"Michael Moore denounces oil and defense contractors as war profiteers. He also claims to have no stock portfolio, yet he owns shares in Halliburton, Boeing, and Honeywell and does his postproduction work in Canada to avoid paying union wages in the United States. Noam Chomsky opposes the very concept of private property and calls the Pentagon “the worst institution in human history,” yet he and his wife have made millions of dollars in contract work for the Department of Defense and own two luxurious homes. Barbra Streisand prides herself as an environmental activist, yet she owns shares in a notorious strip-mining company.

In his blockbuster new book 'Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy,' Hoover Fellow Schweizer reveals the glaring contradictions between the public stances and real-life behavior of prominent liberals."

->newsmax.com

The trailer for Steven Spielbergs take on the terror of the Munich Olympics in 1972 is online.

Dank Steven Spielberg werden die Deutschen und die Anti-Deutschen bald reichlich zu diskutieren haben!

"The original title of the film was VENGEANCE - and that title creates an altogether different thought about a film regarding the Munich Olympics... as most people know, the people behind the terror of the Munich Olympics were each hunted down and killed. It was pure assassination. Something, "the good guys" aren't supposed to do." aintitcool.com

Die taz über GHVC: Das Klischee ist die Wahrheit: Wiebusch wuchtet Boxen in Kleintransporter. Und Thees lobt derweil Felix.

Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet.

Worldwide database and mapping wireless networks, since September 2001

"Concerned by allegations that some American companies in the Internet sector are cooperating with authoritarian governments to censor speech and imprison dissidents, and by recent revelations of the role allegedly played by Yahoo! in the prison sentencing of a Chinese journalist, a group of 25 investment managers, research houses, foundations, and religious investors have called on Internet businesses to publicly state support for freedom of expression world wide and agreed to monitor operations of Internet businesses in repressive regime countries." Full text

REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS

"One of the first things I learned while working at Barnes & Noble was that you should never, ever pay for a book. You can read an entire goddamn novel in the store and we won't bug you once. If you'd rather the convenience of reading at home, simply pay for the book, keep the reciept, and finish it within fourteen days. Even if you say "I didn't like it." they'll take it back. If this surprises you, then you should be even more surprised to learn that this is B&N's version of a strict return policy; recently changed from 'If we carry it, you can return it; no questions asked.' You'd be surprised at the number of people who do this; many seemingly consider Barnes & Noble a library that just happens to require safety deposits." Read the whole thing!

"For travellers who are REALLY on a budget and are looking for a way to skim a few bucks off their travel expenses, why not consider sleeping in an airport? Many airports are actually better than local lodging. And to top it off - IT'S FREE!"

See the headlines of the world! This is great!

"Anton LaVey, in his popular work, The Devil's Notebook, credited some of Chicago's paranormal openness to its architecture, namely, the trapezoidal John Hancock building, the shape of which has been traditionally known as a gateway for arcane forces." This according to the book Creepy Chicago; A Ghosthunter's Tales of the City's Scariest Sites by Ursula Bielski."

Copied from Gapers Block

No blogger should leave home without this! You never know when you might need that mini glitter gel pen or or the confetti flowers. Via Gothamist.

"Schon wieder Negativschlagzeilen für die US-Katastrophenschutzbehörde Fema: Interne E-Mails ihres damaligen Leiters zeigen, dass Michael Brown ganz andere Dinge im Kopf hatte, als New Orleans in den Fluten versank - er sorgte sich um sein Aussehen." Spiegel

Sofort aufhören damit! If you wanna see the worst comics ever made...! Can't someone just sue these people?

EXPOSING TOM CRUISE'S MORONIC CRUSADE TO PROMOTE THE CHURCH OF $CIENTOLOGY

And don't forget to watch this cartoon at Liquid Generation, home of Suck My News!

"We are well-liked by Black people so we're psyched (since lots of Black people don't like lots of White people)!! We thought it'd be cool to honor our exceptional status with a ROCKIN' domain name and a killer website!!"

Meet Sally and Johnny!

found at weirdassshit.com

Welcome to Schwarzenegger Street! Meet all of Arnies right wing friends! Join the fight to defeat Schwarzenegger and the Radical Right!

"IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Superman Returns will be simultaneously released to both IMAX® and conventional theatres on June 30, 2006. The epic action-adventure is directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men films, The Usual Suspects) and marks a soaring new chapter in the saga of one of the world's most beloved superheroes. The 35mm version of Superman Returns will be digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® and Warner Bros. Pictures will be the exclusive distributor of the film to the growing worldwide IMAX theatre network." Coming Soon!

For the first time I can see the difference. "King Kong" - The complete trailer! We can finally see that big monkey on top of the Empire State Building! This movie really looks like the best way to waste a lot of money and it's the only remake I've ever been looking forward to!

"Im Privatfernsehen, bei den öffentlich-rechtlichen Sendern, im Radio und in der Zeitung - immer wieder sind Fälle versteckter Werbebotschaften aufgetaucht. Pharmakonzerne produzieren Filmbeiträge, die im Fernsehen laufen. Automobilkonzerne verstecken ihre Werbung in redaktionellen Beiträgen. Tatort-Kommissare werben für Hustenbonbons. Arbeitgeberverbände platzieren ihre Botschafter in Talkshows. So umfangreich die Beispiele, so raffiniert die Arbeit der Agenturen. Die Trennung zwischen Werbung und Journalismus ist immer weniger erkennbar. Das System funktioniert, weil viele profitieren: Die Firmen bekommen Werbefläche im 'seriösen' redaktionellen Teil, den Journalisten wird die Arbeit abgenommen - Verlage und Sender sparen viel Geld."

Das war eine gute Sendung! Zapp Spezial, 2.11.2005 / Sendetext als PDF-Datei

"(APA/dpa) Zu den Tory-Politikern, die Lemmy alias Ian Kilminster am Donnerstag in das walisische Parlament zu einer Diskussion über Drogen eingeladen hatten, sagte er: 'Ihr habt es mit schärferen und noch schärferen Gesetzen versucht, aber das hat nichts gebracht - und warum? Weil man die Leute nicht von etwas abhalten kann, was ihnen Spaß macht.' Wenn ein Junkie regelmäßig mit sauberem Stoff versorgt würde, könnte er gut ein geregeltes Leben führen.Der Standard

Yes, we also offer our own feed from icerocket.com now! Check the bar on the left! That "add it to your myyahoo-button" on the bottom is new as well and I finally registered at technorati.com.

"You sit around getting older there's a joke here somewhere and it's on me I'll shake this world off my shoulders come on baby this laugh's on me

Stay on the streets of this town and they'll be carving you up alright They say you gotta stay hungry hey baby I'm just about starving tonight I'm dying for some action I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book I need a love reaction come on now baby gimme just one look

You can't start a fire sitting 'round crying over a broken heart This gun's for hire"

"As literary critics have long pointed out, the arbitrary yoking together of events in the service of storytelling is one of the fundamental characteristics of all narrative.(...) The audience's willing surrender to narrative coincidence is demanded by the story's need to conclude itself. But Lucas takes this self-consciousness about narrative artifice a step further: He makes explicit his theoretical interest in the mechanics of plot. As viewers, we take pleasure in the implausible events that must happen for the narrative contraption to snap shut in a satisfying way. But the characters come to understand that there is another agent, external to themselves, that is dictating the action. The Force is, in other words, a metaphor for, or figuration of, the demands of narrative. The Force is the power of plot."

Over at Slate

"Today's revelations in the New York Times about the Bush administration's internal debate over how to treat foreign detainees highlight the unprecedented role that Vice President Dick Cheney and his staff are playing in setting national security policy. In the Constitution, the vice president is the nation's understudy. He is not supposed to be in the chain of command. Cheney knows this better than most: In 1989, when he was George H.W. Bush's secretary of defense, Cheney slapped down Vice President Dan Quayle for calling a meeting of the National Security Council about a coup attempt in the Philippines while the president was out of the country." Tim Naftali over at Slate

"When I entered college in 1969, women were bursting out of their 50's chrysalis, shedding girdles, padded bras and conventions. The Jazz Age spirit flared in the Age of Aquarius. Women were once again imitating men and acting all independent: smoking, drinking, wanting to earn money and thinking they had the right to be sexual, this time protected by the pill. I didn't fit in with the brazen new world of hard-charging feminists. I was more of a fun-loving (if chaste) type who would decades later come to life in Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw. I hated the grubby, unisex jeans and no-makeup look and drugs that zoned you out, and I couldn't understand the appeal of dances that didn't involve touching your partner."

Maureen Dowd has a look at modern feminism in The New York Times

Eine Woche Randale in Frankreich!

War der Platzeck nicht früher beim Bündnis 90? Ich finde ja auch, einen schöneren Namen als Hubertus Heil kann ein Politiker nicht haben. Da tun sich völlig neue Dimensionen für Karikaturisten und andere Scherzkekse auf. Unterdessen: Klassenkeile für Stoiber in Rom.

Die Bremer sind wieder im Geschäft!

Update: the movie will be called "World Trade Center."

"Oliver Stone has begun shooting one of the first Hollywood films about Sept. 11 in New York -- without recreating the large-scale devastation that's all too familiar to residents who lived through the 2001 attacks.(...) Most of the major action portraying the World Trade Center collapse will be shot on a Los Angeles sound stage. And although news footage of the towers themselves will be shown during the film, it will play on television screens in the background. 'We're not doing the 'Towering Inferno-Titanic' version,' said Michael Shamberg, who's producing the Paramount film with his partner, Stacey Sher." Fulls story in the Hollywood Reporter