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tirsdag 8. desember 2020

Donald Pleasence Explained Fake News in 1968




The BBC showed this episode of its 'Thirty Minute Shorts' series, in 1968.  Starring Donald Pleasence and Nigel Davenport, in a chillingly plausible tale of how mainstream news is ' faked'  by a ' small group at the top' .  As Donald Pleasence says, "News is the most highly developed form of fiction. The most difficult' .


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but he subscribes me got you to come
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here mr. Larkin but I couldn't see what
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the CW went a spurred run with me still
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can't know anything about it
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oh I'd want to do things I was welcome
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to be busy well get here CW on us set up
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midway between the government the TV
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companies anytime the newsreel boys
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pronounce stuff a security
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classification Wars weapons political
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leaks but they get their film through
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this office what do we know about you
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Larkin Robert Santo is it's a family man
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good family good education
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did you tell you back on all that didn't
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you try a little bit of everything
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9055 you wrote someplace for the BBC
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then work for them as a story editor
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1961 you got a three-year contract as a
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director which you didn't renew now the
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BBC one penguin well you're in the money
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now aren't you
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1968 there's your flat in Holland Park
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at cottage in Hampshire two children
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there's your wife Rachel who you married
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the girl next door your two children
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Rebecca and Daniel nice little family
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three years ago you got yourself a
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girlfriend it's a scene where the hell
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did you get that founder just tell me
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where it stops
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bastard for 18 months your wife never
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knew about it even when you nearly
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decided to leave her who are you
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Steve Mitchell JG that's all I know
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never met you before no my life July the
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25th 1966 you finally decided to break
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it off on this woman you said you loved
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her you said you loved your children it
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was two against one you had to add it up
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like that
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oh sorry your cigar burning my death
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Sheila told you all this we have ways of
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finding things out but why we've just
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been interested in you for a long time
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interested he went back to your wife
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because you said it was two against one
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I call that very responsible we're
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interested in very responsible people
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but we have a little index for than
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I call it their power quotient a ratio
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of responsibility as against aggression
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is very low 0.2 so done please I'm sorry
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the language must seem rather strange at
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first but we take it very seriously just
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to show you how seriously I'm going to
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tell you how we checked up on you we
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call these things of surgical
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transmitters one was fitted inside you
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when he went into the Charing Cross
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Hospital three years ago a appendix
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wasn't it sir you're trying to tell me
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that you listen to every word I say a
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machine that British power quotient
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surgical transmitters high-speed tape
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it's doctor who I'm for the real world
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Jack good afternoon I should just have
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to give you an example on July the 26
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1966 you were talking to this girl
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Sheila about love you said to her I
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quote the kind of love I have for you
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Sheila
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it's staying in bed till 6 p.m. I'm
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saying I can't go to the office today
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it's eating breakfast to Twilight
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nothing it leaves on the table I don't
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believe there's any such thing as these
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surgical transmitters you got Sheila to
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tell you all this then you wrote it down
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the way I might have said it you're a
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good guesser
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can hear your heart beating it's eating
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breakfast at Twilight
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laughing it leaves on the pavement
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getting a cab or selling movie to Paris
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so that really is one of those things
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inside me
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what do you want
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we want people with low powered
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quotients we want them to work for us
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nothing more sinister than that all this
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just to offer me a job special sort of
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job the newspapers talk about the
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corridors of power the power elite let's
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just say we'd like you to join the club
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your home there's a vacancy in our
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newsreel Department we'd like you to
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help plan the news for 1973 come again
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plan the news for 1973 I always tell
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people news is the most highly developed
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form of it the most difficult come on I
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just want to show you something 1973
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we've only roughed out the news for 1973
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nothing's been given the go-ahead yet
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but this this is the kind of thing we
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have in mind
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[Music]
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come
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[Music]
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today April 14 1973 first historic
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pictures by rad star of the combined
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u.s. Russian landing on the moon shown
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here our majors web and Mikhaylovich
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taking their first steps into the
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unknown firing their retro rockets to
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land their spacecraft on the dust
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covered surface are comforting no for us
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stay at homes both the Pentagon and the
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Kremlin have announced that the moon has
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nose to teach it very comforting nerve
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for us stay at home I can't show you any
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film on this next model
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we haven't photographed it yet but then
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this is the way it was sound June the
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22nd 1973 the State Department releases
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film of the ultimate weapon codenamed
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Icarus this satellite is equipped with a
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solid reactor in layman's terms it can
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freeze air solid stopping all missiles
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killing all forms of life Icarus orbits
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at the same speed zero can hang in
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position over every major city that
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threatens the peace-loving nations
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rather proud of this one
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[Music]
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god
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[Music]
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please sit down
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[Music]
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[Music]
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September the 5th 1973 the new phase in
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global water war by example at 432 our
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time China took out the remote Indian
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border village of Danville unprotected
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by the icarus Network after the first
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tool five Megaton H bombs of horn the
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nine way hotline final is rigid of it
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but this is going to happen in 1973
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you're gonna make this happen
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no we are going to make models much
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cheaper then we photograph the model
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Freight newsroom that fake news be for
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the past ten years people have been
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looking at our faithful he was at
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listening to our faith country and they
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accept it for the truth
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and you can do it stop a hundred people
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in the street how many of them have
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actually seen a missile or satellite
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that that they're just told they exist
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and they believe it yes you're getting
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there I knew you would
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well now the moon rocket and the
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satellite that you can get away with
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that's too remote for people to grasp
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it's too far away but this I mean you
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invented this village on the
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indo-chinese boardwalk but somebody
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could check up very mountainous
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territory up there there'll be no
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survivors in 1973 no rescue work
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radiation scare yes you can do it this
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could be the news for 1973 not
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necessarily exactly like this we only
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plan in detail one year ahead oh you
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only plan one year ahead hey hey don't
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tell me what is the news item that's
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bothered you the most in the past year
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1967 well it it has to be the new
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American intercontinental ballistic
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missile they the the Boy Wonder
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doesn't just the one I asked him to set
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up with the new ICBM codename Boy Wonder
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with a much talked about mercury warhead
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I haven't any special effects up here
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but perhaps with with the proper sound
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Robert knocking television director high
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IQ 35 years old is scared scared by
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nothing it doesn't work it's a
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scientific impossibility the same goes
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for the much talked about mercury
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warhead
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first base well if if this rocket
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doesn't work then the others today I
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have a fireworks party at Cape Kennedy
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almost every other day well you didn't
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really believe there were all these
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things whizzing about up there did you
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Sputnik some Rockets astronauts crossing
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their legs great day how long has this
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been going on since Hiroshima and the
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h-bomb II we that doesn't work on right
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dirty very very good what was your first
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reaction relief oh yes
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yes it has to be relieved
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[Music]
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only 12 people are allowed beyond this
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point most of the work in the
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photographic Department taking the phony
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newsreel pictures of our models and
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processing film and so sit down please
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ah pretty pictures from our stills
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Department the Boy Wonder
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when did it all start 1945 you may
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remember the Americans let off that two
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atomic bombs well they didn't want other
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people doing the same thing I mean you
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do see that then oh I don't know
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well scare the people off Americans put
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it up and the atomic bomb was halfway
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along the line to something much bigger
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the age of them hydrogen bomb it didn't
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work they spent five years in negative
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research what about the Russians
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this opposed I've caught a pile of these
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things we were surprised when I started
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that test then we got a few feelers from
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their Secret Service nowadays we work
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very closely together oh all those
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stories about spies going off to Russia
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that mr. Philby remember just good copy
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for the Sunday papers good well the
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Chinese I mean
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they've just announced their bomb yeah
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we played along with it we recorded
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their phony explosion we're honor
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helping the Chinese will come along
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complete the pattern you know in Vietnam
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hundreds of people are being killed
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every week well you can't do that with
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your models no don't you can't kill the
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people of bad habits in two generations
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they like to carry rifles they like to
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put lines on maps and we let them
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because we control the situation there's
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no danger of World War just a simple
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choice for everybody capitalism or
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communism strawberry or vanilla
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politicians are easy to control
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no grocer mentality boys who like to be
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photographed getting in and out of
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Daimler's in Whitehall may come right at
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the bottom of our organization few rungs
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up the ladder there are the people in
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the top secret factories just those in a
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position to know they're making weapons
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that don't really work that must come a
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time when somebody wants to use one of
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those weapons I mean somebody is
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standing there with a finger on the
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button well that's the beauty of it
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nobody presses the button we control all
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the crises we build them up and we shut
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now we again yeah I'm coming to that
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near the top of the hierarchy there are
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the economists top civil servants top
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brass in the military those men who are
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supposed to view the nuclear tests and
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so on and above them see W and s right
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at the top
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classified World News Service just who
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the hell are you sub isn't it just a
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field just a very few of the top people
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in communications in every major country
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in the world
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oh you mean you you run all these
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magazines no course nah we just get them
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to take some of that coffee every week
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television is much more important to us
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I'll ask them so quickly you say you
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couldn't put out what pictures you like
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on television doesn't anybody try to
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stop you no nobody wants to ninety nine
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point three eight six percent of the
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population wouldn't believe this
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conversation and the rest are working
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for us and they're the top minds the
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really responsible people they know
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they're guaranteeing the lives of their
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grandchildren the only foolproof way
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scaring the hell out of their
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grandchildren
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well I won't buy it you must admit there
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has to be some kind of control in this
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world about hmm okay and remember that
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one quarter of the world is starving
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there are the full bellies and the empty
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bellies some of the empty bellies carry
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rifles
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well we full bellies are getting a bit
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flabby we're not very good with rifles
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anymore so it divides two ways to keep
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the empty bellies under control one of
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them is this fictitious hydrogen bomb we
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talked about the other one is money a
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great wall of money all round Britain
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and it's no secret that the British
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economy is in trouble at the moment so
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we have to put that right to to stay
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alive we have to control the people in
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this country
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scarin ostrich buries its head in the
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sand you scare a hedgehog at Rose itself
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up in football when a woman's frightened
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she goes out and buys herself a hat
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you mean you scare us so that we'll buy
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more so that so that money moves quicker
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production moves up we don't say scare
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when we talk about human beings we say a
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threaten them emotionally and there all
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sorts of ways not just the big ones like
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the hydrogen bomb overcrowd them a
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little with bad planning sell them too
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many motorcars anything to keep them a
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little bit removed from reality took us
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five years to find a non-addictive drug
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one we could pay off against the hard
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drug LSD you marketed that oh yes of
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course and for a very good reason some
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of these protest movements were getting
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a little bit too close to the mark
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LSD gave them nice little hallucinations
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made them talk like three euros throw
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flowers at policemen Kalle talk term
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you're not still going to ask me to work
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for you
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I'm afraid I've had to put all this
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rather bluntly you see that it wasn't
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really very much time it must be rather
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a shocker well I mean most people
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realize that the world is controlled
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from about six big cities but it must be
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rather shocking to learn that a sixth of
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the world is controlled from this
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building you mean you oh no I only rate
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an office on the seventh floor there are
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two other offices above this one and a
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giant computer system lick number four
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in world control a computer what's so
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remarkable about that it's just a
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machine that can store a vast amount of
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information a machine that knows too
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bloody much now you're being hysterical
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about computers very simple you'll feed
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data into it anything from The Wall
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Street closing prices to the North
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Atlantic weather and you get decisions
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machines taken you over it's just a
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machine extra hands will
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people who know how to control it I
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ought to tell you we pay a great deal of
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money we can afford to we save such a
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lot on things like the National Defense
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budget so on we would start you off at a
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quarter of a million pounds a year
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rising to a million when you make the
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Ministry of morality which I know you
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will will you let me out of here one
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little point I should have told you
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about these surgical transmitters
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[Music]
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there's enough of this stuff inside you
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at this moment to kill six people
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there's a button we can press I'm sorry
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about the dramatic our boys goalies
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thinks the oral contraceptive keeps them
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from talking too much so there must be
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one of those transmitters inside you who
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presses the button extra hands all this
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stuff about the computer being extra
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hands for the men and how to control it
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that machine controls you
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you'll start on Monday

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