which should not be
there. But it is Mirek Kolar who is in charge of that.
I obviously hope to be able to read your new work you mention. Please let me
know where I can download it. Pitty it seems not to be available in print.
That would be more handy.
Hoping for continued contacts I remain
Sincerely,                             Jiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Becker" <becketl(at)auburn.edu>
To: <wddm@world-wide-democracy.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:17 PM
Subject: [WDDM] Why bother?


> Hi Jiri:
>
> It was only a matter of time before this kind of thing was gonna
> happen.  Is that guy Rossin in on it?  I thought from the conference in
> Greece that he would be WDDM's undoing...maybe even an agent
> provocateur.
>
> I still can't understand fully why this DD or DDD movement, as correct
> and timely as they are, cannot get any support from anyone with
> resources to really get going.  I was hopeful that the Swiss would lend
> some of their resources to make this really a global thing...but I fear
> they only want to toot their own horn and hear the echoes in The Alps.
> Andi Gross just made me a "friend" on his "Facebook" page...and said he
> wants to talk about DD and DDD.  We'll see.
>
> Meanwhile, your friend Ted. is about to have his 4 year, 600 plus page
> book project launched online by National Social Science Press.  It is
> the cutting edge of what a real "online book" should be.  I talk a lot
> about DD and DDD being the only way to sustain life on this planet in
> the future in the last part of the book.   Possible that I might get it
> translated into Mandarin and available in China.  We'll see.
>
> Ted.