Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Saturday, December 14, 2002

"For decades, [physics] students have been taught to avoid asking probing questions. An attitude of "shut-up-and-calculate" has dominated the field. The result is widespread confusion, and a strange unwillingness to ask clear and direct questions..." --When will we emerge from the quantum tunnel of obscurity?
"Hell is not the place of evil; rather, Hell is the absence of any standards at all." --Kenneth Tynan
The Edge Questions

Wednesday, December 11, 2002

"In The Creature from Jekyll Island, G. Edward Griffin formulates succinctly the financiers' compelling interest in war: 'All that is necessary ... to insure that a government will maintain or expand its debt is to involve it in war or the threat of war. The greater the threat and the more destructive the war, the greater the need for debt.'" --Nicholas Strakon
"We're now in a situation where you've got powerful newspaper executives like Al Neuharth, the former chairman of the Gannett chain making idiotic statements like, 'There are no more secrets in the world.' From the highest mountain to the lowest valley... Pete Williams is now a reporter -- the guy who lied again and again during the Gulf War and lied directly to me. I can honestly call him a liar and never lose a libel suit. He is now a reporter for NBC. Bob Woodward, the hero of Watergate, sits on stories" --An investigative journalist's take on media censorship in the first Gulf War (deja vu)

Tuesday, December 10, 2002

Former attorney general Ramsey Clark tears apart a Pentagon spokesman over America's ten-year bombing of Iraq
Hundred of billions of dollars are going towards doing things like this
If you're sick of hearing nothing but right-wing propaganda on mainstream radio listen to Democracy Now
What I've been listening to over the last few years, more or less in order, from newest to oldest... (mostly EBM)