----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
F 9/11 makes a big deal out of the George W. Bush-James R. Bath-Salem bin Laden triangle, the George W. Bush-George H.W. Bush-the Carlyle Group-Harken circle, and Saudi investments into US economy, without saying exactly what the big deal is all about while hinting at something sinister about "the big-deal Saudi Connections," the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq: "Okay, so let's say one group of people, like the American people, pay you $400,000 a year to be President of the United States. But then another group of people invest in you, your friends, and their related businesses $1.4 billion dollars over a number of years. Who you gonna like? Who's your daddy?" That's conspiracy theory.
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Well organized historical narratives of various factions of the capitalist class which parsimoniously foreground agency rather than institutions and structures are not conspiracy theories; that they are easier to deal with in literary media rather than 'film' is an issue of technology/technique. A kind of historical meso political economy. There was no hint of anything sinister going on in Moore's muckracking.