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...then recounts testimony from similarly unidentified New York amateur radio operators, who say they picked up signals of navigational beacons within the towers, guiding the planes to their targets. With acidic mockery, Meyssan casts the events of Sept. 11 and those that followed as the work of a virtual shadow junta within the U.S. government that has manipulated media and public opinion...
...course what really separates "King" from other biographies is that Anderson literally drew it out. For the most part the book has been rendered in very high-contrast black and white - a fascinating choice given the subject. When not cast in nearly complete shadow, characters look as though brightly lit from one direction, horror-movie style. Features get flattened, and more importantly, skin tone vanishes. For better or worse this makes it difficult to distinguish between characters, black or white. Arguably this lack of shading also counters the book's themes of moral shading. But then, just discussing the graphics...
There exists, in the minds of many, the Golden Triangle of popular mythology: a wild and untamed land where Thailand, Laos and Burma collide, full of wizened tribesmen reclining with opium pipes in the shadow of hills painted purple with poppies. It's a place you might still find should you have the time, funds and gumption to cross the muddy sweep of the Mekong into Burma or Laos. But if, like most tourists, you opt to view this famous confluence of three nations from Thailand's northernmost province of Chiang Rai, you might wish to check some of your...
...York amateur radio operators, who say they picked up the signals of navigational beacons within the towers guiding the planes to their targets. Using tones of stony authority fused with acidic mockery, Meyssan casts the events of Sept. 11 and those that followed as the work of a virtual shadow junta within the U.S. government that has masterfully manipulated American media and public opinion...
...Europeans and Americans see the Middle East in such different ways? Above all, because the shadow and shame of the Holocaust reaches out of the past and lays a cold hand on our present understanding. All the prayers in the world won't make that grim truth go away...