DarkObserver, Dienstag, 10. Juni 2003, 16:11
Since it seems to be some kind of fashion right now, here's mine...


You are Morpheus, from "The Matrix." You
have strong faith in yourself and those around
you. A true leader, you are relentless in your
persuit.

What Matrix Persona Are You?
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DarkObserver, Mittwoch, 23. April 2003, 14:20
We love the Iraqi Infotainment Minister
As negative as my view of the Iraq war was and is, there's been one guy you could safely laugh at -even more so in fact than at Rumsfeld:

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Iraqi (Dis-)Information Minister.

His stout denial of the obvious facts had such an almost Monty-Pythonesque quality, they were on par with a play by Samuel Beckett or other surrealistic achievements.

Example: "I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."

Is that commitment to the job, or what?

To a lot of people, he's now become some sort of satirical icon, there are numerous websites celebrating his stubborness and overbearing verbal style (certainly not his grammar, though)

Here are just two of them:

www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com

www.theinformationminister.com

The latter offers you to choose your own background image, supply a small text and then have Al-Sahaf deny the whole setup. Try it out, it's fun!

Here's the link to the "press conference" I created there:

www.theinformationminister.com
 
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DarkObserver, Dienstag, 11. Februar 2003, 15:02
News Dissector
Take a look at this weblog, it's a critical voice from the U.S. :

64.224.42.246

Danny Schechter, calling himself the "news dissector", is chief editor of the blog's surrounding website "mediachannel.org", a media watchdog offering a view of news events refreshingly apart from mainstream American media.

Hmm..but why are the latest headlines from February 3? I hope, they didn't get gagged already. Ah, no: They're revamping their site, it says somewhere. Anyhow: The blog is up-to-date, the entry for today speaks about overblown judicial restrictions for an anti-war demonstration in NYC among other things.
 
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