Sultans and Scarves
Three weeks ago, an Egyptian Muslim mother and wife, four months with child, was stabbed to death in Dresden, the civilian city bombed to the ground by the allies during World War II. She was stabbed in full view of her son and husband, and when her husband rushed to...
Tele-Vision
Sit down. Tune in, and grab a beer. See what you might otherwise miss. Give us 30 seconds - and with one blank frame every thirty - we’ll put you up into a deep hypno-idiotic state during which you’ll be up to 25 times more susceptible to The...
Lie To Me, She Says.
Buffy: “Does it ever get easy?” Giles: “You mean life?” Buffy: “Yeah, does it get easy?” Giles: “What do you want me to say?” Buffy: “Lie to me.” Giles: “Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or...
Foundations of A Broadcast-Based Financial Compensation Model for Digital Media
As a listener – as audience – I am driven towards media that I like. I am infotropic, so to speak. Some data, some information, some inherent artistic or intellectual order manifests to me through songs, books, movies, and various other forms of media. Wanting this information is as basic...
What Americans Should Know…
Incredibly, all the ‘news’ networks are flooded with items about the Isra…the Zionist soldier held by the Palestinians. Not surprisingly, most of these news items completely neglect to mention the fact that the Zionist occupation is holding and has been holding more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners for years, most of...
The Idiocy of So-Called Modern Science…
One can only hope that the title of the ‘news’ article ‘Creativity older than thought’ was intended as a bad pun. Otherwise, well… In any case, the article goes on to claim that due to the discovery of very early forms of jewelry, the ‘modern’ mind as we know it...
Know Thy Enemy…
This is just a quick refresher, since memory seems to be in short supply. When the World Trade Center in New York went down, killing around 3,000 people – the reactions in Tehran, Iran were as follows: The Iranians, over 1 million of them, were on the streets of Tehran,...
Maybe You Should Believe The People Who Actually Do The Fighting
You’d think their voices would be better heard. In any case – here’s an interesting read: Military Men Who Oppose Neo-Con Warmongering Under Attack Is anybody listening? Or is everybody too busy defending Rumsfeld? A man who claimed to accept ‘full responsibility’ for the tortures and abuses of Abu Ghraib...
No Comment…
“Veteran journalist John Pilger recently wrote about one of PNAC’s founding members, Richard Perle: “I interviewed Perle when he was advising Reagan, and when he spoke about ‘total war,’ I mistakenly dismissed him as mad,” Pilger wrote. “He recently used the term again in describing America’s ‘war on terror.’ ‘No...
The Fantastic Disappearing Boeing!
Anybody know why Rumsfeld won’t sign this letter? Seems simple enough,...