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Monday, May 20, 2002

the lone cathode ray gunman

malcolm gladwell believes philo t farnsworth should have sold out to rca.

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bombs away

the most damning bit of evidence that "bush knew" is still underreported in the press. why did it take so long even after the wtc attacks for the airforce to scramble planes over washington. andrews air force base is 10 miles from washington dc. the third plane did not hit the pentagon until 40 minutes after the second plane hit the south tower. you could have towed a plane through dc rushhour traffic jams in that amount of time. the faa know almost immediately when a plane deviates from its flight pattern. so there is no rational explanation other than that they wanted it to happen or that the military is manifestly incompetent. neither option is particularly comforting.

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paralegal

columbia warmongering posing as news.

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blog happening

chris matthews has a weblog and msnbc has a weblog tab in their opinions section. cant get much more mainstream than that.

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Sunday, May 19, 2002

fear is our friend

talking points smells a rat with todays spate of bogeyman warnings. is someone trying to change the subject?

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national insecurity

"If Hollywood has made one concrete contribution to democracy, it's the strong but little understood impact that movies have had on the U.S. intelligence community. A prime example is Oliver Stone's JFK. Denounced as fast-and-loose fiction by many historians, the movie nonetheless indirectly forced the CIA and other secretive agencies to fork over documents that had been hidden for decades. Incited by the film, constituents flooded Capitol Hill with letters and phone calls demanding full disclosure of government records on the president's death. As a result, in 1993 Congress mandated the mass declassification of files that might have a bearing on the assassination. The millions of secret papers that were made public didn't reveal Kennedy's killer or killers, but they did detail covert operations in Cuba, Vietnam and other early 1960s hotspots."

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Saturday, May 18, 2002

chindi lha-cha-eh

even when hollywood takes on a noble unheralded subject like the navajo codetalkers from world war 2, they manage to turn it into paternalistic jingoistic pyrotechnic nonsense. todays abject lesson is Windtalkers.

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profiles in scourge

"executive summary: mindset of mass destruction"

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unconscious party

"What Professor McFadden realized was that every time a nerve fires, the electrical activity sends a signal to the brain's electromagnetic (em) field. But unlike solitary nerve signals, information that reaches the brain's em field is automatically bound together with all the other signals in the brain. The brain's em field does the binding that is characteristic of consciousness."

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left handed compliment

blog left: critical interventions

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