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Hm. Having taken seven days away from the news, it took me all of ten minutes to become more informed about the American-Israeli atrocities of the last week in Lebanon and Palestine than 50% of the American public: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Pretty much what I was expecting to see.
Nor was I the only one in need of a holiday from the real news (as opposed to the propaganda on CNN/MSNBC/FOX/NPR) - Red State Son had a full blown anxiety attack...
 | A new episode of The Worst Wing: Easter Island... Fire up that grill - time for a good 'ol fashioned Texas style Barbeque! Yee-Haw! |
2006 July 28, Friday
My favorite Glaswegian, Limmy, visits Ground Zero.
2006 July 27, Thursday
It's a sin to fly, says church
Sweet nourishing booze:
And Now For Something Completely Different - Mead!
Mead Made Easy: Contents
"Come quickly, I'm drinking stars!"
"It's raining men" ... no - it's raining METHANE!
How to smoke pot and stay out of jail. Just say no!
2006 July 26, Wednesday
Day 3 of not reading any news or politics, and I'm feeling a lot better. Only four days to go.
Jesus of The Week
Lego castle on fire!
Lakes of Methane on Titan...
New Trojan asteroid hints at huge Neptunian cloud
Inflatable space stations
A superb site which exposes the amazing similarities between Star Wars and Frank Herbert's (earlier) Dune novels. Oops.
| [Herbert] had two primary starting points: first, his life-long misgivings about what he called the "messianic impulse in human society." That is, he observed that people seem to have an inbuilt hunger for a powerful, charismatic leader to whom we can surrender our responsibility for making difficult decisions. Herbert observed that even the best leaders are humans, those humans have flaws, and elevating any man to a position of god-like power tends to magnify those human flaws to dangerous proportions. Worse, even if the original leader resists the temptation to abuse power, the bureaucracy which springs up around him will outlive him, and over time a bureaucracy becomes more and more incented to prioritize its own needs over the needs of people. |
2006 July 25, Tuesday
Day 2 of my week-long "holiday from history" (I'm resisting the compulsion to read news reports pretty well).
Ah, I just discovered Podge and Rodge tv clips on youtube. For non-Irish, they're a pair of perverted, pychotic puppets. Here, Podge explains why flying is so repulsive.
Podge and Rodge interview the leader of Ireland's Green party (2 minute clip).
How The Lord of The Rings should have ended
Pong
Human Space Invaders.
The oldest song in the world.
Family Guy meets Dick Cheney...
I received this excellent email yesterday:
| Subject: Israel and Lebanon Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:52:32 From: John Chisholm Dear Dermot I am a regular reader of your Blog and I really do enjoy it a lot. It would, though, be wrong to give the impression that all Israelis back the government. There is a small, though vocal, peace movement. Like the anti-Iraq movement in the US it is drowned out by calls to patriotism and the rigour imposed by the siege mentality that has taken hold of the Israeli psyche. My partner is a member of this group of people. The stress that the past two weeks has caused, just watching what his own country is doing, is terrible. I am pretty sure that, like him, the rump of liberals left in Israel are going to vote with their feet and leave. For him, the death of Rabin marked the end of what could have been a new future. Second, I am glad you have the bit about the King David Hotel. My grandfather was part of the last British garrison in Palestine which was not, it must be remembered, an Imperial possession but mandated by the League of Nations and, after 1945, by the UN. The various efforts, after the war, to come up with a peace plan failed and it is no surprise when Ernie Bevin (decried in Israel as an anti-semite) said “bugger it” and we left My grandfather’s time there encapsulated the British experience in Palestine: the Irgun [a jewish terrorist group] shot him and then, wounded, he watched as the Arabs stole his motorbike. On managing to limp back to his HQ he was promptly sentenced to 7 days in the glasshouse for losing government property. The British army has not changed much either… J PS Has anyone explained to the Christian Fundamentalists supporting Israel about the large Maronite Christian minority in Lebanon? Is it, perhaps, too awkward to try to understand why the side they are cheerleading for is bombing a country to oblivion that has a lot of Christians in it? John F Chisholm |
Well put.
2006 July 24, Monday
Four long years have flown by - in which time I have spent the best years of my life reading and commenting on world politics, and the evil bastards who have run the planet into the ground. I've decided to take a week-long "Holiday from History" - for seven days I'm going to avoid any news about climate change, peak oil, or gold, or the "War" on terror, or financial collapse, or the
So, I'm going to fulfil a lifelong ambition, and purchase a telescope. This is the first time in about six years that I'll buy a "toy" - something that I want, but do not need - unless spiritual needs are a factor. There's something magical about looking through an eyepiece at a twinkling star or planet. It tends to put your personal problems in perspective.
I was gob-smacked to find out that you can buy an eight-inch dobsonian for $324! Take it from a die-hard astronomy freakazoid - that's incredibly cheap. If you have a child who's into astronomy, you should consider this a first-rate xmas pressie. I tried to find a bad review of this telescope, and couldn't.
When the oil runs out, it'll help you to wile away the long, sweltering nights.
So, here are some (hopefully) uplifting links:
Exploring Mars with Mini-Probes.
Carved Stone Mystifies Scholars.
Keep Laffin'.
Travelling without cars...
The future Space Hotel
Tourist Remover.
2006 July 22, Saturday
Silly wingnuts... "Between brain and mouth there is no interlocutor". Where to start?
Duh: IT'S WORLD WAR THREE, BABY! Or - is it???
| ...during the past week or so, with the Israeli/Hezbollah crisis in full swing, Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the United States House of Representatives, is using any platform available to him to convince the public that the U.S. is engaged in World War III... ...Hyping World War III isn't new to conservatives. Some have even argued that the real World War III was the Cold War against the Soviet Union, and that now the U.S. is engaged in World War IV. |
Remember Dermot's #1 rule: you can't have a World War without inviting the Russians.
So here's my easy-to-understand plan for the new World War naming convention:
7 Years War (1756-1763) = World War 1 |
| "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken |
Oh Cato institute, will you never learn?.
Billmon: The All Against the All
| We've got: Israeli Jews fighting Lebanese Shi'a and Palestinian Sunnis; Palestinian Fatah militants who've stopped fighting Hamas militants, but only because they're both fighting the Israelis; Saudi Sunni fundamentalists issuing fatwas against Hezbollah Shi'a fundamentalists; Egyptian Sunni fundamentalists backing those same Hezbollah Shi'a fundamentalists; Iraqi Sunnis killing Iraqi Shi'a and vice versa; Iraqi Shi'a (the Mahdi Army) jousting with Iraqi Shi'a (the Badr Brigade); Iraqi Kurds trying to push Sunni Arabs and both Sunni and Shi'a Turkomen out of Kirkuk; Turks threatening to invade Kurdistan; Iranians allegedly shelling Kurdistan, Syrian Kurds rebelling against Syrian Allawites who are despised by Syria's Sunni majority but allied with the Lebanese Shi'a who are hated and feared by the House of Saud and its Sunni fundamentalist minions. Oh, and American and Israeli neocons threatening to bomb both Syria and Iran. |
This easy to understand image gives a good idea as to where the problem lies.
| "Down one road lies disaster, down the other utter catastrophe. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose wisely." Woody Allen |
2006 July 21, Friday
We're as good as dead: "Russia's big and so is China."
The Jesus freaks are happy.
I hope these Christ-loons who are screaming for war in their shrill Dalek-like voices at least have the decency to JOIN THE ARMY. That way they can go to heaven without having to wait for armageddon.
How dare this bereaved mother fly the ReichsFlag upside down?
This America-hating farmer did the same, but he's been educated in Bush justice - our glorious Stormtroopers arrested him. Now, heroic ex-marines are threatening to kill him (in order to protect freedom, no doubt). HAIL THE GLORIOUS REICH! MAY IT LAST A THOUSAND YEARS!
Don't lose sleep over Kyoto or the infantile idea of Carbon-trading. The dire state of awareness is summed up in the idea that we can use market mechanisms of free-trade to solve global warming. If our "leaders" were serious about the problem, the entire financial system (based on endless growth) would have to be dismantled, along with a massive campaign of population reduction, renewable energy, and the reversal of globalisation. Ain't gonna happen. We're going to sit around and wait for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to do it for us.
The five stages of grief are: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. I guess the great and the good are stuck firmly in Bargaining
Oh F___! Between the ice and ocean: The rising tide
Scorchio: Trees Could Grow In Antarctica
Greg Palast (ugh) interviews Hugo Chavez. Nice reply here:
| Q: How do you respond to Bush’s charge that you are destabilizing the region and interfering in the elections of other Latin American countries? Chávez: Mr. Bush is an illegitimate President. In Florida, his brother Jeb deleted many black voters from the electoral registers. So this President is the result of a fraud. Not only that, he is also currently applying a dictatorship in the U.S. People can be put in jail without being charged. They tap phones without court orders. They check what books people take out of public libraries. They arrested Cindy Sheehan because of a T-shirt she was wearing demanding the return of the troops from Iraq. They abuse blacks and Latinos. And if we are going to talk about meddling in other countries, then the U.S. is the champion of meddling in other people’s affairs. They invaded Guatemala, they overthrew Salvador Allende, invaded Panama and the Dominican Republic. They were involved in the coup d’état in Argentina thirty years ago. |
| Q: Is the U.S. interfering in your elections here? Chávez: They have interfered for 200 years. They have tried to prevent us from winning the elections, they supported the coup d’état, they gave millions of dollars to the coup plotters, they supported the media, newspapers, outlaw movements, military intervention, and espionage. But here the empire is finished, and I believe that before the end of this century, it will be finished in the rest of the world. We will see the burial of the empire of the eagle. |
2006 July 20, Thursday
Israeli children having fun: This says it all.
Lebanese civilians not having fun: here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
They shouldn't be evacuating Americans from Beirut - they should be forcing them to shovel up the corpses of the dead, like the Germans had to in the camps in '45.
Let's have a history lesson - about terrorists who blew up a hotel in 1946. Guess what - they weren't A-RABS...
Pat Buchanan: Where Are Bush's Critics Now?
| Israel's response was to abduct half of the Palestinian cabinet and parliament and blow up a $50 million U.S.-insured power plant. That cut off electricity for half a million Palestinians. Their food spoiled, their water could not be purified, and their families sweltered in the summer heat of the Gaza desert. One family of seven was wiped out on a beach by what the IDF assures us was an errant artillery shell. Let it be said: Israel has a right to defend herself, a right to counterattack against Hezbollah and Hamas, a right to clean out bases from which Katyusha or Qassam rockets are being fired, and a right to occupy land from which attacks are mounted on her people. But what Israel is doing is imposing deliberate suffering on civilians, collective punishment on innocent people, to force them to do something they are powerless to do: disarm the gunmen among them. Such a policy violates international law and comports neither with our values nor our interests. It is un-American and un-Christian. |
To quote our glorious Christ-Fuhrer: Bring it on!
| If Israel does attack Iran, the "summer of 1914" analogy may play itself out, catastrophically for the United States. As I have warned many times, war with Iran (Iran has publicly stated it would regard an Israeli attack as an attack by the U.S. also) could easily cost America the army it now has deployed in Iraq. It would almost certainly send shock waves through an already fragile world economy, potentially bringing that house of cards down. A Bush administration that has sneered at "stability" could find out just how high the price of instability can be. |
| Lebanon was the last straw. It proves that everything Bin Laden said was true: "They have come to take your land and your resources; they have come to shame your women and disgrace your culture; they have come to humiliate you in front of your children and heap ignominy on your religion. Where was he wrong? Author and writer Pepe Escobar said it best: "The effect of the Israeli bombing barrage will be to draw newer, thicker waves of moderate Muslims toward political-and radical-Islam. The perception in the Arab street- as well as for most of the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims-has been reinforced: the U.S./Israel axis seems to hold a license to kill Arabs with impunity. |
Paradise Lost
| I lived here through 15 years of civil war that took 150,000 lives, and two Israeli invasions and years of Israeli bombardments that cost the lives of a further 20,000 of its people. I have seen them armless, legless, headless, knifed, bombed and splashed across the walls of houses. Yet they are a fine, educated, moral people whose generosity amazes every foreigner, whose gentleness puts any Westerner to shame, and whose suffering we almost always ignore. They look like us, the people of Beirut. They have light-coloured skin and speak beautiful English and French. They travel the world. Their women are gorgeous and their food exquisite. But what are we saying of their fate today as the Israelis - in some of their cruellest attacks on this city and the surrounding countryside - tear them from their homes, bomb them on river bridges, cut them off from food and water and electricity? ... ... we leave the Lebanese to their fate like a diseased people and spend our time evacuating our precious foreigners while tut-tutting about Israel's "disproportionate" response to the capture of its soldiers by Hizbollah. |
Some nice info on nuclear bunkers...
You Will Survive Doomsday
If Dick Cheney was Scarface. Laugh, damn you, laugh!
2006 July 18, Tuesday
Informed comment on Israeli war crimes against Lebanon.
On the right we have a bunch of chickenhawk cowards who cheer the war from behind the safety of their computer keyboards. On the left, we have no shortage of quaking liberals too terrified to criticise Israel in case the wretched Democrats lose the mid-term elections. Try this execrable excuse from DailyKos, and a similar effort from Kevin Drum.
Hey - we wouldn't want to jeopardise those glittering careers in Hilary Clinton's first administration, would we boys? Maybe Kos wants to be Secretary of the Blogosphere or somesuch.
As for the pitiful excuse used by both of these colossal hypocrites (that the Israel/Palestine/Hezbollah subject is somehow "intractable", or "too complex") - splutter! - what's complex about a first world military blowing children, women and the elderly to pieces from 35,000 feet? Is moral clarity that difficult for these "heroes" of the left?
Oh. My. God. Swaggering to nowhere (You'll need to watch a short ad to read the whole piece).
| What the president doesn't know and when he didn't know it remain pertinent. In January 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, Bush met with three prominent Iraqi dissidents, who, in discussing scenarios of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, "talked about Sunnis and Shiites. It became apparent to them that the president was unfamiliar with these terms." |
Must read from Iraq: Atrocities...
| Imagine your 14-year-old sister or your 14-year-old daughter. Imagine her being gang-raped by a group of psychopaths and then the girl was killed and her body burned to cover up the rape. Finally, her parents and her five-year-old sister were also killed. Hail the American heroes... Raise your heads high supporters of the 'liberation' - your troops have made you proud today. I don't believe the troops should be tried in American courts. I believe they should be handed over to the people in the area and only then will justice be properly served. And our ass of a PM, Nouri Al-Maliki, is requesting an 'independent investigation', ensconced safely in his American guarded compound because it wasn't his daughter or sister who was raped, probably tortured and killed. His family is abroad safe from the hands of furious Iraqis and psychotic American troops. |
If you're a regular reader, you'll know I'm interested in a range of topics - climate change, peak oil, over-population, exponential growth, the collapse of civilisation, war in the Middle East. All of these subjects are complex, and all are seemingly insoluble. That won't stop me from discussing them. If "liberals" are too chickenshit to criticise Israel, fine - that's understandable. You can't talk about it? OK...just don't insult our intelligence with half-assed excuses. To quote Bill O' Reilly: "SHUT UP".
Ah what the hell, here's a few more complex news stories:
Israel says "Jump!" Americans ask: "How high?"
The Gumps of August
'If our Prime Minister is crying, what are we to do?'
War in the Middle East
US 'could be going bankrupt' Speed the day.
The inflatable spaceship. Build more. We're gonna need 'em.
2006 July 16, Sunday
It's hardly suprising that American Flag Toilet Paper is sold out. We could all use some in the months ahead. Wait a minute - why hasn't anyone made Israeli flag toilet paper? If those professional victims want to start World War 3, the least I should be able to do is wipe my shite onto their flag.
It's not asking a lot. Really.
I could rant about the inhumanity of a nation that can kill and maim these children, and these children, and these children, but I won't. Almost as depressing is the response of so-called American "liberals" - try Hilary Clinton (expletive deleted - it involved a "C" and three other letters), or the moral cretins at "Air America". Welcome to "left-wing" bizarro-world USA.
Thank God (or Allah) that I'm not an Iraqi woman enjoying "liberation" in Bush's Iraq.
One good thing to remember - there's a good chance that these wars will help to bankrupt America. And when the U.S. is bankrupt, who will sent all the nifty child-killing toys to Israel? Without the U.S. taxpayer to float their wretched economy, how will they pay their brave soldiers? Maybe they can get by on all the good-will they've built up over the years.
Let's remind ourselves what this butchery is really about - it's not terrorism, or kidnapped soldiers, or some guy in a turban. The only reason why anyone not in the middle east gives a flying fuck about the middle east is this:
THE MIDDLE EAST CONTAINS 66% OF THE WORLD'S OIL.
If you think for one second that it's about freedom, or security, then sorry, you're a BUSH-GRADE MORON. Energy, and control of energy, is the Big Prize. The men in smoke filled rooms couldn't give a rat's ass whether this kid, or that granny, or that baby has their brains pulped to guacamole by a bomb. They want the black stuff. Period.
I could almost forgive them, were they using that precious energy for something worthwhile. They're not: The Twilight of Mechanized Lumpenleisure
| ...the lower ranks of American society became so affluent by historical terms that they were able to impose their tastes on everybody else, if only because there were so many of them, with so much money to spend. They begin to occupy and modify the terrain of America in a way that lower classes never had been able to before – using the prime artifact of industrial civilization to accomplish that takeover, namely the car. They bought homes in the new subdivisions that were obliterating the rural hinterlands of the cities, and before long all the commercial accessories followed: the strip malls, the department stores, the fried food huts, the cinemaplexes, the office parks, the Big Box stores... ...The new stuff built all over America in the late 20th century was ...a cartoon simulacrum of a real world that was systematically being obliterated. Instead of a real countryside outside the hated cities, we now had suburbia, a cartoon of country living. Instead of towns, shopping malls. Eventually the theme park, as represented by developments of the Walt Disney corporation and their clones, became both the embodiment of the destruction wreaked across the land and paradoxically the last refuge from it. Americans would flock to Walt Disney World in Orlando to put themselves in a saccharine replica of the authentic Main Street environments that they had thoroughly trashed in their own home places. ...they expressed their anger by striking out against nature, employing the very machines that defined the terms of their existence, the automobile and its spawn: monster trucks, motorcycles, dune buggies, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, and gigantic motorboats whose chief attractions were their power to negate the scale of the average freshwater lake while making enormous amounts of noise. These were people who no longer felt comfortable, or even ontologically present in the world, unless engines of some kind were ringing in their ears. Their assault on the landscape of America completed the destruction that suburbia had left unfinished. And as the cheap oil, which made the whole exercise possible, fades into history with the global oil production peak upon us, America was reduced to a nation of tattooed, overfed clowns in paramilitary drag, pretending to be powerful and good. |
Bring on the war - let's burn our worthless civilisation to ashes and get it over with.
2006 July 13, Thursday
Bloody 'ell! You Brits 'as yer 'eds screwed on! Britain falls out of love with America
And there's more:
| Most Britons see America as a cruel, vulgar, arrogant society, riven by class and racism, crime-ridden, obsessed with money and led by an incompetent hypocrite... ...More than two-thirds who offered an opinion said America is essentially an imperial power seeking world domination. And 81 per cent of those who took a view said President George W Bush hypocritically championed democracy as a cover for the pursuit of American self-interests. |
Here's a great summary of the role of oil in the invasion of Iraq, from The American Conservative.
Bye bye standby buttons!
I have no comment.
Juan Cole: Food, Water Running out For Gaza's Children.
Hitler must be laughing his arse off in Hell. Here are some nice photos of brave Israeli soldiers defending themselves from Palestinian children. BRAVO!
2006 July 11, Tuesday
A documentary about the "Iron Triangle" of industry, government and the military. Lots of info on The Carlyle group (the Bush family is a big investor in this company). The first 2 minutes are in dutch - scrub forward to get to the English section. 48 minutes. If you haven't heard of the Carlyle group before, this will shock you. Have a stiff drink handy.
(28 minutes in there's some fascinating info on the movements of Bush Sr. on 911. Let's just say the old prick seems to have psychic powers).
Here's a couple of links from lifeaftertheoilcrash.net:
Thanks to the War in Iraq, the U.S. dollar may soon be "not worth a continental."
Oil industry hits peak production
2006 July 10, Monday
Cartoon: Look America! It's Britney Spears!
Bush has the right to crush the testicles of children. No, I'm not making it up.
Here's why elections don't mean much in America any more: GERRYMANDERING. These are maps of gerrymandered constituencies - shaped so as to make it impossible to have competitive races.
And now, the OIL:
Ouch: Record oil price sets the scene for $200 next year
This is bad news for the optimists: 50% cost increase at Shell oilsands plant - the great hope of the planet-rapers is Canadian tar sands - they were already a borderline proposition, needing huge amounts of water and natural gas to develop. If their cost has increased by 50%, then it's tough times for Syncrude.
A Labour politician writes in the conservative Telegraph paper: Our only hope lies in forging a new energy world order
Australian TV airs a special on Peak Oil
2006 July 8, Saturday
Next We Take Tehran
Hegemonic Tyrant Courts Doom
Photo of Mozart's widow found
Hate groups infiltrating the US military
A Few Good Nazis
Go to Venezuela, You Idiot!
A Letter to the Neighborhood Flag Freaks
Ask Ann Coulter...
The long reach of North Korea's missiles
2006 July 7, Friday
To hell with the bastards who hide behind their uniform and the flag: Hadji Girl. If and when the rapists/murderers of the Iraqi girl are found guilty of war crimes, let me be the first to volunteer as an executioner: firing squad, hangman, whatever - I'll have no hesitation in doing my duty as a human being, and will be happy to send these evil sub-humans to the lake of fire.
Lovelock: The illness in Planet Earth
From the UK: Electricity Consumption Around the Home
From the US: Kill-A-Watt
Neato! MP3 recordings of the recent conference "Peak Oil and the Environment"conference. Hours of depressing goodness.
Modern agriculture just gets better: Pesticides dramatically increase risk of Parkinson's. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tells you!
Some time ago, the otherwise sensible Greg Palast wrote an embarrassingly inaccurate critique of Peak Oil. Here is a comprehensive response from Richard Heinberg. Poor Greg.
I see the future, and it works. Sort of. Bamboo trains!
Those interested in growing their own food should consider nuts!
2006 July 6, Thursday
Wow - life imitates art: From the files of Police Squad!
Paul Craig Roberts (a former Reagan administration member!) says it best: The Reality Beneath the Flag-Waving
| Americans who get their propaganda from Fox "News" or are told what to think by right-wing talk radio hosts are outraged at news reports that U.S. troops planned and carried out the rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman. They are not outraged that the troops committed the deed; they are outraged that the media reported it. ...Bush supporters are not true conservatives. They are brownshirts with the same low intelligence and morals as Hitler's enthusiastic supporters. And they are just as resistant to facts. |
| Many Americans are so unsophisticated that they refuse to believe anything bad about their country. They regard acceptance of unpalatable truths as disloyalty. This failure of American character is why Bush has been able to get away with transgressions that scream out for his impeachment and trial as a war criminal. |
| It is proof of the collapse of American morals and the fallen character of the American people that the American public and its elected representatives in Congress refuse to rein in the Bush regime and hold it responsible for its monstrous crimes. America has become a land of evil. The rest of the world hates and despises us. And we are going to pay a terrible price for it. Bush's belief that our superpower status makes us immune to the opinion of others goes beyond hubris into insanity. |
Just as the Allied forces during WW2 re-educated the Germans by taking them into the camps to see their victims, I'd like to see these Red-State American fascists flown to Iraq to see the handiwork of their beloved army. I wonder how tough they'll be when they see the corpses of disembowelled children. You know the answer.
The nazis tried to deify their fallen soldiers - well, history repeats itself...
2006 July 5, Wednesday
Some on-the-money comments about urban gardening, and related security issues. If you're stuck in a city and want to grow your own food after the crash, bring a gun (or barbed wire for your fence). Cactus might work too...
Good news from Europe: Euro MPs push for air fuel taxes
I'm glad that Sony has finally come out in favor of white power!
2006 July 4, Tuesday
Happy 4th of July. With the faux patriotism over, here's the real thing:
Osama - wanted ... dead or alive! Ah, forget it. Let him go!
A giant algae bloom off the Canadian coast. We're fucked.
Don't fly the flag today. Burn it!
| The America that pauses to recognize Independence Day is not independent. It is not free. It is not worthy of honor nor respect. It is a rotting, putrid hulk of a nation long past its prime, devoid of honor and unworthy of respect. America today is a hypocrite, a nation driven by lies, one that claims to spread democracy throughout the world when it has none to spread. America is a paranoid police state, a hoard of frightened citizens controlled by a fanatical government who feels the need to watch and monitor its populace 24/7. America is the most controlled and policed nation in the world. More Americans, per capita, work in law enforcement than the citizens of any other nation of the world. Even Russia, at the height of communism, did not need as many agents of the law to keep control of its population. |
2006 July 3, Monday
Start the day with a laugh - here's a U.S. politician's explanation of teh intarweb!
And another: will Creationists take modern antibiotics?
I'm in awe of Clay Bennett - his cartoons use symbols in a way that shames most other editorial cartoonists - here are four recent examples of his work: Privacy - U.S. image - al-Zarqawi - U.S. in Iraq
Big Brother has an improved version of RFID tags in development, as if their current one isn't enough of an abomination. Soon they'll be able to track every box of corn flakes you purchase...and apparently we're going to love this Brave New World, according to this shill from UPI:
| The second generation of wireless package tracking technology -- radio frequency identification (RFID) gear -- is emerging rapidly, changing the way manufacturers monitor shipments. Paper maker Smurfit-Stone Container is working with Texas Instruments to bring to market a new process for affixing straps to boxes, which contain printed antennae. These technologies are being used by visionaries and early adopters now, but, in the coming years, the tools will breach the chasm and hit the mainstream market, where pragmatists, conservatives, and even today's skeptics will embrace it. |
The sad story of the Marlboro Man, the soldier whose photograph became an icon a couple of years ago.
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