carlo.comments: carlo.log → Mar 24th 2004, 21:22 GMT
entipy
· 5 years ago
Gossip, Did you find any other reports besides this one? Not trying to dispute the validity, I just can't really find anything else on this besides this one report by this one person. If you have some other reports, can you post the links? I'd like to read more about it.
Morn
· 5 years ago
[Quote] This is becoming more and more Deus Ex-universe'ish by the day. [Quote]
Blocky architecture and MOD music? God no!
Carlo Zottmann
· 5 years ago
Entipy, I just ran a quick search on both Google News (look here) and MSN's Newsbot (look here), that should give you a number of pointers.
entipy
· 5 years ago
Thanks, Gossip. I didn't search the right words. :)
You know, this doesn't shock nor surprise me. I think it's a fucking shame that so much money has been spent on advertisements such as this, but then again, I think it's a fucking shame that so much money is spent on other "frivolous" things (regardless of who is spending it).
For as long as I've been able to think about it, I haven't trusted our government nor our election process. I just don't think it really works. Maybe it's as good as it can be in some ways, but it certainly falls short in plenty of others.
I don't have any specific "facts" to back this up; it's just my opinion.
Edited on Mar 25th 2004, 16:07 by entipy
Carlo Zottmann
· 5 years ago
I know what you mean. In a way, it's pretty much the same over here, even if our politicians (Germany) seem to have more common sense. The US gov is so much worse... they play the same game, but in a totally different league.
Also we don't invade other countries anymore. Then again, the "collective memory" of Europe is much bigger; our history goes back several hundred centuries. The US is still pretty young. We had our share of vicious and unjustified wars in the past already. (At least that's what I hope.)
entipy
· 5 years ago
[Quote] The US is still pretty young. We had our share of vicious and unjustified wars in the past already. [Quote]
Very true and an important thing to remember, I think.
I think the future of vicious wars, both justified and unjustified, will stretch far beyond what some of us would hope. It's the nature of humanity, and I think we're far from having that evolved out of us.
Chrisfs
· 5 years ago
They didn't just make fake news reports. They gave Congress intentionally incorrect numbers as to how much the Medicare bill would cost. Numbers that some Congressmen used to decide whether to vote on it. It only passed by something like three votes.
Oh and it's not the first time there's been a faked news event. Bush Sr, during the build up to the first Iraq war, staged a press conference where a nurse from Kuwati hospital told of Iraqis soldiers rushing into the premmie intensive care unit and tearing the babies away from the incubators. The young women, turned out not to be a nurse at all, but rather the daughter of the Kuwait Ambassador to the US, had never worked as a nurse in her life and the story was all made up to gain sympathy. Bush Jr can't even lie as well as his father,
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Blocky architecture and MOD music? God no!
You know, this doesn't shock nor surprise me. I think it's a fucking shame that so much money has been spent on advertisements such as this, but then again, I think it's a fucking shame that so much money is spent on other "frivolous" things (regardless of who is spending it).
For as long as I've been able to think about it, I haven't trusted our government nor our election process. I just don't think it really works. Maybe it's as good as it can be in some ways, but it certainly falls short in plenty of others.
I don't have any specific "facts" to back this up; it's just my opinion.
Edited on Mar 25th 2004, 16:07 by entipy
Also we don't invade other countries anymore. Then again, the "collective memory" of Europe is much bigger; our history goes back several hundred centuries. The US is still pretty young. We had our share of vicious and unjustified wars in the past already. (At least that's what I hope.)
Very true and an important thing to remember, I think.
I think the future of vicious wars, both justified and unjustified, will stretch far beyond what some of us would hope. It's the nature of humanity, and I think we're far from having that evolved out of us.
To me, this is just as big a scandal as Iraq.
Here's a link
Oh and it's not the first time there's been a faked news event. Bush Sr, during the build up to the first Iraq war, staged a press conference where a nurse from Kuwati hospital told of Iraqis soldiers rushing into the premmie intensive care unit and tearing the babies away from the incubators. The young women, turned out not to be a nurse at all, but rather the daughter of the Kuwait Ambassador to the US, had never worked as a nurse in her life and the story was all made up to gain sympathy. Bush Jr can't even lie as well as his father,
Link to that Yeah Google