Well, it's always nice to wake up and find out that two of your servers are offline (the main BME box, as well as the eunuch.org box)… Working on that now… As soon as that's dealt with, back to work on the scrapbook.
Update: There's broken switch or something at USinternet. They have a couple of idiots working on it now, as far as I can tell they assigned the stupidest people they could find.Update: It seems to be fixed, and last night's scrapbook email is coming in.
Other than that this morning I had to delete a user who decided to use IAM to broadcast pictures of himself posing in punk regalia in front of his confederate and nazi flags. Why would a person like that add themselves here? Is it not incredibly clear that bigotry isn't tolerated here?
You still think swastikas look cool
The real nazis run your schools
They're coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real fourth reich you'll be the first to go
Nazi Punks Fuck Off
Dead Kennedys
Found out as well that the guy who was deleted earlier this week for basically the same thing (the guy that just got accepted to be a cop) had been broadcasting out white power skinhead messages to people for some time here. Real nice…
OK, now… No offense, but is the “average American” (whatever that means) delusional? According to a Pew Research Center poll, 86% of Americans believe that Saddam either has nuclear weapons or is close to getting them (a claim which has been absolutely discredited over and over and over), and 66% believe he was in part behind the 9/11 attacks (which is flat out ludicrous, considering that al-Qaeda considers Saddam an enemy as well). As Eric Margolis points out, Iraq is a demolished nation of 22.3 million people, 17.7 million of whom are anti-Saddam Kurds and Shia Muslims… Only 4.6 million Sunnis even live in the country.
You're being lied to. You've been told that Saddam is as bad as Hitler. Now Bush is claiming that this is as dangerous a showdown as the Cuban Missile crisis — which is again a flat-out lie. During the Cuban missile crisis there were nuclear missiles a hundred miles off the US coast in Cuba, plus piles more on Russian nuclear subs. The world really almost did end. The main reason it didn't is because of Arkhipov, but that's another story (read it if you want). This war is about two main things: (a) corporate greed, and (b) Israel.
That said, if you really want to know who was really behind the 9/11 attacks (along with al-Qaeda), you need to seriously start asking WHY does the White House continually block independent investigation into 9/11? They've already been tried and convicted in the press of incompetence. The only thing that they COULD be hiding is the fact that they were behind the attacks. Look at the outcome? Who profited? When you answer that question — and it's very easy to answer — you'll have your culprits.
Let's start with the Halliburton Company, on account of its direct ties with the White House. It has a subsidiary called Kellogg Brown & Root, which provides mercenary services to the government of Cuba and Central Asian nations. These “private contractors” are making up more and more of the forces on both sides, and they are owned by mainstream companies like TRW, Northrop Grumman, and so on — Fortune 500 companies. You need to read this article — it is terrifying — truly messed up: America's For-Profit Secret Army (free registration required). When you're done reading that, feel free to read The Dinosaur War – To Protect Corporate Profits. It addresses among other things how there was never an 1886 Supreme Court Ruling giving corporations the rights of people (isn't it fucked up that a corporation has more rights than say, a dolphin?). The Supreme Court had ruled nothing of the sort… But I guess it's too late now?
