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S-11 Redux: (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse
Halo1 writes "The Guerrilla News Network has made a great 11 minute movie, culled from over 20 hours of footage from different channels. It's a lightning fast razorsharp analysis of the post 9/11 coverage by the general media and gives you quite a different view of the politicians and their calls for war. It's insightful, frightning and funny at the same time (we need a new mod option! :). The links on the movie page go to the Windows Media version at the Sundance Online Film Festival (they're competing with that movie), but they also have Quicktime versions available locally: low and high bandwidth (links posted with permission from all involved parties)."
before this get's slashdotted, you can download the movie at
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http://http.dvlabs.com/gnn/qt/gnn/redux/redux_b
Happy viewing!
Do them a favor and download from the Sundance site instead of the GNN. They have a distributed, Akamai-like system for viewing the flick.
You get the film, the GNN doesn't spend money on bandwidth, and noone feels too guilty about slashdotting a film-specializing site like Sundance. Everyone wins.
Alternativately, find an interesting political story that doesn't come out of the same old, tired, pseudo-radicalist mindset and attempt to provide the same standards of objectivity and balance that would be expected of a news organization.
You expect objectivity and balance from a news organization?
I know journalism classes talk a big game about "objectivity" these days, and most news organizations will pay lip service to the concept, but a cursory glance over the political content of most news media will immediately expose the editorial bias of the organization in question. I'm actually happier when a website or newspaper comes right out and admits its editorial slant, rather than letting it quietly run past the editorial page.
In particular, Fox News' "Fair and Balanced" slogan is practically begging to be refuted. Not that CNN or many other news networks are much better, Fox just happened to be the org that painted a huge bullseye on itself regarding objectivity.
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
Not quite. Rusty works really hard on the quality of his site. And when he asked for money to keep things going he gave out specific numbers, took a very reasonable salary, and turned his operation into a nonprofit.
I've setup a mirror of the Quicktime version here. It's limited to 30 connections currently, but this may change at any time.
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Enjoy!
Please don't use this link anymore, the gnn people mailed me to say that if the slashdotting of their servers continued like this, they'll be broke by morning. Either watch it at Sundance or use my mirror (for now at least, can't promise how long it will stay up).
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Iraq has a lot of oil. And I mean a lot
The whole arab world will hate us even more than they already do
Not true. The arab world hates Saddam as much as Bush. Iraq fought a very long war with Iran, who are a very islamic country. It's during this period, where the US didn't like Iran very much, that the US sold Iraq (on credit!) masses of arms and the capabilities to build weapons of mass destruction.
Anyone that suggests Iraq has Islamic terrorist links is lying to you. The whole of the CIA and NSA has spent the last 4 months trying to come up with proof of this "link" and have they found anything whatsoever? Not even a casual shared aquaintance between them!
And will Iraque be 'free' afterwards?
Ha Ha! Who cares? We've toppled (or helped topple) other governments we didn't like before, and look who we left in their place. Saudi Arabri. Afganistan. Who cares about the population when their is bounty to be grabbed!
PS, that's pretty much why the terrorists hate us. We fucked them and their families over. Literally.
Well, compare it to Afghanistan. Theoretically a free country, but the warlords still rule the countryside.
LOL, Afganistan is now ruled by former business partners of Bush/Cheney, from Haliburton. It's an economic take over. They want access to the oil in the former USSR states to the north, and the only way to pipe it to the Gulf is through Afganistan. That's the reason for the war there, to secure access to the land. The oil companies and US government (same thing at the moment) had been negotiating this for several years with the Taliban. It's only when the contract was awarded to an Argentine group that the Taliban suddenly became "evil". There are press reports prior to 9/11 suggesting a US/Afgan war is iminent.
My advice? Do not watch TV news! It's only designed to keep you watching until the commercials. So they show things that people like watching. Death. Violence. Dispair. Tragedy. Sport.
It's not a true reflection of the world, and if you watch it every day, you're probably one of those people who worry about being attacked/killed on your way to work, and you live behind closed/locked doors.
OK So I just awoke to this onslaught. My partner stayed up late and gave out the direct links to Michael. We are being crushed. I beg that you try and Watch&Vote the movie on Sundance. They have a Kontiki downloadable version. Also any more people with a little extra bandwidth please contact me and help mirror our videos. Even before this slashing we were notified by our video hosting vendor that we were blowing through bandwidth due to growing interest in our other investigative 9/11 piece "Aftermath: Unanswered Questions of 9/11". We need help hosting vids and getting our info out to the public. Finally, If you like our stuff and want to help support a blood, sweat and tears project, buy our dvd and/or sign up for our mailing list. Thanks for the attention. Love and (r)evolution GNN
If you're really interested in a good analysis of the Bush administration's motives in Iraq, check out this article. The conclusion is that it is primarily about oil, specifically control over the price of oil.