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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JRI who wrote (27882)	9/18/2001 8:08:31 PM
From: ajtj99	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 30051

JRI, I was suggesting a "Wag the Dog" type program in an earlier post. If you've seen that movie (starring Robert DeNiro, Anne Heche, Dustin Hoffman, etc) you'd remember that they dreamed up a war with an isolated country (Albania) in order to cover a problem they had with the President allegedly molesting a Firefly Girl (I guess like a Campfire Girl). To make a long story short, they declared war to retaliate against fictitious aggression, made up film showing a war taking place, and distracted the US public from the Firefly Girl thing. Since the country was isolated, nobody could confirm or deny the actual combat (that's a bit laughable, but pure Hollywood). After the alleged war was over, they had Woody Harrelson as their fictitious soldier that was left behind enemy lines and needing rescuing. He was their plugged in hero (Old Shoe). The situations are pretty similar, and have been nearly played out before by Clinton. We'd have to make sure our fictitious airstrikes are fed only to Westerners, or we'd have to show fake ammo dumps being blown up with fake Bin Laden soldiers and fake Taliban militia saying things like, "My ability to wage war on America is ruined, but I've escaped with my life, for which I am grateful. From now on I will devote my life to Allah and the consumption of Western consumer goods, as what we formerly knew only as the Great Satan is merciful and has some really great razors and beauty products to boot." Anyway, just a rough script. I'm sure the National Security Council is working on something like this right now. The key in our Wag the Dog plan is that nobody gets hurt, nearly everyone gets what they want, and we can get on with things in the market and close our shorts on Gillette and Avon <G>.