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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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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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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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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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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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can hear your heart beating it's eating
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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yes it has to be relieved
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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