Michael Moore has announced his new movie-project: “I’m making a film called Fahrenheit 911, the temperature at which freedom burns. It’ll be about how Bush is using 9/11 and those 3,000 lost lives as an excuse to move along his own conservative agenda.” full story at DemocratAndChronicle.Com

"Variety reported that Moore is working out a deal with Mel Gibson's production company, Icon Productions, to finance "Fahrenheit 911."

According to Moore, the former president had a business relationship with Osama bin Laden's father, Mohammed bin Laden, a Saudi construction magnate who left $300 million to Osama bin Laden. It has been widely reported that bin Laden used the inheritance to finance global terrorism.

Moore said the bin Laden family was heavily invested in the Carlyle Group, a private global investment firm that the filmmaker said frequently buys failing defense companies and then sells them at a profit. Former President Bush has reportedly served as a senior adviser with the firm.

"The senior Bush kept his ties with the bin Laden family up until two months after Sept. 11," said Moore. (...) Moore said he expects the new movie to be in U.S. theaters in time for the 2004 presidential election."

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Fat Mike of NOFX has commented on Moore's speech at the oscars in the latest newsletter for his label FatWreck:

I made the mistake of watching CNN last night before I went to sleep. No it wasn't the bombs dropping or the footage of the 18 or so people having a war rally in Concord, it was the footage of Michael Moore speaking at the Academy Awards two nights ago. I watched the Oscars and I saw the inspiring speech that Mr. Moore gave representing his fellow non-fiction filmmakers. He got a standing ovation while walking to the stage, but after a few moments of speaking there was definitely some heckling going on.

In all fairness I would say that there were several dozen people out of the few thousand that were booing while he spoke. We all heard it. Hey if you're gonna talk shit, be prepared to get some thrown back. That was expected. What I didn't expect was how CNN ran the story the next day. Every 15 minutes they showed the speech with the volume of the booing almost louder than the speech. I had videotaped the Oscars and I compared the two. CNN definitely turned up the volume of the hecklers, and you could specifically hear one guy. It was almost like they stuck microphones on the hecklers before the show.

CNN made it look like he got booed off the stage when in fact the large majority of the audience gave him plenty of adulation. For Pete's sake, if CNN can't even cover the Academy Awards without showing bias, how the hell are we to believe what they show us from the Middle East? Obviously I must be living in some kind of fantasy world. I'm going back to getting all my news from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. At least I can laugh with the news instead of at it.

Forever rambling, Fat Mike