Posted on Thursday, 28 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
War Made Easy “reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.”
It featuresa great use archive footage and use of media clips to weave together half a century of constant propaganda to show that U.S. military activity for the last 50 years has had little to do with defence.
Posted on Monday, 4 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
IE is Being Mean to Me is an original song written and performed by web programmer Scott Ward. I originally stumbled across it at the blogWhy IE Sucks. There sure seem to be a lot of websites expressing hatred of that browser these days.
Posted on Monday, 4 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
To Shoot an elephant is a new documentary by Mohammed Rujailah and my pal Alberto Arce, and they’re holding a January 18 worldwide screening which you can take part in by downloading the entire film and showing it on the day. The film covers emergency workers, human rights activist and other internationals who were in Gaza during last year’s December-January attack by the Israeli military. The footage is a mashup of edits culled from footage for another film, Erased: Wiped off the Map, which is about the attacks on Gaza. Visit www.toshootanelephant.com, where you can also see the English trailer. Download the film and hold your own screening in your living room or share it with others for screenings elsewhere.
If you live in San Jose, Calf., you can see it this Wednesday on channel 15 – CreaTV Community Channel. If you have Microsoft’s Silverlight installd on on your computer, you can watch it online., though why a community broadcasting station would hamper the ability for people to actually see their programs by using Silverlight is beyond me when there are all sorts of Web Standards, accessible alternatives that are not married to a single operating system. It just seems ,weird, foolish and a horrible waste of resources. Still the film looks good.
Posted on Friday, 30 October, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
IMEU has the portion of yesterday’s episode of The Daily Show in which Jon Steward interviews U.S. Jewish activst Anna Baltzer and democracy activist Mustafa Barghouti on The Daily Show. The actual show had a shortened version to fit in the final third of the half-hour time slot, but this is the whole thing. DRM has kept the clip from being available outside North America “zone 1,” so the rest of the “zone 2″ world may not have seen all this yet.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
