440

“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” – GW Bush

439

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly, it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” – Joseph Goebbels

438

“The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.” – Albert Einstein

437

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali

436

“The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn’t have married Mrs Khrushchev.” – Nikita Khrushchev

435

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

434

“The ideal is to create a completely fragmented, atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.” – Noam Chomsky

433

“The endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.” – George Orwell

432

“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.” – Albert Einstein

431

“As with a great many things, ActiveX was a good enough idea that had a highly unpleasant side effect. The ability to integrate third-party applications with the web browser was a pretty neat idea, unfortunately it also opened a Pandora’s box of security issues. Sort of like a weight loss pill that causes you to turn orange and grow a third arm out of your chest.” – Shaun Nichols

Top 10 worst Microsoft products of all time

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430

“[Kim Howells] has the classic New Labour profile and like fellow migrants from the far left – Straw, Reid, Blunkett and Clarke – he has retained a love of state intrusion and is, as they all are, an enthusiast for ID cards. There is a part of Howells that remains firmly rooted in the beliefs that ruled east Germany until 20 years ago. Actually, what he advocates in this proposed withdrawal from the world is more akin to a British version of Albania, a locked-down police state with stringent border controls and unwavering state control.” – Henry Porter

428

“A bandicoot is pretty to its parents, a monkey is pretty to its mate.” – Proverb from Karnataka

428

I’m sitting at Guy Fawkes’ table
The day Parliament voted for war
Though the mass of the people oppose it
And it flouts international law
I’m sitting at Guy Fawkes’ table
While American thugs flaunt their power
Egged on by a sad little muppet
And his craven and cowardly shower.

- Atilla The Stockbroker

427

Into this Universe, and Why not knowing
Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing;
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.

- Omar Khayyám

426

“Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might” – Blaise Pascal

425

“Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.’” – Lenny Bruce

423

“The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.” – Ferdinand Magellan

422

“Stay cool and don’t believe anything the Bush administration tells you. In fact, play it safe: don’t believe anything anybody tells you.” – George Carlin

421

“Spare no expense to save money on this one.” – Samuel Goldwyn

Modded Again

I write this moments after posting a comment on Comment is Free. I shall reproduce it here as I doubt it will get published any time soon.

Dear CiF Mods,

I posted links to four photos that I own the copyright to and are licensed under a very liberal method that actively encourages people to download and use in any way they choose and what happens? You censor my post. I’m sure that in a discussion about copyright issues this has an irony that is not lost on most readers.

So, dear Mods, was it because some of the content contained mildly satirical criticism of Lady Mandelson? Too many links? Is it because I is black? I’d love to know.

By the way, before you deleted my post over 3,500 people got to see and/or download the images so it was all a bit of a stable/horse/bolt situation anyway. Rather like Mandy’s disconnection policy. Oh look, bonus irony.

Even more ironic is that there are plenty of comments on this article that actively explain how to circumvent Her Ladyship’s new policy and avoid the long arm of her law. It really does make me wonder why my post got removed.

A question too for Lady Mandy’s special friend David Geffen. Is that a politician in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?