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Showing posts with label Steven Spielberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steven Spielberg. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Why did YouTube remove the second installment of John Cantlie's critique of Western foreign policy?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=15b_1411463830

The second part of John Cantlie's series of Lend Me Your Ears was removed from YouTube for apparently violating its terms and conditions. Really?

The reason given was "This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy against spam, scams and commercially deceptive content."

British media reported that he was "reading from a script", but it doesn't look like it, does it?

What are the media trying to hide from you?

The conviction in his voice? The way he relished his words? How he seemed to be enjoying himself?

Yep.

World at One today could only talk about the legalities of airstrikes as you can hear at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hvxbh

You may think Kenneth O'Keele's point of view at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqD4f4tPXOg of interest to this debate.

They had ample time to analyse the video, but they chose only to mention it in passing, with no thought of their journalistic obligation to report or analyse the most interesting story of the day.

ISIS propaganda is now so effective that you cannot actually report it honestly without drawing attention to its effectiveness.

It is for this reason that I would unhesitatingly call it a tour de force, speaking as a propagandist myself.

Even as our media and government suppress it, people will wonder why it is being suppressed, don't they have a right to know etc etc and people will look into it even harder.

As I said, absolutely relentlessly chillingly effective, each installment even more visually and intellectually engaging than the next. They seem to have their very own Steven Spielberg or Josef Goebbels. (The side shots of Cantlie's face while he was speaking was a very nice touch indeed.)

So even if you hate them you have to admire them.

When you run out of lies, then all you are left with is the truth.

When you have run out of dark places to hide from the truth, the truth will shine on you so relentlessly that the lies you clothe yourself with will melt away, leaving you completely naked.

Democracy is now naked and all of our political establishment.

What is democracy but government by Western voters who don't know and don't care about foreign policy and who don't care what is being done in their name? What is democracy but lots of dumb Western voters happy to accept that Muslims want to destroy the West just because they are Muslims ? What is democracy but Western voters not getting why Muslims don't just have another drink and forget about their government's foreign policy like they do? 

And what is the truth?

The fact is that it was the fault of those who invaded Iraq for the current state of Iraq now.

They are the ones ultimately responsible for the mess, and they have run out of ideas, except more of the same.

"If all you do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

In the meantime, it looks like ISIS are gaining more than Muslim supporters.

The Russians and Chinese must be secretly or not so secretly, cheering them on.

And yet the solution is so simple.

But  did it work when anyone told the Aztecs to stop their practice of human sacrifice assuring them that the sun will still rise again tomorrow?

Why didn't they listen?

Why wouldn't they listen?

Well, we all know what happened to the Aztecs.


http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-wests-sad-semi-war-against-isis-is-worse-than-useless/15793
Why the West's sad semi war against ISIS is worse than useless by Brendan O'Neill

The transcript is at http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/transcript-of-john-cantiles-critique-of.html

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

The book on which HITLER THE MOVIE will be based


The dust jacket says “Claus Hant is a German scriptwriter …” –  and  so this “non-fiction novel” was written with HITLER THE MOVIE in mind.  All that remains to be seen is who will direct the movie (Steven Spielberg, I hope, who has already portrayed a  Nuremberg rally with admirable integrity in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK), and who will be the actor chosen to play Hitler.  (George Clooney?  Hugh Laurie?  Jude Law?)  After such a compelling narrative of Hitler’s rise to power, and 66 years after the end of  WW2, I would like to think such a film would now be possible and welcomed. 

Hitler is seen through the eyes of his friend Martl (a character who is really an amalgam of four friends of Hitler during his salad days). 

The scenes where Hitler makes his immortal pronouncements are already cinematically staged.  Picture, if you will, Hitler being offered a cigarette and his response, “Thank you, dear, but smoking kills everyone, not just the racially inferior.”

There are many such scenes portraying Hitler as a personality – a son fearful of his mother’s death, being infuriating and irritating, quoting philosophers, being reckless, demanding and unreasonable, and of him being unnervingly prescient and prophetic while explaining his theories …

Hitler comforts  his dying comrade Frederick in the battlefield:
A huge pool of blood had collected around his crotch.  I knelt down beside him.  “You’re going to be okay,” I lied.  “It’s not as bad as it looks.’
“Really,” he groaned, gritting his teeth from the agonizing pain. 
“I’ll get you a medic!”  I scrambled back up the bank to look out over the field.  But there were no medics, just freshly dead bodies. 
“Dolferl! [Hitler’s nickname] I screamed.
He turned and with his head cocked inquisitively, he ran back.
“Just be calm,” Dolferl told Frederic, crouching down.  “Have you ever read Schopenhauer?”
“Only a little,” Frederick admitted.
“In The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer talks of a leaf that is afraid to fall of the tree in autumn,” said Dolferl, calmingly.  ‘ “Foolish leaf!” says Schopenhauer, “where do you think you’re going? And where do you think the new leaves will come from?  Where is the oblivion you so dread?  It is part of you!”
“Where’s the medic?” Frederick asked. 


Yet another challenging scene for any Hitler-playing actor:

“I’m not afraid of death,” Dolferl said, staring me straight in the eye. 
“No?”
“ ‘If death seems so cruel because we dread the thought of not existing, then we would have to dread the time before we were born as well.  Our non-existence after death can’t be any different to our non-existence before we were born.  An eternity passed before we were born but that doesn’t sadden us at all …’ ”
I sighed. 
“That’s the beauty of Schopenhauer,” he said , took the gun out of his holster, pointed the barrel at his temple, and cocked it.
“Dolferl!” I screamed.  “What are you doing?”
Slowly, he lowered the gun, un-cocked it and put it back. 
“As long as you have an exit strategy,” he said, “you will always be okay.”

As well as cinematic story-telling, its appendix on racism, anti-Semitism and the mystical background of the Thule Society are a historian’s delight.  The psychological insight too is rewarding: “For Hitler’s career to succeed, three prerequisites had to be fulfilled: 1) a nation longing for a new beginning after defeat in a war, famine, revolutionary turmoil, national humiliation and economic chaos; 2) a man convinced of his ‘mission’ beyond all doubt; and 3) a group of believers who were awaiting just such a man.

Indeed.  The Hitler Phenomenon could happen to any Western industrial nation.  We have been warned. 

God behaving badly

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