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Pajamas Media » Shocked Serbians Celebrate Karadzic’s Capture

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

My latest piece, exploring the Karadzic arrest,  has just been published over at Pajamas Media
Pajamas Media » Shocked Serbians Celebrate Karadzic’s Capture

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Michael Totten again, this time On the Road to Kosovo

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

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“Lippmann…argued in his best-selling book called Public Opinion that democracy was fundamentally flawed. People, he said, mostly know the world only indirectly, through “pictures they make up in their heads.” And they receive these mental pictures largely through the media. The problem, Lippmann argued, is that the pictures people have in their heads are hopelessly [...]

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Michael Totten on Belgrade and Serbia

Monday, June 2, 2008

This post is a about Michael Totten’s report “A Dark Corner of Europe” Part 1. You need to read this article for this post to make sense. Michael Totten’s article is mostly very good article, and I, perhaps unfairly, am focussing only on the negatives here.
Michael Totten is a great independent journalist who I [...]

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Attention Profiling: APML Beginner’s Guide

Friday, May 30, 2008

“APML allows you to share your own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of your ranked interests.” APML Website
“…consolidated, structured descriptions of people’s interests [...]

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Triumph of Astroturfing

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Astroturf activism: The creation of a campaign that looks like grassroots activism, but isn’t

eSkeptic newsletter has a fascinating story about how a Canadian law designed to force health supplement companies to correctly label their goods or face serious fines has come under fierce attack from a faux consumer watchdog campaign mostly orchestrated via Facebook and [...]

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How To Have A Number One The Easy Way

Sunday, April 6, 2008

T H E
M A N U A L
(HOW TO HAVE A NUMBER ONE THE EASY WAY)
THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU
REVEAL THEIR ZENARCHISTIC METHOD USED
IN MAKING THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPEN.
KLF 009B
1988 (YOU KNOW WHAT’S GONE)
TEXT BY:
LORD ROCK AND TIME BOY
A.K.A. THE TIMELORDS
A.K.A. ROCKMAN ROCK AND KINGBOY D.
A.K.A. THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU
A.K.A. THE JAMS
A.K.A. THE [...]

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Kosovo Shmosovo

Friday, February 22, 2008

The happy innocent days when Serbs thought that with Slobo gone, they would be treated fairly.
I have received a number of emails from friends curious to know the inside track on the Kosovo situation from their man on the ground in Serbia.
The problem is that when one is very close to the situation, and are [...]

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Gaza Beach Tragedy

Monday, February 4, 2008

Augean Stables, makers of “Pallywood” and “Birth of an Icon“, have put up a ten-minute documentary on the Gaza Beach explosion that killed seven of the Ghalia family on June 9, 2006.
Once again a gut-wrenching tragedy looks highly suspect and staged by the Palestinian propaganda machine.
 
YouTube - Gaza Beach Tragedy: Exploiting Grief
Gaza Beach [...]

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Crack unit of Serbian dictator slayers?

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

I first heard about Otpor (”Resistance”) and Center for Applied NonViolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) in a superb Reason article from 2006 called “The 50 Habits of Highly Effective Revolutionaries“.
Last week I read that Stratfor (the civilian CIA) thinks that Hugo Chavez’s recent political reverse may be due to the CANVAS activity in Venezuela.
From [...]

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Sucker Punch

Friday, November 30, 2007

 Carlos Rotella at Slate has a good article on  “The art, the poetry, the idiocy of YouTube street fights” - the posting of online fight videos. He reports from the virtual ”Land of a thousand asswhippings”.
The fight video is a compelling genre and holds a grim fascination for many. There are some great “stories” in some of these [...]

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