S-11 Redux: (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse

Halo1 writes "The Guerrilla News Network has made a great 11 minute movie, culled from over 20 hours of footage from different channels. It's a lightning fast razorsharp analysis of the post 9/11 coverage by the general media and gives you quite a different view of the politicians and their calls for war. It's insightful, frightning and funny at the same time (we need a new mod option! :). The links on the movie page go to the Windows Media version at the Sundance Online Film Festival (they're competing with that movie), but they also have Quicktime versions available locally: low and high bandwidth (links posted with permission from all involved parties)."

Comments

Very well produced.

[Radio Shack Robot]

I was in Radio Shack yesterday, and saw it streamed over the demo computer. I enjoyed the fast 9/11 clips they pieced together. Especially the Dan Rather series.

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[401k]

Why is this left-wing pro-terrorist propaganda on slashdot? Part of the reason I like this site and bothered to register is to not have some editor's political biases (outside of IT) shoved down my throat. "Guerrilla News Network" -- bunch of PLO shills who will try to perpetuate the lie that Mossad pulled off 9/11. This kind of brain-filth aids and abets the murder of Israelis and is de facto justification for terrorists to kill Westerners around the world.

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[Black Copter Control]

I'm sorry -- We've directed you to the wrong site. Try this site, instead.

Wow...

[euxneks]

I might actually get the movie before it gets slashdotted.

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[euxneks]

aw shit. I spoke too soon.. (only got half the movie!)

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[Anonymous Coward]

Windows Media Player 9 is actually less of a ressource hog than, say, WinAmp (version 2 and 3) or RealOne, while being a very capable media player.

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[Anonymous Coward]

There is a direct link to the video here: s11redux_300k_v8.wmv

Enjoy!

All of GNNs news videos are very good.

[Anonymous Coward]

Very thought provoking and always letting the viewer in on what our government is doing behind the scenes.

EVILDOERS BEWARE!!

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[AtariDatacenter]

However, it was interesting to watch, if not a bit preachy. The thing that I walked away with it the previous time was this being painted as Christians vs. Muslums. It seems to be timely once again, tho'.

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[JohnFluxx]

After reading what you said, I was getting ready to be angry at the movie. I watched it, and must say I thought it was very well done, and didn't quite see it in the same way you did - they said several times (well showed clips..) that the problem was that it was going to appear to be christians vs muslims, and that people would equate the war on terror as war on muslims.

I hate to over anaylse it, but perhaps it was trying to show that this is how people see it, and they weren't trying to put a particular view across.

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[$$$$$exyGal]

This is very timely. We just sent (or are about to send, depending when you read this) tens of thousands more troops to the Persian Gulf. I really hope there is not any type of battle, but it looks inevitable.

I wonder if this type of "underground" media can actually change the tides of war. It certainly seems to make more sense then a bunch of hippies protesting (they seem to be completely ignored).

--gal

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[shokk]

This is too Christian vs Muslim. I hear too many people railing about how religion has been the bane of civilized thinking, but they forget that the worst atrocities in human history were committed in the 20th century in the name of secular ideas such as capitalism, socialism, and nationalism.

This same moron is obviously making an argument that Bush is a backwater rube that only knows how to order violence, but in protesting so vehemently he is instead advocating the idea of complacency that gripped the US before 9-11. Go back to your friggin PS2 "eternal consumer" mentality and zone out while everyone else deals with the reality that there are people that aren't just playing at being "bad guys". They really do want to kill you because you are not them. In their eyes your existence is keeping humanity from progressing and in the light of that unmitigating resistance the only alternative is your erasure.

Have no fear. We can wipe ourselves out and the planet will endure, evolving all sorts of new plants and species without our help. Our only interest in all this is human survival - the film even states this as its conclusion - and while we come up with witty things like "we have to come together to survive" we fail to realize that the people committing the violence *are* trying to bring humanity together to survive, but under the banner of what they perceive to be the best intentions. It all falls back down to "survival of the fittest" or "might makes right", and ideas like right and wrong and everything in between will be redefined by the victors. Anything else is just window dressing.

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[(startx)]

But bush IS a backwater rube that only knows how to order violence. I don't understand how someone with a C- average who drove his businesses into the ground can become president. His single concern is getting revenge on Saddam for the attack on his father's life 10+ years ago. I pray we make it to the next election before that baffon starts anything too serious.

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[cyclist1200]

Perhaps, but your argument is still a straw-man attack.

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[Omkar]

In related news, the GNN news network was disrupted by a terrorist attack. A group known as 'Slashdot' has claimed responsibility.

Seriously, thoug, can anyone post a transcript for thoses of us with really slow internet connections?

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[Anonymous Coward]

NOT FUNNY.
Don't quit your day job of being unemployed.

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[kubla2000]

The powerful message coming out of the film was that we (and by "we" it's clear GNN means "the west", not america alone) are in a position to do something about the dangerous cycle of violence that is threatening what we have come to know as free civilisation.

By equating Al Qaeda with Islam, and the actions of terrorists with those of muslims, many in positions of responsibility in government (specifically, the clip shows Bush and his aides, Jean Chretien, Tony Blair, et al) and especially the media are pushing the views of the public toward a mindset last seen, with catastrophic outcomes, in the crusades.

According to Bush, because "they" hate "us", we must beat them until they change their minds. Christianity == good, Islam == bad. "Either you're with us, or with the terrorists", declared Bush.

Well, this film shows that we needn't subscribe to that point of view.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'd say that it is already blindingly obvious that we do not need to subscribe to Bushes view. The reason the USA appears to stand alone now is because most other countries (and especially those in europe) do not subscribe to his view.

There is no doubt in my mind that there will be a war in Iraque, whether or not any weapons will be found. But where is the obvious benefit in dragging down Saddam? The whole arab world will hate us even more than they already do; Saddam may just launch whatever he has at whatever is within range, thus causing massive collateral damage; oil prices will fly up, thus damaging our economy even more. And will Iraque be 'free' afterwards?

Well, compare it to Afghanistan. Theoretically a free country, but the warlords still rule the countryside. The soldiers present there, currently 'liberators', will soon be oppressors in the eyes of the Afghan people. Unless they are pulled out (which will allow the civil war to flare up again with full strength) a second vietnam is in the making. And there is no reason to believe that Iraque will be any better.

Disposing a dictator is (comparatively) easy, but I doubt Bush has any vision about what should happen next. And that scares me.

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[CptNerd]

The powerful message coming out of the film was that we (and by "we" it's clear GNN means "the west", not america alone) are in a position to do something about the dangerous cycle of violence that is threatening what we have come to know as free civilisation.

So, when we're attacked, it's up to us to "do something" to "end the cycle of violence and revenge?" What "something" are we supposed to do, just let it slide, wave it off as "just one of those things we deserve?"

"Peace at any cost," is the phrase that comes sickeningly to mind, dredged up from leftist diatribes of years gone by...

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[MKalus]

So, when we're attacked, it's up to us to "do something" to "end the cycle of violence and revenge?" What "something" are we supposed to do, just let it slide, wave it off as "just one of those things we deserve?"

It is not like the West hasn't done anything before the attacks. Anybody with two braincells was aware of the fact that sooner or later something like that would be happening.

If ANYBODY today still claims they didn't see something like that coming than they are beyond help.

There is ALWAYS a cause and effect, hardly anytime something happens out of the blue, the problem is though: We tend not to look critical at ourselves.

Or to quote the Bible of which Bush seems to be so fond of: "How can you see the splinter in the eye of your brother if you cannot see the tree in your own?" (Sorry, probably not the correct phrasing).

M.

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[CptNerd]

So, once again, the point is, when we're attacked, we must do nothing, since we "had it coming."

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[glesga_kiss]

But where is the obvious benefit in dragging down Saddam?

Iraq has a lot of oil. And I mean a lot

The whole arab world will hate us even more than they already do

Not true. The arab world hates Saddam as much as Bush. Iraq fought a very long war with Iran, who are a very islamic country. It's during this period, where the US didn't like Iran very much, that the US sold Iraq (on credit!) masses of arms and the capabilities to build weapons of mass destruction.

Anyone that suggests Iraq has Islamic terrorist links is lying to you. The whole of the CIA and NSA has spent the last 4 months trying to come up with proof of this "link" and have they found anything whatsoever? Not even a casual shared aquaintance between them!

And will Iraque be 'free' afterwards?

Ha Ha! Who cares? We've toppled (or helped topple) other governments we didn't like before, and look who we left in their place. Saudi Arabri. Afganistan. Who cares about the population when their is bounty to be grabbed!

PS, that's pretty much why the terrorists hate us. We fucked them and their families over. Literally.

Well, compare it to Afghanistan. Theoretically a free country, but the warlords still rule the countryside.

LOL, Afganistan is now ruled by former business partners of Bush/Cheney, from Haliburton. It's an economic take over. They want access to the oil in the former USSR states to the north, and the only way to pipe it to the Gulf is through Afganistan. That's the reason for the war there, to secure access to the land. The oil companies and US government (same thing at the moment) had been negotiating this for several years with the Taliban. It's only when the contract was awarded to an Argentine group that the Taliban suddenly became "evil". There are press reports prior to 9/11 suggesting a US/Afgan war is iminent.

My advice? Do not watch TV news! It's only designed to keep you watching until the commercials. So they show things that people like watching. Death. Violence. Dispair. Tragedy. Sport.

It's not a true reflection of the world, and if you watch it every day, you're probably one of those people who worry about being attacked/killed on your way to work, and you live behind closed/locked doors.

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[Obasan]

Hrm... not to rain on your paranoia parade, but there's more oil in Canada than there is in the middle east. Much of that is at present unexploited, but the US does import more oil from Canada at present than it does from Saudi Arabia.

The US gets less than 20% of its oil from the middle east. If its "all about oil" as you seem to claim, the US should be using political leverage to increase pump & oilsands production in Canada, not getting their people killed overseas. Not to mention dealing with the situation in Venezuela.

I think there is a bit more to it than you have identified...

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[filekutter]

thanx for the link, wonderfully done ....

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[shokk]

Unfortunately the point of view of other countries is lets lay down and accept things the way they are until something really bad happens to make us pull our skirt back up and say "no". Australia learned that when the nightclub in Bali was bombed. France still han't learned to stay saying "I give up" when faced with threats. Most of Europe is now overrun with radicals that want to bomb one thing or another and are slowly being dug up only because the US has been pushing. The only question left is what do these people have to blow up that you care about in order to wake you up? I don't care if they are the McVeighs or the bin Ladens of the world, I will not allow my children to die at their whim. If you are willing to give up a measure of your free civilization so that these baddies will love you more, then you deserve none of it. They give up their right to live when they threaten mine and swing their arms in my nose.

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[smokin_juan]

oh i dunno... did you put a bullet in your parents head when they beat your ass for acting like a dipshit?

yeah, you were one of those "time out" kids weren't you? or maybe the "dualing banjos" kid?

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[kubla2000]

So, when we're attacked, it's up to us to "do something" to "end the cycle of violence and revenge?" What "something" are we supposed to do, just let it slide, wave it off as "just one of those things we deserve?"

.No, I don't think that's the right attitude either.

I think there are other more productive solutions that should be explored before turning the middle east into glass. Don't forget, for all the irrational hatred that is being projected at the States, there's a lot of irrational hatred being projected back.

The cost of carpet bombing Iraq will be massive. The outcome? Well, briefly, the threat (if there is any) of Iraq will disappear but when it's resurrected by the children of the survivors, it will be that much more profound. If the States really do want to oust Hussein, why not, for example, carpet bomb Iraq with food and medicine with "from your Uncle Sam" propaganda attached? It would cost far, far less than dropping bombs.

Who are the Iraqi people going to support? A despot who gasses them or a friend who helps? A revolution that grows from the ground up and is nurtured into an open democracy is more likely to be long-lasting than exorcising the current regime through military might and then imposing and defending a puppet government by force.

Bombing the hell out of them will not bring a satisfactory long term solution. They will hate (if they already don't) the USA as much as they hate Hussein. The cycle of violence will continue.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Can I live in your simplistic world.
It must be nice to be that stupid.

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[kubla2000]

Unfortunately the point of view of other countries is lets lay down and accept things the way they are until something really bad happens to make us pull our skirt back up and say "no". Australia learned that when the nightclub in Bali was bombed.

What the arse was Australia supposed to do *before* the attack? Perform a strategic surgical carpet bombing of the countries its tourists planned to visit?

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[chriso11]

Wow - so good at jumping to baby bush's answer.

Ok, let's review the results of when we 'did' something: The goal - Afganistan is a bastillion of democracy, religious freedom, and opportunity. Osama Bin Laden dead, and terrorism wiped out.

Actually, bush has not said Osama's name in public since July/02. The warlords control Afganistan, and you can go weeks between any mention of Afganistan on the news. We have had several other terrorist attacks across the world since then (Bali).

Why are focusing on Irag? Iraq had NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. And North Korea is much more dangerous then Irag.

Look at the results of our actions. We've toppled the Taliban, and instead replaced them with the warlords. Osama Bin Laden used to RECEIVE U.S. aid against the USSR. Saddam received a huge amount of aid during the Iran/Iraq war. Our history is littered with helping out petty tyrants who turn on the United States.

Finally, to actually answer your question on what to do: First, stop jumping in with short term, high force solutions to issues. Instead of supporting a tyrant who will control the country in a way that pleases us, SUPPORT DEMOCRACY and freedom. If we consistantly act in the best interest of people of other countries, eventually they will, if not like us, at least not hate us. And the proposal that removing Saddam is in the best interest of the Iraq people neatly ignores the embargo that the US is holding over Iraq.

Or, if that is too difficult, leave the rest of the world alone. Become self sufficient.

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[smokin_juan]

"If you are willing to give up a measure of your free civilization so that these baddies will love you more, then you deserve none of it."

WTF are you talking about. In general, it's not the type of person you replied to but your type who is promoting a police state with the likes of TIA, detaining citizens w/o due process, and state run propoganda offices.

And while I'm at it, why don't you stop pimping your children out for your washed up bullshit adgendas.

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[fatboy]

Didn't see the film, it's in some strange video format I can't play, but let me make a few notes.

By equating Al Qaeda with Islam, and the actions of terrorists with those of muslims, many in positions of responsibility in government (specifically, the clip shows Bush and his aides, Jean Chretien, Tony Blair, et al) and especially the media are pushing the views of the public toward a mindset last seen, with catastrophic outcomes, in the crusades.

I agreed with this administration, Al Qaeda Hi-Jacked Islam to suite it's own purposes. To destroy America. It was stated on more than one occasion in plain english that we are not attacking Muslems because they are Muslems, we are attacking Al Qaeda and their allies because they funded and trained the 9/11 mass murders. They all just happen to be Muslem

According to Bush, because "they" hate "us", we must beat them until they change their minds. Christianity == good, Islam == bad. "Either you're with us, or with the terrorists", declared Bush.

That last quote is about what nations were going to help us hunt down and kill the people that killed thousands of our citizens. I see nothing wrong with throwing our weight around in that situation. It has nothing to do with Islam vs Christianity and everything to do with removing the threat of future terror attacks.

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[Bunji X]

Hrm... not to rain on your paranoia parade, but there's more oil in Canada than there is in the middle east. Much of that is at present unexploited, but the US does import more oil from Canada at present than it does from Saudi Arabia.

Interresting, are there any sources to back that up? I am not beeing sarcastic, just curious.

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[glesga_kiss]

but there's more oil in Canada than there is in the middle east.

Much of it is in environmentally protected areas. Not that it's going to mean much when the rest of the worlds supply runs out.

US does import more oil from Canada at present than it does from Saudi Arabia.

Saudi is only one of the oil exporting states in the middle east, but I see where you are going.

There are many types of oil in the ground. Some are good for petroleum, some are better for diesel. I believe that the Gulf oil is unique in some ways, but I'm not an expert on the subject.

If its "all about oil" as you seem to claim, the US should be using political leverage to increase pump & oilsands production in Canada, not getting their people killed overseas.

Good question. I wasn't really aware of how vast the reserves in North America were. Perhaps you should ask your leaders that.

The profits to be made here outweigh the number of lifes lost. That's not my thinking, but that of corporations. Like the ones who compare the cost of recall verses the cost of payoffs to people who lost family members in accidents due to faulty products. They don't think along the lines of "we have enough in Canada", they just want "more more more". Even if there was oil all over the place, they'd still want to control or at least profit in some way from every location.

However, there is no question that the USAs interest in the Gulf is primarly for the oil. Even if the forthcoming Iraq invasion isn't to claim Iraq's oil, the action would be intended to "stabilise" the region (no sure if it would actually do that...) to make things easier on other oil exporting countries.

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[spruce]

Anyone that suggests Iraq has Islamic terrorist links is lying to you.

Well then what would you consider Iraq paying the families of suicide bombers? That's an action that they've taken in public - what makes you think they don't do similar things under the table. And how do you know our intelligence agencies don't have that information - Tony Blair said the same thing, maybe it's a big conspiracy.

And your rant on Afghanistan - an economic take over? WTF? You really believe that we attacked Afghanistan because of oil? Do you not remember the terrorist act that was committed by Osama, who at that time was given refuge by the Taliban? Do you not remember us giving them several chances to turn him over, and them giving us the the middle finger?

I'm no major Bush supporter by any means - but to assume that he is willing to send our soldiers to death simply for oil is a bit of a leap to me. I think to make that assertion you have to also say the Bush is nothing but Evil, straight up unchecked evil. I don't believe that, I think he, right or wrong, believes that the world would be a better place without Saddam.

My advice? Do not watch TV news! It's only designed to keep you watching until the commercials. So they show things that people like watching. Death. Violence. Dispair. Tragedy. Sport.

It's not a true reflection of the world, and if you watch it every day, you're probably one of those people who worry about being attacked/killed on your way to work, and you live behind closed/locked doors.

I find it really amusing that you would question anyone else's view on reality.

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[Black Copter Control]

Do you not remember the terrorist act that was committed by Osama, who at that time was given refuge by the Taliban? Do you not remember us giving them several chances to turn him over, and them giving us the the middle finger?

You sound like Hitler explaining why he attacked poland, or Saddam explaining why Kuwait had to be subdued.

There's war, there'a the reason for war, and then there's the public excuse. Sometimes the last two are in agreement, sometimes not. If there were, as claimed, rumblings of war with Afghanistan before 9/11, then Ossama may have just been a very convenient excuse to do something the US government was hunting for an explanation for.
Afghanistan was the target, Osamma was an excuse so obvious that it took no explanation post 9/11. (This can be pushed as far as Conspiracy theories when you add in the fact that Osama was originally trained by the CIA. provided a well-timed excuse for invasion and hasn't been proven killed. In a conspiracy theory world, Bin Laden would be far more valuable to the US alive than dead).

The thought may not be true, but it's far from absurd.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know, maybe telling its citizens not to go there instead of pretending things are peachy?

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[The Mayor]

Terrorism isn't stopped through the waging of war. Can you name one case where terrorism was ended by war? War "against terrorism" only brings on more terrorism.

We really ought to consider our policies in the Middle East if we wish to eradicate terrorism. Would Iraq have built up their military had we not armed Iran to the hilt in the 50s, 60s, and 70s? Why are we arming the Israelis, Egyptians, and Saudis to the hilt (oil)? Would our interests be served better through other forms of aid? Yes, I know that Egypt is the largest recipient of non-military US aid, but Israel and Egypt are the #1 & #2 recipients of military aid.

Why did the Bush regime stop the US policy of engagement in North Korea and with respect to the Palestinian Authority? Perhaps the US would be better served through the use of other means.

We (the world) don't have many success stories in our fights against terrorism. The terrorism threat in Northern Ireland seems to be improving, albeit very slowly. Egypt and Israel have developed a somewhat lasting peace (hopefully it will be able to survive Israel's current regime). What has happened in these cases? First and foremost is engagement. Engagement does not require capitulation. But we must continue dialogue. Bush's approach in Israel and North Korea are completely inane. Isolationism does not work, and has never worked.

I have always cherished America's ability to behave in a pragmatic manner. Rightly or wrongly, America usually acts in a manner that achieves their goals while minimizing the negative consequences. However, the actions the US government has taken in the past year and a half have made me question this pragmatism. Has Bush and his administration carefully considered the consequences of their militant approach to these issues? Will this approach achieve the intended results while minimizing negative consequences? I don't think so. Will they create more problems? Probably--it seems North Korea was a manufactured problem that resulted from Bush's isolationism coupled with North Korea's opportunism.

As for giving "up a measure of your free civilization so that these baddies will love you more", I'm more worried about giving up my free civilization (yes, I'm American) in the process of attempting to *prevent* these baddies. I personally consider the rights outlined by the Articles to the Constitution (and its amendments) as inalienable rights. I find our treatment of interned foreigners completely unacceptable. I believe that America is a great nation that should rise above this current conflict and do the right thing. We can win in this current conflict. However, if we sink to the levels of war mongering and disregarding of our own Constitution, we will merely get mired into a conflict that cannot be won.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Amount imported does not reflect amount available to pump. Iraq, with the second largest reserves in the world (second to saudi arabia), is in shambles; and doesn't have the capacity to fully exploit its resources. Furthermore, I think it would be risky to depend too highly on such unstable regimes like Iraq and Saudi Arabia for our oil requirements to keep the country running.

PG

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[p00py]

I wish to invoke Godwin's Law here.
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g/godwin_s_la w.html

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[Anonymous Coward]

Prior support of Bin Laden and Hussein makes our foreign policy less than omniscient -- nothing more, nothing less. That they have turned vehemently against us might mean that we have wronged them in some way. It definately means that they are ingrates at best. Bear in mind that the world is mostly shades of gray with little black and white. Were we to bring "DEMOCRACY and freedom" to
Afganistan back when Bin Laden welcomed our support we certainly couldn't have done it by letting the Soviets roll all the way to Kabul. Would it have been better to stand by and do nothing?

I think you have simplified the situation in Afghanistan today. The warlords still have (some) power, but everything I've gleaned from the NYT and Frontline indicates that life there is radically different than it was under the Taliban. It is better, and will continue to get better as institutions take root and the Warlords who knew nothing but the life of arms become less and less significant. Advancement is a piecemeal process best done in steps that disallow backsliding.

I don't mean to cast aspersions on the thrust of your point. I can't feel proud about a war with Iraq. I wish I could hear more about how we're altering our relations with the Middle East. But I also wish I could read something about American politics from anyone, anywhere that wasn't an "all-caps"-esque propagandist slam.

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[Anonymous Coward]

He doesn't sound anything like Hitler or Saddam to me. Did Hitler make reference to Poland bombing Germany? Did Saddam claim that Kuwait killed 3,000 Iraqis for no apparent reason? If they did make such claims would you believe them?

Is the irony in your nick deliberate or accidental?

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[CptNerd]

Or, if that is too difficult, leave the rest of the world alone. Become self sufficient.

Yeah, right, that'll work until some left-wingers get their collective noses out of joint because we don't act to support one of their pet causes, like starvation in Somalia, or ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia.

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[supradave]

It appears that you believe people to be a problem. Let's kill all of them so you can prosper in your "me, me, me" attitude, or, at least, institutionalize them until something better can be thought of.

We can feed people and nobody has the right to kill somebody else for being "different." I think your Bible says something to that effect.

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[shokk]

We have not had a good deal of success in eradicating crime from the streets of the world either, but I don't think anyone wants to start negotiations with the rapists and murderers. Terrorists are not much more than better organized criminals and there is no reason they should not be hunted down. Certainly we could be garnering the support of these countries by setting them up with hard services (help their police forces and infrastructure stabilize) and products (light water reactors) rather than hard money, and even then provide American companies to do the work in setting that up in order to give the economy a little more of a boost. But right now that is appeasement and a reward for having plotted against us, and it certainly didn't take American $$$ to have everyone in that part of the world hating each other for the past thousands of years. Right now the service and hardware they want involves killing instead of building because that is where their hearts are.

I don't agree either that we should be detaining innocents against the letter of the constitution, but you also cannot let the constitution keep you from pointing at who is likely to be at fault for plots and schemes that have been dug up. I mean, it's certainly not the Norwegians that we're dealing with, folks. Don't detain people if there is no evidence, but wring them for all they're criminally worth once evidence shows itself - no matter where they come from. I doubt history will show we were wrong for confronting terrorists and countries that we know have supported them, but we will again be viewed with distaste for the treatment of people who came to our lands for a bit of peace.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Your simplistic and ignorant comments ignore the reality that the US Oil Lords do not want to "BUY" Mideast and Caspian oil for the US market, they want to "SELL" it to Southeast Asia.
These wars are not about securing America's oil supply, they're about "securing" Asia's oil supply.
("Securing" in this case meaning to "secure" the rights of Unocal, Shell, Exxon, etc. to steal the oil and sell it to China. With all of Bush's cronies profiting handsomely of course.)

Nice try.

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[spruce]

You sound like a fucking crackhead comparing what I said to Hitler.

Let me take you through this:

1. Osama kills roughly 3000 people in America in the worst terrorist act in our country's history

2. We ask the nations of the world for their help. Pretty much everybody says "okay, we'll help"

3. The Taliban say "screw you - we've got him but you can't have him"

4. We say "No really, give him to use or we'll defeat you"

5. Repeat 3, 4

6. We defeat the Taliban

Had this been any other cooperative country we would have worked with their officials to extract the criminals. But no - they wanted to throw it in our face and defy our right to justice. What the hell do you think we were supposed to do - just forgive Osama? To compare that to Hitler invading Europe or Saddam is just stupid.

Now - about planning war prior 9/11. Maybe we did - but that in no way even hints at the fact that the reason we attacked was for oil. I bet if you pick any country in the world they probably have many military contingency plans. It would be foolish not to. If you believe those reports then there were other countries on board as well - Russia, India, and others. The Taliban were pretty horrible rulers and other people agreed - do you really want to argue that life in Afghanistan was better under the rule of the Taliban?

But having said that - THAT IS NOT WHY WE ATTACKED. WE ATTACKED AFTER THEY REFUSED TO SURRENDER A TERRORIST.

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[Anonymous Coward]

well, in about 5 or 6 sentences why don't you tell the audience how you are certain, beyond reasonable doubt, that Usama Bin Laden is responsible for the terrorist attacks.

don't forget,

http://www.indymedia.no/news/2002/12/3934.php Mohammed Atta's Passport miraculously survived the inferno and fluttered harmlessly to the ground to be found later as proof of his link to the hijacking

Re:Next story:

[Black Copter Control]

I wasn't using Hitler as an example because he was incredibly nasty. I was using him because World War II is a reasonably well known example. To learn from history, and to avoid repeating (aspects of) it, we must be willing to examine it, and use it as a template against which to compare current events. To refuse to examine current events in the context of historical events because of the atrocities that followed the relevant historical events is to lose the entire benefit of that part of our history.

That the events here are similar to some of the similar events in Germany's early wars of conquest is not a smoking gun indicating that Bush is (or is going going to be) as evil as Hitler. It is simply an 'interesting event'. Analogous to something that, in a forensic investigation, would flagged by a little paper evidence-tent. It is something that is possibly worth further investigation.

When Hitler was first elected, he seemed a fine enough fellow. At the time Hitler invaded his first couple of countries, the people of Germany did not know what he was about to do. He had convinced them that those first invasions were completely necessary and appropriate. By the time the invasions had gotten more questionable, dissent had been pretty much expunged under cover of war fervor. The first to go were the Jews, followed by the Gypsies, Communists, Homosexuals, anybody complaining about the extinction of the former groups and then pretty much anybody who didn't just shut up and do what the government told them to do. Examining the situation in hindsight, it's pretty obvious that Hitler was an evil crazed despot. In 1938, however, the only real hints available to most people would have been strange anomalies of word and action.. Being dismissive of transgressions by one group, but going ballistic at similar (or milder) transgressions by another (read: target) group.

Ignore, for a moment, the infamous nastiness of Hitler's actions subsequent to the invasions of Poland, etc. Consider, instead the process by which he took over Germany by feeding on their fears.

If the invasion of Afghanistan had stood on it's own -- If The US had worked to install a full democracy in the country and had quietly walked out afterwards, I would have thought little more about it. Instead, the precognitive rumblings about invading Afghanistan, the pending invasion of Iraq and the contextually anomalous treatment of N. Korea gnaw at me and worry me.

I doubt that the world could ever grow another short, dark-haired, mustached, swastika-saluting, Jew-hating warmonger, but we could easily grow a well-disguised analogy. Hitler was an echo of Napoleon. Napoleon was the echo of Robspierre and the terror of the French revolution. The echoes go back a long way, each one variably more or less evil than the previous. Each one variously both different and similar to the others. No incarnation of evil will be precisely like the other, but if you listen carefully, you may hear the echoes of it's predecessors.

Re:Next story:

[spruce]

I still don't really see how the two situations are similar. At least not in any significant way. If we had invaded Afghanistan or Iraq or North Korea without being provoked then you might have something to be concerned about. As it stands:

Afghanistan - Terrorist event coupled with the uncooperative Tabliban. A quick defeat leading to the establishment of an internationally approved government with a peace keeping force to maintain precense. This is necesary until the Afghanistan army and police can keep order as they are currently being trained by the US and France.

Iraq - Invades Kuwait, a UN resolution allows a US led coalition of many nations to defeat Iraq. In the following year Iraq continues violationg UN resolutions, they shoot at US and British planes flying UN mandated patrol paths, just today the IAEA finds weapons violating UN resolutions

North Korea - US takes hard line in negotiations, but attempts to resolve the problem through diplomacy instead of through force. But if North Korea were to continue their current path, I bet you'd see more than diplomacy coming from Washington. You call this anomalous treatment but I don't think it is. Saddam had every opportunity to resolve his problems through diplomacy and chose not to.

I bet you don't see these situations the same way, but that's how I see things. I don't think there's any discrepancy between what Bush is saying and doing. I don't believe there's an economic motive driving his actions. I realize many would scoff at that.

Also, I don't believe that that the type of evil you describe will come from America. Even if we go to war, there will be plenty of people like yourself with watchful eyes, and if the actions of Bush go against what Americans want then Bush will be removed. The only way it could happen is with the support of the American people.

Re:Next story:

[Black Copter Control]

Also, I don't believe that that the type of evil you describe will come from America.

Therein lies the basic weakness of human beings. It's hard for any group to "belive that we could be the bad ones". Whenever any group gets into the mob mentality, they are acting in the belief that they are the righteous and agrieved party, and there it is always possible to find proof that that is the case (especially if you are willing to bypass evidence that points in the other direction).

When the KKK Lynched their victims they always had 'a good cause'. When they rioted and destroyed entire communties, 'they had good reason'. We can look back now and realize that they, too, had ulterior motives -- that their actions were wrong. That does little good, however, for their innocent victims. Nor does it do any good for the civilian victims of the bombings of Dresden and Berlin that we (and the German people) can look back and realize that Hitler had evil intent from day one.

And don't kid yourself into believing that the US saw the evils of hitler from say one either. I remember reading s letter to the editor in the New York Times. It was glowing letter of support for the Nazis written by the US anbasador to Germany. At the beginning of the war, US industry was happy to help arm Germany -- Just like we armed Saddam's Iraq, and trained Bin Laden's terrorists.

The evil of Hitler is not that he invaded poland without reason -- he had a reason. The problem that we can see now, in hindsight, is that his overt reason was backed by hidden ulterior motive. It was those hidden motives that made the invasion a tempting idea.

The reason why I find the US objections to Saddam's use of chemical and biological "weapons of mass destruction" a straw man argument is not that I don't find the actions despicible. My objection is that -- when those actions were occurring, the US (which had supplied Saddam with critical technologies and supplies) gave silent assent to the actions.

What I find straw-man about these complaints ia that now, 20 years after the fact, the US is suddenly demonizing Saddam for accepting US sid snd encouragement to create and use weapons of mass destruction. We're running around screaming (in not so many words):

"Saddam is an evil and nasty man because he did what we taught him to do."

It would be funny if there weren't so many lives in the balance.

we _REALLY_ need new mod option...

[Anonymous Coward]

frightning

Mosaic media is fun

[Platinum Dragon]

I haven't seen 9-11: (c)StA, despite being a GNN forum semi-regular, but I've had the opportunity to view other collage film efforts on the topic.

In particular, Plasticman and the Justice League by Toronto artist and slacker Jonathan Culp was quite hilarious and biting.

If you're up for a slightly twisted view of things, along with some artsy-fartsy film tricks, dig around the alternative billboards in your area. There's some interesting stuff floating around out there. It may not change any minds (or it might!), but as cultural artifacts and Negativland-style low-budget social commentary efforts, many such flicks are worth seeking out.

Re:Mosaic media is fun

[glesga_kiss]

A similar thing to this montage of 9/11 images was done to the Gulf War: Part One. It shows just how bad and sensationist the coverage was, focusing on the computer graphics that were created for the networks.

It was done by Phil Patiris and you can find a clip of it at the Illegal Art webage. Highly recommended. Read the sites legal agreement if you have the time; all is not as it seems. It's a good site, containing lot's of things that people have tried to ban or surpress over the years.

Direct Link

[ShoeHead]

before this get's slashdotted, you can download the movie at

http://http.dvlabs.com/gnn/qt/gnn/redux/redux_bb .m ov

Happy viewing!

Re:Direct Link

[squarefish]

bad link. hold down shift and click here

I tested it first!!!

Re:This is new?

[Anonymous Coward]

The thread you gave a URL for doesn't say anything about it being old. I did a little digging around on MetaFilter and came up with this one though:
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/19931
It has a bit more discussion on the video, so the link might be worth visiting. MetaFilter is a cool site, BTW.
I agree that /. is a little disappointing these days.

For a second

[CableModemSniper]

I thought I was on a different website...

Re:For a second

[Anonymous Coward]

Not quite. Rusty works really hard on the quality of his site. And when he asked for money to keep things going he gave out specific numbers, took a very reasonable salary, and turned his operation into a nonprofit.

While GNN is reeling from the Slashdotting..

[CBNobi]

Do them a favor and download from the Sundance site instead of the GNN. They have a distributed, Akamai-like system for viewing the flick.

You get the film, the GNN doesn't spend money on bandwidth, and noone feels too guilty about slashdotting a film-specializing site like Sundance. Everyone wins.

Re:While GNN is reeling from the Slashdotting..

[Starman9x]

ok, maybe I'm being dense [and the coffee I've had isn't helping] but how do I "deal with" the sundance site that says I need windows media player version -9- [what happened to 8? when I left windows for linux, 7 was "the hot ticket", but had too many security flaws even for microsoft's taste...]

Re:While GNN is reeling from the Slashdotting..

[Anonymous Coward]

psst:
just dont install the spyware download app (windoze users) , use a streamripper for the wmv or grab the .mov

Re:While GNN is reeling from the Slashdotting..

[Anonymous Coward]

So we go take money from someone else. NICE.

Re:Note to slashdot

[Platinum Dragon]

Alternativately, find an interesting political story that doesn't come out of the same old, tired, pseudo-radicalist mindset and attempt to provide the same standards of objectivity and balance that would be expected of a news organization.

You expect objectivity and balance from a news organization?

I know journalism classes talk a big game about "objectivity" these days, and most news organizations will pay lip service to the concept, but a cursory glance over the political content of most news media will immediately expose the editorial bias of the organization in question. I'm actually happier when a website or newspaper comes right out and admits its editorial slant, rather than letting it quietly run past the editorial page.

In particular, Fox News' "Fair and Balanced" slogan is practically begging to be refuted. Not that CNN or many other news networks are much better, Fox just happened to be the org that painted a huge bullseye on itself regarding objectivity.

Cold enough for ya?

[Anonymous Coward]

Temperature 12 F / -11 C

I'm on a dial-up and am unable to view the movie but will be the coldest slashdot poster tonight. Will get down to 0F/-2000C here tonight.

To the cannucks: Sorry about the sloppy celsius conversion.

Re:Cold enough for ya?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, you will not.
There are colder places, and I can guarantee you that they are posting right now... ;-)

Re:Note to slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

GNN == MTV funded.

'nough said.

A few thoughts...

[Anonymous Coward]

Interesting that the clip of Ted Koppel in which he talks about wishing "all our Muslim viewers a happy Ramadan" doesn't include the full quote, which ended with something along the lines of "We do want to be politically correct, don't we?" The full clip is available in this amazing "illegal" video Spin
at illegal-art.org, where incidentally you can download other illegal audio & video.

Secondly, Steve Allen was a genius.

...or was it Dan Rather...?

[Anonymous Coward]

Same thing, really.

Preaching to the choir...

[Anonymous Coward]

The only ones that will pay attention are those that held these views already. Especially since the method of information distribution is an indie film. It's not as if this stuff hasn't been exposed since 9-11, it's just that the sheeple are apathetic towards manipulation and corruption. If James Bamford can't get people to care one whit with editorial columns in USA Today, and the best Michael Moore can do is provoke a few days' worth of discussion with a nationally-distributed film, what hope does this project have?

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[violently_ill]

sigh...

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[Anonymous Coward]

it _will_ provide food for thought. it's better than doinging nothing. what are you doing?

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[Anonymous Coward]

If only there were hungry minds.

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[Anonymous Coward]

Or perhaps the general population just doesn't agree with you and Michael Moore. Maybe it doesn't mean the American population isn't apathetic, maybe they think its the right thing to do. Maybe it's you that is wrong?

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[Anonymous Coward]

Making sure my weapon is loaded. Most important, where are you? I need to make sure my weapon is calibrated.

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[Anonymous Coward]

or maybe they feel compeled to "watch what they say?"

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[danro]

Or, maybe "not agreeing with the majority" and "being wrong" are not always the same thing?

Either that, or Mariah Carey is the best musician ever...

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[Anonymous Coward]

The problem isn't "sheeple", the problem is the smarmy, one-sided, contentless presentation. I agree with GNN's points and still found the short worthy of a government disinformation ministry. Were the references to Deliverance necessary and relevent, or did it make the authors feel clever and superior? The jump cuts set to 'hip' beats? Walt Disney?
If GNN really want to make a point the average person would hear, they'd have excercised more disipline and self-restraint and come up with 11 minutes that wasn't a masturbatory exercise in self-justification. And remember, I generally agree with their point of view. The form however does nothing to advance it beyond a small core of smug, self-satisfied socially-marginalized psuedo-intellectuals.

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[Anonymous Coward]

Spoken like a true elitist. Perhaps if we just all believed like you we would be better off.

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[ralphclark]

I agree with everything the above ac said. I wanted to be impressed but the film came across as more style than substance. It just doesn't deliver any clear message, not even emotively, beyond lampooning GWB and demonstrating that the US establishment is pretty much gearing up for war - which we all knew already.

As to the style - it's typical of todays film college grads. None of them seem capable of holding a camera still for more than a couple of seconds. Take the recent James Bond movie for example - those stuttering shots of the Aston Martin speeding over the snow & ice. WTF was that supposed to be?

Grump.

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[Anonymous Coward]

I have no problem with people who attack Bamford's/Moore's/whomever's statements, so long as their arguments are valid and the premises true. But, as indicated in the original message, the problem isn't a matter of simple disagreement, it's a matter of ignorant apathy towards the subject. You can't equate disagreement - which requires active participation and analysis of a presented argument - with inherently-passive apathy. They aren't the same. You also can't equate informed disagreement with arguments from positions of ignorance, unless it's your view that every opinion is "equal", no matter what the truth or value of the parent information from which it was derived.

Re:Preaching to the choir...

[danro]

So, you propose that we should all be conformist then?
Think for your self, for a change.

Permission?

[legLess]

links posted with permission from all involved parties

"Fools. Only now do they begin to see the power of this fully-operational death star^W^WSlashdotting..."

Re:great

[Rysc]

www.mplayerhq.hu

If you can't watch WMV, you're just not trying.

Or you don't run x86, but that wuld be nutty.

Re:great

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I'm posting as an anonymous coward because I know I'll get a hot flaming troll enema if I use my real nick.

See, this is my biggest bitch about people who insist *nix is a better operating system and should be instituted world wide. Maybe, just maybe, you'll come to realize that the whole world has already grown comfortable with their proprietary formats, so why bother catering to the users who don't use their shiz...

So yeah, you should hack together something neat like those other wierdos that plays not-*nix proprietary formats.

Oh yeah, stop whining.

FIRST ZIONIST POST

[Anonymous Coward]

Pal3stinians ar teh SUX!!!

No more cookies for me, I'm stuffed...

[Starman9x]

is it just me, or does it seem like every mouse movement causes a "new cookie" event for the "siteserver" cookie?

Mod parent !

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah your right , this is ancient, it's been on the fileshare apps for ages under the name

Osama Bin Laden vs the world - redux s11 - FFM.mov

it came out approx October 2001 after the 911 attacks, good to see /. is up with the news :p

grab it on fileshare at leisure

kazaa/edonkey etc etc

Re:Mod parent !

[SavingPrivateNawak]

it's been on the fileshare apps for ages... it came out approx October 2001

Oh you don't r0x0rs as much as I do, I got it from a uNd3rgrouNd warez s1te in June 2001!

Re:Mod parent !

[Anonymous Coward]

"Oh you don't r0x0rs as much as I do, I got it from a uNd3rgrouNd warez s1te in June 2001!"

*Before* September 11? So all of that stuff was prerecorded! Yikes... that's l33t.

Re:Mod parent !

[SavingPrivateNawak]

... that was the point... mocking all those that cannot help boasting they knew it before everyone else.

huzzah to michael

[Hadlock]

kudos for doublechecking permission before slashdotting a site that is definately gonna get slammed, come morning. i know you got flamed last time for that barcode site, and it's good to see you're alerting people in advance this time.

in other news, interesting short film, i really liked the various music they played on it. did anyone by any chance catch the piano bit and know who wrote/composed/arranged it by any chance? it almost sounded like somthing out of the thomas crown affair.

Re:huzzah to michael

[Anonymous Coward]

The poster of the story asked for permission, not michael.

Re:huzzah to michael

[Stormie]

kudos for doublechecking permission before slashdotting a site that is definately gonna get slammed, come morning.

Michael didn't doublecheck shit, the submitter did. You know that if it was left up to Slashdot, the willing and the unwilling alike would see their webservers reduced to smoking rubble, just like every other day.

Re:huzzah to michael

[Anonymous Coward]

That's either Watermelon Man or Cantaloupe Island. Both by Herbie Hancock.

Re:huzzah to michael

[joeface]

...or was he referring to Take Five by Dave Brubeck?

Re:huzzah to michael

[wct]

The two pieces of music I definitely recognised were Primal Scream's "Come Together" in the second long segment, and of course the "Dueling Banjos" from the movie Deliverance. A short jazzy piece near the beginning sounded a lot like an Amon Tobin song but I can't place it. I'm guessing that the very first piece was probably composed for the clip since it slotted very closely with the video samples.

Re:huzzah to michael

[Halo1]

The jazzy piece is called take five.

Re:huzzah to michael

[wct]

Thanks, I'll have to check it out. I'm sure I've heard it sampled or covered in a few recordings actually, the Amon Tobin is the one that stood out.

Re:huzzah to michael

[Anonymous Coward]

Forgive me for not being very specific...it has been a long time since I've seen it (and I'm having trouble downloading it right now).

I know the last song is by Prince.

Re:huzzah to michael

[Anonymous Coward]

The slow bit at the end was Little Red Corvette by Prince

It has links for WMP 8 too.

[Chuck Chunder]

Not that's necessarily of much use to you either.

stick a rusty fork in my eye

[violently_ill]

my favorite part was about halfway through when they show henry kissinger (nobel peace prize winner and butcher of chile, e. timor, and vietnam) talking about the importance of strong leadership. queue "dueling banjos" and cut to president bush making an ass of himself ("...the american people...uh..."). i can't be the only person in america who cringes every time the president tries to say something off the top of his head. how in holy hell did a man that profoundly stupid become president of the united states?

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Geekwad]

To gauge a man's intelligence by how well he speaks in public is completely moronic.

How smart do you think YOU are.. or how about your friends.. I bet you all think you're pretty intelligent. Now tell me.. how well do YOU speak publicly?

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Anonymous Coward]

please say you didn't vote, i would not be suprised. Not in the least fucking bit.

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Anonymous Coward]

how in holy hell did a man that profoundly stupid become president of the united states?

Ye reap what ye sow. Guns are more important than smarts in the good old usa.

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Gyan]

Except that the President is a politician foremost.

You would think that after all his political experience, he would have a stronger foundation as an orator, especially since he's the Commander-in-Chief.

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Alien Being]

You are very wise. No wait, that's completely moronic.

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[maxpublic]

And yet it's obvious to even the most thick-headed of us that the man is a complete fucking moron. As are, it appears, most of the twits who voted for him.

Which makes sense, given that half the population is below average in intelligence. Finally they have equal representation in the White House!

Max

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually only 1/2 of the people voted, and out of all those people only less that 1/2 actually voted for him. Therefore only 1/2 of the total morons in America were represented. Then again this idiot was installed in office with the direct support of less than 1/4 of the population.

Well that is a republic for you. And please stop making excuses like "how would you feel if you had to speak in public." Well I don't know, because I am not the #$@#ing president, darn it... if you are going to be the most powerful man on earth you better be able to at least articulate your thoughts in public. How come this guy has never appeared on a non-orchestrated live event, where it HAS TO SPEAK FOR ITSELF? Everytime its handlers have left it, it made an ass of itself.

Let's see so far we have had what:

Election fraud, diplomatic crisis with China, terrorist attacks, 7 of the largest bankrupcies in history, economic recession, record unemployment rise, record low stock performance, record DOW year close, record national spending/debt increase (after inherinting a surplus), war, etc. etc.... And they tried to tell me that I should not judge this idiot because it speaks like a jackass in public. I don't have to, all I need to do is to look at its record... I am pretty sure my dog could do a better job.

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[violently_ill]

i am smart. i did vote. and i would like to point out that while bush ambles around talking about "strategery" and "the evildoers", the man i voted for is touring the country giving impromptu speeches about "the unrealized possibilities of human existence." his name is ralph nader, and in every possible measure of quality as a human being he is LIGHT YEARS beyond the man who now sits in the white house. while bush was still using alcohol and cocaine, waiting to find jesus, nader had already reformed dozens of industries and government agencies. and i don't think it takes a great intellect to figure out that years of alcohol and drug abuse might affect the speech pathways of the brain.

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[violently_ill]

you say it, brother.

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Anonymous Coward]

I always wondered about people who find Jesus. They are either real assholes like Bush, or killers in death row. In either case, I always have to question if Jesus really wanted to meet them. It is a bit pretentius to claim that you have found someone, when we do not have access to that person to know wether or not he or she was really found.

I am pretty sure that right now Dubya is actually wondering... "hum I wonder who would Jesus bomb? Should be somewhere in the bible, let me check....."

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Anonymous Coward]

Testify!

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Mac Degger]

But as a politician, it's his job to hold dialogue, change peoples minds, make compromises, understand wtf the issue is and be able to communicate that with other people, inform, motivate, and do all that stuff which one does with the use of that skill we call public speaking. It's his job to be a qualified demogogue...and he isn't a skilled orator at all.

But even then, I know lots of people who aren't skilled orators, but are smart. When they have to speak, there might be lots of ums and ahs, but what comes out is generally intelligent (and intelligable) thought. That's just not the case with GWB.

Also, how else are you going to judge GWB's capabilities? The only side you see is what's on tv. And if you'd've bothered to dig deeper, you'd already know the guy is a complete moron, based on his accomplishments.

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[The Asmodeus]

Election Fraud: Multiple independant inquires and nothing has been found.
China: Causes by Taiwan, not Bush
Terroist Attacks: You've GOT to be kidding..
Bankruptcies and economy, dept, etc..: If you would have stopped smoking crack, you'd be able to remember the recession starting BEFORE Bush took office. The economy is a big boat and doesn't turn fast.

Hmm, maybe you should stop relying on your dog for your political views..

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[chriso11]

Well, let's review your response:

>Election Fraud: Multiple independant inquires and nothing has been found.
Actually, it is well known there were serious issues with Florida's voter rolls. One particularly outrageous example was where one person had his voting rights removed for a felony committed in 2005.

>Terroist Attacks: You've GOT to be kidding..
Well, baby bush is sure not making the world any safer in the aftermath, that's for sure.

>Bankruptcies and economy, dept, etc..:
Well, given his selection of cronies to run (e.g. Pitt at SEC), his upcoming record deficit, huge tax cuts for the rich. While Herbert Hoover didn't cause the Great Depression, he sure didn't fix it.

I would rather have his dog running the country than the current monkey, that's for sure.

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Anonymous Coward]

>The economy is a big boat and doesn't turn fast.

No, but when it's going downwards, there is nothing better than a big war to get it going again.

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Anonymous Coward]

i am smart.
i did vote.
i can't capitalize.

Re:stick a rusty fork in my eye

[Simon Garlick]

i can't be the only person in america who cringes every time the president tries to say something off the top of his head. how in holy hell did a man that profoundly stupid become president of the united states?

I suggest you read "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore.

20th of Feb 2002

[Anonymous Coward]

came out around 20th feb 2002

Guerilla News Network: The alternative news service's Creative Director, Stephen Marshall, speaks about his new "news video" that juxtaposes disparate messages to create new meanings from the news media messages that came out of 9/11.
Listen

http://archives.onpointradio.org/0202radiodiaries. asp

that vid was scary...

[LadyGuardian]

... only in the way that now people are going to go around spouting this stuff as gospel because they are too lazy to go do their own research. Yes, it is well done. I even chuckled at the banjo music. However, quotes taken out of context do not count as fact. No matter who said it or how many there are in a row, it's still not the whole truth. I laugh at CNN for their egotistical 'learn about whole world's events in 30 seconds' approach to news, but this is something else entirely.

This, to me, is how MTV would cover the news in a desperate stab at keeping people's attention.

Re:that vid was scary...

[yukster]

Very good. Bravo. You noticed that peoples' words were taken out of context. What gave it away? The stuttering? The jerky motions? The funky beats? It's not edited together to try to change what these people were specifically saying in the clips. The piece is using familiar faces and voices to make a point. It's the overall message that matters. Now, along the way, truncated statements might tweak an eyebrow. But I don't see much misconstruing going on.

And whether or not the viewers get lazy on their research, GNN certainly is not. They've had some great writing. Hell, there's some on their home page right now: check out Heather Wokusch's razor sharp analysis of Turkey's role in the upcoming Gulf War II or the bit about the adminstration's plan for the internet.

I mean, c'mon... Anyone who buys all this "war on terror" and "we gotta take out the madman" stuff is a grade A moron. But hell, don't take my word for it, get it straight from the horses mouth: here is the report in which all our current cronies, er, illustrious leaders, lay out their master plan for controlling the world's resources and "preserving American interests".... from Sept 2000. Be sure to browse the site and check out the roster: Wolfowitz, Cheney, etc.

Ya know, the GNN piece is entertaining, but it actually falls short. It was made right after 911 and was responding to a well founded concern that the war on terror would become the holy war to end all holy wars (and the human race too). But, ultimately, the guys running the show don't give a shit about religion or terrorism. It's all about the money and power.

Re:that vid was scary...

[LadyGuardian]

The piece is using familiar faces and voices to make a point. It's the overall message that matters.

Pray tell, what would that be?

But, ultimately, the guys running the show don't give a shit about religion or terrorism. It's all about the money and power.

Was this your attempt to enlighten me? So if it's not about religion or trying to send a message about 'don't mess with the US' after lives are taken in a tragedy (yes, I know how overused that word is today) but rather about using that as a cover to get cheap oil and intimidate the world - how is that reflected in the video exactly?

Was it because the Americans refer to themselves as good guys and the terrorists as evildoers that is the tip off? Are the people expected to listen to a sound clip from a familiar face and trust it just because they are on TV?

I've also no fault with GNN's writing; it is clever and concise and an enjoyable read. My problem is with the people who accept things blindly. Actually, even that's not entirely it. My biggest problem, as I stated in my first post, are with people who watch this, take it as gospel and then go out to spread the word without a mere second or two of background research. These are the same people that often times rely on volume, rather than facts, to win an argument. This is supposed to be the enlightened age where information is available, if one is willing to look.

I respect those who defend their opinions with facts, as you have clearly done, but it pains me to see stuff like this make the rounds with no one giving it a second thought. I applaud stuff like this that can inspire people to go out and make up their own minds, but I am equally disappointed at those who are willing to let other people tell them what to think. People may go out and decide "Yeah, they are right. It's all about the power." And I will be happy with that since they made the effort to put their brain to work and exercise their free will.

Re:that vid was scary...

[CptNerd]

I mean, c'mon... Anyone who buys all this "war on terror" and "we gotta take out the madman" stuff is a grade A moron.

I'm so pleased to find out that no one in the world hates us enough to try to kill us, and that we don't need to have a Defense Department any more. I guess I can feel safe living two miles from the Pentagon, knowing that no one wants to fly another plane into it, or blow it up.

Thanks for clearing that up, I felt like such a moron before!

Re:that vid was scary...

[Synn]

His point, that you missed, was that taking quotes out of context can be used to make anyone look like you want them to, or say anything you want them to, and is the worst form of journalism.

see also

[Phil Wilkins]

this

Re:see also

[kubla2000]

Personally, I thought "I like to watch" was incredibly daring when it appeared (what, a month or two after 11/9?).

The difference here is that GNN's film attempts to be constructive and that, in my view, is an important difference. We can snigger at Bush's pea-sized brain but the fact is, he (and Blair et al) has got the sales pitch going and those against his war-mongering, do not. We can't just say, "don't destroy out civil rights, don't go to war" without offering an alternative, without offering some kind of argument.

"I like to watch" is a wonderful pisstake of the media. "Redux" is a powerful and persuasive argument against going to war.

Re:see also

[the gnat]

We can snigger at Bush's pea-sized brain but the fact is, he (and Blair et al) has got the sales pitch going and those against his war-mongering, do not. We can't just say, "don't destroy out civil rights, don't go to war" without offering an alternative, without offering some kind of argument

To give Bush some credit, he's not really that stupid. He's certainly not a deep thinker or a great speaker, and too many people mistake those qualities for good leadership. His gaffes tend to get inflated by the liberal news media, just as Clinton's so-called corruption was inflated by the conservative (and mainstream!) news media. A lot of the rhetoric being tossed about regarding Bush sounds suspiciously like the drivel we heard about Clinton for eight years- driven by partisanship rather than facts, and ignoring the more substantive criticisms.

Anyway, you've pretty much highlighted the current dilemma of the Democratic party, which came across as the Prescription Drug Party this past election. All the campaign updates I receive (I do still vote Dem, reluctantly) sounded exactly the same:

GEORGE W. BUSH WANTS TO PAVE THE RAINFORESTS, AUCTION OFF YOUR UTERUS TO ENRON, AND BOMB STARVING THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES WITH BIBLES.

Obviously the majority of the people who bothered to show up at the polls weren't very impressed. I'm moderately anti-abortion and moderately pro-war, and though I have little love for the GOP I'm finding it very hard to support the Democrats given that their existence seems to rest on being the anti-Bush party right now. They'd do well to stop pandering to NOW, the NAACP, and the AARP, and actually come up with some substantive policy.

Re:see also

[maxpublic]

So long as there's a bunch of anti-abortion pro-war shitheads who have nothing better to do than to fuck about in their neighbors business and vote for people who pass laws pissing all over the Constitution, Bush is pretty much set no matter what the Democrats do.

The primary problem here is that there are a whole bunch of Americans who just love being bent over and fucked up the ass by their politicians - so long as the guy next door with different political views gets the shaft as well. Minding your own fucking business is something the Enquirer-reading generation just can't seem to get a handle on.

Probably because their own lives are so pathetic.

Max

Re:see also

[JohnFluxx]

> So long as there's a bunch of anti-abortion
>pro-war shitheads who have nothing better to do
>than to fuck about in their neighbors business and
>vote for people who pass laws pissing all over the
> Constitution

I think you just proved his point.

Stupid Liberal Political Propaganda but cool video

[O.F. Fascist]

While I dont like the GNNs message, but I think the series of images and sounds contained in this video are pretty damn cool.

Sheep

[Carrierwave]

In a recent news report covering an anti-US rally in Iraq, one man was shown holding a banner reading "A nation of sheep, owned by pigs, and led by wolves." (or something to that effect). Most Americans would probably find this very offensive unless they consider the facts of the matter, and the truth is that we have let Donald "Let's Rumble" Rumsfeld and the rest of the Bush-lynching mob get completely out of control. This movie only helps to drive that point home.

Re:Sheep

[DarkZero]

In a recent news report covering an anti-US rally in Iraq, one man was shown holding a banner reading "A nation of sheep, owned by pigs, and led by wolves." (or something to that effect). Most Americans would probably find this very offensive unless they consider the facts of the matter, and the truth is that we have let Donald "Let's Rumble" Rumsfeld and the rest of the Bush-lynching mob get completely out of control.

Yes, because all Americans happily serve our corporate employers in our wonderfully spacious cubicles without a hint of grumbling or complaining, and cheer on a daily basis as yet another politician gives Big Business a nice, hard bitch slap for the little guy because he's an upstanding, principled American citizen.

This message brought to you by 1940s American sitcoms, whose sponsors remind you to, "Grow up, you ignorant, self-important fuckwit that assumes that everyone else is stupid."

While you're assuming what "most Americans" would do, you may want to look at one of the latest polls, the second most popular source of generalizations about American beliefs (with first place going to the speaker's ass, of course). It paints a pretty unsurprising picture for anyone that doesn't blindly assume that those around them are inferior to themselves. It states that the American people disagree with the Bush Administration in its priorities, believe that its policies favor the rich, believe both that Bush is handling Iraq the wrong way and that that sentiment will be ignored, that the US is not winning the "War On Terror", and that Bush is too quick to involve the military. As always, though, the President's approval rating remains unchanged even as American attitudes slowly change, because the approval rating for an American president usually only changes when they either do something or are close to an election, and Bush has been dragging his feet for months on the Iraq issue.

Re:Sheep

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh, sure. You voted too?? I am so glad to see an informed american. Well,i couldn't ( and would not ) call you a fellow american. But please be thankful that you were not hauled off by some state police force or a by a group that watches comments by the population >coughcough

let me bleat baaah to you, you fucking twat.

Re:Sheep

[startled]

"As always, though, the President's approval rating remains unchanged even as American attitudes slowly change...."

And there we go right back to me feeling superior to them. :) The NYT had a pretty good article about rising unemployment and the shitty economy. In one interview with an unemployed man who wasn't going to receive any more benefits (not even with the recent extention; he was laid off too early), the man claimed he felt betrayed, surprised, and so on.

Yes, that's right. An unemployed man feeling "betrayed" by a Republican president who isn't giving him money for not working. Wasn't that blatantly fucking obvious from the get-go? Wait-- you mean that if I vote for the Republican candidate, I'll get less welfare and social services? Run that by me again. Hold on a minute-- this from the man who vowed to cut taxes on inheritances over $1 million? Who's crusading for elimination of the tax on dividends, which will primarily effect people earning several hundred thousand dollars a year?

If people can't figure out that the Republicans are NOT the party to vote for if you want a larger unemployment check, they're too fucking stupid to vote.

I do think (well, hope anyway) that person was anomalous. So, while I think exactly the same thing when I read the post you were responding to-- that is, I think "Grow up, you ignorant, self-important fuckwit that assumes that everyone else is stupid"-- I also see the reason he's started to think that. Anyone with half a brain and 10 minutes a day on the newspaper knew who they were voting for.

Re:Sheep

[maxpublic]

Which is rather a good argument against representative democracy, which recently seems like an abject failure. Let's try something new, shall we? Perhaps an intelligence test to get the vote? And while we're at it, only those that can vote can breed.

Max

Re:Sheep

[DarkZero]

"As always, though, the President's approval rating remains unchanged even as American attitudes slowly change...."

And there we go right back to me feeling superior to them. :)

Democracy is a not a quick thing, like a dictatorship. It is a huge, lumbering beast that makes a lot of noise, but moves very slowly. If the President's approval rating dropped because he didn't instantaneously respond to an issue, it would start hovering around 0% most of the time because the maximum speed of the executive and legislative branches moving together is roughly equal to that of two drunks in a three-legged race. Conversely, if his approval rating went up every time he laid out a solid economic plan, his approval rating would be hovering around 100% most of the time because democracies are filled with far more words than actions. This is why you end up with the way approval ratings currently work. They stay the same until action is taken or something external makes things a lot better or worse than they have been. This system has its flaws, but it's the best we have right now, sort of like representative democracy itself.

As for the rest of your post, I think you adequately summed up why Some Anonymous Jackass That Was Interviewed By The NYT is a total fucking moron. I'm sure he feels very bad about that right now, or at least he will when he gets a job and starts visiting /. during work hours shortly before he is fired. However, I don't see why a sample of one proves that "most Americans" are stupid, nor why you would assume that they are based on some guy that made a nice, stupid quote for a journalist.

Re:Sheep

[Anonymous Coward]

The U.S. is not a representative democracy, it is not a democracy for that matter. It is a federated republic, big damned difference. Specially with the winner takes all system that the US employs, this means that minorities (both social and ideological) get no representation on their own.

And yes I can make the following generalization: Most Americans are too stupid to know the difference between a democracy and a republic.

Re:Sheep

[/dev/trash]

You should be outraged that anybody would feel betrayed because he expects the State to keep him in money all the time.

I don't know how much you make a year but after paying for a modest house and barely enough food to live on do you just give the rest of your money away? If not you're a hypocrite.

I'm not rich, but I'll appreciate the no tax on dividends. See 75% of Americans own stocks these days. So unless you consider 75% of the US rich, this helps everyone.

Welfare is ok for a short-term fix but it makes you lazy if you continue to recieve it. What motivation was there for me to look for a job when I was getting unemployment? None. It helped, that's for sure, but I'm not upset that I don't get another 13 weeks, I mean what happens after that? This economy sucks, I'd probably not have a job still, so should I get 13 more weeks? See where I'm going, it becomes a crutch.

But hey, if you want the taxes to go up on the 'rich' don't be surprised when you get laid off because with the increased taxes, you are the easy way to reduce expenses for a company. Tax cuts spur the economy, a spurred economy gets people off welfare, we all win.

Re:Sheep

[startled]

"I don't know how much you make a year but after paying for a modest house and barely enough food to live on do you just give the rest of your money away? If not you're a hypocrite."

What are you talking about? I never stated my opinion on welfare, unemployment benefits, or the current president in my post. I simply said that if you vote Republican and are shocked when they cut benefits, you're not the sharpest tool in the shed. Your argument seems crafted against some point I never made.

"I'm not rich, but I'll appreciate the no tax on dividends. See 75% of Americans own stocks these days."

Most of those 75% own most or all of their stock through their already tax-sheltered accounts (401(k)), and would receive no benefit from the current proposition.

The Movie, Fox News, Other Pointless Discussions

[Anonymous Coward]

This was clearly made by the "Daddy is paying for my college, let's go protest...yah!!" crowd. While I appreciate art, I loathe the fact that the most recogized art is made by people who, with their views, would otherwise be known as "freaks" or , my favorite, "those people". The news media by and large knows nothing and we must not forget that they are all clamoring for ratings first and real news and insight comes second.

As far as the comments about Fox News; while it does seem to lean to the Right this is highlighted by the other networks leaning far far Left. I don't believe any of it is intentional (Please see Bernard Goldberg's book Bias). I expect bias. Can you imagine going through life with no opinion? And if a journalist could even get out of college without hugging a tree or joining a protest then the Washington game would do them in at some point.

In case you're wondering...I do listen to Rush Limbaugh, I drive German cars, I'm poor, I couldn't code to save my life, approve of drug legalization, and I'm drunk at this moment. I don't conform to labels....do you?

Re:The Movie, Fox News, Other Pointless Discussion

[Anonymous Coward]

Fox News leans to the right much more than the other news channels have a bias at all. This is the Big Lie of conservatives: muzzling criticism by screaming BIAS!

You're a fool

facts

[mcbevin]

refreshing to see slashdot address some real issues rather than 'dmca is evil take 1024'. i must've downloaded the video a couple of months back though so i don't know how its news - quite funny but of course lacking in any hard facts so not going to really convert anyone but the converted. the GNN also has a series of videos on 'unanswered questions about sept 11' which are interesting and more informative but rather conspiracy theorist.

in my search for a bit of truth about the whole matter, i've put together a small set of actual facts about sept 11 + american foreign policy in general and thrown them on my website www.bevin.de/usa/ . every fact/claim is linked to relatively credible documents / news stories. i'd like to hear some slashdotters' opinions - the site is pretty anti us-foreign-policy in its leaning but like i said, nothings there thats not well backed up, which is in contrast to everything else i've been able to find on the web.

Re:facts

[Anonymous Coward]

>every fact/claim is linked to relatively >credible documents / news stories.

Ummm. did your research did ya? Journalist are you?

Please to research the word "facts"

Thank you.

Re:facts

[mcbevin]

Please to research the word "facts"

sorry, not sure what you're getting at there. by 'facts' i mean information as opposed to opinions/speculation.

and no, i'm not a journalist. one doesn't have to be a journalist to do research. the reporter's / journalist's job is to report events and perhaps give an opinion on them. the researcher's job (what i have tried to do a little of with regards to this topic) is to compile/bring together information relating to the topic they are researching (i.e. from journalist's writings / official documents). is that clear enough for you?

Re:facts

[the gnat]

i'd like to hear some slashdotters' opinions

Um, okay. See, I actually know someone who was in the WTC when it collapsed. Just an acquaintance, really- he was a year ahead of me in college (he had just graduated when he was killed), lived across the courtyard my junior year, and helped me get a good room my senior year even after I fucked up with the forms. Not really a close connection, but it's something. One girl was in tears that afternoon because her dad worked in the WTC and she didn't know if he was okay- fortunately, he'd left the building at about 8:30. A number of our alums were killed, and the school newspaper published biographies of them- one woman had just gotten engaged.

I mention this not because I feel blind revenge is appropriate or that I have more of a right to be enraged than you do, but to point out an essential problem with all you snotty Europeans who spew conspiracy theories about Sept. 11th: you don't give a shit about the people who died, and are incapable of recognizing them as people. This dehumanization is every bit as bad as the nonchalance most Americans have towards foreign civilian casualties and the victims of US-backed dictatorships. Many of us are horrified by some of the things the US has done in the past, and are very worried about what will happen to the poor Afghans. Nonetheless, we're still able to recognize that some things are truly evil and need to be dealt with appropriately, and do not try to make excuses for mass murderers.

Obviously you can argue that the US deliberately provoked bin Laden until you're blue in the face, and there's not really anything I can do to convince you otherwise. Still, there's a case to be made that bin Laden deserves to die just for the embassy bombings alone, in which 200 innocent African civilians were killed (compared to about 20 Americans). Since you seem to have given this issue quite a bit of thought, perhaps you could also suggest the proper course of action for America to take when innocents are butchered? Right now, all I see on your site is typical smug European elitism, and a bunch of "facts" lined up in a way such as to suggest that we simply had it coming, and should bend over and take it like a bitch. Your jealousy over not being a real superpower any more, and the luxury of having nearly zero foreign policy outside of Europe, has led you into the belief that America and Bush are far more evil and murderous than Islamofascism and bin Laden.

I'd suggest that anyone who finds this sort of thinking attractive read Christopher Hitchens, who is both a fierce critic of US foreign policy and an opponent of everything bin Laden stands for.

Re:facts

[schlach]

Dude, don't get trolled on slashdot. =) You don't have to reply to anonymous, cowardly trolls. No one will think any less of your opinions or findings if you don't.

Anyway, I found your collection very informative and thought-provoking, and after reading it, have spent the last four hours blazing a path through the web on news items that I haven't heard trumpeted on the New York Times and CNN. Still synthesizing, but I'll send some feedback your way to your email address on the page.

Forgive the other poster. It's hard to hear this stuff in the US unless you go out of your way to find foreign reports on it, and it's hard to believe that, if it's credible, it wouldn't be reported in our "free press". The end result is to discard it without critical evaluation. This is all-too typical and often more socially respectable than asking unpopular questions. It will take a while for most to realize that we've been let down by the mass media.

Re:facts

[mcbevin]

ok, just to clarify.

a) i'm not a european.

b) i also oppose what bin laden stands for and disagree with what he does and why he does it.

c) you ask for a proper course of action? i might suggest one that obeys international law. also, one that actually succeeds in capturing the perpertrator (i.e. i would have accepted the taliban's offers to hand over bin laden to pakistan for trial by court, rather than taking war to an innocent people and failing to catch the alleged culprit)

if you truly do care for the few thousand people who died in sept 11th (and perhaps also for the millions who have died as a result of flawed US foreign policy), you might want to look at both why these fanatics as well as millions of non-fanatics hate the US so much (i.e. what actions of the us have caused this hate) and what is the best way to cure this, rather than the current course of action which can only exacerbate the problem.

Suspicions Confirmed

[Mr. Arbusto]

I always thought G.W.B looked a bit like kid on the porch from Deliverence.
I never really knew he WAS the kid!
Now whenever I watch a state of the union address I'll get the same creepy feeling I get when I hear William Shatner sing.

Art or propaganda?

[syphoon]

The thing I really didn't like about this video (aside from its political angle, but it _did_ come from GNN after all..) was its methodology of trying to create a constant stream of ideas (like a audio-visual 'stream of consciousness') out of a series of quotes taken out of context, or even cut to mean the complete opposite of what was then said. Add to that the various funny bits, such as slow framing Bush, and him umming and ahhing with the combined effect of making him appear vacant, and altogether we actually have a standard piece of propaganda: Shaping how we think through use of the media, and giving 'sound bites' to give the appearance of rational arguments, while the actual content is a lot more vacuous than it appears.

Re:Art or propaganda?

[MeatMan]

You hit the nail on the head. Hmmm, maybe it's a "fight fire with fire" tactic?

Re:Art or propaganda?

[E-Rock]

Yea, but they're pretending to be on the other side of the coin. So to really be controversial, and to have even a snowballs chance in hell of appealing to anyone except their buddies, they should fire back with facts and information showing the validity of their alternate viewpoint. Which, after watching this video I have no clue what that would be.

Re:Art or propaganda?

[Anonymous Coward]

And this is different from the nightly news how? But unlike the nightly news, they've now got you thinking that maybe a constant barrage of sound bites, images, and quick cuts doesn't tell the whole truth and nothing but.

Mission accomplished, IMHO.

Re:Art or propaganda?

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess the point they were trying to make is that GWBush is a moron. For which you do not need to make a video to prove, just watch the guy on TV for more than 10 seconds. I always get a great kick, and as soon as I see a FOX news warning about a presidential press conference, I rush to the TV (pop corn in hand) because I know that something entertaining will happen. And I really do appreciate that, a presidential appearance on TV always cheers me up, and lifts my spirits. Why? Because after seeing my beloved commander in chief for more thant 5 seconds, I can say to myself. Jeez, at least I am not *that* stupid, and hey... I guess that means I am smarter than the president of the US. And that makes me feel special you know..... Then again 98.67% of the world population and 67.49% of the primate population have more mental abilities that this moron, but none the less I feel special.....

Thank you George!

Re:Art or propaganda?

[Anonymous Coward]

Dont know about you but making a speach in front of 10 million people just MAY make me a tad nervious. I stutter a bit once and awhile also, and if I get nervious or in a hurry it happens. But I guess your better at making speaches than Pres. Bush. Course then again he IS president and your just making fun of him...

You also probably think MS is a big evil company because the internet told you so. And Slashdot helps back that up.

The video was VERY well edited. I however felt as if I was being preached to. It was not quite sure of what it was saying. So it came off saying Pres Bush is a moron and peace rules. It seems to leave out the fact that the other side wants us dead. They want our country to be one giant beaded glass lake. They actually hate us that much. It also leaves out the stupid actions taken by them. They thought we would just ignor it again, and talk, and talk. Our past admin had been doing JUST THAT. They didnt realize that the way they did it the people of america not only wanted this war they DEMANDED it.

Dont think for an instant that the people who are trying to organize against us wouldnt put a bullet in your head. They would not give a damn about you. They just want you dead because you are an american.

How glorious for America;

[Anonymous Coward]

.
That we can watch and talk about such a video without being shot.

The Best Way to move forward is to have a bazaar of ideas, lots of different ideas.

And yet America is presided over by a man who was not elected by a popular majority...

Can /. help create the America we were all promised?

"My opponent says there are no easy answers. I say we are not looking hard enough!"

Re:Note to slashdot

[startled]

"You expect objectivity and balance from a news organization?"

It seems to me that worse sins are committed in the name of objectivity than would occur if the news orgs simply owned up, and reported what they wanted to. Many (poor) news outlets attempt to cast both sides of an issue as equivalent, which is all well and good, until you note that they extend it to an issue which has 99% of everyone on one side, and the loonies on the other. I've even seen fainthearted attempts to claim that Darwin's theory of evolution and creationism have the same amount of scientific basis, and that's with fairly liberal west coast papers. Ugh.

Re:Stupid Liberal Political Propaganda but cool vi

[Anonymous Coward]

not news, not the whole truth..fabricated editorial falsehoods as cool? Really? I'm suprised you can read and breathe on your own.

WTF is this?

[E-Rock]

I watched it, and it's not about anything! It's a bunch of VERY short clips pasted together in a unintelligible narrative. So the American white man's war is bad? Retaliation against an armed aggressor is bad? Is that what they're trying to say?

It's just more of the same old same old objectionist nonsense ["You're bad, what you do is bad, shame on you, shame on you."] without any attempt to provide an alternative. Why? Because that's hard to do.

So they come off looking like a bunch of bitch ass, daddy's buying, whiners.

Someone please explain what the hell this actually was if I'm wrong.

Re:WTF is this?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, that was not worth the download. The pro-collectivism rant at the end was just stupid.

This isn't much different than the time Sengan used slashdot as his personal soapbox (CmdrTaco's words).

Re:WTF is this?

[maxpublic]

Retaliation against an armed aggressor? What armed aggressor? America hasn't been up against an armed aggressor since 1945.

In fact, all we've been doing since then is getting involved in petty wars to prove that this president or that president has a bigger dick than some other national leader.

Hey, fuck the rest of the world. Let them kill each other. Do I care? So long as they sell us oil who gives a shit if the Iraqis and Israelis wipe each other out? Who cares if the maniacs in the Balkans want to set up a Fourth Reich? Who really gives a damn if Libya decides to go on a North African rampage?

Honestly, if we just minded our own goddamned business in the Middle East do you really think the winner would refuse to sell oil to the biggest consumer on the planet? Yeah, tell me another.

I vote for non-interference and non-involvement. Let the fanatics have at each other. When the dust settles, do business with the winner.

Max

Re:WTF is this?

[JohnFluxx]

Perhaps they were just having some fun.

Re:WTF is this?

[Mac Degger]

Learn some history, will you; the US isn't just up against an "armed agressor"...they're up against the very people they funded and/or put into power in the first place!

I guess what goes around comes around, really. The objection is against the US fscking about with other countries souvereignity without any better cause than "we want power". The alternative is just as simple as "don't do it anymore".

And to go further: any terrorist organisation is just that; an organisation. Not a country. So wtf is up with that "war on terror"? Just like the "war on drugs" (both of which are propaganda driven, the actual facts of the matter being swept under the carpet), even the actual term used is rediculous. Both terrorism and drugs are an ongoing problem for any nation and must be dealt with accordingly. One cannot use a shortterm solution (going to war) for a long term problem. Or at least you can't without misrepresenting the problem, and screwing up your countries finances.

Re:Note to slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

really?

background music

[Anonymous Coward]

I liked the music selection. Does anyone recognize/know any of the songs? (other than 'little red corvette' at the end)

look at their editorial content

[Anonymous Coward]

Fox News at least puts considered speakers (Hannity and Colmes both) on as much as vacuous bubbleheads (Greta van Susteren). And Hannity and Colmes are equals on the show, even if they are in opposite corners.

That has never been the case at CNN, or the Big 3, or PBS. They're still parrotting the line that "Clinton was impeached over sex". (Note to Ted Turner: It was perjury, not sex. And Clinton was found guilty of that.)

Re:look at their editorial content

[Wakko Warner]

Yeah, it was perjury. For lying on the stand about a blowjob.

Tell me you wouldn't do the same, were you in his situation. Though I don't know many people who would blow a fat Republican...

- A.P.

Re:look at their editorial content

[Anonymous Coward]

It doesn't matter if you would do the same or not.
He violated the law.

What's to defend?

Re:look at their editorial content

[TheOnlyCoolTim]

That perhaps the question should have never come up? What does it matter legally that Willy is getting some blowjobs?

If you'd like to talk about violating the law, how about Bush 43's admitted crackhead days?

Tim

Re:look at their editorial content

[Anonymous Coward]

Colmes is the ugliest person ever paid to be on television. This is not by accident.

Re:look at their editorial content

[Anonymous Coward]

Least he is honest about being a crackhead.

Least he did not get on public TV and lie to the entire united states about it. 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman'.

Least he did not have to begrudgingly admit it once the dress was produced.

Least he did not do it while in office...

The guy got a blowjob in the freeking oval office. OH yes thats a good example for the nation. A cleaned up drug user made good, hmm...

Re:look at their editorial content

[TheOnlyCoolTim]

It's not a crime to get a blowjob. It is a crime to smoke some crack. Fix the drug laws or put Bush 43 in jail, I say.

Tim

Re:it's your fault

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone is smoking rat poison! you are so cute,with your naive political ramblings. Tell us some more, i could use some learning!

Re:great

[Anonymous Coward]

1) I thought the target audience was "nerds".
2) There is no way that more than 20% of the famous linux lipservants around here actually use linux.

Re:9/11 Tribute

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL

this is GREAT

No Credibility

[MeatMan]

After watching that drivel, I can't help but chuckle in disgust imagining all the hours and effort placed in the making of that hog wash. Being it's from GNN, it's not art. I really can't say I've seen anything more infantile in its feeble attempt at rebellion. If this crap wins anything @ Sundance, Sundance loses all credibility with me, and my support. It'd be different if it had any redeeming value. Well, I may have to bite my tongue if you think of it in a comedic sense.
Lest we forget why we are even in the position to have real factual current events to cull patheticly manipulated sound and video bites from for subversion of the TRUTH, we might forget it was a horrific act of war in and on our country that made it possible. The masses of those who'd see us living in their slowly tightening grip of terrorism, and their supporters, get less than they deserve no matter what happens. I'd like to see as much devotion to a collage of the simple truth in terrorism and all the countless people who might be alive today if we'd acted sooner.
In the mean time, I'll watch THIS MOVIE to get THAT MOVIE out of my head.

Re:No Credibility

[Halo1]

...patheticly manipulated sound and video bites from for subversion of the TRUTH...

...a collage of the simple truth in terrorism...

The problem is that there is no such thing as the TRUTH - and most certainly not a simple truth - in this matter. That's exactly the point of the video: one version of the truth is what you see in the general media, but by manipulating those things you suddenly get a whole different version of the truth.

I don't think GNN is claiming that everything else is bullshit, or that what happened wasn't terrible, but they're showing that if they can manipulate those images to show you their view of the situation, then you should keep in mind that what you originally get to see is also manipulated to show you the politicians/media companies' version. At the same time, the maker obviously also voices his opinion ("war isn't going to solve this"), but so did the people that made the original footage (and the makers of the movie you link to).

Re:No Credibility

[Bodhammer]

Thanks for the link!

"When you care enough to send the very best!"

Re:Stupid Liberal Political Propaganda but cool vi

[O.F. Fascist]

Well obviously the liberal spin on it is stupid, but using similar images and putting a different spin on it it would be a really nifty piece of imagry for the other side.

What the Intelligencia forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

I am sure that the liberal "open-minded" crowd will love this video. It takes statements out of context, spends time on putting down the US and its policies and seems to follow a theme of blame America for anything bad in the world.

What you won't find in the video are the basic catalysts that triggered America's launching of the War on Terror. See any 2001 WTC video? How about WTC in the early 1990s? See any shots of the Pentagon after over 100 people died from an airliner being sent into it? How about any footage of Flight 97? No? What about coverage from the US Navy Ship USS Cole? Must have missed it.

In each of these events Americans died at the hands of terrorists. Americans are a generally peace loving people and did very little in response to terrorist attacks upon it until the events of September 11, 2001. Ultimately and rightly so, this vile and evil act was the final outrage that engaged America.

The words of Admiral Yamamato, "We have awoken a sleeping giant" spoken during World War II are relevant today. America did not pick this fight, but America will end the fight by utterly and completely defeating those who directly act against its people anywhere in the world.

The producers of this film take advantage of American technology to make their point over a network conceived and developed primarily by Americans.

Consider for a moment the great contributions of most of the nations of the middle east in the last century:
Buhler? Buhler? Anyone? Anyone?

How about America?
Aviation. Medicine. Manufacturing. Electronics. Telecommunications. Technology. Computing. Internet. Al Gore... Ok, so forget the last one.

I am tired of those who insist that the land, which gives them the very freedoms to open their great pie holes to speak out against it, is always wrong. America is not always wrong. There are bad people in the world who want to kill Americans and so America has a right and obligation to rid the world of those who wish to murder its citizenry.

The not so subtle comparison of America to Nazi Germany in the video is an affront to decency. Hitler rounded up and summarily murdered over 6 million Jewish people. In America, we are worrying about the conditions of the potties and quality of food given to those who actively participated in armed conflict against US soldiers. Hitler would have interrogated and shot these people within days, possibly hours.

There is no comparison and any pointing to such comparisons diminishes what happened to the Jews of Nazi Germany who faced horrors, which the "intelligencia" seem to have conveniently forgotten. Shame on anyone who dares to make comparisons of America and Nazi Germany.

Where will the blame America first crowd be when the first tactical nuke detonates in the US?

I am glad that America is not going to sit on its hands as a nation to find out. Do we round up Moslems and place them en mass into concentration camps? No, but America does have a right to interrogate those who are likely enemy combatants. Really we do... Really.

If the bad guys continue to blow up innocent civilians and target Americans, then "we will sustain this cycle of violence and revenge until humanity is returned to the status of primitivity."

The film? It gets two thumbs down... Really.

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[violently_ill]

ask somebody from nicaragua, chile, el salvador, east timor, guatemala, sudan, or vietnam about american democracy. you might learn a thing or two about america's idea of self-defense.

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

Or Kissinger's idea of defense. Kissinger is a war criminal, a pathological liar and should be put on trial. It is a slap in the face to humanity that he carries a nobel peace prize.

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

OT: But IIRC America stayed out of East Timor, Australia was the mover and shaker. Unless you are talking about Malaya (SP?) of the 1950's.

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

> Hitler rounded up and summarily murdered over 6 million Jewish people

Over the last ten years, the US and UK between them have been responsible for 1 million Iraqi civilian deaths, including 500,000 children [which Magdaline Albright described as "a price worth paying"]. These people were not directly murdered, they died as a result of deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure, eg water purification plants etc.

US sponsored coups in south america have killed several hundred thousand.

The US keeps a higher proportion of its population in jail than any country on the planet - 2 million people. They're mostly blacks rather than Jews so I guess that's ok.

Ok, fair enough... 6 million is a pretty tough target, I admit, the US isnt as bad as Nazi germany, have a cookie.

One thing you should remember is that Hitler seemed like a fucking great leader to the people of Germany for many years. If you weren't Jewish or gay or foreign everything was hunky dory until the rest of the world started fighting back.

Once their cities had been bombed and they had been forced to listen to another point of view, Germans changed their minds.

The film made the point too subtly for my taste. You *are* living in something similar to 1930s Germany.

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

Or alternatively why don't you ask some Vietnam/Laotian/Cambodian refugees in THIS country. You MIGHT just get a different perspective from those of the People's Democratic Republics.

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

Iraq has a share in the responsibility for those civilian deaths. Iraq uses resources intended for civilians for military and governmental purposes, then blames the U.N. and the U.S. for killing its people with sanctions.
The war that caused the bombing of Iraq's infrastructure was directly instigated by Iraq, not anyone else.
(feel free to debate contributing causes, but it was Iraq that fired the first shot.)

While there are six times as many blacks as whites in prison by population (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm), those in prison in the U.S. have committed crimes. And the number of blacks and whites in prison is very nearly equal (http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-1.pdf ). They are not unjustly rounded up, unlike the targets of Hitler's regime. The only appropriate question is whether governmentally-changeable societal conditions in predominantly black neighborhoods foster criminal behavior. Otherwise, the results are not the resposibility of the United States government - they are the responsibility of those who are committing crimes.
And there are private organizations that are taking it upon themselves to help those neighborhoods.

The United States allows dissenting views to exist. There are not book-burning sessions.
And questions like yours (and replies like mine) are allowed to be raised, which allows Hitler-esque regimes to be stopped before they may grow.

IHBT, I know...

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

Americans are piece loving people? Your country has been in continuous foreign military action since the end of Isolationism in World War Two. The general reaction I heard to the WTC was "bomb the fuckers back to the Stone Age." You need to step outside of your environment and take an objective look at where you live.
BTW, if you're going to include "basic catalysts", don't forget the ongoing meddling in middle eastern politics and military action of your country for decades. Remember the Shah of Iran? You country's support for Hussien? The perennial question of Isreal? Your country has been messing with the people of that region since before any of us were born, don't get suprised if they're finally pissed off.

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember the Shah of Iran?

Remember the mullahs only decided to take over Iran when Jimmy Carter decided to stop paying them to play nice?

You country's support for Hussien?

And Germany's (arms sales), France's (oil purchases) and Russia's (loans) continued support of Hussein after the Gulf war?

The perennial question of Isreal?

Yes, why should we help the region's only democracy that is surrounded by states that have sought it's destruction since the day it came into existence?

What your whining boils down to is that we shold ask ourselves why "they" hate us. We don't give a shit why. They have killed some of us and have stated publicly and repeatedly that they want to kill more of us. "They" have announced that it thier religious duty to obtain nuclear weapons to do battle with the infidels, and we're the infidels.

While it's obvious that the various appeaseniks want to wait until we can talk the problem over, giving our enemies more time to develop nukes, we're not willing to wait for one of our cities are reduced to a smoking crater to say, "see, we told you they were up to no good!"

And right now we've got an oppurtunity to stop a nutjob before he can get a nuke and hand it to a few buddies in an "extra-naional" orginazition. We'd be fools not to take it.

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

Heck, ask anybody that's not from the US.

Time Europe currently has a vote for the country that is the biggest threat to world peace out of US, Iraq and North Korea. US has over 70% of votes and the runner up Iraq has only 18%.

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Graspee_Leemoor]

"Where will the blame America first crowd be when the first tactical nuke detonates in the US?"

Let's not forget that America pioneered the use of Nukes on civilians. That's official government-ordered use of weapons of mass destruction on a civilian population.

And don't give me any rubbish about "fewer casualties in the long term" and all that.

America dropped nukes - WMD on Japanese civilians. On purpose. Targetting Civilians. With weapons of mass destruction.

I for one, will never forgive them and I'm not even Japanese.

graspee

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

The "open-minded" people tend to look at all angles of the situation, not just the spin from the media. Your issue is that people question our international motives and the repercussions of such.

As for your Yamamoto quote, the giant still seems to be asleep. The "War on Terrorism" has been over since November 2001 because there haven't been any "major" developments. But that must be because it's all a secret War on Terrorism.

Don't try to equate George Bush to being anything but a warmonger. The U.S had won WWII by this length of time after Pearl Harbor and was in cleanup mode. Sure there were battles that occurred, but WWII was won within 2 1/2 years (D-Day invasion, island hopping in the Pacific).

If you examine any alternative thought than being a lemming, you might ask some questions yourself. For example, the pipeline across Afganistan, which George Bush II said we were willing to go to war over prior the September 11, 2001. Fact? Yes. Maybe there was some provocation? But we got the pipeline now. President Karzai just signed the order last month.

I don't need Homeland Security or Total Information Awareness to be safe. I don't want to examine you and your life because will not make me safer. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those that would give liberty for security deserve neither." I was free on September 10, 2001. Now, I'm not so sure.

So, don't berate people that have differing opinion than yourself. You are not the only American in this country. Those that produced this are just as equal as you.

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[woogieoogieboogie]

The fact is that 9/11 happened because of the US's unconditional support for Israel. And it isn't because the people of the US decided that we like israel, most Americans could give a rat's ass about Israel. 5 billion dollars buys a lot of weapons for Israel to go about killing Palestinian children. Did you know the IDF is a bunch of baby-killers? Did you know the IDF BULLDOZES the homes of SUSPECTED militant? Yes, Israel is killing civilians, not just civilinas, but fscking refugees. Well as long as you approve of your government providing unconditional support and approval of the Israeli genocide against the palestinians, then you will have to live in fear of someone again attackign the source of Israel's power. I don't approve of my government condoning and supporting baby-killers or the mass slaughter of refugees.

You are being lied to by your own government and you do not have the balls to stand up and stop it. But do not worry, one day your government will decide there is a need for a regime change at your house and they will come and take all your personal rights away. Who is going to protect you fromt he government which you so empowered but were either too lazy or too afraid to control.

spends time on putting down the US and its policies and seems to follow a theme of blame America for anything bad in the world

For the most part, America IS to blame. And since it is all done in the name of Democracy and the American people, YOU are to blame.

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

So will you turn your hatred towards any u.s. citizen in spite of the fact that he had nothing to do with it and regardless of whether he supports that position or not?

Re:What the Intelligencia forget...

[Graspee_Leemoor]

" So will you turn your hatred towards any u.s. citizen in spite of the fact that he had nothing to do with it and regardless of whether he supports that position or not?"

No- I will not forgive the people who did it. Even if they aren't alive today that includes the military who implemented it, the government who decided it and the public who supported it.

graspee

Re:The Movie, Fox News, Other Pointless Discussion

[Anonymous Coward]

Fox News is really pretty far-right; it's just that their constant denial of bias can throw you off and give you a warm, fuzzy feeling, especially if you do have a conservative streak. (This coming from a fellow Libertarian, albeit one who thinks Libertarianism reserves the people's right to form communes. ;)) If there's one thing GNN does point out, it's that all the 'liberal' outlets are 1. asleep at the wheel anyway (e.g., more interested in pimping AOLTW or Disney properties than conducting journalism), and 2. more than happy to be under the influence of the propaganda machine (they get their Press Passes, they don't need to write the stories or get the film themselves, the DoD provides the Shit Blowing Up footage the folks at home love)... FWIW, the New York Times seems to get a lot of shit for it- I guess because all the hippies just *expect* CNN/ABC/etc to be biased- but I think their wibbling is more based on Jewish neuroses. (This coming from a Jew. Everyone under the 'Jew' label not actively screaming for war (Sharon) feels like a total cornered asshole right now - as a friend who just got drafted into the .il military said... well, not quite literally, but, "Jesus Christ, I don't want to fight, but these people are killing my friends|neighbors|relatives!")

Er, anyhow... GNN seems run by some grown-up hippies, but it *is* rather inobvious where the cash and such comes from... It's mostly a shoestring type of thing, but given the whole sponsorship of the Eminem video (which would've almost had some sort of message if he didn't apologize at the end of the track), you'd think they'd follow the open-society schtick and make it more obvious who everyone is, what their party registrations are and so forth.

In case you're wondering... I gave up on listening to Limbaugh when I turned 13, I drive a 13MPG LeBaron (though I'm not particularly happy about it), I'm poor after making Daddy pay for college, I can't code to save your life, I'm in favor of legalization and I'm probably going to join the Navy since killing people beats being homeless.

This is so FSCKING OLD

[Anonymous Coward]

JFC this is old. All of a sudden it's geek news now. Good lord people. Get with the fscking times.

Re:The Movie, Fox News, Other Pointless Discussion

[violently_ill]

newsflash: the media (cable news networks and everything) are OWNED, bloody OWNED, by half a dozen gigantic corporations. and they don't tend towards the left side of the fence, billy. as for bernard goldberg's book: from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) http://www.fair.org/articles/bias-op-ed.html

EBN

[limekiller4]

EBN was doing this stuff, much better, I might add, in the early 90's.

I qualify that slightly because afaik, it might even be some or all of the founding members of EBN that are behind GNN. Their original stuff, however, was far more deft and sarcastic. This 11-minute clip was fairly boring bore none of the medium-bending antics of the previous group.

Re:EBN

[Anonymous Coward]

Kudos to limekiller4 for remembering EBN! I was wondering if I was the only one watching and thinking that it was time to cue up "We Will Rock You" or "Shoot the Mac-10".

For those who can find it, EBN's only 'major' release was one of the first multimedia CDs issued -- it contains videos in Quicktime 1.

Why is good political satire so hard to find outside of the Simpsons? The only other person doing something worthwhile is the writer of Get Your War On.

Re:EBN

[Anonymous Coward]

Uhh Guerrilla News is made up of the old EBN team.

Re:EBN

[glesga_kiss]

Why is good political satire so hard to find outside of the Simpsons? The only other person doing something worthwhile is the writer of Get Your War On.

South Park is not bad, but they don't focus all that much on politics. They do cover a lot of things in a way that should make you think more about them.

Quirktime and Windoze Media

[Crass Spektakel]

How do they expect to watch this?

There is no Quirktime and no Windoze Media for my system available and this is not going to change.

But there is Realplayer available and DivX and MPEG, the later two even work on my PDA.

Re:Quirktime and Windoze Media

[damiam]

Unless you're using Hurd or Windows 3.1, there's almost definately both Quickime and Windows Media for your platform. Stop whining.

Re:Quirktime and Windoze Media

[trtmrt]

Mplayer playes quicktime:

http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu

I am just watching the movie under Linux.

GNN - New axis of evil?

[solostring]

That was an incredibly biting and funny piece of political satire! I've been a fan of GNN for a while, ever since they re-released their 'Real War' video.

I wonder how long it will take for GNN to be classed amongst the 'Axis of Evil' :)

Mirror opf Quicktime version

[Halo1]

I forewarned the gnn guys and got their permission to include direct links to the Quicktme versions on their site, but I just got a mail of them stating that if the slashdotting of their site continues like this, they'll be broke by morning :)

I've setup a mirror of the Quicktime version here. It's limited to 30 connections currently, but this may change at any time.

Re:Mirror opf Quicktime version

[Halo1]

Keep in mind that the sundance site is still ok to use!

Waste of Bits

[Detritus]

It didn't have anything insightful to say, made gratuitous insults towards public figures disliked by the loony left, and reduced a complex situation to a set of distorted and misleading images suitable for ingestion by the MTV generation.

Re:Waste of Bits

[curious.corn]

Something similar to what FOXnews-alikes make of the Enemy ®, Dissidents that don't Beleive in Truth © and don't have Faith in Justice ®. If the clip irritated you well, you just had a taste of your own dog-food applied to your very own idols.

How 'bout recalling why this mess came to be?
1. Osama was trained and funded by CIA.
2. Saddam was left in place in spite of his record to please the Saudi, so these could market their oil without Iraq's competition (after all, the latter does possess the largest reserves in the planet)
3. The saudi are now compromised with Osama, quite corrupt and aren't as trustable as 10 years ago so now the US wants another controllable source to keep feeding it's SUV economy. No matter how an administration could try to spin-doctor it, Saddam is perceived as a crook so he has to be replaced with some other straw man to get that Iraqi oil to NYSE.

BTW, have you noticed how Competition and Market economy are invoked when the time comes to Downsize (fire ranks upon ranks of workers) and Reform the System (cut social spending), but not when the matter involves something like MicroSoft (just an example, the first Corporation that came off my mind ,-) or the oil market?

In all this I pity the miserable iraqis still scavenging to make the day out; the probably undereducated, drilled marine that will give up it's life for this. And of course the 11.9 victims that got smoked by Osama to further his miserable political plan to become Commander in Chief (sounds familiar eh?) of some islamist delirium.

I would do it as the Romans did once in it's fight for suplemacy against Alba Longa. They got 3 champions from one side to fight 3 from the other. Wouldn't you love to pit W. and Ash in a celebrity deathmatch against OBL and Saddam? We might even see some new "IBM Linux" and "Apple" commercial!

Ciao

Re:Direct Link -- PLEASE don't use it!

[Halo1]

Please don't use this link anymore, the gnn people mailed me to say that if the slashdotting of their servers continued like this, they'll be broke by morning. Either watch it at Sundance or use my mirror (for now at least, can't promise how long it will stay up).

Re:Stupid Liberal Political Propaganda but cool vi

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearly you prefer the braindead editorial falsehoods of some twit like Rush Limbaugh. I'd even be willing to guess that you buy in to his latest line about conservatives being "thinking, intellectual" people while "liberals" (broadly defined as anyone Rush doesn't like) are "unthinking and uncritical". This is of course true as long as you're willing to ignore the actual demographic basis of Republican support in the USA (all 24% of it) and the long, long line of left-wing intellectual history the depth of which reveals the republicans kneejerk lines for the puddle-thin set of ahistorical shibboleths which they are.

Talk a stroll outside of the trailer park some time - you might be surprised at the richness of life out there.

Re:HOW BOUT SOME EQUAL TIME HERE?

[Anonymous Coward]

"extreme left-wing political prospective"

welcome to slashdot...
If they aren't giving salon.com(last breaths,yay) hits,they're giving other commie/socialist 'news' site hits...it's really pathetic...

note how you got modded -1:flamebait for saying the truth...

lots of other tech news sites have ACTUAL tech stories...WITHOUT the uber-left rants mixed in...try some of those,you'll be glad you did...

Piano Music

[Detritus]

I recognized a bit of Dave Brubeck (from "Take Five") in the video.

Re:Piano Music

[Anonymous Coward]

if you want to be nit-picky, it was written by Paul Desmond, and performed by Brubeck's group. (of which Desmond was a member)

Josh Pearson of EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network)

[BlahSnarto]

Just curious if anyone else has seen any of the EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network) videos? this reminds me of Josh's work.

Also, You should check out www.oddcast.com click on OTV news and there are some similar videos .. good stuff if you liked that..

I just wish Josh would update the content on oddcast, there hasnt been a update for a year or more.. any rate check out the "I am a Astronaut" vid, funny stuff..

-BlahSnarto

umm

[brian0918]

Anyone else find this movie to be cheap and pointless? Bowling for Columbine was better.

9-11 Road to Tyranny

[zogger]

9-11, Road to Tyranny, a full length video on the same subject, vhs or dvd, free to copy and redistribute for non profit educational purposes.

It's pretty good and gets into some detail. He has some other videos as well, and a good mon-fri daily radio show. Also check on the site the link to the 9-11, government prior knowledge collection of articles.

Re:9/11 Tribute

[Anonymous Coward]

Ooooh! Shenanigans! I call Shenanigans on that shit! That is the sickest thing I have EVER seen. Funny, though.

Re:Hmmm... I certainly don't get this "karma" stuf

[peterpi]

"How /. moderation works"

Your handle starts with S.
The word "Microsoft" has an S in it.
Trust me, that's enough

Wrong target audience

[PontifexPrimus]

Are the people expected to listen to a sound clip from a familiar face and trust it just because they are on TV?

I think that's exactly the point. It's supposed to show how easily the opinion of a non-critical consumer of pictures can be swayed; in the original television reports it went in one direction, in the GNN coverage in the other.
The fact that you noticed that indicates that you, indeed,are not one of those who "accept things blindly" - but IMHO it's these people at which the clip aims: they're supposed to change their opinion radically and only later (realize that they've been had / rationalize that / form their own opinion)...

Agreed !

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought the authors are more like smart clowns rather than insightful. Making fun of opponents or their opposing views is so cheap it could actually erode the interest in your own views.

Yeah but...

[cottonmouth]

"Hitler rounded up and summarily murdered over 6 million Jewish people" it was Bush's grandpappy Prescott that helped Hitler have the money to round up those Jews.

Re:Yeah but...

[program21]

I've never heard that one before, and since this seems like a possible troll, do you have any facts/links to back this up?

Re:Yeah but...

[cottonmouth]

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=lang_ en&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=bush+%2B+hitler+%2B+pres cott&spell=1

Re:Yeah but...

[Anonymous Coward]

well, how about:

here

here

and here

Although the last one is a bit wacky

Re:Note to slashdot

[Mac Degger]

That's why I call CNN and BBC World "Propaganda 1" and "2" respectively.

O brother...

[ellem]

<i>then our concept of a democracy (which is founded on the ability for all citizens to choose their nation's destiny based on a full spectrum of information) is in desperate peril. </i>

These people can't stop rewriting history. Our _Republic_ was based on the idea that wealthy men should be in office because the wealty men would be incorruptable (whoops!)

As for: <i>Film Synopsis: A clever and cutting critique of media coverage on terrorism after September 11th. </i>

When you consider that all the major news outfits on TV, Cbale and Print are wildly liberal just what the fuck are these people complaining about? (Yes I know all abot AM radio and FOX (which ain't so far to the right.))

Americans are violent. Just watch our TV shows. Attacking us will sure be your demise. And (apparently) if we can't find you we will kill someone else. Best to leave US alone.

Stupid Presidents?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well he is not the first...

Re:Note to slashdot

[program21]

You expect objectivity and balance from a news organization?

You'll love this

For it's art value only.

[Anonymous Coward]

That video is art and nothing else. A group of self-righteous, masterbatory, morons whining about the imperialist US Government. Not that I condone some of the shitty things this country has done "in the interest of national security". However, by in large, the biggest reason terrorist groups hate us is that they are jealous of us. They are jealous of our freedom, our standard of living, and the fact that due to our forward thinking and back breaking efforts, we are the most powerful country in the world. (and, yes, we've stepped on a few toes in the process) The problem with blaming America is that it is completely hypocritical. The tribal law that most "hard-line" muslims live under is dictated by the tribal elders of certain ruling families. How do you think those families came to hold their positions? They used force, that's how, fear of reprisals, assasinations. For the hard-liner muslims to whine about America throwing our weight around is ludicrous. If they had the kind of influence we have in the world right now, they would enslave or kill everyone who didn't want to convert and live by their brutal Sharia tribal law. They think the Crusades are still going on. They're just pissed that the "Infidels" have the ability to kick their ass, they claim that we are trying to wipe out Islam and/or steal their oil. That way they are able to rationalize targeting American civilians directly. Ask Kuwait if we stole their oil during the Gulf War, ask them if we tried to convert them to Christianity, Judaism. The truth is, if we were really interested in wiping out Islam, we would have already done it, and we didn't.

My point is that this movie is useless in it's message because it doesn't think. Any idiot can do a whiny-assed collage of all the hate and discontent that we see in the world right now. It takes real thinkers to figure out how to actually put in place the solution that GNN proposes at the end of this film. I've heard enough complaints, how about a solution?

You can't compromise with a person like Saddam Hussein. If you think you can, you have your head in the sand. He respects only one thing, superior force. Like it or not, there are many regimes in the world that fit this same mold. They have nothing but disrespect for any state that offers concessions, they see them as weak and vulnerable. Look at how Saddam has treated the UN, they give him an inch and he took a mile. The sooner these leftist "fairyland dwellers" figure this out, the sooner they will realize that Osama would still shoot you and your family after you gave him a big Americam hug. And the money you gave him, that was used to kill somebody else. He hates you, NOTHING you do will change that. You can build him a 1000 miles of roads, build hospitals, build schools, subsidize the shit out his islamic government, and he will still hate you. The terrorists have a victim mentality, and we will continue to owe them until the leftist weenies stop telling them that they are victims. Which will never happen.

Re:For it's art value only.

[netsharc]

You may think people hate the US because of US's success, but maybe it's this "I'm American, we control the world, piss off you foreigner" arrogance of yours that makes people hates the US.

Bin Laden himself says he only wants the US out of Saudi Arabia, he wants his holy land to be left alone. Yes, laugh at that concept, "Ha holy land", how did you like it when some foreigners attacked the country. Of course we're not going to see that happen any time soon.

The truth is, the world is controlled by one regime, the fucking US-regime. And anyone who disagrees with him does get his head chopped off, only you don't hear about it, why not, because who owns the source you get your news from? Fucking US corporations. Look at Venezuela. Venezuela elected a president that wants less "Globalisation" and more for his people. That makes it harder for US corporation to extract maximum profit out of the country, and what do you get? A coup attempt, with which the US allegedly helped, but Bush evidently immediately congratulated, to see Chavez returning to power only 2 days later. Too bad he's now losing again, the US propaganda being too influential.

Too bad you're a fucking chicken-shit AC, hiding behind your oh so great country.

Why does Bush all of the sudden announced he wants Saddam's head? Because he wants to control the region and the oil underneath it. Lucky for him, September 11 happened, giving him shit-high approval ratings to do whatever he wanted. After September 11, there was an all out flight ban, but why did a plane fly out from New York to Saudi Arabia, with 11 members of the bin Laden family, flown out by the government? Who, in the 80's, owned stocks of Bush & Co's oil companies? The Bin Laden family.

Yes, this will definitely get my name in the NSA/CIA database. Funny. :)

Re:For it's art value only.

[bani]

"Bin Laden himself says he only wants the US out of Saudi Arabia, he wants his holy land to be left alone."

He also said he wants every christian, jew, hindu, and atheist in the entire world dead.

Re:For it's art value only.

[FredKiesche]

Greetings: It had art value? I watched it and thought it was 100% value and content free! They try to make a point and end up being more pointless than reality TV.... FPK3

11 minutes later

[ellem]

I am as pissed off as ever. I am as angry as I was then but not at all frightened. The last Little Red Corvette section reminded me that there are people in this country who don't deserve to live here. People who just want the free ride. People who have never considered giving of themselves. People who do not know personal loss and feel guilty about it. People whose shallow lives are bolstered by their Stockholm Syndrome fetish. People who latch onto one silly fucking thing after another in an attempt to gain crediblilty as a member of humanity.

The scumbags who made that waste of film will have hopefully forgotten to have gotten the rights to one of those clips and will be sued blind.

America is not NAZI Germany. George Bush got Cs in College, he's not a dolt. In fact, if you consider grade inflation, he's probably a better student than an A+ student is now. I don't think he's going to be hanging out at Mensa meetings anytime soon but Thank God we don't have some liberal-washed intelligensia in Office now kow-towing to our atackers. Trying to understand them.

Understand this. Humans like wars. We've had big ones about every 21 years since, oh I don't know, forever. 21 years is about how long it takes to make a new crop of humans to have a war. Humans will always like wars -- deal with it.

Re:11 minutes later

[puppetman]

"reminded me that there are people in this country who don't deserve to live here."

Ah. No differing opinions. Gotcha. Screw freedom of thought.

"The scumbags who made that waste of film will have hopefully forgotten to have gotten the rights to one of those clips and will be sued blind."

Ah. Pro DMCA. Use of copyrighted material in a criticism or paraody does not require permission. You don't seem big on freedom of expression either.

"America is not NAZI Germany... Humans like wars... Humans will always like wars -- deal with it."/i>

Ah. Hitler also believed that war was the natural state of man, and brought out the best in a nation. That killed 6 million Jews, and an equal number of homosexuals, gypsies, and other "undesirables". Lets not count the millions killed during the bombing of London and the fighting ecompassing D-Day to VE Day.

Re:11 minutes later

[Anonymous Coward]

We've had big ones about every 21 years since, oh I don't know, forever. 21 years is about how long it takes to make a new crop of humans to have a war. Humans will always like wars -- deal with it.

How about we just save everyone some time and money by taking a random eighth of each generation and gasing them. The country whose kids survive the longest "wins" the war.

Re:11 minutes later

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm amazed that you stopped masturbating onto a copy of Soldier of Fortune long enough to post that incoherent drivel. I'd call you a troll, but sadly most conservatives really are that fucking stupid and immature. Grow the fuck up, think for yourself, and vote liberal once you realize what's going on in the world.

Re:11 minutes later

[Anonymous Coward]

George Bush got Cs in College, he's not a dolt. In fact, if you consider grade inflation, he's probably a better student than an A+ student is now.

Funny, I recall C students of my era having a better command of their native language than GWB. Have things slid that far?

Re:11 minutes later

[ChaosDiscord]

The last Little Red Corvette section reminded me that there are people in this country who don't deserve to live here. eople who just want the free ride. People who have never considered giving of themselves.

Heavens, yes! These people spend thier time running independent media, trying to scrap together enough to afford their web site bills or to publish their next issue, effectively working for free to produce articles and films in an effort to make the world better. These people dont' deserve to be Americans. The next thing you'll know they'll be bitching about social justice, spending their money and time to travel to various meetings to protest, organizing unions in places where it may cost them their jobs, or working in the Peace Corps to provide clean water to impovershed villages. God, these people are so selfish! They think life is just easy street.

The scumbags who made that waste of film will have hopefully forgotten to have gotten the rights to one of those clips and will be sued blind.

God, I hate those scumbags who take short clips of other works for purposes of commentary and political speech! If you can't afford clearances, clearly you have no right to show examples of how the media and politicians are acting! Leave the free speech for true patriots like Fox News.

Humans will always like wars -- deal with it.

Yeah, you filthy hippy liberals. Don't bother trying to change the world for the "better". Humans fundamentally like wars. Heck, we should try and start some more! Canada looks prime for the taking to me!

Re:11 minutes later

[Anonymous Coward]

Canada looks prime for the taking to me!

You know, speaking as a Canadian I'm starting to think this might not be a bad idea for the state of the world - at least as long as we get the vote right away. Just think about it - a sudden infusion of 31+ million new voters, at least 70% of whom are effectively democrats. No matter how they decide to set the electoral votes up, the democrats would be sure things for the next 30 years (a certain high percentage of Albertans notwithstanding).

Re:11 minutes later

[Angry Toad]

Understand this. Humans like wars.

What a totally fucking pig-ignorant comment. I assume you're most likely about 14 years old to even consider that such a stupid position bears any relationship to reality.

Talk to some veterans sonny, talk to people who have some actual experience of what war really means, and of what the world is like beyond the borders of your own neighbourhood.

Then do some growing up.

Re:11 minutes later

[ellem]

Most of the folk who've been through a war will tell you it is no fun, a horrendous experience and well, Hell.

Yet we humans continue to have them. Humans, as a race, not as individuals like war or we'd stop doing it. Prove me wrong.

Re:11 minutes later

[ellem]

Ah. Hitler also believed that war was the natural state of man, and brought out the best in a nation. That killed 6 million Jews, and an equal number of homosexuals, gypsies, and other "undesirables".

Ok first Hitler bad. Not a fan. I'm already a bad guy becuase I don't believe in the Liberal agenda more than I believe in the Conservative agenda, I don't want you all screaming I'm a NAZI on top of that.

So according to your figures puppetman 12 million people were killed in the Holocaust; yes? The number has fluctuated greatly over the years and what ever it really is it was too large. In the 50s the number was about 600,000 and rose steadily until the late 80s where 6,000,000 was sort of agreed on and it has stayed there for some time (15 years or so now.) But you've gone and upped it to 12,000,000 which is interesting. I wonder if when my son is in school that will be an accepted number. I wonder if you've statred the latest revision of history.

I wonder if in the 6th grade (some 10 years from now) my son will be taught that Americans flew the planes into the WTC. I'm sure you think that, or at least secretly wish it.

As for you other ridiculous charges -- I like Freedom of Speech plenty... I don't like what these people did. I have that right; right?

I don't know or care where you were on 9-11 but read my old 9.12-13 posts to find out where I was and what went down by me and perhaps my "conservative" views won't seem so wacky.

Re:11 minutes later

[plasm4]

I wouldn't say that people like war, at least not enough to want to go fight in one. but perhaps those who have a lot of power and who wish to attain more of it like war.

Re:11 minutes later

[puppetman]

"But you've gone and upped it to 12,000,000 which is interesting."

Six million Jews, give or take a million (the number is not firm). Another 6 million non-Jews were also killed.

From http://www.holocaust-history.org/

"Most statistical breakdowns I have seen list the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust. The estimates vary from around 4.1 to 6.0 million, with more recent research supporting an even higher figure... It is estimated that another 5-6 million non-Jews (Gypsies, homosexuals, prisoners of war - especially Russians - were killed during the Holocaust period."

I have no idea where you were on 9/11, nor do I care. I do know that US-foreign policy towards Iraq (the prevents even humanitarian aid) has contributed to the deaths of over 500,000 children. It's not spectacular, you won't see it on TV (unlike the World Trade Center), but it's still happening, in a slow and calculated way (which strikes me as evil). If 9/11 pisses you off, how do you feel about that?

Re:11 minutes later

[ellem]

I do know that US-foreign policy towards Iraq (the prevents even humanitarian aid) has contributed to the deaths of over 500,000 children. It's not spectacular, you won't see it on TV (unlike the World Trade Center), but it's still happening, in a slow and calculated way (which strikes me as evil). If 9/11 pisses you off, how do you feel about that?

If America suddenly had a food shortage or whatever what kind of aid do you think Iraq qould give us.

Being the world's big brother is a two way street. If the US is going to give aid to countries then it is involved in those countries. If those countries are going to act aggressively towards us then they will be sanctioned. You can't go around begging and then attack the people who gave you alms. For all the 500,000 dead baby shit we hear about no one seems to care that Iraqis do a fine job of offing one another over there. But I suppose the US is to blame for that too.

The US just isn't the big bad you want it to be. Do you know how I can tell? People who immigrate here tend to stay here. In fact there doesn't seem to be any mass exodus to Canada or Mexico from the US. If we're so effing horrible why do people keep coming here?

Re:11 minutes later

[puppetman]

It's the world that wants to give aid to Iraq, including some in the US.

And it's not a lack of aid that prevents it from getting there, it's a calculated embargo created and enforced by America.

"For all the 500,000 dead baby shit we hear about no one seems to care that Iraqis do a fine job of offing one another over there."

"dead baby shit", eh? I wonder: your attitude makes me think that if you'd been born in the Muslim world, you'd be cheering as each plane hit the World Trade Center. Please, don't have kids. The world needs no more people like you.

Re:11 minutes later

[ellem]

It's dead baby shit because it is blatant bullshit propaganda. It is a number that is entirely unprovable. It is a number decided on by people whose agenda ia also bullshit.

My son and his coming sibling will undoubtedly go through the liberal phase you're currently stuck in but they won't blame their country for every Godforsaken problem the World has. They'll have the brains to think for themselves and not believe the talking heads on TV.

You need to look around you and see what is going on. The US Government is not your enemy.

Missing clip

[thrasymachus]

Apparently, you don't have to make a coherent argument if you just string together a set of newsclips. Maybe this is why these people have resorted cutting and pasting footage.

There was a lot of footage of explosions, weapons going off, but where was the one clip that really mattered about 9-11? They didn't show any planes crashing into buildings because then you'd have realized that maybe all this rhetoric about good and evil actually had some substance and that there is no peaceful solution to someone who wants to kill you and your family and your fellow citizens.

This video attempted to portray the war on terrorism as a war against Islam, when in fact, our leadership has gone out of its way to repudiate that exact contention. Warring against a group of radical militant Islamists is not the same as warring against Islam the religion.

Re:Missing clip

[Anonymous Coward]

there is no peaceful solution to someone who wants to kill you and your family and your fellow citizens.

Yes there is. A perfectly simple solution. Stop killing them, their families and their fellow citizens, and they will stop doing the same to you.

Sheesh...it's not that hard to figure it out, Canada, Austrailia and most of Europe have had some success with the "don't kill foreign people for their oil/gold" method of international relationships.

Poll seems slanted

[MichaelPenne]

Splitting the vote between Iraq, War on Terror, and Economy.

A better indication would have been War vs. Economy, then see if folks want to finish the job on 'Terror' or start a new war to git Saddam, IMO.

Re:Poll seems slanted

[Anonymous Coward]

It is slanted. Look at where it says "Who is winning the war on terrorism?"

U.S. and Allies: 32%
Terrorists: 17%
Neither Side: 44%

It's funny how the "U.S. and Allies" percentage bar is the much longer than the others despite the actual percentage..

sigh...

[danro]

So, once again, the point is, when we're attacked, we must do nothing, since we "had it coming."

You know, we could do something a little more constructive than more of the same thing that obviously contributed to these problems in the first place.

But of course you wouldn't like that.
You wouldn't get to see all that action on cnn.
Bombs are fun just as long as they don't fall on us, huh?

How, pray tell, is bombing random countries solving the problem that a lot of people feel they have reason to hate the west?
The survivors are not going to like us one fucking bit more once the dust settle, i can absolutely positivly guarantee you that.

Re:sigh...

[CptNerd]

You know, we could do something a little more constructive than more of the same thing that obviously contributed to these problems in the first place.

Love the specificity of your "solution." Vague generalities couched in self-righteous Amerikkka-bashing.

But of course you wouldn't like that.
You wouldn't get to see all that action on cnn.
Bombs are fun just as long as they don't fall on us, huh?

I missed one by 2 miles. Had "AA" on the side.

How, pray tell, is bombing random countries solving the problem that a lot of people feel they have reason to hate the west?

They hated us before we dropped bombs on them, they hated us when we bought their oil, they hated us before we bought their oil. At least bombing them will make them realize they can't get away with acting on that hate.

The survivors are not going to like us one fucking bit more once the dust settle, i can absolutely positivly guarantee you that.

They can hate us all they damn well please, but if they act on that hate, they'll get bombed again and again, until they learn to stop acting like psychotic children.

Glad we didn't have your attitude towards the Nazis and Imperial Japan.

A very DULL razor (if that)

[Anonymous Coward]

Somehow I missed how this was "analysis" let alone a sharp analysis.. It was the MTV-ization of coverage of 9/11/2001. Dumbed-down for people who don't want to examine the issues.

This was one of the worst examples I've seen of nothing to say in 11 minutes.

Intelligen-CIA??

[MichaelPenne]

Was that a Froidjin slup?

Meanwhile, where did the "War on Terror" go, anyway? It seems to have been morphed into Desert Storm II by George Bush II...

Who has yet to show that Iraq had thing one to do with the collapsing Towers or crushed Pentagon...

So WTF, git the folks all riled for WAR, but can't find the enemy, so jist aim them guns at an easier target???

Whats the logic there, "one War is as good as another"??

Sounds more like Deliverence than a Noble Cause to me...

"non-interference"

[Herkules]

I believe this is what most American haters want!

"non-interference" not having the US looking out for the US best interest in their country.

HELP!

[Ian-GNN]

OK So I just awoke to this onslaught. My partner stayed up late and gave out the direct links to Michael. We are being crushed. I beg that you try and Watch&Vote the movie on Sundance. They have a Kontiki downloadable version. Also any more people with a little extra bandwidth please contact me and help mirror our videos. Even before this slashing we were notified by our video hosting vendor that we were blowing through bandwidth due to growing interest in our other investigative 9/11 piece "Aftermath: Unanswered Questions of 9/11". We need help hosting vids and getting our info out to the public. Finally, If you like our stuff and want to help support a blood, sweat and tears project, buy our dvd and/or sign up for our mailing list. Thanks for the attention. Love and (r)evolution GNN

Re:HELP!

[MeatMan]

BAHAHAHAHAHAH... you CAN'T be serious! LMAO I hope you bedwetting pillow-biters go broke! Hey, howz about you come slob on my knob for about $100 worth then I'll come buy $100 worth of your p00p on your site. You need help hosting... LMAO GOOD!

"Humans will always like wars"

[Herkules]

That should say some!

Fact: The last time Sweden was engaged in war was 1812.

So you see "Humans will always like wars" is not true, Sweads do not like it!

Re:"Humans will always like wars"

[Anonymous Coward]

What proof do you have that the Swedes are humans?

Re:"Humans will always like wars"

[Anonymous Coward]

We have the right amount of cromosons. Unlike some other war-mongering people her.

just my 2 cents

[spazoid12]

I suspect I'll get flamebait for this...but honestly, my intention is simply to voice an opinion: I thought that movie was boring!

Granted, I think I only plodded through the first 4 minutes before deciding it probably wouldn't be going anywhere.

The whole movie could've been one third the length if only they had shown each clip once rather than doing that not-clever repetitive thing for every single stupid out-of-context scene.

Maybe if I was patient enough to view the whole movie I would've seen wonderfully insightful people singing the praises of Bin Laden, Patty Murray style.

Pure Krunk.

Sorry that should be 1814 Sweden vs Norway

[Herkules]

http://www.mil.se/historia/english/19th.html

Re:Sorry that should be 1814 Sweden vs Norway

[Anonymous Coward]

they must have slapped eachother silly

frozen homos

Re:Direct Link -- PLEASE don't use it!

[Anonymous Coward]

Well why don't they grow some sense and just unplug the damn things if it's going to cost them instead of asking people to go elsewhere?

Funny.... no 9/11

[furry_wookie]

I watched this whole thing...

Funny how there is not a sigle image about the "real" events of 9/11.... not a single shot of jets slamming into the 2 towers...not a single shot of people running in horror down the streets of new york, not a single shot of people mourning the loss of their loved ones....

How quickly those who wish to destroy america from the inside sweep these events under the carpet to serve their agenda... thankfully they are but a tiny radical minority of the people in this great nation.

Re:Funny.... no 9/11

[Anonymous Coward]

There were no shots of innocent dying in Afghanistan either.

Re:Funny.... no 9/11

[Anonymous Coward]

Nope, they sure could have included the one of the Talaban shooting women in the soccer field. That one would have been appropriate wouldn't it?

Re:Funny.... no 9/11

[Jonny Ringo]

Ummm, well if you'd bother to surf their site you would have noticed that they have a whole section of video clips addressing 9/11 issues. Watch them. They are really good.
Take off you visors and open you eyes.

Wrong about Canada - by a longshot

[bmarklein]

See this page for a chart of oil reserves by country. Canada is 12th on the list with 38 Gb (billions of barrels) of reserves & estimated undiscovered resources. Saudi Arabia alone has about many times this amount (over 300 Gb). Russia is second with 168, Iraq third with 145, then Iran with 115. The US has about 100.

If you're really interested in a good analysis of the Bush administration's motives in Iraq, check out this article. The conclusion is that it is primarily about oil, specifically control over the price of oil.

Support

[Guerrilla News Netwo]

Seeing as GNN has been rendered inoperable by the /. deathstar, you can check out S-11 Redux along with 55 minutes of GNN's other short fim content on our DVD. You can order it here. This would also really help with the now massive streaming bill. FYI: Our videos have been selected for short film and video festivals in Europe, Canada and the United States. Crack the CIA was the overall winner of the Live Action Category of the 2002 Sundance On-Line Film Festival.

Re:Support

[MeatMan]

*burp*... howz about you come over to my house and give me $100 worth of head, then I'll go buy $100 worth of your crap. long live the /. deathstar, it rears its ugly head again and does its job well which is especially sweet since it was GNN.
I hope your "massive streaming bill" drains all you got and then some. BTW, your videos sux ass and the only reason anyone appreciates them at all is because they are either retarded or gay or both... *burp*

The Politics of Positions

[MisterMook]

The fact that a person doesn't vote for a particular representative in no way lowers that representative's responsibility to represent that person. There is no "my Republican President" or "my Democratic President", only THE President.

Personally, I think the idea of the two party system is driving this country to ruin. The politics of positions means that individual politicians that wish to gain more influence must play with the party line, and the party lines are more and more apart from the stated positions of the parties. Democratic shouldn't inherently mean inflated budgets based on welfare economies and pro-abortion, and Republican shouldn't always mean Bible-thumping preachers of the rich. The country is bigger than that and our politicians should be bigger than that.

Re:The Politics of Positions

[Anonymous Coward]

But, see you give the rich a tax cut and the economy still sucks because the majority have no money to buy goods, which is called demand, which drives business.

You fail to realize that 1% of the population owns 49% of the stock.

You have to give the poor, middle income, or more than 50% of the population the tax break. This gives them more money to spend on goods, which raises demand, which boosts the economy, which will still line the pockets of the rich.

Context

[Chris Johnson]

It's pretty alarming that we have psychos for citizens, but it looks like we do. The kind of people who will in all seriousness think the question is whether to exterminate all the Arabs now or later, the kind of person who will SERIOUSLY claim that the trouble is people who hate us because we have freedom- not because PR handlers have fed them that soundbite to learn, but because they seriously believe it! And yet we do have people like that. On another thread about the Nike case it turned out we have people who consider the main problem with Indonesian sweatshops is public image, and people shouldn't be allowed to use the word. I wonder if you're allowed to use the word 'whip' or 'club', or whether you are supposed to call it 'factory security enforcement mechanism'.

It would be really, really nice if we didn't have psychotics for citizens. Things would be so simple, we could point at other countries' psychotics and say 'You keep those people in line!'.

And we still should, because we are NOT the only country with psychotics and maniacs running around loose.

But we gotta remember to smack our OWN psychotics down if we expect anyone else to do the same in our support.

If anyone reading this (who's not a psychotic) is nodding thoughtfully, I hope to hell you vote. It looks like a citizen's obligation to society is not as passive as it appeared to be. It looks like we have to continually make some efforts to clean our government just like you have to clean a stove that gets used to cook on. Here's hoping our government doesn't get so filthy it's not worth cleaning...

So very wrong

[GooseKirk]

Proven oil reserves in "thousand million barrels":

Canada:
1981: 8.5
1991: 8.0
2000: 6.4

Total Middle East:
1981: 362.6
1991: 661.6
2000: 683.5

Source: BP statistical review of world energy - Oil and Gas Journal posts very similar numbers, and World Oil posted numbers varying by somewhere in the neighborhood of 0.05%, by my quick off-the-cuff glance. It's true that Canada may potentially have much more oil, but statistics about unproven reserves are even less reliable for comparison's sake.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Canada has 4.7 billion barrels of reserves, and is the No. 3 supplier of crude oil to the US, behind Saudi Arabia and Mexico.

The US gets somewhere between 25% and 45% of its oil from the Middle East, depending on where you look. Not that the statistics are the end-all and be-all, anyway... the real question is, is there a compelling strategic need to maintain a reasonable amount of control over current oil production (even "less than 20%" as you claim is a very substantial amount of oil), is there a staggeringly humongous amount of money to be made by the oil industry in the Middle East and Central Asia, and do George Bush, Dick Cheney, the S.S. Condoleeza Rice, Hamid Karzai, and others have substantial investments, holdings, and interests in the oil industry? Will these people likely continue with or go back to the oil industy after their term is up? Are most of their backers, family, family friends, and business associates from the oil/energy industries?

The US already uses its political leverage to increase oil production in Canada. You may notice they don't need to send the 101st Airborne to do so, as they may in more unruly parts of the world. If you do even the slightest bit of research, you might find that some Canadians feel that NAFTA and other agreements has already basically ceded their oil to US interests. And the US managed to do that without having support a coup, as they did, whaddaya know, just recently in Venezuela.

Your facts are wrong and your reasoning is faulty. If you truly want to be better informed, take a look at The Economist or the BBC, for starters.

Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade

[soydog]

Yeah, GNN does good stuff. That's almost a year old though. Check out my latest favorite guerilla film called "The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade":

You can watch it here.
Synopsis:
"Now, for the first time ever, the hidden prophecies of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic epic, The Lord of the Rings, are decoded in this accurate re-edit of Peter Jackson's blockbuster motion picture. Unknownst to many readers, The Lord of the Rings - once thought to be merely a story of archetypal struggle between good and evil - has been found to contain astute prophetic messages about the impending crisis of capitalist modernity. Numerous scholars and linguists have already deciphered the main theme of The Lord of the Rings as being the freedom of ordinary people to be left alone from the ruling elites. However, Tolkien's hidden messages about the disasters of capitalism and the insightful predictions about the current political climate have not been made public until now. The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade includes subtitles of the decoded dialogues in painstaking detail and the true identities that the story's characters represent within the prophecy. Hado i philinn!" "Mordor is in our midst." - J.R.R. Tolkien

That Video Is About As Meaningful As...

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Your question answers itself

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is this left-wing pro-terrorist propaganda on slashdot?

Because it is left-wing pro-terrorist propaganda.

How to see the *.wmv movie on Linux?

[Petrus]

Hello, All.

This looks like a mightily interesting movie. However, I have no Window box around to watch it - only 6 Linux PCs.
(The last Window PC I abandoned 7 years ago).

Is there a way, how to see *.wmv movie in Linux? Plugin or cossover, that does not require windows media player?
Woud anyone send me windows media player binary that works in Wine?

Thanks

Regards,

Petrus Vectorius

Re:How to see the *.wmv movie on Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think mplayer should work you get a cvs version and all of the plugins

Re:How to see the *.wmv movie on Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

What the hell do you need six computers for?

Sell one and buy a windows box. Don't brag that you have six computers but you can't watch a simple video over the internet.

p2p URL

[Ikoma Andy]

Grab it at magnet:?kt=gnn_redub_bb.mov or gnutella://gnn_redub_bb.mov . Too bad slashdot eats p2p URLs so I can't give you a nice clickable link.

Im center right wing

[Anonymous Coward]

On the british scale, I am a Tory or 'Conservative' voter. Unlike you Yanks, we have a left and a right on our political scale, as opposed to your right and then even more right choices.

Why do you insist America is land of the Free. Untill less than 50 years ago, Black people had no right to vote (no right to anything in some states)

America's Peace loving people, whose government has funded seemingly countless Evil and corrup regimes across the globe in the name of promoting the 'American way of life'. If you havent seen bowling for columbine, go see it.

I feel that something should be done about terrorism in the east, but there needs to be a coherant strategy. So Iraq (Thats IRACH, not EYE-RAK) *might* have nuclear weapons, North Korea DOES have them, oh, but we better leave them alone. Notwithstanding the fact that previous administrations voted in by the 'Peace Loving' Americans gave Saddam $2bn.

Rant over:)

Re:Hmmm... I certainly don't get this "karma" stuf

[Starman9x]

Sounds fair enough -- it's about as braindamaged as any other reason would be ;)

[I do hope your reason is not an implication that I might actually use that stuff -- what would the members of my linux user group think if that were so?]