] The Arabic satellite television channel Al Jazeera, which
] on Sunday broadcast controversial footage of US soldiers
] captured by Iraqi forces, has blamed computer hackers for
] crashing its online news service on Monday.
]
] The station's web site, which carried still images of the
] footage, was inaccessible on Monday morning. A
] spokeswoman for Al Jazeera told New Scientist: "We have a
] problem. I believe there are some hackers, some attack,
] but I don't know exactly."

New Scientist

] A microchip that uses chemicals instead of pulses of
] electricity to stimulate neurons has been created. It
] could open the way to implants that interact with our
] nervous system in a far more subtle way than is possible
] now.

New Scientist

]Norway, a loyal, inoffensive NATO ally, felt the wrath of the mad
]president. On May 20, 2004, Oslo and Bergen, the two largest
]cities in Norway, were completely annihilated by US nuclear
]weapons.

]No one yet knows how the deranged leader or his henchmen reached
]the terrible decision. Bush, now in custody, has said only
]that "those fjords were suspicious."

]The Norwegian genocide gave the anti-US coalition new resolve. UN
]forces took the war to North America, overcoming the Yankees in a
]cruel two-year war which is only now reaching an end.

The eXile looks back at the conquering of America.

eXile #162 - Feature Story - The Road to Perdition: America 2000 - 2005

(From: http://www.kevinsites.net .. No permalink for entry)

] Title: Pausing the warblog, for now.
]
] Dear readers:
]
] I've been asked to suspend my war blogging for awhile.
]
] But I don't want let you down -- I'm chronicling the events
] of my war experiences, the same as I always have, and hope
] to come to agreement with CNN in the near future to make
] them available to you in some shape or form, perhaps on
] this site.
]
] In the meantime, thanks for participating in this remarkable
] forum. It's been a remarkable experience to be your witness
] here.
]
] -- Kevin Sites.

This SUCKS. I had great expectations for this blog..

[U: I just sent a scathing email full of vitriol to CNN@cnn.com. ]

CNN Shuts Kevin Sites Down?!?

] These include a powerful propaganda machine — America’s
] is the most comprehensive and sophisticated in history —
] centered around a few simple, powerful symbols which,
] though in themselves meaningless, are nonetheless, in
] old-fashioned parlance, taboo. It remains an offense to
] “desecrate” the flag.
]
] They also include a public rhetoric so far removed from
] ordinary speech as to constitute practically a separate
] language and whose intended effect is essentially to
] baffle...

Do you watch cspan?

ArabNews: Neo-Totalitarianism

] The bombing of Iraq was intensified after American
] officials revealed that their special forces had been
] holding face-to-face negotiations with Republican Guard
] leaders. The awesome display of firepower was designed as
] much to increase the pressure on them to surrender as to
] destroy targets crucial to Saddam.
. . .
] Mr Rumsfeld had earlier given clues about the extent
] of the unseen war being waged for the loyalty of Iraqi
] generals. "There are communications in every conceivable
] mode and method, public and private, to the Iraqi forces,
] that they can act with honour and turn over their weapons
] and walk away from them, and they will not be hurt," he said.

I fully agree with this. We don't *have* to fight. It's not about killing people and destroying cities. It's about changing the Iraqi leadership. So the quicker we can get through this, with the fewest possible casualties (on *both* sides), the better.

Times Online: The Other Unseen Part of the War

] The girl, Rachel Corey [sic], 23 years old from the state
] of Washington, was killed while she was trying to prevent
] Israeli army bulldozers from destroying a Palestinian
] home.

Israel ought to have more class than this in their ruthless oppression. Even the tank in Tiananmen square tried to go around the guy with the briefcase... before they shot him minutes later.

ei: Photo story: Israeli bulldozer driver murders American peace activist

This is funny.

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] While I'm on the topic of mediated personae, something
] that came up during that CBC taping, last night (for me,
] anyway) was the idea that blogging (or even posting to
] fora) represents the democratization of the mediated
] persona. Literally anyone can have one, now, or several.
] I am an exception to this, because I have mine via the
] printed word, the oldest mass medium on the planet, and
] this website is maintained by a publishing company that
] belongs to an even larger corporation owned in turn by
] shapeshifting reptiles from Beta Reticuli, but the rest
] of you, today, are free to mass-mediate your own
] personae. Which was formerly, hugely, not the case.
] Choose a handle, post: you're mediating a persona.

William Gibson - SOMEONE WONDERS... - Media perception and blogs

] Command-and-control organizations, Hock says, "were not
] only archaic and increasingly irrelevant. They were
] becoming a public menace, antithetical to the human
] spirit and destructive of the biosphere. I was convinced
] we were on the brink of an epidemic of institutional
] failure."

Vewy vewy intewesting.

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