Archive for August 24th, 2005
Some gore for a change. Why bother trying to pry the rest of the Abu-Gharib photos from the Army’s cold, dead hands when you can have something just as good. Like American soldiers (female thank god) posing nude, or triumphantly posing by “cooked Iraqi.” There has been some debate over whether or not Americans are [...]
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August 24th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Time: Why Pat Robertson’s Statements Help Hugo Chavez
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a new best friend this morning: television evangelist Pat Robertson. With his astonishing call for the left-wing leader’s assassination last night—”I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it…We have the ability to take him out”—Robertson will have surely made [...]
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August 24th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Cultivating the mythos and making even death in line with the hollow slogans of the elites.
Unlike earlier wars, nearly all Arlington National Cemetery gravestones for troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are inscribed with the slogan-like operation names the Pentagon selected to promote public support for the conflicts.
The Pentagon in the late 1980s began selecting [...]
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August 24th, 2005
Björn Hallberg