it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

Dan did it again

Another fine interview with Daniel C. Dennett, on religion: I take it you do not subscribe to the idea of an everlasting soul, which is part of almost every religion. Ugh. I certainly don't believe in the soul as an enduring entity. ...

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Kijktip

Adam Curtis' nieuwe documentaireserie heet: 'The Trap. What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom', en wordt op zondagavond uitgezonden op BBC 2, om 22.00 uur. Een voorbeschouwing in The Guardian meldt: the paranoid theories hatched during the cold war would come ...

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Kijktip 2 | The Trap

[swfobj src="http://eamelje.net/flvplayer.swf?file=http://eamelje.net/mm/clip_thetrap.flv&autoStart=false" height="260" width="320" loop="false" start="false" menu="true" salign="t" wmode="transparent" /] click image to play. 1.31 minutes Het is ruim anderhalve week na de laatste uitzending op BBC2. Heeft het zin om nu nog iets van mijn gedachten over Adam Curtis' documentairereeks ...

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Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself

BBC 2 is going to air Adam Curtis' three part documentary The Power of Nightmares from Wednesday the 20th on. Curtis claims in it that the perceived threat of global terrorism is a politically driven fantasy and al-Qaida an ...

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Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself ii

I'd like to pitch The Power of Nightmares again. A documentary series shown on BBC 2, on Wednesday 22.00 cet. As it is this rare thing: a visual essay more than a documentary. I am convinced TV is a ...

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Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself iii

The Brits of MediaLens evaluate Adam Curtis' documentary series The Power of Nightmares, and are amazed the press likes this broadcast so much. Because, as they predictably express, Curtis failed to mention the corporate interest in keeping the public ...

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Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself iv

Adam Curtis responds to the review of MediaLens on his documentary The Power of Nightmares. You want me to have made a different series - about the underlying role of business. That would be a completely different programme - a ...

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Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself v

Adam Curtis' excellent documentary The Power of Nightmares is freely available in a high quality download at the Internet Archive. I see it as an excellent essay on the power of spin and the abuse of the news media, not so ...

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Quote of the Day | 0821

It was not the scope of NSA surveillance that led to Snowden's defection. It was hearing his boss lie to Congress about it for hours on end. Simon Jenkins, 'So the innocent have nothing to fear? After David Miranda we now ...

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