[nsfw] - When Lily Allen originally wrote the song, she had in mind the far-right-wing British National Party and George W. Bush (which the ignorable official video addresses). Then this year, after some random folks made The Big Fat Gay Collab video mashup, and Lily saw and liked it live on French Television, other groups have been joining in, from England, France, and Brazil, to Hungararian celebrities and more. [Potential intercultural overgeneralisation comparison fun! Which country's scene has the best fashion?] A friendly little earworm!
Also good ditties by her, with official videos, are LDN, The Fear, and Not Fair.
[news] - one-word descriptions of Bush (via)
chronology - the evolution of the bush doctrine | PBS
a recently featured article at wikipedia: Voter turnout
Rooting out progressives in US academia
children who were whiny and insecure tend to grow up to be conservatives and Parallels between my living through two years of middle school and the two terms of the Bush presidency via kottke
Why you should be (more) paranoid: Slashdot | Unmanned Aerial Drones Coming Soon Above U.S. and Boing Boing: Guy gets credit card using torn up application and Slashdot | Australian Parliament Approves Email Snooping and Slashdot | UK Government Passes ID Card Bill and ... *hides under blankets*
Aussie Senator: air security is meaningless
BBC NEWS | US Vietnam intelligence 'flawed'
BBC George Bush on Elusive Peace and White House denies Bush God claim
[reality] - hierarchies.org: Who Owns Who (yum).
and a wallpaper version of the adbusters sticker sheet.
and to put them all together: a fresh link to the big ten media conglomerates, the media ownership chart, and they rule.
"Yet this chamber is hauntingly silent. On what is possibly the eve of horrific infliction of death and destruction on the population of the nation of Iraq -- a population, I might add, of which over 50% is under age 15 -- this chamber is silent. On what is possibly only days before we send thousands of our own citizens to face unimagined horrors of chemical and biological warfare -- this chamber is silent. On the eve of what could possibly be a vicious terrorist attack in retaliation for our attack on Iraq, it is business as usual in the United States Senate.
We are truly "sleepwalking through history." In my heart of hearts I pray that this great nation and its good and trusting citizens are not in for a rudest of awakenings. "
"The Bush administration has reportedly ordered the Pentagon to prepare contingency plans for attacking seven countries with nuclear weapons.
Quoting a secret Pentagon report, the Los Angeles Times newspaper names China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria as potential targets."
Brief summary at top.
oh, and the Information Awareness Office is now watching you.
Because propaganda is ok when you call it advertising.