<p>Wow, I had actually forgotten about The Hurt Locker... what a terrible movie. Was Zero Dark Thirty any better? It looked like more overt propaganda than usual. </p>
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I was thinking more of the Hurt Locker... does anybody even remember that one?<br><br>I think we have Happily Digressed as far away from the original Topic as we should...<br><br>Here's some Rage-Fodder to realign ourselves: 9-11 was allowed to happen by the U.S. Government. Dick Cheney rescheduled our Air Defense Squadrons to run Cold War Era drills over the arctic. Also there were numerous "Live-Fly" drills designed to imitate hijacked planes-- which is why NORAD officials claimed, at one point, that there were over 14 hijacked planes in that air on the morning of September 11--- <br>
Coincidence surely.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Antonin Scriabin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com" target="_blank">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Like, for example, the political motivations behind selecting The Return of the King as best picture in the depths of the Iraq war. </p>
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Hm, it was perhaps nothing more than a Reefer-side revelation--- but I can't help but find Funny the situation with Mrs. President and her Cadre of fresh-shaven service-folk...<br>and you are certainly entitled to your opinion.. <br>
<br>(Seriously, Lincoln! What a woeful movie, Kushner is capable of more; It might as well be subtitled "How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Political Corruption", it uses Capitol Hill Hucksters as comic relief... scenes where they are buying votes John Williams' Own Americana Fiddle Music plays joyfully in the background... yes well the THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT you might say,-- to which I need point out THE FOLLOWING TWO PRESIDENCIES and their corrupt ineptitude.)<br>
<br>It's no secret that the Academy has been using their Best Picture category to make political statements, no Strong Arming necessary...?<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:27 PM, David Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com" target="_blank">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:22 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:malignd@aol.com" target="_blank">malignd@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="black" face="arial"><font>David -- gees, are you buying into this Washington fixed the oscars shit?</font></font><div>
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<div dir="ltr">I suspect Laura's point was that Les Mis had an anti-establishment political point, as opposed to Argo.</div>
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<font color="black" face="arial"><font>Les Mis was a bad, often silly, piece of crap. My opinion, as yours is yours. I make no claims for the quality of Argo, but a lot of people seemed to like it, (the foreign press) as many did Les Mis. But government intervention? Please ... don't make a fool of yourself. </font>
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<div><font>It was not a good year for movies. Lincoln was no great piece of work either.</font><br>
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No, Argo, that Hitchcock-o-fied B-plus-Movie and its endearing Plot of "White Americans in Trouble" is far more Palatable,</blockquote></div>
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Was malignd one of them? That does kind of make sense.<br>
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I've blocked Mad-a-line, and Bled. At first I just felt sorry for him/her because there's obviously some Problems there, <br>
it got to be too much however. <br>
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Seriously I can't be the only one who Noticed Michelle Obama, her Royal Highness, backed by Dress Uniforms.<br>
Don't get me wrong I'm sure Michelle is as innocent as a dove, all it takes is Someone to suggest the idea.<br>
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Les Mis was the best movie of the year, but what Political Message does it have?<br>
No, Argo, that Hitchcock-o-fied B-plus-Movie and its endearing Plot of "White Americans in Trouble" is far more Palatable,<br>
and gets the Royal Nod.<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="black" face="arial"><font>I have no alternate personalities -- don't know what would qualify them as little -- and I post only to the p-list. Problem seems to be with your shitty email software.</font>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:46 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:malignd@aol.com" target="_blank">malignd@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="arial,sans-serif">2. Why did a mediocre, forgettable movie like Argo sweep all the awards ceremony, get a personal well-wish by new Secretary of State John Kerry, and finally get personally awarded the Best Picture Oscar by Michelle Obama? My conspiracy theory: State Department/Pentagon strong-armed all of the Hollywood power-brokers (not all of who, by the way, are Jewish) into arranging it, because the movie's anti-Iran (despite a quick conciliatory sop at the beginning) stance is a great piece of propaganda, a present-day Why We Fight, for our impending attack on Iran (or at least, our impending support of Israel's attack on Iran).</font></font></font></div>
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<font color="#000000"><font><font face="arial,sans-serif">My husband had just parked a rental car on a rooftop garage several blocks from the trade center, when the first tower was already in flames, and he stood in a group of people who watched as an airplane seemed to fly straight towards them, banked, then hit the second tower. Much as I often have squabbles with him, I pretty certain he's not now and never has been a Bush or CIA or Israeli government operative.</font></font></font>
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<div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="arial,sans-serif">There's absolutely no contradiction between some extremely brilliant, brave, murderous, and sociopathic anti-American terrorists destroying the towers, and Cheney, Wolfowitz and Co. taking full political advantage of it.</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="arial,sans-serif">As long as we're talking conspiracy theories, how about these:</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="arial,sans-serif">1. Why has the anthrax attack that followed 9/11 remained unsolved, virtually unexamined, and still rarely mentioned in the press? My conspiracy theory: investigation would reveal that the US had, and has always had a bio-weapons program. The press was strong-armed into silence by the State Department/Pentagon, as a matter of national security.</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="arial,sans-serif">2. Why did a mediocre, forgettable movie like Argo sweep all the awards ceremony, get a personal well-wish by new Secretary of State John Kerry, and finally get personally awarded the Best Picture Oscar by Michelle Obama? My conspiracy theory: State Department/Pentagon strong-armed all of the Hollywood power-brokers (not all of who, by the way, are Jewish) into arranging it, because the movie's anti-Iran (despite a quick conciliatory sop at the beginning) stance is a great piece of propaganda, a present-day Why We Fight, for our impending attack on Iran (or at least, our impending support of Israel's attack on Iran).</font></font></font></div>
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<div>"selling the Iraq war"<br>
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This is one thing that seems pretty firmly established. The Iraq war, from top to bottom, was / is a pretty scandalous disaster on the part of the Bush administration. There are "weird things" about 9/11, but nothing we can no for sure. I agree whole-heartedly with the sentiment concerning trust of the media / government press releases. Basically, we shouldn't have any.<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Well, whether or not there were any conspiracies involved in 9/11 or in selling the Iraq war, or in the Kennedy and King assassinations, I think we owe it to our rational selves to doubt anything news media or government news releases tell us. Listening to professional liars is like being professionally gullible or something. I, for one, have a lot more questions than I have understandings, and as far as certainties go, well, I'm not too sure.
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<div>Ignoring the issues of Controlled Demolition, remote-controlled flying (think drone), or any of that other stuff...<br>
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don't think it's nutty to claim that the Bush Administration had it on
Good Authority that there were planned attacks on the World Trade
Center, going so far as to Ignore explicit warnings by numerous
Intelligence Agencies overseas.<br>
Hell, the Mossad (far from
committing the attacks) actually warned the American Government in July
of them, an Israeli Real Estate company even went so far as to break
their lease in order to move out of the (south, i believe) tower.<br>
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Bush's (it seems to actually have been under Cheney) National Energy
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after Bush was sworn in....<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Some claim there were no airplanes (the footage is faked), some claim the airplanes were a way to distract from the fact that it was a controlled demolition, etc. You look hard enough, you will find ever possible conspiratorial angle ... <br>
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<div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="arial,sans-serif">I've never understood: do the conspiracy theorists (sorry, nuts) claim there were no airplanes? Or that George Bush called the airlines and got them to crash the airplanes? Or that he rounded up some Hollywood-issue terrorists to pose as real suicide bombers to crash the airplanes into buildings pre-mined with explosives? All in the service of bringing down the value of some prime Manhattan real estate? Wouldn't it have been easier to just wait for the inevitable flu pandemic or climate event and blame it on Iraq/Iran/whoever meddling?</font></font></font>
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<div dir="ltr">I remember a youtube video conspiracy screed theorizing that the towers' fall was a controlled demolition, not caused by the jet impacts. Too clean, it argued. But it didn't mention that controlled demo requires explosives placed at columns throughout the building, not just in hidden spaces, like closets. They must have used invisible explosives.<br>
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