All right, I’m writing this before viewing or reviewing In Lies We Trust, but it looks damn interesting. More later… “This stunning censored interview conducted by medical historian Edward Shorter for WGBH public television (Boston) and Blackwell Science was cut from The Health Century due to its huge liability–the admission that Merck drug company vaccines [...]
Not my wording, but I had to use it for effect: The OMFG moment of the century…is…”Illinois-based Baxter working on vaccine to ‘stop’ swine flu outbreak in Mexico 25 Apr 2009. But, looky here! Baxter admits sending live avian flu viruses to subcontractor –People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 [...]
Heh. I love the internets. Now, one could look at this and say, why a blonde woman? Hmm. Perhaps not the best image. That said, it does bring to mind ye olde tale of Judy Miller. That also said, would the vitriol be as intense if Judy Miller were not a woman? Hmm. Don’t question…with [...]
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Perhaps “ocumentaries” should be the catch-all term to denote documentaries, mockumentaries, rockumentaries, and so-called shockumentaries. (The acned version is fittingly called a pockumentary). As a Daily Kosite noted of the film linked above, is it full of nutty, half-baked ideas in service of audience manipulation a la Michael Moore, or is there more to it [...]
What is exactly a free press? One might well say, this is the internet age and anyone can publish anything, so what’s your point? I think it’s best explained, succinctly, with the New York Times’ own masthead: All the news that’s fit to print. [italics mine] Therein lies the question… what Chomsky cited as “the [...]
You’ll note that I don’t write (“blog”, “journal”, “book”) about pop culture, but this is perfectly indicative of the state of culture today. My comment after watching Susan Boyle was, “What? You mean talent doesn’t come from looks?” Aside from that, Jože Plečnik and poetry are more interesting. “Better with stone / than I with [...]
of many things, of many [words], of many springs. Here we have the dark side of Dubai. Imagine if the U.S. had debtors’ prisons now… I wouldn’t be writing this. Illiberal societies are a warning. But what is liberal, in the traditional sense, beyond economics? One must cite the Bill of Rights… ‘Here, Dubai is [...]
Mexico is now a “narco state”, and so with Afghanistan the point, the worm, the meme now is narco. Nevermind that both countries have long been source points and conduits in the global drug trade. (Cf. the work of Alfred McCoy on SE Asia). I can just hear the advisors whispering to reinstate the War [...]
We watched the documentary Constantine’s Sword last night. Very, very good. Catholic anti-Semitism seems to have a long, befouled pedigree. Interesting that the new Pope, Cardinal Ratzinger, pegs the horrors of Nazism to “neo-paganism” and completely omits the Church’s role in persecuting Jews. The most poignant segment of the film concerns the story of nun [...]