Call of Cthulhu

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn ("In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."). --HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

The stars hath turned in the heavens once more: Mighty Cthulhu stirs. His dreams reacheth forth, communing with those with ears to hear. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! His thoughts trample down along the pathways of thy mind; thou knowest His footprints, each of which is a wound...

Friday, August 13, 2004

The Politics of Terra®

Just Spreading the Word:

The hard-working folks at Julius Blog have correlated a telling graph that syncs Chimpy's™ approval ratings with the various terror alerts. A better view of that graph can be seen here.

The graph itself is just a visual synopsis of an earlier post at that site, detailing the events surrounding the various alerts, complete with verifying links. Go here to read the chilling, sickening details. Below is a taste. Note that this is a screen capture--you'll have to check out Julius Blog to click on the sources:

Update on OR NG story

The mainstream media has been--to be succinct--a bunch of lazy, irresponsible, fucktard shitheads about this story. I mean, they've been abyssmally bad at journalism in general for several years, now. But, on this, they've pushed back the envelope of ethical abandonment.

Outside the US, it was news from Canada to Russia. Within the US, I found that only Oregon's local media was giving the story any meaningful coverage. But in the other 49 states? Below is the result of a Google News survey I did on August 10^th, 48hrs after The Oregonian broke the story:

CNN--Did Not Mention (DNM hereafter)

MSNBC--Both main story and Senator Wyden's letter to Rumskull, but only cursory coverage of actual incident, softballed, and no pix (copy from KMTR, NBC affiliate in Eugene, OR).

Faux News--DNM main page. Archive has extensive reprint from AP wire, only one pic. Nothing on Wyden letter.

AP--Wyden letter in 7-day archive, only cursory coverage of original event.

UPI--DNM main page, no search engine for archives

Knight-Ridder--No primary news page, lists only affiliated papers.

And here in Seattle, just 300 miles north of Portland:

Seattle Post Intelligencer (Paper)--Has letter from Wyden, but only cursory coverage of actual incident, softballed, and no pix.

Seattle Times (Paper)--DNM

KIRO (TV CBS affiliate)--DNM

Q13 News (TV Fox affiliate)--DNM

KOMO (TV ABC affiliate)--DNM main page, but no search engine for archives

KING5 (TV NBC affiliate)--DNM

After I did this search, Aaron Brown (CNN) did a brief interview with Mike Francis, the embedded reporter from The Oregonian who wrote the story. It was a blip of an interview, Brown tut-tutting the whole sordid affair while acting as if it was all over and done with. CNN Headline News' talking heads also did a typical 7-second synopsis, liberally sprinkled with "alleged" and "allegedly", and didn't show any pix. (Hey, fuckheads, ever hear of accountability? It used to be something that journalists demanded of our leaders.)

Now I don't expect other countries to host the grim photographs, or to do investigative journalism into an American political affair. But I do expect that of our own journalists. It's their freakin job for fuck's sake.

Well, just to jog their dumbshit collective memories a bit: