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You can now watch the film that [Zapruder] made and see the driver of the limousine slowly bring the car to almost a halt, turn around, and fire a pistol at the head of the president!Historian, lecturer, and writer? Delusional bloody loony, more like.
Currently showing on the DVD player: Fritz Lang's sci-fi dystopia 'Metropolis' from 1927. Good sets and special effects that must have been way ahead of their time, and it wins bonus points for featuring an android built by a mad inventor with an artificial hand. But it's let down by a plot that must have had audiences groaning at its unoriginality:
THIS COULD BE BIGGER THAN LIVE AID.Press coverage prompts the upbeat assessment "Well, the last few days things have started to speed along like Michael Knight in a talking car. ..."
Uri Geller has discovered a house he bought on eBay, formerly owned by Elvis Presley, has been sold to someone else. ... The rules of auction website eBay may make it difficult for Geller and his two business partners, lawyer Pete Gleason and jewellery-maker Lisbeth Silvandersson, to pursue a breach of contract claim. ...Property purchasing small print: 1. Uri Geller's psychic powers: nil.
The man called police, who arrived on the scene but met massive resistance from the badger.Badgers aren't the only animals causing trouble in Norway - rampaging moose are a problem too.
Using this [magnetic vortex wormhole] generator, it was found that smoke blown through one side of the coil does not appear on the other side of cylindrical coil. The smoke flows through the wormhole and appears in a hyperspace co-dimension. It was this experiment that resulted in making first contact with the androids of the Grey aliens who told me, in a remote viewing session, that "We saw you blowing smoke into hyperspace."He met the androids of the grey aliens during a remote viewing session? I wonder if that was while using his remote viewing amplifier which has enabled him to "make contact with the Pleiadian Federation which is located about 400 light years from earth."
The ratio of the radius of the small coil to that of the larger coil is 1/3, which is the magic ratio in physics. This creates a spring constant that is proportional to 8/9. The square of the cosine of the tetrahedral angle of 19.47.degree. is equal to this ratio. Also the ratio of the area-to-volume ratio of the circumscribing sphere of a tetrahedron to the area-to-volume ratio of the tetrahedron is also 1/3. And the corners of the tetrahedron touch the circumscribing sphere at 19.47.degree.. All the large volcanoes and vortices on Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are located at this latitude. Thus this invention is more effective in developing a wormhole because it is tuned geometrically to the tetrahedral geometry of space.Hmmm. You can't argue with science like that.
This evening, at around 7:30, capital's control of the means of ideological production was magnificently contested, and not for the last time. By the insertion of a dissonant image we sought radically to subvert Channel 4 News' live report from Russell Square tube station. 'Against Capitalist War & Peace.' screamed our banner, pummelling our message into the hearts and minds of the sophisticated viewers of television's top-class news programme. Sometimes it screamed 'Against Peace' which was a little less than desirable but frankly an acceptable cost.They even braved an onslaught from a jackbooted footsoldier of capitalist hegemony:
The inane liberalism of the cretin from the production team who compared our intervention's politics to those of the Sun and sought to drag our banner out of sight was treated as all our enemies ought to be - with firm words and the looming shadow of martial force.Erm, riiiight. I love the photograph. Points to note:
Jon Ablewhite, 36, of Manchester, Kerry Whitburn, 36, and John Smith, 39, both of the West Mids, were jailed for 12 years for conspiracy to blackmail.Good, and here's hoping they're not let out so much as a day early.
Josephine Mayo, 38, of Birmingham, was jailed for four years. ...
Smith, whose information led police to Mrs Hammond's remains, raised a defiant fist to the courtroom as he was taken down to the cells with his three co-defendants.Yeah yeah, whatever. Enjoy your time inside, Mr Clenched Fist Man.
Warner says users will be able to buy downloads of films and TV shows on the same day they become available on DVD. Pricing for a feature film will be about the same as the DVD release. ...At the same time as you can buy the DVD, for the same price as the DVD you can buy the film in a way which ties it to your PC so you can't play it on any other device. Almost exactly like buying a DVD which will self-destruct whenever you change your DVD player. That sounds like a piece of marketing genius.
Warner added that whether a TV show or feature film, it will only play on the initial computer used to make the download. The downloads will not therefore work on other PCs or standard DVD players.
Seen on DVD at the weekend: 'It Came From Beneath The Sea', in which Ray Harryhausen's giant radioactive octopus attacks a nuclear submarine, various ships and finally San Fransisco. It was monster-tastic fun all the way - the giant octopus even managed to swat a helicopter out of the sky at one point. A helicopter for crying out loud, I mean what was the pilot doing? You're in a helicopter, in the sky. It's an octopus, in the sea. How could you possibly let it grab you? There's no excuse for that - it's just sloppy flying. And the special effects were super, made all the more impressive when you consider it was all done by one man with a rubber model octopus, miniature buildings and a camera - none of this computer generated jiggery-pokery.An ex-Nazi mad scientist uses radio-controlled atomic-powered zombies in his quest to help an exiled American gangster return to power.That's got everything in. They made some wonderful stuff in the 1950s.
"ADAM, THE MISSING LINK" blows the lid off a closely-held package of historical and scientific facts proving that the human race was created by genetic engineering technology nearly a quarter of a million years ago. ... The evidence is overwhelming and irrefutable ... a spellbinding and ultimately convincing account of non-fiction. ...Erm, yeah.
The Britons of 2106 would need only gawp at the antics of Syed, Ruth and Paul Tulip, under the gimlet eye of Alan Sugar, and they would know all they needed to know about our national life at the start of the 21st century.I'd never realised that you could learn everything important about an entire country from the actions of people on one TV show, which just goes to show that people writing for the 'Guardian' must be so much cleverer than us mere mortals. Even more impressive is the first entry in the article's comment thread, by 'allaboutbucks':
During the opening shots and throughout the programme, the images of the Gherkin, Canary Wharf and other skyscrapers dominate the skyline - a priapic reminder of the dominance of man, capitalism and the drive of testosterone to create, build and generate profit. ... Low tax and inflation rates, a flexible, mobile and non-unionised are the ideal conditions for seduction. Plenty of fluffing by politicians, PR companies and the media help to stiffen the economic pecker. The prospect of a profit has a Viagra-like effect. Skilled young people pour in to get a piece of the action and feel the throb of the nation while the economies of their home countries struggle on impotently. ... Each thrust of the body of the City strives to reach the ecstasy of an economic high while it drains the energy of the Earth. A post-coital smog often lingers over London ... One of two words might sum up this predicament to some extent. One is nymphomania: like a sex addict, we cannot get enough of capitalism, the lives it enables us to live and everything around us which it produces. The other, however, is more disturbing: rape.Erm, yeah. Right.
"It's New York City, it's rush hour - it's not the time to be jumping off buildings"That's worth remembering.
English, with its contradictory rules and sub-rules, its extensive lists of irregular words and silent letters, takes years to learn ... In comparison with the regular and reformed European languages, English is eccentric and archaic. ... Most modern European languages are the products of reforms ...You might be, as I was, slightly sceptical that difficulties with English spelling force people into a life of crime. But after comparing crime rates in the living hell that is anglophone New Zealand with those in the tranquil havens which are Columbia, Spain and Chile (where recently reformed Spanish reigns) you could change your mind.
Anglophone societies, with their high rates of prison incarceration and illiteracy, will go on incurring great costs while spelling remains in its dysfunctional state.
It seemed to make more sense to acquire an entire aeroplane and to use as many of the components as possible, like the Native American Indians used every part of the buffalo.Yes, the similarities are striking.
Flt-Lt Kendall-Smith is not a war criminal, but a war hero. ...Nobody - except a headline writer at 'The Independent' - has ever said he is a war criminal. I think the technical term is "mutineer".
On June 9, 2005, Shatner performed a reworked rendition of "My Way" at the presentation of George Lucas's AFI Life Achievement Award, backed by a chorus line of dancers in Imperial Stormtrooper costumes who ultimately picked up Shatner and carried him offstage.Video of that must exist somewhere. I have to see it. Hmmm, it's not looking good:
Due to licensing restrictions, the telecasts of the AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute to George Lucas and past honorees are not available for distribution or purchase on DVD or VHS.Damn them. But it's bound to be pirated on the internet somewhere, right?
The Sun now skirts around the horizon like a hula-hoop around a fat guy's lumpy cellulited belly.
Elizabeth Gould said a strange sensation overwhelmed her while she was eating from a bag of potato chips during a flight from New York to Florida. She paused, stopped eating and looked at the potato chip in her hand. It looked familiar. The chip bears the image of the Virgin Mary, Gould said, and passengers on the flight agreed. ...It's a miracle!
Staged-managed manufactured crises are always paralleled by drills of the same nature. This provides culpable deniability [sic] if any government agency is caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They can say it was just part of the drill. Obviously, other organizations like the RSPCA and farming groups would have no knowledge of what the drill is really intended to achieve and at this stage it is just a coincidence. However, if the crisis were to escalate causing Blair's government to start restricting the movement of people then more serious questions would need to be asked. If the next three cases of bird flu popped up in Norfolk, south Wales and northern England, the same places as in the drill, then this would turn into a smoking gun. ...You see? It's all part of a plan to use disease as a means of control, depopulation and social darwinism:
Bird flu is one more tool in the arsenal of Globalist Malthusian social Darwinists who believe it is their destiny to act as guardians to mother earth against the 'plague' of humanity and that brutal methods of population control are the only way to realize a new world order.It's really quite obvious when you think about it. The comment thread at Indymedia is a classic.
I would like to point out that it was not necessary for the rescuers to use force since the kidnappers had removed themselves in order to allow the hostages to be released. Doesn't that somewhat bear out the Peacemakers' point; ie peaceful methods can be used to resolve conflict - violence creates more of the same.Indeed, so successful was the embrace of non-violence and so great was the kidnappers' co-operation that they only shot dead one of their four hostages.