Fahrenheit 11/9

[Kwacky]

I realise that Michael Moore isn't everyone's cup of tea, but this needs watching.

At the very least just watch how those in power in Flint managed to stop the population having fresh water, instead replacing it with a new water pipeline, piping poisoned water into everyones homes giving kids lead poisoning and the ageing population killed off with Legionnaires Disease.

To make it worse the local government faked the test results and told parents that their kids had safe levels of lead in their system.

The programme also shows how Trump was joking about being president and how the Democrats faked the primary results to get Hilary as their candidate.

This is the modern western world.

And you'll learn the term "redneck" comes from.

[StMarks]

Has there been some sort of re-make/update that I haven't heard of.?
Or are we talking about the incisive & informative 2004 film that the world seemed (for some inexplicable reason) to largely ignore.?

[Jack]

you can watch it here : https://vimeo.com/15251240

[StMarks]

you can watch it here : https://vimeo.com/15251240

Yaa, the original.
LOL, I'm pleasantly reassured that you would have a link to it to hand Jack.


On an aside, I wonder what direction the world would have taken if Gore had won that election.

[Kwacky]

No, the new one about Trump.

[D41]

Does he compare Trump to Hitler??

I've got $5 says he does.

[duke63]

No that's Rees-Mogg.

[D41]

He compares Trump to Rees-Mogg??

Curiouser & curiouser.....

[StMarks]

No, the new one about Trump.

No clue about that Kwacky, any links.?

I have to say I'm "surprised" at the timing.
- In the same way that a Biography of someone whilst they are alive can never be fully complete.
- From a risk perspective.

[Kwacky]

I watched it on Netflix.

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[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnQ8VU0uQXI[/video]

The footage at 37 seconds is the US Army carry out a live fire exercise. In a city. That's still inhabited. They didn't tell the residents. That's a city in the USA being used by the US Army to test weapons.

[D41]

Are they testing weapons, or testing tactics, procedures, etc.??

Seems to be the way they're doing it these days, with the emphasis on urban/suburban scenarios rather than large scale war games.
The police SWAT teams do the same thing occasionally.

[Kwacky]

Did you not play the video?

[D41]

I didn't. I'm having trouble watching videos on this phone at the minute. This is a pretty sh#t neighborhood for internet speed/connection. It comes & goes at random.

[duke63]

Testing how to destroy anyone who doesn’t agree with them by the looks of the video.

[Kwacky]

I didn't. I'm having trouble watching videos on this phone at the minute. This is a pretty sh#t neighborhood for internet speed/connection. It comes & goes at random.

It shows a couple of shells going into buildings and exploding.

[D41]

It does? Mea culpa....I thought it was just small-arms stuff.