Sunset on Mars

Here’s your first opportunity to watch the sun set on Mars. This link is to a 900k QuickTime movie hosted at NASA. The QuickTime movie will load when you click.

Bloodthirsty America?

Draw your own conclusions from this poll that finds two-thirds of Americans would support TV executions.

Pentagon Insider Speaks out on Iraq

Here is an enlightening account of the rise of the Office for Special Plans within the Pentagon. The OSP is a pet project of Cheney and Rumsfeld, and it ran the propaganda machine that pushed the WMD disinformation on the world. This is a detailed account of the conscious efforts made to mislead the world in support of a hidden agenda of hegemony. A very good article in interview format.

Times Weighs in on Bushian Science Abuses

The New York Times has weighed in on the ongoing debate about how the Bush administration misuses science.

Structuring the news

Here’s an example of the way the news gets structured for maximum impact. Its not quite Matt Drudge, but its pretty sneaky, nonetheless. Let’s look at a very important sentence in this story:

Federal prosecutors initially determined that $13,000 of the donations were illegally reimbursed, but they now say that nearly all of the money was tainted. They said there was no evidence Kerry would have known that.

Go ahead; click and see where the sentence appears in the story.

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