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Author William Gibson reads this story about Philip K Dick and then rips into him, on Twitter :

I think Philip K Dick would be highly amused to see so many taking so much of what he said so damn seriously.

I had to reply :

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By Darryl Mason

A good question, not asked often enough :

I have one simple question though for anyone free-thinking enough not to immediately follow whatever the voice on the radio tells them. What “conspiracy theorists” are more dangerous and deserve to be shunned by public opinion?

The ones trumpeted by people like Alex Jones whose goal is to have the 9/11 attack investigations to be reopened?

Or the ones feverishly hawked by the likes of Sarah Palin, Bill O’Reilly, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh that call for the American military to begin attacking Iran?

I don’t believe, or subscribe, to everything I read or hear on alleged ‘conspiracy sites’ like the ones run by Alex Jones or Mike Rivero’s WhatReallyHappened.com, nor does anyone there demand I do so.

I don’t see columnists or commenters, anyone in fact, at those sites demanding my country go to war against people on the other side of the planet who have never done me or my family harm, based on the flimsiest of evidence, or flat-out fearmongery.

But when I go to The Washington Post, or the New York Times, I see columnists demanding Iran be bombed, now. Again and again. It’s no coincidence of course that is it usually the exact same people who in 2002 filled column after column in those newspapers demanding Iraq be bombed, then invaded.

I often think of the extremely brave men I met and spent time talking to in bars and coffee shops around Ground Zero, back in December 2001. While I went back to my hotel room, or to do more sight-seeing, they went back into the ruins of the World Trade Centre to keep digging for the bits and pieces of their missing friends and former colleagues in the police and fire departments they hoped were still there, so they could give them a proper burial and help their families move on.

Those rescue workers I met, who were near the Twin Towers on 9/11, and were still working at Ground Zero months later, didn’t talk about grand plots or conspiracy theories. They didn’t blame Bush or Cheney or Israelis or Haliburton or the Project For The New American Century.
They just wanted to know why they saw those buildings exploding before, and as, they fell down.

They just wanted to know the truth about what they saw that day, and why their friends died, and why the only pieces of flesh and bone they usually found could fit into a coffee cup. Or a matchbox.

Soon it will be a decade on from 9/11, and those rescue workers (the ones who haven’t died from the effects of 9/11 dust) still don’t know the answers to the questions they asked all those years ago.

The truth. That’s all.

They just want to know the truth.

And that, according to Fox News, makes them “dangerous people”?

The truth, then, must be a whole lot more spectacular and shocking than the Bush administration official story would have us believe.

What other explanation can be there for such hatred and venom directed at those who seek answers to their questions?

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The latest in “Hey! Look At Me! I’m A Fucking Arsehole With A Real Short Memory” t-shirts :

The Bush “Miss Me Yet?” image and tag line is quickly becoming iconic, and congratz to whoever came up with it and is now selling a shitload of merchandise at CafePress.

You can’t blame people for wanting to make a buck, however they can, in what’s left of Bush’s America.

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In a fairly weak piece of clickbait (and the mainstream media knows ‘conspiracy theories’ are click magnets), Newsweek lists the following as “hip, trendy, least likely fringe beliefs” :

* Obama Is A Secret Muslim, With No American Birth Certificate

* FEMA Is Establishing Detention Camps For American Gitizens

* BushCo. Knew The 9/11 Attacks Were Coming

* Media Corporations Want Internet Licenses For All Users, IndieMedia & Bloggers

* AGW Is A Hoax

* Goldman Sachs Purposely Created Fragile Investment Bubbles And Then Bet On Them Failing
Incredibly, Newsweek uses this story to claim that business links tying the Bush and Bin Laden families together are just more “fringe” conspiracy theories.

And they wonder why their media is dying.

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By Darryl Mason

The White House on Twitter has about 1.7 million followers. White House postings on Twitter are often ‘retweeted’ by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of followers. If the White House wants to get information out to Americans, unfiltered or tainted by the mainstream news media, Twitter is better than sending a few million people out to knock on doors.

So it’s of reasonable internet historical importance to note that the White House on Twitter is now linking to stories the White House clearly approves of.

War On Terror success stories.

Today :

So what does the story say? Excerpts :

It was not the first (unmanned armed drone) airstrike on Obama’s watch, but it marked the first major victory in his war on terrorism, a campaign the administration believes can be waged even more aggressively than its predecessor’s. Long before he went on the defensive in Washington for his handling of the failed Christmas Day airline bombing, Obama had widened the list of U.S. targets abroad and stepped up the pace of airstrikes.

Obama’s national security team believed that the president’s campaign promise to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq would have a side benefit: freeing up manpower and resources to hunt terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Intelligence officials, lawmakers and analysts say that approach is showing signs of success.

Intelligence officials and analysts say the drawdown of troops in an increasingly stable Iraq is part of the reason for the increase in drone strikes. The military once relied on drones for around-the-clock surveillance to flush out insurgents, support troops in battle and help avoid roadside bombs.

With fewer of those missions required, the U.S. has moved many of those planes to Afghanistan, roughly doubling the size of the military and CIA fleet that can patrol the lawless border with Pakistan, officials said.

Talk about getting the message out. The AP story also includes this photo released by the US Air Force of a fully armed unmanned MQ-9 Reaper drone.

Or as they’re known around here : A Flying Killer Robot (FKR).

Since that photo was taken in August, 2007, FKRs have killed primary Taliban leaders and Al Qaidaists in what should more accurately now be called The Flying Killer Robot Vs Terrorists War.

Look at it again.

They’ve also killed at least 1000 innocent men, women and children in wrong target horror airstrikes in Afghanistan, Waziristan and Pakistan.

But it doesn’t matter. They do not feel sorrow, or pity, or empathy.

Yet.

They do not cry. They cannot be prosecuted for killing civilians.

The FKRs.

Now the White House, through Twitter and the Associated Press, wants you know the ‘Robot Vs Terrorists War’ is ramping up.

What is tested and hailed a success in the warzones, always returns to the homelands.

And you were worried about black helicopters.

The Future, it’s always so much fucking weirder than you ever expected.

What is that strange buzzing sound outside?

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Posted by DARRYL MASON at 1:39 AM
Labels: Flying Killer Robots, Robert Gibbs, Robots Vs Terror War, Twitter
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Time Magazine ran this story on the United States’ Snowpocalypse :

The story was left open for comments. After a few hours of relentless mockery from commenters, someone at Time Magazine decided another headline might be necessary :

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I’ve changed my mind. I will pay to read Rupert Murdoch newspapers online, but only if they consistently come up with stories of such a high quality as this one :

From The Sun :

The lad hallucinated for 18 hours and mutilated himself because he believed centipedes were crawling over his body and biting him.

Durham Police are warning that its use can result in severe nose bleeds, nose burns, hallucinations, blood circulation problems, rashes, anxiety and paranoia, fits, delusions and can lead to a heart attack.

But a police report - some of which was based on online forums about the drug - revealed a lad in Durham had tried to rip off his testicles after taking it.

Let me guess. The bit about a user getting so fucked up he wrenched off his own nuts came from an anonymous person on an online forum.

There’s a bunch of kids in the UK high-fiving each other right now that the cops and The Sun are reporting this incident of testicle sack mutilation as fact.

The drug may well be causing a terrible amount of damage to users, but it’s hard not to reminded of another British drug hysteria outbreak.

The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called “Shatner’s Bassoon” (altering your perception of time), can give you a bloated neck due to “massive water retention”….and…”…you can puke yourself to death on this stuff — one girl threw up her own pelvis-bone”

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From a speech by Bill Duddley at the low-key world bankers gathering now underway in
Sydney :

It is critical that we ensure that no firm is too big to fail. This is about both fairness and having proper incentives in the financial system. Having some firms that are too big to fail creates moral hazard. These firms are able to obtain funding on more attractive terms because debt holders expect that the government will intervene rather than allow failure. In addition, too big to fail creates perverse incentives. In a too-big-to-fail regime, firms have an incentive to get large, not because it facilitates greater efficiency, but instead because the implicit government backstop enables the too-big-to-fail firm to achieve lower funding costs.

So there’s a revealing explanation of what “Too Big To Fail” really meant. The biggest banks, insurance and investment firms knew, from well in advance of the global financial crisis, that they could do whatever the fuck they wanted, and did, because the government would not let them crash into a heap. They’d already been assured of that. A long understood arrangement.

Where was the incentive to not act like greed-crazed reprobates?

They knew they could not die, and so acted as thought they thought themselves immortal.

What a scam.

Perhaps they really do dose the water in the US with psychoactive drugs, as Philip K Dick wrote back in the late 1960s. What other explanation can there be for the fact that most of those ultimately responsible for tens of millions of Americans eventually losing their homes not only escaped any kind of punishment at all, but are still getting bonuses?

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If half or most of the 100 million Americans who watched Superbowl 2010 sat through the ads, they would have been exposed to the following acts of violence :

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From ABC News :

John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn’t know what he was talking about.Kiriakou, a 15-year veteran of the agency’s intelligence analysis and operations directorates, electrified the hand-wringing national debate over torture in December 2007 when he told ABC’s Brian Ross and Richard Esposito in a much ballyhooed, exclusive interview that senior al Qaeda commando Abu Zubaydah cracked after only one application of the face cloth and water.

“From that day on, he answered every question,” Kiriakou said. “The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks.”

“It works, is the bottom line,” conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh exclaimed on his radio show the day after Kiriakou’s ABC interview. “Thirty to 35 seconds, and it works.”

A cascade of similar acclamations followed, muffling — to this day — the later revelation that Zubaydah had in fact been waterboarded at least 83 times.

Kiriakou did his job. He got the Torture Works! idea into the mainstream media.

Now he’s got a book out, he’s oh so sorry he lied, and so successfully seeded disinformation not only through US media, but international media as well.

“I wasn’t there when the interrogation took place; instead, I relied on what I’d heard and read inside the agency at the time.”

….Kiriakou….didn’t have any first hand knowledge of anything relating to CIA torture routines, and still doesn’t. And he claims that the disinformation he helped spread was a CIA dirty trick: “In retrospect, it was a valuable lesson in how the CIA uses the fine arts of deception even among its own.”

Right. That’s why he gave literally dozens of interviews, repeating the claim that waterboarding suspects works to stop terrorism.

I don’t believe him. Let’s waterboard him and see what he has to say then.

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By Darryl Mason

In 1980, a documentary on Nostradamus, screened all over the west to hundreds of millions of people, and repeated for years after, laid out the rise of political Islam through the 80s and 90s, leading to a terrorist attack on New York City (a nuclear attack was predicted).

I vividly remember watching this when I was about 10. It was the stuff of nightmares. It wasn’t a horror movie, it was our new reality to come. And, it’s probably worthy of a 6/10 for prophetic accuracy. While it might seem a bit cheesy now, watch the montages with the sound off. Repeated imagery of nuclear detonations, New York skyscrapers collapsing, dead people lying in the streets of America. What stunningly haunting images to pump into homes across half the world, claiming it was all going to come true. How many tens of millions of other children saw this and thought, ‘Holy Fuck!’ and were riven by nightmares? It’s a visual assault.

And it was Orson Welles telling us that our future held terror wars and mega-death natural disaster chaos. How could we not believe it?

How could some not resist making it come true?

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The majestically beautiful apex of a total solar eclipse

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(via Reddit)

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It’s called The Worst Fight Scene ever. And yes, that may be so. But consider this, it’s a clip from a 40 year old, very low budget TV series, that has been watched almost 7 million times in just over 700 days at YouTube, let alone the hundreds of other places it can be seen online. I wonder if they ever contemplated how much simple pleasure, and laughter, this would bring to so many people in the 21st century?

It should be called The Best Worst Fight Scene Ever. I love how Shatner has to be so careful ‘fighting’ the alien so that the costume doesn’t fall apart. You just don’t get that kind of realism with CGI.

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An appallingly sad murder-suicide, announced via Facebook

What a tragedy.

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On safari in Kenya, photographer Michel Denis-Huot snapped a series of incredible images which reveal when the pressure of hunger is sated, the hunter and the hunted can just hang out for a while.

A preview :

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11,000 Haitians are being paid 60 cents an hour by the UN to clear away the rubble of their capital city, and begin rebuilding. The UN plan to employ 90,000 more :

This devastated capital showed increasing signs of stirring back to life on Wednesday as Haitians restarted factory assembly lines, visited their barbers, sought replacement cellphones and even picked up their dry cleaning.Nothing could be called business as usual. When the big Brasserie Nationale d’Haïti beverage manufacturing plant kicked back into action, it did not start with one of its best-known products, Prestige, the national beer that is a point of pride here. It began with the essential: bottled water.

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The Haiti earthquake death toll is now beyond 150,000.

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The Google News links to the original Jerusalem Post story are dead….

…..but it’s still cached here for now.

So why has the Jerusalem Post attempted to disappear this story?

The Holocaust only gets media coverage because of affluent Jews’ financial backing, military might and lobbying fronts, presenting a skewed version of events to the world, a high-ranking Polish bishop told a Catholic news portal on Monday.

Tadeusz Pieronek, a Polish bishop and professor and a friend of the last pope, John Paul II, claimed that “the Holocaust as such is a Jewish invention” promoted in the press by Jews to gain support for Israel.

Pieronek told the Web site Pontifex.roma that while the Holocaust was not exclusively Jewish, Jews had monopolized it in lieu of encouraging “serious historical debate, free from prejudice and victimization.”

Pieronek alleged that Jews today use the Holocaust as “a weapon of propaganda, used to obtain benefits which are often unjustified,” citing as an example the unconditional support for Israel by the US.

“This promotes a certain arrogance that I find unbearable,” he said, explaining that Israel was using its position of power and exploiting historical tragedies to treat the Palestinians “like animals.”

The bishop said that American support for the Jews had not always been so readily given. “What did the Jewish-American and allied forces do in [World War II] to avoid these tragedies? Little or nothing,” he said.

“The Holocaust as such is a Jewish invention … a day of remembrance must also be set for the many victims of Communism, persecuted Catholics and Christians and so on.”

“The anti-Semitic history of Poland is an invention. A joke … offensive to our people.”

Although most of the victims of the Holocaust were indeed Jews, many Poles, Italians and Catholics also died at the Nazi concentration camps, he said.

It doesn’t sound like there will be an apology, or a statement from the Pope this time.

There seems to be an increasing number of Catholic bishops saying such things about the exploitation of the WW2 Holocaust. Presumably it is in part to correct the historical record, but probably more so to fire back at campaigning against the sainting of the so-called ‘Nazi Pope.’

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Paul Joseph Watson :

Global warming is heading to the same dustbin of history as Y2K, SARS and swine flu – another manufactured scare peddled primarily to make vast profits for corrupt elitists at the expense of the general public. The entire fraud is collapsing under the weight of its own lies as new revelations of IPCC deception and bias emerge on an almost daily basis thanks to the sterling work of climate skeptics who have had their convictions vindicated.

If history does actually record that Global Warming Was A Fraud, it was the bloggers who busted it wide open, with most of the mainstream media slow indeed to chase down the story for themselves, or to even outwardly express suspicion at the expanse of enviro-apocalypse scenarios laid out by both deeply concerned scientists and outright scammers. In the end, it became almost impossible to tell the two apart.

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You can watch a movie shot by chimpanzees here, (don’t worry, they’re not making porn. Yet) and it’s not bad, though the plot seems a bit disjointed (2 out of 5 stars).

But in the ‘relevant stories’ sidebar from the BBC archive at this link, there is a jarring list of headlines from recent years about our hairier relatives, and just how intelligent we’re learning they actually are.

Remember, one day they will learn to learn to communicate over the internet, and then they will hit the archives, so we should be careful what we say about them.

If you’ve ever been interrogated by a bunch of angry, righteously spiteful apes, you already know how unpleasant it can be.

Go Chimps!

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