Site of Andrew Cunanan's Torture and Murder of Lee Miglin (Photo credit: Chicago Crime Scenes)
Six Thunderbird F-16s in delta formation flying near the Empire State Building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Valley of Light, mountains in Denali National Park (Photo credit: blmiers2)The New Inquiry - essays
Media is Better Police
The story first broke with the salacious glee of a journalist knowing he’s about to get paid. Another mass shooting, this time in New York City, at the Empire State Building of all places?
Everything was going according to script: the liberals cried for gun control and conservatives counter proposed concealed carry, the news agencies played live footage while the anchors employed their most somber tones, and the consumption and de-politicization of another Imaginary Party member’s rage took its well practiced course.
That is, of course, until a couple on-site cameras revealed that, actually, this madman wasn’t firing wildly into the crowd, just killing his old tormentor and then putting down his gun, and it was police who shot nine bystanders before killing him, in what is their second cell-phone captured daylight murder this month. And when the news came out that Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum of New York’s finest turned a murder into a shooting gallery, coverage of the violence dropped off dramatically.
No matter that a killer is remorseless, that he speaks calmly and rationally about his actions, no matter how many public murders occur in succession, the media will never allow an explanation other than complete madness.
ARTICLES BY WILLIE OSTERWEIL
Digressions of an Opium-Eater July 11, 2012 The Secret Shopper June 4, 2012 Collateral Damage April 27, 2012 Beyond the Valley of 1984 March 15, 2012 Fear of an Ape Planet September 29, 2011 Towards A New Film Criticism July 27, 2011 Adolescence of the Undead April 29, 2011 What We Talk About When We Talk About the Internet April 11, 2011 Twilight of the Cruise March 28, 2011
No Epiphanies Whatsoever
Marnell sometimes seems like the example – perhaps even too much the example – of what happens when capitalism catches up with you. She is also, however, the girl who keeps outpacing capitalism, moving from magazine to online culture. While the Internet has accelerated the pace of capitalist consumption, it has also allowed, if not pushed, Marnell to go faster. “I was a beauty editor at Lucky,” she tells me, “and then I joined the fucking Internet for Jane Pratt.” Once you’re running at Internet speed, is there any turning back?Marnell stopped working at xoJane because she was sick, so she could work at Vice—because she was sick? The “Amphetamine Logic” column explicitly converted Marnell’s addiction into a meme—an online virus that worked for her, as well as allowed her to work. While the Internet increases one’s vulnerability to sickness, it can also be a means for escaping it. It’s a way to defeat capitalism at its own game, at least temporarily.Shame lies primarily in the face, according to affect theoristSylvan Tomkins. But what happens when the person you are shaming can’t see your judging eyes?The WSJ recently cited a 23-year-old Canadian blogger, Andrea Coates, who wanted Vice to apologize for hiring Marnell:
Hundreds of thousands of young girls are reading this and using it as the basis for what they see as cool. She’s the biggest columnist atVice right now and she’s helpless, addicted, dependent and victimized. She’s amoral, narcissistic and incredibly selfish. Vice gains traffic while she self-destructs, and we’re supposed to take it for granted that we’ll just watch this ongoing drama play out until rehab or death. It’s sick.
The article ends with this almost offhand statement from Coates: “Oh, I still read it all the time. I’ve read every one of Cat’s posts.” The amount of wanting it both ways makes me queasy.
Queer, Interrupted
The specific insult of this video, besides the fact that it comes after a year of street confrontations between queers and social rebels and the SFPD, is that it tries to erase the central fact of queer history: that queer history is visible only because of a constellation of revolts in which queer bodies fought police control. So not only was the video released amid low intensity warfare between social rebels and the police department and thus must be understood as a part of SFPD’s strategy to retain control in an unruly city, but the figure of the queer cop pleading to suicidal youth to simply wait out the violence of the queer-hostile social order that the cop upholds is a negating obscenity. It does violence to the traditions of the queer struggle for life and against policing.
No Accidents, Comrade
Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code
Selected pages from Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code for Telegraphic Communication between Chiefs of Police, Sheriffs, Marshals and other Peace Officers of the United States and Canada (1895) - a book of codes to help disguise internal police telegrams in what amounted to some kind of 19th century version of the encyrpted email.
25 August - Lies My Country Told to Me
Common Dreams
Weekly Reader's Choice | August 24, 2012
Week Ending August 25, 2012Readers' Choice / Most Read Views...- Chris Hedges: The War in the Shadows
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- Dave Zirin: Australian Government Will Issue Overdue Apology to 1968 Olympic Hero Peter Norman
- Paul Krugman: Paul Ryan: Galt, Gold and God
- Ira Chernus: Why Are Americans So Confused?
- Tom Engelhardt: You Were Right When You Waved That “No Blood for Oil” Sign. Iraq Was About Oil
- Glenn Greenwald: The Bizarre, Unhealthy, Blinding Media Contempt for Julian Assange
- Robert Fisk: Syria's 'Rebel Army? They're a Gang of Foreigners'
Readers' Choice / Most Read News...Gawker Publishes Romney Tax Haven Records
The Guardian reports today that the documents published by Gawker, make clear that tax avoidance is a primary aim of some of his investments.
Wall Street Targets Your Public Water System
Vulture capitalists are increasingly facilitating the privatization of public infrastructure, taking control of public utilities while skimping on services and causing steep price hikes -- all the while making massive profits.
The precursors were alarming.
- Water* - Wealth and Power
Environment + NWO
Assange: 'The US War on Whistleblowers Must End'
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Arctic Ice Melting At Startlingly Rapid Rate
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Secret Police Documents Reveal Plan to Arrest WikiLeaks' Assange
“Assange to be arrested under all circumstances,” the hand-written note says.
UN Investigator to US: End 'Conspiracy of Silence' on Drones
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Ben Emmerson "In reality the administration is holding its finger in the dam of public accountability."
America Trashes Forty Percent of Food Supply: Report
That wasted food also represents one quarter of all freshwater consumed in the US, as it is needed for agriculture and food production.
Illinois Nuke, Coal Plants Dumping Millions of Gallons of Near 100-Degree Water into Waterways
Environmental groups warn that releasing these hot waters back into waterways can cause ecological harm.
240 Million to Lose Protections From Coal Pollution
US Court Throws Out EPA Coal Pollution Rule, Leaves Millions Exposed to Harmful Emissions.
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