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YouTube -- Placebo: Cracking the Code

"For the past thirty years, Clifton Meador has been haunted by the possibility that he may – unwittingly – have condemned Sam Lande to an early grave, simply by believing he was dying, that the transmission of that belief to his patient was more deadly than the cancer itself." -- "...Dan Moerman is convinced that what doctors say and do makes them powerful placebos in themselves."

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december 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- BBC Horizon: The Ghost In Your Genes 1/5

'Biology stands on the brink of a shift in the understanding of inheritance. The discovery of epigenetics hidden influences upon the genes could affect every aspect of our lives. At the heart of this new field is a simple but contentious idea that genes have a 'memory'. Epigenetics adds a whole new layer to genes beyond the DNA. It proposes a control system of 'switches' that turn genes on or off and suggests that things people experience, like nutrition and stress, can control these switches and cause heritable effects in humans.'

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december 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take - 2011

'An unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what's really going on in our world by following the money upstream - uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. We are at a critical turning point in human history. The path we are on is leading toward a global police state. We must change direction, but how? What are the guiding principles that would lead to freedom from war, hunger, and domination? How do we work toward a world where no one is violated or coerced in any way? If each of us uses our unique gifts, and we collaborate with others, we can create the world we want to live in. We already have what it takes to thrive. Now is the time.'

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november 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- History Channel: Cities of the Underworld (Playlist)

'In every major metropolis, skyscrapers loom above, taxis and vendors clamor at street level, and subways rumble below. But deeper beneath the hectic surface lie other, silent worlds, each with its own mysterious and fascinating history. Cities of the Underworld peels away the layers of time-often literally hundreds of feet thick-to expose the incredible pasts lurking beneath some of the most populous cities on earth. Throughout the world, cities such as Paris, New York, Rome and Shanghai all harbor long-submerged networks that once served crucial functions, from eerie catacombs to clandestine hideouts and ancient aqueducts to underground societies.'

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october 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Revolution Business

'Democratic change has been demanded across the Middle East. But was what seems like a spontaneous revolution actually a strategically planned event, fabricated by 'revolution consultants' long in advance? Revolution consultants are the worst nightmare of every regime. Srdja Popovic was a founder of the organisation 'Otpor', a revolution training school. It was instrumental in the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s and has now inspired a new generation of activists. Political commentators like William Engdahl are convinced Otpor is being financed by the USA. "The people from Otpor gave us a book in which they described all their strategies", says Ezzedine Zaatour of the Tunisian uprising. That book was written by an American, Gene Sharp, and is now considered the "revolution guide book", being used by opposition movements worldwide.' -- Pied pipers are piping

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october 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Psychology Of The Dark Knight: Batman Unmasked

'Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are both excellent sources of entertainment, but they also offer a complex and interesting dissection of a man who learned to use his own fear against criminals.' -- "Kids generally – even if they're not directly responsible for some terrible event – personalize the event and take responsibility for it." -- "...Bruce Wayne is the mask."

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august 2011 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- If... The Generations Fall Out - Final Script (March 2004)

'COMMENTARY: In Europe and America a new type of conflict has been simmering for years. In Britain, in 2024 it is about to reach flash point. This conflict is different from anything that has gone before. Members of the same family will find themselves on opposite sides. PROF LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF (Author “The Coming Generation Storm”): It’s not a matter of if there’s going to be a generational fall out, it’s a matter of when and exactly how nasty it’s going to be. COMMENTARY: In twenty years time, it is the old who are in charge. The ageing population is bringing Britain to the brink of financial collapse. Which the young generation are about to ignite. CHET TREMMEL (Foundation for the Rts of Future Generations): We are not going to keep quiet when a band of pampered pensioners steal the future from us. COMMENTARY: The young of 2024 are becoming angry. They’re calling it generational fraud. Some have decided it can’t go on. YOUTH DEMO: We pay, they play, we pay they play…'

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august 2011 by adamcrowe

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BFI: Film & TV Database -- EQUINOX SPECIAL The KING OF CHAOS (1998)

Broadcast Channel 4 1/1/1998 -- 'Docu-drama of what the media might be like by the year 2012. EQUINOX's first drama, set in the future, focuses on the facts behind the suspicious death of media mogul, Liam Keller, whose software applications have had a huge impact upon broadcast TV, earning him enemies around the world. In the late 1990s, Keller had devised 'Gambit', a virus which enabled all technologies (the internet, television broadcasting, e-mail) to converge – to communicate with one another. Found floating in the Thames, a television current affairs programme sets out to explore how Keller might have met his death. Through Keller's life story this drama explores the consequences of future technology, reflecting on what might happen to our present day media over the next few years.' -- Keller: "The government is committing large scale larceny... [forcing] you to pay taxes for services that they aren't providing. From a consumer point-of-view, government is a failing brand."

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Adam Curtis Collection
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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- GOODIES AND BADDIES

'The idea of "humanitarian intervention" which is behind the decision to attack in Libya is one of the central beliefs of our age. It divides people. Some see it as a noble, disinterested use of Western power. Others see it as a smokescreen for a latter-day liberal imperialism. I want to tell the story of how this idea originated and how it has grown up to possess the minds of a generation of liberal men and women in Europe and America. It is the story of a generation who became disenchanted with traditional power politics. They thought they could leap over the old corrupt structures of power and connect directly with the innocent victims of war around the world. -- Out of Srebrenica came a strange new hybrid – a humanitarian militarism. And in the 1990s it rose up to capture the imagination of a generation on the left in Europe. It even had French philosophers behind it. But ... they had no critical framework by which to judge the "victims" they were helping.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- History Channel: Prophets of Doom

'Today’s world has troubles unique to its time in history, from the global financial crisis to technological meltdowns to full scale, computerized global war. Observing the convergence of such events, contemporary prophets have begun to emerge from obscurity to suggest that these conditions might be signs of the demise of the modern world. These men are historians as well, using all manner of information and patterns from the past to provide context for where we are going. The men proposing these ideas are not crackpots living on the streets of New York; they are intelligent, learned men who come armed with the evidence to back up their claims.' -- POINTING FINGER IS POINTING AT GOVERNMENT: Collectivization/Infantilization: "We"; Subsidized/Wealthfarized Overpopulation; Debt Dollarization: Rigged/Over -priced Food, Rigged/Over -priced Oil, Rigged/Over -priced Energy technology investments; Polluted Water: Tragedy of the *at government gunpoint* Commons. PEAK GOVERNMENT is a meme.

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- A IS FOR ATOM

'And in 1971 the Atomic Energy Commission did a series of tests of Emergency Core Cooling systems. Accidents were simulated. In each case the emergency systems worked - but the water failed to fill the core. Often being forced out under pressure. As one of the AEC scientists says in the film: "We discovered that our theoretical calculations didn't have a strong correlation with reality. But we just couldn't admit to the public that all these safety systems we told you about might not do any good" And again the warnings were ignored by senior members of the Agency and the industry. That was the same year that the first of the Fukushima Daiichi plant's reactors came online. Supplied by General Electric.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Manga Mad

'MANGA MAD opens the window behind the Japanese mask, to reveal what's really going on in the collective imagination, and explains why manga is so ubiquitous, mesmerising, virtually uncensored, and is now contagiously popular worldwide.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- VPROinternational: California Dreaming

'In Los Angeles, we meet five people who are going through a transformation in their lives during this crisis. Justin and Christine lost their jobs and are now living in a van with their two young sons. Charles has gotten out of prison after fourteen years. Mizuko prepares her children for the future by making them at ease in virtual reality. Laura has taken advantage of the crisis by buying land cheaply and starting an urban farm and artists collective Fallen Fruit maps the abundant free 'public fruit' available in the city. Who are the pioneers who are reinventing the new America and how do they see the future?'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- AlJazeeraEnglish: Empire - Social networks, social revolution

'Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation. Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall?' -- Old media is old.

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Hackers Wanted [Unreleased Director's Cut]

'Hackers Wanted is an unreleased American documentary film. Directed and written by Sam Bozzo, the film explores the origins and nature of hackers and hacking by following the adventures of Adrian Lamo, and contrasting his story with that of controversial figures throughout history. The film is narrated by Kevin Spacey.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Computer Programme 01 1/3

'This BBC documentary from 1982 tries to bring people closer to the – back then – just emerging micro computers by showing how computers already helped out creating a more efficient society. This documentary gives a unique insight into 70s and 80s technology, as well as into peoples fears, hopes and images of how the role of the computer might influence the future.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- We Live in Public

'Among Harris' experiments touched on in the film is the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public," an Orwellian, Big Brother type concept developed in the late '90s which placed more than 100 artists in a human terrarium under New York City, with myriad webcams following and capturing every move the artists made. The pièce de résistance was a Japanese-style capsule hotel outfitted with cameras in every pod, and screens that allowed each occupant to monitor the other pods installed in the basement by artist Jeff Gompertz. The film's website describes how, "With Quiet, Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public."'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The American Dream

'The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day? THE AMERICAN DREAM takes an entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system we have in America today. You will be challenged to investigate some very entrenched and powerful institutions in this nation, and hopefully encouraged to help get our nation back on track.' -- The Red Shield

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The American Dream

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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thought maybe -- [Playlist] Pandora’s Box by Adam Curtis

'Pandora’s Box, subtitled A fable from the age of science, is a six part documentary series by Adam Curtis that examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah’s leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Kowloon Walled City (Subtitled German documentary, 1989) 1/4
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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- WICKED LEAKS

'[Tyler Kent] was a rabid anti-communist who believed that the Jews had been behind the Russian Revolution. He was convinced that Germany should be allowed to destroy both Communist Russia and the Jews. And America should not get in the way of that being allowed to happen. Looking back, most people now feel that Daniel Ellsberg was right in 1971 because the Vietnam War had become a horrible disaster that needed exposing. Today, we are not sure of Bradley Manning’s motives (and it hasn't been proven that he is the source of the leak), but again there is a general feeling that it was good thing because the cables have exposed an empty nihilism at the heart of America’s foreign policy. But the perspective the Tyler Kent story brings is the realisation that diplomatic leaks are not automatically a good thing. It just depends on who is using them. And why.'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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WikiRebels – The Documentary

'Exclusive rough-cut of first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it.'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- THE OFFICE PARTY

'Here is a lovely documentary made in 1969 about that year's Christmas office party at a London advertising agency. Not boutique.'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- VPRO - Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street

"It's a combination of the sublime and the ridiculous." -- Numbers numb -- Praxeological epiphany at 28:22: "I don't think you can use quantitative methods to explain markets... history doesn't repeat itself."

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- 4OD: Dispatches: Britain's Street Children

'This crisis in Britain's families has created an itinerant population of young people without support or a roof over their heads. The state has to provide, at an immense cost, while voluntary organisations try to plug the gaps in the face of drastic cutbacks and closures. Dispatches follows four teenagers over six months who are struggling to fend for themselves on the streets. They're simultaneously at risk and a risk to society, and for all four of them drugs become a way of life, a means of dealing with the stresses and challenges of life away from family and home comforts. All talk candidly and eloquently about why they take flight: family breakdowns, addiction, violence, neglect and abuse. The unspoken truth behind their stories points to both inadequate parenting and severe lack of consistent and effective care once they have left home.' -- "I feel like a beggar." "Beggars can't be choosers." "That's just what I was about to say, you know."

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- 4OD: Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- FROM PIGEON TO SUPERMAN AND BACK AGAIN

'The idea of "nudging" citizens to do the right thing sounds cute. But in reality it marks the return of a powerful psycho-political theory that rose up in the mid-20th century. It was called Behaviourism. ...who decides what is "good" behaviour, and what happens when others decide it is bad[?] These are questions that the Nudge enthusiasts seem to be blithely unaware of. ...the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally – the machines we have built. The computers. In our age of individualism we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that the computers are really good at spotting the very opposite. The computers can see how similar we are, and they then have the ability to agglomerate us together into groups that have the same behaviours. And from that they can predict what choices and decisions we will make. And they do it solely through our observed behaviour.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Byzantium: The Lost Empire 1/20

John Romer: "Rome didn't fall, it just got poor. Constantine had moved the capital from the great old cities in the West, to the East. And with him moved the government, the generals, the army, the artists and the architects... everybody who made the empire moved with him. So in 475 AD, the last Roman Emperor of the West, sent The Crown back here to Constantinople, to new Rome. The story about the fall of the Roman Empire – that's the Western Empire – was really invented in the renaissance by the Popes, who really wanted to get [across] the idea of a pagan empire falling and a christian empire of the West rising. But the real truth is that old Rome, ancient Rome, had been modeled on the great cities of the East, of Antioch and Alexandria. Rome didn't fall at all. It simply went back home again."

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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Channel 4 -- Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story

'Film maker Martin Durkin explains the full extent of the financial mess we are in: an estimated £4.8 trillion of national debt and counting. It's so big that even if every home in the UK was sold it wouldn't raise enough cash to pay it off. Durkin argues that to put Britain back on track we need to radically rethink the role of the state, stop politicians spending money in our name and introduce, among other measures, flat taxes to make Britain's economy boom again. This polemical film presented by Martin Durkin, brings economic theory to life and makes it hit home. It includes interviews with academics, economic experts, entrepreneurs, no less than four ex-Chancellors of the Exchequer and the biggest stack of £50 notes you'll never see.' -- STARVE THE BEAST

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- What in the world are they spraying? The Chemtrail/Geo-Engineering Coverup (Playlist)

'By now everyone has seen crisscrossing streaks of white clouds trailing behind jet aircraft, stretching from horizon to horizon, eventually turning the sky into a murky haze. Our innate intelligence tells us these are not mere vapor trails from jet engines, but no one yet has probed the questions: WHO is doing this and WHY. Here is the story of a rapidly developing industry called Geo-engineering, driven by scientists, corporations, and governments intent on changing global climate, controlling the weather, and altering the chemical composition of soil and water—all supposedly for the betterment of mankind. Although officials insist that these programs are only in the discussion phase, evidence is abundant that they have been underway since about 1990—and the effect has been devastating to crops, wildlife, and human health. We are being sprayed with toxic substances without our consent and, to add insult to injury, they are lying to us about it.' -- www.realityzone.com/whatspray.html

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- LADA'S THEME

'Colin is convinced that it is the unions and the Communist party committee that really control the plant. Not the managers. The managers, he tells us, in both commentary and questions, have no power any longer. This is because they have become trapped by the growing absurdities of the Soviet Plan. But in reality the very opposite was true. The absurdities of the plan were actually beginning to allow the managers to become much more powerful. They were using the chaos and incompetence of central control to construct their own alternative economic systems. Which they controlled for their own benefit. In the case of Togliatti, senior managers were running an ever-growing shadow economy selling spare parts and even cars on the black market. It was supplying the needs that the Plan couldn't. And the "Red Directors" as they were called, were beginning to make a lot of money.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- NOVA: What Darwin Never Knew

'What Darwin Never Knew" offers answers to riddles that Darwin couldn't explain. Breakthroughs in a brand-new science — nicknamed "evo devo" — are linking the enigmas of evolution to another of nature's great mysteries, the development of the embryo. NOVA takes viewers on a journey from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic, and from the explosion of animal forms half a billion years ago to the research labs of today. Scientists are finally beginning to crack nature's biggest secrets at the genetic level. The results are confirming the brilliance of Darwin's insights while revealing clues to life's breathtaking diversity in ways the great naturalist could scarcely have imagined.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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Internet Archive -- Adam Curtis: 'It Felt Like A Kiss'

'"When a nation is powerful it tells the world confident stories about the future. The stories can be enchanting or frightening. But they make sense of the world. But when that power ebbs, the stories fall apart. And all that is left are fragments which haunt you like half-forgotten dreams."' -- "He locked his wife in a cupboard and watched Citizen Kane over and over." -- Rosebud. Mother.

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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SeptemberClues.info -- The Central Role of the News Media on 9/11 (Video)

'The News Media had a central role in pulling off the 9/11 psy-op. The operation involved airing on television a substitute, computer-generated version of reality. It has temporarily succeeded to sell to the world the preposterous tale of 19 young terrorists using hijacked airliners to attack the USA. This longstanding research has established the falseness of the images shown on LIVE TV on 9/11 – as well as all the subsequently released video material. The 9/11 hoax is definitively exposed by method revealed.' -- Woah! You may agree or disagree, can validate or invalidate – but one thing is certain: this is a MUST watch.

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- THE STRANGE DEATH OF POLITICAL ENGLAND

'It is the story of how, with the rise of individualism, we all stopped defining ourselves by politics and being part of collective groups, and believing in collective ideas. And instead we started to define ourselves by culture - both popular and high-brow - because music and style and art allowed us to give expression to our individual identities, rather than supressing them in the greater interest of the group.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- THE POPE AND THE AXIS OF TERROR

'The American military was convinced there was a giant secret bunker hidden in Cambodia from which the North Vietnamese were directing their attacks. The bombing, followed by an invasion, was going to destroy it. But the bunker was never found. It seems never to have existed. But it became a vision that was going to possess Haig, and others, in the years to come. That somewhere there is a hidden central control where the enemies of America are co-ordinating their attacks. They know this secret place exists. Even if there is no real evidence. And you can do bad things and cut corners in order to prove it exists.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections² E04: "Photo Finish" & "Separate Ways"

'Another series of discoveries examined by Burke which include Eastman’s film Kodak Brownie, the disappearing elephant scare of 1867, billiard balls, celluloid as a substitute for ivory, false teeth that explode, gun cotton, double shot sound of a bullet, Mach’s shock wave, aerodynamics, nuclear bombs, Einstein’s relativity, Einstein’s selenium, movie talkies, the vacuum tube amplifier, radio, railroad’s use of wood, coal tar, gas lights, creosote, rubber, the Zeplin, the automobile and finally how Adeline vulcanizes tires.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Veehd -- Secrets of Egypts Lost Queen (2007)
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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Public Information Films -- Protect & Survive: Action After Warnings

'“Protect and Survive” was the title of a series of booklets and a Public Information Film series produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s, dealing with emergency planning for a nuclear war. -- "Listen to your radio, stay where you are and keep listening to your radio."'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- MADISON AVENUE

Norman B. Norman: "The philosophy of our agency is... empathy." -- 'The widespread fascination with the Mad Men series is far more than just simple nostalgia. It is about how we feel about ourselves and our society today. As we watch the group of characters from 50 years ago, we get reassurance because we know that they are on the edge of a vast change that will transform their world and lead them out of their stifling technocratic order and back into the giant onrush of history. The question is whether we might be at a similar point, waiting for something to happen. But we have no idea what it is going to be.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections² E03": Something for Nothing & Echoes of the Past

'How do shuttle landings start with the vacuum which was forbidden by the Church? Burke takes us on an adventure with barometers, weather forecasting, muddy and blacktop roads, rain runoff, sewage, a cholera epidemic, hygiene, plumbing, ceramics, vacuum pumps, compressed air drills, tunnels in the Alps, train air brakes, Tesla hydroelectric power, electric motor, Galvani’s muscle-electricity connection, Volta’s battery, and gyroscopes.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- LET THEM EAT PLASTIC

'...the machinery of credit was used politically to try and manage and retain control the structure of power in the world. It was not a conspiracy, it was simply those in power taking the line of least resistance. -- I thought I would put up some of the films from the BBC archive from the time when there was moral disapproval by those in power of the "lower orders" wanting to "live beyond their means". The programmes are quite extraordinary and riveting in their tone of patrician sniffiness about people borrowing on the "Never Never" and Hire Purchase. And not just from the bankers who are interviewed - it is also in the commentary. But if you peer through that, you can see something else emerging in the ordinary people interviewed. It is a powerful desire to borrow money - so they can have what those above them in society have. The good life. And beyond that there is a growing envy and resentment.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Top Documentaries Online -- The Pyramid Code

'Who were the ancients and what did they know? Could the pyramids be much older than traditional Egyptology would have us believe? Could it be that the ancients were more technologically advanced than we are today? Why do we have so little understanding of the ancient Egyptians? Are there still secrets hidden in plain sight? Do new discoveries force the issue of establishing a new chronology? Are there little known sites that provide clues to a new understanding of our distant past? Are we really the most advanced civilization to ever live on Earth?

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections² E02: Getting it Together & Who Dunit

'Getting it Together & Whodunit? – James Burke explains the relationship between hot air balloons and laughing gas, and goes on to surgery, hydraulic water gardens, hydraulic rams, tunneling through the Alps, the Orient Express, nitroglycerin, heart attacks & headaches, aspirin, carbolic acid, disinfectant, Mabach-Gottlieb Daimler-Mercedes, carburetors, and helicopters.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

'"America: Democracy on Trial" -- ...set within the confines of the world of a real young family in the Bay Area in California in 1968. But their daily lives are played out against a backdrop of mounting uncertainty. Their country is fighting a war in a faraway place that more and more people don't believe in. And they are beginning to lose faith in politics and its power to change the world. And starting to question what democracy really means. The film is about the relationship between the everyday experience of the family - especially the wife, who is a fascinating and enigmatic character - and the big story they are told about the world. But it is made at a moment when that story no longer makes sense and the fragments that it is made of are beginning to fall apart.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- KABUL: CITY NUMBER ONE: PART 10

'Lots of westerners came out to Afghanistan to help the Afghans become a modern democracy. Here is an art expert who has come to teach them about Conceptual Art. It starts with a group of young Afghan artists watching film of an installation in a western gallery, then she shows them Marcel Duchamp's 1917 urinal. She is very keen to get them to say that if anyone did what Duchamp did in today's Afghanistan then they would be put in prison. It is interesting that the Afghans in the room, though they are polite, seem to disagree.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections² E01: "Revolutions & Sentimental Journeys"

Revolutions & Sentimental Journeys – What do all these things have in common – 3 grandfathers’ lifetimes, 2 revolutions, 1750 Cornwall tin mines, water in mines, pumps, steam engines, Watt’s copier, carbon paper, matches, phosphorus fertilizer, trains and gene pool mixing, traveling salesmen, 24 hour production, educated women, telephone, high-rise buildings, Damascus’s swords, steel, diamond, carborundum, graphite, x-ray crystalography, DNA and gene therapy?

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E10: "Yesterday, Tomorrow and You"

'Yesterday, Tomorrow and You. Change causes more change. Start with the plow, you get craftsmen, civilization, irrigation, pottery and writing, mathematics, a calendar to predict floods, empires, and a modern world where change happens so rapidly you can’t keep up.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E09: "Countdown"

'Countdown connects the invention of the movie projector to improvements in castle fortifications caused by the invention and use of the cannon.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E08: "Eat, Drink be Merry"

'Eat, Drink and Be Merry begins with plastic, the plastic credit card and the concept of credit then leaps back in time to to the Dukes of Burgundy, which was the first state to use credit.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E07: "The Long Chain"

'The Long Chain traces the invention of the Fluyt freighter in Holland in the 1500s. Voyages were insured by Edward Lloyd (Lloyd’s of London) if the ships hulls were covered in pitch and tar which came from the colonies until the American Revolution in 1776.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E06: "Thunder in the Skies"

'Thunder in the Skies implicates the Little Ice Age (ca. 1250-1300 AD) in the invention of the chimney, as well as knitting, buttons, wainscoting, wall tapestries, wall plastering, glass windows, and the practice of privacy for sleeping and sex.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E05: "Wheel Of Fortune"

'The Wheel of Fortune traces astrological knowledge in ancient Greek manuscripts from Baghdad’s founder, Caliph Al-Mansur, via the Muslim monastery/medical school at Gundeshapur, to the medieval Church’s need for alarm clocks (the water horologium and the verge and foliot clock).'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E04: "Faith In Numbers"

'Faith in Numbers examines the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance from the perspective of how commercialism, climate change and the Black Death influenced cultural development.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E03: "Distant Voices"

'Distant Voices suggests that telecommunications exist because Normans had stirrups for horse riding which in turn led them to further advancements in warfare.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E02: "Death In The Morning"

'Death in the Morning examines the standardization of precious metal with the touchstone in the ancient world.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E01: "The Trigger Effect"

'The Trigger Effect details the world’s present dependence on complex technological networks through a detailed narrative of New York City and the power blackout of 1965.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Daedalum Films -- Human Flesh Search Engine 2/2 [Passworded]

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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Daedalum Films -- Human Flesh Search Engine 1/2

'The menacingly-named Human Flesh Search Engine has made headlines around the world, but it remains largely misunderstood and its deeper implications unexplored. Daedalum Films examines the origins of this Chinese Internet phenomenon, dissects its most dramatic cases, and asks the question: "what can the Human Flesh Search Engine tell us about modern China?"' -- InternetToughGuy: "Strip him down to his flesh!" -- Srs Bidniz: People rewarded with virtual currency for crowdsourced entertainment trivia/treasure hunts/searches. "And then netizens began posting more 'personal' search topics. The Human Flesh Search Engine would soon move on not to just explosing the offense, but the offenders themselves." -- What's next? Scary Version: Casino Gulag Stasi self-surveillance snitching CRIMESTOP. Positive Version: Local community immune systems: error handling/intelligence gathering/dispute resolution. Amorphous/Amoral Version: Hair-trigger Stand Alone Complex copycat vigilantism for teh lulz.

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- BP AND THE AXIS OF EVIL

'BP is accused of destroying the wildlife and coastline of America, but if you look back into history you find that BP did something even worse to America. They gave the world Ayatollah Khomeini. ...the British persuaded the Americans to mount a coup by telling them that Mossadegh was leading Iran towards communism – represented in Iran by the communist Tudeh party. This was not true. But the CIA, led by Allen Dulles, believed it. The coup succeeded and Mossadegh was overthrown. In 1965 the white minority Rhodesian government declared Independence from Britain... A number of countries broke the sanctions – including Iran. But so did some British companies – notably two of the big oil companies – Shell and BP. ...the BBC had decided to make an epic 9-part documentary series about British Petroleum. The films were pretty sycophantic. At that time BP was still owned by the British government – and what you see is one large state-run organisation paying its respects to another.'

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC: The Virtual Revolution -- Sherry Turkle (Digital Revolution Rushes Sequence)

Turkle: "There's a kind of self-surveillance that young poeple don't think about... What is intimacy without privacy? This is really a question for this generation. -- Philosophers tell us that we become human when we’re confronted with another face, with a voice, with the inflection of a voice; these kids don’t want to see a face, they don’t want to hear a voice. They want to text. In a way we’re no longer nourished but consumed by what we’ve created. It’s not all good. I see people in retreat as much as they are in advance now that they have all this information. I see people defining a successful self as a self that can keep up with its email. -- We live in a kind of paradoxical time. We’re giving young people a very paradoxical message: The world is more and more complex; on the other hand, we’re only going to ask you a question that you can answer in two seconds. We leave ourselves less and less time for reflection because our communications media push us to quick responses."

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The Death of the West Part 3: The Twentieth Century

'The long term effects of the First World War - the fall of the Free West, and the darkening skies of tyranny...' -- The Killbot Class

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The Death of the West Part 2: The Nineteenth Century

'What brought the guns to bear on millions of lost souls...' -- We don't need no education; We don’t need no thought control. Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The Death of the West Part 1: Prehistory to World War One

'Why and when the free West died... The roots of the century of genocide.' -- Thesis: Gods and the priestly class were invented by the aging alpha male to maintain political power as his physical strength declined.

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- KABUL: CITY NUMBER ONE: PART 9

'...it was in Vietnam that anthropology, along with many other academic disciplines, truly became the handmaiden of power. Anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists designed vast programmes of social engineering and psychological manipulation. The aim was to change the way the Vietnamese peasants saw the world - and out of this create a new loyalty to the American vision of building a capitalist democracy in South Vietnam. And out of that came Project Camelot. It was an attempt to build a system that could be applied anywhere in the world, inside any developing country that was fighting an insurgency. In 2005 Montgomey McFate saw these ideas as the model for what anthropology could do for American foreign policy in a war zone. And that is what she re-created in the Human Terrain System.'

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- INVISIBLE EMPIRE: A New World Order Defined 1/14

'For the first time ever, the secret agenda of the planet’s ruthless super-class is exposed in stark detail. This documentary film chronicles how men of power and influence have worked in stealth for centuries to establish an oppressive world government. Learn how this global oligarchy controls the populace through drug trafficking, money laundering, staged terror attacks, media propaganda and debt. The criminal controllers have successfully dominated the globe and are now in the final phase of consolidating power. Invisible Empire is a damning indictment of the globalists through their own words and documents. Worldwide tyranny isn’t coming, it’s here. This isn’t conspiracy theory, it’s conspiracy fact. Unelected bureaucrats are establishing regional unions under one superstate. The New World Order is out in the open—all documented in stunning living color.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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Channel 4 -- 4oD: Starsuckers (Video)

'Chris Atkins' hilarious but shocking True Stories documentary about the celebrity-obsessed media romps through the real reasons behind our addiction to fame, and pulls the rug out from the media corporations and moguls that deal it out. Atkins sells fake celebrity stories to the tabloids, which they publish without any checks, and secretly films red-top journalists discussing the purchase of celebrities' cosmetic surgery medical records. The film reveals the harmful effect a celebrity-saturated media is having on children, and how media corporations are responsible for a global epidemic of narcissism. Atkins uses stunts, animation, expert testimony and undercover reportage to create a darkly humorous and terrifying exposé of one of the most important issues of our time.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- KABUL: CITY NUMBER ONE: PART 8

'The solution was to reform Islam and take it away from the dead hand of the traditional Ulema. The modernised Islam could then be used as the guiding principle for the new scientific and technical society, and its new economy. It would also be a moral guide for the new political class running the state. All this should be done by a new vanguard - the rawshanfikran - of enlightened intellectuals (like Mahmud Tarzi) whose ambition should be to educate the masses.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Money Fix: A documentary film about our economy

'Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. THE MONEY FIX is a feature-length documentary exploring our society’s relationship with the almighty dollar. THE MONEY FIX examines economic patterning in both the human and the natural worlds, and through this lens we learn how we can empower ourselves by redesigning the lifeblood of the economy at the community level. The film documents three types of alternative money systems, all of which help solve economic problems for the communities in which they operate.' -- Good stuff.

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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MeFeedia -- The Soviet Story

"The Birth of The New Man" -- Wikipedia: 'The film argues that there were close philosophical, political and organizational connections between the Nazi and Soviet systems [via the ancient religion of mystery babylon] before and during the early stages of World War II. It highlights the Great Purge as well as the Great Famine, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Katyn massacre, Gestapo-NKVD collaboration, Soviet mass deportations and medical experiments in the GULAG.' -- 7 million people were starved to death in one year. <-- Socialist 'Revolution' for the Common 'Good'.

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- Horizon: 2009-2010: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?

'There's something very odd going on in space - something that shouldn't be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a vast and unseen celestial vacuum cleaner. Sasha Kaslinsky, the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, is understandably nervous: 'It left us quite unsettled and jittery' he says, 'because this is not something we planned to find'. The accidental discovery of what is ominously being called 'dark flow' not only has implications for the destinies of large numbers of galaxies - it also means that large numbers of scientists might have to find a new way of understanding the universe.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Crash Course by Chris Martenson 1/20

'In "The Crash Course", Chris Martenson presents an in-depth consideration of the Economy, Energy, and the Environment. Not only does he explain the fundamental causes of the current economic crisis, but he also demonstrates how the problems facing the economy are related to concurrent issues regarding our sources of energy and climate change. The information provided is eye-opening and vital to understanding the world in which we live and how that world will change in the near future. "In order to know where we are headed, we have to know where we are, and in order to know where we are, we have to know where we have come from."'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- THE CORPORATION 9/23: Trading on 9/11

'A trader describes the tragedy of 9/11 as a blessing in disguise because for some people, it translated into great riches. Brokers celebrated the death and destruction of the Iraq war because "in devastation, there is opportunity".' -- Numbers numb.

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Google Video -- The New American Century

'This film goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present. This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders themselves admitting it. It film shows the white papers of the oil company Unocal which called for the creation of a pipeline through Afghanistan and how their exact needs were fulfilled through the US invasion of Afghanistan.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Vimeo -- chat roulette by Casey Neistat

'a movie about chat roulette. "This is called getting 'nexted': when a random stranger clicks the next button immediately after seeing what you look like."'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- The Virtual Revolution: Homo Interneticus?

'Aleks examines the popularity of social networks such as Facebook and asks how they are changing our relationships.' -- Sherry Turkle: "There's a new personality type: It moves from, 'I have a feeling, I want to make a call,' to, 'I want to have a feeling, I need to make a call.' There's a sense in which you almost need a sense of validation and the support of the community to feel the feeling in the first place. Bringing other people into the loop of feeling your feeling, this is very seductive."

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- The Virtual Revolution: The Cost of Free

'Aleks gives the lowdown on how, for better and for worse, commerce has colonised the web - and reveals how web users are paying for what appear to be 'free' sites and services in hidden ways. Aleks explores how web advertising is evolving further to become more targeted and relevant to individual consumers. Recommendation engines, pioneered by retailers such as Amazon, are also breaking down the barriers between commerce and consumer by marketing future purchases to us based on our previous choices. On the surface, the web appears to have brought about a revolution in convenience. But, as companies start to build up databases on our online habits and preferences, Aleks questions what this may mean for our notions of privacy and personal space in the 21st century.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- DO PEOPLE HECKLE?

'I think it raises a really interesting question. If people don't heckle any longer is it because they no longer believe in politics, or is it because they no longer believe in themselves? Is it that they have come to see their politicians as creatures who no longer have any ideas or vision, and who have absolutely no idea or understanding of what is happening in the world, so there is no point in heckling them any longer? Or is it that we, the people, have no ideas and no understanding of the world ourselves? That we have no vision any longer of what the world could be like, or what changes we would like made - so we have nothing to say? And thus nothing to heckle about. So however angry we are we remain mute and sullen. Or maybe we do still heckle?'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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