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It is my view that the antidote to THE BIG LIE promulgated by the clinton agitprop machine is THE BIG TRUTH. With the advent of the internet, we have the power to bypass the elitist media and bring the truth directly to the people. The internet is a powerful weapon, but we must learn how to harness it.

Information overload is a problem that has only been exacerbated by the internet. The answer to information overload is the systematic propagation of information; that is to say, the answer to information overload is PROPAGANDA...

If we are to succeed, we must exploit propaganda techniques; we must adapt them to this new venue; we must not be afraid to use them...

Film Noir in the White House by Mia T
"Read my future." - "You haven't got any."
--Exchange in Touch of Evil between Orson Welles and Marlene Dietrich (as a gypsy fortune teller)


Leni Riefenstahl, the film genius who outmaneuvered propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels to chronicle Hitler's 1934 Nuremberg rallies in perhaps the most notorious documentary ever filmed, Triumph of the Will, symbolizes the naïve actress and director who is induced to deal with devils -- Nazi-pantalooned then. . . nasty, pantless (or pantsuited) now . . .

After the war, Riefenstahl excused her effort as pure documentary -- watch for Streisand, Spielberg, Geffen et al. to do the same one day -- yet she compiled one section, Hitler's motorcade to Munich, from several different events and shot the closeups of Nazi leaders at the podium in a staged studio sequence.
As Riefenstahl told it, editing-to-perfection was crucial. She insisted that the finished quality of Triumph of Will came from her editing, not from any imposition of "posed shots" or choreography on her part. With her innovative editing techniques, Riefenstahl deliberately and selectively aestheticized Hitler and the Congress' proceedings. By editing out a shot of Hitler wiping his nose and including instead "more interesting expressions," by eliminating the human, Riefenstahl eliminated the inhuman.

The only difference today, in this era of ubiquitous cameras, continuous news and the shameless auteur-tyrant, is that the useful-idiot Washington Press Corps, spun by and on the Hollywood-Arkansas Axis, edits out the clintons' inhumanity (and ineptitude) in real time. . .

I really like that brilliant little essay on Riefenstahl, Mia.

The quote from a Touch of Evil reminds me of one of my favorites between Cary Grant and James Mason in North by Northwest:

Cary Grant: "Apparently the only performance that's going to satisfy you is when I play dead."
James Mason: "Your very next role. You'll be quite convincing, I assure you."

I hope the ever-honorable TRUTH becomes ever more recognized as more people came to their senses after 9/11 and hopefully enlighten others. Not all, though, as I found out at a Christmas Day dinner, when the male head of household blithely claimed he didn't believe my sense of a t/c with a top senior official in intelligence that they had no plans to target Afghanistan before the petty petulance of the parsimoniously endowed perpetrator of rape sought revenge for his own actions brought forth in his public deposition. As this man was harboring his 'disbelief' since I told him the tale on Thanksgiving Day, backing it up with Seymour Hersh's 'Missiles of August' investigative report in the Atlantic Monthly, with even BC's appointed Head of the Joint Chief's Sheldon, advice against lobbing missiles, as well as the rest of the military, the only movement seems to be anger, perhaps a prelude to giving up such negative perpetuations of their ideas. As a followup, I contacted this former 2nd in command at the Pentagon, and I asked him if I interpreted our conversation correctly, that there had been no plan to target until BC gave the order the day of the grand jury inquisition, and he confirmed it. Shades of what could have been the beginning of an Arab WWIII with origins similar to WWI. Many at the Pentagon felt sickened, at having to come to work under his command, but rather than be court-martialed for disobeying an order, they seem to have followed through in the best way possible, by bombing at 4:00 a.m. on the outskirts, where no one would be harmed. Close call for OBL, hah!