Culture is that which binds and culture is merely a principle. It has neither pros nor cons, just mere facts. When a human wishes to empower, he first needs to divide and when that is done successfully, he gains that power. To divide others, all a person needs to do is to build upon the differences which exist. [The separation between ground and 150kVolts, say, is just potential, not power]. Like creed, race, nationality, stature, possessions, gender, and “body profiles” too [Ah, but for a little jutty-butty]. The problem with “news” is not so much the facts but the making of facts and to make facts successfully, differences are brought to the fore. It’s that old “D” again, division, which leads to empowerment which leads to a “successful” news reportage and which will lead to fame, fortune and immortality for the reporter/publisher.

Just listen to that bastion of bastardisation called the BBC. You cannot buy a TV to just watch Sky, say, without having to pay this wishy-washy-boy-scouty-lovey-dovey-choking-on-raw-egg-yolks-looney propaganda ogre a taxation of the “chosen few” variety [whose call-sign is, “Ve vill not take “No” for zer answer”]. Problem is, few ever listen but almost all react. If the majority of blankness can be comforted with “their deepest desires”, that is all it takes for “Democracy” to work. Nearly every word of value, meaning the news and not so much soap-peeps into other peoples’ lives, that issues forth from the Beeb can be labelled as devious, cunning & conniving for the Beeb is merely a propaganda machine, much like “Royalty”, to sell Blighty and they have the gall to claim that they don’t advertise in order that they can squeeze the Beeb-tax from the idiotic & lunatic blankness called the “British”. And that’s just the “clean” guys who don’t advertise/talk-about-money-but-facts. What about those who do? Unrepentent gossips, soaps, boobs and demonising galore.

Why are people so unconscious and unaware of their predicaments? Because they have their own “deepest desires” to faff about. Nobody breathes for another and any idiot or lunatic, working for the Beeb or not, who claims he does, is a hypocrite. You can’t love others if you do not love yourself first and hypocrisy is not loving yourself per se. It is destroying yourself first before emerging to destroy others. Isn’t it funny that when Anglo-Saxony is the cause of much unceasing contemporary misery, the latest being “Cosovo”, they are able to project hypocritical angelic qualities to the point of deciding how evil others are, not forgetting that division is empowerment. Topsy-turvy is when the last claims to be the first for when drivel comes first, you’ll have nothing but hogwash till the very end and when the end comes, He won’t talk, discuss, preach/propagandise, issue-forth news/lovey-doveyness, etc. He merely Acts.

It really angers me that people are claiming that Y2K was a hoax. Y2K was a problem; I personally fixed a Y2K bug in my firm's software and I'm sure many other programmers can say the same. Y2K wasn't a problem because programmers acted in time; if programmers hadn't acted, the claims very well may have come true. Maybe the dangers were exaggerated, but that doesn't mean the dangers were non-existent.

At any rate, this is why it is so hard to act to solve problems, people deny there was any problem to solve. Take climate change for instance; if we are successful in preventing it from happening, critics will claim it never would have happened. It seems you only get credit for fixing a problem if you aren't competent enough to fix it completely.

Shame it's not yet widely available outside of the U.K What's this global economy I keep hearing about?

I paid about $35 to get it in a week via air shipping.

Groupthink isn't merely the purview of EMoles, Hacks, or even Faux News Hackettes, but permeates the warped weft of our culture. 

Aspects of Orwell's dystopia are here now. Every blocked wikileak and <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/60_Minutes_broadcast_on_prosecution_of_0225.html">60 Minutes exposé -</a>
should sober us to the facts.

As readers, we are responsible for keeping fresh batteries in our bullshit detectors. If your device's battery is not user-servicable, consult <i>your</i> manual, not the device's manual.

Magee is leaving the building as <i>Eminence Grise</i> with an intact spine. Paul Hales is now The Editor. With <i>Flat Earth News</i>, I wonder if perhaps a sliver of light shines through the clouds to show us the slot where the key fits. And the key, dear readers, still belongs to you and me.

"And journos often don't check any of the facts they re-cycle."

Say it isn't so!

Can't argue with that, Mike, and while they are busy pimping drivel to hide what is really going on, that which is really going on will surface and take them by storm.

The "mainstream" does not run the agenda nowadays, the Indie Underground does and shames them with its revelations which they cannot deny fir to reply and challenge would be to engage and therefore confirm that they follow rather than lead.

Welcome to Virtualisation and ITs Evolving Revision of Service Arrangements and Intelligently Designed Beta Protocols

I learned very early never to trust what you read in the news. 'Always take it with a pince of salt' as they say.

I have seen articles printed of something, I was there and aware of the details and the article will blow it all out of proportion and blatently the Journalist who wrote the article obviously added their own 'spin', sometimes to sensationalise others possibly because of some underlying political adgenda and possibly due to a lack of information.

Only the author may be able to answer the question fully, but stil the entire truth was not represented.

I find TV news worst of all the presenters/reporters more interested in their ratings/being famous than the actual story.


Apparently we will all be cyborgs in 25 years time....

While I have great respect for Kurswell, this is not something that warrents publication on the BBC, it's something you read as part of a book or blog if you're really into that thing.

Also the BBC don't run adverts, but you would never know the amount of crap churned out advertising Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and many others in the name of news.