Documentaries

[Jakob]

Bobby Fischer Against The World

[Jakob]

The Power of Nightmares

[Jakob]

Vladimir Putin's Rise To Power

[Jakob]

Canadian High Arctic

[Fixed Cross]

Very long intro but including escape of punishment at the murderscene, and hypergrainy. For lovers of forensics, strangers, detectives.

The classroom at 5:35 scared Pezer, which marks one of very few occasions Ive seen fear in his face. Ill stipulate that it didn't and doesn't scare me, it is in fact contemporary Amsterdam in a very mild and friendly form. No burquas or kalashnikovs in sight. Democratic cities are hard cities. A town can only become rational to such a degree after prolonged political insanity.

war the allfather, dancing stars from sparking swords

[Pandora]

Wild Wild Country, 2018. - I thought it was well-done documentary series.

LoTs oF dRaMa!



I wish they also made a documentary on Osho’s earlier years, like his family and social environment, his childhood, and his younger years. This may have been even more insightful.
Here’s a speculative, but rather interesting quote I came across by one of his disenchanted former students:

Rajneesh was the son of an ambitious Jain businessman, and he was more like his father than he ever realized. Rajneesh's enlightenment was overlaid on top of a mind attuned to business and making money. Personality is genetically transferable, just as height, weight, and eye color.

http://meditation-handbook.50webs.com/osho2.html
(Good read, btw)

I do think that there are some people who are born to be great manipulators, and I think Chandra/Rajneesh/Bhagwan/Osho may have been that kind of person.
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Osho as a “world’s biggest pump”, lol, a good notice by UG Krishnamirti. Osho sure was a pimp, and not only that.
Speaking of UG (who’s not in the doc.), I get his bitterness towards Osho (and Jiddu as well, among other so called gurus), but I wish he did more with his own life than just pull out and give up like that in bitterness. Oh well.

[Pandora]

Dirty Money (2018). This show is similar to American Greed.

So far, it is only scratching the surface of the corruption issue, but with the careful way it approaches the subject matter, I think it can go a long way.



Season One:1. WV Emmissions fraud, 2. Predatory Lending, 3. Big Pharma price gauging, 4. HSCB Money Laundering, 5. Maple Syrup Trade Wars, 6. Trump as a Con Man.

I think most people are already aware of these scams, but it’s interesting to hear from both sides of the argument as well, and from some of the actual people involved.

The pro legal exploitation side of episode 2 (Payday Loan Sharks) reminded me of the pro-sweat shop arguments made by exploiting companies. Legal, yes, but moral? I thought that the humanizing juxtaposition of these hated “businessmen” in the middle of the big looming moral question was pretty subtle and crafty.
(And I doubt anyone actually fell for it).

[Pandora]

Alexander the Great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... Htv-_VjLiE

[A Shieldmaiden]

Operation Finale a real-life Nazi hunt thriller.

https://youtu.be/07Y4_6PD0Z4

How did the survivors come to grips with the horrendous results of unchecked hatred and bigotry.

What did they endure? How were their lives changed?

It proves what depths of depravity man is capable of.

[Pandora]

Operation Finale a real-life Nazi hunt thriller.

https://youtu.be/07Y4_6PD0Z4

How did the survivors come to grips with the horrendous results of unchecked hatred and bigotry.

What did they endure? How were their lives changed?

It proves what depths of depravity man is capable of.

Part of it looked suspiciously similar to The Debt, 2010 (with Helen Mirren). (And it had to be a 10 day delay? Really?! Is this some kind of universal bureaucratic SOP?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnPV_MLgiIc

Having seen both, I think I like The Debt better, as it also brings forth other philosophical/ethical issues that may come up as result, such as ethics of covering up the truth (or "Truth being a luxury" at certain times). Operation Finale is more streamlined and straightforward action/thriller - more about preserving the memory and the revenge of the victims. But reality and the issues that inevitably come up, of course, are more complicated than just that. Does the victim become the monster himself? Will he also cover the truth up to avenge himself and his nation, if he has to?

[A Shieldmaiden]

https://youtu.be/qnPV_MLgiIc

Jewish spy gets a gynaecological exam from a Nazi physician? This should have been a comedy starring Adam Sandler.

One of the reviews on this movie.


I do recall vaguely seeing this movie but was not unduly impressed. Still prefer Operation Final as it gives some insight into the emotional element, that I suspect would be long lasting for the victims, I don't know really, as you would have had to experience this horror and would not wish it on your worst enemy. I think if I had experienced it I would opt out of the human race and live a life of a hermit, one could never trust another being ever, after that.

Will he also cover the truth up to avenge himself and his nation, if he has to?

Why not? An eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth)

There was no cover up, the Nazis were meticulous in documenting and filming their activities, there was more than enough evidence of their heinous acts they produced for themselves.

[Pandora]

There was no cover up, the Nazis were meticulous in documenting and filming their activities, there was more than enough evidence of their heinous acts they produced for themselves.

I was referring to the coverup about the mission, in the movie (Debt). This subject was a big theme in it, which raised the ethical questions as to what actions are justifiable by the survivors/victims. Essentially, is lying okay?

[shoot, just found out that the 2010 movie itself was a remake of an earlier 2007 Israeli movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIkPj7sraYc]

[A Shieldmaiden]

Bobby Fischer Against The World

Such an interesting doco.

"Nothing is so healing as the human touch".......

[A Shieldmaiden]

Pandora wrote:

Essentially, is lying okay?

Sometimes it is a kindness.

[Mr Reasonable]

[A Shieldmaiden]

Mr R, thanks for that video Outfoxed, pretty bloody amazing.

I once read a description of Murdoch as being ' a big, bad bastard, and the only way you can deal with him is to make sure he thinks you can be a big, bad bastard too'.

"It's the 2013 meeting of the Bilderbergs, and all of the world's elite are in attendance: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ben Bernanke, Paul Volcker, Christine Legarde, Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, Larry Summers, Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Angela Merkel, George Soros, Warren Buffett, the Rockerfellers, and more...

Dan Estuline, the author who investigated the Bilderberg group for 15 years before writing his book – “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group.”

He describes their agenda thusly:

One international identity that observes one set of universal values.
Centralized control of public opinion through propaganda.
A New World Order with rulers, subjects, and the illusion of democracy.
A “zero-growth society” without prosperity or progress, only greater wealth and power for the rulers.
Manufactured crises and perpetual wars."
Establishing the UN as a de facto world government.
Making NATO a world military."

[Pandora]

Bactria (specifically, Greco-Bactrian Kingdom; 250 BC-130 BC) (today, area straddling NE Afghanistan, SW Tajikistan, and SE Uzbekistan)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom


(Notably, on Hellenization of Buddhism, i.e., the introduction of Buddhist statues/idolatry, as well as contribution to the eventual spread of Buddhism into China). Apparently Zarathustra was also born in the area and some of the elements of Zoroastrianism (fire) were later incorporated into local representations of Zeus and later Kushan (Buddhist!?) rulers; ex.Kanishka's coins)
Ghandhara: The Renaissance of Buddhism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOtl1CA ... K4nmnBR3xH
(this is from 8 part history doc. series on Eurasia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milinda_Panha

Ai-Khanoum (today's NE Afghanistan), one of the "Alexandrias" of Alexander the Great
On Persian influences on the area (hellenic+persian) (same doc. series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfNZbCV ... K4nmnBR3xH

Some historical background of Greco-Bactrian Kidgdom
Hellenism In the East: Indo-Greeks & The Thousand Cities of Bactria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7wF5bEnM

Modern day descendants of Greek settlers? (Perhaps Kalash?...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5uke7vIaFM

[Pandora]

Life and Legacy of Pythagoras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc6W38etMHg

(paying special attention to Greek-Egyptian-Persian syncretism)
http://www.esotericonline.net/group/mys ... -egypt-and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasis_II

[Mr Reasonable]

Mr R, thanks for that video Outfoxed, pretty bloody amazing.

I once read a description of Murdoch as being ' a big, bad bastard, and the only way you can deal with him is to make sure he thinks you can be a big, bad bastard too'.

"It's the 2013 meeting of the Bilderbergs, and all of the world's elite are in attendance: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ben Bernanke, Paul Volcker, Christine Legarde, Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, Larry Summers, Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Angela Merkel, George Soros, Warren Buffett, the Rockerfellers, and more...

Dan Estuline, the author who investigated the Bilderberg group for 15 years before writing his book – “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group.”

He describes their agenda thusly:

One international identity that observes one set of universal values.
Centralized control of public opinion through propaganda.
A New World Order with rulers, subjects, and the illusion of democracy.
A “zero-growth society” without prosperity or progress, only greater wealth and power for the rulers.
Manufactured crises and perpetual wars."
Establishing the UN as a de facto world government.
Making NATO a world military."

The irony here is that the current president of the US gets his news from Fox, and has labeled virtually every other source of news as "fake", and claims to be against the "deep state" and in favor of putting America first in world politics.

[Pandora]

Chronic State (the dark side of legalizing marijuana - by non-profit DrugFree Idaho, Inc.)
https://vimeo.com/280127474

[Pandora]

How Art Made the World
https://archive.org/details/HowArtMadeT ... man....avi

https://0123movies.st/serie/how-art-mad ... ching.html (last episode: To Death and Back)

[Pandora]

Civilizations - BBC, 2018 (documentary on artistic representations throughout history)

1. Second Moment of Creation (ancient art and its evolution in the West) - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6iwco0
2. How Do We Look? (representing the human body)- https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6j4nvn
3. Picturing Paradise (role of landscape art) - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6fqng2
4. Eye of Faith (art in religion) - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6g1wiu
5. The Triumph of Art (Renaissance) - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6iwcmc
6. First Contact (trade and interactions of cultures in art) - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6g1wiu
7. Radiance (on use of colors) - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6l6lql
8. The Cult of Progress (influence of industrial age and urban life) - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6l6lqm
9. Vital Spark (art in the modern world) - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6j216b

[Pandora]

Out of Fiery Furnace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vDDMYyhLBw

[barbarianhorde]

Out of Fiery Furnace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vDDMYyhLBw

Ha, this is great stuff.

[Pandora]

On a Bronze Age Collapse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt1aWllpChs
Another (lecture) version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4

My first conclusion is that it appears that even the collapse of civilization does not permanently halt technological innovation and progress (it only pauses it); bringing me to a reluctant realization that technological progress may not really be stopped in the long run. So, to use Kaczynski’s metaphor, perhaps the real answer lies in humans stop being alcoholics in the first place. (Is it possible?) Globalization definitely plays a major role here, as it only accelerates the process.
Also, if the Western Civilization does collapse, I do not believe that the East will take over the stage in the world history, as I do not see the crucial element of innovation present there as its defining factor. It may adopt Western technology, but I do not believe that it will really evolve it, or significantly surpass it.