polizei, flieger, knüppel und sirenen: wenn volksvertreter sich treffen ... langsam wird das hier absurd.

La OTAN [=NATO] enviará uno de sus aviones de reconocimiento Awacs a Barcelona para que supervise el espacio aéreo de esa ciudad española durante la cumbre de líderes europeos que se celebrará el viernes y sábado. (lavanguardia)

und die ersten verletzten gibt es auch schon: bei einer übung sind agenten durch den übereifer der instructores verletzt worden: schläge, tritte, steine/wurfgeschosse.

Los cursos, según este sindicato, han consistido en “dar y recibir bastonazos, golpes de piedras y de pelotas, resultando heridos algunos agentes, debido al exceso de celo de alguno de los instructores”

"information consists of differences that make a difference."   "Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how."

"Creative thought must always contain a random component."

"Science probes; it does not prove".  

margaret mead and gregory bateson in a kind of confusing conversation talk about the invention of cybernetics and the early macy meetings, but nevertheless an interesting piece. the macy conferences was a series of elite gatherings of cybernetics research held in the 40s and 50s.

Now, if you say to somebody like that, ‘Why is the trunk of an elephant a nose?’ they can’t tell you without an awful sweat that it’s because it’s between two eyes. The formal-puzzle has never been presented to them.

mead and bateson about the rivals in the group, winner and looser, warren mcculloch and norbert wiener, the term cybernetic, ...

B: It actually existed as a word before Wiener - it’s a nineteenth century word.

SB: Material tools more than conceptual tools.