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Zeitgeist 2007 This one is a conspiracy theorists' galore. It just reinforces their belief that the world is not as it seems. There is always a hidden agenda and a hidden hand behind every occurrence around us. In this documentary presentation, the director looks at three aspects of world control, presented in 3 parts. In the first part, the film looks at religion. He infers that most religions in the world follow a particular pattern and is related to pagan myths and the study of astronomy. There are many similar narratives in the stories of Horus, Krishna and Greek gods. Even the symbol of the crucifix is pagan-derived and the Sun is the real God. The idea of religion as a tool of mind control is put forward to us. More murders are carried out in the name of religion than to save lives. The second part illustrates the many loose ends that do not tie up with the 9-11 hijack of planes and the Twin Tower disaster. They are selling the idea that the mishap was a carefully-pl...

The Power of Nightmare (2004) The rise of politics of fear #03. The Shadows in the Cave With the appointment of Bill Clinton as the President and the fail of various uprisings to establish Muslim governments in the Islamic countries, it looked both the neoconservatives and the jihadists movements were doomed to fail. They appear to be marginalized, losing the flavour of the times. The turning point came with the 2001 destruction of the New York Twin Towers. After failing to receive people's support in Algeria and Egypt, in 1998, Zawahari and Osama retreated to the barren land of Afghanistan. They then changed the strategy. Instead of creating mayhem in Islamic countries, they creating ruckus in concerns of the enemies of the Muslims (in their eyes).Attacks were targeted at embassies, hotels and outlets frequented by their enemy's citizens (read Americans) in Kenya, Tanzania. Volunteers from various countries who came to Afghanistan to serve in the name of religion we...

The  Power of Nightmare  (2004) The rise of politics of fear #2. The Phantom Victory The neoconservatives and Islamic jihadists have one common goal- to elevate their community. In the mid 70s and 80s, USSR was also their common enemy. Their playground then was Afghanistan. When Afghanistan was attacked, Ronald Reagan and his band of neoconservatives took it upon themselves to arm the Mujahideens with latest technology and weapons as well as plaster them with tons of money to crush the Soviet power. Pretty soon, the Muslim clergymen around the Muslim passed a fatwa (decree) calling it a religious duty to help their Muslim brothers to protect their motherland. This just drew support in many forms. Through Abdullah Azam's enterprising efforts, help came from Arabs, members of Muslim Brotherhood and other more radical Islamic groups. Some prisons were more than willing to relieve their radical inmates for this jihad. These people wanted to use Afghanistan as a model to ma...

The Power of Nightmare (2004) The rise of politics of fear #01. "Baby, it's cold outside!" Another good BBC documentary produced and directed by Adam Curtis. This time around, he is trying to make sense of the world around us by trying to analyse the genesis of Islamic jihadist and the American neoconservatives. He tells us that the seed of their origin is America itself. Politicians used to give hope to their people, promising them to bring them to a better world. With the big wars, I suppose, people lost trust in their leaders. They became 'anti-establishment', but now the tide has changed. People have once again given their leader a role to protect them from an increasingly hostile world -so the leaders claim, is the threat over-exaggerated or is it real? Sayid Qutb Both the American neoconservatives and the Muslim ultra-conservatives both wish for a better world but instead what they get is a nightmare. It all started around 1949... In Colorado...