Psychic Terror Network

Martin Kelley — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:18:50 +0000

For those of you pronosticators who want to get in on the ground floor of the Psychic Terror Network (a.k.a. the Policy Analysis Market), here’s the home of dot-com Homeland Security. Its homepage is appropriately reminiscent of the Heaven’s Gate Cult website, another modern pseudo-religion (their story here).
The Policy Analysis Market is cosponored by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects, and a spin-off of The economist magazine, confirming my suspicion that this is the cult of the capitalists at work. It’s Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations here: there’s a “guiding hand” to completely unfettered markets that allows them to meet people’s needs better than individual intelligence ever could. Forget the CIA, we’ll use internet surfers! They’ll want to make money and they can do our intelligence gathering for us better than those desk jockeys in Langley! This Psychic Terror Stock exchange is the perfect marriage of Nineties dot-com can-do, eighties market-uber-alles and Seventeen-Seventies God-guides-the-rich Calvinism.
Trader accounts open in two days so get ready to join the Pyschic Terror Network yourself!
UPDATe: We’re too late. Pentagon canceling Pyschic Terror Network under the weight of ridicule they’ve received to the idea. Maybe the Pentagon should hire Nancy Reagan’s astrologer for their terror alerts instead (actually they should hire her great webmaster, whose great design sure beats that of the Heaven’s Gate dropout they used).

Lots of Blame-Shifting on the Niger/Iraq Forgery

Martin Kelley — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:07:42 +0000

The CIA asked Britain to drop it’s Iraq claim while President Bush said that the CIA “I gave a speech to the nation that was cleared by the intelligence services.”
Remember that Bush’s State of the Union address didn’t claim that the US believed that Iraq was buying nuclear material from Niger or other African countries. It said that British intelligence thought Iraq was. Shifting responsibility for the claim gave the Bush team the wiggle room to include an allegation they knew was probably not true. It’s the triumph of politics over truth.
As I’ve written before, there is a political brillance to the Bush Presidency. The Administration knows that it can sway large portions of the American public just by making claims. It doesn’t matter if the claims are wrong –even obviously wrong– as long as they feed into some deep psychic narrative. It’s been awhile since we saw a President that could bully through reality as long as the story sounded good. Ronald Reagan, the ex-actor, was good at it but I’m suspecting our current President is even better. The question is whether enough people will start insisting on the truth and demand investigations into the lies. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and President Bush knew it. The American people would not have gone to war if we had known that Iraq wasn’t a threat and this too President Bush knew.

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Psychic Terror Network

Lots of Blame-Shifting on the Niger/Iraq Forgery