Just a cartoon I did - the new tea party flag

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Tuesday August 31, 2010 · 10:36 PM PDT

2010/08/31 · 22:36

Since we have the Jane Mayer article in the New Yorker -
http://www.newyorker.com/...
it seemed appropriate to use the same tactics the Kochs' use - misaprehensions that appeal to the gut - to put our cause ahead. So here's my new "Don't Tread On Me", revealing who really would be the beneficiary of less government attention.

There was just a comment here about the role of public relations in the furtherance of right wing goals. Noam Chomsky has made that point over & over - how, in the teens & 30s, labor & anti war protests (some violent) were quelled by massive police & national guard actions - & the captains of industry decided they needed to use a less forceful, but, it turns out, just as powerful method of control, the newly created science of public relations, to placate the peasants - as promoted by Bernay, its first expert. When the rich convince the stupid, that's about a majority.

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Wednesday April 28, 2010 · 6:56 PM PDT

2010/04/28 · 18:56

Thinking about Kurzweil's singularity - that moment when machine intelligence exceeds humans'. And wondering - who will control that capability? Not our political system - it can just barely keep the water running. Obviously, the corporations will take it over, insofar as they can. It will be pretty autonomous, I suppose - though, I think, without motivation.

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Great book review in the new New Yorker

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Wednesday March 24, 2010 · 6:07 PM PDT

2010/03/24 · 18:07

called "Counterfactual", subtitled - A curious history of the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program. - by Jane Mayer - is a review of the book "Courting Disaster", by Marc A. Thiessen - a former speechwriter in the Bush presidency.

You can find the review on the New Yorker site. I just want to call attention to it here, as I think there were comments mentioning that Thiessen has recently been added as an online columnist by the Washington Post here at KOS. And wasn't he on "The Daily Show" just a bit ago?

Thiessen seems to be a wholly owned tool of the Bushies - his thesis is that torture is a good thing; protected us from a lot of enemies. He says that the Heathrow bombing plot was stopped by the C.I.A.'s use of torture. Scotland Yard, however, by this review, says that's a bunch of rubbish.

The review goes on in great detail about the many lies, overstatements, misinterpretations, & general bogus horseshit this carbuncle on the butt of humanity blathers out in his white-washing rewrite of history. Fact free & spinful, his book is useless to all but the most compromised Tea Bag Head, & should be avoided by anyone interested in keeping their mental health.

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Great book review in the new New Yorker