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Security Theatre |
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006 |
Someone has posted this nice analysis of the airplane liquid scare, which is worth reading.
At some point, we're going to have to accept that there is a
difference between real security and Potemkin security (or Security
Theater as Bruce Schneier likes to call it), and a difference between
realistic threats and uninteresting threats. I'm happy that the police
caught these folks even if their plot seems very sketchy, but could we
please have some sense of proportion?
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
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Monday, 03 July 2006 |
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Here is a true little story about the dangers of private corporate television media. Now available online, via google video. |
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Ralph Nader: A Call to All Good Americans |
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
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Attention please, good people! Adjust your routines and come to the
aid of your country, and your children with your thoughtful
patriotism. Don't just hope for impeachment, demand the resignation
now of the mad hatters in the White House - George W. Bush and Richard
Cheney.
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What Conservatives are conserving? |
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Wednesday, 22 December 2004 |
This is an exelent paper written by Philip E. Agre about what it means philisophically to be a conservative or a liberal. Many conservatives I know really shouldn't be conservative at all, but they have fallen for the sharad about family values and helping the little guy, while in fact conservativism is by definition exactly opposed to both of those things.
Q: What is conservatism?
A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.
Q: What is wrong with conservatism?
A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and
civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality
and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the
modern world.
Many of the people who voted for Bush in the election are the exact people he is taking money from to give to the richest 0.2%. Why? I don't understand it at all.
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Election |
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
As folks go through the stages of greef after the election, fearing Fascism
they express themselves in their own way:
Anger:
Fuck The South
Letter home
Greef:
Memo to the red states
Suicide
Apologetic:
Sorry Everybody
Cynicism:
A day in the life of Joe Republican
Disbelief:
Diebold conspiracy
Some just want to leave.
There
are
some
pretty
maps
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