every different news outlet has their own memorable logo design and headline to further what they believe are the top stories of the day. cnn has that catchy "countdown to iraq" graphic, complete with dramatic music. fox news has the gripping "war on terror" shouting out at you.
but the one we really like is from north korea's government-controlled news agency: world war 3!!
the communist nation has warned us officials that another military conflict on the korean peninsula, will finally lead to a third world war. the bold statement appeared in a news article, carried by north korea's government-run news agency. the article also bragged, that north korea would win a "fire to fire" standoff, with the us. the threat showed up just hours, after north korea pulled out of the "global nuclear arms control treaty."
those wacky north korean papers! and we thought we had trouble with rupert murdoch!
wow. good thing we've got all those troops overseas. oh, wait. they're over in another part of the world. oh yeah.
meanwhile, anna of annatopia directs us to a empty bottle, a blog by an ex-pat canadian in south korea (living near the dmz) for an on-the-ground view of the whole situation.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."