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The Looming Tower (2018) Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' suggests the best way to win a war against your enemy is when they (the enemy) do not realise that they are not at war. "Know your enemy know your environment" he added. Despite this knowledge, the mighty Ming Dynasty fell to the lowly Manchus. Twenty years ago, two then Colonels in the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Qiao Lang and Wang Xiansui published a book named 'Unrestricted Warfare'. Here these two officers outlined ways to overcome a mighty force like the USA. It seems that the CIA also got hold of this book and was reading material for their trainees. In a gist, it proposes trapping the country into indebtedness, economically and militarily. Cost of waging a traditional war may prove too costly, money-wise, and annihilation of the planet as we know it.  Probably the other enemies of the USA have also got hold this knowledge. With the widespread of information on the net, nothing is sacr...

X Files Season 10 (E1-E5) More than 10 years after their tour of duty, the last the two renegade FBI agents are still at their conspiracy theories. They are still keen to expose to the world of their employers’ devious plans to hide major secrets from mankind and their attempts at hastening the annihilation of mankind as we know it. Many things have happened since their last outing. The paranormal department had been closed. Fox Mulder is on medication for depression. Dana Scully is working in a hospital, minding her own business. There is a mention of Scully having been abducted by aliens before. They (Mulder and Scully) have an 11-year-old child whom they have given away for adoption for security reasons. They have reason to believe that the child must have been infused with alien DNA, hence the secrecy. The smoking man is still around! The last time I saw him, he had laryngeal cancer. In the first episode, he is seen with a tracheostomy but still smoking via his tracheal ...

J. Edgar (2011) Taking freedom of speech to the extreme, Clint Eastwood produced and directed this 2011 movie on American icon of paranoia who made Americans to perceive that there is USA and there is the rest of the world, John Edgar Hoover, the first director of FBI. The movie dwells upon at best speculative stories that surfaced after his death regarding his secret private life, essentially, opening up his closet and displaying its contents in full for public scrunity. Looks like Leonardo De Caprio is slowly stereotyping himself into acting in biographies - first he acted as Howard Hughes in 'Aviator' now this. A stellar performance he did give and is slowly earning a reputation as a actor of class.There are a few 'myths' floating around in books and Internet on J. Edgar Hoover. He is alleged to have black ancestry and was adopted by the Hoover family. His wirery curly hair in his younger days is testimony to this effect. The movie starts with an old JEH dictatin...