The video for Johnny Cash’s cover of the NIN song, ‘Hurt’.
LOS ANGELES (AP)–At 70, Johnny Cash is rocking out with his cover of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt.” “Most videos are about creating eye candy, a pretty image that can be a marketing tool,” Romanek said. “We just tried to show the simple truth of what’s going on in his life. It’s kind of a sucker punch when you see it the first time because we’re not used to that emotional depth in music videos.”
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The 1967 War and the
Israeli Occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza
Did the Egyptians actually start the 1967 war, as Israel originally claimed?
“The former Commander of the Air Force, General Ezer Weitzman, regarded as a hawk, stated that there was ‘no threat of destruction’ but that the attack on Egypt, Jordan and Syria was nevertheless justified so that Israel could ‘exist according the scale, spirit, and quality she now embodies.’…Menahem Begin had the following remarks to make: ‘In June 1967, we again had a choice. The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.’ “Noam Chomsky, “The Fateful Triangle.”
Was the 1967 war defenisve? – continued
“I do not think Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to The Sinai would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive war. He knew it and we knew it.” Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s Chief of Staff in 1967, in Le Monde, 2/28/68
Interview: Author Daniel Pipes on his new book, “Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From,” and his life
01/25/98
Booknotes – C-SPAN
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Dr. PIPES: Well, cer–certainly conspiracies do take place, and there are even conspiracies to take over the world. And here we get to an interesting point. The only real conspiracies–or almost only real conspiracies are counterconspiracies. In other words, if I’m a conspiracy theorist, I believe that this is a good way of operating, an effective way of operating. And therefore, I’m inclined to operate this way myself, and that’s precisely what you find.
Take Hitler. He believed in a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. What he did to counter that alleged Jewish conspiracy was to create a real conspiracy, the Nazi Party, and he a–apparently took a number of ideas from the alleged Jewish conspiracy and made them part of his Nazi movement, and the Nazi movement was an attempt to take over the world. Take Lenin. He believed in a business conspiracy, a conspiracy of business interests to dominate the world, to extract, steal goods at–at–at cheaper–or for free, for the same reason: Because he believed in conspiracy, he himself organized a conspiracy, the Social Democratic Party in Russia, which, in fact, took over Russian government and was a–an attempt to take over the world.
So over and over again, I find that the–the conspiracy theorist becomes, himself, a conspirator. And that in most cases, the real conspiracy, the one that actually takes place, follows from the actions, the mind of a conspiracy theorist. So there’s a–a circle. And so my policy conclusion from this is when you hear a conspiracy theory being alleged, watch out for the conspiracy.
“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man’s censure but reserve thy judgement.”
— William Shakespeare
My cat, Sarah, and I play this neat little game on a regular basis. See, she goes and hides little presents in her sandbox and then I go and find them. Actually, it’s not as much fun as it sounds.
Mitochondrial DNA, the portion of DNA located in the mitochondria or “powerhouses” of the cell, passes only from the mother to offspring. The mitochondria capture the energy released from the oxidation of metabolites and convert it into energy.
“It is possible that in the process of replication these molecules are less damaged by oxidation, but we don’t know that yet,” said Dr. Guiseppe Attardi, Caltech professor of molecular biology, and an author of the study.
I’m going to try to do a quotation a day.
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” – Voltaire
I can’t believe there are missile launchers in our nation’s capital. It’s insane. Is this a real response to a credible threat or just a way to scare people ahead of this Iraq charade? I wish you could trust someone to tell you the truth.
Missile Launchers Positioned in D.C.:
The protection measures would include Customs Service aircraft flying high, keeping track of air traffic over the metro area, Air National Guard fighter jets patrolling above and Army radar systems positioned alongside Avenger air defense missile systems mounted on HumVees.
The government put these measures in place during President Bush’s January State of the Union message, then pulled them back. They went back into place when officials determined there was an increased likelihood for terrorist attacks and increased the nation’s Homeland Security alert status to orange from yellow.
