The potential to intersperse messages between programming segments -- as with the "Rock the Vote" campaign, for example -- makes the music cable channel an obvious vehicle. And a top priority for MTV is to give young people a way to express their views via local MTV channels around the world, whether through man-on-the street interviews or interactive shows. Such efforts were under way before the attacks, but the events of September 11 brought a new sense of urgency.

Oh yeah, lets just send in MTV. That will take care of all these problems. Thats just great.. Glad to see things are moving along.

I always knew MTV would play some kind of key role in the end times.

CNN.com | U.S. wants its MTV to get message out in Arab world

"If it's not good, it's evil. There ain't no in between. When you start dabbling in demonic spirits, that's dangerous ground. You're opening up your home, yourself to all kinds of attacks from the Devil."

What year is it again?

The Trouble With Harry Potter

Hunter has a column at ESPN. I don't give a shit about sports, expecially football.. But Hunter is funny as hell. Several of the post-911 rants have some priceless Thompson molments. Worth a read.

Hunter S Thompson - THE ESPN COLUMNS

If only he knew that most of the traffic on the Internet is porn...

ZDNet | Pope to give Net his blessing

including a new liquid heroin financed by Osama bin Laden, called the "Tears of Allah".

The "Tears of Allah" thing was what caught my eye here. Tears of Allah Heroin! Its all the rage!

Heh. I was under the impression that Janes was a US company. Just got LART'd for it, with good reason. So to correct myself, Jane's is a very good source of information about how US/British/NATO forces can kick your ass.. Outside that, I suggest making sure you propaganda filters are on.

Jane's War Whore Weekly | Heroin onslaught theory premature

"China is also extending support and cooperation to the Taliban government, but the shape of this cooperation cannot be disclosed."

Taliban leader cites help by China -- The Washington Times

"This reportedly was issued by the Department of Justice to all United States Attorneys immediately after the President signed the USA PATRIOT Anti-Terrorism Act"

DoJ Field Guidance on New Authorities (Redacted) Enacted in the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Legislation

The CIA believes that Pakistani army officers sympathetic to the Taliban could pose a threat to Gen Musharraf, and that some of the country's estimated 24 nuclear warheads could be stolen by renegades within Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI.

news.telegraph.co.uk | US special unit 'stands by to steal atomic warheads'

"CANNABIS will be reclassified so that possession of the drug is no longer an arrestable offence, David Blunkett announced yesterday, in the first relaxation of British drug laws in 30 years"

UK Times | The UK Gets Hip

The Army kept the biological-warfare tests secret until word of them was leaked to the press in the 1970s. Between 1949 and 1969, when President Nixon ordered the Pentagon's biological weapons destroyed, open-air tests of biological agents were conducted 239 times, according to the Army's testimony in 1977 before the Senate's subcommittee on health. In 80 of those experiments, the Army said it used live bacteria that its researchers at the time thought were harmless, such as the Serratia that was showered on San Francisco. In the others, it used inert chemicals to simulate bacteria.

SFGate | San Francisco, Biowar test site