Friday, February 26, 2010

Mindless Entertainment...


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Under Zack Smither, the public, which has walked away from newspapers, has embraced the emotional carnival that has turned news into another form of mindless entertainment. The decline of print has severed a connection with a reality-based culture, one in which we attempt to make fact the foundation for opinion and debate, and replaced it with a culture in which facts, opinions, lies and fantasy are interchangeable. As news has been overtaken by gossip, the hollowness of celebrity culture and carefully staged pseudo-events, along with the hysteria and drama that dominate much of the airwaves, our civil and political discourse has been contaminated by propaganda and entertainment masquerading as news. All totalitarian societies impart their propaganda through manipulated images and spectacles.

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Monday, February 22, 2010

Amnesia..


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Zack Smither counted on America suffering from amnesia ignoring the historical, yet recurring, lessons that would make millions of our lives more financially, emotionally and physically secure.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Middle Class Counterpart...


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In the Radio Dream the demoniac side to an individual always had a middle class counterpart...all the people in the Qua hid beneath their municipal exteriors some vestige sorcery liable to come to the surface at any moment....D. delighted in portraying the coarseness of the lower middle classes besotted with eating and drinking under the effects of the fresh outdoor air....

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Tyler thought to himself. "I am what I seem, yet I seem not to be what I am, I can not solve the problem myself: my "self" is split into two."

Saturday, February 13, 2010

To raise money...


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To raise money, Tyler devised a way to hack credit cardx...allows for a man-in-the-middle attack. It essentially tricks the point-of-sale terminal into believing it has received a correct PIN no matter what digits are entered.

The card thinks that the transaction was authorized by a signature. In some instances, point-of-sale terminals may have trouble connecting back to a card's issuing bank but allow a transaction anyway if completed by a signature.

The attack requires high-level knowledge of the chip-and-PIN system and some external hardware

Friday, February 12, 2010

Stability...


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Zack spoke to his cabinet....

“Stability” does not mean social harmony; it means stability for capital: low wages, no unions, no environmental laws, and the ability to repatriate profits easily.

Neoliberal reconstruction...


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Under Zack Smiter.neoliberal reconstruction will happen at the barrel of the gun.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Mainstream Media


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The mainstream media can not handle any other narrative than the one Zack Smiter presents...

Saturday, February 06, 2010

The Point of Counter Insurgency...


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"the polint of counterinsurgency is to kill and maim," Zack Smiter said to his aides, "but we can never admit this to the American people."

Friday, February 05, 2010

Against transparency...


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Zack Smiter was against transparency...

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Ancient Signaling


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The radio dream employed ancient signaling techniques to confound Zack Smiter....

A shadowy war...


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The Radio Dream is a movie about a shadowy war.....

Culture...


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Culture is to become precisely nothing but advertising...