fiba media feature 2006
The Media SPOOK Industry
by G P Solomos (fiba Publisher)
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The Ploughman's Lunch was a 1983 UK gentlemen's style spy flick that introduced a highly ed- ucated middle-class society as media spook experts. They lunch in an office block pent house restaurant with a glass walled gym where dinners can 'practice' their tennis playing while waiting to be served. Their appetites are 'worldly' so they order a 'ploughman's lunch' - only using |
| Danish Roquefort cheese in place of the mundane dry cedar used by the ploughmen themselves. |
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| Now again we have the popular versions of these boring theatrically cinematic takes on spooks - the ever renew- able Anglo-American movie heroes of civilisation: James Bond and Superman. |
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| Dhiren Barot (above), the UK-born Pakistanis who converted to Islam and road the rails of 'terrorist training' for the past two decades, was describe by police as a 'formidable opponent' and 'highly-skilled murderer'. Yet he was sentenced to life imprisonment for having 'planned' and 'attempted' to murder thousands of lives had he succeeded. When Barot was fantasizing all these atrocities his training schools were on a far lower level of expertness than exist today - with a new magazine for SPIES that details all the high-tech features of 21st century terrorism. Written and produced by former intelligence agents who have retired or been ditched by their master. Have you seen a copy of EYE SPY? |
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political television (left) as in political theatre, producers and writers
can't imagine a valid Conservative (Republic-
can) or Labour (Democratic)
argument. From the plays of Sir David Hare
to the spy stories of the BBC, the resulting
liberal consensus is not always wrong, but it is always the same. |
| tire of an ideological uniformity that is already stifling and, in the case of Islamism, becoming absurd. |
| Part-time Secret Service Intelligence agents can be doctors, lawyers, journal- ists, politicians, academics or movie star supermen. However the full time Spooks are mostly ambitious young men (recruited by every nation in the world) who have developed an instinctual and intellectual insight into |  |
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all manner of crimes. These 'gifted' men might alternatively have been parasites, gamblers, risk takers, bounty hunters, mercenaries themselves. No matter on what 'level' - from 2 gun cowboys to bank robbers to stock market swindlers to assassin. And the |
| wages are good! These are the mercenary army - behind the scenes - who spy, and rob and mutilate anyone who Governments that pays them point to as the 'enemy' (of their lands). Most people think they can spot a SPOOK . How mistaken they can be. For instance, would you believe a person like the British born Jewish comedian Borat (aka Sacha Baron Cohen) might possibly be a part-time Israel Spook? Think twice. |
Then there is the only ALTERNATIVE SPOOK
world broadcasting system:
ALJAZEERA
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| Aljazeera is the Arabic 24-hour News channel operating out of Qatar that has begun broadcasting in English. Not for a joke have they hired BBC's Sir David Frost to be their prize 'anchor man'. For the first time ever anyone in the West can see/hear the news from the so-called 'enemies' point of view. The nonwestern nations do not hold the honor of broadcasting 'unbiased' news. Aljazeera, |  |
| like Russia and China and India are the future. And Islam. |
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