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Sunday, October 10, 2004 |
NY Times: "Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film about nuclear-war plans run amok, is widely heralded as one of the greatest satires in American political or movie history. For its 40th anniversary, Film Forum is screening a new 35 millimeter print for one week.
'Strangelove' is far more than a satire. In its own loopy way, the movie is a remarkably fact-based and specific guide to some of the oddest, most secretive chapters of the Cold War.
What few people knew, at the time and since, was just how accurate this film was. Its premise, plotline, some of the dialogue, even its wildest characters eerily resembled the policies, debates and military leaders of the day. The audience had almost no way of detecting these similiarities: Nearly everything about the bomb was shrouded in secrecy back then. There was no Freedom of Information Act and little investigative reporting on the subject. It was easy to laugh off 'Dr. Strangelove' as a comic book."
10:40:35 PM 
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Statewatch: DID THE UK GOVERNMENT COLLUDE IN THE SEIZURE OF INDYMEDIA'S SERVERS IN LONDON?
See also here.
"A trail that started in Switzerland and Italy has now ended fairly and squarely in the lap of the UK Home Secretary to justify."
Statewatch analysis shows that under the UK-USA Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) a US request to seize 'articles' (eg: web servers) in the UK has to be agreed by the Home Secretary.
- Indymedia statement, 8 October.
- Statement on FBI seizure of Indymedia servers (pdf) in London by Aidan White, General Secretary, International Federation of Journalists:
"We have witnessed an intolerable and intrusive international police operation against a network specialising in independent journalism. The way this has been done smacks more of intimidation of legitimate journalistic inquiry than crime-busting."
9:59:20 PM
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Life and Deatherage: "WACO, TEXAS - How long until President Bush pledges to smoke John Kerry out of his hole? Or to 'bring him to justice'? The president's new campaign refrain about Kerry - 'He can run, but he cannot hide' - signaled the return of Bush the Old West sheriff who pledged to hunt down Osama Bin Laden, 'Dead or Alive'. The president has always affected a bit of a gunslinger pose on the stump, his shoulders hunched, his arms jutted out at his sides. But his campaign decided to throw in a little Texas lawman talk into the president's stump speech after becoming enamored of Bush's use of the 'run, but he cannot hide' line in Friday's debate."
What a mean, spiteful man Bush is. More scheming is coming up:
LA Times: "The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday."
Which again proves the conservative media mob rules in America.
11:24:35 AM
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