From Antiwar.com: MTV Refuses Antiwar Commercial: Mtv has refused to accept a commercial opposing a war in Iraq, citing a policy against advocacy spots that it says protects the channel from having to run ads from any cash-rich interest group whose cause may be loathsome.
Most networks and media spigots have policies of non-advocacy yet they run advertisements for the military and promote all sorts of ‘patriotic’ ie. nationalist crap. It’s hypocrisy.
I don’t expect anyone to get me anything, but I was thinking on my own about ideas for presents (for myself of course). It’s fun!
I wouldn’t normally find this very newsworthy just for my own personal reasons, but I wanted to point out how they tried to pin this to that Ricci guy who had a brain hemorrage and died in jail. So, I’m glad the Smart girl has been found, but this just goes to show how ‘justice’ is often delivered by zealous prosecutors and police, on the backs of the hapless and innocent. Shame.
I have to wonder if he did indeed even take anything from the Smarts. Authorities can often find laws that have been broken and will even go so far to plant evidence.
So, a few things I forgot to mention. Minor things, but noteworthy.
I’m in the middle of taking at home defensive driving. It’s looking like it’ll put me at 4am by the end of the whole six hour ordeal. Given a choice I’d rather pound nails into my own scrotum. It’s going to be a long night. I’m just glad I have my laptop here, so I can slack.
Ran several errands, installed MovableType and built a website (www.skurt.com) out of thin air for A. (be encouraging to this newcomer and peep my sloppy, mad photoshop skills), and other than that unloading a week’s worth of thoughts and energies.
“Friend, do not concern yourself with who I am; you will never know. I do not want you to accept anything I say. I do not want anything from any of you; I do not desire popularity; I do not want your flattery, your following. Because I am in love with life, I do not want anything. These questions are not of very great importance. What is of importance is the fact that you obey and allow your judgement to be perverted by authority. Your judgement, your mind, your affection, your life are being perverted by things which have no value, and herein lies sorrow.”
J. Krishnamurti
Early Talks, 1930
The Plan: Were Neo-Conservatives’ 1998 Memos a Blueprint for Iraq War?:
And in a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group predicted that the shift would come about slowly, unless there were “some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor.”
Some critics of the Bush administration’s foreign policy, especially in Europe, have portrayed PNAC as, in the words of Scotland’s Sunday Herald, “a secret blueprint for U.S. global domination.”
The group was never secret about its aims. In its 1998 open letter to Clinton, the group openly advocated unilateral U.S. action against Iraq because “we can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf War coalition” to enforce the inspections regime.