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[rich]

fwiw, lawrence wright's book on scientology is quite good, too.

l ron hubbard life reads like captain ahab on gilligan's island

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I liked Argo a lot. It was a fun/exciting movie. Zero Dark Thirty was also
> good. I liked them both better than Lincoln.
>
> Argo won because Affleck didn't get nominated for Best Director. It was the
> consensus pick that everyone predicted. To claim the CIA was behind it...
> well, that' makes as much sense as the 9/11 conspiracies.
>
> There is a huge amount of serious, independent scholarship and journalism
> about 9/11 and Al Qaeda. Try 'The Looming Tower'. I'm not a fan of Chomsky,
> but he gives a very clear argument against conspiracist thinking here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwZ-vIaW6Bc
>
> all the best,
> Donald