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Seres Queridos (aka Only Human) (D. Harari & T. Pelegri, 2004)-aNaRCHo

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Seres Queridos (aka Only Human) (D. Harari & T. Pelegri, 2004)-aNaRCHo IN SPANISH WITH FRENCH AND ENGLISH SUBTITLES INCLLUDED **A COMEDIC TAKE ON THE JEWISH-PALESTINE CONFLICT** "The funniest film I've seen in years, "Only Human" is a comedy about Leni, the daughter of a eccentric Jewish family, who brings her fiancé home to meet her relatives for the first time. Dinner is planned, and all is going well, until Leni reveals that her fiancé Rafi is Palestinian. Of course the reaction is hysterical, and Rafi retreats to the kitchen to help in preparing the meal. He offers to take care of the chicken soup, but in removing the frozen soup from the container, it accidentally falls out the window, landing on the head of a man outside and knocking him out. To make things worse, the man may be Leni's father, and the soup may have killed him. Things really take off from there... With a cast of talented comic actors and a truly funny and irreverent screenplay, Only Human gave me more honest laughs than any film I've seen in ages. The characters are definitely oddball, but they are treated with respect, and there is no low humor or mocking of the characters' weirdness. It's good to see a comedy that takes it's humor from the situation and the personalities of the characters, rather than making them look stupid for a cheap laugh. Highly recommended. 10/10" --pb104-1, from imdb "I had the opportunity to see a preview of this movie (to be entitled "Only Human" for English-speaking audiences). A genuinely funny take on a very real situation: Spanish Jewish neurotic girl who is a TV presenter in Madrid brings home her Palistinian lecturer boyfriend to meet her dysfunctional family. Her sister is a nymphomaniac belly-dancer who lives at home with her five year old contrary daughter, younger brother (who is going through a faux ultra-orthodox stage), blind grandfather, pre-menopausal mother and a duckling! The farcical plot (such as it is) revolves around some frozen soup, belly-dancing, Jewish-Islamic shiboleths and all the fun you can pack into 96 minutes! It's cleverly plotted, extremely convincingly acted, neatly directly and very reminiscent of Pedro Almodavar - on acid! I fell off my chair laughing." --sales169, from imdb PLEASE SEED AND ENJOY!!!
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The Genius of Charles Darwin (with Richard Dawkins) Pt. 3/3 2008 08 18 ( Ch.4)

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The Genius of Charles Darwin (with Richard Dawkins) Pt. 3/3 2008 08 18 ( Ch.4) 47 mins 350 mgs http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/F/fa...series/prog3.html Richard Dawkins on natural selection, creationism and intelligent design In this final episode Dawkins examines why Darwin's theory remains one of the most controversial ideas in history. As Darwin set out on the voyage on the Beagle he still believed that god created the world and everything in it. But the evidence he discovered - fossils, patterns of anatomical resemblance, startling similarities of embryos and domestic breeding - demonstrated the truth: that all life forms vary and that some are more likely to reproduce, passing variations on. His wife Emma, however, was deeply religious and Darwin never criticised religion in public but he believed that "science would bring about a gradual illumination of minds". Today, Dawkins argues, science has the evidence to prove that evolution is true. Modern discovery of the DNA code which links all life has added to the mountain of evidence showing that evolution is a fact. So why, he wonders as he meets creationists in America, is opposition to evolution more aggressive than ever? Dawkins is also concerned that back in the UK teaching evolution has become a hugely sensitive issue for science teachers: "This is multicultural Britain. And one of its fault lines runs straight through our children's classrooms. How do we reconcile scientific truth with the deeply held convictions that bind religious communities?" Returning to the school he visited in episode one, Dawkins confronts the science teachers and challenges their view that they "can't get in to the business of knocking down kid's religions and the religions of families." "There really is", he says, "something special about scientific evidence. Science works; planes fly. Magic carpets and broomsticks don't. Gravity isn't a version of the truth; it is the truth. Anybody who doubts it is invited to jump out of a tenth floor window. Evolution too, is reality." This equivocation, Dawkins says, began with the Church of England who, rather than attack Darwin, embraced him in a "comfortable relativist fudge". So he meets the Archbishop of Canterbury to ask how he reconciles Darwin and the laws of physics with the miracles described in the bible. Finally, Dawkins travels to meet an old friend, Dan Dennett, who shares many of his own beliefs, to answer the question Darwin himself was confronted with: how can we find solace in a godless world? shunster
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Operation Saddam: America's Propaganda Battle

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Operation Saddam: America's Propaganda Battle First aired on Tuesday July 29, 2003 In Iraq, the regime of Saddam Hussein is no more. One month ago, that country was a prison to its people, a haven for terrorists, an arsenal of weapons that endangered the world. In a televised address from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington DC, on April 15, 2003, George W. Bush was europhic. These are good days in the history of freedom. Saddam Hussein had been overthrown the Second Gulf War was over. However the debate about the causes of the war and thus about the credibility of US President George W. Bush has only just begun. According to one former high-ranking US secret service agent, the threat to America posed by Iraqs weapons of mass destruction was a propaganda lie used to deceive the public. The Cutting Edge documentary Operation Saddam: Americas Propaganda Battle, screening on SBS Television on Tuesday July 29 at 8.30pm, presents the individual stages of the propaganda battle, by which the American and British governments sought to justify the Second Gulf War. How does one sell a war? This was a question that weighed heavy on the minds of those in the US administration long before the war had even started. Operation Saddam: Americas Propaganda Battle takes a look at the marketing of this war a cocktail of distortion, lies and forgeries as shown by former secret service agent Ray McGovern, American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and best-selling author John MacArthur. MacArthur, for instance, tells of how the amazing image of an Iraqi man climbing the huge statue of Saddam Hussein in central Bagdad at the end of the war and throwing an American flag over the head of the dictator, was actually a carefully staged publicity stunt dreamed up by an advertising agency in the US. I think the Rendon group advised the Pentagon right up through the seizure or the knocking down of the statue in the central square in Bagdad that was a set piece thought of ahead of time for the Bush re-election campaign. The documentary also examines the truths, lies and distortions around the assertions that Saddam Hussein was acquiring and building nuclear weapons, and the pretenses behind the Congressional authorization for the decisive new directions in American foreign and defence policy. http://www.sbs.com.au/whatson/index.php3?id=280 WMV file, 1 hour, 320x200, 700mbps ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment 1 posted by ccarota (HIDDEN) : Tue Feb 14 10:49:26 2006 This came out almost immediatly after the invasion, and was one of the first documentaries to put the war in its proper context as product that was being "sold" to the american people and the world. Low quality versions of this and many interesting videos and documents can be found here - http://jacksradio.blogspot.com/ Comment 2 posted by ccarota (HIDDEN) : Tue Feb 14 10:53:05 2006 Also check out this amazing rolling stones article on the same subject by James Bamford, who is the best-selling author of "A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies" (2004) and "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency" (2001) http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8798997/the_man_who_sold_the_war/?rnd=1139887342328&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.12
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