Targeting teenagers

It's well known that propaganda makers (either institutional or commercial) often target children and teenagers as they are easier to convince and they tend to keep the ideas they have assimilated while young all over their life. It's also true that we usually associate the word 'propaganda' with communist regimes, though most countries, either commies or not, use it.

Ethan Persoff has compiled some American comics writen with different purposes, for example keeping teenagers away from drugs
or making them support the invasion of Grenada.

Via: El blog ausente

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Roll, roll down the hill

A racing 3D flash game. Kinda difficult, kinda nice.

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Admitance after denial (or the nth Iraq tale)

Saint Peter denied knowing Jesus three times, the USA denied several times the use of white phosphorous bombs (napalm like devices) in the raid for Fallujah but has been finally forced to admit they employed this chemical weaponry.

Sometimes we know the truth only when witnesses and proofs are too evident to be hidden, and this is the case.

Take a look at the video that started everything: here.

Previously discussed here

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Spacecraft's pocket guide

So you want to be an astronaut? Then this might be useful for you: Ariane 5 User's Manual.

Ariane 5 is the ESA's (European Space Agency) most advanced launcher, until 2007 at least when Vega is planned to make its first launch, and is also the launcher that can put the highest payload in orbit, 6 tonnes.

~ I suppose it's not the only user manual as my car's one has almost the same amount of pages.

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Making grotesque beautiful

That's what Jan Saudek does. The galleries could be NSFW though they are not sex explicit, but what it's important is that they are great.

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Oops, they did it again

No, it's not the new Britney Spear's song. If the information RAI News, the public Italian TV channel, is correct the USA would have used chemical weapons during the Fallujah raid.

The USA army supposedly used the white phosphorous bomb named MK77-5

It's not the first time we hear news about the use of napalm in Iraq March/2003, August/2003 or March/2005.
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View or download the video: here (either in English or Italian).
Full article: here.

France is burning, vive la France!

Almost six thousand cars torched, hundreds of people arrested, buildings and schools burned down and having this riots spreading across France tell us one thing: the French model of an illustrated society has collapsed.

A lot of European countries (Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, ...) usually took France as a reference in how to handle inmigration, this situation, which was predicted by several people like Polanyi, and now they are witnessing the situation in France without hiding their fear of the revolts crossing the unexistant borders.

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Hundreds of inmigrants left to die in the middle of the Sahara desert

As most of the readers are overseas won't probably heared about the massive tryings of sub-saharan inmigrants to cross the fences that stand as borders of the Spanish' colonies of Ceuta and Melilla using homemade stairs in a XV century-like assault to a fortress.

Those who were arrested by the Moroccan police were inmediately being deported to the near town Oujda, in Algeria, were they found their way to cure their wounds (sometimes as results of the jump over a 6 meters fence with barbedwire and several times inflicted by the always agressive Moroccan police), recover some strength and try again to jump the fences that separate the two Spanish, ergo European, colonies from Morocco.

Things seem to have changed now that Spain and Morocco have signed a treaty that allows the first country to inmediately deport all the inmigrants that are arrested just after the jump into Spanish territory. Some non governmental/non proffit organizations like Doctors Without Borders (MSF) denounce that hundreds of inmigrants have been left to die in the middle of the Sahara desert without food and water by the Moroccan forces.

Hang on as I'll be updating the news concerning this subject.

Click here to read the news in English.

Click here for a video stream showing one of the assaults.

Click here to hear the interview (Spanish only, sorry) of a MSF head talking about the subject.
Here you can find a video covering the news.

~ Imagining a caravan of trucks full of these inmigrants reminds me to the nazi trains full of jews heading death camps. The problem is that I bet nobody will remember this humanitarian crime in a few years (just the same way people seem to have forgotten the rest of the ethnic groups who were massacred in the holocaust like gypsies, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Estonians, ...).

~ I wonder if Spain should be accused of breaking the UN Convention Against Torture treaty for deporting all these inmigrants to a country that is known for using extreme violence against its own citizens and inmigrants on their soil.

What do you need to become a F1 World Champion

1.- It's important to take a vision test.