However the film work is not good, no tripod and the end of the talk is missing -- parts 2 and 3 are just one min clips, but the first part is still worth watching and a better quality version should be available soon:  http://www.911blogger.com/node/15679#comment-187225

Much of the presentation seems to be based on his book, Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta and the 9-11 Cover-Up in Florida.

The film, Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime, in turn drew much from this book and it has been screened by Sheffield and London Indymedia and is available to download here:  http://www.911blogger.com/2006/05/video-everybodys-gotta-learn-sometime.html

I provided a humorous comment on this post as soon as it was put up pointing out the increasingly preposterousness of the ever expanding list of conspirators - now including the Russian mafia. Who next my mum and her dog?

My comment broke no guidelines but was immediately hidden. This is an extremely serious point as a conspiracy theory world view has to continually expand the conspirators as all new phenomena have to be assigned to some conspiracy or other.

This is why the conspiracy world view is tendentiously anti-semitic. The world view always leads to an omnipotent enemy controlling every aspect of our lives (and no doubt forcing me to write this now) - the exemplary candidates for this has historically been the Jews and you follow the conspiracy stuff a few cyberlinks and you'll see blaming then popping up again. It's like the motherload for conspiracy theorists.

What separates left wing thought from right wing thought is that whereas right wing thought assigns phenomena to good or bad individuals left wing thought seeks out the social processes behind phenomena.

So, you haven't actually watched Daniel Hopsicker's presentation, have you....?

I think you will find that in this case the "social processes behind phenomena" is Imperialism and Empire...

Yes and what do you mean by Imperialism and Empire? An all powerful conspiracy by a small cotrie who are trying to control the world. And now they control the Russian mafia too. Mind you he's probably talking about the forces of satan.

You can bet your bottom dollar he aint gonna be talking about how the logic of capitalism means that certain actions make sense and others don't. That capitalists and indeed politicians have to follow this logic that they defend but whose dynamics they don't understand. that capital's need to expand drives it around the world causing colonisation in all it's forms.

There is an inhuman monster stalking the earth - It's capital - it is dead labour that needs to feed of living labour. But human kind made this monster and we remake it everyday when we go to work or buy a product.

Ohh what's the fucking point... the Left is from venus and the right is from Mars

You said: "You can bet your bottom dollar he aint gonna be talking about how the logic of capitalism means that certain actions make sense and others don't.", so you are admitting that you haven't watched it arn't you...?

If you did you would find that he doesn't claim to have all the answers, he says he doesn't even understand why the Iraq war happened, he is a journalist who has looked into the activities of Atta and his associates and I didn't catch any mention of "the Russian mafia" in his presentation -- I think perhaps Tony Gosling took this from an article on his web site since the article above makes it clear that he also hadn't watched the videos since he said there were 2nd and 3rd parts...

In terms of what Empire and Imperialism means today I suggest you listen to / read this whole series (part 10 is missing) -- it's a very good starting point: Empire as a Way of Life:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/374166.html

According to Asylum reclaimer, the captains of industry and state are mere puppets, following a logic they do not understand.

We on the other "remake" capitalism every day by earning a crust and buying things.

Furthermore, "Humankind" made this monster - which seems to fly in the face of history as a great deal of coercion had to be employed to force ordinary people into the labour markets, both in Europe and the colonies of the empire.

The mind boggles - its our fault: those who have the guns and power that hold us in subservience are not responsible for the capitalism which controls them,. we are.

Empire is now a conspiracy theory, rather than capitalist expansion fuelled by racism and overwhelming military might.

I, for one am looking forward to episode 2 of this narrative. Its gotta be fascinating.

 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6618076520601759159

Daniel Hopsicker, Keene, NH - 5/17/08 - 103 min - Jun 30, 2008

Chronos Films & Media -  http://www.ChronosFilms.com/

 http://911blogger.com/node/16420