Once, while I was riding on a crowded bus, the man sitting next to me threw his cell phone out the window. When his phone rang, instead of dutifully answering it, he casually tossed it away. I was stunned. He looked at me, shrugged and looked away. I had […]
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A new photo advertisement of a Japanese car in Israel has drawn considerable outrage for its implied promotion of running over Palestinian kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h234ETnK54 The commercial advertisement, published by a Subaru dealership in Israel, features the scene photographed last year, when an Israeli settler struck two Palestinian children with his […]
“The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent. “Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and […]
Nearly five years after they snuck onto the BBC as Dow Chemical and took full responsibility for the Bhopal catastrophe (sending Dow’s stock plunging – see https://theyesmenfixtheworld.com), [youtube]ZzpJk47U3Os[/youtube] the Yes Men are interviewed by the BBC. [youtube]A7DzR11FRg8[/youtube]
The mainstream finally gets around to asking why no banksters have been jailed for the 2008 meltdown; the G20 moves on its aim of establishing a world financial order; and the puppets-in-chief admit it’s all about regime change in Libya. [youtube]av9akS59EAM[/youtube]
An insightful and intelligent documentary, What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007) by producer, Adam Curtis (The Power of Nightmares). The series consists of three one-hour programmes which explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, “how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led […]
BBC censured over anti-Iran policy [youtube]slGSnQKLnrc[/youtube] Panorama is the BBC’s flagship current affairs investigative programme, watched by millions of people. In recent years it has produced several programmes on Iran, usually from a critical point of view. In its latest episode Panorama accused the Islamic Republic of human rights abuses, […]
[ This fantastic doco is well worth a watch if you haven’t seen it. ] Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas and apply them to manipulating the masses. Bernays showed American corporations how […]
Remember, that conflicts in the Arab world since 1999 are being orchestrated on the following principles: 1) To protect the existence of the illegal state of Israel 2) To get direct control over the oil and strategic raw materials in the area 3) To encircle Russia and prepare bridgeheads for […]
[youtube]KGTJq8LnIQg[/youtube] We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.