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12.01
Glass Artist, Andy Paiko

11.30
The Simpsons, "Mypods and Boomsticks"

11.01
Pink Floyd - Live on KQED PBS (1970)

8.28
Affluenza, PBS (1997)

8.04
Will it Blend?

7.21
Der Lauf der Dinge

7.10
Broken Rainbow (1985)

7.07
A Film About Jimi Hendrix

6.27
Toxic: Garbage Island

picture Photos by Andrew Zeller #2

6.17
Drop Weapons

6.16
Nam June Paik, Edited for Television (1975)

6.12
The $300 Billion Betrayal

6.06
Bush Overstated Iraq Evidence, Senators Report

6.03
Body of War, Bill Moyers Journal

5.27
Two Great Moments in Oakland Athletics History

4.23
Torched: San Francisco protests spoil China's Olympic celebration

4.17
Sick Around the World

4.14
The World According to Monsanto

4.11
Tear Down the Alaskan Way Viaduct

4.04
Stairway to Stardom

(3-28-08) Learning Man Project #2

3.27
631 Private Companies working in Iraq, fraud rampant

3.26
Tools for understanding
the Iraq War

3.19
The N64Kids

3.13
Tesla, Shredding (lovingly)

picture Photos by Andrew Zeller

3.10
Eric Clapton, Shredding

2.20
New Fla. Standards Use Word 'Evolution'

2.19
Sea Serpeants: Recent History and notable cases

(1-13-08) Learning Man Project #1

12.06
Grateful Dead Live at Mill Valley Recreation Center (12/06/1980)

Recommended Viewing

The End of Suburbia (2008)

A War On Science (2006)

GRASS (1925)

The Fog of War (2003)

Why We Fight (2005)

Ask Me, Don't Tell Me (1961)

Color It Clean (1966)

No Plan, No Peace

GITMO

Jesus Camp

Dead in the Water

The Ghost in Your Genes

Brainman

God's Next Army

Who Wrote the Bible?

Power of Nightmares 1

Power of Nightmares 2

Power of Nightmares 3

The Century of the Self

Control Room

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

The Bush Family Fortunes

The Making of THE SHINING

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room


Jamisen Ogg

Ethan Rose

Elizabeth Raab Photography

La Pocha Nostra

Meghan Trainor

SuttonBeresCuller

Max Keene

David Herbert

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Musette

Andy Paiko

Ryan Jeffery

Moin Syed

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Video Archive


The Power of Nightmares- Episode 2, by Adam Smith

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4602171665328041876

"In the second episode, Islamist factions, rapidly falling under the more radical influence of Zawahiri and his rich Saudi acolyte Osama bin Laden, join the Neo-Conservative-influenced Reagan Administration to combat the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. They are successful in repulsing the Soviet armies and, when the Eastern Bloc begins to collapse in the late 1980s, both groups believe they were the primary architect of the "Evil Empire's" defeat and thus have the power to carry out their revolutions in their homelands. Curtis instead argues that the Soviets were on their last legs and were doomed to collapse without intervention.

Both factions' revolutions end in failure. The Neo-Conservatives' aspirations to use the United States Army's power for further destruction of evil are thrown off track by the ascent of George H. W. Bush to the American Presidency, followed by the 1992 election of Bill Clinton leaving them out of power. The Neo-Conservatives, with their conservative Christian allies, attempt to demonise Clinton throughout his presidency with various real and fabricated stories of corruption and immorality. To their disappointment, however, the American people do not acknowledge him as an enemy as they intended and remain indifferent to Clinton's alleged evils. The Islamist attempts at revolution end in massive bloodshed, leaving the Islamists without popular support. Zawahiri and bin Laden flee to the sufficiently safe Afghanistan and declare a new strategy; to fight Western-inspired moral decay they must deal a blow to its source: the United States."