Excuse the attention-grabbing headline.
Did you know that in 2005 the Council on Foreign Relations held the premiere screening of "The Last Best Chance," a film about a nuclear terrorism strike in the U.S., starring Fred Thompson as the President?
You can order the DVD for free here: http://www.lastbestchance.org/ Endorsements include the 9/11 Commission co-chair.
The film was produced by the Nuclear Threat Institute, founded by Ted Turner. http://www.nti.org/ Board of Directors and advisers - mostly harmless: http://www.nti.org/b_aboutnti/b1_board.html
Warren Buffett is one of the more active advisers.
The premiere was at CFR headquarters, and The New Yorker had a report: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/03/051003...
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The film, “Last Best Chance,†was a bit unusual, too. You might even say it isn’t really a movie at all—it just plays one on TV. Set in the near future, it takes the form of a slick international suspense thriller, the kind that cuts from a rainswept warehouse in a bleak corner of the former Soviet empire to a dimly lit White House Situation Room. It has no sex scenes, no car chases, and no wisecracking sidekicks, and it is only forty-five minutes long, but it lays out a frighteningly plausible narrative of how terrorists might buy or steal the makings of a nuclear bomb, assemble one, smuggle it halfway around the world, and send it on its way to an American city in an S.U.V. The closest thing to a star in the cast is Fred Thompson, the lawyer turned actor turned Republican senator from Tennessee turned actor again. Thompson plays the President of the United States, and his character is mature, wise, and serious—the one jarringly unrealistic note in the picture.
“Last Best Chance†was made not by a movie studio but by a singularly unraffish indie producer: Nunn’s Nuclear Threat Initiative, with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the MacArthur Foundation. The blurb on its poster comes not from Ebert & Roeper but from Kean & Hamilton—Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, the chairman and vice-chairman of the 9/11 Commission. Its grosses are zero. For the past five months, it has been distributed free on DVD. Now it has been taken up by HBO, which plans to show it repeatedly, beginning on October 17th.
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HBO, hm, I missed that.
Speakers at the premiere included
Pete Petersen, still head of CFR - on 9/11, also head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank; head of the Blackstone Group which had bought the WTC 7 mortgage and apparently controlled the building.
Buffett - who was at Offutt AFB on 9/11 as we have heard.
Am I serious? Do I think the CFR is prepping a 2009 nuclear terror incident to kick off the Thompson administration with a good boost, like the one that was arranged for Bush?
Should I issue the Thompson warning? It's not like the CFR/Bohemian Grove/Bilderberg etc. group haven't picked presidents before.
But probably not. Just sharing something interesting I discovered today.
However if Thompson gets the Republican nod I will make sure to have moved out of any American city by 2009.