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From Geekosystem

The Simpsons and South Park have made fun of each other in the past, but tonight’s Simpsons opened with a quick but touching show of inter-cartoon support, courtesy of Bart’s chalkboard.
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Hitler, as “Downfall producer” orders a DMCA takedown from Brad Templeton on Vimeo.

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Fallacies are more important than facts – However, data of merit won’t disappear. There has always been a gravitational pull, with an arcane selection process, upon people to produce towards truths and the nature of reality – It has always been and should always be – It’s just a different level. We’ve just gotten used to one phase of mass media, with an unqualified or unattenuated distribution of knowledge, however we are probably entering a different phase with the rise of the Global Theater over the Global Village.

Fallacies are more important than facts
— Marshall McLuhan

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I like Stewart’s contrasting the non-reaction of Exxon’s profit and taxes, $35B in profits with $15B in taxes, of which not a cent went to the U.S., but instead to foreign governments

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Collateral Murder, or as referred to by Andrew Sullivan, “The Lies of the Pentagon“

Overview

5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.

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The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured.
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