I'll be changing my ISP, so I won't be posting for awhile. In the meantime, here's a variety of links:
Blogs:
B4LAR
Baghdad Burning
Contrary Brin
David Drake
Dear Leader's Daily Thought
Greetings from Dawson
People Against Goodness And Normalcy
Less People Less Idiots
Pamplemoose
Bruce Schneier
The Prudent Investor - Seeing Too Many Bubbles
Those Bastards!
to herd or not to herd
Zenpundit
News
Asia Times Online
Counterpunch
High Country News
The Baffler
Lew Rockwell
Eat the State
Real Change News
Swans Commentary
The Onion
IMC
Other
CrimethiInc
Towards a Fresh Revolution
Cascadian National Party
The Unibomber Manifesto
Democide
ELF
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Program
The Management of Savagery. Al-Qaida has a program.
William S. Lind: Neither Shall the Sword. The world moves on.
Re-Interpreting Iraq. The never ending propaganda machines continues on.
Hunt for Russians' killers ordered. I would not want to be on the bad side of Russian Intelligence.
Definition of the Day: AA.
William S. Lind: Neither Shall the Sword. The world moves on.
Re-Interpreting Iraq. The never ending propaganda machines continues on.
Hunt for Russians' killers ordered. I would not want to be on the bad side of Russian Intelligence.
Definition of the Day: AA.
Monday, June 26, 2006
Don't Bet Against It
Is a Global Economic Deluge Increasingly Likely? Don't bet against it.
Hollow US defense for an empty threat. Missle defense can't even hit its own can of pork.
Creepy parents and illiterate seniors. There's some fucked-up people out there.
Check out Harper's Index for 2006.
Blogger found guilty of defamation in test case. No First Amendment in Italy; soon none here too.
Definition of the Day: Ugly.
Hollow US defense for an empty threat. Missle defense can't even hit its own can of pork.
Creepy parents and illiterate seniors. There's some fucked-up people out there.
Check out Harper's Index for 2006.
Blogger found guilty of defamation in test case. No First Amendment in Italy; soon none here too.
Definition of the Day: Ugly.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Mutable
Zawahiri hails Zarqawi in new video. He's more useful as a martyr.Families deny US terror plot link. Just talking shit?
The Changing Face of Resistance. It's mutable.
Militias Oppressing Iraqi Women. Saving no one.
Gangs (primary loyalties) in the US military. It's everywhere.
Land of the watched, home of the spied upon. It's not like it's really anything new (not that the author implies otherwise). It's just the current bunch of crooks are so arrogant about it. Like bit actors who can't play any other role than the swaggering Idiot, the current gang is limited. Unlike the bit actor, they would believe otherwise. The difference between Clinton and Bush is apparent: Clinton was slick; Bush just thinks he is.
Definition of the Day: Law of the Jungle, The.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Swine
Why Bush's Iraq is Worse Than Saddam's. Only Bush could manage to make things worse.
Reflections on the Uprising in France.
O'Reilly attacked liberal critics as "vicious[]" and "[un]reasonable," apparently for confronting him with "uncomfortable" facts. It's all just entertainment.
Garden shop owner gets 30 years in prison for selling iodine. The only thing worse than meth are pigs and other assorted swine.
Definition of the Day: Valentine's Day.
Reflections on the Uprising in France.
O'Reilly attacked liberal critics as "vicious[]" and "[un]reasonable," apparently for confronting him with "uncomfortable" facts. It's all just entertainment.
Garden shop owner gets 30 years in prison for selling iodine. The only thing worse than meth are pigs and other assorted swine.
Definition of the Day: Valentine's Day.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Second Rate
We may be worse than Saddam. Saddam was second rate.
The long reach of North Korea's missiles. Meanwhile, their people starve.
Wounded Troops Denied Benefits? Of course.
Guantanamo must close, Bush tells EU. Too little, too late.
US soldiers charged in Iraq death. Meanwhile the real crooks ultimately responsible remain free.
Definition of the Day: Violence.
The long reach of North Korea's missiles. Meanwhile, their people starve.
Wounded Troops Denied Benefits? Of course.
Guantanamo must close, Bush tells EU. Too little, too late.
US soldiers charged in Iraq death. Meanwhile the real crooks ultimately responsible remain free.
Definition of the Day: Violence.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
Love & Respect
William S. Lind: Aaugh! How to spread love & respect for the Taliban.US warns N Korea off missile test. Empty threats.
The ugly truth about everyday life in Baghdad (by the US ambassador). Truth is the first casualty of war.
Definition of the Day: Courtroom Justice.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Bursting
''Brazil Back in the Clutches of Capital Flight.'' Another bursting bubble.
Japan'’s alternative economics. Growth by not following the US example into ruin?
Japan warns North Korea on missile test. I'm sure they're quaking in their jackboots.
The Left and the Blathersphere. Their irrelevance continues.
Factfile: Somalia.
40 Killed, 90 Wounded in String of Bombings. No change.
Definition of the Day: Courteous.
Japan'’s alternative economics. Growth by not following the US example into ruin?
Japan warns North Korea on missile test. I'm sure they're quaking in their jackboots.
The Left and the Blathersphere. Their irrelevance continues.
Factfile: Somalia.
40 Killed, 90 Wounded in String of Bombings. No change.
Definition of the Day: Courteous.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Amusing
Mexican presidential elections: The firebrand on Bush's doorstep. I would find Manuel Lopez Obrador extremely amusing.
Corporate Democrats. Oink!
Requiem for Preventative War. Anything to justify a higher budget.
Definition of the Day: California.
Corporate Democrats. Oink!
Requiem for Preventative War. Anything to justify a higher budget.
Definition of the Day: California.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Wet Dream
Paul Craig Roberts: Bush's Armageddon Wish. More like a wet dream.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq names new head. It's a hydra.
Beach deaths 'not Israel's fault.' It never is.
UN alarmed as Afghans remobilise militias to fight Taliban. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Zarqawi successor vows vengeance. Another surprising headline.
Check out Cursor.org.
Definition of the Day: Canadian.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq names new head. It's a hydra.
Beach deaths 'not Israel's fault.' It never is.
UN alarmed as Afghans remobilise militias to fight Taliban. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Zarqawi successor vows vengeance. Another surprising headline.
Check out Cursor.org.
Definition of the Day: Canadian.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Desperate
Guantanamo suicides a 'PR move.' Getting a little desperate are we?
Robert Fisk: Zarqawi's End is Not a Famous Victory. How to lose by winning.
Read about John Boyd.
Check out Coming Anarchy.
Definition of the Day: Cab.
Robert Fisk: Zarqawi's End is Not a Famous Victory. How to lose by winning.
Read about John Boyd.
Check out Coming Anarchy.
Definition of the Day: Cab.
Friday, June 09, 2006
Crack
House Rejects Net Neutrality Rules. More proof concerning the fascism of Republicans in congress (as if any were needed).
Al-Qaeda condemns referendum. What a suppressing headline.
US trade deficit reaches $63.5bn. But since it was below $65bn. That's good news? Crack ain't got nothing on what these people are smoking!
Definition of the Day: Crack Whore.
Al-Qaeda condemns referendum. What a suppressing headline.
US trade deficit reaches $63.5bn. But since it was below $65bn. That's good news? Crack ain't got nothing on what these people are smoking!
Definition of the Day: Crack Whore.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
The Power of Weakness
Ding, Dong al-Zarqawi is Dead, and good riddance. But as Juan Cole explains, it will do little to cobat the overall insurgency. In fact, his death may actually Unify it.
In William S. Lind's The Power of Weakness, Again, the author explains the moral dilemma faced by the US in Iraq as follows:
We may find it easier to grasp what the power of weakness is and how it works on us by first imagining its opposite. Imagine that instead of facing rag-tag bands of poorly equipped and trained insurgents, our Marines and soldiers in Iraq were in a very difficult fight with an opponent similar to themselves, but somewhat stronger.
What would fighting the strong do for them? Being David rather than Goliath, they would see themselves as noble. Every victory would be a cause for genuine pride. Defeats would not mean disgrace, but instead would demand greater effort and higher performance. Even after a failure, they could still look at themselves in the mirror with pride. Knowing they faced a stronger enemy, their own cohesion would grow and their demand for self-discipline would increase.
If the enemy’s overmatch were too great, it could lead our units to hopelessness and disintegration. But a fight with an enemy who were stronger but still beatable would buck us up more than tear us down on the all-important moral level.
Now, to see the situation as it is, turn that telescope around. Every firefight we win in Iraq or Afghanistan does little for our pride, because we are so much stronger than the people we are defeating. Every time we get hit successfully by a weaker enemy, we feel like chumps, and cannot look ourselves in the mirror (again, with IED attacks this happens quite often). Whenever we use our superior strength against Iraqi civilians, which is to say every time we drive down an Iraqi street, we diminish ourselves in our own eyes. Eventually, we come to look at ourselves with contempt and see ourselves as monsters. One way to justify being a monster is to behave like one, which makes the problem worse still. The resulting downward spiral, which every army in this kind of war has gotten caught in, leads to indiscipline, demoralization, and disintegration of larger units as fire teams and squads simply go feral.
Again, this process is fundamental to Fourth Generation war. Martin van Crevald has stressed the power of weakness as one key, if not the key, to 4GW, and he is correct. It shows just how far America’s military leadership is from grasping Fourth Generation war that its response in Iraq has been to order all troops to undergo a two to four-hour “refresher course in core values.”
Of course, this nicely compliments some of the things I've been expounding upon for the last couple of months over at my Philosophy blog. One should never treat those weaker as equals. In doing so, by showing the weaker foe as a legitimate enemy to be fought as an equal, one simply sinks. Their power is your response.
In William S. Lind's The Power of Weakness, Again, the author explains the moral dilemma faced by the US in Iraq as follows:
We may find it easier to grasp what the power of weakness is and how it works on us by first imagining its opposite. Imagine that instead of facing rag-tag bands of poorly equipped and trained insurgents, our Marines and soldiers in Iraq were in a very difficult fight with an opponent similar to themselves, but somewhat stronger.
What would fighting the strong do for them? Being David rather than Goliath, they would see themselves as noble. Every victory would be a cause for genuine pride. Defeats would not mean disgrace, but instead would demand greater effort and higher performance. Even after a failure, they could still look at themselves in the mirror with pride. Knowing they faced a stronger enemy, their own cohesion would grow and their demand for self-discipline would increase.
If the enemy’s overmatch were too great, it could lead our units to hopelessness and disintegration. But a fight with an enemy who were stronger but still beatable would buck us up more than tear us down on the all-important moral level.
Now, to see the situation as it is, turn that telescope around. Every firefight we win in Iraq or Afghanistan does little for our pride, because we are so much stronger than the people we are defeating. Every time we get hit successfully by a weaker enemy, we feel like chumps, and cannot look ourselves in the mirror (again, with IED attacks this happens quite often). Whenever we use our superior strength against Iraqi civilians, which is to say every time we drive down an Iraqi street, we diminish ourselves in our own eyes. Eventually, we come to look at ourselves with contempt and see ourselves as monsters. One way to justify being a monster is to behave like one, which makes the problem worse still. The resulting downward spiral, which every army in this kind of war has gotten caught in, leads to indiscipline, demoralization, and disintegration of larger units as fire teams and squads simply go feral.
Again, this process is fundamental to Fourth Generation war. Martin van Crevald has stressed the power of weakness as one key, if not the key, to 4GW, and he is correct. It shows just how far America’s military leadership is from grasping Fourth Generation war that its response in Iraq has been to order all troops to undergo a two to four-hour “refresher course in core values.”
Of course, this nicely compliments some of the things I've been expounding upon for the last couple of months over at my Philosophy blog. One should never treat those weaker as equals. In doing so, by showing the weaker foe as a legitimate enemy to be fought as an equal, one simply sinks. Their power is your response.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Bloated Gas Bag
Big Brother's new toy: Another bloated gas bag watching you from the sky. No, it's not a politician, it's a blimp. (Via Unknown News.)
B.C.: Black Labor Fights 'Disorder' of Globalization. At least someone is.
The Death of US Engineering. If this keeps up, I'll pack my shit and move to Australia.
Definition of the Day: Glutton.
B.C.: Black Labor Fights 'Disorder' of Globalization. At least someone is.
The Death of US Engineering. If this keeps up, I'll pack my shit and move to Australia.
Definition of the Day: Glutton.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Happy 6-6-06
Happy 6-6-06. Satan rules.
US Congress To Handle Draft Bill On 6/6/6. Satan rules the congress (duh).
Mothers expect Damien on 6/6/06. Knocked up by Satan.
Definition of the Day: Hell.
Monday, June 05, 2006
Another Distraction
Let's leave the Constitution alone. Another distraction from a bunch of losers.
New York police who led double lives as Mafia hitmen jailed. Giving Pigs a bad name.
Familiar Foreign Policies and Familiar Wars: Vietnam, Iraq Â… Before And After. The more things change, the more they stay the same. See also My Lai to Haditha, wars' turning points.
On the Dutch: Liberalism under pressure. By fear?
See Greetings From Dawson.
Definition of the Day: NASDAQ.
New York police who led double lives as Mafia hitmen jailed. Giving Pigs a bad name.
Familiar Foreign Policies and Familiar Wars: Vietnam, Iraq Â… Before And After. The more things change, the more they stay the same. See also My Lai to Haditha, wars' turning points.
On the Dutch: Liberalism under pressure. By fear?
See Greetings From Dawson.
Definition of the Day: NASDAQ.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Ain't Bureaucracy Grand?
The Perils of Threat Inflation. Ain't bureaucracy grand?
US study questions abstinency pledges. This study was needed?
Bill O'Reilly: A dangerous demagogue of deceit. This guy really likes alliteration.
Return to Somalia: The war on terror - a new front. Fighting the new Taliban.
The US asset catch-22. Habit is not always a good thing.
Link: World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art.
Definition of the Day: Rand, Ayn.
US study questions abstinency pledges. This study was needed?
Bill O'Reilly: A dangerous demagogue of deceit. This guy really likes alliteration.
Return to Somalia: The war on terror - a new front. Fighting the new Taliban.
The US asset catch-22. Habit is not always a good thing.
Link: World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art.
Definition of the Day: Rand, Ayn.
Friday, June 02, 2006
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Just Another Spectacle
After eight years, legal battle over taped cell phone call still rages. Just another Spectacle. Rather than do things like secure funding (or pork - same difference) for infrastructure or education, Seattle's Jim McDermott spends his time fighting this legal battle, and annoying the Republicans. Although, I find poking Republicans entertaining, I'd at least like to get something back after being robbed by the federal government. Oh well, at least he's not Seattle's whore of a Mayor. After living in areas dominated by Liberals and Conservative politicians, I can say one thing is clear: they both suck ass.
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