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1Alan Watt: Death by Stealth - Allergic to Food (April 20, 2009) 1 Citation Don?t forget about the Alan Watt Audio page., technorati.com
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1 Citation It?s all over the headlines. You can?t turn around anywhere without hearing about the swine flu epidemic. Will it turn pandemic, do you think? The number of suspected as well as confirmed cases have risen. How scared are you that it will become a serious crisis? Some people were speculating that the swine flu is really just another ?wag the dog? to get us off the topic of the economy and global recession. However, the swine flu is worsening the recession by hurting the travel industry., technorati.com
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Blast from the past: Dustin Hoffman talks about Wag the Dog 1 Citation With all due respect to Dustin Hoffman : I think he takes unseemly delight in using the phrase "bent penis" during an interview that was intended for boadcast TV in 1997. But what the hell: He's talkin' 'bout Wag the Dog , and he's funny. On the other hand: No, I do not believe he wasn't channeling Robert Evans in his performance., technorati.com
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Out of the Mouths of Babes? and Evildoers 1 Citation Bush calls on all nations to end tortureSeriously? he didI find listening to all this torture talk to be, well, torturous? sort of like sitting through an entire airing of Fox & Friends in the morning. The United States does not torture. Instead, we simply redefine the definition of torture then call it ?enhanced interrogation techniques?. At the same time, the Justice Department hires lawyers with no morals and directs them to provide legal rationale for breaking the law so that we can tort, technorati.com
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1 Citation Robert de Niro spelar PR-virtuosen Conrad Breen i den amerikanska komedin från 1997 - Wag the dog . (Ok, pop quiz, hot shot: Vad anspelar filmens titel - Wag the dog - på?) I klippet har Conrad och Vita husets kommunikationschef (Anne Heche) uppsökt en berömd hollywoodproducent (Dustin Hoffman) för att komma tillrätta med en skandal där presidenten bara några dagar innan valet bedrivit otukt med en flickscout i ovala rummet. Pingat på intressant.se . Andra bloggare om pr , public, technorati.com
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1 Citation Normal 0 In what is becoming the Media-selected Prez. Barack Obama?s version of Wag the Dog ? his administration released documents that explained the Bush Administrations interpretation of the boundaries defining torture. Nothing released was really anything I had not heard before, except that the mean old CIA interrogators were allowed to use a bug to scare one of the terrorists. Boo Hoo - that sure scared the holy water out of me! Like any other Cult Leader Obama realizes that he, technorati.com
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Navy Seal, Jessica Lynch, Saves American Captain held Hostage by Pirates 1 Citation MOMBASA, Kenya, April 12 ? An American captain held hostage for five days by Somali pirates in a lifeboat adrift in the Indian Ocean was rescued unharmed Sunday in a surprise U.S. military operation in which famed Army Hero turned Navy Seal Sniper Jessica Lynch killed three pirates with her devastatingly accurate sniper fire, while the captain was tied up just feet away, American military officials said. A fourth pirate was in U.S. custody. Lynch positioned near the fantail of the destroyer, technorati.com
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1 Citation 1997 was a good year for David Mamet. As well as a play and a book (The Old Neighbourhood and The Old Religion) there was Wag The Dog, which he wrote, and The Spanish Prisoner, which he also directed then there was the fantastic survival thriller The Edge. Directed by Lee Tamahori, the film sees billionaire Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins) survive a plane crash thus becoming stranded in the wilderness with a photographer (Alec Baldwin) and his assistant (Harold Perrineau) and hunted by a man-e, technorati.com
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1 Citation As Fox News, the Wall Street Journal et al are heavy-breathing about Tea Party protests on Tax Day, Gallup discloses that Americans' "Views of Income Taxes Among Most Positive Since 1956." But reality is no more a deterrent for Rupert Murdoch than it was for William Randolph Hearst when he was stirring up the Spanish-American War in 1898 with a drumbeat of scare headlines. To a message from artist Frederick Remington reporting "There is no war," Hearst famously replied, "You furnish the, technorati.com
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Barrry Levinson to Adapt His Own Novel, ?Sixty-Six? 1 Citation Barry Levinson, veteran director of ?Diner,? ?The Natural,? ?Wag the Dog,? and ?Rain Man,? hasn?t made much of a dent in the consciousness of the critics or the pocketbooks of the public since 2001?s ?Bandits.? But the 67-year old filmmaker may have an ace up his sleeve in the coming of age tale set in tumultuous 1960s Baltimore entitled, ?Sixty-Six.? What?s particularly noteworthy about this project is that ?Sixty-Six,? will be adapated from Levinson?s own novel of the same name published in, technorati.com
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