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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216491/
https://www.focusfeatures.com/kill_the_messenger

An investigative reporter, most recently working on criminal drug stories, gets a lead that takes him down a rabbit hole few knew existed.

A fair movie at best, which I can only recommend for people of the mindset with interest in the United States’ government’s involvement in Bad Things.

• Based on Kill the Messenger – (2006 book), by Gary Webb

• https://web.archive.org/web/20191207122547/https://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20171107020817/http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/shock/stories.htm

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• 6:20 — Casual misandry.
• 7:15 — Oh wow that’s a tiny space.
• 7:30 — Los Angeles Times

• 8:00 —

  • Bill Clinton
  • Watergate scandal
• 9:30 — CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking
• 10:00 — Okay, look here. Pretty girl giving something huge like that fucking stinks of a setup.
• 20:00 — San Jose Mercury News
• 23:15 — South Los Angeles United States
• 27:45 — I wonder if Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution would protect him. If so, were I him I would have clammed up with that right from the beginning. Or revoked participation as a witness. Or anything, really. Upset stomach, use the bathroom, get the fuck out of dodge.

• 28:30 — Contras

  • See also Iran–Contra affair
• 29:30 — Ronald Reagan
• 50:00 — “It’s online”.. haha
• 52:00 — CIA Headquarters – Langley, Virginia
• 52:15 — I thought Richard Zuckerman would be related to those papers, like the owner of all of them, but I think he’s fictional.

• 54:30 —

  • CNN
  • CNBC
  • The Jerry Springer Show
  • Geraldo (TV series)
  • The Montel Williams Show
• 55:00 — National Press Association seems to be fictional.
• 55:15 — Managua, Nicaragua
• 58:15 — Panama City, Panama
• 1:01:45 — Pravda
• 1:12:30 — What in the fuck is all of this writing and plot? This is awful.
• 1:14:45 — None of this makes sense.
• 1:15:00 — That box is empty.
• 1:18:00 — What’s that tattoo?
• 1:30:15 — Journalism ethics and standards
• 1:36:15 — Why would he get journalist of the year after all? Did he actually get anything done? This wasn’t emphasized enough for me to understand it.

• 1:38:45 — Society of Professional Journalists

  • Wouldn’t some excuse be made to revoke the award?
• 1:43:45 — Lewinsky scandal
• 1:44:00 — John Kerry
• 1:44:30 — Yep, shot twice in the head. Twice. Suicide. Mhm.

• Exactly seven years later. For the curious, see also the statue of limitations for certain crimes for that specific time period.

  • https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-650-length-limitations-period
  • https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1445-discussion-selected-section-844-offenses

I didn’t mention it earlier.. but: War on Drugs.