Iranian Movement Still Alive

Protesters today were met by police assaulting them with tear gas and batons, inside the city of Tehran, Iran. A group of mostly students took to the streets again this morning chanting anti-government slogans in response to the June 12 election. There were disputes on rather the election was handled fairly, or if the vote counting was handled unfairly by the party in power. The Iranian government cut the internet down to a trickle, to try and stop the protesters means of organization; and their ability to tell the outside world that the movement is still alive. It will be six months since the event on 12-12. On this day United4Iran is organizing a world protest through celebrating the arts, to show global solidarity with the Iranian people.

Support Freedom and Civil Rights for all humans on this planet. Visit United4Iran today and see what you can do to support the people.

Lost Season 6

Added a count down at the bottom of the page till the Season 6 premiere of Lost. Only 58 day left.


EDIT: But it doesn't really seem to be working....
I'll try and fix it later. I need to stop procrastinating and write a paper.

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

"The hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to anything new."

Just finished reading this essay by Douglas Haddow for Adbusters. Really good stuff. I'm currently working on an essay with a similar direction, but its far from done. So enjoy this article for a nice little critique of the Hipster generation.

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Informative Post

I'm just about done with school. A couple papers and few finals will finish this part of the journey. When I finish I plan on trying to make one post a day, a reality. But luckily for you (since you are reading this), I am not a consistent person. So the reality will be that I will be posting more often, in an attempt to post once a day. Just don't let me know that, or else I'll succumb to the true reality and go back to posting whenever I feel like it.

I suppose since this is an informative post, this is a perfect chance to explain the purpose behind this blog. I felt the need to began this blog in order to bring more attention to news stories that can easily fall through the cracks due to our news-media-corporate-government conglomerate. I will also be using this space for to add my perspective to our postmodern culture, as well as just posting things I'd like to share. Rather they be serious or entertaining.

And finally I've added some sites and blogs I frequent. All the blogs I could find from my dr.mario family, Democracy Now! (if you don't listen to Amy in the mornings, please start), and my friends' label Yards and Gods (whose having a compilation release show Saturday the 12th, here in CoMo at Mojo's). If I've forgotten your blog/website and if you'd like it to posted here, please leave it in the comments and I'll add it immediately. On the other side of the scale, if I'm sharing your blog/website and you'd like me to stop, just leave a comment as well.

How The U.S. Funds The Taliban

In a recent investigative article by Aram Roston in The Nation (click title for link), he as exposed payments coming from the Department of Defense that are redirect as payments of an "insurance," much like the mafia accepts "insurance," to the Taliban. These payments are made from U.S. military officials to mercenary organizations, like the Watan Risk Management owned by Ahmad Rateb Popal interpreter for the Taliban and cousin to the current President of the Taliban government. Other mercenary groups are ran by various war-lords, some having ties to the Taliban and other insurgencies. Please read the article for further information.

This information seems to support the concept of the industrial-military complex, that we are driving towards constant war. I'm not sure how we can win a war, when we are economically funding the other side. I read this article today, just after hearing Obama will be sending more troops to Afghanistan. Call the White House today and say wtf? Phone #202-456-1111

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Just because I'm a sucker for auto-tune...

Fox News Reports It's Mostly Not News

In the current "War" between Fox News and the White House, Fox News as came out stating the average consumer can tell the difference between the opinion page of a newspaper and the news section. Further declaring the hours of the day that Fox News has real (well as real as news can be on Fox) news and when it is opinion programming. You can get your news from Fox News 9 hours out of the day, between 9 A.M. and 4 P.M., then again between 6 and 8 P.M. This statement excludes every known "news caster" on Fox News: Hannity, Fox and Friends, Big Poppa Bear O'Reilly, and Mr. Sensitive himself Glenn Beck. Shouldn't we have some group that fact checks News organization. It seems it might help keep the actual truth out there.

Here's Jon Stewart's cover of this story:

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