Murdering More Classics

The interweb is a wonderful series of tubes which often directs to my lappy the most wondrous of sights and sounds. For example right now I’m listening to Yo La Tengo (one of my very favourite bands) playing live on WFMU. I love technology!

(with thanks to noble metafilter for the information)

J.K.

Did A Man Really Walk On The Moon?

Oscar winner faces 9/11 backlash

“I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” the Paris-born 32-year-old is seen saying in French.

“We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned?” she asks. “There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours.

“It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.”

The Twin Towers, she claims, were a “money sucker” that would have cost much more to modernise than to destroy.

The actress goes on to cast doubt on the Moon landing of 1969. “Did a man really walk on the moon?” she asks.

“I saw plenty of documentaries on it and I really wondered. In any case I don’t believe all they tell me.”

Seriously though, does anyone still believe the official Moon landing story? And as for November the 9th…

J.K.

links for 2008-03-02

• Aida Edemariam talks to author Joseph Stiglitz about the true cost of the Iraq war
  At the same time, Stiglitz and Bilmes argue, the Federal Reserve colluded in this obfuscation, because it “kept interest rates lower than they otherwise might have been, and looked the other way as lending standards were lowered, thereby encouraging house
  (tags: US Economy Iraq War)
• Michael Meacher: This war on terrorism is bogus
  The PNAC blueprint supports an earlier document attributed to Wolfowitz and Libby which said the US must “discourage advanced industrial nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or global role”.
  (tags: US Global Hegemony 911 Neocon)
• Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians
  In common with earlier studies, the team found no data to support the idea that Jewish people were genetically distinct from other people in the region. In doing so, the team’s research challenges claims that Jews are a special, chosen people and that Jud
  (tags: Israel Zionist Censorship Propaganda)
• Afghanistan mission close to failing
  But the gloomy comments echoed even more strongly worded recent reports by thinktanks, including one headed by the former Nato commander General James Jones, which concluded that “urgent changes” were required now to “prevent Afghanistan becoming a failed
  (tags: US UK Afghanistan Failing)
• An invention called ‘the Jewish people’
  Zand explains the origins of Yiddish culture: it was not a Jewish import from Germany, but the result of the connection between the offspring of the Kuzari and Germans who traveled to the East, some of them as merchants.
  (tags: Israel Zionist)
• Court gags ex-SAS man who made torture claims
  Ben Griffin could be jailed if he makes further disclosures about how people seized by special forces were allegedly mistreated and ended up in secret prisons in breach of the Geneva conventions and international law.
  (tags: UK US Rendition Torture)