Zombie Lies destroy real lives

According to a new survey from World Public Opinion:


"Support for the decision to go to war [in Iraq] is highly correlated with beliefs held by substantial and undiminishing minorities that Iraq was providing support to al Qaeda (46%) and either had a WMD program or actual WMDs (47%). Among those with such beliefs, large majorities say the war was the right thing while among those without such beliefs large majorities have the opposite views."


Truly amazing that despite having been repeatedly disproved with, you know, facts, a big chunk (almost half!) of the population unshakably believes in these zombie lies. And they’re willing to kill because of it. Thank you, Dick Cheney, for this gift that keeps on giving.

Obama’s “killing machine"

Apparently in these times of economic stagnation and public sector cutbacks, extrajudicial killing is a growth industry. The military, the CIA, and “contractors” are collaborating in a booming program of assassination.

Why don’t I feel safer living in Assassination Nation??

NYPD Mooslim Squad

Remember the good old days when lots of big city police departments had Red Squads to monitor and harass people whose left-wing politics were unpalatable for the City Fathers? It seems that political police are making a comeback. The NYPD has an ongoing operation targeting Muslim communities for special surveillance aimed at uncovering anti-American sentiments (you know, seditious stuff like criticism of US foreign policy, complaints about drones launching missiles into villages in Pakistan, planes bombing villages in Afghanistan, shit like that). This operation ranges well beyond the department’s official jurisdiction of New York City. This domestic spying program, based on ethnic-religious profiling of the crudest sort - has been created in partnership with the CIA, which is legally prohibited from, um, domestic spying. And it looks like AP has exposed the NYPD’s denials as lies.

According to Salon, “both federal and local law enforcement agencies have developed sophisticated and far-reaching intelligence-collection operations to gather data about America's minority communities, and other groups, regardless of whether there is any reason to suspect criminal or terrorist activity."