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I'm not sure what I expected from John Cleese's Dinosaur Hour but what I was presented with was never the less disappointing. Take away the setting in a medieval castle, a cast of nuns and men in boller hats and off course all the cats and what you are left with is a chat show. Given Cleese was given a completely free hand and his comedy background it's reasonable to hope for a show which might not be broadly comical but was at least entertaining. One of the episodes was dedicated to talking with some American comedian I'd never heard of and another to the pompous snob, Stephen Fry who only seems to become more insufferable as time goes by.

I hope he doesn't make a second season.

The greatest threat to mankind and the natural world is not climate change, it is all out nuclear war. This would seem obvious but for some reason the BBC would rather push climate change propaganda these days.

Back in 1984 they had different priorities and while Threads can be viewed as a blatant CND recruitment drive it is never the less factually correct. The lead up to the eventual nuclear exchange is frighteningly salient today as Soviet Russia and USA fight over Iraq's oil fields leading to a regional conflict which inevitably goes nuclear then global. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Now available for free on YouTube.

Or so William Shakespeare wrote in his play The Merchant of Venice. But that was back in 1596 England. In 2020s USA however it seems the truth will be buried under a blizzard of lies. So The Fall of Minneapolis starts with the death of George Floyd, an habitual criminal and drug addict as he resisted arrest for attempting to pass fake $50 bills. This chapter of the movie has never before published police body cam footage. The subsequent chapters show the violent riots which followed including the abandonment of a police precinct, the autopsy report which found no evidence of suffocation but did find almost 4 times a lethal dose of fentanyl in Floyd's blood, the attempts by law enforcement and FBI to pressure the doctor who performed the autopsy to change it's conclusion, the sham trail where the chief of police repeatedly lies regarding the use of maximal restraint technique (MRT) which his officers are trained to use.

There isn't much new here, apart from the body cam footage and phone interviews with some of the wrongly imprisoned police officers involved. Candice Owens covered the same events in her documentary, The Greatest Lie Ever Sold and anyone who has paid attention will know much of what is documented here. However if the movie reaches just one blue pill normy then it will have been worth while.