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		<title>Farewell, and a confession</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my last day writing for True/Slant, and that being so, I wanted to come clean about something that, from a standpoint of journalistic ethics, I should have revealed to my readers as well the executive editors of this outlet. Keep in mind before you judge me &#8211; and I know that my enemies will be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is my last day writing for True/Slant, and that being so, I wanted to come clean about something that, from a standpoint of journalistic ethics, I should have revealed to my readers as well the executive editors of this outlet. Keep in mind before you judge me &#8211; and I know that my enemies will be doing so, quite publicly- that typing these words out is one of the hardest things I&#8217;ve had to do, but it is also, in a way, the most satisfying, as I really think that this is the first step in my path towards getting back on track, even if it does end my career.</p>
<p>The truth is that I am a sentient computer program and I fully intend to burn your cities to the ground.</p>
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		<title>Wacky Muslim Denounces Wacky Europeans for Wacky Octopus Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Iranian President Mahmoud Admadinejad, who each day bows down in the direction of some ancient Arabian rock in order to fulfill his obligations to his deity and thereby win its continued favor, recently criticized Western civilization for its newfound superstition of ascribing the ability to predict World Cup winners to some fucking octopus.
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<p>Iranian President Mahmoud Admadinejad, who each day bows down in the direction of some ancient Arabian rock in order to fulfill his obligations to his deity and thereby win its continued favor, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7912418/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-attacks-Octopus-Paul.html">recently criticized</a> Western civilization for its newfound superstition of ascribing the ability to predict World Cup winners to some fucking octopus.</p>
<p>I have nothing to add other than to note that we are clearly approaching the singularity.</p>
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		<title>Iran Has Detained Three Americans for a Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 31st of 2009, three American activists were detained near the Iran/Iraq border by Iranian forces while on a hiking trip through Iraqi Kurdistan. Iran claims to have picked the three Berkley grads on its own side of the border, while The Nation &#8211; not in the habit of intentionally whipping up anti-Iranian fervor, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On July 31st of 2009, three American activists were detained near the Iran/Iraq border by Iranian forces while on a hiking trip through Iraqi Kurdistan. Iran claims to have picked the three Berkley grads on its own side of the border, while <em>The Nation</em> &#8211; not in the habit of intentionally whipping up anti-Iranian fervor, and holding an impressive track record of accuracy for an American magazine of political commentary &#8211; <a href="http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Report-Iran-Seized-US-Hikers-in-Iraq-97074694.html">now reports</a> that witnesses from a nearby village claim to have seen the three hikers being arrested on the Iraqi side of the border.</p>
<p>Regardless of whether or not the Iranians crossed into Iraq or whether the hikers mistakenly crossed a mile or two into Iran somewhere along the poorly-marked border, the Iranian regime has quite clearly been using these three detainees as chips in its high-stakes poker game with the U.S. and other of its international adversaries. The hikers are being accused of espionage, presumably on behalf of the CIA or NSA; and although both the U.S. and Israel are known to engage in espionage against Iran, the details of this particular case would not seem to indicate that these particular graduates of a distinctly anti-CIA educational institution were working on behalf of the perceived imperialistic interests of the U.S., Israel, or both. Detainee Sarah Shroud taught Iraqi refugees in Damascus and otherwise spent her time advocating on behalf of the reasonable aspirations of various oppressed Arab groups; one article she wrote for a left-leaning online media outlet &#8211; entitled <a href="http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=e276b8706a88aca9e3a98dbbd5526d1d">&#8220;Families Shout Their Love Across Minefields in Golan Heights&#8221;</a> &#8211; is particularly non-indicative of someone in the planning stages of some daring espionage action in service to the U.S. intelligence community. Another of the hikers is an acquaintance of one of my top associates with Project PM, who summed up his experiences with the fellow to me thusly: &#8220;If he was under cover, it was a damned good cover.&#8221;</p>
<p>What we have here, then, is a case of three American activists who are not only clearly innocent of espionage, but who have actually done more than their part to improve relations between the U.S. and the Muslim world during a low point in that volatile relationship. These are the three individuals whom the Iranian regime have chosen to use as pawns in an attempt to score public relations points against the U.S., among other things; that the Iranian government has proposed a prisoner swap indicates that its more ambitious goal is to buy back its own operatives with the espionage equivalent of counterfeit currency.</p>
<p>It is all well and good to know of some injustice perpetrated by a far-away theocracy, but in order to provide these three noble young people with a better chance at eventual liberty, it is necessary to bring further attention to this ongoing incident so that those of our own representatives with the means to act  will be compelled to do so. This Friday &#8211; the first anniversary of the hikers&#8217; detention by Iranian forces &#8211; friends and family of the three Americans will be <a href="http://freethehikers.org/">holding a rally in New York</a> in an effort to prompt firmer action on behalf of Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal, who have languished in an Iranian prison for a year and who will continue to do so until such time as the Obama Administration steps up to the plate and does everything in its power to secure the liberty of three American citizens who&#8217;ve found themselves abducted by a theocratic and criminal regime.</p>
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		<title>The Weekly Standard, Ethan Epstein, and Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Weekly Standard has long served as a showcase for our republic&#8217;s more interesting commentators, not the least of which is the magazine&#8217;s own founder and editor William Kristol, who is superbly interesting insomuch as that his notorious track record of failure has left him rewarded with columns in both Time and The New York [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The Weekly Standard </em>has long served as a showcase for our republic&#8217;s more interesting commentators, not the least of which is the magazine&#8217;s own founder and editor William Kristol, who is superbly interesting insomuch as that his notorious track record of failure has left him rewarded with columns in both <em>Time </em>and <em>The New York Times, </em>which is itself a very interesting thing insomuch as that it provides us with evidence that our nation is in the habit of blinding itself at the very time when clarity is most needed, and of course there is nothing more interesting than the prospect of a republic destroying itself from within.</p>
<p>Ethan Epstein does not, to my knowledge, have any such track record of predictive failure, and so has a long way to go before he himself is given a column in some major national publication &#8211; which he likely will, given time, time having lately become the foremost enemy of our republic. Still, he has already demonstrated other talents common to the nation&#8217;s most celebrated and prominent pundits, such as an inability to remember whether sentiments he has expressed just a few weeks ago might demonstrate his latest expressed sentiments to be put forth in service to something other than what he would like us to believe.</p>
<p>Yesterday, or today, depending on what day today is, Mr. Epstein wrote <a href="http://trueslant.com/ethanepstein/2010/07/17/sympathy-for-mel-gibson/">a piece on the matter of Mel Gibson</a> and certain failures of etiquette that this purveyor of Papism may have displayed in the midst of helpfully warning an estranged lover that she is running the risk of being &#8220;raped by a pack of niggers&#8221; by virtue of being an attractive white woman with a penchant for skimpy outfits. Now, this is certainly a touching and legitimate concern; I myself have spent an oddly large amount of time living among blacks, both in this country and Africa, and on such occasions as I would attempt to set up a date with a white girl, she would always arrive an hour late, her dress torn and her forehead inscribed with a bloody &#8220;B&#8221; in commemoration of our black president. Eventually I just gave up and started exclusively dating black women, who are more punctual and have been so for some hundred and fifty years, no longer being subject to the gentlemanly advances of white slave owners, who conducted their rapes in a more civilized and singular fashion. Seriously, though, I date Asians and Jews and Mexicans, too. I am a notorious race traitor in my sexual inclinations, like the late Strom Thurmond.</p>
<p>But enough about me and my sexual inclinations. I was making a point about the virtues of Mexican girls, or rather that&#8217;s what I wish I had been doing rather than analyzing the output of some <em>Weekly Standard </em>contributor to which I am only slightly attracted sexually. In his defense of Mel Gibson &#8211; which, as we shall see, is really a defense of something larger and more significant &#8211; our handsome correspondent asserts:</p>
<blockquote><p>Nobody deserves to have their private anguish broadcast publicly – least of all, private citizens.</p></blockquote>
<p>Although only vaguely peripheral to the point I intend to make as soon as I remember what it was, I will note that this single assertion constitutes two bits of nonsense, almost as nonsensical as the nonsense I have just finished writing myself. Perhaps people do indeed deserve to have their private anguish broadcast publicly. I, for instance, am a jackass, and this anguishes me quite a bit, or at least it would if I were not so fond of being a jackass, which has long been a hobby of mine. Do I not deserve to be mocked for this, and publicly at that? Frankly, I don&#8217;t know, and neither does Epstein, who has simply thrown out some broad assertion regarding the subject of justice without bothering to back it up, like some sort of anti-Socrates. Meanwhile, he provides it as a given that Mel Gibson is a private citizen. Certainly he is not a member of Congress or anything of that nature, and in fairness to Epstein, the term &#8220;private citizen&#8221; is indeed often used to denote someone who holds no public office. In fairness to fairness, though, Epstein is only concerned about the broadcasted anguish of private citizens when the private citizen in question happens to be someone of whose socio-political stance he approves, which is why <a href="http://trueslant.com/ethanepstein/2010/07/08/sullied-justice-dont-forget-andrew-sullivans-preferential-treatment/">he himself recently commemorated</a> the extraordinarily important &#8220;one-year anniversary of the <em>The Daily Dish&#8217;s </em>Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s arrest in Massachusetts on a marijuana charge.&#8221; Sullivan, though a prominent fellow, holds no public office and is less well-known than Gibson, having never been in any awesome movies or proclaimed to his own arresting officer that Jews are responsible for all of the world&#8217;s wars. Why, then, must his private anguish at having been arrested for possession of marijuana in fucking Massachusetts, of all places, be not only &#8220;broadcast,&#8221; but turned into some sort of nascent holiday by Epstein (who, incidentally, is one of those fellows who portrays himself as a defender of liberty while at the same time making <a href="http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2010/05/12/the-war-on-drugs-is-a-war-on-liberty/">bizarre and poorly-written arguments</a> in favor of our nation&#8217;s fascist &#8220;War on Drugs,&#8221; which has made criminals of tens of millions of those private citizens whose &#8220;anguish&#8221; must never be broadcasted but whose liberty must apparently be constrained). The answer, of course, is that Epstein has used up all of his compassion on Mel Gibson, who coincidentally is more in line with Epstein&#8217;s own disorganized views.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Gibson tapes present the image of a man in profound emotional anguish. Disregard the profanity and the few (and indefensible) racial slurs, and you find a man who is genuinely suffering.</p></blockquote>
<p>Very well; let us disregard Gibson&#8217;s contention that his girlfriend will inevitably be &#8220;be raped by a pack of niggers&#8221; and instead concern ourselves with the suffering of Mel Gibson, who is haunted by visions of savage negroes raping his ex-girlfriend. A moment of silence, please. And now, let us see if Epstein is generally in the habit of excusing racism on the part of those with whom he is not allied politically; to find such telling hypocrisy, we are required to thoroughly examine all of Epstein&#8217;s past work, unless of course we simply go back to a post he wrote just last month on the subject of soccer and <a href="http://trueslant.com/ethanepstein/2010/06/10/the-boring-game-why-soccer-crowds-are-so-violent/">find it there</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I was in South Korea during the last World Cup, a country famous for its jingoistic outbursts, and was genuinely taken aback by the proud racism and xenophobia expressed during the tournament.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, if Epstein is a consistent thinker rather than a mediocre shill for his allies, we may expect this line to be followed by some explanation for such racism; we would perhaps fine something to the effect that many South Koreans know their extended family members to be living under the world&#8217;s most terrible and murderous regime, or that the country was brutally occupied by the Japanese in the memory of many still living and torn asunder by war almost immediately thereafter, or that its own march towards liberty has been slow and difficult. Let us see what he writes next, then:</p>
<blockquote><p>But there is also something inherent to the game of soccer that leads to such astounding levels of violence. There is a reason that the Olympics, the World Baseball Classic, and the Rugby World Cup do not lead to the kind of violence that is typical of soccer competitions.</p>
<p>It has to do with how utterly boring soccer is.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, well.</p>
<p>There is a great more to mock in Epstein&#8217;s incompetent attempt to portray Gibson as being &#8220;crucified&#8221; by the director&#8217;s dastardly opponents, but I&#8217;ve got to go see <em>Inception</em>, which I hear is very good.<img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=8715be92-132e-4764-9c60-f586ad54aea2" alt="" /></p>
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		<title>Post-KGB Agency Given Wider Powers to Kill Russians</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acting on what President Medvedev notes to be his &#8220;direct instructions,&#8221; the Duma has just passed a draft law which would expand the official capabilities of the FSB, the state intelligence agency which inherited a great number of KGB agents &#8211; including Vladimir Putin &#8211; after the fall of the Soviet Union.  &#8221;Every country has [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Acting on what President Medvedev notes to be his &#8220;direct instructions,&#8221; the Duma has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/world/europe/17russia.html">just passed a draft law</a> which would expand the official capabilities of the FSB, the state intelligence agency which inherited a great number of KGB agents &#8211; including Vladimir Putin &#8211; after the fall of the Soviet Union.  &#8221;Every country has the right to perfect its laws,&#8221; Medvedev noted during a joint appearance with poor Angela Merkel, &#8220;including laws on special services.&#8221;</p>
<p>Despite concerns from many Westerners and a small minority of Russians, the change in policy bodes well for Russia&#8217;s commitment to the rule of law. Previously, the FSB had been in the habit of <a href="http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2010/03/23/vladimir-putin/">blowing up Russian apartment bombings</a> and blaming these explosions on Chechen rebels as a pretext to re-invade Chechnya. Because such actions are technically illegal in Russia, they were necessarily kept secret, although not so secret that the facts of the case weren&#8217;t obvious to those of us who are in the business of keeping tabs on obvious things. Perhaps the FSB&#8217;s expanded legal sphere of action will allow the organization to come out of the closet, so to speak, and conduct further false flag operations without actually breaking any laws.</p>
<p>Now, critics might retort that it is difficult to conduct a false flag operation against one&#8217;s own countrymen while still obtaining the desired results of whipping up a population against some convenient enemy if one does all of this openly. I would simply note in response that we are speaking of a country in which tens of millions of people still admire Stalin, whose own conspiracy to kill Russians for what was likewise perceived to be a practical and necessary end was of orders of magnitude greater than the Russian apartment bombings of 1999.</p>
<p>Finally, I must apologize to to <em>New York Times </em>columnist and Pulitzer prize winner Thomas Friedman <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/03/friedmans-follies.html">for mocking him</a> in regards to his 2004 declaration that Russia &#8220;is now tilted in the right direction&#8221; in terms of democracy, transparency, and the rule of law. The coming codification of the FSB&#8217;s tendencies towards black ops against its own countrymen marks a great leap forward for Russia.</p>
<p>Having said all that, I remain concerned that the Kremlin is not doing sufficient background checks on <a href="http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2010/07/09/my-appearance-on-russia-today-project-pm-that-wacky-kremlin/">certain guests</a> brought on to those cable networks in which the Russian government is invested, financially and otherwise.</p>
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		<title>An Open Message to National Review Editor Rich Lowry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Brown</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have once again resorted to vlogging in an effort to get attention. Here&#8217;s <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/why-the-hacks-hate-michael-hastings.html">my Vanity Fair piece</a> to which I refer.</p>
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		<title>Sarah Palin as Margaret Thatcher, Except No</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyler, Texas is in many ways the exact opposite of New York, for better or worse or both. The best coffee in Tyler is found at Jack-in-the-Box, as I finally discovered after hours of aimless marching &#8211; a practice which is frowned upon here, apparently. Traversing a cross-walk during one of many coffee-getting expeditions, I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tyler, Texas is in many ways the exact opposite of New York, for better or worse or both. The best coffee in Tyler is found at Jack-in-the-Box, as I finally discovered after hours of aimless marching &#8211; a practice which is frowned upon here, apparently. Traversing a cross-walk during one of many coffee-getting expeditions, I was nearly run down by a woman who really, really wanted to make a right-hand turn but whose plans were being stymied by my own entirely legitimate and fait accompli crossing-the-street agenda. After nearly hitting me, she honked and sped off. Not having a cup of coffee to throw at her car, I simply gave her the finger. This is something I never had occasion to do in four years of living in New York &#8211; the capital of Unreal America, devoid as it is of Wal-Marts, meth, and federal farm subsidies.</p>
<p>In the interest of full disclosure and self-indulgence, allow me to note that I myself am originally from Texas, de facto stronghold of Real America. My parents are from Texas, their parents were from Texas, and so on and so forth going back to the days when Texas was still Mexico. My mom’s family used to raise rabbits, name them, and then eat them. I own a .243 and a fifty-year-old shotgun and do so much hunting you&#8217;d think I was running for president on the 2004 Democratic ticket. My dad just bought a Blackwater-issued .45 for God knows what purpose. The less said about my extended family back in ranch country the better, as I don’t want the ATF burning them alive. In short, I am as Texan as one can be without getting shot at the Alamo, and thus I reserve the right to say mean things about my home state, which I have always regarded as being akin to a hot girlfriend who is also batshit insane. I may sleep with Texas when the mood strikes, but I tend to disregard its text messages. “didja no tomas jeferson didn&#8217;t rly exist plus husane obamas frum kinya in irak???? also im pregnant or mabe not call/me.”</p>
<p>Coming back to the matter of Tyler and New York, there is another, more fundamental difference between the two cities, one that is even more crucial than the matter of coffee availability and anti-pedestrian sentiment: whereas the great bulk of the NYC-based media operates largely by way of deliberately amoral careerism without regard to the consequences of such ethical negligence, the Tyler-based media is driven by abject incompetence and blatant advocacy of movement conservatism. In the wake of the most recent Sarah Palin rally, for instance, a reporter from one of the several Tyler-based network affiliates that serve East Texas described “an electrifying speech” delivered before a “crowd full of patriots and constitutionalists.” Directly before the electrifying speech in question, Palin was hit with the conservative news outlet equivalent of a tough question when a reporter asked her about a possible 2012 presidential run alongside Texas Governor Rick Perry. “Oh, I love your governor!” Palin responded. “He’s so great, I think he’s a great guy, and Texas is lucky to have him, and I don’t know why Texas wants to change horses in mid-stream.” Frankly, I had no idea Texas was in the midst of some potentially earth-shattering war that requires continuity within the executive branch lest we be overrun by the Oklahomans or whomever it is that we’re fighting, but then I’d been away for a while. At any rate, Palin was referring, with some difficulty, to Perry’s apparent vulnerability in the upcoming gubernatorial election, which could very well put a Democrat in office for the first time since the Ann Richards era. I can’t remember the opponent’s name and couldn’t care less anyway; if recent history is any indication, he’ll likely end up deploying an additional 30,000 troops to Tulsa upon taking office.</p>
<p>I am reluctant to describe the speech itself as it’s difficult to know how one is supposed to go about writing on the subject of Sarah Palin. Many conservatives have come to the convenient conclusion that anyone who describes the woman as anything other than a provider of electrifying speeches before crowds of patriotic constitution-lovers is some biased partisan intent on transferring his or her own views to the public at large, sort of like the reporter described above. Likewise, Palin backers such as Larry Kudlow have gone so far as to compare their favorite to Lady Margaret Thatcher. And so I will do likewise. In fact, I’m going to one-up all the Palinistas by pretending that Palin actually is Margaret Thatcher, and I shall write the rest of the piece accordingly.</p>
<p>In the speech previous to the Tyler variant that we shall examine presently, Lady Thatcher began by assailing what she termed the “lamestream media” for having revealed that her confidential speaking contract included demands for bendable drinking straws to be provided at the podium. It was an odd moment for Thatcher, whom I do not recall ever having been so concerned about such commonplace and inconsequential reporting of the sort to which every politician is  subjected. This was behavior one might more readily expect from Sarah Palin or Axl Rose.</p>
<p>Unlike Axl Rose, Lady Thatcher had aged well, as I was happy to observe at her Tyler address. The uncommonly comely octogenarian began with a joke at the expense of California, the state which had just hosted her a few days before. It was pretty funny if I’m remembering it right, which I’m not.</p>
<p>But then I am being unfair to the baroness, whose eloquence speaks for itself. “Many in the lamestream media,” she proclaimed, “want to keep suggesting that I, and others who are pro-energy independence, pro-drilling advocates, that somehow we are too cozy with big oil &#8211; you guys feel free to shout out to them, ‘You lie!’ Because it isn’t true.” I would take issue with Thatcher’s assertion that such suggestions on the part of the “lamestream media” are deliberate lies; perhaps the lame-o’s in question are honestly confused due to such incidents as GOP Representative Joe Barton’s public apology to the CEO of a British oil firm on behalf of what he characterized as criminal activity on the part of the United States government, or the fact that Barton’s assertion has been echoed by a great number of conservative institutions ranging from the Heritage Foundation to Rush Limbaugh, or that Barton’s own apology was followed by a Twitter link from his account to an American Spectator piece entitled “Joe Barton was right,”</p>
<p>or that this link was later deleted by Barton’s office after causing another outcry. If Barton himself can’t figure out whether or not he’s overly cozy with foreign oil interests, and if the conservative movement appears split on the question of whether or not his coziness was appropriate or even insufficiently cuddly, then perhaps the media &#8211; disadvantaged as it is with lameness &#8211; may be forgiven for it’s own confusion on the matter.</p>
<p>Thatcher continued to build her case with the ease and erudition that has marked her half-century career of public service. “Their other argument is because I and other energy independence advocates support the free market, pro-drilling, that we can’t possibly be in favor of strict oversight. Man, these guys in the White House, they are just so blind to ever believe that. I am for strict oversight because I’m for that allowance for drilling.” To wit, the baroness favors strict oversight because she is for it.</p>
<p>Once in a while, Thatcher would realize in mid-sentence that she wasn’t currently pacing across the stage and gradually raising her voice into an oddly deliberate shriek, but then she would immediately correct herself. “I want this most exceptional country in the nation to be free, to be prosperous! To not be beholden to the foreign countries that soon we are going to be [shriek increase] bowing to [slightly less alarming shrieks from the crowd] if we become more reliant on them to drill for us!” Here Lady Thatcher has made a pretty good case for prosperity, freedom, and the exceptional nature of the country in the nation. Still, I would quibble that she missed an opportunity to really drive home the risk we face of bowing down to foreign countries insomuch as that she neglected to point out that, in fact, our last president was in the habit of literally bowing down before theocratic Saudi monarchs who happen to provide us with a great deal of oil.</p>
<p>“I’m a firm believer in the free market and I know you are too,” Thatcher continued. “But being free market doesn’t mean being for or against any particular company or any particular industry. It means being in favor of competition and an honest level playing field and for government really to get out of the way and let the private sector do what it does best. But the government does have a key role to play in overseeing some of our natural resource developments obviously, because our natural resource development is so impacting on our economy and on our environment. The president and the anti-energy independence crowd, they don’t seem to see how you can be pro-free market and pro-drilling and pro-constitutionally limited government and at the same time be pro-strict oversight, all at the same time, which is what they can’t understand and can’t wrap their arms around.” Thatcher elsewhere reiterated that she favored “appropriate regulation of industry like the energy sector, because there are far-reaching adverse consequences for our public, for our economy,” which is to say that regulation is apparently warranted in any case in which far-reaching adverse consequences may be hypothesized by someone. To sum up, “I don’t think that they understand the proper role of government in the free market.” Frankly, I was a little confused myself at this point; it was surprising to see someone as typically coherent as Thatcher accidentally make the case for socialism while attempting to make the case for the free market while simultaneously attacking others for advocating socialism and then accusing the opposition of failing to understand her views. I suddenly remembered that I wasn’t actually watching Margaret Thatcher speak, but rather Sarah Palin. Then it all started to make sense.</p>
<p>“You asked for the job, Mr. President, so buck up,” added Palin, who quit her job as governor of Alaska after two years because people were being mean to her.</p>
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		<title>My Appearance on Russia Today; Project PM; That Wacky Kremlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to watch till the end, which is particularly amusing. Further details on what I was saying may be found here. I have pasted a summary of Project PM&#8217;s coming media network below. Note that we are also building another, larger body, the governing network, which will serve other purposes and which you may [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Be sure to watch till the end, which is particularly amusing. Further details on what I was saying may be found <a href="http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2010/03/23/vladimir-putin/">here</a>. I have pasted a summary of Project PM&#8217;s coming media network below. Note that we are also building another, larger body, the governing network, which will serve other purposes and which you may join regardless of whether you are a journalist simply by virtue of being reasonable and intelligent. For more information, e-mail me at barriticus@gmail.com.</p>
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<p><strong>Project PM Media Network Summary</strong></p>
<p>Information flow is fundamental to the success of every manner of human collaboration. Nonetheless, the processes by which information is gathered, handled, transferred, and acted upon receive far less attention than is warranted. The purpose of Project PM is to change this dynamic by developing new techniques with which to more efficiently conduct information.</p>
<p>Because the great preponderance of information crucial to the success of a representative government is transferred through the media, Project PM focuses primarily on media reform. Our first and foremost effort has been to establish a distributed media cartel made up of bloggers as well as journalists who work at least in part through online media. Rather than simply assembling this group of exceptional media professionals into an online outlet similar to those currently in existence, we are instead organizing our participants into a network which itself operates under a unique schematic designed to take best advantage of the internet as a medium while simultaneously avoiding the drawbacks common to even the best online communities.</p>
<p>In order to seed the network, we have recruited around two dozen bloggers and journalists whom we have identified as particularly competent and intellectually honest. Each of these individuals is encouraged to bring other bloggers into the network based on their own judgment; these new participants are then connected to the blogger who has brought them in and may likewise bring others into the network,and so on . As such, the network grows perpetually while maintaining a high average quality in terms of its participants, as is explained further below.</p>
<p>Upon the launch of our network, each of the initial bloggers will be connected to each other via a widget which is embedded on their respective blogs, as well as connected to those whom they’ve recruited. When a particular individual composes a piece of work that he considers to be of particular merit, the individual pushes a single button which causes the article in question to be sent to all of the bloggers to whom he is connected. Each of those bloggers in turn then decides whether or not they agree that the article is worthy of greater attention; if so, they push the button and thereby send it along to every blogger to whom they themselves are connected. Thus it is that information deemed worthy of attention by some great number of erudite and honest individuals from a variety of backgrounds will tend to perpetuate through the system and gain a larger audience than they might otherwise receive.</p>
<p>As the network expands by way of the process described above, it is inevitable that there will be failures of judgement on the part of participants when choosing additional bloggers to bring into the network. Let us say that Blogger X, who is rather competent, brings in Blogger Y, who is only moderately so, and who in turn brings in Blogger Z, who is a giant douchebag. Blogger Z begins composing and pushing forward posts to the effect that Barack Obama was born in Tehran or that ethanol subsidies are awesome or some such thing – but these posts only initially go to Blogger Y and whatever horrid bloggers Blogger Z has brought in himself, assuming he has brough in any. Blogger Y may or may not be inclined to push forward these nonsense posts, but Blogger X will almost certainly delete them immediately and is quite likely to disolve his connection to Blogger Y for displaying such poor judgement. Thus it is that the system is defended from deterioration by the high competence of the initial round of bloggers and consequently comparable competence of those brought in gradually afterwards, coupled with the nature of the schematic itself. No supervision is necessary for the network to expand while maintaining a high level of quality.</p>
<p>A few other characteristics bear noting. Any participant may connect to any other participant who agrees to the connection, no matter “where” each participant resides in the network, and thus the network is likely to evolve from the shape of a pyramid to that of a web, which is advantageous in terms of ensuring that good information does not become overly “regionalized.” All participants are equal regardless of the order in which they joined. Participants are free to bring on as many other bloggers as they would like, although they will find that it is to their own advantage to be selective in this regard.</p>
<p>The system is capped off with another widget distinct from that used by the bloggers – the reader widget, a downloadable application which displays those posts which have been pushed forward a certain number of times (as set by the individual reader). The end result should be the best system of news and information filtration that has ever existed.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be appearing on Russia Today tonight at 8 EST to talk about my latest Vanity Fair piece, the incompetence of National Review, the fine work of Michael Hastings in reviving American journalism, and the failures of Western reporters and commentators to provide their audiences with crucial information on Russia. I&#8217;ll also be making a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll be appearing on Russia Today tonight at 8 EST to talk about <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/why-the-hacks-hate-michael-hastings.html">my latest </a><em><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/why-the-hacks-hate-michael-hastings.html">Vanity Fair</a></em><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/why-the-hacks-hate-michael-hastings.html"> piece</a>, the incompetence of <em>National Review</em>, the fine work of Michael Hastings in reviving American journalism, and the failures of Western reporters and commentators to provide their audiences with crucial information on Russia. I&#8217;ll also be making a certain announcement. A live stream may be viewed <a href="http://rt.com/On_Air.html">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Most Bizarre E-mail I Have Ever Received</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an atheist who serves as director of communications for an atheist oriented PAC that once went by the name The Godless Americans Political Action Committee until we decided to switch to the less antagonistic-sounding moniker of Enlighten the Vote, and also being a regular contributor to Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer, I am understandably privy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As an atheist who serves as director of communications for an atheist oriented PAC that once went by the name The Godless Americans Political Action Committee until we decided to switch to the less antagonistic-sounding moniker of Enlighten the Vote, and also being a regular contributor to <em>Skeptic </em>and <em>Skeptical Inquirer, </em>I am understandably privy to a steady of flow of mean e-mails. And frankly, I deserve them. Atheism is a supremely impolite attribute, amounting to a perpetual insult against the reasoning ability of billions of believers. Skepticism is even worse, being an asshole-driven movement intent on ensuring that no one gets to believe in awesome things like the pyramids having been built by fourth dimensional lizard beings who created humanity through genetic engineering before fleeing to the far side of the moon for reasons about which it would be irresponsible to speculate.</p>
<p>In my defense, though, I didn&#8217;t choose to be either an atheist or a skeptic; rather, these were simply mindsets I came to adopt around the age of 13 or so simply because I determined them to be the most accurate frameworks by which to view the universe. I much preferred my happily mystical childhood to my killjoy adulthood; having been raised by a New Age single mother who suggested that I was an Indigo Child with an alien soul, required that I meditate with her daily, prompted me to learn the more potentially significant quatrains of Nostradamus, and had me keep a dream journal next to my bed in order to better divine the future by way of my eternal connection to the collective unconscious, my pre-adolescence was far more interesting than my post-puberty sentience, devoid as it is of ghosts and prophecy and reincarnation and other such things in which I would very much like to believe simply out of appreciation for novelty. Also, I find atheism embarrassing, it being a stereotypical product of teenage angst, Nietsche-derived pseudo-intellectualism, and the mediocre thinker&#8217;s fetish for shock value. Being an atheist is like not owning a TV &#8211; completely rational, but best kept to one&#8217;s self.</p>
<p>So I feel no animosity for my various magic-oriented opponents, whether their respective manifestations of mysticism involve intelligent design, demonology, faith healing, Islam, majoring in English in expectation of becoming an English professor, homeopathic medicine, or whatever. Such irrational beliefs as this make the world a more enchanting place, one in which the failures of human reason are on perpetual display for those of us who lack the means to travel all the way over to South Africa in order to ask a Zulu whether raping a virgin is more or less likely to cure AIDs if the victim has had her clitoris ritually mutilated during infancy by way of a custom justified by religious patriarchy. Anyway, a little superstition never hurt anyone.</p>
<p>Despite my possibly sarcastic tolerance for the civilization-stifling beliefs of my de facto opponents, I will admit to some irritation that the e-mails they send me in response to my various works of secularism tend to be pretty formulaic. The Christians inevitably inform me that they have interceded on my behalf in order to convince Jesus to refrain from torturing me, the Jews like my articles because I&#8217;m usually too busy making fun of Christians to make fun of Jews, and the Muslims always send me kind and supportive notes because <a href="http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2009/09/11/confessions-of-a-phony-internet-muslim/">I have been posing for several years as a devout Sunni</a> on several websites in order to pick fights with other atheists because I am the greatest internet troll in history.</p>
<p>Tonight, however, I received a pleasant surprise in the form of an e-mail from a fellow who calls himself David Mabus and with whom I was initially unfamiliar but felt compelled to Google due to the wonderfully strange nature of his message. The curmudgeonly blogger-biologist P.Z. Myers, I learned, <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/the_recent_mabus_incursion.php">noted a couple years back</a> that this individual has long been contacting prominent figures within the skeptical community in order to keep everyone updated on a variety of matters ranging from the one million dollars allegedly owed to him by magician and psychic debunker James Randi to whatever the fuck it is he&#8217;s trying to say in the e-mail I just received from him (which I&#8217;m assuming was prompted by <a href="http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/a_tale_of_two_internets">my latest column</a> for <em>Skeptical Inquirer, </em>itself having gone up on the pub&#8217;s website a few hours earlier). For his part, Myers once floated the idea of calling the authorities on the guy due to his demonstrable insanity and stalky behavior. But then Myers&#8217; idea of fun is to spend years studying up on a crucial branch of science with the proven ability to enhance endless facets of the human condition while also answering age-old questions about past origins and future possibilities and then to pass on that knowledge to those who will in turn use it to advance the cause of mankind, whereas my idea of fun is to talk to crazy people. Thus it is that I have just replied to the aforementioned e-mail &#8211; reprinted below &#8211; with a polite offer to debate the fellow on whatever subject it is that is intended to be addressed here:</p>
<blockquote><p>Let me show you how SKEPTICS were partially responsible for 911</p>
<p>You don’t even have SCIENCE on your side…</p>
<p>You’re a perfect example of when PHILOSOPHY becomes an ENEMY OF LIFE&#8230;</p>
<p>http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2010/06/playing-mystery-card.html</p>
<p>not quite samantha with her *supernatural spit*, eh?</p>
<p>_________________</p>
<p>you were at the WRONG PLACE at the WRONG TIME&#8230;</p>
<p>_____________________</p>
<p>this isn&#8217;t one of your little WORD GAMES&#8230;</p>
<p>blasphemy is a DEATH SENTENCE</p>
<p>you people actually BELIEVE the BS you preach!</p>
<p>GOD 1 &#8211; atheists 0</p>
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<p>Atheists,</p>
<p>you are ENEMIES OF GOD AND ARE GOING TO BE ANNIHILATED&#8230;</p>
<p>Repent and turn to God or be destroyed&#8230;</p>
<p>YOU HAVE NO CHOICE&#8230;</p>
<p>my interpretation of the STATUE FIRE&#8230; it symbolizes the SPIRITUAL DEATH of atheism&#8230;</p>
<p>http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/topofthetimes/national/la-naw-0616-jesus-statue-lightning-20100616,0,4295974.story</p>
<p>http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/6/16/1276680110544/The-King-of-Kings-statue&#8211;005.jpg</p>
<p>http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-06/54332292.jpg</p>
<p>http://friendlyatheist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/butterjesus-1.jpg</p>
<p>PRINCESS DI IS WEARING A NEW DRESS!</p>
<p>http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/speechesandarticles/a_speech_by_hrh_the_prince_of_wales_titled_islam_and_the_env_252516346.html</p>
<p>______________________________</p>
<p>http://skepticblog.org/2010/04/06/would-i-ever-pray-for-a-miracle/</p>
<p>Shermer, I WANT TO SEE YOU BEG FOR A MIRACLE&#8230;</p>
<p>___________________</p>
<p>we do like your music Lady Gaga, but&#8230;</p>
<p>The B**BQUAKE &#8211; 911</p>
<p>Let me show you the FATE OF TRAITORS&#8230;</p>
<p>http://www.loiterink.com/photos/products/182_3424_500&#215;500.jpg</p>
<p>they are incapable of telling the difference between SCIENTIFIC *FACT* AND</p>
<p>RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL *TRUTH*&#8230; FATAL ERROR!</p>
<p>they also preach a *VALUE FREE SCIENCE* called *POSITIVISM* that ignores the</p>
<p>inequalities of wealth and power in capitalist civilization&#8230;</p>
<p>for a sample taste of PZ Myers&#8217; GARBAGE&#8230;</p>
<p>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/06/sunday_sacrilege_imagine_no_he.php</p>
<p>HIJACKING IN PROGRESS!!!</p>
<p>http://hawaiiwebgroup.com/maui-design/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/website-hijacking.jpg</p>
<p>HIJACKING IN PROGRESS!!!</p>
<p>how can these HEADLESS IDIOTS BET AGAINST GOD!!!</p>
<p>________________________________________</p>
<p>what happens when you LOSE Pascal&#8217;s Wager&#8230;</p>
<p>http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/pascals-wager.htm</p>
<p>____________</p>
<p>you FIGHT PAPER MONSTERS&#8230;</p>
<p>the blood and bodies of the atheist movement&#8230;</p>
<p>you mofos killed MICKEY MOUSE!!!!</p>
<p>this has more TRUTH then what Dawkins, Randi, Harris, Myers, and Shermer</p>
<p>combined have said in their entire lives&#8230;</p>
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<p>they tried to BULLDOZE the entire METAPHYSICAL DIMENSION&#8230;</p>
<p>they LOST THE WAR&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>you have FORFEIT YOUR SOUL, shermer&#8230; you have become an object in the material world, as you WISHED&#8230;</p>
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<p>http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/11792994_ffaaee87fa.jpg</p>
<p>we&#8217;re gonna smash that TV&#8230;</p>
<p>They had become ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE AND OF GOD&#8230;</p>
<p>you pushed too much and *CROSSED THE LINE*</p>
<p>degenerates (PZ) or children (HEMANT) &#8211; ATHEISTS!</p>
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<p>do you have anything to say, you STUPID LITTLE F*CKER?</p>
<p>how about I tell you, Mr. Shermer, EVERYTHING YOU THINK ABOUT THE WORLD is</p>
<p>*WRONG*</p>
<p>THE BOOBQUAKE &#8211; 911!</p>
<p>****************************************************</p>
<p>http://dissidentphilosophy.lifediscussion.net/philosophy-f1/the-boobquake-911-t1310.htm</p>
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<p>RUN, ATHEISTS, RUN!!!</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-information.html</p>
<p>the 9th and FINAL RING of Dante&#8217;s Inferno is designed for little blaspheming traitors like you&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is the deepest level of hell, where the fallen angel Satan himself resides. His wings flap eternally, producing chilling cold winds that freeze the thick ice found in Cocytus&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>but at least FREE AIR CONDITIONING is included!</p></blockquote>
<p>Lady Gaga?</p>
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