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On that I agree with you; the people in power like us dumb and diverted. I just don't believe that they're smart enough (caveat: most of the time) to use these Kevin Kline opportunities when they come about. Coincidence and serendipity do happen in our world too.
Asta wrote:Hugh, I just can't buy your arguments about Bill Bryson, of all people. He's just a big, lovable story teller, and my family dearly love his books. It's one of the few things we know we can read and not get nightmares over.
orz wrote:It's another problem with Hugh's theories... he's too willing to blindly slander good people creating good art who in real life clearly have no connection to the perverse CIA schemes he imagines...
I just don't believe that they're smart enough (caveat: most of the time) to use these Kevin Kline opportunities when they come about. Coincidence and serendipity do happen in our world too.
I do believe they're smart enough to take opportunities to use coincidental pop culture happenings for propaganda purposes, but also believe they're not stupid enough to go to the extreme lengths hugh describes for so little practical gain!
It's absurd to suggest that anything really is taken away from this new book just because an actor has a similar name. A very very tiny amount of confusion would NOT warrent a massive, years long scheme of covertly controlling, by means never satisfactorally explained, a mindboggling number of highly uncontrollable details in order to make this 'coincidence' happen on purpose.
slow_dazzle wrote:dunno why because I tend to read everything on RI.
Thanks for the collection of links on the other thread. Necessary reading and deeply depressing at the same time.
The question of where all the missing children go is one I don't like to think about. But the phenomenon of missing children is just so pervasive I suppose we should do our best to highlight anything that might lead to some answers.
Thank you.
[b]Why Naomi Klein needs to grow up
Nov 7th 2002
From The Economist print edition
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In training her guns on free trade and big multinationals, Ms Klein is attacking the best means for reducing poverty[/b] and, for that matter, extending justice and a political voice to the world's poorest people.
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Ms Klein's harshest critics must allow that, for an angry adolescent, she writes rather well. It takes journalistic skill of a high order to write page after page of engaging blather, so totally devoid of substance. What a pity she has turned her talents as a writer to a cause that can only harm the people she claims to care most about. But perhaps it is just a phase.
"When they come about?" What makes you think Naomi Kline wasn't on their radar long ago (look at the work)
and Kevin Kline was dialed into a movie project specifically for the NPR radio homynym value?
We were slowed down from hearing Carol Gilligan when they socked us with 'Gilligan's Island'
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:
Bourne. 'The Bourne Ultimatum.' So why is that particular name, Bourne, being put in the faces of American youth with a spy movie, orz?
Can you figure that out?
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