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They That Have Odds Of Power Exact As Much As They Can, And The Weak Yield To Such Conditions As They Can Get
Thucydides, an aristocrat who lived in Greece around 450 BCE, wrote this, commenting on how stronger sides in a war dictate reality to weaker ones.
It’s mentioned in passing here, a good article from Bombay that attempts to illustrate how the current propaganda machine in the West is ignoring or steamrollering our Enlightment heritage of radical doubt to portray create a sensation of a “just war” against unmitigated evil, and one that conflates Islam with evil.
There was another Westerner who knew how this thing worked, how you could sway popular opinion using absolutist rhetoric: Hitler.
Vomitiing VIdeo Game Weenies Need Not Apply
I like this review of the Lord of the Rings movie. Apparently, it uses all the same digital composiiton and effects that Lucas used in Phantom Menace, but doesn’t fall into his trap where in every frame of that shit movie, some video game weenie seemed to have vomited some garish special effects onto every bit of the screen.
Score Now Even In Afghanistan
An academic, Marc Herold, has calculated that reported Afghan civilian casualities now number around 3,500 — the same number of civilians that died in the WTC. His analysis shows that average direct civilian casualties are 60-65 per day.
Of course, what’s interesting and sadly predictable is that these reports of civilian deaths rarely if ever come through US media — which provides a sanitized, brain-numbingly gung-ho boys’ own war story.
Santa Death Squads
More desperate acts by Santa impersonators as the season draws to a close. This one tried to branch out into contract killing.
Butcher Man Butchers Boy
If everyone was vegetarian, maybe this tragedy might never have happened? Then again, as so many people always take pains to remind me, Hitler was a veggie.
ars Cut Off? Drink OJ!
Somehow, I absolutely knew there had to be a trailer park involved.
Peter Jackson Anointed
In the world of the New York Times, when you spend $300m on a movie, your earlier incredibly grotesque, wonderfully perverted, sick-as-fuck zombie flick becomes…
the bracing shock comedy “Dead Alive”
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