Michael Moore's Anti-Bush film tops Cannes awards
Little Owl | 22.05.2004 22:35
so Michael Moore's film won at Cannes, I spose we could all start squabbling about Moore's street creds and his blantant milking of the media to promote his film. But I reckon what he has done should be an example to all activists he is playing power brokers at their own game. wether his film is the business or not its' going in the right direction and everyone should jump on the band wagon and start screaming about the dodgy circumstances surrounding 911 if enough shit hits the fan maybe Bushit will get a face full !!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3739325.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3739325.stm
Anti-Bush film tops Cannes awards
Moore wants Americans to see the film before the presidential election
Director Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has won the prestigious Palme d'Or best film award at the Cannes festival.
It was the first documentary to win the top prize since Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World in 1956.
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Moore wants Americans to see the film before the presidential election
Director Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has won the prestigious Palme d'Or best film award at the Cannes festival.
It was the first documentary to win the top prize since Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World in 1956.
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Little Owl
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Damned right
22.05.2004 22:59
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eating pretzel
22.05.2004 23:26
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<nicovl> CANNES, France (Reuters) - After winning the top prize at Cannes for his anti-Bush documentary, American filmmaker Michael Moore said he hoped the President had not been eating a pretzel when he heard the news.
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I take it that you all want Kerry to win then!
22.05.2004 23:43
So, what difference will that make? It's like Pepsi™ and Coke™, no discernible difference, both will rot your teeth and guts (metaphorically), all sugar and gas. Both these corporate slaves have pledged 'above all else' to serve the Order of Skull and Bones. Both of them are running only because corporate America (and elsewhere) have backed both horses each-way.
Nice media story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1220758,00.html
More like the truth: http://www.prisonplanet.com/archive_skull_and_bones.html
Zinfandel
Good liberal Balance
23.05.2004 00:16
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"Moore, the king-sized millionaire, walking testament to American consumption, is a master of making himself appear the little guy."
"The film, as it turned out, is Moore's strongest since Roger and Me, his debut documentary 15 years ago which examined the damage wrought by General Motors on his home town of Flint. Whereas the Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine was hit-and-miss, self-contradictory, and more than a little sanctimonious, Fahrenheit 9/11 seldom loses sight of its target - the Bush administration - or its sense of humour."
"In the past, Moore has been accused of twisting chronology and events to suit his agenda. While neither Bowling for Columbine nor Roger and Me can be accused of major factual errors, both trade on a series of misleading implications."
"More than Moore's wealth, the question of security is perhaps the issue that most threatens his down-to-earth ordinary Joe persona."
"And, statistically, he's right. Currently, there is no more powerful anti-war protester in America, and therefore arguably the world, than Moore."
"I ask him why his old friend and longtime collaborator Ben Hamper... told... that Moore 'didn't treat people well'... Moore, rising to the charge, 'and then he sent me a letter saying that he said that while he was drunk. He has a horrible alcohol problem and I don't really want to talk about it,' he says, going straight on to talk about it"
"Of course, it's nobody's business but Moore's where he sends his child, except he makes it his business to detail the hereditary privilege of his subjects and tends to make his political arguments personal. In Fahrenheit 9/11 one of his stunts is to attempt to get Congressmen to sign their children up for the war in Iraq."
reader
Fat and crass is OK for this dose of painful truth
23.05.2004 05:52
Bush and the Corporate Fascist Economy
Article in the Observer seems pretty good opinionated about politics and cinema:- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1222496,00.html
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"Moore, the king-sized millionaire, walking testament to American consumption, is a master of making himself appear the little guy."
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Yes, sure he is fat and crass, but he is working the edges of the US masses. He needs to be crass, his audience is crass. And they are in denial about how they got themselves a ex-alcoholic drug addict dummy with no brain as a president in a so-called democracy. Moore is making the truth digestible, in small lumps, by black humour and ridicule.
And the USUK blobs who fell for the Faux news type rubbish will get angry too. Moore is brave enough to stand up and risk the twisted insecurity of the gun nutters in the US.
Sure "Bush-lite" as Chomsky has labelled Kerry will be some more of the same to a degree, but not all the same. At least there will be a brain with President Kerry, and the loony PNAC psychopaths somehow re-educated or at least redendered harmless somehow, and soon maybe USUK will get a proper democracy with proportional representation and escape corporate fascism in the future.
Verity Sparks
Palm D'Or for Micheel Moore - ace news
23.05.2004 10:38
as for the pundits who question Michael's integrity, earnings etc - it was bound to happen, now that he's moved from the sidelines into the mainstream, the American Right is starting to fear him.
The likes of Ann Coulter (right wing 'commentator' and pathological liar) have accused Michael Moore of abandoning the working class and swanning around in a limo. As someone who has bought his books and Bowling for Columbine on DVD, I have no problems with him making big money, it's up to me if I buy his stuff or not, and the guy is entitled to his royalties! What Ann, Rush (Limbaugh) and the other right wing nutters forget to mention is that Michael has asked for suggestions from the public via his website as to the best places to donate his tax cut - www.michaelmoore.com
Looking forward to seeing the latest film - I hope the American public get to see it too.
Annie
e-mail: antoinetteearl@hotmail.com
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23.05.2004 13:58
Filmed on location in Rafah by Israeli director Norman BurnemaliveStein and his trusty mossad camera crew .
T.D ARSE
September 11th video evidence of missile.
23.05.2004 19:45
New video evidence archived at the LA Times substantiates missile claim
This latest video evidence brings the total number of independent clips showing the impact of the second plane to hit the World Trade Centre to six. Each one depicts what appears to be the launch of a missile a fraction of a second before impact.
This video can be seen on 'commemorative 911' DVDs and videos which are available everywhere.
The repercussions of this evidence could be incalculable and it is clearly being taken very seriously by government agencies in the US and UK (including the CIA and MI5) as well as elsewhere (as is illustrated by the WHOIS IP site log).
http://wwwletsroll911.org
http://www.empirewatch.org/pages/_archives/articles/contributed/008/index.html
Oh, and for anybody that thinks this is all the work of a few sad, lonely conspiracy theorists, you might like to read 'The New Pearl Harbor' by Professor David Ray Griffin:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844370364/026-2790311-0542024
The mainstream media have completely ignored the claims that there was much more involvement by US authorities than mere incompetence and scoff at any such suggestion. Channel 5's recent 'documentary' piss take on the top ten conspiracy theories didn't even mention it, yet any Google search (their research tool!) will reveal that there are about 555,000 web pages which mention it - compared to the 361,000 of JFK which was second in their top ten to mind control (which had only 70,700). Indeed, the programmes presenter, Daniel Abineri, told me himself that there was no waty that Channel 5 would even mention September 11th.
Zinfandel
September 11th video evidence of missile.
23.05.2004 21:15
New video evidence archived at the LA Times substantiates missile claim.
This latest video evidence brings the total number of independent clips showing the impact of the second plane to hit the World Trade Centre to six. Each one depicts what appears to be the launch of a missile a fraction of a second before impact.
This video can be seen on 'commemorative 911' DVDs and videos which are available everywhere.
The repercussions of this evidence could be incalculable and it is clearly being taken very seriously by government agencies in the US and UK (including the CIA and MI5) as well as elsewhere (as is illustrated by the WHOIS IP site log).
http://www.letsroll911.org
http://www.empirewatch.org/pages/_archives/articles/contributed/008/index.html
Oh, and for anybody that thinks this is all the work of a few sad, lonely conspiracy theorists, you might like to read 'The New Pearl Harbor' by Professor David Ray Griffin:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844370364/026-2790311-0542024
The mainstream media have completely ignored the claims that there was much more involvement by US authorities than mere incompetence and scoff at any such suggestion. Channel 5's recent 'documentary' piss take on the top ten conspiracy theories didn't even mention it, yet any Google search (their research tool!) will reveal that there are about 555,000 web pages which mention it - compared to the 361,000 of JFK which was second in their top ten to mind control (which had only 70,700). Indeed, the programmes presenter, Daniel Abineri, told me himself that there was no waty that Channel 5 would even mention September 11th.
Zinfandel
Homepage: http://www.letsroll911.org