The Bramalea Insurgent

With some more time on my hands, this is what I’ve been watching…

Power of Nightmares (the history of Neoconservativism, radical Islam and the War on Terror, 3 Parts):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=881321004838285177

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4602171665328041876

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2081592330319789254

Century of the Self (Freud, Bernays, public relations, and mind control in the age of mass democracy, 4 parts):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-678466363224520614

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811 <– here be radical lesbian nuns!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1122532358497501036

Fog of War (about Robert McNamara and the cold war):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8653788864462752804

Why We Fight (about the Military Industrial Complex):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3405669348838274375

Hearts and Minds (about Vietnam, pretty much every accusation leveled in this film was corroborated by Robert McNamara himself 30 years later in “Fog of War”):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8502739857306070849

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (Bill Moyers takes on Iran-Contra)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3505348655137118430

Buying the War (Bill Moyers takes on Iraq WMD media coverage in the run up to Operation Iraqi Freedom):

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/video_popups/pop_vid_btw1-1.html

Control Room (about Al Jazeera and Iraq 2003 war media coverage):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5468579280837866970

History of Oil

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159

I haven’t posted in a bit, but as you can see, me del.ico.us links are being posted on a regular schedule.

I got a call from Kelman earlier today. He needs my help with an .xls file for tabulating the Ropsaa Wrestling tournament. That means I’ll probably be the first to know the results. I’ll post them hear and beat the Brampton guardian to the press

gotta go now. lates.

I really didn’t like the previous theme I was using.  I’m going to hack at this one till I think it’s pretty. 

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Cars on an absolute basis are just cheaper in the United States and one has to wonder why. When you go and try to exercise that reasonably available efficient alternative, you’re stopped. Canadians can save a few thousand dollars by buying their cars on the American market but car manufactures won’t allow it.

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Verizon FiOS fiber optic web connection packages, which range from $40 per month for 5Mbps to 30Mbps for $180 (extra for TV and phone service!) - Hong Kong residents can now get a whopping 100Mbps fiber optic connection for a mere $48.50 a month. And that’s the entry-level package. How come the North American market is falling behind? I WANT MORE BANDWIDTH!

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“I personally know that there are presidents in countries who send troops abroad to save lives,” Morales added later in the program, “but there are also countries who send troops abroad to take away lives. If we compare these two things…certainly we’re going to the conclusion that these policies must change.”

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Daft Punk – One more time (Richard Murder remix)

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In the Boston Tea Party, patriots dumped tea into the ocean rather than pay the taxes imposed by a distant king. On the NYMEX, they dumped 117M barrels that were scheduled to be delivered to the American people - BARRELS YOU ALREADY PAID FOR AT THE PUMP - in order to create a bogus shortage so you can pay record high oil prices to a distant sheik.

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So in my last post I talked about Installing Ubuntu. That was easy. I never got around to installing the wireless device driver on my machine but only because I finally ran some Ethernet cable to my room. Fuck wireless. You can’t ruin my day anymore 802.1b! So my first order of business was to install Firefox. Fuck! It’s already installed. Ok. Next on the list, an MSN client. I searched for a popular one and found GAIM. Wait a minute! It’s already on here. And it’s got good old fashioned IRC support! Also it has multiple protocols for those of us who have ICQ accounts from the late 80’s. Ubuntu, is there anything you can’t do? Stay tuned while I find out.

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