What folks need to do is hold off on publishing these exploits (as Microsoft requests) until they've got a lot more riding on it. When a couple of banks lose a couple of million bucks on this, not to mention the confidence of their customers, well, then you might get some real coverage.
or you force installation (which often tends to push the rpm database even further into its little fantasy world.)
I have had a bad day, and dammit, that made it all better.. Thank you... early mornin giggles....
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However, when the WTO thing went down I thought, "Kooks" not "cool".
Agreed. The Cambodian thing is terrible, I read "First they killed my father" countless times when I was there. I spent most of my time in tears. Yet the Cambodian people are amazing! I could not imagine how it happend.
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Anyway, who else would write a story about Globalization?
I would. Its a relevant topic. I just got back from a trip through Asia and it opened my eyes to a lot of things. I am in the Seattle area, and when the WTO thing went down, I thought, wow thats cool, but knew not really the issues. Once you see US policy from the "ground zero" (like the month each I spent in Cambodia and Laos, or the four months I spent in Nepal) you tend to question a lot of things like "Why do we need Coca-Cola atthe base of Mount Everest?"
Slashdot is news for nerds, but I welcome stories about my world, and discussions about things that affect us and cherish those who start those discussions. I want it along with the news of Mozilla. A well rounded person is an intelligent person.
.... it looks simply dreadful! Lets hear it for the cultureless zoids from Redmond. They want nothing more than complete homogenized lameness for everyone.
Really makes me wonder how they featured Bjork so heavily on their media player page. She seems such the opposite of the world vision they are forcing on us.
related note: I have been installing slack on a 486 notebook, and from the other room I keep hearing the Madonna XP ads that from an audio standpoint seem to be suggesting some sort of incredible sense of freedom to be eXPerienced from the new product. Everytime I heard that ad from the other room I just reflected on the freedom I had with the slack install on my little notebook.
wow. you can recite the use of numbers! woop dee doo!
You seem like a one trick pony, do you sing and dance too? Or just recite some crap ya learned in college? Oh didnt goto college? right.. needed a break from that 'Soldier of Fortune' magazine, and 'Mullet Monthly' and read some stuff that made you seem smart? nice one mate.
I will repeat this again, like i have a million times before: You fake racist patriots are not what this country stands for, so ya'll should get together, make a plan and find a place where you can have your little intellectual facism party together. Mullets and monster trucks are required for entry obviously.
I dont think they care honestly. Most traffic goes through the USA.
Why are the DEA on a beach in thailand every month for the annual "Full Moon Party". Beats me, its not their jurisdiction. But hey, they are there, doing their thing (you know, selling drugs and busting people selling drugs)
The world cop thing pisses me off so much I dont know what to say anymore.
While your statistics are very how you say,"interesting", I have been to Nepal (have you?) and I would venture to say the people there are far from retarded. In fact the people are quite wonderful and intelligent in ways number pushers like your sort could not even fathom. For one, they have created a system of Hinduism/Buddhism that it elegant, diverse, imaginative, beautiful, etc.
The Newari people(one of Nepals many many ethnic groups) are considered some of the worlds most accomplished urban planners.
Your so lovely quote, you're so worth quoting!!
World resources, especially computer hardware, should be reserved for the world's most intelligent poulations. It is these population that have the capability of raising world economic standards. Yes, these are the only ways you can help the people of Nepal: Contribute to the economic growth of the first world and educate yourself about eugenics.
Your Christain Eugenics doctrine is a veiled attempt at Nazisism and really needs to be shoved very far up the collective nether region of people who spew this rhetoric. I know your a troll, but I am risking Karma to call you on it.
The people of Nepal at this point need education, in the form of computers, reading materials, sex education and the like. It is our culture who exposed them to this world of "development" where they lost their isolation and now have to be part of the "real world". With that comes a loss of culture and values as they struggle to be part of your paradigm of statistics.
I say fsck it. And fsck you for wishing the extermination of anyone. Don't you creepy twisted Christians have anything else to do with yourselves than hide behind a veil of false science? Just one look at the websites promoting the cause lumps ya in with the rest of the right wing wackos.
ummm. He also did the film Heavenly Creatures , which wasthe first time people noticed Kate Winslet. It was a shocking film based on a true story of two childhood friends who drifted into a fanstasy world and commited murder.
The film is quite critically acclaimed I might add, and has been the reason I have had trust in PJ's ability to direct LOTR.
oh right, and the fun "modern day" OS underpinnings: soft butterfly icons and a new task bar/start bar. Why the heck would anyone switch to this damn thing anyway. Oh right.. most people are *forced too*. forgot.
there is no device drivers yet, no MIDI (one of the main resons I use windows) no nothing, except for really frightening positional changes, privacy issues. I mean as it stands any time I get tempted to look at pictures of naked people on the internet I get scared of where my mouse clicks go.
So stop scaring me any more with this XP thing. I got enough to worry about with all the Anthrax and the humanitarian crisis going on half way around the world, I dont need to think that the next step in Ashcrofts "war on America" is to find out that Microsoft did a deal with the administration to put the Carnivore in the.NET/passport thingy.
Bill Maher said something I agree with on 'Politically Incorrect' (the night he got in trouble with the Whitehouse). He said, "The Governements main job is to protect us, and I think they fscked up bigtime."
I agree.
They did not test it for 2 weeks, thats a bit of a screwup, especially since that was around the time (Sept 25th) they began talking about how there may or may not be some chemical or biological attacks over that weekend. Do you remember those news reports? I sure as heck do.
My question was in that post and still is, why were they not aware? Why since they were saying there was a good chance that there may be a bio or chemical attack, were they just looking at crop dusting airplanes and not a broad spectrum of different possibilities, like for example, strange powders being sent to media figures. Heck at least the DEA could have made sure it was not coke or something.
The FBI has had a recent history of being a bunch of fsck ups.
You would think that the FBI would do a lot better than this with regards to the Anthrax "crisis".
I think it is pretty damn scary that they can ignore something like this for as long as they did.
FBI did not test suspect NBC package for 2 weeks
NEW YORK: The FBI failed to test the suspicious powder sent to an NBC employee in New York for two weeks and it was a private doctor who raised the alarm over the new case of anthrax, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
The report said that the FBI was notified about the powder on September 25, picked it up a day later but did not do any laboratory tests on the powder or take skin samples from the NBC employee who handled the package.
The report said that it was only after the NBC staffer - identified as 38-year-old Erin O' Connor - developed a sore on her chest, visited several doctors and was diagnosed with skin anthrax that the powder was tested.
The powder was eventually found to be negative. New York FBI chief Barry Mawn said that it was "unfortunate" the tests were not conducted immediately. Mawn said that the FBI had investigated dozens of suspicious substances since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Unfortunate, yes but for the first few days that this was coming up they really tried to downplay it like it was not going on. On 'Politically Incorrect' a replublican strategist said they were thinking of suing CNN for falsly creating a Anthrax scare.
Its sad to think it might be dying. There is absolutely no way I am going back to a 56k modem after using broadband for over 3 years. I was out of the country for a while and yeah ok, 10 computers in an internet cafe all going through 1 pirated wingate machine and a 56k modem fine, ok, sure, I am in Nepal.
A little searching around revealed the one t-1 in the country, plugged into an interent cafe! woo hoo?
So I still didnt suffer, came home tried to get a cable modem and they kept screwing me on the install so it took over a month. Had to buy a modem, and it was pretty horrible.
So how is it that Canada and other countries are planning on gigabit to the school and home? Is it because they do things with less hype, fanfare and bullshit biz deals (nasdaq) that kill a company or an industry?
Anyone running OS X on one of those? I gots me one lying around somewheres here and maybe that would make the thing useful: the $$ value of that thing dropped from like $2000 bucks to 50 cents as soon as I drove it off the lot.
Please think carefully about our actions in Afghanistan, the country there is very fragile, the people have had a long history of being shoved around, can we just think about what we are going to do before we act?
And then another that says:
Dear person who represents me and my country. Would you mind going and kicking ass in Afghanistan? If you could, please kill everyone you possibly can while there, because if they are all dead, none of them can hurt us, right?
Would you get two different form letters back? I wondered because when I sent something that was similar to the first, I got a form letter back being told that they were going to be very careful and that they had been to cenral asia on many occiasions and knew my concerns.
I wondered what would have been sent to me if I had sent the second letter? Would they have blindly agreed with everything I said just like the first?
That is a very good point. The main reason why they dont have the same terrorism issues that we have is because they don't engage in the same activities through policies that we do.
Like it or not America engages in a "make everyone like us" campaign that obviously pisses the people who do not want to be like us off. Which I understand.
Not only that, we like to meddle in all sorts of situations (indochina, indonesia, central america, etc.) where we don't belong, toppling govments, installing dicatorships, helping genocidal communist regimes. We got dirty bloody hands.
The countries you gave as an example, work for change and peace as far as I saw when I was over in Asia, Norway pumps tons of money into places where people are in need. There are questions about the effects of this kind of help ie teaching english as a way of anglo-izing cultures ya da ya da, whatever. But the point is,the effect is not so powerful that it illicits the kind of negative response the world is giving right now, and in recent history.
I keep saying: we are the most powerful greatest nation in the world? Lets prove it by doing more good than the bad we are doing. Take Japan's efforts since WW II as an example.
I agree with the notion that we are dominated by corporate interests. I mean look, our Government is headed by the Major Oil Interests. Rice: Exxon, Bush: Zapata, Cheney: Halliburton.
The top media execs site on the boards of major oil companies.(damn, the link for support of the statement ain't working right now)
In any case, we have not been free for some time now. As pointed out in the book Culture Jam and excerpted on Adbusters American has a secret and untold history of corporate domination. From the article:
"A bitplayer in the official history becomes critically important to the way the unofficial history unfolds. This player turns out to be not only the provocateur of the revolution, but in the end its saboteur. This player lies at the heart of America's defining theme: the difference between a country that pretends to be free and a country that truly is free.
That player is the corporation."
The corporation chews up the human and the planet in favor of production and profit. I know that sounds communist, but.. Look at how the Corporation works. Because of this fact it will be easier for what I feel is the "Current Corporation" in power to continue to whittle away at the rights and the souls of the people in our fine country, because unfortunately the dominance of the media has uncanny abilities to manipulate as if through sorcery the minds and the hearts of a population. Because the Corporation has not the goals of the people in mind, it becomes easier and more useful to do this.
Another interesting link to a interview with Dr. Nancy Snow on the propaganda wing of the US Foreign Policy to sell a Corporate message overseas. Let me tell you, I spent a year over in Asia and the messages coming from us are intensly strong, pervasive, and have an amazing ability to render memories of us bombing a country to smitherreens to nil, as the chants begin: USA is #1!!!
Lastly, I saw this here a couple of days ago I think. I found it quite scary:
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
-- Hermann Goering
trying to build a list of alternative news sources daily:
The exploitation of the WTC attacks and the aftermath for gain both political and monetary is frankly pretty disgusting. The networks have done it since minute 1, The T-Shirts and baseball caps in stores since day 2 or 3, the covers of magazines, newspapers, the endless story after story of the hardship and painthis all caused.
It truly is terrible. I understand things need to be reported, people need to be made aware, yes its nice to sell things and donate the money to the cause of helping and cleaning up etc. But what of the things that are for profit?
Conspiracy alert?
While I don't think our Government staged the WTC attacks, I do think the biggest 'corporation' that has exploited the situation for both monetary/political gain has been the current administration. It is shameless truthfully: they have introduced radical legislation(covered here), got the wheels of war rolling (the whole gang in charge right now is a who's who of the military industrial complex), and the possibility of the oil connection in the region:
as well as the total destruction of critical analysis of the job the administration is doing (How can you condemn the pres in this hard time?) by the press , the supposed complete reversal of approval ratings Worldwide, despite the questionable actions, the complete "fsck you" attitude towards allies and UN, has led me to believe that they have taken this ball and run with it.
Off the soapbox and back to the topic. When a company like Sun or Oracle or anyone of that magnitude chimes in ready and willing to go forth with some plan that makes them look good and allows them to profit off of these insane times we are living in makes me really not think to much of the company, nor do I want to have anything to do with them.
What I have found is that the net allows me to dig into 'the story' a lot deeper. Yes there is tons of crap to sift through, I find that enjoyable: I can quickly check sources and references and the like as well as seeing many different sides of the story.
This is not possible on televison. There is a lot of lip services paid to these ideals, yet seemingly impossible for them to do at this point due to the heavy corporate control over the broadcast medium.
Like people who think that public broadcasting is the shelter from the storm: Last night while listening to NPR there was a show that came on that was about Democracy and the war. In the begining of the show it was announced that it was underwritten by Merck Pharmecuticals. All I could think was "Now they don't have any financial interest in anything now do they?"
My feelings is the net was initially about information, it took a turn and became about selling, but in these strange times it is going back to its roots. Broadcast has just become too transparent at this point when there is so much more access to other ideas from other sources.
Not to say TV doesnt have some good stuff, it does.
Attempting to compile a semi biased list of alternative ideas and news stories at my website daily:
umm.. If you are responding to my post with regards to Ashcroft, you really should try and understand that it is purely satire. A commentary. Not distorting his words to support my desires. I was making a comment.
The whole Ashcroft thing and the powertrip I agree opon. The FBI and the ilk were having some hard times, looking like crap, and everything that has gone down in the media since the attacks reek of some insane PR campaign to cover asses and make em look good.
"How did you know it was Arabs who done it?"
"They left a book on flying in their car! "Flying a JetPlane for Arab dummies."
"Well hot damn, what else they do?"
"We found some 'unintelliable' religous stuff written on paper."
It may seem like a good point. But what seems scary to me is that the Whitehouse has been trying to control slant and news since this thing has happened. The Bill Maher thing is one example, as is the fact that it was disproven that the Whitehouse and Airforce were targets that day, even though both Cheney and Rice insisted that it was true.
Something is up, and parnoid conspiracy theory aside, its getting pretty scary. Last night on Bill Maher, the republican strategist said that CNN was on the verge of being sued by the Gov for creating the Anthrax scare, cos they have been "right on the line of what the first amendment protects" (paraphrase, it was late). Its all too convienient if you ask me.
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I'd say mod this up, cos its *smart thinkin*(tm)
I have had a bad day, and dammit, that made it all better.. Thank you... early mornin giggles....
Agreed. The Cambodian thing is terrible, I read "First they killed my father" countless times when I was there. I spent most of my time in tears. Yet the Cambodian people are amazing! I could not imagine how it happend.
I would. Its a relevant topic. I just got back from a trip through Asia and it opened my eyes to a lot of things. I am in the Seattle area, and when the WTO thing went down, I thought, wow thats cool, but knew not really the issues. Once you see US policy from the "ground zero" (like the month each I spent in Cambodia and Laos, or the four months I spent in Nepal) you tend to question a lot of things like "Why do we need Coca-Cola atthe base of Mount Everest?"
Slashdot is news for nerds, but I welcome stories about my world, and discussions about things that affect us and cherish those who start those discussions. I want it along with the news of Mozilla. A well rounded person is an intelligent person.
Its true: of the 4% of the total people who goto my website who use netscape, 89% of them are using netscape 4. UGH!
Netscape still to this day has problems with rendering wc3 validated sites. I cannot even imagine what 4 must be doing.
Zeldman & Co. Broswer upgrade initive
.... it looks simply dreadful! Lets hear it for the cultureless zoids from Redmond. They want nothing more than complete homogenized lameness for everyone.
Really makes me wonder how they featured Bjork so heavily on their media player page. She seems such the opposite of the world vision they are forcing on us.
related note: I have been installing slack on a 486 notebook, and from the other room I keep hearing the Madonna XP ads that from an audio standpoint seem to be suggesting some sort of incredible sense of freedom to be eXPerienced from the new product. Everytime I heard that ad from the other room I just reflected on the freedom I had with the slack install on my little notebook.
Heres to freedom!
wow. you can recite the use of numbers! woop dee doo!
You seem like a one trick pony, do you sing and dance too? Or just recite some crap ya learned in college? Oh didnt goto college? right.. needed a break from that 'Soldier of Fortune' magazine, and 'Mullet Monthly' and read some stuff that made you seem smart? nice one mate.
I will repeat this again, like i have a million times before: You fake racist patriots are not what this country stands for, so ya'll should get together, make a plan and find a place where you can have your little intellectual facism party together. Mullets and monster trucks are required for entry obviously.
I dont think they care honestly. Most traffic goes through the USA.
Why are the DEA on a beach in thailand every month for the annual "Full Moon Party". Beats me, its not their jurisdiction. But hey, they are there, doing their thing (you know, selling drugs and busting people selling drugs)
The world cop thing pisses me off so much I dont know what to say anymore.
While your statistics are very how you say,"interesting", I have been to Nepal (have you?) and I would venture to say the people there are far from retarded. In fact the people are quite wonderful and intelligent in ways number pushers like your sort could not even fathom. For one, they have created a system of Hinduism/Buddhism that it elegant, diverse, imaginative, beautiful, etc.
The Newari people(one of Nepals many many ethnic groups) are considered some of the worlds most accomplished urban planners.
Your so lovely quote, you're so worth quoting!!
World resources, especially computer hardware, should be reserved for the world's most intelligent poulations. It is these population that have the capability of raising world economic standards. Yes, these are the only ways you can help the people of Nepal: Contribute to the economic growth of the first world and educate yourself about eugenics.
Your Christain Eugenics doctrine is a veiled attempt at Nazisism and really needs to be shoved very far up the collective nether region of people who spew this rhetoric. I know your a troll, but I am risking Karma to call you on it.
The people of Nepal at this point need education, in the form of computers, reading materials, sex education and the like. It is our culture who exposed them to this world of "development" where they lost their isolation and now have to be part of the "real world". With that comes a loss of culture and values as they struggle to be part of your paradigm of statistics.
I say fsck it. And fsck you for wishing the extermination of anyone. Don't you creepy twisted Christians have anything else to do with yourselves than hide behind a veil of false science? Just one look at the websites promoting the cause lumps ya in with the rest of the right wing wackos.
ummm. He also did the film Heavenly Creatures , which wasthe first time people noticed Kate Winslet. It was a shocking film based on a true story of two childhood friends who drifted into a fanstasy world and commited murder.
The film is quite critically acclaimed I might add, and has been the reason I have had trust in PJ's ability to direct LOTR.
oh right, and the fun "modern day" OS underpinnings: soft butterfly icons and a new task bar/start bar. Why the heck would anyone switch to this damn thing anyway. Oh right.. most people are *forced too*. forgot.
there is no device drivers yet, no MIDI (one of the main resons I use windows) no nothing, except for really frightening positional changes, privacy issues. I mean as it stands any time I get tempted to look at pictures of naked people on the internet I get scared of where my mouse clicks go.
So stop scaring me any more with this XP thing. I got enough to worry about with all the Anthrax and the humanitarian crisis going on half way around the world, I dont need to think that the next step in Ashcrofts "war on America" is to find out that Microsoft did a deal with the administration to put the Carnivore in the
damn...
Bill Maher said something I agree with on 'Politically Incorrect' (the night he got in trouble with the Whitehouse). He said, "The Governements main job is to protect us, and I think they fscked up bigtime."
I agree.
They did not test it for 2 weeks, thats a bit of a screwup, especially since that was around the time (Sept 25th) they began talking about how there may or may not be some chemical or biological attacks over that weekend. Do you remember those news reports? I sure as heck do.
My question was in that post and still is, why were they not aware? Why since they were saying there was a good chance that there may be a bio or chemical attack, were they just looking at crop dusting airplanes and not a broad spectrum of different possibilities, like for example, strange powders being sent to media figures. Heck at least the DEA could have made sure it was not coke or something.
The FBI has had a recent history of being a bunch of fsck ups.
Missing FBI stuff
Oversight Commitee
You would think that the FBI would do a lot better than this with regards to the Anthrax "crisis".
I think it is pretty damn scary that they can ignore something like this for as long as they did.
FBI did not test suspect NBC package for 2 weeks
NEW YORK: The FBI failed to test the suspicious powder sent to an NBC employee in New York for two weeks and it was a private doctor who raised the alarm over the new case of anthrax, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
The report said that the FBI was notified about the powder on September 25, picked it up a day later but did not do any laboratory tests on the powder or take skin samples from the NBC employee who handled the package.
The report said that it was only after the NBC staffer - identified as 38-year-old Erin O' Connor - developed a sore on her chest, visited several doctors and was diagnosed with skin anthrax that the powder was tested.
The powder was eventually found to be negative. New York FBI chief Barry Mawn said that it was "unfortunate" the tests were not conducted immediately. Mawn said that the FBI had investigated dozens of suspicious substances since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Unfortunate, yes but for the first few days that this was coming up they really tried to downplay it like it was not going on. On 'Politically Incorrect' a replublican strategist said they were thinking of suing CNN for falsly creating a Anthrax scare.
Doesnt look false to me.
Its sad to think it might be dying. There is absolutely no way I am going back to a 56k modem after using broadband for over 3 years. I was out of the country for a while and yeah ok, 10 computers in an internet cafe all going through 1 pirated wingate machine and a 56k modem fine, ok, sure, I am in Nepal.
A little searching around revealed the one t-1 in the country, plugged into an interent cafe! woo hoo?
So I still didnt suffer, came home tried to get a cable modem and they kept screwing me on the install so it took over a month. Had to buy a modem, and it was pretty horrible.
So how is it that Canada and other countries are planning on gigabit to the school and home? Is it because they do things with less hype, fanfare and bullshit biz deals (nasdaq) that kill a company or an industry?
Anyone running OS X on one of those? I gots me one lying around somewheres here and maybe that would make the thing useful: the $$ value of that thing dropped from like $2000 bucks to 50 cents as soon as I drove it off the lot.
If'n you are runnin it, how fast does it go?
What happens if you send one letter saying:
Please think carefully about our actions in Afghanistan, the country there is very fragile, the people have had a long history of being shoved around, can we just think about what we are going to do before we act?
And then another that says:
Dear person who represents me and my country. Would you mind going and kicking ass in Afghanistan? If you could, please kill everyone you possibly can while there, because if they are all dead, none of them can hurt us, right?
Would you get two different form letters back? I wondered because when I sent something that was similar to the first, I got a form letter back being told that they were going to be very careful and that they had been to cenral asia on many occiasions and knew my concerns.
I wondered what would have been sent to me if I had sent the second letter? Would they have blindly agreed with everything I said just like the first?
Has anyone tried this?
I used to hang out with Roths hippie son. Cool guy.
thats all. (memory lane)
That is a very good point. The main reason why they dont have the same terrorism issues that we have is because they don't engage in the same activities through policies that we do.
Like it or not America engages in a "make everyone like us" campaign that obviously pisses the people who do not want to be like us off. Which I understand.
Not only that, we like to meddle in all sorts of situations (indochina, indonesia, central america, etc.) where we don't belong, toppling govments, installing dicatorships, helping genocidal communist regimes. We got dirty bloody hands.
The countries you gave as an example, work for change and peace as far as I saw when I was over in Asia, Norway pumps tons of money into places where people are in need. There are questions about the effects of this kind of help ie teaching english as a way of anglo-izing cultures ya da ya da, whatever. But the point is,the effect is not so powerful that it illicits the kind of negative response the world is giving right now, and in recent history.
I keep saying: we are the most powerful greatest nation in the world? Lets prove it by doing more good than the bad we are doing. Take Japan's efforts since WW II as an example.
We have a lot to learn.
I agree with the notion that we are dominated by corporate interests. I mean look, our Government is headed by the Major Oil Interests. Rice: Exxon, Bush: Zapata, Cheney: Halliburton.
The top media execs site on the boards of major oil companies.(damn, the link for support of the statement ain't working right now)
In any case, we have not been free for some time now. As pointed out in the book Culture Jam and excerpted on Adbusters American has a secret and untold history of corporate domination. From the article:
"A bitplayer in the official history becomes critically important to the way the unofficial history unfolds. This player turns out to be not only the provocateur of the revolution, but in the end its saboteur. This player lies at the heart of America's defining theme: the difference between a country that pretends to be free and a country that truly is free.
That player is the corporation."
The corporation chews up the human and the planet in favor of production and profit. I know that sounds communist, but.. Look at how the Corporation works. Because of this fact it will be easier for what I feel is the "Current Corporation" in power to continue to whittle away at the rights and the souls of the people in our fine country, because unfortunately the dominance of the media has uncanny abilities to manipulate as if through sorcery the minds and the hearts of a population. Because the Corporation has not the goals of the people in mind, it becomes easier and more useful to do this.
Another interesting link to a interview with Dr. Nancy Snow on the propaganda wing of the US Foreign Policy to sell a Corporate message overseas. Let me tell you, I spent a year over in Asia and the messages coming from us are intensly strong, pervasive, and have an amazing ability to render memories of us bombing a country to smitherreens to nil, as the chants begin: USA is #1!!!
Her book is Propaganda Inc.
Lastly, I saw this here a couple of days ago I think. I found it quite scary:
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
-- Hermann Goering
trying to build a list of alternative news sources daily:
The exploitation of the WTC attacks and the aftermath for gain both political and monetary is frankly pretty disgusting. The networks have done it since minute 1, The T-Shirts and baseball caps in stores since day 2 or 3, the covers of magazines, newspapers, the endless story after story of the hardship and painthis all caused.
It truly is terrible. I understand things need to be reported, people need to be made aware, yes its nice to sell things and donate the money to the cause of helping and cleaning up etc. But what of the things that are for profit?
Conspiracy alert?
While I don't think our Government staged the WTC attacks, I do think the biggest 'corporation' that has exploited the situation for both monetary/political gain has been the current administration. It is shameless truthfully: they have introduced radical legislation(covered here), got the wheels of war rolling (the whole gang in charge right now is a who's who of the military industrial complex), and the possibility of the oil connection in the region:
UNOCAL testimony on needing gov support in Afghan region to stabalise for energy plans
Energy Information Administration prospectus on Regions Energy
as well as the total destruction of critical analysis of the job the administration is doing (How can you condemn the pres in this hard time?) by the press , the supposed complete reversal of approval ratings Worldwide, despite the questionable actions, the complete "fsck you" attitude towards allies and UN, has led me to believe that they have taken this ball and run with it.
Off the soapbox and back to the topic. When a company like Sun or Oracle or anyone of that magnitude chimes in ready and willing to go forth with some plan that makes them look good and allows them to profit off of these insane times we are living in makes me really not think to much of the company, nor do I want to have anything to do with them.
What I have found is that the net allows me to dig into 'the story' a lot deeper. Yes there is tons of crap to sift through, I find that enjoyable: I can quickly check sources and references and the like as well as seeing many different sides of the story.
This is not possible on televison. There is a lot of lip services paid to these ideals, yet seemingly impossible for them to do at this point due to the heavy corporate control over the broadcast medium.
Like people who think that public broadcasting is the shelter from the storm: Last night while listening to NPR there was a show that came on that was about Democracy and the war. In the begining of the show it was announced that it was underwritten by Merck Pharmecuticals. All I could think was "Now they don't have any financial interest in anything now do they?"
My feelings is the net was initially about information, it took a turn and became about selling, but in these strange times it is going back to its roots. Broadcast has just become too transparent at this point when there is so much more access to other ideas from other sources.
Not to say TV doesnt have some good stuff, it does.
Attempting to compile a semi biased list of alternative ideas and news stories at my website daily:
umm.. If you are responding to my post with regards to Ashcroft, you really should try and understand that it is purely satire. A commentary. Not distorting his words to support my desires. I was making a comment.
Are you part of the new thought police?
The whole Ashcroft thing and the powertrip I agree opon. The FBI and the ilk were having some hard times, looking like crap, and everything that has gone down in the media since the attacks reek of some insane PR campaign to cover asses and make em look good.
"How did you know it was Arabs who done it?"
"They left a book on flying in their car! "Flying a JetPlane for Arab dummies."
"Well hot damn, what else they do?"
"We found some 'unintelliable' religous stuff written on paper."
"Wow.. Got me convinced."
"Get this, one guy left his will, IN ARABIC!!"
"Case closed in my opinion."
woops, sorry link did not work.
Government asks networks to shut the fsck up
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/10/ret.bush.media/in dex.html
It may seem like a good point. But what seems scary to me is that the Whitehouse has been trying to control slant and news since this thing has happened. The Bill Maher thing is one example, as is the fact that it was disproven that the Whitehouse and Airforce were targets that day, even though both Cheney and Rice insisted that it was true.
Something is up, and parnoid conspiracy theory aside, its getting pretty scary. Last night on Bill Maher, the republican strategist said that CNN was on the verge of being sued by the Gov for creating the Anthrax scare, cos they have been "right on the line of what the first amendment protects" (paraphrase, it was late). Its all too convienient if you ask me.