Google weiß alles, sieht alles und hört alles. Aber wusstet Ihr schon, daß die Gitarren auf "Nevermind" von den Melvins eingespielt wurden weil Kurtie sich für Tage mit Heroin-Paranoia auf dem Studioklo eingeschlossen hatte? Ganz geil, oder?

This woman has an incredible site called originalsinner.net. Great photography and photo-manipulation the neo-industrial way. Go there, all you techno-pagans!

Dear Raed has been mentioned before. Wired ran a story on the weird hack that happened on monday: "For the last six months the site's creator, who uses the pseudonym Salam Pax, has chronicled Iraq's political situation from the point of view of an ordinary Iraqi, covering the presidential elections, the effects of U.N. resolutions related to Iraq, the arrival of weapons inspectors and how it feels to know that bombs could strike your hometown any day. For many, the blog has put a personal face on the war. In the last couple of days, however, parody photos appeared where the site's legitimate images should have been displayed, atop mock captions indicating either that Iraqi TV was showing images of the Photoshopped tussle between the two presidents or that the image portrayed "demonstrations in Iraqi cities." Some site visitors wondered whether Dear Raed had been hacked for political reasons, but the image swap was actually carried out by the angry owner of a service that stores photos for some blog creators." full story

Badasschick has developed a way to stop this: "Are you sick and tired of people hot linking your Webam or other images and costing you every month in bandwidth fees? Here is a simple and effective way to put a stop to this using a little known mod in Apache Webserver called mod_rewrite."

These guys in Washington have sure read The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley, but this war is real and it's not some intellectual funsport like Alan Moore dabbling in psycho-geography. There's an Army of Propaganda out there. Reality is conquered by Hollywood-imagery.

"Australian Broadcasting Corporation Four Corners looks at the propaganda war: how US, British and Australian military forces - and the Iraqis - employ sophisticated spin to control the flow of information and images. " Here are some excerpts from the transcript of the excellent TV-program which aired on ABC a few days ago.

"JONATHAN HOLMES, 'FOUR CORNERS' REPORTER/NARRATOR:: Late last year, in the run-up to the war, Defence Force spokesman Brigadier Mike Hannan went to media organisations with a deal that could have seen them virtually surrender control over what they reported. This draft document was prepared with the assistance of law firm Clayton Utz. Before any journalist could be accredited, the Defence Minister had to be advised. Journalists would be required "not to disclose information "other than in accordance with operational security briefings "and the operational security guidance "provided by the Commonwealth". They would also "abide by all Force Public Information Centre rules "which will be given from time to time". The proposed deal appears to have been quietly dropped in the face of media resistance. Peter La Franchi is shocked it was even suggested.

PETER LA FRANCHI, DEFENCE JOURNALIST: But the clauses in that document, for example, would prevent an Australian journalist revealing something say, like, the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. It prohibits you are not allowed to identify operations people, anything that Defence says is what you must report. That's not freedom of the press at all. That is a dictatorship of the media.

(...)

CHRISTOPHER DICKEY, 'NEWSWEEK' MAGAZINE: Look, television viewers don't like to think. That's not the point of watching television. It's to share the experience. It's to be bathed in the moment. It's not about thinking. And the US go...knows that and they exploit it.

JONATHAN HOLMES: But the Pentagon has another audience in mind for this bombardment of sound and image. Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, the most gung-ho supporter of the war on Iraq, is well aware of it.

(...)

REPORTER: Do you think it's worth it? US SOLDIER: Yeah, I... They say we're fighting for something. I don't know.

(...)

DONALD RUMSFELD: What we are seeing is not the war in Iraq - what we're seeing are slices of the war in Iraq, we're seeing that particularised perspective that that reporter or that commentator or that television camera happens to be able to see at that moment, and it is not what's taking place. What you see IS taking place, to be sure, but it is one slice, and it is the totality of that that is what this war is about and being made up of.

JONATHAN HOLMES: Which apparently suited the Secretary of Defense just fine. In the spanking new Hollywood- designed briefing centre in Qatar, there were no briefings at all for more than two days.

NICHOLAS WITCHELL: Nick, if you're looking for precise information, sadly this Central Command, where I am, is not the place to look for it from. Now, I suspect that the American view is that the media can be used in a sense as one of their weapons - anyone listening to the many different reports that the media are making will be left, perhaps, in a slightly confused state. Anything obviously that comes from here, from Central Command, will be taken as authoritative, and at the moment nothing of any significance or substance is coming from here.

BBC NEWSREADER: In that case, Nick, let's go to the eyewitnesses on the ground. Thanks for joining us from Central Command headquarters with no news of anything.

GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS, COMMANDER OF COALITION FORCES: Let me begin by saying that, uh...my heart and the prayers of this coalition go out to the families of those who have already made the ultimate sacrifice.

JONATHAN HOLMES: General Tommy Franks finally gave his first briefing on Saturday night, Australian time - 2.5 days after the start of the war.

GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS: The initiation of combat operations - we refer to that as 'D-day'. The introduction of Special Operations Forces - we refer to that as 'S-day'.

JONATHAN HOLMES: His disgruntled audience didn't feel the gung-ho rhetoric, lightly larded with information, had been worth the wait. If the Pentagon wanted journalists in Doha to be underemployed, it apparently wanted them out of Baghdad altogether.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: For their own safety, all foreign nationals, including journalists and inspectors, should leave Iraq immediately.

(...)

PHILLIP KNIGHTLEY: The big difference between Iraq and the Gulf War has been the arrival not only of al-Jazeera, Arab television, but other Arab television channels as well. And they're in place now in Iraq with lots and lots of crew and as good as and as slick and as efficient as CNN or Fox News. And they're going to be competing to tell the truth. Now, how the American military plans to control the Arab television stations, I don't know.

JONATHAN HOLMES: Networks like al-Jazeera have helped to publicise Saddam's claim to be a champion of the Arab world. He's found plenty of support elsewhere in the Middle East. But how much does he really command in the country he has tyrannised? It's a question that reporters, faced with endless declarations of loyalty for the leader, would love to have honestly answered.

(...)

MOHAMED ELBARADEI, DIRECTOR-GENERAL, INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY: Extensive field investigation and document analysis have failed to uncover any evidence that Iraq intended to use these 81mm tubes for any project other than the reverse engineering of rockets.

JONATHAN HOLMES: The claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium ore from the African country of Niger was groundless too, said ElBaradei in the same briefing - it had been based on forged documents.

MOHAMED ELBARADEI: Based on thorough analysis, the IAEA has concluded, with the concurrence of outside experts, that these documents, which form the basis for the report of recent uranium transaction between Iraq and Niger, are, in fact, not authentic. We have, therefore, concluded that these specific allegations are unfounded.

DAVID ALBRIGHT: I think the Bush Administration is not using even what we'd call standard practices to assess intelligence information. It's politicised the whole process, and it's seeking evidence that supports its claim, and dismissing evidence that contradicts their political goals and claims, and they're willing to punish people who dissent. So I think it's a... in my mind, it's scandalous.

JONATHAN HOLMES: By March 7, the world's media were obsessed with the last-minute manoeuvring over a Security Council resolution. The Atomic Energy Agency's conclusion that Iraq has no current nuclear weapons program got almost no publicity at all. But America is still trying to persuade the world that there are proven links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. It was a subject on which Colin Powell spent much time on February 5, and had new things to say. He showed slides of what he claimed was a "poison and explosives training camp" in the Kurdish-controlled area of north-east Iraq. It was part, he said, of a terrorist network run by al-Qaeda associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

COLIN POWELL: Those helping to run this camp are Zarqawi lieutenants operating in northern Kurdish areas outside Saddam Hussein's controlled Iraq. But Baghdad has an agent in the most senior levels of the radical organisation Ansar al-Islam that controls this corner of Iraq. In 2000, this agent offered al-Qaeda safe haven in the region. After we swept al-Qaeda from Afghanistan, some of its members accepted this safe haven. They remain there today.

ANDREW WILKIE, FORMER ANALYST, OFFICE OF NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS: I got quite angry, I recall, when I saw the telecast. It just didn't make sense to me that if there is this link, why is the poisons factory located in an area that is clearly outside of Saddam's control? I mean, it may as well not be in Iraq. So I don't know that this so-called agent that was referred to changes the bottom line here, and that is that there's no hard evidence of any active cooperation between Iraq and al-Qaeda. And I don't believe Colin Powell's presentation established any link. All it established is that in somewhere outside of Saddam's control, there is an al-Qaeda presence.

JONATHAN HOLMES: When British journalists visited the so-called "poison camp" just four days after Colin Powell's presentation, they found nothing but "a dilapidated collection of concrete outbuildings "at the foot of a grassy sloping hill." Tragically, Ansar al-Islam is now back in the news. On Friday night, local time, its base was attacked by American aircraft and cruise missiles and then overwhelmed by Kurdish militia. Next day, a suicide bomber killed ABC cameraman Paul Moran as he was filming outside the base.

full transcript

This woman has designed the "look and feel" of modern workingspace like nobody else and she had a little exihibition up on her website

NEWSARAMA has a story on Marvel's new wave of fan fiction. There's going to be a new Epic-imprint and in a few days Marvel will open it's doors to accept any kind of submission from writers and artists. Even though it's SUPPOSED to be a unique label it's gonna be part of the old Marvel universe with all it's ridiculous heroes and allmighty gods running around in their underwear. Here's what Marvel itself had to say on this:

"EPIC Comics is a new Marvel imprint under which we will publish comics written and illustrated by YOU. Anybody will have the opportunity to submit work for consideration by EPIC's submissions editor.

EPIC enjoys more favorable economic parameters than Marvel (and other publishers for that matter) so we can publish books that others can't."

Publish book that others can't, is that with or without Wolverine and Spider-Man? Can we show titties, people doing drugs and someone peeing on the president's head? Or are you just trying to buy some cheap concepts? You're just a toy company, Marvel. You're producing action figures and comics about Action Figures. You know shit about art. It's not like people have to go crazy for the opportunity to work for the holy royal highness of trash culture. See, there are publishers all over the world and they're putting out a lot of comics THAT YOU CAN'T PUBLISH BECAUSE YOU'RE STILL FOLLOWING THE SAME BORING PRINCIPLES AND ALL THAT! Fuck Captain America! Fuck the current war propaganda you're putting up in comic books for eight years old kids!

Look at the ridiculous amount of money they're offering for giving away all the rights at the door. 500 bucks and that' it, right!

Read all about EPIC including submission guidelines "Modern Epic"-story over at ninthart.com

Exklusiver Hintergrundbericht in Fanzine Nr.1 mit extremst schockierenden Bildern, die sie garantiert brutalstmöglich verstören werden.

Warner Brothers doesn't want to use the original poster for WHAT A GIRL WANTS anymore since it shows Amanda Bynes doing the victory sign and that's unamerican from now on. Peace is unamerican, you know.

"You see, under no circumstances do they want anyone to think that WHAT A GIRL WANTS is peace. You see, when she was originally standing between two Buckingham Palace Guards flashing the peace sign, they meant for that to just be a flippant status symbol that meant nothing.

Obviously, Peace being a forbidden and verboten concept now, that no flag-loving teenage apple-pie girl should be thinking about at these times and thus needs to be clearly eradicated from the pop-lexicon of the day." taken from AICN

Here is a very interesting way of looking at this classic by Sergio Corbucci

Helpful hints on how to survive an atomic attack with nothing but a hat

Originally taken from How to Survive an Atomic Bomb, by Richard Gerstell, Ph.D., Consultant to the Civil Defense Board (Bantam Books, NYC, 1952).

I just don't have much to say , but oh well. I feel like a complete blank. Eh. Not much exciting going on recently. Not much on my mind. I can't be bothered with anything recently.

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Michael Moore has announced his new movie-project: “I’m making a film called Fahrenheit 911, the temperature at which freedom burns. It’ll be about how Bush is using 9/11 and those 3,000 lost lives as an excuse to move along his own conservative agenda.” full story at DemocratAndChronicle.Com

"Variety reported that Moore is working out a deal with Mel Gibson's production company, Icon Productions, to finance "Fahrenheit 911."

According to Moore, the former president had a business relationship with Osama bin Laden's father, Mohammed bin Laden, a Saudi construction magnate who left $300 million to Osama bin Laden. It has been widely reported that bin Laden used the inheritance to finance global terrorism.

Moore said the bin Laden family was heavily invested in the Carlyle Group, a private global investment firm that the filmmaker said frequently buys failing defense companies and then sells them at a profit. Former President Bush has reportedly served as a senior adviser with the firm.

"The senior Bush kept his ties with the bin Laden family up until two months after Sept. 11," said Moore. (...) Moore said he expects the new movie to be in U.S. theaters in time for the 2004 presidential election."

full story at upi.com

Fat Mike of NOFX has commented on Moore's speech at the oscars in the latest newsletter for his label FatWreck:

I made the mistake of watching CNN last night before I went to sleep. No it wasn't the bombs dropping or the footage of the 18 or so people having a war rally in Concord, it was the footage of Michael Moore speaking at the Academy Awards two nights ago. I watched the Oscars and I saw the inspiring speech that Mr. Moore gave representing his fellow non-fiction filmmakers. He got a standing ovation while walking to the stage, but after a few moments of speaking there was definitely some heckling going on.

In all fairness I would say that there were several dozen people out of the few thousand that were booing while he spoke. We all heard it. Hey if you're gonna talk shit, be prepared to get some thrown back. That was expected. What I didn't expect was how CNN ran the story the next day. Every 15 minutes they showed the speech with the volume of the booing almost louder than the speech. I had videotaped the Oscars and I compared the two. CNN definitely turned up the volume of the hecklers, and you could specifically hear one guy. It was almost like they stuck microphones on the hecklers before the show.

CNN made it look like he got booed off the stage when in fact the large majority of the audience gave him plenty of adulation. For Pete's sake, if CNN can't even cover the Academy Awards without showing bias, how the hell are we to believe what they show us from the Middle East? Obviously I must be living in some kind of fantasy world. I'm going back to getting all my news from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. At least I can laugh with the news instead of at it.

Forever rambling, Fat Mike

Wie geil ist denn wohl bitte dieses Bild?

Super, sogar die genaue Laufzeit des Krieges steht dabei. Heute im "Tagesspiegel" von unserem treuen Leser Gregor W. gefunden

America's fine Department of Homeland Security ran a logo-contest. Here are the entries and here are the finalists. It's all fun, games and drawing with your crayons, isn't ist?

There is an online-edition of the book by H.G.Wells, but I actually wanted to show you the way to this site which deals with the nation-wide panic which was caused by the broadcast of Orson Welles' radio-adaption in 1938. People were running away because they thought the Martians were coming to get them. "Everyone in my house was agitated by the press", some guy said to the reporters.

The site has the original newsclips from the New York Times. Here's another transcript which is easier to read. And here's another good article on the hoax at greatnorthernaudio.com.

You can probably find the original recording as an MP3 in some "Old Time Radio"-section on the web (contact me if you can't find it, I got it) or you can order a copy at amazon or at Radio Spirits

WAV-Files of the original-recording war-of-the-worlds.org has a guide to audio-streams on the web Odd, a similar story happened in Ecuador in 1949.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has a very good special on the war.

Ha, ha, check this out: "Silicon Valley staff help paralyse SF with swarm tech"

Here are some excerpts from an interview with Robert Fisk in Bhagdad. Read the full story! It's a very good analysis of where we are now.

"Robert Fisk: It’s like someone wakes up in the morning and says, “Let’s target this on the map today”, and it’s something which sort of characterizes the whole adventure because if you actually look at what’s happening on the ground, you’ll see that the American and British armies started off in the border. They started off at Um Qasr and got stuck, carried on up the road through the desert, took another right turn and tried to get into Basra, got stuck, took another right at Nasiriyah, got stuck—it’s almost as if they keep on saying, “Well let’s try the next road on the right”, and it has kind of a lack of planning to it. There will be those who say that, “No it’s been meticulously planned,” but it doesn’t feel like it to be here.

(...)

The American correspondent was saying to me yesterday morning, “This is ridiculous, we simply can’t report the story, because every time we have to deal with something Saddam says, the Pentagon claims it’s not him or it’s his double or it was recorded 2 weeks ago”. So, the story ceases to be about what the man says, the story starts to be this totally mythical, fictional idea that it really isn’t Saddam or it’s his double, etcetera. I watched this recording on television, all his television broadcasts are recordings because he’s not so stupid as to do a live broadcast and get bombed by the Americans while he’s doing it. The one thing you learn if you’re a target is not to do live television broadcasts, or radio for that matter, or, indeed telephone. But if you listen and read the text of what Saddam said, it has clearly been recorded in the previous few hours, and I can tell you, having once actually met the man, it absolutely was Saddam Hussein. But that’s the strange thing, you see, that in the US, the Pentagon only has to say it’s not Saddam, that it’s a fake, it was recorded years ago, or that it’s a double, and the Hollywood side of the story, which is quite rubbish, it’s not true - it is him, then takes over from the real story, which is ‘What the hell is this guy actually saying?’.

(...)

Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!): Why have you chosen to remain in Baghdad?

Robert Fisk:  Because I don’t work for Colin Powell, I work for a British newspaper called The Independent; if you read it, you’ll find that we are. It’s not the job of a journalist to snap to the attention of generals. I wrote a piece a couple of weeks ago in my newspaper saying that before the war began in Yugoslavia, the British Foreign Office urged journalists to leave and then said the British intelligence had uncovered a secret plot to take all the foreign reporters hostage in Belgrade. I decided this was a lie and stayed - and it was a lie. In Afghanistan, just before the fall of Khandahar, as I was entering Afghanistan, the British Foreign Office urged all journalists to stay out of Taliban areas and then said the British intelligence had uncovered a plot to take all the foreign reporters hostage. Aware of Yugoslavia, I pressed on to Khandahar and it proved to be a lie. Just before the bombardment here, the British Foreign Office said that all journalists should leave because British intelligence had uncovered a plot by Saddam to take all journalists hostages, at which moment I knew I’d be safe to stay because it was, of course, the usual lie. What is sad is how many journalists did leave. There were a very large number of reporters who left here voluntarily before the war believing this meretricious nonsense. I should say that the Iraqis have thrown quite a large number of journalists out as well. But I don’t think it’s the job of a journalist to run away when war comes just because it happens to be his own side doing the bombing. I’ve been bombed by the British and Americans so many times that it’s not ‘shock and awe’ anymore, it’s ‘shock and bore’, frankly.

I have to stop ranting. I sound like some 17 years old anti-american kid hanging out in front of Berlin's Brandenburger Gate to get fucked. They're all out to socialize. I was there. Left the bunker because I was fed up with war-TV. "Clockwork Orange" is on (uncut version! Thanks for arte-tv!) I taped it anyway. A malenki bit of ultra-violence going on, droogies.

So, I went out to see what's happening with the anti-global kids of Berlin and it was fun. They're having a party out there. Global Intelligence is having a new kickstart. Attac lacks the grand new strategy, but everyone loves them. Fucking hippies! The public is so "anti-war" in Berlin, it makes me cry.

The people putting up the Love Parade think about having a revival under the banner of a Peace parade. Cash from Chaos. Nothing has changed though...

Hey, Mr.Bush, you're trying to shed a lot of blood while trying to take over a city with more than a million citizens. You either present the head of Hussein on live-TV now or you better get the fuck out of there as soon as possible. Nobody can take over a big city like Bhagdad just like that. This is not just a matter of wasting a lot of money on PR. Remember Hitler going to Stalingrad?

Thousands of people will die because some dictator wasn't listening to his generals and other people with some real military knowledge. A handful of nerds playing "Command & Conquer-The General Edition". They produced these games themselves and they believe in them. Managers believing in management. The ultimate final of the New Economy is close at hand!

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."

Samuel P. Huntington

->Wired reported that hackers attacked the website of Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera's English edition of Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, rendering it intermittently unavailable, the site's host said.

->There is a story in Wiretapmag on the
Party Y: "Party Y's goals are to increase the number of young people voting, multiply the number of young elected officials (under 30), and energize young people to participate in the voting process. The bottom line, according to Party Y, is to make politics cool by getting youth interested in government, giving them someone to vote for, and launching them en masse into America's voting booths. "

->Douglas Rushkoff has a new book out which introduces the concept of "Open-Source Judaism" The next one will be on rave and religion. Here'S an excerpt: "It wasn't about scoring, it was about group organism. Like a slam-dance or mosh pit, but without the slamming. Just the groove. And the smiles. If everything went right - and usually everything went right - there'd be a moment, or maybe even a whole hour - when it just clicked into place. All the individual dancers would experience themselves as this single, coordinated being. A creature with a thousand arms and eyes, making love with itself and reaching back as far as creation and forward to the very end of time. They became a living fractal, feeding back on itself - sometimes quite literally with video cameras, projectors, and screens - right through to infinity. And, as Peter Pan, the first fairy tale raver told us, "beyond."

->Dear Raed is an alternative warblog from Baghdad.

-> Good new sources: Warblogging.com and Warblogs.cc and back-to-iraq.com

Ullstein

Der große alte Mann der Satire plaudert aus dem Tuschkästchen. Eine Augenkrankenheit macht dem Siebzigjährigen das Lesen und Schreiben inzwischen fast unmöglich. Mit großer Mühe kann Chlodwig Poth aber noch schreiben und so hat er mit seiner Lebensgeschichte ein wichtiges Kapitel der Nachkriegsgeschichte für die Ewigkeit festgehalten. Kurzweiliger Spaß und auch als Generationspoträt recht geeignet.

Von der Kindheit im ausgebombten Berlin über die ersten Arbeiten in der "Zone" geht es fix zur Gründung der "Pardon" und dem Nachfolger "Titanic". Die Entstehung der "Neuen Frankfurter Schule" wird ins richtige Licht gerückt. Immerhin gab es "Pardon" lange vor 1968 und der Einfluß auf die Bewußstseinsphere der heranwachsenden APO sollte nicht unterschätzt werden. So gesehen gibt es zwar Gastauftritte der Urbesatzung um Waechter, Gernhardt, Traxler und Ernsting, aber es fehlen eigentlich konkrete Anekdoten der frühen Sechziger. Vieles in der "Pardon" war in Deutsch vorher nie gemacht worden und die "Titanic" atmet an den besseren Stellen bis zur Stunde den Geist seines legendären Vorläufers.

Gemeinsam mit Rotwein am Küchentisch sitzen, etwas kiffen und Blödsinn aushecken, klar, das hat sich bis heute nicht geändert, aber die Umstände sind 2003 ganz anders. So taucht das Internet am Ende auf um eine neue Zeit zu markieren, aber interessanter wäre die Stories aus einer Zeit, wo nur Ernsting einen kleinen Schwarz-Weiß-Fernseher hatte und dort kollektiv die nächtlichen Wiederholungen der "Marx Brothers" geguckt wurden mußten bis die Kinder vom Geschrei wieder wach wurden. Oder die Geschichte mit der Goldenen Badewanne als Sänfte bei der Demo gegen den Besuch des Schahs.

"Aus dem Leben eines Taugewas" kaufen!

"AC/DShe are an all-girl AC/DC cover band doing Bon-era songs. These gals have been committed to staying true to the heart pounding rhythms and high energy presentation of early AC/DC." Yes!

"Dreckig und tight verkündet die Internetz-Dependance des Wahl-Berliners Dirk M. alias Mongo, der das Print-Revival mit seinem schönen Fanzine No.1 eigentlich erst möglich gemacht hat. Warum also überhaupt dann Internetz, Herr M.? Schöne Dalli-Click-Galerie allerdings!

While the war continues there is a new discussion about an all-new European Army. Everyone from Spanish socialists like Javier Solana to the conservative right in Germany seems to agree that a united army makes more sense than a dozen small armies who can't do shit.

An independent Euro-Army and maybe even a European seat in the security council is something the Bush-administration desperately wanted to avoid with all that "you're with us or against us"-bribery. The US estimated that everyone would follow the wounded superpower after 9-11 without asking questions. They expected to lead an alliance of countries too scared to refuse to "help out" the strongest one there is.

Having a lot of weapons doesn't automatically make you king of the world. Killing an Arab doesn't make you "a real man". And going to church on sunday doesn't help either.

The Junta in Washington is too obsessed with violence and the fundamentalism of some sect to realize that nobody agrees with them (except for a bunch of para-military hillibillies who don't understand that Wrestling is fixed either maybe...)

The strangest part of the current propaganda-campaign is that the US-military suggests that the people of Iraq will be glad that all these G.I.s come to their country to kill their children. The US expected a quick and clean takeover without any dead bodies on TV. In his declaration of war, Bush sounded like the people of Iraq would even drop their weapons right away to help them out. It has been said over and over that Bush and his friends expected their victims to give them a warm welcome with American flags.
How far away from reality is that?

George W.Bush has damaged the image of the US so bad that people have even started to boycott Hollywood-movies, dvds and other US-products already. I can't remember this has ever happened before and it's not just a reaction to "french fries" being called "freedom fries" in the US now.

The Bush-administration has done a good job of revamping "the ugly American" by any means necessary and they don't even realize it. I was at the comic-shop to pick up some stuff today and I listened to the nerds hanging out there for a while. Everyone paid tribute to Michael Moore for the nasty things he said after winning an oscar. Not even the nerdiest of the nerds gave a shit whether fucking "Attack of the Clones" or "The Two Towers" won in the F/X-category. And the American nerds don't seem to care either if you look at the flame-wars over at Aint-it-cool-News, the international nerd-hangout no.1. A lot of change going on.

The protests continue and the anti-war-movement has merged with the anti-globalisation-movement already. 20000 kids who have never been at a demonstration before faced water-throwers in Hamburg today. Protesting against US-politics is the hippest thing to do right now. You can hear all these kids talking about their future and they're serious about it.

Well, Mr.Bush, think about that. European kids prefer Muslim Cola or Afri Cola over Coca Cola now and they think the US are ruled by some obnoxious fundamentalist dictator threatening "the rest of the world". Shame on you! Your people deserve something better.

Did you see that dumbfuck with the American flag? Fuck! Who do you think you are? The Middle-East doesn't want to be liberated by a bunch of war criminals throwing bombs and taking over their country afterwards.

People of the United States, would you please stand up!? Would you please wake up and stop this nightmare!?

Millions of people are out in the streets to tell you we're on your side. but in the end it will be up to the people living in the US to end this new sort of Imperialism. We're all busy marshing around and posting all these news-clips in our pointless weblogs to support you over there. We know that the Bush-administration doesn't represent the mayority in your country.

We don't hate you. We're on your side. Don't let them make you believe the world is "against America". That's just propaganda. It's just that the world is not interested in going back to the Middle Ages and have a handful of "pious" churchladies start a crusade against the Muslims.

You wanna introduce democracy down there, Mr.Bush? What a pathetic joke. How about introducing democracy in the US first, eh? Hell, you weren't even elected! Go back to church and pray or play with your stupid dogs. Just don't get on our nerves

Americans, you're about to give up all your civil rights because of that constant paranoia forced on you.
You don't have to take this shit any longer. Do you really think that having three more departments of ultra security is gonna stop a single terrorist? Well, maybe there will be a Peaceful Regime Change in 2004, but I also wouldn't be surprised if elections in general will be outlawed soon.

Learn from Eastern Europe and how the people over there ended the cold war in a peaceful way. (No, the cold war has not been won by the US. America didn't have anything to do with it. That's just another one of those lies.The CIA didn't even have a clue what was going on when the Berlin wall came down.) Face reality! You are being lied to. Look at these "embedded" daredevils working for the 20th Century Fox-war. Is that what you call free press?

Join the rest of the planet to make this a better world. Stop living in a dreamworld made up of propaganda-lies. We're all human beings. It doesn't matter whether you were born in Lybia or in Ohio. This is the year 2003. Nationalism is something we dealt with in the 20th century. We're done with that.

You have learned nothing, Mr.Rumsfeld. You're just some mercyless, ignorant bully. Go on and keep calling us "the old Europe". We consider it an honor.

You're the one who has trouble dealing with a world that has no more need for corporate superpowers, dumb machismo and heroic gunslingers. You're the one who is not able to adapt to the new sense of working together instead of fighting each other. You're the one who refuses to grow up.

You represent the old America and we're fed up with your lies and all the violence.

"The Bush administration is currently in the process of doling out over $1.5 billion in government contracts to American companies lining up to cash in on the rebuilding of postwar Iraq. So bombs away! The more destruction the better – at least for the lucky few in the rebuilding business."

CORPORATE AMERICA DIVVIES UP THE POST-SADDAM SPOILS by Arianna Huffington, AlterNet

"The Big Four TV networks, other large broadcasting companies, and most major newspaper chains are currently lobbying the Bush-dominated Federal Communications Commission for new policies designed to promote their corporate interests. They want to end critical rules that limit the number of outlets a single company can control, both at the local and national level. These media giants stand to make untold billions of dollars in profits if the FCC safeguards are eliminated or weakened."

->A thumbnail guide to the lobbying aims of the news media's most important companies by Jeffrey Chester, Center for Digital Democracy