German TV Documentary on the Iraq War
March 15th, 2007 Comments Off on German TV Documentary on the Iraq War | # link to | posted by david
Running Time: 44 mins.
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The Death Squads
Documentary about death squads in Iraq and their connections to high ranking Shia polititians.
Running time: 45 mins.
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George Carlin, Life is Worth Losing
The controversial comedian whose Seven Dirty Words routine was central to a freedom of speech challenge which went to the Supreme Court in 1978.
Running time: 1 hour 14 mins.
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Hooligans, The Untold Story
Documentary and English Soccer Thugs. Earwig oh, earwwig oh, earwig oh!
Running time: 59 mins.
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Iraq The Hidden Story
We live in an age of cellphone video clips and blogs, where we expect everything to be reported. The Iraq war is the exception – where things are so bad that the mainstream media dare not leave the Baghdad’s Green Zone and most of the original bloggers have fled to other countries.
Running time: 49 mins.
John Simpson, one of the UK’s best known journalists argues that what is really going on in Iraq is not reported.
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Milton Friedman on Limited Government
February 16th, 2007 Comments Off on Milton Friedman on Limited Government | # link to | posted by david
For all you budding libertarians out there. (BTW, my reply when people say that they are libertarians is to say: yes, but what are your politics? Since by definition, there is no ‘polis’ within the libertarian framework.) Anyway, whatever you think, Milton Friedman was pretty smart, and worth a peek. Apparently there is even a recent article about Blogging and Milton Friedman.
Running time: 29 mins
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The Fog of War
A tour de force documentary by Errol Morris, where former defense secretary Robert McNamara delivers an account of his political life in the form of a confession, at times weeping. A perfect insight into the real world where there is no such thing as the good guys and the bad guys, just impossible decisions, compromise and eventual moral bankruptcy. One of the best documentaries ever made.
Running time: 1 hour 47 mins.
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Invisible Children
The effects of a 20 year long war on the children of northern Uganda.
Runnng time: 55 mins.
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Finding the Lewis Gun
This is a film by a gun nut about looking for his favorite, mythical, machine gun, to unload half a gazillion rounds of ammunition at the local machine gun range/diner. It will appeal to gun nuts, or people who have a morbid anthropological curiosity about gun nuts in 21st Century America. In fact if you spliced 30 seconds of Michael Moore at the beginning you could probably submit it as an ironic piece, at Sundance.
Running time: 24 mins.
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The Impact of Web 2.0 – at Davos
The World Economic Forum at Davos is where presidents of countries and global corporations meet. It is the conference to end all conferences, and whenever there is a technology bubble, Davos organizers quickly jump on the bandwaggon and invite a bunch of bewildered nerds to explain the ‘Internets’ to them. The end result is absolutely fucking hilarious, in a very understated way.
This year, alongside Global Warming and WWIII, with a straight face, Davos attendees examined the ‘Impact of Web 2.0’. They did not suggest that the impact relative to the aforementioned topics is that of a mosquito farting on the moon.
Running time: 56 mins.