https://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/ I realise that Democracy Now are, to some extent, gatekeepers, but both these interviews are worth a listen. “Top Secret America” Washington Post Investigation Reveals Massive, Unmanageable, Outsourced US Intelligence System” https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/19/top_secret_america__washington_post “Tim Shorrock Asks Why It Took the Washington Post So Long to Investigate the US Intelligence System” […]
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The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain […]
https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_assange_why_the_world_needs_wikileaks.html A surprise appearance by WikiLeaks.org founder Julian Assange at the TED Global conference in Oxford, England, has cast new light on the activities of the site and its mysterious leader.
source: tumeke.blogspot.com The only thing faster than a National Party U-turn on mining is the NZ Police backpedaling going from justifying their shooting of a person in West Auckland because of a ‘gunfight’, to ‘a couple of shots’ to ‘we’re not sure the person we shot even fired at us anymore as they […]
I don’t really mean ‘mad’ mad, Max is without a doubt the least mad money man on the planet. Want to know more? [youtube]1gpOGgptVLI[/youtube]
Watch this movie. On at the Auckland film festival https://www.nzff.co.nz/default.aspx?id=8791®ion=2 Still tickets available for the last two shows. … ooooh but hurry. ========================= The official ‘redband’ trailer for American The Bill Hicks Story www.americanthemovie.com This groundbreaking new documentary uses a stunning new animation technique to tell the story of the modern cultural […]
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Robert Fisk wrote last week in the Independent of how an unnamed friend of his, “a Very Senior Correspondent of the BBC”, responded to a recent challenge. Fisk could no longer recall whether it “was about the BBC’s grovelling coverage of Israel or its refusal to show a film seeking […]
… or A history of the Internet The history of the Internet By Melih Bilgil Motiongraphics Documentary with PICOL icons 2009 The history of the Internet History of the Internet from Melih Bilgil on Vimeo.
From the news programme ‘Sunday’ on TV1 https://tvnz.co.nz/sunday-news/forget-truth-you-know-3625757 Link to video: https://tvnz.co.nz/sunday-news/forget-truth-you-know-3625757/video