http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

Bet this guy felt like a real jackass after the London bombings.

To which London bombing do you refer?

London has been the target of more than a dozen terrorist attacks since 1980, yet the UK government never resorted to spreading a culture of fear. The Provisional IRA (funded almost exclusively by American money, I might add) were just a part of daily life here: I was working in London on 24th April 1993 and heard the bomb go off. And like almost everyone else I was back in the city the next day.

It's only a recent development that the US and UK governments are having us believe that a small band of lunatics who are behind a small number of atrocities are now worthy of a global "war". Anyone who worked in London and heard the daily reports of terrorist murders on the news will surely be as perplexed as I am.

Watch the whole documentary, not just this 2 mins (why is this teaser here when the entire series is available for free download?)

I do highly recommend viewing the whole documentary, but not on Videosift. If a Sift goes beyond 5 minutes without either fire, an explosion, or ping pong somersaults, then I am lost.

The Wiki cite above has links to the full vid. Hopefully, Pathe will have the courage to distribute it in America.

sfjocko posted "Part 1" of this documentary earlier. It runs 59:12.

The Power of Nightmares -The Rise of the Politics of Fear part 1.of.3 - BBC News - Google Video

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=2246

these documetries r fantastick thay should be compulary for people to watch. the fill versions if i rmeber corectly are alot abotu scycoligy and how peoples understandings of sycoligy have shaped houre world.

thanks dotdude -- i'd just thumb-upped it when i had the thought i *might* have posted this before (it's all a blur after a while)... and lo!, I did. and it's still up. and it's still a great vid.

*politics

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Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Saturday 29th July 2006 (promotion called by gold star member farhad2000)

Damn, it's *dead.

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Discarding this video. It was flagged as dead but not flagged undead within 7 days.