Why 'The World' Can't Take the US Seriously

Seriously guys, I'm often at a exacerbating loss when trying to properly articulate just what the rest of the world finds so unreasonable about the the United States as a political, military and cultural force in the world. Fortunately, as they say, a picture paints a thousand words, and none more so then this ad I came across this.



I mean, is this for real? I mean, hell 'Merkins, you guys gotta do your part right, so why not buy your genuine 911 coin, minted with 'genuine silver recovered from Ground Zero'. I mean, for fucksake, can you get much more tasteless then this? Blood diamond? Try blood silver. Its really so crass and so tasteless, I find it all unbelievable.

Whats more, I can't understand why there isn't some kind of moral outrage over this in the US. The guy I found this link from had it entitled 'Why I Hate Capitalism', which is a completely ridiculous statement and, quite frankly, the kind of retarded kindergarden hippy student leftisim that drive me crazy. This has nothing to do with an economic system and everything to do with a certain, I think, excessive sentiment on the part of the American pscyhe to both defie and defile at the same time. The victims of 9/11 are defied into saints simply through there misfortune (an utterly spurious, but again, very Merkin, interpretation - grace through misfortune, passive, not active and not through sacrifice) - and yet at the same time, this religiosity is sold like any other commodity, forgiveness, penance, abolition, available free when you want how you want it, just a click away, a credit card number from salvation...

That's why we can't take you seriously.

A Letter to the American People

Hello all! I hope everyone has had a very fun weekend - mine was spent primarily clubbing on Friday and Saturday nights, and spending most of the day on the beach.

Living the dream indeed.

Anyway, I just came across this and thought people might find it interesting - its the full text of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to the American people, from last month.

For a figure so incessantly demonised in the Western media, it's certainly very interesting to read - less of the 'mad mullah' and a lot more of a very shrewd political operator.