Additions to th' War™ Playlist Player include a whole pack of cute Iraqui kids and the Special Opz guys they tag around with, footage of a Predator straffing insurgents, and the usual fresh-baked rapes and IEDs.
In our ever-expanding practical DIY playlist one may now find How-To's on pen guns, potato guns, ascetylene bombs, suppository delivery of DMT, mushroom picking, and proper play of the resurgent pre-teen parlour game "Choke Each Other Into Unconsciousness" in P0st-911 USofA.
Rev. Dr. Ahmadinejad is an obnoxiously hard to defend Executive Branche-Man, so this past week i must admit of a certain knee-jerk urge to give props of some sort to the public face of my beloved (pre'hap betrothed, anon) Shi'ia Persia.
Whatever. I don't know if that's what he said. Rev Stuttery McRamblesome there is perfectly in keeping with a contemporary speaker. This ain't the Gilded Age. Dubya's verbal tragedies are encoded at DARPA and filtered through Cheney before he mangles them into "speaches"; Ahmadinejad has to decode whatever the Khomeniacracy flips him to compliment his sportswear ouvre.
As threatened in commentary i left on and inspired by this post by Sri Lo, i present the above playlist of videos relating to CIA traffic of drugs, guns, perhaps slaves, definately money, and inteligence information as a memorial to the reporter who lost his life for investigating it.
Or maybe he commited suicide.
Maybe. Hey, it's OK; look, here's some indy reporting:
Mosaic
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Notable holes in Mosaic coverage are, i'm told, the paucity of Turkish, Farsi, and Hebrew sources. So here's some Hebrew.
New York continues as the role model for the Quieter, Gentrier American Century, leading us into a bold new world where only traffic lights and buildings can run cameras. Well, i guess you can still buy a liscense from the City if you have a good reason and a wheelbarrow fulla money. Kinda like the way the FCC doles out liscenses for the use of radio wavelengths; these are liscenses for lightwave capture.
We Are Change gets some last rays caught, recieving a few good elbows to their (_blank_)s as keepsakes.
Bloomberg's Wild Ride code:
Could be worse. Could be investigating drugs-for-arms deals. (You can click through to this one; but yes you may want to proxy-up prior to doing so. I don't know who flagged it, or what could possibly be "mature viewing" in a Dateline clip w/ an Alex Jones outro, but here we are. This is why some people avoid me. Pussies.)
Some US reporters have already run into the new active-denial system of media suppression, like NOLA's own FluxRostrum.
FluxRostrum - TWIF code:
Pretty soon people in the Occupied Territories are going to have a hard time getting images of US citizens being complacent as thier Neue LiberCon overlords repave the highways with oil and skin.
In responce to a post on recent apparent ThierSpace deletions in light of the July 17th Executive Order, i popped off with the following Standard Cj Advice To Young Activists:
The question you should ask yourselves is: Am i here on ThierSpace to network with like-minded folks or to have a presence within the general community? I'm here for the later; it's why i came here to begin with. I will stay here, saying the things i do, posting videos and using ThierSpace hosting for media that reflect my dissenting view. I have a SiteSpace, too, which will serve little actual purpose since it appears to be set up for those of dissenting tendency (BTW, that in and of itself puts up a flag in my head, as RCP was set up to do the same in R/L, like a molassas-drenched oilcloth in a windowsill. One catches a lot of flies with honey). Although i dearly love all of you long-timers here on the Truthy™ end of the InterW3rbTubez, i personally would not use ANY site for actual networking within the context of physically resisting fascism. A Rule Of 5 cell organisation is impossible to manage using telecom wires, and the most dedicated, rational and well-connected rebel in Ithica is going to do very little to aid me and mine in Detroit. I look no further than those i can reach out and bitch-slap if neccessary to form an action cadre. Trust No One. That said, we will never affect change by removing our voices from the gestault in a fultile effort to belatedly safeguard the myth of anonanymity. Remaining a voice in the city calling for reason may encourage others to drop from the gathering mob and begin the cascade failure of the collective illusion needed to bring about a full awakening of middle America. Running to the "safe haven" in the country removes your influence and places you in the Gulag you created for yourselves by doing Thier number one job for them: Divide.
I say this from behind multiple firewalls, BTW. Proxies, kids. Love them. Go get Reporters Without Borders' guide to blogging in a hotzone. You may soon need it.
It should be noted that the above didn't post. Maybe it's merely awaiting CD's moderation. Maybe it was a script jam; ThierSpace scripts do have a life of their own, guys. They can be capricious little parsers sometimes some.
If one accepts the fact that one becomes a target by being critical and standing against tyranny, and one accepts the fact of tyranny's self-identifying definition, than one should be pro-actively armoured to the extent possible and find one's peace with the silence lurking in the margin between potential threats and the sound of splintering wood and approaching jackboots.
"The thing about regret is that it's better to regret something you have done than something you haven't." -Gibby
Shi'ite Persian Props code:
I will never regret running the above playlist as much as i do. It's important to attempt to educate peeps as to the very real differences between places the US/UK/Dutch imperium run game and the places they can't. Persia is in the later catagory. For a very brief time it was under UK/Haj control, ending with a hot-potatoe pass to the US, who quickly ended thier democracy with imposed rule by the Shah.
This did not stand, and will not be allowed to occure again in this millenium. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a first-world superpower, one that successfully repelled 10 years of US-UK backed agression by our thugocratic ally Sadaam. Chemical weapons made by Dutch subsidiaries of Dow-Corning were funnelled to the front lines via Israeli arms merchants, and Iranian guardsmen died by the hundreds on thier own border under clouds of mustard gas. They came back with cameras and gasmasks. In the end, sheer guts and Kolenshikovs won out AGAIN over duplicity, war crimes and misfiring high-tech weapons with US serial numbers. Millions were killed.
Millions, people. That's a magnitude of scaling that you need to keep in your head when considering a possible invasion of Iran. You need to cross-reference it with thier Russian cooperative projects, and realize that this is the re-establishment of an old arraingment that kept the Caspian dynamically self-contained during epochs of external turmoil. It's called mutually benificial trade partnership and defence. The missile systems of the Russian Federation are 21st century refinements of those the Soviets had, which contrary to popular myth were capable of neutralizing any US attack. No, we don't have saucer technology, kids. Know why?
Because flying saucers from alien civilizations have never come to planet Terra.
This is because they don't exist. Oh, don't get me wrong. People have created them, and there very well may be mag-lev flying saucers in hangers at Roswell, but you should try to operate a hovercraft prior to thinking about possible mag-lev saucer action. Traction and drag are much more desirable than one would initially think. So, since that's out, and the Iranian satelite net is up, and our Stealth fleet is a black hole for research money and can be shot out of the sky by Serbs, and even Her Majerstray's Wave-Rulers stop waiving the rules just this side of Iranian territorial waters, what chance do you see our battered and broke military having with a unilateral Blitzkreig on Tehran?
None. The real stumbling block is the Chinese, of course, who have given thier one warning on the subject. Nukes are a no-go against nations bordering the OG superpower and worldwide gunpowder monopoly cartel headquarters, the People's Republic of China.
Target: Syria. I hope i'm wrong, but this looks like a misdirect ahead of a false flag, and the next logical target has ALWAYS been Syria. Israel wants it. Lebanon half-wants it. The Arab world has always wanted it; Syria is the original Semetic nation-state. Jordan just wants the rest of the middle east to STFU, maybe flood? Iraq wants to die in peace, maybe flood. Palestine wants to eat, maybe flood, exist some. Britain has what they wanted; all the oil and none of the security detail, as well as access to the Alaskan fields and proper semi-centenial draining of the US Colonies' Imaginary Treasury Reserves via the auspicious perenial perniciousness of Lord Halifax's Chartered Privateering Company.
So at 10:10 in the morning (5am US Eastern) on the 16th a picture of an asian man getting arrested was posted on the Sky servers. File had been edited at 9:10am (4:10 am USE). Hours later, when the events unfolded and the story was run, this picture ran with it (Caption: "A man is arrested by police") although the suspect allegedly died at the end of the day's slaughter.
The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib was pulled last night, so i guess we can consider that a successful viewer. Or an unsuccessful pirate of HBO material.
Those guys watch for thier stuff something fierce, kids. If you're stealing from HBO, change the title.
I was prescient of this inevitablity, i surmise, since i had built the following on vids around the tags involved in the dearly departed. I reinforced it somewhat, ideally making it a nasty experience that starts with video of US troops gallantly tormenting a wounded dog.
It Lives!!!
From Beyond The Ghraib code:
It Lives!!!
Now meet The Monster.
Young Finkelstein code:
Hey, the guy's Jewish. Maybe he has a good point or two about Israel, lobbies, and crying wolf. Maybe he'll never teach at Brandies University. Then again, the late Justice Louis Brandies probably wouldn't be able to, either.
I guess nobody else has noticed the IDF incursion in Nablus. Israel has been wrecking the West Bank city for the past 4 days, since the Palestinian infighting came to a screeching halt in Mecca last week. I'm not implying that the two are related.
The Electronic Intifada is one of my fave feeds; they never fail in depressing the shit out of me with some YHWH-forsaken tale of inhumanity. The Palestinian people have nothing to lose by risking life and limb to get word out about what goes on behind the Wall Of Shame, since they're all targeted for genocide anyway.
It's Treblenka in slow-motion, going strong since 1948. Israel's anti-Semitism knows no bounds.
So i made it up to myself by adding some new fun facts & DIY to the Functional Intructional playlist, including an intro to circuit bending.
Functional Instructitainmentismae code:
Also, regardez vous si vous plais, important new additions to the Renting In Iraq saga, most probably with a shelf-life. Notably probably effemeral are the CNN Al-Quiada funding story and the "leaked" footage of a US fighter striking British troops.
Aluminium Azrael
Renting: A War Joint code:
I added a short clip depicting a British Tornado fighter-bomber striking an Iraqi position. Here's the frame of interest.
HMMMMMMM.
I just assumed it was a laser-guided bomb, until i noticed another user had uploaded it with a title asking, "Is this a laser?" I watched that one, and thought that it had been altered. Then i watched this one again, which doesn't make mention of laser guidance or much of anything.
According to Wikipedia, which i'll admit is NOT Jane's, the Tornado carries Paveway laser-guided bombs, which are all unpowered, meaning no contrail. So....w/e. I don't think we're at laser stage yet for actual weaponry, although we're close.
Man, we suck. No wonder you chickenshits don't trust yourselves with direct democracy. I have bad news, though: your current ruling elite is rich, and the rich HATE YOU.
Those of us who are vehomently pro-geometry have long touted the superiority of Middle Eastern tiling. Those of you who use Arabic numerals are probably dimmly aware that these are indicative of a culture fluent in math. So, i'm comfortable going out on a limb and answering the question poised in the above linked article: Yes, the designers of the tile pattern knew about it's non-recursive math. One has to do the math to design tiling patterns based on math.
Shake it off with me, America. Let's focus on some good things.
In appreciation of his ding-ach-sich, here's the Hero of Our age, the Hon. George Galloway. (Not to be confused with fellow WordPresser and Lenny Bruce Strike Force memeber, Galloway)
He's Got A Way, He's Got His Gall code:
I love these men, but especially George, because he's so damn resilient. He's been taking the slings and arrows for the entire Western Empire throughout this past 7 years of cleptocratic imperial boondogerry, and he's thrived on it. Now he's leading the charge to topple Blair, and all we can do is wish we had someone like him.
Segues nicely into this playlist. Cow and Chicken: A Model Of American Bipartisanship.
Potential Analogue Model Viewer code:
Cow is of course the Dems; eager to play the nice guy, apparently compassionate but with a deadly secret. Chicken as the GOP; virulent self-interested hothead with little-man syndrome, quick to flare at assumed transgressions, overprotective. Together they navigate the American dreamscape of devils and morons to thier mutual betterment.
Maybe you'd prefer a degreed opinion?
Parenti Guidance code:
There's no analogy or reason to give a reason for posting Dexter's Lab.
Gary Trudeau may find this amusing, but i don't anymore. From outsourced merchs guarding our ports to Centurian Petraeus, we are Rome Sans Pax. We have the trade gap but no Appian Way, Britainia diverts our OilDucts while we subdue the desert tribes again, and our Senate is a dagger of the oligarchy that arms Caesar or smites him if he loses faith. Katrina as Nero? Or 9/11 as the Roman Redevelopement schemae? Both? Hell, we're dumb enough to overdo it, too...what'ya think finnaly screwed Rome? Excess and amnesia. Gout, inertia, lead poisoning. Deficiet spending and Middle Eastern Campaigning. Greed, petty partisan rivalry and inattention to detail. Arrogance, the vanity of letters. Uninspired architechture shows the strain of a culture, and the Twin Towers said Circus Maximust-Come-Down. We tear down a stadium a day, our gladiators fail to move us. We are Jaded, and this is the seed we plant. Enter a Jade Tomorow, a green glass sitting room waiting for the Minatuore to show.
