Thanks mate, appreciate the promote...

In reply to this comment by NordlichReiter:
promote

Wow, thanks mate. Appreciate it.

In reply to this comment by geo321:
quality & promote

http://videosift.com/video/A-Zed-Two-L-s-Fila-Brazillia-Cold-Cut-Retouch-ENJOY

AT 8:06 TELL ME THATS NOT THE SAME GUYS VOICE ? ? ? ? ! ??1?!/1!?!?

Not sure how well you recall the movie, but no one was stabbed in the back... The only person to meet the sharp end of the katana was Maynard, who got slashed across the chest, and then stabbed in the gut.

At any rate, the moral thing he references there was when Butch had the opportunity to get out of the store while Zed was busy with Marsellus, but he chose instead to go back and rescue a man who quite likely still wanted him dead.

At any rate, it's a great movie!

Zed's dead baby. This here is EDD's chopper now.

Many congrats, EDD. I've been watching you from afar (you see that building across the street?) and I think you and I are a lot alike. Except, you're married and have a healthy love life. But I'll see to that... I'll see to that good.


Oh oh, They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa!!!

i was just about to promote this but the embed's dead, zed.

any chance you can reacquire that? if so, ping me.

Allison Carrol is Lara Croft ( promoting a game not a film)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertainment/newsid_7556000/7556131.stm

World's Smallest Burger
http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/08/10/worlds-smallest-burger-fries-soda-meal-yummy.html

World's Smallest Balloon
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14501-worlds-smallest-balloon-inflated.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

Bloody Serial Killer Shower Curtain
http://www.thingsyouneverknew.com/product/whatsnew/bloody+serial+killer+shower+curtain.do?WT.svl=84002#

Styrofoam Dome Homes
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/styrofoam-dome-homes/

eBay Slot Machines
http://technologizer.com/2008/08/10/ebay-its-a-gamble/

The 10 Oddest City Names
http://blog.hotelclub.com/the-10-oddest-city-names/

GMail outage pours rain on Cloud Computing parade
http://broadstuff.com/archives/1140-GMail-outage-pours-rain-on-Cloud-Computing-parade.html

Isaac Hayes - Shaft - live 1973
http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/isaac_hayes__shaft__live_1973?id=L2cHkMwzOiM

Scientists Closer to Invisibility Cloak
http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Scientists-Closer-to-Invisibility-Cloak/story.xhtml?story_id=030003EKTENC

John McCain
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/7927/suckerpunchhw9.jpg

Kites could provide electricity for 100,000 homes
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/7BB84CAD-258C-4980-A42B-D963F1685E75/

Lego Sushi Sculptures
http://www.hemmy.net/2008/08/11/lego-sushi-sculptures/

McDonalds Visual Kidnapping
http://pingmag.jp/2008/08/11/zevs-visual-kidnapping/

Chuck Norris Facts
http://4q.cc/index.php?pid=top100&person=chuck

Odd One Out
flickr.com/photos/benpearce/2225087667/
Rocketboom's Andrew Baron to Speak at Portable Film Festival
http://portablefilmfestival.com/symposium.php

Google Streets: Now With Drunks And Fire!
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/google_streets_now_with_drunks.php

Protest at Russian Embassy
http://flickr.com/photos/snapperjack/2752846173/

Stella and the Speech Accent Archive
http://accent.gmu.edu/

Twitter Fail Whale
http://static.twitter.com/images/whale.png

U is for You
http://images.google.com/images?q=mirror

Beijing opening night lures 15 percent of world
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080811/tv_nm/olympics_viewers_dc

The Beer Belt
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/pure_class_and_alcohol_the_bee.php

Monster Segway
http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2008/08/monster-segway.html

Rocketboom on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/rocketboom

Whats up with pronouncing the letter Z as Zed?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070801222415AAjcFd8

embed's dead, zed.

grab this one:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5qh3p_wanted-red-band-trailer-us_shortfilms

blimey! how'd i overlook the *british tag?

ta, zed!

In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
*promote this great tune. *british too

7 "ZED" damnit.

Aw yeah, found the clip. http://www.videosift.com/video/Zeds-dead-baby-Zeds-dead-Pulp-Fiction

Zed's dead..

Anyone wanting to see it can so in non-embeddable format here:
http://zed.cbc.ca/go?CONTENT_ID=2365&c=contentPage

Damn....joedirt really did sum this thing up...I have noticed the same dynamic, now that he has brought it up.....less votes on viddies, more people concerned about what is said, than, perhaps, trying to learn something, or broaden one's horizens....people that rear heads, when they see some sign of life, to call it like they see it.....Some users dynamic, some static, some a bit naive, others well-versed in some decorum or another....(hell, I had no idea how HAND relates to my least favorite, meaningless cop-out phrase, "Have a Nice Day", before Doc_M and rembar pointed this out) and again, more perspective gained through honest interaction than gen-Y or Zed, computer-addled brains, can apparently stand, and the spoiled brat in everyone comes out-SO BE IT....what better way to take part in an exorcism or purge, than to have an outside the circle perspective-WHAT??? You miss the comfort of Mum's bosom???
Now go vote for vidoes, and can we leave this thread, to the cobwebs-start a new one when the comment-voting, feather-ruffler feature is dismantled, or re-vamped!! enough ideas here to fill a silo.....
*unsticky??? Jesus Zoraster!

-- continued.

One year after the US-instigated coup, President Gerald Ford - in the oval office thanks to some domestic White House "black ops" that garnered unfavorable attention in the imperial homeland (Watergate) - claimed that US actions in installing Pinochet were "in the best interests of the people of Chile and certainly in our own best interests."


Historical Connections

Twenty-eight years to the day after Chile's 9/11, the world witnessed a different, more spectacular form of unimaginable violence, broadcast live on national TV, with different ideological and geo-political parameters. The culprits were almost certainly based in the extremist Islamic terror networks of the Middle East.

There are some interesting, dark connections, however, between these two Nine-Elevens. The US policy of deterring democracy and social justice in the perceived interest of US multinational corporations and world capitalism was hardly restricted to Chile and the official Cold War era (1945-1991). In pursuit of the same basic goals that informed the US/Pinochet coup, the US has supported and in some cases conducted anti-democratic coups against excessively (from a US perspective) "left" governments (any state that proposed to encourage development of its sovereign territory in significant autonomy from the US-dominated world capitalist economic system) in Syria (1949), Iran (1953), Iraq (1963), Indonesia (1965), and Greece (1967). It provided massive economic and military assistance to authoritarian Middle Eastern regimes that suppressed democratic and left opposition and kept their domestic economies open to foreign and especially US corporate penetration and domination. It armed Israel, waged war and enforced a deadly, decade-long sanctions campaign against Iraq, stationed troops indefinitely in the Islamic Holy Land, and provided cover for Israel's prolonged, racist annexation of Palestinian territory. The US funded the Arab far-right, supporting arch-reactionary Islamic extremists like Osama bin Laden, valued as weapons in the same Cold War that provided cover for the US campaign to crush national self-determination, democracy, and social justice in places like Iran, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and Chile.

By largely eliminating the left, undercutting democracy, and generally subjecting regional developments to imperial fiat both during and after the official Cold War, the US shrunk the available space for "normal" (Western-style/parliamentary) airing of social, political and related international grievances in the Middle East. This, in turn, brought "blowback" (an internal CIA term for the unintended consequences of secret US foreign policies) from America's imperial periphery to the skies and streets of New York City and Washington DC, where Pinochet's henchmen (part of a CIA-sponsored team of international assassins code-named "Operation Condor") killed a former Allende supporter and his American driver (Olando Letelier and Randy Moffit) in 1976. How darkly appropriate, then, that George W. Bush attempted to put Kissinger, a leading perpetrator in the state-terrorist events of 9/11/73, at the head of a federal commission to investigate US security lapses prior to 9/11/2001, which opened the door for new levels of US and US-sponsored state terrorism.


Worthy and Unworthy 9/11s

Of course, only a tiny percentage of the US population knows about Chile's 9/11, for reasons that go beyond obvious gaps of time, geography, and language. A relevant explanatory text here is the second chapter, titled "Worthy and Unworthy Victims," of Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman's Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of The Mass Media (New York, NY: Pantheon, 1988), published as the Cold War was nearing its partial conclusion with the collapse of the Soviet deterrent (itself part of the context for 9/11/2001) to American global ambitions. "A propaganda system," the authors noted, "will consistently portray people abused in enemy states as worthy victims, whereas those treated with equal or greater severity by its own government or clients will be unworthy." Identified with the official US Cold War "enemy" force of socialism or Marxism - really social egalitarianism and national self-determination (still the basic adversaries of US policy in the "post-Cold-War era") - Pinochet's victims have only recently attained a small measure of historical worthiness in dominant US corporate-state media. This slight retrospective legitimacy comes far too long after the terrible facts. It is no match for the worthiness bestowed on the most officially precious victims in US History: the Americans who died on the only 9/11 that matters in a nation that drifts through history in a dangerous fog of selective, top-down remembrance.


Paul Street (pstreet@cul-chicago.org) will speak on "State-Run Media" on Friday, September 26, 2003 at a conference titled "Is Our Media Serving Us?" at Columbia College, Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash, Chicago, IL, 12:45 PM.


Appendix: Selected Sources on US Involvement in 9/11/73 and Related Developments in Chile

US Senate, Select Committee to Study Government Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities, Covert Action in Chile, 1963-1973 (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1975); United States Congress, Select Committee to Study Government Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities, Interim Report: Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, 94th Congress, 1st Session, November 10, 1975 (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1975); William Blum, The CIA: A Forgotten History (London: Zed, 1986), pp. 232-243; Seymour M. Hersh, "The Price of Power: Kissinger, Nixon, and Chile," Atlantic Monthly, 250 (1982), no. 6, 21-58; Poul Jensen, The Garotte: The United States and Chile, 1970-73 (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1988); Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (New York, NY: Verso, 2001), pp. 55-76; "Why Is the U.S. Mum About Pinochet?," CNN.com (November 25, 1998), available online at http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9 811/25/pinochet.us/; National Security Archives, The Chile Documentation Project (2000-2001), available online at http://www.gwu.edu/~ nsarchiv/latin_america/chile.htm.