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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.

the Western media offer us nonsensical mantras that, by repetition, have acquired the air of spiritual truths.

There was another Westerner who knew how this thing worked, how you could sway popular opinion using absolutist rhetoric: Hitler.

the magnitude of a lie always contains a certain factor of credibility, since the great masses of the people in the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously and purposely evil, and that, therefore, in view of the primitive simplicity of their minds they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one.

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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.

Visually, the film is astonishing�and nearly unique�because it deploys so much cutting-edge special effects technology with so little fuss. It�s arguably the first film with hundreds of spectacularly busy, yet curiously matter-of-fact, digital effects shots that somehow don�t take you out of the movie.

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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.

The rule of thumb observed in newsrooms down the decades has been that each offspring of the Christian or Hebrew deity is worth around 100 or maybe 1000 offspring of Allah, particularly if they are “tribesmen” as opposed to “peasants” or “farmers.” “Tribesmen” can die in units of up to 30,000 from such afflictions as famine or floods without exciting undue concern.

One of the villagers recalled: “We pulled the baby out, the others were buried in the rubble. Children were decapitated. There were bodies with no legs. We could do nothing. We just fled.”

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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.

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Butcher Man Butchers Boy

A one-armed Egyptian butcher was convicted Tuesday of murdering and molesting a 12-year-old boy, carving up the body with a meat cleaver and burying it in concrete.

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.

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