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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)."
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I tested it first!!!
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
It didn't have anything insightful to say, made gratuitous insults towards public figures disliked by the loony left, and reduced a complex situation to a set of distorted and misleading images suitable for ingestion by the MTV generation.
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This is too Christian vs Muslim. I hear too many people railing about how religion has been the bane of civilized thinking, but they forget that the worst atrocities in human history were committed in the 20th century in the name of secular ideas such as capitalism, socialism, and nationalism.
This same moron is obviously making an argument that Bush is a backwater rube that only knows how to order violence, but in protesting so vehemently he is instead advocating the idea of complacency that gripped the US before 9-11. Go back to your friggin PS2 "eternal consumer" mentality and zone out while everyone else deals with the reality that there are people that aren't just playing at being "bad guys". They really do want to kill you because you are not them. In their eyes your existence is keeping humanity from progressing and in the light of that unmitigating resistance the only alternative is your erasure.
Have no fear. We can wipe ourselves out and the planet will endure, evolving all sorts of new plants and species without our help. Our only interest in all this is human survival - the film even states this as its conclusion - and while we come up with witty things like "we have to come together to survive" we fail to realize that the people committing the violence *are* trying to bring humanity together to survive, but under the banner of what they perceive to be the best intentions. It all falls back down to "survival of the fittest" or "might makes right", and ideas like right and wrong and everything in between will be redefined by the victors. Anything else is just window dressing.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
I am as pissed off as ever. I am as angry as I was then but not at all frightened. The last Little Red Corvette section reminded me that there are people in this country who don't deserve to live here. People who just want the free ride. People who have never considered giving of themselves. People who do not know personal loss and feel guilty about it. People whose shallow lives are bolstered by their Stockholm Syndrome fetish. People who latch onto one silly fucking thing after another in an attempt to gain crediblilty as a member of humanity.
The scumbags who made that waste of film will have hopefully forgotten to have gotten the rights to one of those clips and will be sued blind.
America is not NAZI Germany. George Bush got Cs in College, he's not a dolt. In fact, if you consider grade inflation, he's probably a better student than an A+ student is now. I don't think he's going to be hanging out at Mensa meetings anytime soon but Thank God we don't have some liberal-washed intelligensia in Office now kow-towing to our atackers. Trying to understand them.
Understand this. Humans like wars. We've had big ones about every 21 years since, oh I don't know, forever. 21 years is about how long it takes to make a new crop of humans to have a war. Humans will always like wars -- deal with it.
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