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[Pervert]

Right---that was well scary. Any programme where Henry Kissinger and the CIA are almost good guys has got to get the sphincter on defcon 4.

[Holden MacGroyn]

Kissinger is a cunt of the highest order.
He has gotten away with so much it is unreal.

It's like being a lone voice in the middle of an echo chamber screaming "ARE YOU FUCKING BLIND AMERICA?"

Alas a fonecall or 10 kept me from watching it but I'll look for the BBC3 or 4 repeat.
Sssh don't spoil it.

[Pervert]

My lips are sealed. Plenty of food for thought, though.

[Rude Boy]

It's just episode one of a series but do try to see it if you can as a repeat or whatever as it was excellent tv and a reminder of how good television can be when not mired in decorating shows, pop academy dross or the latest reality tv bollocks.

This one must have slipped past the accountants as it was obvious that more than the fifty quid or so required for "How clean is your celebrity chef swop idol" had been spent on it!

[Pervert]

Well, I can't answer any of those questions without ruining the programme for Holden---and I'm not willing to do that.

[woodgnome]

interesting piece about 'the power of nightmares', including an interview with programme maker adam curtis:

for context, check the quotes in this article from one of dubya's stump speeches:

[Pervert]

Good link. Cheers, Woodgnome.

[woodgnome]

just added another link (one of the perks of being a mod - the only one, in fact...) well worth reading in it's entiretly, too.

[Pervert]

Those articles, the programme last night and Bowling For Columbine (haven't watched Farenheit 9/11 yet) have something in common: the fear factor. Moore claimed in BFC that Americans were being taught by their environment, by the media, by the politicians to fear---their neighbours, foreigners, basically everyone. Fear sells.

I rather thought that the end of the cold war might have seen an end to the global fear, but the flames are being fanned once more.

Thanks again, Woodgnome.