not that i would have cared anyways, but i am too young to have any recollection of oj as a football player. rather, i knew oj as nordberg. this is an aspect of the trial that i don't remember being explored much.

http://movieclips.com/oQBjK-the-naked-gun-from-the-files-of-police-squad-movie-nordbergs-bad-luck/

what i'm getting at is that, for a lot of people, i'm guessing, or at least me, the whole circus around the trial made it seem like a literal extension of the naked gun series. there is even a narrative level of continuity.

i mean, i realize it's sort of bleak and insensitive, but the way the trial unfolded really stripped away any pretension to existing in reality. i mean, people got killed, sure. but that wasn't what the trial was about. maybe that's what the trial *ought* to have been about, but it's not what it actually *was* about.

the thought came up when i became cognizant of how the naked gun was probably my first exposure to geopolitics. i don't have any clear memory, it's just the first thing i can recall. and i'm exploring my favourite topic of the surreal, again.

but the nordberg thing is an under-reported angle that was probably more widespread than people realize.

RE: Nice to hear from you.

From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: the surviving uncle

i've tried to respond to this a few times and it keeps turning into a lengthy response going through topics i don't really want to go through. starting with a difficulty finding employment back in '07, the last several years of my life have been full of emotional and financial instability. i often haven't had a stable place to stay, or a stable source of income. a culmination of things has finally put me in a safe, stable situation here. so, it's led to being happier as a result of that stability.

i more meant that losing my father was kind of up and down for a few months.

i've been focusing on two central projects. the first is running through the music i've recorded over the years, cleaning it up, finishing up existing projects and uploading it. i've made it up to the beginning of 2001 so far:
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/

the other thing i'm working on is a meandering web page that is hard to describe:
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/

i hope you're doing ok, too.

j

black math

this is the only way to seriously take the modern age to the other side of the oil crash. it doesn't get the same attention as quantum computing because people are naturally afraid of it, but it has more potential to become the dominant type of computer around us.

http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/march/bil-gates.html

http://www.thenation.com/article/178013/ukrainian-nationalism-heart-euromaidan
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/robert-fisk-the-flowers-of-the-arab-spring-are-so-distracting-that-ariel-sharon-s-death-has-barely-9054391.html
http://johnpilger.com/articles/is-media-just-another-word-for-control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sp_xVh9NP3o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R6ZixuyE1t8

maybe.

or maybe he's just making shit up.

there's no experiments here. it's hard to see what the point of publishing it in a scientific journal is. better, would be the journal of unproven hypotheses.

"well, in order for this idea to make sense, one of these other two ideas has to be wrong. but i like those ideas, so maybe the idea doesn't make sense."

yeah, maybe. maybe not. maybe this discussion is a waste of time.

http://www.nature.com/news/stephen-hawking-there-are-no-black-holes-1.14583

it does seem complicated. and i've scratched my head a few times. but, let's think back to iran-contra, when the americans were selling weapons to iran as they were both arming iraq and running off chauvinistic propaganda against iran. i'm too young to remember this; i think the first exposure i can recall came through watching 'naked gun'. but, it does make sense in hindsight. first, official policy needs to follow international law and public opinion, whereas unofficial policy follows true strategic interests. second, despite a desire to defeat this or that force, the greater strategic objective is to ensure that nobody in the region is too powerful (except the americans themselves). so, public policy often contradicts real policy. the key to getting through the contradictions is to acknowledge the contrived nature of public policy.

so, it's not entirely a contradiction to support every country without an attempt to build a coherent strategy between them. the hope is to generate conflict. a great satan, indeed.

in most of these conflicts, the americans publicly back the state (as required by international law) and covertly back the rebels (as determined by actual policy). most of this can be solved by that observation.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/now-its-middle-eastern-regimes-fighting-alqaida-while-the-us-ties-itself-up-in-knots-9039977.html

yeah. this isn't about the effects of the disaster, it's about whether the government is allowing investigation and transparency into the effects of the disaster. there's a subtext that they're hiding something. even if they're not, this kind of secrecy isn't a model to build around, although one may question if the model isn't actually american.

https://www.facebook.com/ralphnader/posts/695239727173629