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The Arts
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]
This brilliant romp through Zionist occupied Palestine provides the viewer with astounding displays of total denial, racially motivated double-standards, and what looks a lot like collective societal-level mental illness. [youtube]9km_-1PKxB0[/youtube] [youtube]t_Sj1CTAL78[/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 […]
[ 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 […]
The Hole is a 1962 short animation by John Hubley and Faith Hubley that won an Academy Award for Short Subjects (Cartoons) in 1962. [youtube]Jo9ZmkheL0w[/youtube] The film uses improvised dialogue from Dizzy Gillespie and George Mathews as a pair of construction workers, one white, one black. Working deep underground, our […]
Charlie Brooker explores the gulf between television and real life. Episode 1: Fear [youtube]AxQuHocBmxw[/youtube] [youtube]NXzMDlVcF54[/youtube] [ Newswipe, Screenwipe, and the rest of this current series are all available on youtube. ] H / t : Lommy the Lomster
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