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From today’s Guardian …
Those outside America, in the chanceries of Europe and beyond, who hoped that this would be a passing phase, like a Florida hurricane that wreaks havoc only to blow over, will instead have to adjust to a different reality.
For four years many hoped that the course charted [...]
The Reality-Based Community
November 5th, 2004 · No Comments
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Is Blogging (Potentially) What Public TV Could Be or Should Be ?
November 5th, 2004 · No Comments
I’ve been wondering about this for a while. And, certainly, one of the large issues in North America is the role of corporate media in giving people accurate information, which leads to informed awareness, as opposed to partisan interpretation, spin and propaganda.
It’s not for nothing that the BBC in the UK is often [...]
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Some Common Sense ?
November 5th, 2004 · 5 Comments
I understand that it’s conventional wisdom that osama Bin Laden is a barbaric, bloodthirty madman, a raving radical islamic terrorist.
Of course … that’s what we’ve been told since day one at Ground Zero. He’s THE demon.
Well, when you read the al-Jazeera translation f his videotaped message, it seems remarkably level-headed … the other side’s [...]
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Speak Truth to Power - The Sci-Fi Edition ….
November 5th, 2004 · No Comments
… alternatively titled “Murka Is So Fucked”.
Less stylistic and comprehensive than much of Lohmann’s excellence, but straight to the heart of the matter.
“Out of touch with reality” is usually called psychosis. Welcome to the Psychotic States of Murka.
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