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The Wall Street Code

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 04:45:00 +0000

also

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Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street

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Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box

All That Glitters Isn't Gold

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 02:16:00 +0000

"All That Glitters Isn't Gold - A Story of Exploitation and Resistance" is an hour-long documentary that tells the stories of community members residing near Goldcorp's San Martin open-pit gold mine in Honduras' Siria Valley. The first mine to be developed under Honduras' controversial new mining law that was passed in the wake of Hurricane Mitch in 1998, the San Martin mine opened in 2000 and is the largest open-pit heap-leach mine in Honduras.

Also this doc with similar subject and title, from Europe:

Edible City: Grow the Revolution

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:03:00 +0000

Bonus Army: US military attacks demonstrating American War Veterans

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:20:00 +0000

The untouchables

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:31:00 +0000

Watch The Untouchables on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

The NDAA: Fear and Oathing in D.C.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:02:00 +0000

Papa Mau

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:40:00 +0000

Robotic Ocean Explorer - The first autonomous ocean exploration robot has completed its journey from San Francisco to Australia. Traveling over 9000 nautical miles in just over a year, the solar powered wave-gliding robot braved sharks, survived storms, and navigated around treacherous coastal regions.

“During Papa Mau’s journey, [it] weathered gale-force storms, fended off sharks, spent more than 365 days at sea, skirted around the Great Barrier Reef, and finally battled and surfed the east Australian current to reach his final destination in Hervey Bay, near Bundaberg, Queensland.” […] “We are reaching a tipping point in that the technology is becoming so cheap that it’s now a much cheaper to use a robot to gather data than to pay for a manned ship to be at sea for months at a time.”

PBS–Black Coffee

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:50:00 +0000

Rory Stewart: Time to end the war in Afghanistan

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:11:00 +0000

Invisible Empire

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:52:00 +0000

Stellar Wind

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:03:00 +0000

Rick Steves on Iran, a MUST see video

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:39:00 +0000

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:02:00 +0000

Boatlift

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:37:00 +0000

Just an incredible September 11th story… I had never heard about it before.

Adam Curtis: The power of Nightmares

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:26:00 +0000

Part 1” Baby it's Cold Outside”

Part 2 “The Phantom Victory”

Part 3 “The Shadows in the Cave”

War Made Easy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:40:00 +0000

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war line of one administration after another.

Here is an excerpt with Senator Wayne Morse:

Schools Kill Creativity

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:12:00 +0000

The Wave

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:32:00 +0000

1981 - Based on the real experience of a high school class in Palo Alto, CA in April 1967. To explain to his students the atmosphere in the 1930's Nazi-Germany, history teacher Burt Ross initiates a daring experiment.

See also the German production of the story, Die Welle done in 2008:

How to Get Fat Without Really Trying

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:50:00 +0000

Lost Lightning: The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:38:00 +0000

Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, which was then part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire, region of Croatia.

His father, Milutin Tesla was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother Djuka Mandic was an inventor in her own right of household appliances. Tesla studied at the Realschule, Karlstadt in 1873, the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. At first, he intended to specialize in physics and mathematics, but soon he became fascinated with electricity. He began his career as an electrical engineer with a telephone company in Budapest in 1881.

Before going to America, Tesla joined Continental Edison Company in Paris where he designed dynamos. While in Strassbourg in 1883, he privately built a prototype of the induction motor and ran it successfully. Unable to interest anyone in Europe in promoting this radical device, Tesla accepted an offer to work for Thomas Edison in New York. His childhood dream was to come to America to harness the power of Niagara Falls.

Young Nikola Tesla came to the United States in 1884 with an introduction letter from Charles Batchelor to Thomas Edison: “I know two great men,” wrote Batchelor, “one is you and the other is this young man.” Tesla spent the next 59 years of his productive life living in New York. Tesla set about improving Edison’s line of dynamos while working in Edison’s lab in New Jersey. It was here that his divergence of opinion with Edison over direct current versus alternating current began. This disagreement climaxed in the war of the currents as Edison fought a losing battle to protect his investment in direct current equipment and facilities.

Why We Fight?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:48:00 +0000

JOHNNY CASH - The Last Great American

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Juan Enriquez at TED: The Ultimate Reboot

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:55:00 +0000

Christmas In Darfur

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000

Christmas in Darfur is a non-conventional documentary look at one of the world's worst ongoing tragedies.

More details here.

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:10:00 +0000

Kissinger. The original neocon fear & war monger.

This documentary is based on the book, The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens.