Sunday, March 02, 2008
LA VIE EN SPAZ
She’s French, an actress and the daughter of a mime, so naturally Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard is a truther:
“I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” she said, singling out September 11.
Referring to the two passenger jets flown into the World Trade Centre, Miss Cotillard said: “We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours.
“It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.”
Despite being only 31, Miss Co’Tard is a truther of the old school:
Turning to America’s space programme, she said: “Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don’t believe all they tell me, that’s for sure.”
That’s quite a leap, even for a mime-spawned Paris trophy flake. What could possibly explain this level of derangement?
She is an environmental activist, who once worked as a spokeswoman for Greenpeace.
(Via Andrew R.)
SIMPLE GUY
Guy Rundle - “an Australian writer covering the US presidential elections” - delivers a global scoop:
Put simply, society has collapsed, and with it, many people’s sense of connection to others, and their ability to see themselves as an active force in their own world.
You’d think the Age would have run this on the front page. Then again, Rundle may simply be projecting.
(Via Imre Salusinszky, who - noting the rise of this impressive talent - emails: “Loewenstein, watch your back!”)
CASH BACK
Hail the return of Currency Lad, whose new site “will probably be Bunyipian in its publishing habits rather than daily.” Any Currency is good Currency.
HICKS QUITS STICKS
Dave drops in:
The man described by a federal magistrate last month as capable of committing a terrorist act has been given special dispensation to leave South Australia.
The Sun-Herald understands that Hicks, 32, has been living with a female friend at Abbotsford, a waterfront suburb in Sydney’s inner west.
Let’s hope she meets David’s requirements.
He has obtained a learner driver’s licence and has been seen driving around the suburb in the company of a female friend, with L-plates attached to his car.
But, but ... the environment!
Hicks’s lawyer, David McLeod, said the former Guantanamo Bay inmate was being mentored by Australian adventurer Dick Smith, who campaigned for a fair trial for the South Australian during Hicks’s five-year detention.
“David has developed a close relationship with Dick Smith,” Mr McLeod said.
For the first time, I feel a little sorry for Dave. At least in Gitmo he learned something.