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Related: About this forumMichael Moore Interviews Tony Benn (Tony Benn, veteran Labour politician, dies aged 88)
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Michael Moore Interviews Tony Benn (Tony Benn, veteran Labour politician, dies aged 88) (Original Post)
Douglas Carpenter
Mar 2014
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canoeist52
(2,282 posts)1. Maybe this is the same video as that one is not available in the US.
"Keeping people hopeless and pessimistic - see I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them."
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)2. thanks for posting that
drynberg
(1,648 posts)3. RIP Tony
Thanks for posting this "reminder" about the Big Picture.
swilton
(5,069 posts)4. A great loss!
Just watched the movie Seven Days in May for the first time...The President Jordan Lyman (played by Frederic March) makes the astute observation (this was the 1960's) that he hated technology because it eroded democracy by making the public think that they were powerless.