051101

Redemption Song - movies, music & thoughts - 051101 -
Driving Miss Daisy | Summer of Sam | Pearl Jam | Tonkin Gulf reports cooked? | Treasongate - Bigger than Watergate - One Step Closer

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MOVIES --


- TONIGHT -


Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
This four-time Academy Award-winning story about a genteel but strong-willed Southern matron, Daisy Wethan (Jessica Tandy), and her chauffeur Hoke (Morgan Freeman) is based on Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. It's a contest of wills as they learn that for two people so different, they have much in common -- the bumpy road they travel ultimately leads to the friendship of a lifetime.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Esther Rolle, Patti LuPone
Director: Bruce Beresford


- LAST NIGHT -


Summer of Sam (1999)
During the sweltering summer of 1977, the notorious killer Son of Sam set New York City on edge. An accidental encounter with the homicidal maniac sends the life of a philandering Bronx hairdresser named Vinny (John Leguizamo) spinning out of control. As the police and vigilantes hunt the killer, Vinny's life unravels amid a haze of suspicion, drugs and promiscuity.
Starring: John Leguizamo, Mira Sorvino, Adrien Brody, Jennifer Esposito, Anthony LaPaglia, Ben Gazzara
Director: Spike Lee


above quote[s] from netflix

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MUSIC --


continuing with Pearl Jam - see previous: 051030


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THOUGHTS --


- LINK[S] OF THE DAY -

ever hear of Viet Nam? ever hear of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident ??? ever hear of our government faking shit in order to justify war ??? ever hear of, um, Iraq?

search SFGate for "tonkin"

- some results from today -

Tonkin Gulf reports cooked? - Historian's research finds intelligence errors covered up
Scott Shane, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/31/05
The National Security Agency has kept secret since 2001 a finding by an agency historian that NSA officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence during the Tonkin Gulf episode that helped precipitate the Vietnam War, according to two people familiar...

Article Raises Questions About Vietnam War
KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press, 10/31/05
(10-31) 20:01 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The National Security Agency has been blocking the release of an article by one of its historians that says intelligence officers falsified documents about a disputed attack that was used to escalate the Vietnam War...

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Bigger than Watergate
Ted Rall: "Don't let the Republicans distract you. Treasongate isn't just about deposed vice presidential chief of staff Scooter Libby, who has been charged with five felony counts and faces 30 years in prison, or even deputy presidential chief of staff Karl Rove, who may soon be charged as well. The Libby charges clearly point to the real culprit: Dick Cheney, who told Libby about Plame's covert status in the first place. Cheney abused his security clearance to find out."
<<< relates in part to "justification" of the war on Iraq
"Treasongate includes many of the essential components of Watergate: smearing opponents of the Iraq war and their loved ones, financial shenanigans and a cover-up. Actually it was a cover-up of a cover-up; they lied about trashing Plame, who they targeted because her husband revealed their lies about Iraqi WMDs. Outing a CIA agent is the rancid cherry on top of a triple-dip blob of corruption. You can bet there's more to come."


google "Treasongate"

- see also -

my previous post here - One Step Closer to the Big Enchilada


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