Must See Documentary Now Available Online

[Seshmeister]

http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000753.html

The Power of Nightmares

This brilliant three part series originally shown last year on the BBC is now available online from the link above in three 70MB WMV files.

BBC Info Here

The third one in particular explains how Bin Laden and Al Qaeda became the big boogey man based on myths and half truths after 9-11.

Essential viewing - it's a damn shame the US networks never picked this up.

Cheers!

[FORD]

The corporate media would never show this excellent documentary, because it not only explicitly states that the entire Straussian "philosophy" that the neocons base their lives on permits them to lie at will, no matter what the cost, as long as it meets their ends.

It also states for a fact that Rummy, Wolfie, Cheney, as part of "Team B" in the Ford administration, deliberately exaggerated the threat of the mortally wounded Soviet Union, leaving the obvious conclusion that if they had lied before about such a serious matter, they would do so again without hesitation.

And they have.

Great work by the BBC. At least real journalism still exists somewhere.

[Keeyth]

That's some good stuff.
See, I can't understand how these guys are getting away with this untouched. I mean it's all there, and yet no one ever calls them on it. It's as if they can blatantly ignore all of the crimes they commit by simply ignoring the accusers. Why isn't this being picked up by at least ONE newsource in America??!?!?!?

[Cathedral]

I have seen some Adam Curtis Documentaries in the past and he was pretty much spot on.
I have cited some of his stuff here before with an independant documentary he did in Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Syria where he went all over those countries asking the single question, "Why do you hate America?"

The answers boiled down to Foreign Policy and America's history of making deals with oppressive dictators.
Those answers were usually followed by "I hope to go to school in America" which struck me as odd after knowing how they feel about us.
They hate us, but want to be educated here, that just never made sense to me.

This is something that everyone should want to know more about, it shocks me and reinforces my anger for the Bush Administration.

From what i have seen of his work, Adam Curtis seems to be a very credible and honest source in a time when you can't believe the media or the government.

[Keeyth]

Have you switched sides Cat? I seem to remember us bumping heads on the whole Bush issue last year. I thought you were a Bush supporter and leaned to the right. Am I wrong, or did something change your opinion?

[Seshmeister]

That's part of the problem the intrenched my team your team attitude about the parties in the US.

Unconditional love from their supporters lets them get away with all sorts of shit.

[Cathedral]

A whole lot of things have changed my opinion over the course of the last few months.
But i haven't switched sides. I can never support the Democrat's because i have far too many differences and objections to that party.

Neither side has anything to offer me because i don't trust a single one of them.

I honestly don't know where i'll stand come the next election.
But i don't see keeping silent as an option.

I will tell you that one of the biggest burs in my ass came from the way Republicans attacked the legal guardianship of Michael Schiavo.

Being a Guardian myself, I took that as a personal attack on my right's and responsibilities as a guardian.
That could have very well been me the Repub's tried to steam roll in the name of political posturing.

The woman didn't have a will, but she did have a husband and the fact that his right's were trampled in what i see as a States Right's issue violated in an unconstitutional fashion, was an eye opener for me.

I saw having a Conservative Majority as a way to get some good things done, but this Administration has used that power recklessly swinging it around like a 5 year old finding Daddy's loaded revolver.

And the list goes on from Border issues, to the Patriot Act, to the "Nuke Option" against fillibusters............etc.

I am notorious for losing my cool when people try to change rules in the middle of a game, so to speak.

[Warham]

You still believe in Jesus though, right Cat?

[Keeyth]

I see. I can understand that...

[Keeyth]

Originally posted by Warham
You still believe in Jesus though, right Cat?

and pussy too, right?:D

[Warham]

Originally posted by Keeyth
and pussy too, right?:D

It's heresy not to!

:D

[thome]

I will tell you that one of the biggest burs in my ass came from the way Republicans attacked the legal guardianship of Michael Schiavo.

Cat ,what did they finally determine if im reading you correctly the
schiavo situation was can a husband over rule the wishes of a
parent?
If a husband turns off her respirator is it murder?.
Do the courts have rights over both?
If it was me i say off w/ it.
This is a situation that reminds me of abortion .
Whos right to what may never be solved.

[Cathedral]

Originally posted by Warham
You still believe in Jesus though, right Cat?

Yes i do, That is all i have going for me anymore, and i can't do that right a lot of the time.
At least not to some of my families satisfaction.

I don't wave a flag for war and run around saying, "The Lord is coming, repent, repent!", but i do believe.

[Warham]

I'll admit that it is very hard to at times, personally speaking.

[Cathedral]

Originally posted by thome
I will tell you that one of the biggest burs in my ass came from the way Republicans attacked the legal guardianship of Michael Schiavo.

Cat ,what did they finally determine if im reading you correctly the
schiavo situation was can a husband over rule the wishes of a
parent?
If a husband turns off her respirator is it murder?.
Do the courts have rights over both?
If it was me i say off w/ it.
This is a situation that reminds me of abortion .
Whos right to what may never be solved.

The way i see it, when a woman marries a man, she leaves her family to become one with her husband.
Fathers give their daughters away in weddings don't they?
Well then, she leaves one family and becomes her own with her husband.

Now should either one become incapacitated with no hope of ever coming back, the decisions, right's and responsibilities fall to the spouse or oldest child.
It is then up to them to decide what quality of life the incapacitated would have wanted to live.

If another family member disagree's and files suit it becomes a State issue and their decision should stand with no further appeals granted.

Florida's decision was upheld as it should have been in the Schiavo case.
She wasn't coming back and for Governor and President Bush to give the parents false hope by urging them to press on was wrong and it violated the right's of the husband, and the remarks that came from one Tom DeLay were in my opinion grounds for him to be removed from his position. he had no right and Michael Schiavo should and could file a slander suit against DeLay for the things he said about Michael since the autopsy found no evidence of abuse.

I'd like to bust Tom right in his fucking mouth, he's an unethical dickhead.

I saw the true colors of some key people that i supported over that, and i damn sure sent my opinions to them all.
And since the replies i got didn't satisfy me i abandoned them, period.