Sunday, January 24, 2010
THE GAME IS OVER, GO KILL YOURSELF
Saturday, January 23, 2010
RE: PROGRESSIVE AUTHOR SEEKS EDITORIAL INTERN
With a consistent track record of success in previous professional positions, I believe I have the work ethic and discipline to benefit you in your work. For many years I have been greatly interested in the military and its impact on the world. I would very much like to assist you in your efforts and I have the combination of interest in military matters and academic experience to successfully act as your research assistant.
My professional experience gave me the motivation to work towards higher goals; a motivation that requires me to work through my current academic situation. My work at AIT taught me a lot about assisting a superior in the workplace. I came out of that opportunity with excellent written and oral communications skills. In my time at Starbucks I learned the benefits of time management and how to use my time most effectively. These experiences provided me with a unique skill set and one that I believe will be of great advantage to you.
My greatest love is literature; everything from William Shakespeare to Edgar Allen Poe to Andy McNab. It is my hope to someday have the opportunity to write something that will change the world, or at least one person's perspective of it. I believe this position would be mutually beneficial as I hope to learn as much from you as you will get from my effort towards helping you complete your book.
I have attached my resume and essay, and I greatly look forward to hearing from you and especially scheduling an interview for the near future. If there is any more information you would like, do not hesitate to contact me.
[OH GOD THE ESSAYS]
The military-industrial complex has become a part of daily life, regardless of nationality. In the United States, twenty percent of federal taxes go to fighting wars in distant countries on the premise of preventing bloodshed on American soil. In the most recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, not only have trillions of dollars been lost to these Imperialistic efforts, but thousands of American lives and countless Afghan and Iraqi lives as well. The idea that we are somehow protecting ourselves by instituting our way of life on people from another culture is not only foolish, but irresponsible. The methods used since the start of the Vietnam War have not been those of understanding and problem-solving, but of brute force.
The worst part is that this military-industrial complex has found its way to our streets. An illegal prohibition on drugs has led to the militarization of our police officers. Bullet proof vests, automatic weapons, and light armored vehicles are now a part of police departments in every major city. This need to feel safe by declaring war against foreign nations has found its way to our streets. Innocent people are being killed on a daily basis not just abroad, but here at home as well. Highly trained Marines and soldiers are taking positions at local police departments and utilizing the same tactics from Iraq and Afghanistan in our own urban slums.
Is there an easy solution to these problems? Absolutely not, there never is. However, by working towards peace not by standing behind the barrel of a gun but by standing up with our morals, ideals, and ideas in hand we can make this world a better place. The generation before us became one of fascism and imperialism and this generation must work to make this world a more peaceful place before the last remnants of our freedom is taken by those that fear the word “different”.
Friday, January 22, 2010
RE: Job Posting
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Re: Editorial Intern Position
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Craigslist posting
I saw your post on craigslist and I'm interested in the job. I wanted to ask you first, though, whether you are looking for someone immediately (I'm guessing you are), or whether it could wait until June (after I graduate). I have plenty of experience as a writer and an editor, including in an antiwar activist capacity, and I'm eager to apply it to new tasks.
Please let me know if, by some chance, you might want someone over the summer, and I'll send a resume, cover letter, and the essay right over.
Best regards,
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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Monday, January 18, 2010
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Research Internship Position (Resume, Cover letter and Essay attached)
| Cover letter, Resume and essay attached. |
How the Military Industrial Complex Has Impacted My life as a Citizen
I think that I come from a slightly different perspective on this subject since my father worked for the Department of Defense, so every bit of food I ate as a child and indeed my education itself was paid for indirectly by the military spending. However, that is not to say that not aware of the sociopolitical ramifications of U.S military aggression both domestically and across the world.
Ultimately, this impacts every American citizen both economically and politically, when one considers that military infrastructure has been carefully distributed into virtually every congressional district and thus represents a perpetual lobbying influence. Essentially you have a self-sustaining funding mechanism, where every Representative and U.S. Senator has an invested interest in protecting that super structure in order to preserve jobs and funding in their home districts. In a broader financial sense, this of course affects how both the Federal and State governments distribute funds as the sheer orbit of military spending diverts funding from larger social programs such as education and healthcare. The scope of this becomes even more magnified as one examines the U.S. budget and discovers that defense spending accounts for the greatest share of personal income tax.
The influence of the military industrial complex on American foreign policy is of paramount concern, as unchecked, it has the potential to enflame international conflict in order to preserve its own political power structure. The mergence of military power and corporate interests also has truly global implications as was seen recently in the Iraq War and most famously during the Spanish-American War when American business interests were freely allowed to incite warfare.
The frequent intermingling of national media and the military industrial complex is yet another pressing factor as this union of mass media obeisance and military affairs has manipulated public perception for decades, if not longer. Such an alliance, both from a historic and contemporary perspective aides in engendering public sentiment in favor of military endeavors as was recently seen when critics of the Iraq War were habitually marginalized in most news outlets. This was even more pronounced during the Abu Ghraib scandal when news medias abetted the ongoing narrative that prisoner abuses where isolated and localized incidents rather than systematic of a larger, permissive stance of U.S. intelligence operations at the time. It’s almost impossible not to draw parallels between the Post 9/11 decade and the politics of the Cold War as recent American foreign policy has mirrored the unilateral aggressiveness of the Domino theory. The recent narratives parroted out of corporate news outlets has also borne a striking reminiscence to its cold war counterpart as contemporary wartime reporting has been colored by a myopic, militaristic lens similar to CIA director Allen Dulles tenure when he was able to shape the course of foreign news reporting to his own ends in the 1950’s. The “War on Terror” which is itself a term perpetuated by the corporate media, has also altered the nature of global warfare as it has led to a greater tolerance on the part of the American people in regards to human rights abuses perpetrated by both U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Editorial Intern Position
The military-industrial complex has had far-reaching ramifications when it comes to death, destruction, and the destabilization of global society, and these have been evident throughout modern history. However, I think one of the most understated problems has been the change in culture it has provoked. Following World War II, American society began to wholeheartedly espouse the ideals of consumption and technology. Life began to shift from “living” to possessing, and this was in my opinion a result of the emphasis in America upon technology and science. The whole ideal was wrapped in the idea that science and technology automatically meant human “progress”. Thus the military-industrial complex caused people to be viewed more in terms of economic worth rather than human worth. It emphasized that society needed to advance and that modernity meant improvements and following the American way. These values were imparted upon society because the government needed to convince the public that all the money being invested in the military and industries was necessary to remain “progress” and ensure safety. However, people became more detached from society as a result of the emphasis on consuming, and in my estimation modernity has made us less human. I do not want to overestimate that all people have fallen into this trap, but I think that too many have. Consumption has become fetishized by Americans as a way to placate themselves and pass over the fact that modern, industrial life is not better. Moreover, the military aspect has led America to become a place ruled by fear. George W. Bush astutely understood this, and used war and a climate of fear to help convince the American people that they needed him to help protect them. I’ve been greatly influenced by this cultural change because it is not how I want to live. I enjoy modern improvements, but I do not base my life upon them. I am greatly disappointed with this changed because I feel it has crippled the American people, and this nation was originally created by the most adventurous, brave, and experimental people. Both the colonists and the immigrants that created this country are a far cry from the men and women that make up society now. I think the principal shift occurred with the close of World War II and even Eisenhower noted the military-industrial complex’s importance. I think the decade of civil unrest and revolts in the 1960s was an important backlash to this takeover, but it failed. Now we live in a society which has all the ability to be open and revolutionary in that so many people can access information and different communities, but America’s culture has changed. We’ve become scared, a result of the “military” aspect, and complacent, a result of the “industrial” aspect. My travels abroad and family in Greece have helped contrast my life in America, and I’ve come to realize how sad it is that Americans have allowed the military-industrial complex to change our culture and with it we have lost our sense of morals. Vietnam was an immoral war, but there was also the conscience of America speaking up for the last time with protests and groups starting up all over the country. The war in Afghanistan and Iraq has been met with silence, and this is troublesome and indicative of the ability the military-industrial complex has had to assuage people with promises of safety and comfort. I think the loss of our humanity and compassion has been the biggest impact as generally unpopular wars such as the current one have been allowed to continue without pressure being put upon the government by unhappy citizens.
Friday, January 15, 2010
questions about your craigslist posting
I saw your listing on Craigslist. Before I apply and take a couple
hours to work on the requested essay, I wanted to know more about the
book, so I can know whether I would be a good fit for the position. I
saw the book was about the evils of modern warfare. Could you be a
little more specific about the project? Who is the intended audience?
What's the thesis? I would be grateful to know anything more about the
project.
Here's a little bit about me. I worked in newspapers for a few years,
Texas state government for a couple years, and graduated from public
policy graduate school over a year ago. A couple years ago, I did
factchecking and editing on my father's book project. I've worked a
few political campaigns, including Obama's during the general
election. Right now, I'm making a living tutoring high school
students. As for my knowledge about modern warfare, I took a class on
counterinsurgency theory in grad school, and I read books and other
publications.
thank you,
[I READ BOOKS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
hey dude mil guy
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Editor position
Internship
I decided it would be in my best interest to write you an email to let you know that I am very interested in assisting you with your project. I figured I would send you a preliminary email to let you know about my background before I send you a resume/essay.
I am recent graduate from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Evergreen is a very liberal and progressive school, and I have been a serious student there, focusing my education on writing, political science, philosophy and history. My final quarter at Evergreen I was in a program called Transforming the Art of War, which focused specifically on recent military practices, insurgencies and the future of warfare. We studied DARPA, and the use of robotics and high-tech methods of waging war.
In my time at Evergreen, I have written a screenplay, a collection of short stories, a book of poetry and a cavalcade of pretty much any and every type of writing possible. During my junior year, I was in a program called Undergraduate Research in the Humanities, where I focused my work exclusively on academic research and fact-checking, and have been told most of my life that I would be a fantastic research assistant. I am a smart, engaging young man who is extremely interested in war and the perception of war in American life. At Evergreen we were implored to challenge conventional wisdom and to think for ourselves, and feel aligned with the aim of your project.
I recently applied to begin work on an MFA in the fall, and have free-time in which I would love to assist you in your project. I live in Olympia for the next few weeks, but am moving to DC around the 12th of February. I'd be happy to email you some of the essays I wrote for Transforming the Art of War, with one focusing on the history of the PIRA and my final paper regarding the use of appearances and misleading information as being the fulcrum of waging modern war, in which the reality on the ground has little to do with the war itself. I am interested in modern and recent military transgressions, including Fallujah, Abu-Gharib, the March 03 fratricide in Nasiriyah and the general appalling treatment of Iraqi civilians by coalition forces, especially the assault and kidnapping practices used in cordon-sweep operations during the beginning of the war. I read Thomas Ricks, Noah Schachtman, The Danger Room and Military Space News regularly.
Again, I would love to help. Please email me whenever you get the chance.
RETIRED MARINE WANTS TO ASK, TELL m4m - 25 (columbia heights)
You're retired and 25?
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Editorial Intern Application
Dear Mr Robinson,
I am writing to apply to be your editorial intern. Attached is my cover letter, resume, essay on how the military industrial complex has affected my life, and a recent recommendation. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
The direct effect of the military-industrial complex on my life has been relatively minimal compared to those less fortunate than me. I wasn't just lucky enough to be born into relative affluence, but was raised by parents with the good grace to steer me clear of a life in uniform. I thus avoided both the poverty draft and self-subjugation, despite briefly flirting with the idea of joining the air force as a 13 year old. Perhaps this fleeting desire was a nod to my grandfather who co-piloted a B-24 in the Second World War, or perhaps I naively believed that the NATO bombing campaign at the time alleviated the suffering of Albanian Kosovars.
Either way, I thankfully avoided the whole mess, and grew to detest it as I entered adolescence. Reading All Quiet on the Western Front and learning about Vietnam in Middle School dampened any misguided youthful enthusiasm I had about war, (unless absolutely necessary). I still remember coming to the realization that wars are a started by the rich and fought by the poor when writing a brief essay about the song “Draft Morning” by The Byrds in 7th grade. By the time the 2000 Presidential election campaign, I didn't understand much about politics, but I knew for sure that the difference between Bush and Gore was less money for education, and more for the war machine. I grew to despise nationalistic conservatives.
And then the planes hit.
Thankfully, I had read 1984 not long before 9/11 so the Global War on Terror did not come as a massive surprise. It was started, after all, by the same party that brought America crack. But still, I fumed at insufficient explanations for the Iraq war, Afghanistan, 9/11, and the concept of a War on Terror.
Of course the “War on Terror” cannot be won. Surely the neocons realize that, but does the thought of unending war even perturb them? Naturally it doesn't. These are men who adore the likes of Nietschze and Ayn Rand, and see themselves a caste above the rest. But where is public's righteous indignation? How is it our supposed democratic system allows for Republicans and Democrats alike to get away with sending our sons and daughters to kill be killed in ill-fated attempts to change societies at gun point? Jobs? Don't they realize we live in a society of abundance and can develop peaceful technology that gainfully employs all the same? Why have we been propping a failing capitalist system with violence?
A desire to steer public discourse towards these sort of issues made me want to become a journalist after graduating university, despite having little formal experience at the time. I want to stoke flames that many journalists won't in an effort to persuade people to ask more questions of their leaders. Therefore in hindsight, the military industrial complex has significantly affected my life significantly after all. Hopefully, I can return the favor.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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PROGRESSIVE AUTHOR SEEKS EDITORIAL INTERN
I own a world class research tool [REDACTED]. I have an extensive background in DoD and
intelligence work. I have worked for DARPA and the intelligence
agencies. My father was the NATO communications planner.
My first job was with the company that Von Neauman founded. He
invented game theory to prove the futility of nuclear war.
If you are looking for someone to do research and fact checking I am
your guy.
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RETIRED MARINE WANTS TO ASK, TELL m4m - 25 (columbia heights)
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RETIRED MARINE WANTS TO ASK, TELL m4m - 25 (columbia heights)
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RE: RETIRED MARINE WANTS TO ASK
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