Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Against Heresy Part 1; Great Resource on Gnosticism, Gnostics, Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scroll, Audiobook

The book was written by Irenaeus, the Bishop of Lugdunum during the heyday of Gnosticism, 2nd Century.
The goal of this book was to bring up all the doctrines and arguments of Gnosticism, and then bring counter arguments (of orthodox Christianity) to crush them.
Therefore, with this book, you can listen and learn all the details of Gnosticism and ignore the part (the part where Irenaeus is inserting his opinions) why orthodox Christianity is superior than Gnosticism, etc.
Against Heresy Part 1; Great Resource for Gnosticism & Gnostics, Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scroll, Audiobook, written by Irenaeus.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

"September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor" A film by Massimo Mazzucco

http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=167

"September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor" is a 5 hour documentary that summarizes 12 years of public debate on 9/11. While aimed primarily at a general, uninformed audience, the film also contains some new findings that may be of interest to advanced researchers.

This film is intended as an educational, non-profit operation, and must remain so in order to fulfill all the requirements for the usage of copyrighted material. As such, the entire film is made available online for free from day one. Any purchase of the actual DVD will be considered as a form of donation to the author, in recognition of the time spent to put together this material. Free duplication and distribution of all DVDs is encouraged.

At the bottom of the page you will find more information related to this film, including the links to order the DVD, and the TRAILER.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

The Century Of The Self - Eight People Sipping Wine_1 of 6

THE CENTURY OF THE SELF
Monday 29 April - Thursday 2 May 2002 7pm-8pm

EPISODE GUIDE
An overview of each Century of the Self programme


The Century Of The Self - There is a Policeman Inside_1 of 6

THE CENTURY OF THE SELF
Monday 29 April - Thursday 2 May 2002 7pm-8pm

EPISODE GUIDE
An overview of each Century of the Self programme





Episode Two,

At about the time of Kent State and democratic convention '68, there began ruthless repression of the New Left. In the face of this the Left began to fall apart. "The Man" was much bigger and stronger than we realized. At that point, a change in tactics began. If it was impossible to get the policeman out of ones head by overthrowing the state, then instead one should find a way to get inside of one's own mind and removing the controls implanted there by the state and the corporations. Out of this would come a new self and thus a new society. The personal became political. (This seems somewhat Gramsciian). They outgun us. Turn to Willhelm Reich (The nemesis of Freaud, whose ideas were used by the state for social control). Invent ways for individuals to free themselves. The Esalen Institute. A form of group encounter put on by a man trained by Reich, Fritz Perls. Self enactment, self revelations, staying present.

Another driver was Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man. Marcuse's most famous student was Angela Davis

Creative Maladjustment

Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"

You may not know it my friends, but it is estimated that we spend $500,000 dollars to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only $53 dollars for each person classified as poor and most of that $53 goes for salaries for people who are not poor. War is an enemy of the poor.

Sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967

Along about the nine minute mark it becomes abundently clear why he was murdered.

I NEVER INTEND TO ADJUST MYSELF

Dr. Martin Luther King's 1963 WMU Speech, see words here. See YouTube here

Herman W. Read Fieldhouse, west campus of Western Michigan University

"Social Justice."

Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in psychology. It is the word "maladjusted." This is the ringing pride to modern child psychology. Maladjusted. Now of course, we all want to live the well adjusted life. In order to neurotic and schizophrenic personalities.

But as I move to my conclusion, I would like to say to you today in a very honest manner, there are some things in our society and some things in our world which I am proud to be maladjusted and I call upon all men of good-will will be maladjusted to these things until the good societies realize.

I very honestly say to you that I never intend to adjust myself to racial segregation and discrimination.

I never intend to adjust myself to religious bigotry.

I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. and leave millions of god's children smothering in an air tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence.

But in a day when sputniks and explorers are dashing through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war.

It is no longer the choice between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.

BONUS: Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"

"You may not know it my friends, but it is estimated that we spend $500,000 dollars to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only $53 dollars for each person classified as poor and most of that $53 goes for salaries for people who are not poor. War is an enemy of the poor."

Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky - part 1/17

The Century Of The Self - The Engineering of Consent 1 of 6

THE CENTURY OF THE SELF
Monday 29 April - Thursday 2 May 2002 7pm-8pm

EPISODE GUIDE
An overview of each Century of the Self programme

Segment Four. The conspiracy involving Bernays, Eisenhower, Richard NixonE.Howard Hunt, United Fruit Country, and the various media. It is a case study. Controlling man rather than freeing him. the ideology of this age which is powermad

THE CORPORATION [1/23] What is a Corporation?

The Century Of The Self - Happiness Machines 1 of 6

THE CENTURY OF THE SELF
Monday 29 April - Thursday 2 May 2002 7pm-8pm

EPISODE GUIDE
An overview of each Century of the Self programme

Saturday, December 08, 2007

FIGHT THE WAR ON GREED



Henry Kravis, founding partner in the private equity company KKR, made $450 million last year--that's $1.3 million per day, or $51,369 per hour. He did it largely by borrowing money to take over public companies, then selling off the company's assets to pay the debt, laying off thousands of workers, and slashing benefits for those who remained.

private equity is described as a firm that takes over “public companies using primarily borrowed money.”

“To pay off this debt,” the film says, “they then sell off assets of the companies, fire thousands of workers and radically cut benefits of the remaining employees. It is the same product, in the same building, with the same customers as before.”

For more on Henry Kravis and other borrow-and-buyout corporations, check out the FACTS page.

The War on Greed hits the New York Times! "A Movie and Protesters Single Out Henry Kravis" and director Robert Greenwald discusses issues raised in the film on CNBC's "Closing Bell".

War on Greed premiere in New York City, outside of Henry Kravis' house:

BRAVE NEW FILMS

Thursday, August 23, 2007

"You Tube en complot con la oposición mediática venezolana



In an interview in VTV , former Minister of Education Aristóbulo Izturiz put it very clearly: "this shows that the campaign around RCTV is not about freedom of expression, but the freedom of the owners of capital to control the media and the contents".

(with material from Aporrea and Rebelion )

see interview with Luigino Bracci and Aristóbulo Asturiz (in Spanish):

NO VOLVERAN - THE VENEZEULAN REVOLUTION



From the makers of the Hands Off Venezuela film 'Solidarity', and the Sanitarios Maracay short film series, comes 'No Volverán - The Venezuelan Revolution Now', an exciting feature length documentary about the Venezuelan Revolution. In this in-depth investigation the film makers take us on a journey through the fervor of the Presidential Elections in December 2006, traveling deep into the shanty towns (barrios), and to several factories under workers' control, to find out why there is a movement to over-through Capitalism, what Socialism of the 21st Century is, and how it is changing people's lives. Community activists show us around their neighborhoods in the barrios to see first hand how difficult life is for the urban poor

Sunday, March 04, 2007

"HALF THE WORLD IS STARVING, WHILE THE OTHER HALF IS DYING OF OBESITY...

...There are only two choices left: We confront the monster, or we invite it to dinner.”

At another point in the movie, one of the kidnappers asks his victim, “When half the city is knee-deep in shit and you’re rolling in an expensive car, you expect them not to hate you? Why shouldn’t they hate you?”


Secuestro Express introduces its subject from a nervous distance. The film opens with ominous music and sweeping, aerial shots of the city’s expansive slums. Tin-roofed shanties crammed onto the hills ringing the prosperous center city tumble over one another chaotically, but also seem massed, as if waiting for a signal to swallow up the high-rises and condos below. They are an explosion, a violence, waiting to happen.

Entreaties to “build the middle-class” and “extend a hand to whoever works for you” are of course meaningless, feel-good platitudes offered as alternatives to empowering the impoverished. It’s a politics based, like Secuestro Express is, on a fear of the poor. You almost have to feel sorry for Jakubowicz and company. They realize both the immorality and the danger of Venezuela’s class divide, but they are too timid to support those working to remedy it. They’re left, then, with their impossible dream: that through the extended hands of the rich, Niga, Budú, and the slums of Caracas will disappear—poof!—and Trece will be declared chairman of the Revolutionary Republic of Middle-Class Venezuela.