tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54018499128443855332024-03-05T19:26:32.824+00:00SOCIALIST TVTelevising the revolutionary case against capitalism and promoting the socialist case for the establishment of a global social system in which the earth's natural and industrial resources are commonly owned and democratically controlled, and in which each person has free access to the benefits of civilisationPapillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-890067276703933292016-10-03T22:37:00.000+01:002016-10-03T22:39:28.356+01:00We're back !Been away for four years. Here's the Socialist election video for the June 2014 elections to the European Parliament which came out in the meantime. A historic document as with Brexit there aren't going to be any more elections in Britain for this.<br />
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<br />Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-35515315390452134092012-01-31T23:52:00.004+00:002012-02-01T00:01:11.040+00:00IF (1968)<p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><b>If....</b></i> is a 1968 British <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film" title="Drama film">drama film</a> produced and directed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Anderson" title="Lindsay Anderson">Lindsay Anderson</a> satirising <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_school_%28UK%29" title="Independent school (UK)" class="mw-redirect">English public school</a> life. Famous for its depiction of a savage insurrection at a public school, the film is associated with the 1960s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture" title="Counterculture">counterculture</a> movement because it was filmed by a long-standing counter-culture director at the time of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France" title="May 1968 in France">student uprisings in Paris in May 1968</a>. It includes controversial statements, such as: "There's no such thing as a wrong war. Violence and revolution are the only pure acts". It features <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism" title="Surrealism">surrealist</a> sequences throughout the film. Upon release in the UK, it received an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_certificate" title="X certificate" class="mw-redirect">X certificate</a>.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The film stars <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_McDowell" title="Malcolm McDowell">Malcolm McDowell</a> in his first screen role and his first appearance as Anderson's "everyman" character <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Travis_trilogy" title="Mick Travis trilogy">Mick Travis</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Warwick" title="Richard Warwick">Richard Warwick</a>, Christine Noonan, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wood_%28actor%29" title="David Wood (actor)">David Wood</a>, and Robert Swann also star, and Rupert Webster is featured as the young boy Bobby Phillips.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i>if....</i> won the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palme_d%27Or#Grand_Prix_du_Festival_International_du_Film_.281964.E2.80.931974.29" title="Palme d'Or">Palme d'Or</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Cannes_Film_Festival" title="1969 Cannes Film Festival">1969 Cannes Film Festival</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-festival-cannes.com_0-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If....#cite_note-festival-cannes.com-0"><span> </span><span></span></a></sup>In 2004, the magazine <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Film" title="Total Film">Total Film</a></i> named it the sixteenth greatest British film of all time. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criterion_Collection" title="The Criterion Collection">The Criterion Collection</a> released the DVD on 19 June 2007.</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YZGHY6gUrWo" allowfullscreen="" width="480" frameborder="0" height="360"></iframe><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Plot (courtesy of Wikipedia): </span><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The film is set in a British <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_school#United_Kingdom" title="Independent school">independent school</a> for boys in the late 1960s (most of the scenes were filmed at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheltenham_College" title="Cheltenham College">Cheltenham College</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a>, with the remainder at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldenham_School" title="Aldenham School">Aldenham School</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertfordshire" title="Hertfordshire">Hertfordshire</a>). Mick Travis (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_McDowell" title="Malcolm McDowell">Malcolm McDowell</a>) is one of three non-conformist boys among the returning class. They are watched and persecuted by the "Whips", senior boys given authority as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefect#Academic" title="Prefect">prefects</a> over juniors. The prefects are entitled to the services of "Scum", who are first-year boys assigned to run errands, make tea and generally act as unpaid servants. This refers to the old tradition of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagging" title="Fagging">fagging</a>" which still persisted in many British independent boys' schools.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The early part of the film shows scenes in the school as the pupils return at the start of a new term. Mick Travis, the protagonist, arrives with a suitcase on his shoulder, wearing a black hat, with a black scarf across his face to hide his moustache. Stephans comments, "God, it's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes" title="Guy Fawkes">Guy Fawkes</a> back again", hinting at the conclusion of the film. Rowntree (Robert Swann) is the Head Whip, and he revels in his power, ordering the junior boys to "Run! Run in the corridor!"</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">After the first evening meal, the Whips conduct some of the more mundane business of the school, signing up boys for "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_%28sacrament%29" title="Confirmation (sacrament)" class="mw-redirect">Confirmation class</a>" and "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_disease" title="Sexually transmitted disease">VD</a> clinic". Each boy has to lower his pants so the school nurse can inspect his genitals.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">These early scenes show the school's customs and traditions. The Headmaster (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jeffrey" title="Peter Jeffrey">Peter Jeffrey</a>) is somewhat remote from the boys and the House Masters. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lowe" title="Arthur Lowe">Arthur Lowe</a>, as Mick's House Master Mr. Kemp, is told "I'll have to get back to you on that" when he brings things to the Headmaster's attention. Kemp himself is easily manipulated by the Whips into giving them a free hand in enforcing discipline.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Mick steals a motorbike from a showroom and has an affair with a local waitress; and Wallace finds adolescent romance with Bobby Philips, a junior boy, whom he takes to bed. They indulge in self-inflicted ordeals, such as seeing how long they can hold a plastic bag over their faces.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">As the film progresses it concentrates on Mick's group and their clashes with the school authorities. Mick and his friends are subject to punishments, and eventually they are sentenced to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment" title="School corporal punishment">corporal punishment</a> in the form of a severe "beating" (i.e. a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning" title="Caning">caning</a>) by the Whips. The caning is administered by Rowntree in the gym with a long run-up (this scene is said to be based on traditional practice at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonbridge_School" title="Tonbridge School">Tonbridge School</a>, where scriptwriter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sherwin" title="David Sherwin">David Sherwin</a> was a student in the 1950s). The three boys are left with bleeding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttocks" title="Buttocks">buttocks</a>. Mick's punishment is especially brutal (10 strokes), yet tradition demands that he shake hands with Rowntree when it is over and say, "Thank you, Rowntree".</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Scenes are shot through with surreal elements, such as some scenes being shot in black and white. This was not for dramatic emphasis, as people presumed, but simply because the huge windows at the college gave off obstructing light that affected the camera lenses. Another explanation given later by Lindsay Anderson is simply that the production was running out of money.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">At the end, in a surreal sequence, they discover a cache of automatic weapons, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion" title="Rebellion">revolt</a> against the establishment. On <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Founders%27_Day&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Founders' Day (page does not exist)">Founders' Day</a>, when parents are visiting the school, they start a fire under the hall, smoke out the parents, staff and boys, and open fire on them from a rooftop. Led by the visiting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_%28United_Kingdom%29" title="General (United Kingdom)">General</a> who was giving the speech, the staff and boys break open the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Cadet_Force" title="Combined Cadet Force">Combined Cadet Force</a> armoury and fire back.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Headmaster tries to stop the firefight and calls for peace. Mick's girl, who is on the roof with them, produces a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley_Revolver" title="Webley Revolver">revolver</a> from her belt and shoots the Headmaster through the forehead. The battle continues, and the camera closes in on Mick's face as he keeps firing, ending the film with a blackout and an echo of gunfire with the film's title "<i>if....</i>" emblazoned in red on the screen.</span></p>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-66772386264033301052012-01-19T22:39:00.004+00:002012-01-19T22:45:23.590+00:00Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class<div style="text-align: justify; font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Narrated by Ed Asner<br /><br />Based on the book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows.<br /><br />Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants -- stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy.<br /><br />Class Dismissed breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a more complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations. The video also links television portrayals to negative cultural attitudes and public policies that directly affect the lives of working class people.<br /><br />Featuring interviews with Stanley Aronowitz, (City University of New York); Nickel and Dimed author, Barbara Ehrenreich; Herman Gray (University of California-Santa Cruz); Robin Kelley (Columbia University); Pepi Leistyna (University of Massachusetts-Boston) and Michael Zweig (State University of New York-Stony Brook). Also with Arlene Davila, Susan Douglas, Bambi Haggins, Lisa Henderson, and Andrea Press.<br /><br />Sections: Class Matters | The American Dream Machine | From the Margins to the Middle | Women Have Class | Class Clowns | No Class | Class Action<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/m6ZS91cqpa8" allowfullscreen="" width="480" frameborder="0" height="360"></iframe></span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-21245588593775288922012-01-17T20:17:00.001+00:002012-01-17T20:19:45.976+00:00RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zDZFcDGpL4U" allowfullscreen="" width="640" frameborder="0" height="360"></iframe><br /></span></span></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-74963314555271824582012-01-13T12:18:00.002+00:002012-01-13T12:22:13.934+00:00How the Media Manipulates the World into War<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >As the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington's interference in their internal politics, the world remains on a knife-edge of military tension. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Far from being a dispassionate observer of these developments, however, the media has in fact been central to increasing those tensions and preparing the public to expect a military confrontation. But as the online media rises to displace the traditional forms by which the public forms its understanding of the world, many are now beginning to see first hand how the media lies the public into war.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/y4P2O8UjQeU" allowfullscreen="" width="640" frameborder="0" height="360"></iframe></span><br /></div></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-22899534572037658882012-01-12T21:53:00.002+00:002012-01-12T21:59:09.557+00:00BOMB IT (2007)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:applybreakingrules/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:usefelayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p><b><i>Bomb It</i></b> is an international <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti" title="Graffiti">graffiti</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_art" title="Street art">street art</a> documentary directed by award-winning director <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Reiss" title="Jon Reiss">Jon Reiss</a> and premiered at the 2007 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribeca_Film_Festival" title="Tribeca Film Festival">Tribeca Film Festival</a>. Filmed on 5 continents and featuring cities such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sao_Paulo" title="Sao Paulo">Sao Paulo</a>, the documentary explores the interplay between worldwide graffiti movements, the global proliferation of "Quality of Life" laws, and the fight for control over <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_space" title="Public space">public space</a>.</p> <p>George Kelling, co-author of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Windows" title="Broken Windows">Broken Windows</a>, a seminal Atlantic Monthly article that formed the intellectual basis for Rudy Giuliani's widely imitated gentrification campaign, was interviewed for this film.</p> <p>Graffiti artists across the globe joined forces with Jon to create the film which features original footage from many controversial graffiti writers beginning with the first graffiti writer Cornbread, to those who saw the take off of the art, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAKI_183" title="TAKI 183">TAKI 183</a> to more contemporary writers <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey" title="Shepard Fairey">Shepard Fairey</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_Gemeos" title="Os Gemeos">Os Gemeos</a>.</p> <p>In addition to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAKI_183" title="TAKI 183">TAKI 183</a>, the film features <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_168" title="Tracy 168">Tracy 168</a>, Terrible T-Kid 170 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TKid" title="TKid">TKid</a>), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cope2" title="Cope2">Cope2</a>, Stay High 149, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRS-One" title="KRS-One">KRS-One</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revs" title="Revs">Revs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2esae" title="2esae">2esae</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_%28graffiti_artist%29" title="Zephyr (graffiti artist)">Zephyr</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornbread_%28graffiti%29" title="Cornbread (graffiti)">Cornbread</a> Daim, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blek_le_Rat" title="Blek le Rat">Blek le Rat</a>, <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_%28artiste%29" title="fr:Ash (artiste)">Ash</a>, Skuf, Revok, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_English_%28artist%29" title="Ron English (artist)">Ron English</a>, Chaz Bojorquez, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Pink" title="Lady Pink">Lady Pink</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mear_One" title="Mear One">Mear One</a>, Urban Theorists Stefano Bloch (UCLA Dept. of Urban Planning and University of Minnesota Dept. of Geography) and Susan Phillips (Pitzer College), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pez_%28artist%29" title="Pez (artist)">Pez</a>, Sixe, Falko, Faith 47, Zezao, Ise, Kenor & Kode, Scage, Mickey, Chino, and Ket.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WIA0MWNC74c" allowfullscreen="" width="640" frameborder="0" height="360"></iframe><br /></p>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-18202497705171552112011-10-09T22:08:00.002+01:002011-10-09T22:13:38.352+01:00Taking Liberties<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">The shocking truth about the erosion of our fundamental civil liberties by Tony Blair's government is exposed in TAKING LIBERTIES, released on DVD in the UK cinemas by Revolver Entertainment October 15th 2007. Right to Protest, Right to Freedom of Speech. Right to Privacy. Right not to be detained without charge, Innocent Until Proven Guilty. Prohibition from Torture. TAKING LIBERTIES will reveal how these six central pillars of liberty have been systematically destroyed by New Labour, and the freedoms of the British people stolen from under their noses amidst a climate of fear created by the media and government itself. TAKING LIBERTIES uncovers the stories the government don't want you to hear -- so ridiculous you will laugh, so ultimately terrifying you will want to take action. Teenage sisters detained for 36 hours for a peaceful protest; an RAF war veteran arrested for wearing an anti-Bush and Blair T-shirt; an innocent man shot in a police raid; and a man held under house arrest for two years, after being found innocent in court. Ordinary law-abiding citizens being punished for exercising their 'rights' -- rights that have been fought for over centuries, and which seem to have been extinguished in a decade.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; "><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pXq5F8Dus-c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></span></span></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-10359181552323061052011-08-29T15:25:00.002+01:002011-08-29T15:29:55.283+01:00What Really Motivates US?<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>
<br /></div>This lively RSAnimate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:13px;">
<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/u6XAPnuFjJc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></span></span></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-56246358791900205562011-08-29T14:28:00.005+01:002012-01-12T21:39:03.598+00:00Revisiting 9/11 - 10 years on<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Delving here into an area that I don't think Socialist TV has covered - the 9/11 palaver. Conspiracy theories aside, it's as relevant as hell considering the myriad inconsistencies in the official version and which has provided the West with an excuse for a 10 year war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and all in the name of oil and full spectrum dominance.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 18px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" ><div class="panel-pane" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><div class="pane-content" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal; "><div class="view view-node-film-description view-id-node_film_description view-display-id-default view-dom-id-1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><div class="view-content" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; "><div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><div class="views-field-body" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; "><div class="field-content" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;color:initial;"><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;" align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This shocking film brings together an account of the 9/11 tragedy that is far more logical than the one we've been asked to believe. Gathering stories from the mainstream press, reports from other countries, the work of other researchers, and the contradictory words of US government officials, David Ray Griffin presents a case that leaves very little doubt that the attacks of 9/11 need to be further investigated.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Disturbing facts emerge that put into serious question the official story and reveal an enormous deception. Packed with bonus features, expert analysis, in-depth commentary and unforgettable conclusions about this tragic event in American history</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="640" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BXw3jJ3021o&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BXw3jJ3021o&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="640" height="390"></embed></object></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-32776276376189986222011-08-27T15:21:00.000+01:002011-08-29T15:24:29.340+01:00The Empathic Civilisation - RSA Animate<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><div>
<br /></div>Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">
<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; "><iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/l7AWnfFRc7g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></span></span></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-54503316730989538412011-08-25T14:17:00.003+01:002012-01-12T21:42:10.491+00:00The Moral Landscape - Sam Harris<div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Best selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris introduces his new book <i>The Moral Landscape.</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; font-size:100%;" >A lively, provocative, and timely new look at one of the deepest problems in the world of ideas. Harris makes a powerful case for a morality that is based on human flourishing and thoroughly enmeshed with science and rationality. It is a tremendously appealing vision, and one that no thinking person can afford to ignore.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; ">— <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Steven Pinker,</strong></em> Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, author of<i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">How the Mind Works</i> and <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">The Blank Slate</i>.</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; font-size:100%;" >I was one of those who had unthinkingly bought into the hectoring myth that science can say nothing about morals. <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">The Moral Landscape</i> has changed all that for me. Moral philosophers, too, will find their world exhilaratingly turned upside down, as they discover a need to learn some neuroscience. As for religion, and the preposterous idea that we need God to be good, nobody wields a sharper bayonet than Sam Harris.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; font-size:14px;" >— <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Richard Dawkins,</strong></em> author of <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">The Selfish Gene</i>, <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">The God Delusion</i>, and<i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">The Greatest Show On Earth</i></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-size:12px;" ><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" ><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sTKf5cCm-9g" allowfullscreen="" width="640" frameborder="0" height="390"></iframe></span></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-58165291839400059392010-07-04T22:47:00.001+01:002010-07-04T22:54:14.762+01:00Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle<div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world and can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth; the other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic where serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins.<br /><br />Chris Hedges, author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He writes for many publications, including Foreign Affairs, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, Granta, and Mother Jones. He is also a columnist for Truthdig.com.<br /><br />Co-sponsored by the Writing Program, Department of Media Studies and Film, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.<br /><br />Location: Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall.<br />12/08/2009 7:00 p.m.<br /><br /></div><p align="center"><object width="640" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_EpeF1fcji0&hl=en_GB&fs=1?color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_EpeF1fcji0&hl=en_GB&fs=1?color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"></embed></object></p>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-90367024802012117362010-04-28T23:08:00.002+01:002010-04-28T23:11:45.652+01:00THE STORY OF CAP AND TRADE<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Released in December 2009, the <a href="http://storyofcapandtrade.org">Story of Cap & Trade</a> is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from whats really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you've heard about Cap & Trade, but arent sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.</span><br /><span></span></div><span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pA6FSy6EKrM&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pA6FSy6EKrM&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></span><br /><span></span></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-22589150329095964052010-04-28T22:40:00.004+01:002010-04-28T22:48:26.959+01:00Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyalty to Israel vs - Interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson<a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/04/26/boiling-frogs-video-presents-colonel-larry-wilkerson/">Boiling Frogs </a><span style="font-family:arial;">Post presents an exclusive interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson on a tyrannical US presidency and politics of fear, Israel’s interests versus US interests and the question of loyalties, and more:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> As a 'card carrying' member of the Likud Party, whose interest did Douglas Feith really serve?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> Is the current situation in the US due to incompetent leadership or venal leadership exploiting politics of fear?</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d_npwnbZDEQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d_npwnbZDEQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-91731534781635548982010-04-14T00:36:00.001+01:002010-04-14T00:38:14.844+01:00Noam Chomsky "THE ROLE OF THE RADICAL INTELLECTUAL: SOME PERSONAL REFLECTIONS". Thursday, April 8, 2010-<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qy9SmbFb0Q0&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qy9SmbFb0Q0&hl=en_GB&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-9043553653697552342010-04-13T10:46:00.001+01:002010-04-13T10:51:20.061+01:00The Story of Bottled Water<span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><br />The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">See also <a href="http://socialist-tv.blogspot.com/2008/12/story-of-stuff.html">The Story of Stuff</a></span></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Se12y9hSOM0&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Se12y9hSOM0&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-3150263813227202842010-04-13T10:44:00.001+01:002010-04-13T10:46:34.721+01:00War Veteran comes clean<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands </span>away. They are right here in front of us</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Mike Prysner</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/akm3nYN8aG8&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/akm3nYN8aG8&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-12905031240169649992010-04-06T00:13:00.005+01:002010-04-07T01:46:28.780+01:00Collateral Murder<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;" >5th April 2010 -- <a href="http://collateralmurder.com/"><span>WikiLeaks</span> </a>has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;" > Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >If the cold blooded murder of a dozen innocents is not enough for these blood-crazed psychopaths, they then open their 30mm helicopter canon on people who come to tend to a survivor</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >. And make no mistake - this is no isolated incident.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5rXPrfnU3G0&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5rXPrfnU3G0&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><br /></span>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-57474745179596362392010-03-18T17:50:00.005+00:002010-03-18T18:00:45.758+00:00Real food, real simple....but under capitalism?<span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style=""><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >It's so simple. Don't eat anything that comes from a factory - and that includes meat. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > The food industry is bigger than the oil industry and every bit as corrupt and manipulative. If they had their way, all food would come in a box, filled with low-cost garbage ingredients, and marked up to the moon. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > Thanks to their bribery and bullying that already describes the federal school lunch program. They stand ready to legally attack anyone who speaks the truth, even deep pockets celebrities like Oprah Winfrey who declared on her show she would never eat another hamburger and was sued by the cattle ranching industry for defamation.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style=""> It's remarkably easy to avoid the personal health catastrophe that factory foods lead to: don't eat them! It's that simple.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Click video to play</span><br /></div></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/MarkBittman_2007P-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/MarkBittman-2007P.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=263&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=mark_bittman_on_what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat;year=2007;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;theme=a_greener_future;event=EG+2007;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/MarkBittman_2007P-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/MarkBittman-2007P.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=263&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=mark_bittman_on_what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat;year=2007;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;theme=a_greener_future;event=EG+2007;" width="446" height="326"></embed></object></span></span><br /></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-85147026546492422372010-03-18T09:10:00.005+00:002010-03-18T09:16:56.209+00:00The Art of Corporate Mind Control<span style="font-family:arial;">
<br />Courtesy of </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24682.htm">Information Clearing House</a><span style="font-family:arial;">:</span>
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<br />Television is the most powerful weapon of psychological warfare in history and yet it is a member of the family in most households. The programming that we are constantly assaulted with conditions us to a particular worldview. This fake reality changes our behavior making us less active and more compliant with society's shortcomings.
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<br />Since television is controlled by a small handful of powerful corporations, viewers will never witness informing, truthful news and entertainment. As political and corporate power unite at an ever increasing rate, being informed is more important than ever.
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<br />People need to seek out independent and alternative unbiased sources on the internet for their information or we will continue to be manipulated by the corporate controlled media.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;">
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<br /></o:p></p> <p style="font-family: arial;">Most of humanity is in an absolute hypnotic trance that they're put in from cradle to grave by constant repetition of a fake reality and when we wake up from this we will not be subservient.
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<br /><b>Jordan Maxwell</b>: The bottom line is that the government is getting what they ordered. They do not want your children to be educated. They do not want you to think too much. That is why our country and our world has become so proliferated with entertainments, mass media, television shows, amusement parks, drugs, alcohol, and every kind of entertainment to keep the human mind entertained so that you don't get in the way of important people by doing too much thinking. You better wake up and understand that there are people who are guiding your life and you don't even know it.
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<br /><b>Steven Jacobson</b>: Television is the most powerful weapon of psychological warfare in history. The programming that we are constantly assaulted by throughout our lives conditions us. It programs us to a particular worldview. Now, we may consider it normal because we were born into this system of lies and deception. And because we were born into this situation and our parents were born into it and have suffered from it, we don't know any better.
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<br /><b>Aldous Huxley</b>: What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.
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<br /><b>George Carlin</b>: But there's a reason, there's a reason. There's a reason for this. There's a reason education sucks and its the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. Its never gonna get any better, don't look for it. Be happy with what you got, because the owners of this country don't want that. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that.
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<br /><b>Howard Beale: </b>We know things are bad, worse than bad. They're crazy. Its like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly the world were living in is getting smaller and all we say is please at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel belted radios and I wont say anything, just leave us alone. Well I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell, I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore! You've got to say, Im a human being God damn it, my life has value! <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<br />Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-41938253967551062122010-03-17T15:14:00.002+00:002010-03-17T15:18:14.113+00:00VIDEO: Will US-NATO Start World War III by Attacking Iran?<span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Michel Chossudovsky, who's from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, because the U.S. is planning for war.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C4p1kD8CZX8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C4p1kD8CZX8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div></div>Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-47993098187896489962010-03-17T11:16:00.003+00:002010-03-17T11:21:45.625+00:00THE OIL FACTOR: Behind the War on Terror (2004)<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CJOHNBI%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">After assessing today's dwindling oil reserves and skyrocketing use of oil for fuels, plastics and chemicals, "The Oil Factor" questions the motives for the U.S. wars in the Middle-East and Central Asia where 3/4 of the world's oil and natural gas is located.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">With exclusive footage shot on location in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Pakistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Afghanistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, the film documents the spiraling violence now engulfing both </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Afghanistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, a country conspicuously absent from the commercial media's news segments.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Interviews gathered throughout the Middle-East, </span><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Europe</span></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">United States</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, including a Bechtel executive in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Baghdad</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, also expose who is cashing in on the tens of billions of dollars requested from congress by the current administration of G. W. Bush.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">
<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">With detailed maps and graphics, The Oil Factor features many experts and personalities such as former Defense Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, M.I.T. professor Noam Chomsky, the Project for the New American Century Executive Director Gary Schmitt, Coalition Provisional Authority Chairman Paul Bremer, former Pentagon analyst Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, current Iraqi government official Abdel Aziz Al-Hakim and authors Ahmed Rashid and Michael C. Ruppert.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Contributing organizations include the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Greenpeace, the Pentagon, Washington's Institute for Policy Studies, New York's World Policy Institute, London's Jane's Intelligence and Petroleum Economist, Paris' Agence France Press and Center for Energy Strategy Studies (C.E.P.S.E.) or the Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development (O.E.C.D.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://www.theoilfactor.com/">THE OIL FACTOR: Behind the War on Terror</a> is a 2004 Free-Will Production.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
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<br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=1130731388742388243&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> Papillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829886739481049007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401849912844385533.post-55903260781494433692010-03-16T23:03:00.004+00:002010-03-16T23:09:57.496+00:009/11, Globalization, and Total War<span style="font-family:arial;">Though a bit dated, this video is worth watching. Michel Chossudovsky, (who has some good articles on the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=home">Global Research</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> site) a professor at the University of Ottawa, demonstrates how the US attack on Yugoslavia in the 1990s were the prelude to and part of a larger plan to destabilize and invade Afghanistan and Iraq.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">According to the plan, Iran is next.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Some of Chossudovsky's observations:</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">* The CIA and US military worked closely with al Queda as recently as 2001 to destabilize the Balkans. Their last overt co-venture was in the Yugoslavian province of Macedonia. Al Queda was created by and remains under the control of the CIA as is the Taliban and Pakistan's ISI.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">* The US and UK are engaged in a global competition against France, Germany and other euro countries for oil, African resources, the global weapons trade and financial dominance (US dollar vs. Euro)</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">* In 2002, the US adopted a policy of pre-emptive nuclear attack listing Russia and China as countries subject to attack. "Nuclear war is now part of the military assumption."</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">* It's not just Bush and the Neo-cons. Yes, Bush is a puppet. Thoroughly corrupt, callous, venal, but essentially a moron. The country is actually being run by what in effect is a military dictatorship and will continue to be one regardless of who is in the Whit House.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">* The so-called "War on Terror" is a complete fabrication designed to justify the US drive for world economic dominance and a "Homeland Security State" at home.</span>
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<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, here (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">audio file only</span>) discusses influence, controlling the public mind and government.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <blockquote><p>“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” Aldous Huxley</p></blockquote></div>
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<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Transcript – The Ultimate Revolution</strong></p><div> </div><p style="text-align: center;"><em>March 20, 1962 Berkeley Language Center – Speech Archive SA 0269 </em></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Moderator:</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">{garbled}Aldous Huxley, a renowned Essayist and Novelist who during the spring semester is residing at the university in his capacity of a Ford research professor. Mr Huxley has recently returned from a conference at the Institute for the study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara where the discussion focused on the development of new techniques by which to control and direct human behavior. Traditionally it has been possible to suppress individual freedom through the application of physical coercion through the appeal of ideologies through the manipulation of man’s physical and social environment and more recently through the techniques, the cruder techniques of psychological conditioning. The Ultimate Revolution, about which Mr. Huxley will speak today, concerns itself with the development of new behavioral controls, which operate directly on the psycho-physiological organisms of man. That is the capacity to replace external constraint by internal compulsions. As those of us who are familiar with Mr. Huxley’s works will know, this is a subject of which he has been concerned for quite a period of time. Mr. Huxley will make a presentation of approximately half an hour followed by some brief discussions and questions by the two panelists sitting to my left, Mrs. Lillian {garbled} and Mr. John Post. Now Mr. Huxley</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Huxley:</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Thank You.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">{Applause}</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Uh, First of all, the, I’d like to say, that the conference at Santa Barbara was not directly concerned with the control of the mind. That was a conference, there have been two of them now, at the University of California Medical center in San Francisco, one this year which I didn’t attend, and one two years ago where there was a considerable discussion on this subject. At Santa Barbara we were talking about technology in general and the effects it’s likely to have on society and the problems related to technological transplanting of technology into underdeveloped countries.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Well now in regard to this problem of the ultimate revolution, this has been very well summed up by the moderator. In the past we can say that all revolutions have essentially aimed at changing the environment in order to change the individual. I mean there’s been the political revolution, the economic revolution, in the time of the reformation, the religious revolution. All these aimed, not directly at the human being, but at his surroundings. So that by modifying the surroundings you did achieve, did one remove the effect of the human being.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows. Well needless to say some kind of direct action on human mind-bodies has been going on since the beginning of time. But this has generally been of a violent nature. The Techniques of terrorism have been known from time immemorial and people have employed them with more or less ingenuity sometimes with the utmost cruelty, sometimes with a good deal of skill acquired by a process of trial and error finding out what the best ways of using torture, imprisonment, constraints of various kinds.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">But, as, I think it was (sounds like Mettenicht) said many years ago, you can do everything with {garbled} except sit on them. If you are going to control any population for any length of time, you must have some measure of consent, it’s exceedingly difficult to see how pure terrorism can function indefinitely. It can function for a fairly long time, but I think sooner or later you have to bring in an element of persuasion an element of getting people to consent to what is happening to them.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist to get people to love their servitude. This is the, it seems to me, the ultimate in malevolent revolutions shall we say, and this is a problem which has interested me many years and about which I wrote thirty years ago, a fable, Brave New World, which is an account of society making use of all the devices available and some of the devices which I imagined to be possible making use of them in order to, first of all, to standardize the population, to iron out inconvenient human differences, to create, to say, mass produced models of human beings arranged in some sort of scientific caste system. Since then, I have continued to be extremely interested in this problem and I have noticed with increasing dismay a number of the predictions which were purely fantastic when I made them thirty years ago have come true or seem in process of coming true.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">A number of techniques about which I talked seem to be here already. And there seems to be a general movement in the direction of this kind of ultimate revolution, a method of control by which a people can be made to enjoy a state of affairs by which any decent standard they ought not to enjoy. This, the enjoyment of servitude, Well this process is, as I say, has gone on for over the years, and I have become more and more interested in what is happening.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">And here I would like briefly to compare the parable of Brave New World with another parable which was put forth more recently in George Orwell’s book, Nineteen Eighty- Four. Orwell wrote his book between, I think between 45 and 48 at the time when the Stalinist terror regime was still in Full swing and just after the collapse of the Hitlerian terror regime. And his book which I admire greatly, it’s a book of very great talent and extraordinary ingenuity, shows, so to say, a projection into the future of the immediate past, of what for him was the immediate past, and the immediate present, it was a projection into the future of a society where control was exercised wholly by terrorism and violent attacks upon the mind-body of individuals.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Whereas my own book which was written in 1932 when there was only a mild dictatorship in the form of Mussolini in existence, was not overshadowed by the idea of terrorism, and I was therefore free in a way in which Orwell was not free, to think about these other methods of control, these non-violent methods and my, I’m inclined to think that the scientific dictatorships of the future, and I think there are going to be scientific dictatorships in many parts of the world, will be probably a good deal nearer to the brave new world pattern than to the 1984 pattern, they will a good deal nearer not because of any humanitarian qualms of the scientific dictators but simply because the BNW pattern is probably a good deal more efficient than the other.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">That if you can get people to consent to the state of affairs in which they’re living. The state of servitude the state of being, having their differences ironed out, and being made amenable to mass production methods on the social level, if you can do this, then you have, you are likely, to have a much more stable and lasting society. Much more easily controllable society than you would if you were relying wholly on clubs and firing squads and concentration camps. So that my own feeling is that the 1984 picture was tinged of course by the immediate past and present in which Orwell was living, but the past and present of those years does not reflect, I feel, the likely trend of what is going to happen, needless to say we shall never get rid of terrorism, it will always find its way to the surface.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">But I think that insofar as dictators become more and more scientific, more and more concerned with the technically perfect, perfectly running society, they will be more and more interested in the kind of techniques which I imagined and described from existing realities in BNW. So that, it seems to me then, that this ultimate revolution is not really very far away, that we, already a number of techniques for bringing about this kind of control are here, and it remains to be seen when and where and by whom they will first be applied in any large scale.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">And first let me talk about the, a little bit about the, improvement in the techniques of terrorism. I think there have been improvements. Pavlov after all made some extremely profound observations both on animals and on human beings. And he found among other things that conditioning techniques applied to animals or humans in a state either of psychological or physical stress sank in so to say, very deeply into the mind-body of the creature, and were extremely difficult to get rid of. That they seemed to be embedded more deeply than other forms of conditioning.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">And this of course, this fact was discovered empirically in the past. People did make use of many of these techniques, but the difference between the old empirical intuitive methods and our own methods is the difference between the, a sort of, hit and miss craftsman’s point of view and the genuinely scientific point of view. I think there is a real difference between ourselves and say the inquisitors of the 16th century. We know much more precisely what we are doing, than they knew and we can extend because of our theoretical knowledge, we can extend what we are doing over a wider area with a greater assurance of being producing something that really works.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">In this context I would like to mention the extremely interesting chapters in Dr. William (sounds like Seargent’s) Battle for the Mind where he points out how intuitively some of the great religious teachers/leaders of the past hit on the Pavlovian method, he speaks specifically of Wesley’s method of producing conversions which were essentially based on the technique of heightening psychological stress to the limit by talking about hellfire and so making people extremely vulnerable to suggestion and then suddenly releasing this stress by offering hopes of heaven and this is a very interesting chapter of showing how completely on purely intuitive and empirical grounds a skilled natural psychologist, as Wesley was, could discover these Pavlovian methods.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Well, as I say, we now know the reason why these techniques worked and there’s no doubt at all that we can if we wanted to, carry them much further than was possible in the past. And of course in the history of, recent history of brainwashing, both as applied to prisoners of war and to the lower personnel within the communist party in China, we see that the pavlovian methods have been applied systematically and with evidently with extraordinary efficacy. I think there can be no doubt that by the application of these methods a very large army of totally devoted people has been created. The conditioning has been driven in, so to say, by a kind of psychological iontophoresis into the very depths of the people’s being, and has got so deep that it’s very difficult to ever be rooted out, and these methods, I think, are a real refinement on the older methods of terror because they combine methods of terror with methods of acceptance that the person who is subjected to a form of terroristic stress but for the purpose of inducing a kind of voluntary quotes acceptance of the state the psychological state in which he has been driven and the state of affairs in which he finds himself.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">So there is, as I say, there has been a definite improvement in the, even in the techniques of terrorism. But then we come to the consideration of other techniques, non-terroristic techniques, for inducing consent and inducing people to love their servitude. Here, I don’t think I can possibly go into all of them, because I don’t know all of them, but I mean I can mention the more obvious methods, which can now be used and are based on recent scientific findings. First of all there are the methods connected with straight suggestion and hypnosis.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">I think we know much more about this subject than was known in the past. People of course, always have known about suggestion, and although they didn’t know the word ‘hypnosis’ they certainly practiced it in various ways. But we have, I think, a much greater knowledge of the subject than in the past, and we can make use of our knowledge in ways, which I think the past was never able to make use of it. For example, one of the things we now know for certain, that there is of course an enormous, I mean this has always been known a very great difference between individuals in regard to their suggestibility. But we now know pretty clearly the sort of statistical structure of a population in regard to its suggestibility. Its very interesting when you look at the findings of different fields, I mean the field of hypnosis, the field of administering placebos, for example, in the field of general suggestion in states of drowsiness or light sleep you will find the same sorts of orders of magnitude continually cropping up.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">You’ll find for example that the experienced hypnotist will tell one that the number of people, the percentage of people who can be hypnotized with the utmost facility (snaps), just like that. is about 20%, and about a corresponding number at the other end of the scale are very, very difficult or almost impossible to hypnotize. But in between lies a large mass of people who can with more or less difficulty be hypnotized, that they can gradually be if you work hard enough at it be got into the hypnotic state, and in the same way the same sort of figures crop up again, for example in relation to the administration of placebos.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">A big experiment was carried out three of four years ago in the general hospital in Boston on post-operative cases where several hundred men and woman suffering comparable kinds of pain after serious operations were allowed to, were given injections whenever they asked for them whenever the pain got bad, and the injections were 50% of the time were of morphine, and 50% of water. And about twenty percent of those who went through the experiment, about 20% of them got just as much relief from the distilled waters as from the morphea. About 20% got no relief from the distilled water, and in- between were those who got some relief or got relief occasionally.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">So yet again, we see the same sort of distribution, and similarly in regard to what in BNW I called Hypnopedia, the sleep teaching, I was talking not long ago to a man who manufactures records which people can listen to in the, during the light part of sleep, I mean these are records for getting rich, for sexual satisfaction (crowd laughs), for confidence in salesmanship and so on, and he said that its very interesting that these are records sold on a money-back basis, and he says there is regularly between 15% and 20% of people who write indignantly saying the records don’t work at all, and he sends the money back at once. There are on the other hand, there are over 20% who write enthusiastically saying they are much richer, their sexual life is much better (laughter) etc, etc. And these of course are the dream clients and they buy more of these records. And in between there are those who don’t get much results and they have to have letters written to them saying “Go persist my dear, go on” (laughter) and you will get there, and they generally do get results in the long run.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Well, as I say, on the basis of this, I think we see quite clearly that the human populations can be categorized according to their suggestibility fairly clearly,. I suspect very strongly that this twenty percent is the same in all these cases, and I suspect also that it would not be at all difficult to recognize and {garbled} out who are those who are extremely suggestible and who are those extremely unsuggestible and who are those who occupy the intermediate space. Quite clearly, if everybody were extremely unsuggestible organized society would be quite impossible, and if everybody were extremely suggestible then a dictatorship would be absolutely inevitable. I mean it’s very fortunate that we have people who are moderately suggestible in the majority and who therefore preserve us from dictatorship but do permit organized society to be formed. But, once given the fact that there are these 20% of highly suggestible people, it becomes quite clear that this is a matter of enormous political importance, for example, any demagogue who is able to get hold of a large number of these 20% of suggestible people and to organize them is really in a position to overthrow any government in any country.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">And I mean, I think this after all, we had the most incredible example in recent years by what can be done by efficient methods of suggestion and persuasion in the form of Hitler. Anyone who has read, for example, (Sounds like Bulloch’s) Life of Hitler, comes forth with this horrified admiration for this infernal genius, who really understood human weaknesses I think almost better than anybody and who exploited them with all the resources then available. I mean he knew everything, for example, he knew intuitively this pavlovian truth that condition installed in a state of stress or fatigue goes much deeper than conditioning installed at other times. This of course is why all his big speeches were organized at night. He speaks quite frankly, of course, in Mein Kampf, this is done solely because people are tired at night and therefore much less capable of resisting persuasion than they would be during the day. And in all his techniques he was using, he had discovered intuitively and by trial and error a great many of the weaknesses, which we now know about on a sort of scientific way I think much more clearly than he did.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">But the fact remains that this differential of suggestibility this susceptibility to hypnosis I do think is something which has to be considered very carefully in relation to any kind of thought about democratic government . If there are 20% of the people who really can be suggested into believing almost anything, then we have to take extremely careful steps into prevent the rise of demagogues who will drive them on into extreme positions then organize them into very, very dangerous armies, private armies which may overthrow the government.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">This is, I say, in this field of pure persuasion, I think we do know much more than we did in the past, and obviously we now have mechanisms for multiplying the demagogues voice and image in a quite hallucinatory way, I mean, the TV and radio, Hitler was making enormous use of the radio, he could speak to millions of people simultaneously. This alone creates an enormous gulf between the modern and the ancient demagogue. The ancient demagogue could only appeal to as many people as his voice could reach by yelling at his utmost, but the modern demagogue could touch literally millions at a time, and of course by the multiplication of his image he can produce this kind of hallucinatory effect which is of enormous hypnotic and suggestive importance.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">But then there are the various other methods one can think of which, thank heaven, as yet have not be used, but which obviously could be used. There is for example, the pharmacological method, this is one of the things I talked about in BNW. I invented a hypothetical drug called SOMA, which of course could not exist as it stood there because it was simultaneously a stimulant, a narcotic, and a hallucinogen, which seems unlikely in one substance. But the point is, if you applied several different substances you could get almost all these results even now, and the really interesting things about the new chemical substances, the new mind-changing drugs is this, if you looking back into history its clear that man has always had a hankering after mind changing chemicals, he has always desired to take holidays from himself, but the, and, this is the most extraordinary effect of all that every natural occurring narcotic stimulant, sedative, or hallucinogen, was discovered before the dawn of history, I don’t think there is one single one of these naturally occurring ones which modern science has discovered.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Modern science has of course better ways of extracting the active principals of these drugs and of course has discovered numerous ways of synthesizing new substances of extreme power, but the actual discovery of these naturally occurring things was made by primitive man goodness knows how many centuries ago. There is for example, in the underneath the, lake dwellings of the early Neolithic that have been dug up in Switzerland we have found poppy-heads, which looks as though people were already using this most ancient and powerful and dangerous of narcotics, even before the days of the rise of agriculture. So that man was apparently a dope-bag addict before he was a farmer, which is a very curious comment on human nature.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">But, the difference, as I say, between the ancient mind-changers, the traditional mind- changers, and the new substances is that they were extremely harmful and the new ones are not. I mean even the permissible mind-changer alcohol is not entirely harmless, as people may have noticed, and I mean the other ones, the non-permissible ones, such as opium and cocaine, opium and its derivatives, are very harmful indeed. They rapidly produce addiction, and in some cases lead at an extraordinary rate to physical degeneration and death.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Whereas these new substances, this is really very extraordinary, that a number of these new mind-changing substances can produce enormous revolutions within the mental side of our being, and yet do almost nothing to the physiological side. You can have an enormous revolution, for example, with LSD-25 or with the newly synthesized drug psilocybin, which is the active principal of the Mexican sacred mushroom. You can have this enormous mental revolution with no more physiological revolution than you would get from drinking two cocktails. And this is a really most extraordinary effect.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">And it is of course true that pharmacologists are producing a great many new wonder drugs where the cure is almost worse than the disease. Every year the new edition of medical textbooks contains a longer and longer chapter of what are Iatrogenic diseases, that is to say diseases caused by doctors (laughter} And this is quite true, many of the wonder drugs are extremely dangerous. I mean they can produce extraordinary effects, and in critical conditions they should certainly be used, but they should be used with the utmost caution. But there is evidently a whole class of drugs effecting the CNS which can produce enormous changes in sedation in euphoria in energizing the whole mental process without doing any perceptible harm to the human body, and this presents to me the most extraordinary revolution. In the hands of a dictator these substances in one kind or the other could be used with, first of all, complete harmlessness, and the result would be, you can imagine a euphoric that would make people thoroughly happy even in the most abominable circumstances.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">I mean these things are possible. This is the extraordinary thing, I mean after all this is even true with the crude old drugs. I mean, a housemate years ago remarked after reading Milton’s Paradise Lost, He Says “And beer does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man” (laughter). And beer is of course, an extremely crude drug compared to these ones. And you can certainly say that some of the psychic energizers and the new hallucinants could do incomparably more than Milton and all the Theologicians combined could possibly do to make the terrifying mystery of our existence seem more tolerable than it does. And here I think one has an enormous area in which the ultimate revolution could function very well indeed, an area in which a great deal of control could be used by not through terror, but by making life seem much more enjoyable than it normally does. Enjoyable to the point, where as I said before, Human beings come to love a state of things by which any reasonable and decent human standard they ought not to love and this I think is perfectly possible.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">But then, very briefly, let me speak about one of the more recent developments in the sphere of neurology, about the implantation of electrodes in the brain. This of course has been done in the large scale in animals and in a few cases its been done in the cases of the hopelessly insane. And anybody who has watched the behavior of rats with electrodes placed in different centers must come away from this experience with the most extraordinary doubts about what on Earth is in store for us if this is got a hold of by a dictator. I saw not long ago some rats in the {garbled} laboratory at UCLA there were two sets of them, one with electrodes planted in the pleasure center, and the technique was they had a bar which they pressed which turned on a very small current for a short space of time which we had a wire connected with that electrode and which stimulated the pleasure center and was evidently absolutely ecstatic was these rats were pressing the bar 18,000 times a day (laughter). Apparently if you kept them from pressing the bar for a day, they’d press it 36,000 times on the following day and would until they fell down in complete exhaustion (laughter) And they would neither eat, nor be interested in the opposite sex but would just go on pressing this bar {pounds on podium}</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Then the most extraordinary rats were those were the electrode was planted halfway between the pleasure and the pain center. The result was a kind of mixture of the most wonderful ecstasy and like being on the rack at the same time. And you would see the rats sort of looking at is bar and sort of saying “To be or not to be that is the question”. (Laughter) Finally it would approach {Pounds on podium} and go back with this awful I mean, the (sounds like franken huminizer anthropomorphizer), and he would wait some time before pressing the bar again, yet he would always press it again. This was the extraordinary thing.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">I noticed in the most recent issue of Scientific American there’s a very interesting article on electrodes in the brains of chickens, where the technique is very ingenious, where you sink into their brains a little socket with a screw on it and the electrode can then be screwed deeper and deeper into the brainstem and you can test at any moment according to the depth, which goes at fractions of the mm, what you’re stimulating and these creatures are not merely stimulated by wire, they’re fitted with a miniature radio receiver which weighs less than an ounce which is attached to them so that they can be communicated with at a distance, I mean they can run about in the barnyard and you could press a button and this particular area of the brain to which the electrode has been screwed down to would be stimulated. You would get this fantastic phenomena, where a sleeping chicken would jump up and run about, or an active chicken would suddenly sit down and go to sleep, or a hen would sit down and act like she’s hatching out an egg, or a fighting rooster would go into depression.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">The whole picture of the absolute control of the drives is terrifying, and in the few cases in which this has been done with very sick human beings, The effects are evidently very remarkable too, I was talking last summer in England to Grey Walter, who is the most eminent exponent of the EEG technique in England, and he was telling me that he’s seen hopeless inmates at asylums with these things in their heads, and these people were suffering from uncontrollable depression, and they had these electrodes inserted into the pleasure center in their brain, however when they felt too bad, they just pressed a button on the battery in their pocket and he said the results were fantastic, the mouth pointing down would suddenly turn up and they’d feel very cheerful and happy. So there again one sees the most extraordinary revolutionary techniques, which are now available to us.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, I think what is obviously perfectly clear is that for the present these techniques are not being used except in an experimental way, but I think it is important for us to realize what is happening to make ourselves acquainted with what has already happened, and then use a certain amount of imagination to extrapolate into the future the sort of things that might happen. What might happen if these fantastically powerful techniques were used by unscrupulous people in authority, what on Earth would happen, what sort of society would we get?</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">And I think it is peculiarly important because as one sees when looking back over history we have allowed in the past all those advances in technology which has profoundly changed our social and individual life to take us by surprise, I mean it seems to me that it was during the late 18 century early 19th century when the new machines were making possible the factory situation. It was not beyond the wit of man to see what was happening and project into the future and maybe forestall the really dreadful consequences which plagued England and most of western Europe and this country for sixty or seventy years, and the horrible abuses of the factory system and if a certain amount of forethought had been devoted to the problem at that time and if people had first of all found out what was happening and then used their imagination to see what might happen, and then had gone on to work out the means by which the worst applications of the techniques would not take place, well then I think western humanity might have been spared about three generations of utter misery which had been imposed on the poor at that time.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">And the same way with various technological advances now, I mean we need to think about the problems with automation and more profoundly the problems, which may arise with these new techniques, which may contribute to this ultimate revolution. Our business is to be aware of what is happening, and then to use our imagination to see what might happen, how this might be abused, and then if possible to see that the enormous powers which we now possess thanks to these scientific and technological advances to be used for the benefit of human beings and not for their degradation.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Thank You</p><div style="text-align: justify;">
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