silencio

A couple of days ago the New York Times exposed a large propaganda operation run out of the Pentagon which targets the domestic media market. Normally that sort of thing is illegal in a democracy, and supposedly is illegal in the US. And in case a giant illegal domestic propaganda infrastructure wasn't fucked up enough, their pet propagandists are a bunch of war profiteers:

Those business relationships are hardly ever disclosed to the viewers, and sometimes not even to the networks themselves. But collectively, the men on the plane and several dozen other military analysts represent more than 150 military contractors either as lobbyists, senior executives, board members or consultants. The companies include defense heavyweights, but also scores of smaller companies, all part of a vast assemblage of contractors scrambling for hundreds of billions in military business generated by the administration’s war on terror. It is a furious competition, one in which inside information and easy access to senior officials are highly prized.

Strangely, since the New York Times published this a few days ago it has gone absolutely nowhere. No other major news outlet has taken it up or given it much more than a brief mention as far as I can tell. An illegal domestic propaganda operation run by the Pentagon and a bunch of war profiteers is not "front page" news. No political talk show has covered it as a subject of discussion that I have been able to find. It's quickly on its way down the memory hole.

What the fuck?

I support the Columbine killers

They killed irony, sarcasm, and free speech.
"Your freedom is not free of dumb".

Hosni Mubarak sucks

YouTube is complicit in torture? I am too sleepy to snark effectively, but needless to say our friends in Egypt are not the nicest bunch.

raised to be lowered

truth is man-made

evil librarians!

They're trying to turn our children into witches!!!

death to the pornographers!

If I worked for the CIA I would be putting together a porn production company right about now...

the will to be against

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." -Albert Camus

math is hard!

Soon only outlaws will have 128-bit integers, except for me because this one is ALL MINE:

19 88 CC 21 D2 8E 81 96 C1 83 1E 68 BB 24 90 79

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

when numbers are outlawed, only outlaws will have numbers

truth is man-made

i got my fist, i got my plan, i got survivalism

year zero

doubleplusgood

The anatomy of a made-to-order alternate reality

that's how I roll

Hosni Mubarak is a dictator and a total fucking asshole, al-Azhar University is the university of terrorism and stifles free thought and genuine academic inquiry. Come and get me motherfuckers!

building a better death squad

We like our violence virtualized so this video is just too hot for American teevee:



Anyone care to place bets on how many days later the bodies of these men were found dumped on the streets of Baghdad with the tell-tale signs of torture and execution?

entartete Kunst

It's a bit disturbing how Christian activists can't handle a movie being released which has a child-rape scene. It must be pornography, because no real art would ever show such a thing and so it must not be released. Fuck censorship.

hell is other people

Sometimes I wonder if some subset of the population inherently desires totalitarianism and thus feels obligated to take part in the panopticon.

fuck the FCC

The funniest thing about CNN (today) is that in an article about the unfairness of the FCC's anti-profanity rules they edit quotes so no one will have to soil their empty minds seeing dirty words spelled out:

Carter Phillips, a Washington attorney for Fox, repeatedly quoted the disputed language in open court, including Cher's remark that "people have been telling me I'm on the way out every year, right? So f--- 'em," and Richie's statement, "Have you ever tried to get cow s--- out of a Prada purse? It's not so f---ing easy."

What makes it doubly funny is that C-Span was there covering the hearing and one of the judges asked the FCC's lawyer if C-Span would get in trouble for broadcasting a trial in which people swear:

In an unusual move for a federal court, the judges allowed C-Span cameras to broadcast the hearing, which led Judge Peter W. Hall to ask Eric D, Miller, the lawyer for the government, whether a news broadcast on the case would draw FCC scrutiny.

Miller said no, because a news broadcast would not be intended "to pander or titillate."

Does CNN feel a need to edit quotes of foul language because CNN is not news?