Taking away protesters in cages that look like containers?

"Israeli troops and police moved into a synagogue in the hard-line settlement of Kfar Darom today, emptying the sanctuary of protesters and using water cannon and cargo containers carrying police to gain access to demonstrators on the roof. Israeli forces also entered the synagogue in Neve Dekalim to remove the estimated 2,000 protesters who vowed never to leave." Full story at cnn.com

Here is a "Japanese propaganda booklet from World War II detailing the Imperial Army's plan for dominating the nations of the region..."

Another fine link stolen from that ultra-hip weblog you can't live without and definetely don't wanna miss because it's called boingboing.net

"I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neumann is in charge in Washington."

"The Administration has replaced, or revised, or expanded the G.W.O.T. with a new phrase: “a global struggle against violent extremism.” The war is now a struggle. The terrorist enemy is now the violent extremist enemy. The focus has shifted from a tactic to an ideology. In a major new strategy document quoted in U.S. News & World Report, the Pentagon is even more specific (and more accurate), venturing onto delicate ground by calling the threat “Islamist extremism” and “extremist Sunni and Shia movements that exploit Islam for political ends.” In June, a Marine lieutenant general, Wallace Gregson, floated the new thinking in a speech: “This is no more a war on terrorism than the Second World War was a war on submarines,” he said.

Read the comment by George Packer in the New Yorker

NEW CONSTITUTION PREVENTS CITIZENSHIP FOR JEWS, SAYS MP And The Jerusalem Post says "Iraq's new constitution may erode women's rights", even USA Today says that...

Meanwhile over at stormfront.org, the nazis are talking about vegetables! They had it coming! Thanks to the Watchmen for sending this! By the way, "Experiments prove plants have feelings"

"The "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele, who was long thought to have been the black sheep of Germany's scientists under the Nazi regime, was in fact supported by a network of elite researchers, new research has revealed. (...) Six years of research led by a political scientist, Dr Susanne Heim, has revealed that the Angel of Death was not alone.

Archives have previously revealed that Mengele had assistants such as the Hungarian pathologist and prisoner of war Miklos Nyiszli, who said: "I would bathe the corpses of cripples and dwarves in calcium chloride and cook them in large pots so that their skeletons could be preserved in the Museum of the Third Reich."

But records have been unearthed that Mengele's work was supported by elite researchers attached to the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, whose scientists have been awarded more than 20 Nobel prizes.

Although their personal goal was not essentially to create a super-race for Adolf Hitler, they did not object to the scientific freedom that the dictator bestowed on them. Indeed, Mengele's supervisor for his PhD was the internationally acclaimed scientist Otmar von Verschuer, who was renowned for his research into twins.

The Max-Planck Institute - formerly the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute - decided in 1997 to fund research into its murky past. A spokesman for the institute said: 'No goal in research can justify crossing ethical boundaries.'"

Story by Krysia Diver in The Guardian

"Instead of changing his foreign policy, President Bush is changing the story

Last Tuesday, George Bush delivered a major address on his plan to fight terrorism with democracy in the Arab world. On the same day, McDonald's launched a massive advertising campaign urging Americans to fight obesity by eating healthily and exercising. Any similarities between McDonald's "Go Active! American Challenge" and Bush's "Go Democratic! Arabian Challenge" are purely coincidental.

Sure, there is a certain irony in being urged to get off the couch by the company that popularised the "drive-thru", helpfully allowing customers to consume a bagged heart attack without having to get out of the car and walk to the counter. And there is a similar irony to Bush urging the people of the Middle East to remove "the mask of fear" because "fear is the foundation of every dictatorial regime", when that fear is the direct result of US decisions to install and arm the regimes that have systematically terrorised for decades. But since both campaigns are exercises in rebranding, that means facts are besides the point."

Story from The Guardian on zmag.org by Naomi Klein

"Philip Agee is a former CIA operative who left the agency in 1967 after becoming disillusioned by the CIA’s support for the status quo in the region. Says Agee, “I began to realize that what I and my colleagues had been doing in Latin America in the CIA was no more than a continuation of nearly five-hundred years of this, exploitation and genocide and so forth. And I began to think about what, until then would have been unthinkable, which was to write a book on how it all works.” The book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, was an instant best-seller and was eventually published in over thirty languages. In 1978, three years after the publication of CIA Diary, Agee and a group of like-minded journalists began publishing the Covert Operations Information Bulletin (now Covert Action Quarterly), as part of a strategy of “guerilla journalism” aimed at destabilizing the CIA and exposing their operations.

Not surprisingly, the response of the US government and the CIA in particular to Agee’s work has been somewhat aggressive, and he has been forced to divide his time since the 1970s between Germany and Cuba."

-Philip Agee interviewed by Jonah Gindin on zmag.org

American punkband Anti-Flag started a new website called militaryfreezone.org to educate their people.

"If you think you wouldn't, you would make at ideal recruit. Those most vulnerable are the ones who think that they could never be tricked into adopting a bizarre belief. By using simple mind control techniques, cult leaders create a magnetic appeal for curious seeker. Modern cults cruise universities and personal columns for new followers and are growing rapidly." from Martin Howards "Would You Fall For A Crazy Cult?"

"The release of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena from captivity in Iraq quickly turned from celebration to tragedy on Friday. American troops fired on the car she was riding in killing an Italian intelligence officer and wounding Sgrena herself. German papers on Monday look at how the incident will affect US - Italian relations.

Vienna calling! the mighty Monochrom reports that "Quintessenz (an association for the re-establishment of information civil rights, monochrom's next door neighbour group here in Museumsquartier Vienna) has data mined an extensive mailing list related to the Biometric Consortium, which is part of the NSA. A Quintessenz activist was able to get access to the mailing list through social engineering. He stored all the info and even could download secret data. They are now datamining the NSA list and publishing the list and the results."

Have a look at "The genesis of Europe's biometric passports." or the "Biometrics Consortium List Archive 1994-2004 [ca 60 MB text]. Containing postings of about 2500 different persons from US military and government agencies, worldwide biometrics business people, scientists, lobbyists etc."

The internet can be so much fun sometimes!

This News.com story should be read by everyone, kids! I quote from boingboing.net:

"In an interview with Bradley Smith, one of the six commissioners at the Federal Election Commission, Declan McCullagh explores potential internet impact of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 -- aka the McCain-Feingold law. The bottom line: the law could be applied in a manner that curtails free speech on blogs, email and other forms of free online expression.

In 2002, the FEC decided that the law should not apply to Internet communication, but a U.S. District overturned that decision last fall. Smith and two fellow Republican commissioners wanted to appeal, but because the commission's three Democrats refused to join, what Smith calls a "bizarre" regulatory process is not taking place.

Technically, McCain-Feingold applies to political partisanism and the way grassroots internet activity amounts to virtual campaign contributions. But critics say the law could be extended to cover many forms of politically-related comments or opinions on the internet, since generally all such expressions are by definition partisan. Does McCain-Feingold herald the beginning of government-mandated internet censorship?

McCullagh: What happens next?

Smith: It's going to be a battle, and if nobody in Congress is willing to stand up and say, "Keep your hands off of this, and we'll change the statute to make it clear," then I think grassroots Internet activity is in danger. The impact would affect e-mail lists, especially if there's any sense that they're done in coordination with the campaign. If I forward something from the campaign to my personal list of several hundred people, which is a great grassroots activity, that's what we're talking about having to look at. Senators McCain and Feingold have argued that we have to regulate the Internet, that we have to regulate e-mail. They sued us in court over this and they won.

McCullagh: If Congress doesn't change the law, what kind of activities will the FEC have to target?

Smith: We're talking about any decision by an individual to put a link (to a political candidate) on their home page, set up a blog, send out mass e-mails, any kind of activity that can be done on the Internet.

Smith: Again, blogging could also get us into issues about online journals and non-online journals. Why should CNET get an exemption but not an informal blog? Why should Salon or Slate get an exemption? Should Nytimes.com and Opinionjournal.com get an exemption but not online sites, just because the newspapers have a print edition as well?

Update: Greg Klass says,

You might want to alert your readers who aren't famiar with Bradley Smith that he is an arch foe of campaign finance regulation, whom the Republicans managed to put on the Federal Election Commission. Link to background. I would take any scary predictions he spreads about consquences of recent major changes to the campaign finance law (a.k.a. McCain-Feingold) with more than a few grains of salt.

It's still happening and nobody gives a shit, right?

CommonDreams.org claims, "Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked". Thom Hartmann writes: "When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who hacked it and how. (...) Visual analysis of the results can be seen at ustogether.org , and over at rubberbug.com. Note the trend line – the only variable that determines a swing toward Bush was the use of optical scan machines. " It's good old magic: Make them look at the left hand by looking at it yourself and they wont notice what you do with the other hand. The illusion that Ohio was the state to concentrate on, made everyone forget about Florida. Here is another story having a look at the irregulaities: Group Finds Voting Irregularities in South (AP) . Go to blackboxvoting.org for more to chew on. Telepolis had a look at already too: "Tweaking the vote - Why asking if the elections were fair is tantamount to treason - and why I cannot help but do it" by Craig Morris.

... it has to be This Land by Gregg and Evan Spiridellis over at atomfilms. "One is a liberal wiener. The other's a right-wing nut job. See John Kerry and George Bush square off and trade insults in this can't-miss campaign parody of This Land is Your Land."

See what happened to East Germanys FDJ, the "Free German Youth - Member of World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) since 1948". Why do I think that a handful of punkers made this up....?

"Almost 10,000 prisoners from President George W. Bush's so-called war on terror are being held around the world in secretive American-run jails and interrogation centres similar to the notorious Abu Ghraib Prison.

Some of these detention centres are so sensitive that even the most senior members of the United States Congress have no idea where they are. (...) Prisoners are being held from, among other countries, Algeria, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and Yemen."

quoted from a story in the "Independent" online at American Gulag - news and Resources on Prisoners, Prisons and Prison Abolition.

"How did it come to this"- special in Time Magazine.

The video of the beheading of Nick Berg came just in time to go for this revenge-sheme which will make people in the US forget what their country has become by now. The CIA has already identified arch-villain Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as the man with the knife. But, according to an article in the 'National Review', Zarqawi has lost a leg.

"WHO IS ZARQAWI? A Palestinian-Jordanian and veteran of the Afghan war against the Soviets, Zarqawi first appeared as a terror suspect when Jordan indicted him in absentia for his role in the al Qaeda millennial bombing plot targeting the Radison SAS hotel in Amman as well as other American, Israeli, and Christian religious sites in Jordan. In 2000 he returned to Afghanistan, where he oversaw a terrorist training camp and specialized in chemical and biological weapons. (...)

Zarqawi's own movements are themselves telling. After being wounded in the leg in Afghanistan, Zarqawi escaped to Iran. While there, he dispatched two Palestinians and a Jordanian who entered Turkey illegally from Iran on their way to conduct bombing attacks in Israel. (...)

From Iran Zarqawi traveled to Iraq in May 2002, where his wounded leg was amputated and the limb fitted with a prosthetic device. He spent two months recovering in Baghdad, at which time "nearly two dozen extremists converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there." Powell informed that "these Al Qaida affiliates, based in Baghdad, now coordinate the movement of people, money and supplies into and throughout Iraq for his network, and they've now been operating freely in the capital for more than eight months."

While Iraq maintained it was unaware of the whereabouts of Zarqawi or other terrorists, Powell informed the Security Council that the United States passed information to Iraqi authorities on Zarqawi's location in the Iraqi capitol via a third party."

But does the man wielding the knife in that video look like he has a prosthetic device and why do the hooded captors look like they're in parade rest? Things are getting really ugly now...

In March 2003, when several U.S. soldiers had been captured, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said in an interview with the New England Cable News Channel: "We have reminded the Iraqis -- and I'll do it if they are watching this program -- that there are very clear obligations under the Geneva Convention to treat prisoners humanely. Wolfowitz added: We treat our own prisoners, and there are hundreds of Iraqi prisoners, extremely well. We feed them, we take care of them they're very safe with us."

But in the current hearings even evil Wolfowitz has to admit that torture is 'not humane'...

Who knew what and who gave the orders. We're still waiting for some answers while the press is awfully quite and the old America is about to fall.

"UK troops have killed Iraqi civilians including an eight-year-old girl when they were under no apparent threat, Amnesty International has claimed. -Full story at BBC

And then there is the sad case of the beheading of U.S. civilian Nick Berg in Iraq whose father has just spoken to the Pennsylvania News:

"Michael Berg lashed out at the U.S. military and Bush administration, saying his son might still be alive had he not been detained by U.S. officials in Iraq without being charged and without access to a lawyer.

Nick Berg, a small telecommunications business owner, spoke to his parents on March 24 and told them he would return home on March 30. But Berg was detained by Iraqi police at a checkpoint in Mosul on March 24. He was turned over to U.S. officials and detained for 13 days.

His father, Michael, said his son wasn't allowed to make phone calls or contact a lawyer.

FBI agents visited Berg's parents in West Chester on March 31 and told the family they were trying to confirm their son's identity. On April 5, the Bergs filed suit in federal court in Philadelphia, contending that their son was being held illegally by the U.S. military. The next day Berg was released...

Michael Berg said he blamed the U.S. government for creating circumstances that led to his son's death..."

-quoted from diepunyhumans.com referring to a story from the Pennsylvania News

Strange, Google-News has no entries for the R21+techniques+interrogation and I'm No.1 among 94 results in the regular search-engine. I'm also No.9 for iraq torture pictures, No.2 for torture + iraq + R21, and no.6 for r21 iraq Where did all the other stories go?

"There was a before 9/11, and there was an after 9/11. After 9/11 the gloves came off." -Cofer Black, head of the CIA Counterterrorist Center, September 2003

The troops torture their own people to make them hard enough to torture prisoners. We're not talking about a handful of soldiers in one prison only. The story unfolds and Rumsfeld tries to get away with a cheesy courtroom-drama on TV and some "they killed some of our boys too"-revenge-plot . It's frightening how clueless and helpless George W.Bush and his buddies really are.

An officer of british special units dewcribed a system called R21 (Resistance to Interrogation), "a system of degradation developed for use by British and US troops called R2I - resistance to interrogation - which uses sexual jibes and stripping prisoners to prolong 'the shock of capture' when detainees are at their most vulnerable."

"In visits to Iraq's US-administered prison, The Red Cross has been documenting abuse that was not the 'exception' but was close to the norm - abuse that was 'tantamount' to a policy of torture, and tolerated by coalition forces. (...) And what has become increasingly clear in the past few days, in interviews with returning special forces soldiers from Iraq, was that the techniques employed at Abu Ghraib were not simply for the cruel entertainment of military policemen and private contractors running the prison, but an even crueller application of abusive interrogation techniques taught to both US and British special forces. " From a long exclusive story in The Observer

The paper also revealed that "The Red Cross president, Jakob Kellenberger, had personally warned three of George W. Bush's most senior officials - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz - of widespread abuse tantamount to torture." (...) The revelations threaten to drag the British government into the heart of the international scandal over coalition abuse at Abu Ghraib. It follows claims in yesterday's Guardian that the humiliating sexual abuse at the jail was consistent with procedures taught to British and American special forces. British military intelligence officers were interrogating prisoners in the notorious Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq even as the first reports of abuses at the prison came to light. (...) The disclosure will put fresh pressure on British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon to clarify when he first heard of allegations of mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners amid claims from the Red Cross that British officials were alerted in November." Full story in The Observer

According to prominent New York attorney Scott Horton, partner at Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler chairing the Committee on International Law of the Association of the Bar of New York City, senior officers warned that Bush appointees in the Pentagon were undermining prisoner safeguards long before the abuse at Abu Ghraib became public. Horton and other members of the New York bar began to compile a report examining U.S. and international legal standards governing the treatment of military prisoners.

"The bar association's 110-page report, released last week, leaves no doubt that the practices revealed at Abu Ghraib violated both U.S. and international law. During the preparation of that report, Horton and his colleagues were more concerned with practices in Afghanistan and Guantánamo than in Iraq. What they have learned recently, however, suggests that questionable practices and attitudes toward prisoners stem from broad policy decisions made at the very highest levels of the Defense Department.´

Full story: "Lack of protection" by Joe Conason at salon.com

Meanwhile George Paine's warblogging.com "has been banned by U.S. Central Command", but it's still out there. Press freedom groups express concern over restrictions imposed on media outlets. NASA-experts are not allowed to talk to the Press about global warming after the movie "Day After Tomorrow" caused a new interest. Things don't exist if you don't talk about them.

T H E P R E S S :

Washington fields mercenary army in Iraq:

"According to recent estimates there are around 15,000 private bodyguards and security personnel operating inside Iraq, of which at least 6,000 are believed to be armed—making them the second biggest military presence after the US Army. The number is set to increase even further—in what is being described as an Iraqi Klondike—after the so-called handover of sovereignty to the Iraqi Governing Council on June 30."

Mercenaries and private security firms are increasingly assuming the task of regular troops world-wide :

"US forces, but even the United Nations and Iraqi insurgents are increasingly making use of the service of private companies or individuals guarantee their safety or conduct military operations.

The coalition forces in Iraq are coming under increasing pressure from insurgents. Security and military companies are profiting from the situation by assuming tasks which were formerly reserved to the military. Employees of private security firms meanwhile constitute the second largest military contingent in Iraq, numbering around 25 thousand people - more than the entire British force. Private companies guarantee the flow of supplies, train troops and service computers. Their employees are former soldiers, officers or secret service members. The trend towards privatisation is not confined to Iraq. Such companies operate everywhere in the world, from Columbia to Afghanistan. "

Outsource This!:

"Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld viewed the war in Iraq as an opportunity to validate his theory that the overwhelming technological advantages enjoyed by the United States would allow a small, mobile ground force supported by high-tech weaponry to achieve military victory. Rumsfeld and other civilians in the Pentagon overruled the military commanders on the size of the force that would invade Iraq, and bet that the lightning ground assault and precision air attacks would enable us take control of the country largely intact.  As a result, we were left woefully unprepared to provide basic security in the days and weeks immediately after the fall of Saddam's regime, an error that we are still paying for in blood and treasure more than a year later."

Senators seek investigation into private security firms in Iraq (reported by AP on April 29, 2004 already)

"Earlier this month, 13 Democrats wrote Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to argue that it is a dangerous precedent to allow private armies to operate outside the control of a governmental authority. Dozens of companies are operating in Iraq under contract with the Coalition Provisional Authority, the U.S.-led governing body in Iraq, plus the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies. Thousands of others are on assignments for the United States and others worldwide, protecting buildings, guarding officials, and training police and soldiers. The senators asked the GAO to address the private contractors' liabilities, including whether they are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and who has jurisdiction to punish them if they commit crimes."

Book: Corporate Warriors: The Rise and Ramifications of the Privatized Military Industry by P.W. Singer

A Guide to Private Military Corporations by Disinfopedia, "a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. The Disinfopedia is sponsored by the Center for Media and Democracy.

Executive Outcomes have an interesting entry. Read!

"US military policemen moved unregistered Iraqi prisoners, known as "ghost detainees", around an army-run jail at Abu Ghraib, in order to hide them from the Red Cross, according to a confidential military report.

The report on abuses at Abu Ghraib prison - a copy of which was obtained by the Guardian - described the practice of hiding prisoners as "deceptive, contrary to army doctrine, and in violation of international law".

The revelations surfaced at a time when the prison abuse scandal threatened to engulf the Pentagon and the military occupation of Iraq.

The US army yesterday admitted to the Senate there was evidence of widespread abuse of prisoners in military-run jails in both Iraq and Afghanistan. There have been a total of 25 recorded deaths in US military custody in both countries."

Full story in The Guardian: Jailed Iraqis hidden from Red Cross, says US army.

A 53-page Pentagon report obtained by The New Yorker, written by Major General Antonio M. Taguba and not meant for public release, completed in late February. It listed some of the abuse:

"Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.

Taguba found that between October and December of 2003 there were numerous instances of 'sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses' at Abu Ghraib. This systematic and illegal abuse of detainees, Taguba reported, was perpetrated by soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company, and also by members of the American intelligence community."

The story by Seymour M. Hersh came along with some nasty pictures . The US-military has hired corporate soldiers of fortune to help out their troops and they were just doing what they were trained to do. Torture seems to be quite normal for the US-military, but the president and his minister of defense blame it on bureaucracy. They just didn't know. They had other things to do. Can the US-gouvernment really get away with this that easy? Not accepting the world-court for war-criminals in Den Haag and treating other people like Untermenschen? Richard Nixon resigned for way less! It's about time for Mr.Rumsfeld to go home at least!

-A lot more links and references can be found in an article in zmag: Abuse at Abu Ghraib, the Psychodynamics of Occupation, and the Responsibility of Us All by Stephen Soldz, psychoanalyst and a faculty member at the Institute for the Study of Violence of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. He also hosts the Iraq Occupation and Resistance Report web page.

" If I, a single individual maintaining a web page in my spare time, was well aware of the abuses being reported in the US prisons in Iraq, the only way the top generals, Pentagon officials, senior Administration policy-makers such as the President and Vice-President, and U.S. reporters could be ignorant of them is if they willfully chose to be ignorant."

-The story that started it all: TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB - American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go? by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
-The infamous pictures
-The secret US Army Report on Torture of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib Prison -Al Jazeera English Edition -electroniciraq.net, " a news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by respected Middle East alternative news publishers"

And remember Guantanamo Bay

"Music was heard in many ghettos, concentration camps, and partisan outposts of Nazi-controlled Europe. While popular songs dating from before the war remained attractive as escapist fare, the ghetto, camp, and partisan settings also gave rise to a repertoire of new works. These included topical songs inspired by the latest gossip and news, and songs of personal expression that often concerned the loss of family and home.

Classical music—instrumental works, art songs, opera—was also produced and performed during this period, notably by prisoners at the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto and transit camp in Czechoslovakia, as well as in several other ghettos and camps.

For many victims of Nazi brutality, music was an important means of preserving and asserting their humanity. Such music—particularly the topical songs—also serves as a form of historical documentation. Like “audio snapshots,” these works offer a telling glimpse into the events and emotions that their creators and original audiences experienced firsthand."

Lots of audio-samples and info online at the United States Holocaust memorial Museum

New dvd-set with Disney propaganda-classics like "Der Führers face" and all those.

"On December 8, 1941, the Disney Studio was taken over by the military as part of the war effort. Making the most of the talent that hadn't shipped out yet, Walt Disney spent the next four years creating and producing training, propaganda, and educational films for the Armed Forces. In addition to these films, this extraordinary volume also includes the full-length feature "Victory Through Air Power." Released theatrically in 1943, this powerful propaganda film has never been reissued until now. You'll also see recently discovered on-the-set footage, and get rare firsthand accounts about the work and culture at the Disney Studio in interviews with Disney Legends Joe Grant, John Hench, and Roy Disney. Featuring exclusive introductions by film historian Leonard Maltin, this is a timeless collection from generations past for generations to come." quoted from amazon.com

Rob Pongi from Japan posted a funny little video called Fuck'n USA on his site which also features some other funny videos and this and that. Found at boingboing.net