Some thoughts on the trends in CN and personal thoughts. Why would you be interested in reading this? Beats me. But if you're as bored as I am, it might help pass the time reading it as it did for me writing it.
First, look at this:
In recent news:
Might as well throw my two cents in on this.
NSO/RoK & Crew:
NSO had it coming. 'Nuff said. Step on enough toes and those you piss off will take advantage of the first opportunity to isolate and destroy you. I don't know much about RoK, exc
*I was moving some articles around and found this one tucked away. Thought I'd share it. It's old, Zenith is disbanded, SNOW is long gone, and I now know who Vladimir is.
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Critique of "The Slavery of International Rights"
By Kzoppistan, originally posted in the Zenith Debating Chamber on February 21st, 2009. Formatting and minor editing by Ferrous
The following is a critique on "The Slavery of International Rights," an essay by Vladi
I'm a big drunk. There, I said it. Because of that, though, I've had many, many, different kinds of drinks at many, many, places. One of my favorite drinks is the Bloody Mary. A cure for hangovers (or the start of one), it's a drink everyone should try. One, it's kind of different. It's a nice diversion from the thousands of fruity sex-in-your-hair or what ever the next cheap slop is that they can disguise with artificially flavored liqueurs, plus, a guy can only drink so much cranberry juice in
As a person who has an interest in the nature of perception, and also as an artist, I have been long fascinated by optical illusions. I've seen a lot of them, but this one caught my attention today as I was looking up 'darkness' as a wiki entry:
Square A is the same shade as square B.
It seems unbelievable, but it's true.
I'm pretty familiar with the concept of relative shading but I thought I would do a little experiment. Despite the impression of different values in my mind from seeing th
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Mike McConnell, the WashPost & the dangers of sleazy corporatism
By Glenn Greenwald
[Original article here:]
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/29/mcconnell/index.html
In a political culture drowning in hidden conflicts of interests, exploitation of political office for profit, and a rapidly eroding wall separating the public and private spheres, Michael McConnell stands out as the perfect embodiment of all those afflictions. Few peop
THE MEDIA
Revealing quotes from those who know
To play those millions of minds, to watch them slowly respond to an unseen stimulus, to guide their aspirations without their knowledge - all this whether in high capacities or in humble, is a big and endless game of chess, of ever extraordinary excitement. - Sidney Webb (Founder of the Fabian Society)
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he w
Just some art I figured I'd post.
A header to one of my addresses to the Zenith Assembly:
My Election Poster:
I was going to work that theme into my official personal seal but, alas, !@#$ happens
http://www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html
March 26, 2000
CNN AND PSYOPS
By Alexander Cockburn
Military personnel from the Fourth Psychological Operations Group based at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, have until recently been working in CNN's hq in Atlanta.
CNN is up in arms about our report in the last issue of CounterPunch concerning the findings of the Dutch journalist, Abe de Vries about the presence of US Army personnel at CNN, owned by Time-Warner. We cited an article by de Vries whic
As some of you know, we agreed to do a beer review as part of Fark's terms. One of our Advisors, Mike, already did the review (a great one, I might add) which should complete the term. Instead of grandstanding in Mike's thread, as well displaying my own general poor taste in beer, to a larger audience to get in on the fun, I'm putting a beer review in this blog. I'm not too familiar with the more complex tasting nomenclature, but can pick out malt and hops well enough.
Let's begin:
Pabst.
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What the Internet is doing to our brains
by Nicholas Carr
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “ brain. “Dave, my mind is going,” HAL
This is an excerpt from the introduction.
'Steal This Book' was written by Abbie Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Later he became a fugitive from the law, living under an alias and working as an environmentalist following a conviction for dealing cocaine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman
They say he committed suicide, but I suspect he was murdered. Just like
As US Americans sit on their fat @#$% and stuff their faces with doritos and guzzle coke, numbingly clicking away on their facebook while absorbing the farce that passes as news on their corporate sponsored networks, the media/military-industrial complex continues to systematically dismantle the democratic institution that once made the country great.
Thankfully, as the educational system has produced a whole new generation of docile consumers, seemingly content to do as they're told like the
OK, my birthday is officially over. All random song induced sentimentalism has now been redacted and replaced with chaos the usual government sanctioned tripe script of fruity diatribes [<-No] rambling weirdos [<-Not Funny] glorious programming.
Despite the cost of living . . . it still remains so popular.
Citizen Scribe #33361, your announcement has been edited to reflect the proper national feeling. Furthermore, we did not find your comments very funny and we are becoming more c
Power:
–noun
1. ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
3. great or marked ability to do or act; strength; might; force.
15. Physics.
a. work done or energy transferred per unit of time. Symbol: P
b. the time rate of doing work.
18. energy, force, or momentum.
–verb
23. to inspire; spur; sustain.
Esprit de Corps, or morale, is a type of group cohesion that enhances a group's power. When the energy of a group is harnessed and directed tow
Some quotes from one of my favorite movies, The Outlaw Josey Wales.
There are some really funny scenes, like when he spits chew on that carpetbagger's suit, but these quotes sparked some deeper thinking for me.
Ten Bears: It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of lif
As the structure of our alliance is about to undergo a radical change, and the ministries to be abolished, I'd like to take the opportunity to address the members of Zenith and give credit where credit is due.
First, many thanks must go to Duncan King and Metictype. Really, the bulk of the diplomatic headway that has been done this term has been constructed by both of them. They have been at all of our major foreign embassies keeping up discussion and building the bonds that keep us prosperous
It is common in many alliances that the leadership will change hands. Sometimes the cause is RL, other times it's boredom, and often it's just plain old burnout from holding a position that requires constant attendance and responsibility. Such is the case in Zenith.
What is interesting, I've found out, is how myopic, and dare I say, self-important, people become when in those positions for long. Myself included. Not from any personal failings but just due to becoming accustomed to being the one
The premise:
What follows is several pages of such discourse that I would prefer not to characterize it beyond my initial remarks.
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Response:
I read through 4 pages for this...? Bah, what a preposterous set of statements some of you have been spouting.
While the topic is, arguably, an interesting intellectual exercise in 'what ifs' and it has certainly provided the opportunity for some to mentally masturbate their propagandistic political
This was my entry on one of the OWF topics about Morilism.
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As a person who usually holds his cards pretty close to his chest, I'm going to do something uncharacteristic and speak at length about something that not only am I interested in, but have studied, observed, and discovered over the course of many years.
Morality is a contract.
It is a contract between a person and society. The details of that contract differ from culture to culture but everywhere it is an intricate balancing act
Conflict Resolution is a range of methods for alleviating or eliminating sources of conflict. The term "conflict resolution" is sometimes used interchangeably with the term dispute resolution or alternative dispute resolution. Processes of conflict resolution generally include negotiation, mediation, and diplomacy.
