First of all, I just got my copies of BURST magazine in the mail this morning (Phil, I have a copy here for you too). As always, they've done a great job with their ModCon report, for the third time in a row:
Anyway, I'm starting to get very sick of the media. It's almost impossible to stay informed when everyone is lying. I hear one story from the mainstream press. Then I hear an opposing story from the indie press. Then I hear another opposing story from the foreign press in Islamic countries. I have no idea what to believe. First they fucked up the names of the terrorists and accused a whole slew of innocent (and living) people. Then they translated Bin Laden's speech wrong… Although from the article I just linked, it seems apparent that the language is so culturally and theologically rich that as a Westerner I can never really understand what he's saying. I can get the gist of it, but only on a very shallow level. I do know that this war has something to do with gas… And as a citizen in the country with the world's largest reserves of oil, that's worrying!
Oh, and for some reason they seem to be renaming the PATRIOT act the USA act. Do they really think that simplistic patriotic naming will make people more willing to throw away their rights? “Oh, you say this isn't a guillotine? It's called an American Pride? Sure I'll stick my head in it!”
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