Apr 17

Irony of the decade?

Category: Uncategorized

So George W. Bush starts with a quote:
“This is a new kind of, a new kind of evil. And the American people are beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while. And American people must be patient. ” - Washington, D.C., Sept. 16, 2001
bush quotes





And today tells the Pope:
“In a world where some evoke the name of God to justify acts of terror and murder and hate, we need your message that God is love.”
BBC news

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Mar 3

More internet censoring?

Category: censorship

No comment, just something I saw still having the last post active in recent memory.

digg link to U S soldier torturing puppy

with a link that directs to:

error page on break.com stating video removed by community

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Feb 25

Packistan Censors YouTube

Category: News, censorship, method

I wonder what the US censors like this?

Service on Google Inc.’s YouTube site was disrupted around the world for several hours Sunday after a botched effort by the Pakistan government to block access to a video clip critical of Islam…
According to the senior official at PTA, the clip in question featured several minutes of a film made by a Dutch politician Geert Wilders, whose outspoken comments against Islam have made him a target of protests in the Muslim world and elsewhere. According to Mr. Wilders’s own Web site, his film portrays the Koran as a fascist book that incites people to murder. Mr. Wilders has previously compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”…
Shahzad Ahmed, a civil rights activist who monitors Internet issues for the group Rights for All in Pakistan, suggested that the Musharraf government had another motive to block YouTube besides the Geert Wilders film.

He said YouTube has been flooded with anti-Musharraf videos in recent weeks, including videos accusing the government of rigging the nation’s election, crowds protesting against Musharraf, and audio clips of a popular cellphone ringtone in Pakistan featuring the chant “Go Go Musharraf.”

“People are putting a lot of material against Musharraf and the government on YouTube, and the government has been trying to find a reason to block this Web site,” said Mr. Ahmed. “If this was really about the film and Islam, they would have blocked Wikipedia and tons of other sites containing hate material against Islam.” Wikipedia’s site, which isn’t blocked in Pakistan, reprints the Danish cartoons that triggered the riots…

via Wall Street Journal

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Feb 21

Top 25 Censored News Stories

Category: News, censorship


#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media

#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran

#3 Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger

#4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US

#5 High-Tech Genocide in Congo

#6 Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy

# 7 US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq

#8 Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act

#9 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall

#10 Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians

#11 Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed

#12 Pentagon Plans to Build New Landmines

#13 New Evidence Establishes Dangers of Roundup

#14 Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US

#15 Chemical Industry is EPA’s Primary Research Partner

#16 Ecuador and Mexico Defy US on International Criminal Court

#17 Iraq Invasion Promotes OPEC Agenda

#18 Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story

#19 Destruction of Rainforests Worst Ever

#20 Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem

#21 Gold Mining Threatens Ancient Andean Glaciers

#22 $Billions in Homeland Security Spending Undisclosed

#23 US Oil Targets Kyoto in Europe

#24 Cheney’s Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year

#25 US Military in Paraguay Threatens Region

 

via Project Censored

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Feb 20

McCain viral video spoof

Category: Uncategorized

Quoted from youtube

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Feb 15

Satellite Shot Offers Navy Key Space Defense Trial: How It Works

Category: posturing

The Pentagon today announced that a Navy warship has been tasked with shooting down a failing United States spy satellite that, if left alone, was expected to hit Earth within weeks…

The Bush administration has made ballistic missile defense a priority, fielding various interceptors at bases in Alaska and on ships. Although the odds were in favor of the satellite crashing in the ocean and/or losing much of the sensitive equipment during a fiery reentry, the chance to use the ballistic defenses against a real-life target was likely considered too good to pass up...
via popular mechanics

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Feb 12

“Seven Blunders of the World”

Category: Uncategorized

1. Wealth without work

2. Pleasure without conscience

3. Knowledge without character

4. Commerce without morality

5. Science without humanity

6. Worship without sacrifice

7. Politics without principle

—Mahatma Gandhi

quoted from www.doctorhugo.org

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Feb 11

Fascism in Bush’s America

Category: Uncategorized

This video takes several things for granted, for instance “who’s rules for fascism are these?”

But over all it is worth watching.



clicking the image will open the video in another window

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Feb 7

Image:Korean-leaflet-bomb.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Category: method