Saturday, May 10, 2008
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
5 Google Video Documentaries You Have To Watch
Time Shift: Apocalypse Now... And Then (BBC Four)
"An investigation into society's obsession with the end of the world. The programme reinterprets various doomsday panics throughout history, from the Jehovah's Witnesses' flight to the mountains in the belief that the great flood was imminent, to the prospect of nuclear winters and the presence of deadly viruses... We are used to living in an age when the end of the world is always just around the corner. Over the last 30 years, scientific research and media novelty have combined to make every scare feel like it could be the next end of the world. And it seems like, with each discovery that our existence is just as fragile as we feared, science has taken on the same doomsday appeal as old testament religion - while, increasingly, modern religions employs the logic and reason of science to convince non-believers they have the answers."
"Dee Ryding's fascinating Time Shift explores how, from the 1970s New Ice Age, via global warming, nuclear winters, Sars and millennium bugs, we've successfully survived every predicted apocalypse, only to invent a new one to get worried about." Tom Ware, Time Shift Series Editor.
BBC documentary - Ariel Sharon
"An investigation into society's obsession with the end of the world. The programme reinterprets various doomsday panics throughout history, from the Jehovah's Witnesses' flight to the mountains in the belief that the great flood was imminent, to the prospect of nuclear winters and the presence of deadly viruses... We are used to living in an age when the end of the world is always just around the corner. Over the last 30 years, scientific research and media novelty have combined to make every scare feel like it could be the next end of the world. And it seems like, with each discovery that our existence is just as fragile as we feared, science has taken on the same doomsday appeal as old testament religion - while, increasingly, modern religions employs the logic and reason of science to convince non-believers they have the answers."
"Dee Ryding's fascinating Time Shift explores how, from the 1970s New Ice Age, via global warming, nuclear winters, Sars and millennium bugs, we've successfully survived every predicted apocalypse, only to invent a new one to get worried about." Tom Ware, Time Shift Series Editor.
BBC documentary - Ariel Sharon
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Results for Authors@Google
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak discusses his new book iWoz as part of the Authors@Google speaker series. The book chronicles his experiences founding Apple and taking part in Silicon Valley's boom period.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
BBC Horizon Is Alcohol Worse than Ecstasy Part 1/7
Q. Who funds Sri Lanka’s war against the Tamil people? A. Every year the World Bank and the IMF give huge sums of aid to Sri Lanka, through the Paris Aid Group (PAG). This artificially props up the Sri Lankan regime and enables them to carry on their "War for Peace", as they call it. Military expenditure uses up 29% of Sri Lanka's total budget. The amount the PAG gives in aid, $800 million, is equivalent to the sum required by the Sri Lankan government to prosecute the war for a year. Britain gives aid through the PAG to Sri Lanka, sells arms to Sri Lanka and trains the Sri Lankan military through the UKMTAS (United Kingdom Military Training Assistance Scheme). Sinhala brigadiers are from time to time trained at Sandhurst. Q. Why don’t we hear about all these things? A. Every day in areas controlled by the Sri Lankan army, atrocities such as rape, torture, disappearances and extra judicial killings are occurring. In general we hear nothing of this because the Sri Lankan government is ruthlessly efficient at suppressing this type of information. It is almost impossible for NGOs to work freely. The Sri Lankan government controls reporting of the war and this cannot be easily counteracted as journalists are denied free access to Tamil areas. To influence international opinion the Sri Lankan government employs PR firms and well-known journalists. This enables them to promote their interests and to hide the horror of their brutal crushing of the Tamil people. Their aim in this protracted war is to demoralise and terrorise the Tamil people into giving up their struggle .
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