For Your Information - 4

For Your Information (FYI) is a project initiated by a group of friends aimed at contributing to the distribution of the best of chomskytorrents.org and related material. We have collected about 200 gigabytes as of today from which we make our selection. Most of the documentaries in the FYI compilations have already been uploaded but not all files remain seeded so we compiled them to make this seeding task easier and also to be suitable for direct distribution on DVD. The compilation includes a few media players so there won't be any trouble viewing the content. Players included are: VLC Player, Real Player Alternative and BS Player (which supports subtitles). Other FYI episodes can also be found on www.chomskytorrents.org. If you already downloaded some of the documentaries listed on this episode you can deselect the files you don't want using BitComet. Other programs support this feature as well, just check yours for it. Documentaries: - Palestine is still the issue Filmmaker John Pilger: "Twenty-five years ago, I made a film called Palestine Is Still The Issue. It was about a nation of people - the Palestinians - forced off their land and later subjected to a military occupation by Israel. An occupation condemned by the United Nations and almost every country in the world, including Britain. But Israel is backed by a very powerful friend, the United States. So in 25 years, if we're to speak of the great injustice here, nothing has changed. What has changed is that the Palestinians have fought back. Stateless and humiliated for so long, they've risen up against Israel's huge military machine, although they themselves have no arm, no tanks, no American planes and gun ships or missiles. Some have committed desperate acts of terror, like suicide bombing. But for Palestinians, the overriding, routine terror, day after day, has been the ruthless control of almost every aspect of their lives, as if they live in an open prison. This film is about the Palestinians and a group of courageous Israelis united in the oldest human struggle - to be free." Duration: 54 mins Size: 402MB - The Century of the Self (BBC) Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests? The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund's devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund's great grandson, Matthew Freud. Sigmund Freud's work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries..._the_self.shtml Duration: 4 parts of 58 minutes Size: 4 parts of approximately 450 MB - The Power of Nightmares, The Rise of the Politics of Fear (BBC) This documentary argues that during the 20th Century politicians lost the power to inspire the masses, and that the optimistic visions and ideologies they had offered were perceived to have failed. The film asserts that politicians consequently sought a new role that would restore their power and authority. Writer Adam Curtis, who also narrates the series, declares in the film's introduction that Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect us: from nightmares. To illustrate this Curtis compares the rise of the American neoconservatives and radical Islamists, believing that both are closely connected; that some popular beliefs about these groups are inaccurate; and that both movements have benefited from exaggerating the scale of the terrorist threat. "The Power of Nightmares, a three-hour BBC documentary directed by Adam Curtis, is arguably the most important film about the "war on terrorism" since the events of September 11. It is more intellectually engaging, more historically probing and more provocative than any of its rivals, including Fahrenheit 9/11." The Nation Duration: 3 parts of 59 minutes Size: 3 times 700 MB Total size: 4.25 GB =Please Seed & Enjoy!= Please place any (re)seeding requests in the chomskytorrents.org forum. http://chomskytorrents.org/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2 -link to other FYI episodes: FYI - 1 http://chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=1156 FYI - 2 http://chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=894 FYI - 3 http://chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=1395