In an interview with MarketWatch, Hunter S. Thompson advises Bush to quit. Short interview, with a bit of back story. It says his new book will be published in December and will be called Kingdom of Fear (I can’t remember if the month and title had been announced before).
MarketWatch: Hunter Thompson is still all-Gonzo
(via The Drudge Report)
Disinfo is running a piece compiling evidence from mainstream news sources indicating that the govenment knew in advance “…that a devastating attack was in the works, that it would involve hijacked airplanes, and that it would occur inside the United States.”
1. Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped flying on commercial aircraft in July 2001.
2. The FAA refused to let author Salman Rushdie fly in North America starting the week before 9/11.
3. Four days before the attacks, Florida Governor Jeb Bush activated the National Guard, citing “acts of terrorism.”
4. On September 10, 2001, high-ranking Pentagon officials cancelled travel plans for the morning of September 11.
5. On September 10, 2001, San Francisco’s mayor was warned against flying to New York the next morning.
6. CIA Director George Tenet warned Congressmen of “an imminent attack on the United States of this nature.”
To me this stuff only indicates that multiple agencies knew something involving commercial planes was going to happen sometime. And let’s not forget this one: one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings.
Stephen Bassett is running for congress under the “Disclosure 2003” platform:
Basset is frank about the prospect of being elected. He says there is little chance he will become a congressman. He’s running to draw attention to his belief that the government knows about ET and that for the first time since 1947 the nation is ready for a formal UFO disclosure.
Cosmiverse: ET Political Candidate Says It’s No Game
(via New World Disorder)
New York’s On the Media radio show has a short interview with new Disinfo editor Russ Kick.
RUSS KICK: Well that’s part of it, and– actually the mainstream media does report some important things, but very often it, it’s strange –they’re buried. A good example I just noticed was the shooting at LAX where that gunman killed two people at the El Al Airlines counter.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: Right.
RUSS KICK: That got a lot of coverage, but there was a story in the L.A. Times where, you know, you’re just kind of reading this story about what happened, and then all of a sudden there’s one sentence that says: witnesses said the security guard shot the man once at close range after the attacker had been disarmed and was being held on the floor.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: Hm!
RUSS KICK: So that would indicate that– basically he was summarily executed while he was being held down — disarmed. And it gets one sentence in the middle of the article – and that’s it. [LAUGHS] You know, and I think maybe that should have been the headline!
On the Media: Everything You Know is Wrong
Also, Disinfo co-founder and creative director Richard Metzger was recently interviewed in the NY Press.
(via Robot Wisdom)
R. Buckminster Fuller foresaw a need for a world peace game as an antidote for war games, and it’s eventually lead to osGame’s “Global Simulation Workshop.” Twenty teams, representing geopolitical regions, multinational corporations, and non-profit organizations, work together or in competition to manage the earth’s resources.
o.s. Earth: The Global Simulation
See also: Buckminster Fuller’s World Game
“Big business doesn’t always mean bad morals. Shift.com looks at eight e-businesses that are donating time or money to good causes.”
Newtopia Magazine is a “modern sociological-culture review that examines how our politics and policies are reflected in our arts, government, and humanities.” It’s got columns, fiction, and features, including a new one from New World Disorder editor Jason Lubyk called “Generation U.” And a really nice design to boot.
An excellent snap-analysis of the corporate world’s stranglehold on public opinion (in response to a man being fired from the Houston Chronicle for running a pseudonymous blog):
It seems to me that although blogs and other means of publishing give people the opportunity, in theory, to express their views and concerns, especially ones of political value, very few people have that freedom in practice because of their employers.
Consider e.g. someone who works for a software company, is opposed to software patents and could speak from experience about their flaws…
Unions protect the interests of some workers as it relates to their terms of employment, but who protects the interests of employees as individuals entitled to engage in asserting their influence in a supposedly democratic environment?
Ok, some people would argue that you can always work elsewhere and even if not, you are still free to vote according to your own judgement, but considering that most people are not in a position in which they can choose where they work, this is yet another mechanism by which corporations and money have more influence than individuals. Effectively, lobbyists not only get to represent the interests of corporations, but speak on the behalf of all of their employees.
Plastic: Blogging Reporter Gets Fired For Practicing ‘Gonzo Journalism’
See also: Nick Denton: the First Blog Martyr
Here are Hakim Bey’s arguments against drug legalization.
Hakim Bey: Against “Legalization”
(via New World Disorder)
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