The following rush transcript probably contains errors and/or omissions…
Times Still Down – Drumbeat of War is Deafening
[transcription of unscripted performance] Live from New York, and high atop InfoWeb Broadcast Center, it’s DayPage, and I’m Rex Latchford. And, it’s another day of attacks on the New York Times. It seems to be a war in cyberspace. The drumbeat of war is echoing, of course, everywhere throughout our reality today, but the New York Times in unavailable to our computers here in the studio, as DayPage is underway. We’re going to look at the headlines in the Washington Post instead.
[headlines followed, not transcribed here]
“Ahh the drumbeat of war. Those jungle drums, echoing in my head.”
“… you know, I don’t talk much about the March on Washington, but I was there. Yeah, I’m an old fart, but I was a kid then… but still, I was there… I saw it… and I saw Resurrection Village… On the Mall in Washington D.C., and it was quite a sight. Racisim was worse then than it is now, if you can believe it…”
[blurbs from the Opinion Section of the Washington Post]
[regarding looming war on Syria] “… most of the wars in the past [decades] have been undeclared wars in the legal sense. And, why should we start doing anything new at this time? The Federal Government has acted illegally in almost every way imagineable in our lifetimes – why should they start obeying the law now? Laws are only for citizens, for the little people. The big and the powerful people can do anything they want, right? Well, unfortunately, look around you… look to your left, look to your right, probably one of those people actually believes that. This is a problem, folks.
[more headlines]
Well I guess… good news today. The Guardian is still publishing… the U.K. Government hasn’t taken them down. Julian Assange still hasn’t been extradited to Sweden “for questioning”. Bradley Manning hasn’t been put to death. I guess there are some good things out there, but nevertheless, it does appear as thought the drumbeat of war is relentless at this point. The lamestream media is falling in line. And, it appears the government will do anything to distract our attention from the global total surveillance state they have created. It’s an environment in which free markets, capitalism… democracy… simply cannot survive. There can be only one outcome, and that’s economic destruction. So, fasten your seatbelts! And that’ll be it for another DayPage. It’s a production of Radio InfoWeb, and I’ll see you tomorrow for another installment of DayPage, at DayPage.net.
Those Jungle Drums of War!
Ringing in my head! Can there be no peace? Aiieeeeeee!
Illustration by Heather Watts