12.01
Glass Artist, Andy Paiko
11.30
The Simpsons, "Mypods and Boomsticks"
11.01
Pink Floyd - Live on KQED PBS (1970)
8.04
Will it Blend?
7.21
Der Lauf der Dinge
7.07
A Film About Jimi Hendrix
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
4.14
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)
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)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2081592330319789254
"The final episode addresses the actual rise of al-Qaeda. Curtis argues that, after their failed revolutions, bin Laden and Zawahiri had little or no popular support, let alone a serious complex organisation of terrorists, and were dependent upon independent operatives to carry out their new call for jihad. The film instead shows the United States government wanting to prosecute bin Laden in absentia for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, and needing to prove him to be the head of a criminal organisation to do so. They find a former associate of bin Laden, Jamal al-Fadl, and pay him to testify that bin Laden was the head of a massive terrorist organisation called "al-Qaeda". With the September 11th attacks, Neo-Conservatives in the new Republican government of George W. Bush use this created concept of an organisation to justify another crusade against a new evil enemy, leading to the launch of the War on Terrorism.
After the American invasion of Afghanistan fails to uproot the alleged terrorist network, the Neo-Conservatives focus inwards, searching unsuccessfully for terrorist sleeper cells in America. They then extend the war on "terror" to a war against general perceived evils with the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The ideas and tactics also spread to the United Kingdom where Tony Blair uses the threat of terrorism to give him a new moral authority. The repercussions of the Neo-Conservative strategy are also explored with an investigation of indefinitely-detained terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay, many allegedly taken on the word of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance without actual investigation on the part of the United States military, and other forms of "preemption" against non-existent and unlikely threats made simply on the grounds that the parties involved could later become a threat. Curtis also makes a specific attempt to defuse fears of a dirty bomb attack, and concludes by reassuring viewers that politicians will eventually have to concede that some threats are exaggerated and others altogether devoid of reality."
Photos by Andrew Zeller #2