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Old 12-20-2010, 06:35 PM   #11
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Find the book "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton. The story, meh, it's ok. What's worth ten times the story, is the author's eight or nine page theory at the back of the book describing how the gov't tries to keep a handle on us by use of a central fear. The Red Menace. Nukes. Russia. Global warming. North Korea. It's worth the price of the book. A real eye-opener.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

Part 1/3 (an hour long)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...9275960015727#
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