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PSM - P 'Smith' - alias, PSmith - Wodehouse, after P O'Neill, PMS (or just very dyspeptic)
42 - The answer to "The meaning of life, the universe and everything." But what was the question? The answer _is_ provided by Joseph Campbell - "Life has no meaning. _We_ bring the meaning to it. Life has so many different 'meanings', all over the place." These are _the_ answers. So far. (Subjective? A tad).
Found commenting regularly - _and_ never censored, which makes it _much_ more pleasant - on -
1. Information Clearing House - 'Ex Pat'. Insults Ne. Oc. On shills as 'Anonymous', along with millions of like-minded others. (Gratuitous Eats Shoots Leaves reference?).
2. Truthdig - 'PSmith'
Battles tirelessly continuous auto-cen. at HP; posts thus limited in length and by the continuous effort needed to overcome said auto-cen.
PSM42 - European conservative. Humanist - after 'Norwegian conservative guy' @ 1.20 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svSUCbClg8E
The last US eight years have made him a huge admirer of the lifetime's works of Tony Benn, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Harry Wilmer, Rollo May, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Stan and Iris Ovshinsky, Philip Hallie, Jeffrey Russell, Gore Vidal. John Stockwell, Philip Agee. Recommended via websites and youtube.
News Sources -
Robert Fisk - Excellent. Vital. Hugely admirable.
Ahmed Rashid - Tony Blair's views with a Pakistani accent.
Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed - provides the bits Rashid leaves out - hugely important.
Pepe Escobar at Asia Times and Real News - (Sometimes) apparently accurate, and funny. But his relentless written Asia Times Iran coloured-revolution coverage was a "credibility suicide."
Jon Stewart - the only daily serious, and brutal, US commentator on the ev1l of the Ne. 0c. 0n years.
Stephen Colbert - his White House Correspondents Dinner speach - single most devastating critique of the Ne. 0c. 0ns.
Sy Hersh - excellent, but infrequent.
Democracy Now - Amy Goodman - only US news source - but limited - occasional Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky interviews.
Others -
Robert Fisk on the US MSM - 'US officials say'. Don't bother.
BBC - ditto. Now the bias is _very_ obvious.
Al Jazeera - a _lot_ of neo-liberal (neo-con?) stories. Disappointing.
N.B.
http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/
http://www.namebase.org/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKarmitage.htm
Formative influences -
Atomic war - Cuban Missile Crisis, Assassinations of JFK, RFK, Malcom X, US civil rights movement, Vietnam, Chile - Pinochet's coup, Iran-Contra, Northern Ireland - 'The Troubles', Margaret Thatcher. Her 'Dirty War'.
Goal -
Providing the US a humanist homeopathic cure for its insanity. One drop can affect the ocean that is our shared reality. Likewise one sane commenter. And we are millions of sane commenters.
Believes -
That "humour is the only divine quality of man" - from Schopenhauer, says Barbara Hannah.
