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Fog of War Excerpt What makes it immoral if you lose but not if you win? Tags: ComingAnarchy.com |
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BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Buying the War | Excerpt | PBS Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the War Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 9 PM on PBS (check local listings) How the administration marketed the war to the American people has been well covered, but critical questions remain: How and why did the press buy it, and what does it say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda? In this clip from the premiere of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS, Bob Simon of 60 Minutes, who was based in the Middle East, talks about the reporting he was seeing and reading out of the beltway, and John Walcott and Warren Strobel of Knight Ridder newspapers (now The McClatchy Company), discuss their work burrowing deep into the intelligence agencies to determine whether there was any evidence for the Bush Administration's case for war. On Wednesday, April 25 at 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings), watch "Buying the War," a 90-minute documentary that explores the role of the press in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, which includes interviews with Dan Rather, formerly of CBS; Tim Russert of Meet the Press; and Walter Isaacson, former president of CNN. Two days later on April 27, the Bill Moyers Journal airs its regular timeslot on Fridays at 9 P.M. with interviews and news analysis of underreported stories across an array of beats, including: the environment, media, politics, the economy, arts and culture, and social issues. Tags: environment media politics economy arts culture Moyers pbs Iraq war |
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"Sharp Teeth" Excerpt #1 Check out the book "Sharp Teeth" on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sharp-Teeth-Toby-Barlow/dp/0061430226/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212767529&sr=8-1 Animation directed by Limbert Fabian. Produced by Matt Thunell. For more information go to sharpteeththebook.com Tags: "sharp teeth" werewolves "Toby Barlow fiction animation art |
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Free Will and Physics - Waking Life excerpt "In a way, in our contemporary world view, it's easy to think that science has come to take the place of God. But some philosophical problems remain as troubling as ever. Take the problem of free will. This problem has been around for a long time, since before Aristotle in 350 B.C. St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, these guys all worried about how we can be free if God already knows in advance everything you're gonna do. Nowadays we know that the world operates according to some fundamental physical laws, and these laws govern the behavior of every object in the world. Now, these laws, because they're so trustworthy, they enable incredible technological achievements. But look at yourself. We're just physical systems too, right? We're just complex arrangements of carbon molecules. We're mostly water, and our behavior isn't gonna be an exception to these basic physical laws. So it starts to look like whether its God setting things up in advance and knowing everything you're gonna do or whether it's these basic physical laws governing everything, there's not a lot of room left for freedom. So now you might be tempted to just ignore the question, ignore the mystery of free will. Say "Oh, well, it's just an historical anecdote. It's sophomoric. It's a question with no answer. Just forget about it." But the question keeps staring you right in the face. You think about individuality for example, who you are. Who you are is mostly a matter of the free choices that you make. Or take responsibility. You can only be held responsible, you can only be found guilty, or you can only be admired or respected for things you did of your own free will. So the question keeps coming back, and we don't really have a solution to it. It starts to look like all our decisions are really just a charade. Think about how it happens. There's some electrical activity in your brain. Your neurons fire. They send a signal down into your nervous system. It passes along down into your muscle fibers. They twitch. You might, say, reach out your arm. It looks like it's a free action on your part, but every one of those - every part of that process is actually governed by physical law, chemical laws, electrical laws, and so on. So now it just looks like the big bang set up the initial conditions, and the whole rest of human history, and even before, is really just the playing out of subatomic particles according to these basic fundamental physical laws. We think we're special. We think we have some kind of special dignity, but that now comes under threat. I mean, that's really challenged by this picture. So you might be saying, "Well, wait a minute. What about quantum mechanics? I know enough contemporary physical theory to know it's not really like that. It's really a probabilistic theory. There's room. It's loose. It's not deterministic." And that's going to enable us to understand free will. But if you look at the details, it's not really going to help because what happens is you have some very small quantum particles, and their behavior is apparently a bit random. They swerve. Their behavior is absurd in the sense that its unpredictable and we can't understand it based on anything that came before. It just does something out of the blue, according to a probabilistic framework. But is that going to help with freedom? I mean, should our freedom be just a matter of probabilities, just some random swerving in a chaotic system? That starts to seem like it's worse. I'd rather be a gear in a big deterministic physical machine than just some random swerving. So we can't just ignore the problem. We have to find room in our contemporary world view for persons with all that that entails; not just bodies, but persons. And that means trying to solve the problem of freedom, finding room for choice and responsibility, and trying to understand individuality." Tags: David Sosa Physics Free Will Philosophy Waking Life |
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Top 25 Seinfeld Moments The top 25 Seinfeld moments. Visit BagofShoes.com to see the whole thing along with some other great videos. Tags: Seinfeld Kramer Jerry George Elaine |
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BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Impeachment Panel Excerpt | PBS This week, Bill Moyers Journal takes an in-depth look at the heated talk of impeachment taking place across the country. To explore the issue, Bill Moyers is joined by Bruce Fein, a constitutional scholar, who was Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Reagan and is a weekly columnist for THE WASHINGTON TIMES and John Nichols, a Washington correspondent for THE NATION magazine and author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT: The Founders' Cure for Royalism. The program airs Friday, July 13 at 9 p.m. on PBS. To watch online visit: http://wwww.pbs.org/moyers check your local listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html Comment after the broadcast at The Moyers Blog: http://www.pbs.org/moyers Tags: bill moyers george bush dick cheney impeach iraq pbs |
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Excerpt of Karl Rove on Charlie Rose Excerpt of Karl Rove on Charlie Rose, interview airs 11/21/07 Tags: karl rove charlie rose george bush irag valerie plame wilson |
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Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch excerpt music video Tags: einsturzende neubauten music video halber mensch |
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Excerpt from Dr Albert Bartlett lecture A small segment from a lecture on steady growth in a finite environment by Dr Albert Bartlett, expert in arithmetic, population and energy. For longer viewing of Dr Bartlett's lecture, I also reommend: 20 minutes: http://tinyurl.com/2gfyla 1 hour: http://tinyurl.com/yr3crr AND 1 hour: http://tinyurl.com/2h6m2g ==----- Also, Watch or Listen to the lecture here: http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/461 And Read the mathematical detail here: http://www.npg.org/specialreports/bartlett_index.htm ===---- Tags: dr albert bartlett lecture finite growth infinite environment arithmetic population energy expert war exponential |
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Barack Obama: "A More Perfect Union" (Excerpt) Barack Obama: "A More Perfect Union" (Excerpt) Philadelphia, PA 3/18/2008 Full Speech available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU Full Text available at: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBbrc For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle -- as we did in the OJ trial -- or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies. We can do that. But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change. That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, "Not this time." This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can't learn; that those kids who don't look like us are somebody else's problem. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy. Not this time. This time we want to talk about how the lines in the Emergency Room are filled with whites and blacks and Hispanics who do not have health care; who don't have the power on their own to overcome the special interests in Washington, but who can take them on if we do it together. This time we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life. This time we want to talk about the fact that the real problem is not that someone who doesn't look like you might take your job; it's that the corporation you work for will ship it overseas for nothing more than a profit. This time we want to talk about the men and women of every color and creed who serve together, and fight together, and bleed together under the same proud flag. We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should've been authorized and never should've been waged, and we want to talk about how we'll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned. I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation -- the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election. Tags: Moveon obama barack |