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Authority Is Not Truth, Truth Is Authority

Some video art / personal propoganda from Steeper33

… quite good really, (if A Perfect Circle is your thing ).

Sunday Morning Comedy

Lewis Black on Broadway

Lewis Black On Broadway Talking About How America ISN’T #1

Avatar vs The Hurt Locker

You may know and you may not know and you may like me less afterwards when you do know but…
one of my greater enjoyments is movies.
Good movies.
There are a number of ways to watch a movie, I won’t list them and if you think about it you can figure out the various perspectives.
I watch movies [...]

… & The Oscar For Best Picture Goes To …

‘The Hurt Locker’

Ajami Co-Director Ahead Of The Oscars : “I Don’t Represent Israel”

Ajami co-director Scandar Copti on Sunday said that he does not represent Israel, hours before his film competes for the best foreign film Oscar at the Academy Awards, Army Radio reported.

“I am not Israel’s national team and do not represent her,” Copti reportedly said.
“It is an extremely technical thing and that’s how it works at [...]

War Is A Racket

[ & it always has been ... ]

[ ... & it always will be - until you all collectively realise that it shouldn't be ...  ]

Most Decorated US Marine General :
‘Purpose Of All US Wars Is Billions For Insiders’ Profits’
Smedley Butler (and here) was the most honored man in Marine Corps history.
He wrote and [...]

No Way Through ( award winning short film )

Ctrl Alt Shift Film Competition Winner filmed on the Canon 5d mk 2

“Avatar” & “The Hurt Locker” : Two ‘Iraq War’ Movies Compete For Awards

Mamoon Alabassi compares two “Iraq war” movies, “Avatar” and “Hurt locker”, and argues that, for Iraqis who feel de-humanized by the media, the positive depiction of non-humans in “Avatar” is welcome:
“If some humans can relate to the ‘humanity’ of non-humans in fiction, then surely they would find it easier to identify with the true [...]

Music Break

28 Days Later
Jacknife Lee
‘Trainspotting’ Director Danny Boyle’s entire harrowing interpretation of novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland’s brutal & terrifying apocalyptic vision
distilled by a killer edit right down to just over 6 kinetic minutes – set to an excellent little pounder from Jacknife Lee.

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