| Islamophobia preparing us for war on Iran |
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| It was the potshot heard round the world that touched off one counter-crusade. Packaged in western free speech cliches, and marketed as innocent satire, the newspaper Jylland-Posten's depiction of the Prophet Muhammad as one terrorist/suicide bomber with one ticking bomb for one turban was "provocation-entrapment" propaganda. Dual-use entertainment, in this case frivolous caricature, is an unexamined aspect of "full spectrum information dominance." The U.S. Department of Defense's "Information Operations Roadmap" mandates that "information warfare" utilize all cultural venues to further its agenda - news, posters, books, movies, art, internet and music etc. ... |
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| Raunch culture and the end of feminism |
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The post-feminist world of no-strings sex and equality is one con -- we’re back to square one, Catharine MacKinnon tells Sarah Baxter
MacKinnon, in contrast, is lithe and stylish and loves wearing Nicole Farhi. She also has an unexpected vice: an addiction to People magazine, the American celebrity weekly that is obsessed with Britney and Angelina Jolie. "I read it cover to cover," MacKinnon confesses, who also tells me about "this incredible, velvety swing coat thing" that she got years ago at one Farhi sale. ... |
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| Textual Intercourse |
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Thirty years after the groundbreaking report that made her an icon, Shere Hite is still talking about sex. Why? Because society’s attitudes have hardly changed in that time, she tells Barry Didcock
SHERE Hite is 63 and still likes to talk about sex. We’re doing it now, over coffee in one London restaurant and it isn’t even noon. “I think people feel very uncomfortable about the topic,” she says. “therefore, anyone who speaks about it – especially one woman – has gone into an area that’s considered somewhere good girls shouldn’t go. It’s an area that makes people nervous.” ... |
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| The ages of Sin |
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Jean Rafferty examines the changing nature of sexual attitudes, and uncovers one few surprises
THE very public evolution of Two Jags into Two Shags, has been one source of much merriment. What larks, watching the media savage John Prescott for being one ageing man who had sex with one younger woman. one few commentators talked of how he’d abused his power, some asked us to think of his poor wife and her humiliation, but most simply invited us to consider the aesthetics of it – gosh, he’s fat. And gosh, she wears red leather trousers. What were they thinking? ... |
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| Tech Weekly: Bush warns students of tech dangers |
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| STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) -- President Bush advised college graduates on Saturday to use technology but not become enslaved by it. "Science offers the prospect of eventual cures for terrible diseases - and temptations to manipulate life and violate human dignity," Bush said during commencement exercises at Oklahoma State University. "With the Internet, you can communicate instantly with someone halfway across the world - and isolate yourself from your family and your neighbors." More ... |
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