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		<title>Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four brief hours. As the damaged left side of her brain&#8211;the rational, grounded, detail- and time-oriented side&#8211;swung in and out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realties: the euphoric nirvana of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace; and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized Jill was having a stroke, and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely.</p>
<p>In My Stroke of Insight, Taylor shares her unique perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery, and the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this unusual and inspiring voyage out of the abyss of a wounded brain. It would take eight years for Taylor to heal completely. Because of her knowledge of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and most of all an amazing mother, Taylor completely repaired her mind and recalibrated her understanding of the world according to the insights gained from her right brain that morning of December 10th.</p>
<p>Today Taylor is convinced that the stroke was the best thing that could have happened to her. It has taught her that the feeling of nirvana is never more than a mere thought away. By stepping to the right of our left brains, we can all uncover the feelings of well-being and peace that are so often sidelined by our own brain chatter. A fascinating journey into the mechanics of the human mind, My Stroke of Insight is both a valuable recovery guide for anyone touched by a brain injury, and an emotionally stirring testimony that deep internal peace truly is accessible to anyone, at any time.</p>
<p>This talk was held at TED. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only event where thinkers and doers gather to find and share inspiration.</p>
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		<title>Hypnosis: How it Works</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former hypnotherapist and stage hypnotist gives a lecture on the physical and psychological dangers and benefits of hypnosis and how hypnosis works. This video has been adapted from a PowerPoint presentation made for a hypnosis seminar, revealing secrets of hypnosis and how hypnosis works relating to the chakras and the conscious, subconscious and in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A former hypnotherapist and stage hypnotist gives a lecture on the physical and psychological dangers and benefits of hypnosis and how hypnosis works. This video has been adapted from a PowerPoint presentation made for a hypnosis seminar, revealing secrets of hypnosis and how hypnosis works relating to the chakras and the conscious, subconscious and in meditation super-conscious mind.</p>
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		<title>The Stanford Prison Experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Psychology Professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Twenty-four undergraduates were selected out of 70 to play the roles of both guards and prisoners and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Psychology Professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Twenty-four undergraduates were selected out of 70 to play the roles of both guards and prisoners and live in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Those selected were chosen for their lack of psychological issues, crime history, and medical disabilities, in order to obtain a representative sample. Roles were assigned based on a coin toss.</p>
<p>Prisoners and guards rapidly adapted to their roles, stepping beyond the boundaries of what had been predicted and leading to dangerous and psychologically damaging situations. One-third of the guards were judged to have exhibited &#8220;genuine&#8221; sadistic tendencies, while many prisoners were emotionally traumatized and two had to be removed from the experiment early. After a graduate student (prisoner #819) broke down from the inhumane conditions in the prison, and realizing that he had been passively allowing unethical acts to be performed under his direct supervision, Zimbardo concluded that both prisoners and guards had become too grossly absorbed in their roles and terminated the experiment after six days.</p>
<p>Ethical concerns surrounding the famous experiment often draw comparisons to the Milgram experiment, which was conducted in 1961 at Yale University by Stanley Milgram, Zimbardo&#8217;s former college friend. Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr wrote in 1981 that the Milgram experiment and the Stanford prison experiment were frightening in their implications about the danger which lurks in the darker side of human nature.</p>
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		<title>The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares. It began airing on BBC Two on 11 March 2007. The series consists of three one-hour programmes which explore the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares. It began airing on BBC Two on 11 March 2007.</p>
<p>The series consists of three one-hour programmes which explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, &#8220;how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today&#8217;s idea of freedom.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Part 1: &#8220;Fuck You Buddy&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>In this episode, Curtis examines the rise of game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical models of human behaviour filtered into economic thought. The programme traces the development of game theory with particular reference to the work of John Nash, who believed that all humans were inherently suspicious and selfish creatures that strategised constantly. Using this as his first premise, Nash constructed logically consistent and mathematically verifiable models, for which he won the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics. He invented system games reflecting his beliefs about human behaviour, including one he called &#8220;Fuck Your Buddy&#8221; (later published as &#8220;So Long Sucker&#8221;), in which the only way to win was to betray your playing partner, and it is from this game that the episode&#8217;s title is taken. These games were internally coherent and worked correctly as long as the players obeyed the ground rules that they should behave selfishly and try to outwit their opponents, but when RAND&#8217;s analysts tried the games on their own secretaries, they instead chose not to betray each other, but to cooperate every time. This did not, in the eyes of the analysts, discredit the models, but instead proved that the secretaries were unfit subjects.</p>
<p>What was not known at the time was that Nash was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and, as a result, was deeply suspicious of everyone around him—including his colleagues—and was convinced that many were involved in conspiracies against him. It was this mistaken belief that led to his view of people as a whole that formed the basis for his theories. Footage of an older and wiser Nash was shown in which he acknowledges that his paranoid views of other people at the time were false.</p>
<p>Curtis examines how game theory was used to create the USA&#8217;s nuclear strategy during the Cold War. Because no nuclear war occurred, it was believed that game theory had been correct in dictating the creation and maintenance of a massive American nuclear arsenal—because the Soviet Union had not attacked America with its nuclear weapons, the supposed deterrent must have worked. Game theory during the Cold War is a subject Curtis examined in more detail in the To The Brink of Eternity part of his first series, Pandora&#8217;s Box, and he reuses much of the same archive material in doing so.</p>
<p>A separate strand in the documentary is the work of R.D. Laing, whose work in psychiatry led him to model familial interactions using game theory. His conclusion was that humans are inherently selfish, shrewd, and spontaneously generate strategems during everyday interactions. Laing&#8217;s theories became more developed when he concluded that some forms of mental illness were merely artificial labels, used by the state to suppress individual suffering. This belief became a staple tenet of counterculture during the 1960s. Reference is made to the Rosenhan experiment, in which bogus patients, surreptitiously self-presenting at a number of American psychiatric institutions, were falsely diagnosed as having mental disorders, while institutions, informed that they were to receive bogus patients, &#8220;identified&#8221; numerous supposed imposters who were actually genuine patients. The results of the experiment were a disaster for American psychiatry, because they destroyed the idea that psychiatrists were a privileged elite able to genuinely diagnose, and therefore treat, mental illness.</p>
<p>All these theories tended to support the beliefs of what were then fringe economists such as Friedrich von Hayek, whose economic models left no room for altruism, but depended purely on self-interest, leading to the formation of public choice theory. In an interview, the economist James M. Buchanan decries the notion of the &#8220;public interest&#8221;, asking what it is and suggesting that it consists purely of the self-interest of the governing bureaucrats. Buchanan also proposes that organisations should employ managers who are motivated only by money. He describes those who are motivated by other factors—such as job satisfaction or a sense of public duty—as &#8220;zealots&#8221;.</p>
<p>As the 1960s became the 1970s, the theories of Laing and the models of Nash began to converge, producing a widespread popular belief that the state (a surrogate family) was purely and simply a mechanism of social control which calculatedly kept power out of the hands of the public. Curtis shows that it was this belief that allowed the theories of Hayek to look credible, and underpinned the free-market beliefs of Margaret Thatcher, who sincerely believed that by dismantling as much of the British state as possible—and placing former national institutions into the hands of public shareholders—a form of social equilibrium would be reached. This was a return to Nash&#8217;s work, in which he proved mathematically that if everyone was pursuing their own interests, a stable, yet perpetually dynamic, society could result.</p>
<p>The episode ends with the suggestion that this mathematically modelled society is run on data—performance targets, quotas, statistics—and that it is these figures combined with the exaggerated belief in human selfishness that has created &#8220;a cage&#8221; for Western humans. The precise nature of the &#8220;cage&#8221; is to be discussed in the next episode.</p>
<p><strong>Part 2: &#8220;The Lonely Robot&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>The second episode reiterated many of the ideas of the first, but developed the theme that drugs such as Prozac and lists of psychological symptoms which might indicate anxiety or depression were being used to normalise behaviour and make humans behave more predictably, like machines.</p>
<p>This was not presented as a conspiracy theory, but as a logical (although unpredicted) outcome of market-driven self-diagnosis by checklist based on symptoms, but not actual causes, discussed in the previous programme.</p>
<p>People with standard mood fluctuations diagnosed themselves as abnormal. They then presented themselves at psychiatrist&#8217;s offices, fulfilled the diagnostic criteria without offering personal histories, and were medicated. The alleged result was that vast numbers of Western people have had their behaviour and mentation modified by SSRI drugs without any strict medical necessity.</p>
<p>The Ax Fight—a famous anthropological study of the Yanomamo people of Venezuela by Tim Asch and Napoleon Chagnon—was re-examined and its strictly genetic-determinist interpretation called into question. Other researchers were called upon to verify Chagnon&#8217;s conclusions and arrived at totally opposed opinions. The suggestion was raised that the presence of a film crew and the handing out of machetes to some, but not all, tribesmen might have caused them to &#8216;perform&#8217; as they did. While being questioned by Curtis, Chagnon was so annoyed by this suggestion that he terminated the interview and walked out of shot, protesting under his breath.</p>
<p>Film of Richard Dawkins propounding his ultra-strict &#8220;selfish gene&#8221; analogy of life was shown, with the archive clips spanning two decades to emphasise how the severely reductionist ideas of programmed behaviour have been absorbed by mainstream culture. (Later, however, the documentary gives evidence that cells are able to selectively replicate parts of DNA dependent on current needs. According to Curtis such evidence detracts from the simplified economic models of human beings.). This brought Curtis back to the economic models of Hayek and the game theories of Cold War. Curtis explains how, with the &#8220;robotic&#8221; description of humankind apparently validated by geneticists, the game theory systems gained even more hold over society&#8217;s engineers.</p>
<p>The programme describes how the Clinton administration gave in to market theorists in the US and how New Labour in the UK decided to measure everything it could, the better to improve it, introducing such artificial and unmeasurable targets as:</p>
<p>* Reduction of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa by 48%<br />
* Reduction of global conflict by 6%</p>
<p>It also introduced a rural community vibrancy index in order to gauge the quality of life in British villages and a birdsong index to check the apparent decline of wildlife.</p>
<p>In industry and the public services, this way of thinking led to a plethora of targets, quotas, and plans. It was meant to set workers free to achieve these targets in any way they chose. What these game-theory schemes did not predict was that the players, faced with impossible demands, would cheat.</p>
<p>Curtis describes how, in order to meet artificially inflated targets:</p>
<p>* Lothian and Borders Police reclassified dozens of criminal offences as &#8220;suspicious occurrences&#8221;, in order to keep them out of crime figures;<br />
* Some NHS hospital trusts created an unofficial post of &#8220;The Hello Nurse,&#8221; whose sole task it was to greet new arrivals in order to claim for statistical purposes that the patient had been &#8220;seen,&#8221; even though no treatment or even examination had occurred during the encounter;<br />
* NHS managers took the wheels off trolleys and reclassified them as beds, while simultaneously reclassifying corridors as wards, in order to falsify Accident &#038; Emergency waiting times statistics.</p>
<p>In a section called &#8220;The Death of Social Mobility&#8221;, Curtis also describes how the theory of the free market was applied to education. With league tables of school performance published, the richest parents moved house to get their children into better schools. This caused house prices in the appropriate catchment areas to rise dramatically—thus excluding poorer parents who were left with the worst-performing schools. This is just one aspect of a more rigidly stratified society, which Curtis identifies in the way in which the incomes of the poorest (working class) Americans have actually fallen in real terms since the 1970s, while the incomes of the average (middle class) have increased slightly and those of the highest earners (upper class) have quadrupled. Similarly, babies in poorer areas in the UK are twice as likely to die in their first year as children from prosperous areas.</p>
<p>Curtis&#8217;s narration concludes with the observation that the game theory/free market model is now undergoing interrogation by economists who suspect a more irrational model of behaviour is appropriate and useful. In fact, in formal experiments the only people who behaved exactly according to the mathematical models created by game theory are economists themselves, and psychopaths.</p>
<p>Part 3: &#8220;We Will Force You To Be Free&#8221;</p>
<p>The final programme focussed on the concepts of positive and negative liberty introduced in the 1950s by Isaiah Berlin. Curtis briefly explained how negative liberty could be defined as freedom from coercion and positive liberty as the opportunity to strive to fulfill one&#8217;s potential. Tony Blair had read Berlin&#8217;s essays on the topic and wrote to him in the late 1990s, arguing that positive and negative liberty could be mutually compatible. He never received a reply, as Berlin was on his death bed.</p>
<p>The programme began with a description of the Two Concepts of Liberty, reviewing Berlin&#8217;s opinion that, since it lacked coercion, negative liberty was the &#8216;safer&#8217; of the two. Curtis then explained how many political groups who sought their vision of freedom ended up using violence to achieve it.</p>
<p>For example the French revolutionaries wished to overthrow a monarchical system which they viewed as antithetical to freedom, but in so doing ended up with the Reign of Terror. Similarly, the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, who sought to overthrow the old order and replace it with a society in which everyone was equal, ended up creating a totalitarian regime which used violence to achieve its ends.</p>
<p>Using violence, not simply as a means to achieve one&#8217;s goals, but also as an expression of freedom from Western bourgeois norms, was an idea developed by African revolutionary Frantz Fanon. He developed it from the Existentialist ideology of Jean-Paul Sartre, who argued that terrorism was a &#8220;terrible weapon but the oppressed poor have no others.&#8221; These views were expressed, for example, in the revolutionary film The Battle of Algiers.</p>
<p>This programme also explored how economic freedom had been used in Russia and the problems this had introduced. A set of policies known as &#8220;shock therapy&#8221; were brought in mainly by outsiders, which had the effect of destroying the social safety net that existed in most other western nations and Russia. In the latter, the sudden removal of e.g. the subsidies for basic goods caused their prices to rise enormously, making them hardly affordable for ordinary people. An economic crisis escalated during the 1990s and some people were paid in goods rather than money. Yeltsin was accused by his parliamentary deputies of &#8220;economic genocide&#8221;, due to the large numbers of people now too poor to eat. Yeltsin responded to this by removing parliament&#8217;s power and becoming increasingly autocratic. At the same time, many formerly state-owned industries were sold to private businesses, often at a fraction of their real value. Ordinary people, often in financial difficulties, would sell shares, which to them were worthless, for cash, without appreciating their true value. This ended up with the rise of the Oligarchs—super-rich businessmen who attributed their rise to the sell offs of the &#8217;90s. It resulted in a polarisation of society into the poor and ultra-rich, and indirectly led to a more autocratic style of government under Vladimir Putin, which, while less free, promised to provide people with dignity and basic living requirements.</p>
<p>There was a similar review of post-war Iraq, in which an even more extreme &#8220;shock therapy&#8221; was employed—the removal from government of all Ba&#8217;ath party employees and the introduction of economic models which followed the simplified economic model of human beings outlined in the first two programmes—this had the result of immediately disintegrating Iraqi society and the rise of two strongly autocratic insurgencies, one based on Sunni-Ba&#8217;athist ideals and another based on revolutionary Shi&#8217;a philosophies.</p>
<p>Curtis also looked at the neo-conservative agenda of the 1980s. Like Sartre, they argued that violence would sometimes be necessary to achieve their goals, except they wished to spread what they described as democracy. Curtis quoted General Alexander Haig then US Secretary of State, as saying that &#8220;some things were worth fighting for&#8221;. However, Curtis argued, although the version of society espoused by the neo-conservatives made some concessions towards freedom, it did not offer true freedom. The neo-conservatives were ardent supporters of the Augusto Pinochet regime in Chile which used violence to crush opponents in a virtual police state.</p>
<p>The neo-conservatives also took a strong line against the Sandinistas—a political group in Nicaragua—who Reagan argued were accepting help from the Soviets and posed a real threat to American security. The truth was that the Sandinistas posed no real military threat to the US, and a disinformation campaign was started against them painting them as accessories of the Soviets. The Contras, who were a proxy army fighting against the Sandinistas, were—according to US propaganda—valiantly fighting against the evil of Communism. In reality, argued Curtis, they were using all manner of techniques, including the torture, rape and murder of civilians. The CIA funded the Contras by allegedly flying in cocaine into the United States, as financing the Contras directly would have been illegal.</p>
<p>However such policies did not always result in the achievement of neo-conservative aims and occasionally threw up genuine surprises. Curtis examined the Western-backed government of the Shah in Iran, and how the mixing of Sartre&#8217;s positive libertarian ideals with Shia religious philosophy led to the revolution which overthrew it. Having previously been a meek philosophy of acceptance of the social order, in the minds of revolutionaries such as Ali Shariati and Ayatollah Khomeini, Revolutionary Shia Islam became a meaningful force to overthrow tyranny.</p>
<p>The programme reviewed the Blair government and its role in achieving its vision of a stable society. In fact, argued Curtis, the Blair government had created the opposite of freedom, in that the type of liberty it had engendered wholly lacked any kind of meaning. Its military intervention in Iraq had provoked terrorist actions in the UK and these terrorist actions were in turn used to justify restrictions of liberty.</p>
<p>In essence, the programme suggested that following the path of negative liberty to its logical conclusions, as governments have done in the West for the past 50 years, resulted in a society without meaning populated only by selfish automatons, and that there was some value in positive liberty in that it allowed people to strive to better themselves.</p>
<p>The closing minutes directly state that if western humans were ever to find their way out of the &#8220;trap&#8221; described in the series, they would have to realise that Isaiah Berlin was wrong and that not all attempts at creating positive liberty necessarily ended in coercion and tyranny.</p>
<p>More information about this documentary series on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(television_documentary_series)">wikipedia</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Its three one-hour parts consist mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis&#8217;s narration. The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Its three one-hour parts consist mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis&#8217;s narration. The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been broadcast in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.</p>
<p>The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.</p>
<p>The Power of Nightmares has been praised by film critics in both Britain and the United States. Its message and content have also been the subject of various critiques and criticisms from conservatives and progressives.</p>
<p><strong>Part 1: &#8220;Baby It&#8217;s Cold Outside&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>The first part of the series explains the origin of Islamism and Neo-Conservatism. It shows Egyptian civil servant Sayyid Qutb, depicted as the founder of modern Islamist thought, visiting the U.S. to learn about the education system, but becoming disgusted with what he saw as a corruption of morals and virtues in western society through individualism. When he returns to Egypt, he is disturbed by westernisation under Gamal Abdel Nasser and becomes convinced that in order to save society it must be completely restructured along the lines of Islamic law while still using western technology. He also becomes convinced that this can only be accomplished through the use of an elite &#8220;vanguard&#8221; to lead a revolution against the established order. Qutb becomes a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and, after being tortured in one of Nasser&#8217;s jails, comes to believe that western-influenced leaders can justly be killed for the sake of removing their corruption. Qutb is executed in 1966, but he inspires the future mentor of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to start his own secret Islamist group. Inspired by the 1979 Iranian revolution, Zawahiri and his allies assassinate Egyptian president Anwar Al Sadat, in 1981, in hopes of starting their own revolution. The revolution does not materialise, and Zawahiri comes to believe that the majority of Muslims have been corrupted by their western-inspired leaders and thus may be legitimate targets of violence if they do not join him.</p>
<p>At the same time in the United States, a group of disillusioned liberals, including Irving Kristol and Paul Wolfowitz, look to the political thinking of Leo Strauss after the perceived failure of President Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;Great Society&#8221;. They come to the conclusion that the emphasis on individual liberty was the undoing of the plan. They envisioned restructuring America by uniting the American people against a common evil, and set about creating a mythical enemy. These factions, the Neo-Conservatives, came to power under the Reagan administration, with their allies Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, and work to unite the United States in fear of the Soviet Union. The Neo-Conservatives allege the Soviet Union is not following the terms of disarmament between the two countries, and, with the investigation of &#8220;Team B&#8221;, they accumulate a case to prove this with dubious evidence and methods. President Reagan is convinced nonetheless.</p>
<p><strong>Part 2: &#8220;The Phantom Victory&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>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&#8217;s invasion of Afghanistan. When the Soviets eventually pull out and when the Eastern Bloc begins to collapse in the late 1980s, both groups believe they are the primary architects of the &#8220;Evil Empire&#8217;s&#8221; defeat. Curtis argues that the Soviets were on their last legs anyway, and were doomed to collapse without intervention.</p>
<p>However, the Islamists see it quite differently, and in their triumph believe that they had the power to create &#8216;pure&#8217; Islamic states in Egypt and Algeria. However, attempts to create perpetual Islamic states are blocked by force. The Islamists then try to create revolutions in Egypt and Algeria by the use of terrorism to scare the people into rising up. However, the people are terrified by the violence and the Algerian government uses their fear as a way to maintain power. In the end, the Islamists declare the entire populations of the countries as inherently contaminated by western values, and finally in Algeria turn on each other, each believing that other terrorist groups are not pure enough Muslims either.</p>
<p>In America, the Neo-Conservatives&#8217; aspirations to use the United States military power for further destruction of evil are thrown off track by the ascent of George HW Bush to the 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 turn against Clinton. 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.</p>
<p><strong>Part 3: &#8220;The Shadows in the Cave&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>The Neo-Conservatives use the September 11th attacks, with al-Fadl&#8217;s description of al-Qaeda, to launch the War on Terror.</p>
<p>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 argues that in order to prosecute bin Laden in absentia for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, US prosecutors had to prove he was the head of a criminal organisation responsible for the bombings. 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 &#8220;al-Qaeda&#8221;. 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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;terror&#8221; 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 &#8220;preemption&#8221; 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 allay 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.</p>
<p>More information about this documentary series on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares">wikipedia</a>.</p>
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		<title>David Icke &#8211; Beyond the Cutting Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since his extraordinary ‘awakening’ in 1990 and 1991, David Icke has been on a journey across the world, and within himself, to find the Big answers to the Big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? Who really controls this world and how and why? In this seven-hour presentation from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since his extraordinary ‘awakening’ in 1990 and 1991, <a href="http://www.davidicke.com/">David Icke</a> has been on a journey across the world, and within himself, to find the Big answers to the Big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? Who really controls this world and how and why?</p>
<p>In this <strong>seven-hour</strong> presentation from May 2008 to 2,500 people at the Brixton Academy in London, David addresses all these questions and connects the dots between them to reveal a picture of life on earth that is truly beyond the cutting edge.</p>
<p>Nowhere in the world will you see a presentation like this one, which connects the apparently unconnected to form the tapestry of knowledge that can set us free from our collective enslavement by the hidden powers behind government, banking, business, media and all the other agencies of manipulation and control.</p>
<p>What is the connection between ancient history, 9/11, the ‘war on terror’, the gathering Orwellian nightmare and the nature of reality itself? It seems a strange question to most people, but in fact all are fundamentally linked, as Icke so compellingly reveals.</p>
<p>As he says: ‘Without understanding the nature of our experienced reality and how we create it, we cannot truly understand anything else.’</p>
<p>Tens of millions around the world have become aware of David Icke and his work as what he has written in a stream of books has become our daily experience.</p>
<p>Now, go with him to the next stage of his incredible journey – a journey Beyond the Cutting Edge.</p>
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		<title>Hijacking Humanity Final Cut</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After connecting with many people from around the world during 5 years of intense research, Paul Verge charts his journey of startling discoveries through the many systems that govern our lives in North America, where hidden levers are pulled, backs are scratched in the shadows and the seemingly unconnected gears of everyday powerbrokers combine into [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After connecting with many people from around the world during 5 years of intense research, Paul Verge charts his journey of startling discoveries through the many systems that govern our lives in North America, where hidden levers are pulled, backs are scratched in the shadows and the seemingly unconnected gears of everyday powerbrokers combine into a massive jigsaw puzzle, revealing themselves to be part of the juggernaut machinery pushing towards a consolidation of World Power.</p>
<p>This film examines the many aspects of our Authoritative Systems that we take for granted in our everyday lives. From Currency Printing and The Origins of our Money, to How the Media Works and Compartmentalization of Information, this film connects the dots between seemingly unconnected dynamics of our System.</p>
<p>Find out who YOU really are, Legally and Lawfully -Discover the difference between the Sovereign Human and the Legal Person. Empower yourself with important sources of key information, from Books to other Mind-Blowing Documentaries that will change the way you look at the world, and inspire you to do something important that makes a difference!</p>
<p>If you are the type of person who likes to Ask Questions and Demand Answers from the people that Claim Power over you, then you&#8217;ll want to know what this film has to offer… Who really benefited from the 9/11 Attacks? What of the plight facing dying rescue workers who are now ill, lied to by the authorities, people once hailed as heroes now shunned as lunatics or unpatriotic? Could it be that this valuable information is kept from the public because it is simply too profitable to the controlling interest of people and companies who work so hard to hide, distort or obfuscate the truth?</p>
<p>How do we reach out and claim our rights again and truly make our political representatives Accountable? Hijacking Humanity will put you on the path to unlearn the lies you&#8217;ve been taught, learn the truth that&#8217;s been hidden, and contribute to the massive &#8220;paradigm shift&#8221; of humanity that will take back our planet from dark destructive forces that appear to be out of control.</p>
<p>Divergentfilms and CraigBrockie.com bring you a film that will make your jaw drop, make you laugh, make you cry, make you angry, and ignite the righteous fire within you.</p>
<p>Discover who&#8217;s trying to rule you from the shadows, how they are doing it, and find empowerment to take back your power and freedom today.</p>
<p><strong>Chapter 1 &#8211; Do As We Say, Not As We Do</strong> </p>
<p>Video author&#8217;s comments:<br />
The introduction to the series presents the main argument of the film, that a few people in positions of power can manipulate the masses, and analyzes exactly how and why they would do so.</p>
<p>Writer/Director Paul Verge relays his personal story about coming to terms with the grand deception of society&#8217;s System. His journey travelling across Canada and the United States reveals insights rarely heard in today&#8217;s mass media, because it is simply too profitable to keep this information secret. Edward Bernays is a central figurehead in the development of mass marketing techniques, and his role in history is examined in Chapter 1, as well as the techniques of Hegelian Dialectic, Compartmentalization of Information, and Secret Societies.</p>
<p><strong>Chapter 2 &#8211; It&#8217;s a Rich Man&#8217;s World.. Government?</strong></p>
<p>Video author&#8217;s comments:<br />
An important part of The Cause of Effect : Hijacking Humanity, Chapter 2 of the series, titled, &#8220;It&#8217;s a Rich Man&#8217;s World.. Government?&#8221; presents evidence about the North American Union, as well as a brief history on Currency and the Banking Banksters who control our money today.</p>
<p>Writer/Director Paul Verge relays his personal story about coming to terms with the grand deception of society&#8217;s System. His journey travelling across Canada and the United States reveals insights rarely heard in today&#8217;s mass media, because it is simply too profitable to keep this information secret. The Banking cartels today seem to be trying to centralize their power to lead us towards a World Currency that has no intrinsic value, and will be controlled by a World Dictatorship.</p>
<p>In order to further this goal, a step at a time, the Banksters, with their IMF, World Bank and Federal Reserve System operating in conjunction with members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group are taking the United States into a financial nosedive, purposely, to devalue the currency, and thus introduce the Amero &#8211; A North American Currency for a North American Union.</p>
<p>Do you think Canada, the US and Mexico should have a HARM-onization of laws, rules and regulations?<br />
Me neither.</p>
<p><strong>Chapter 3 &#8211; Commerce &#038; Law &#8211; Laws of Land &#038; Water</strong></p>
<p>Video author&#8217;s comments:<br />
The most interesting and information laden chapter of The Cause of Effect : Hijacking Humanity, Chapter 3 of the series, titled simply, &#8220;Commerce &#038; Law&#8221; presents an alternative take on how our Law System works, especially in relation to money, as well as examining the concepts of Law of the Land (Common Law) and Law of the Water (Admiralty Law) and which is used to govern us today.</p>
<p>Writer/Director Paul Verge relays his personal story about coming to terms with the grand deception of society&#8217;s System. His journey travelling across Canada and the United States reveals insights rarely heard in today&#8217;s mass media, because it is simply too profitable to keep this information secret. The legal system in its current state has existed for only a short time, but it is acting as a noose, slowly closing around our freedoms as we are fed the illusion that our fundamental human rights are evaporating. Learning your rights, the difference between a human and a Person (Legal Person vs. Natural Person), as well as the true origins and purpose of your Birth Certificate, Social Insurance/Social Security Number, and even what it really means to be an Employee, a Driver or a Taxpayer.</p>
<p>Most Politicians were usually Lawyers (Liars?), and thus, is it not possible that these Lawyer Politicians with their foreign Legalese Language could not form their words to create invisible yokes around the people that serve the very originators of these excessive laws, restrictions and taxes? Why do we pay an income tax? Could it be that our Legal Status as a Federal Citizen is legally defined as that of a Government Employee, all of whom ARE in fact liable for income tax?</p>
<p><strong>Chapter 4 &#8211; 911 Conspiracy and Global Consolidation</strong></p>
<p>Video author&#8217;s comments:<br />
Divergentfilms and CraigBrockie.com bring you the 4th Chapter in the Cause of Effect series, &#8220;Hijacking Humanity Final Cut&#8221; Chapter 4 &#8211; 911 Conspiracy and The Push Towards Final Global Consolidation. The Elites are making their last big push to fulfill their 150+ years-old plan to dominate and enslave the human race under their System of Global Governance, ruling through Law, Commerce, Currency, and Media Manipulation. All of these aspects came together for the Trigger Event, which was the 911 Attacks. As we see different mechanisms of the Elitest Game come to fruition, we realize more and more that this new era&#8217;s rules are ultimately based on the Lie that is the Official Story of 911. Don&#8217;t believe us, research the truth for yourself, but remember, Cui Bono? Who benefactor of the attacks? Certainly no Muslim killed since the War of Terror has begun, has ever gained anything. </p>
<p>If a government wanted further repressive laws against the people, and further control over the people, then there is a strong argument that they would benefit greatly from those attacks, by being able to claim new powers necessary to &#8220;protect the people&#8221;. For other info on 9/11, please watch Loose Change Final Cut, 9/11 Mysteries, and many many others that cover a whole plethora of evidence that works to unravel the official story.</p>
<p><strong>Chapter 5 &#8211; Hope, L.O.V.E. and Positive Change</strong></p>
<p>Video author&#8217;s comments:<br />
The conclusion to The Cause of Effect &#8211; Hijacking Humanity Final Cut, Chapter 5 closes the film, putting the previous information into actionable context, leaving the viewer empowered to act and further their research into the subject matter covered. You are encouraged to participate in Forums at The CauseOfEffect.com, and work with other like minded people to find Solutions for Humanity! Thank you for watching Hijacking Humanity Final Cut! </p>
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		<title>The Century of the Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and its workings profoundly. His influence on the 20th century is widely regarded as massive. This documentary in four parts describes the impact of Freud&#8217;s theories on the perception of the human mind, and the ways public relations agencies and politicians have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and its workings profoundly. His influence on the 20th century is widely regarded as massive. This documentary in four parts describes the impact of Freud&#8217;s theories on the perception of the human mind, and the ways public relations agencies and politicians have used this during the last 100 years for their &#8220;engineering of consent&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>Episode 1. &#8220;Happiness Machines&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud&#8217;s ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn&#8217;t need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.</p>
<p>Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the motorcar.</p>
<p>His most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. But Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile.</p>
<p>It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today&#8217;s world. </p>
<p><strong>Episode 2. &#8220;The Engineering of Consent&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud&#8217;s ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.</p>
<p>Politicians and planners came to believe Freud&#8217;s underlying premise &#8211; that deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational desires and fears. They were convinced that it was the unleashing of these instincts that had led to the barbarism of Nazi Germany. To stop it ever happening again they set out to find ways to control this hidden enemy within the human mind.</p>
<p>Sigmund Freud&#8217;s daughter, Anna, and his nephew, Edward Bernays, provided the centrepiece philosophy. The US government, big business, and the CIA used their ideas to develop techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people. But this was not a cynical exercise in manipulation. Those in power believed that the only way to make democracy work and create a stable society was to repress the savage barbarism that lurked just under the surface of normal American life.</p>
<p><strong>Episode 3. &#8220;There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud&#8217;s, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled. It should be encouraged to express itself.</p>
<p>Out of this came a political movement that sought to create new beings free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in people&#8217;s minds by business and politics.</p>
<p>This programme shows how this rapidly developed in America through self-help movements like Werber Erhard&#8217;s Erhard Seminar Training &#8211; into the irresistible rise of the expressive self: the Me Generation.</p>
<p>But the American corporations soon realised that this new self was not a threat but their greatest opportunity. It was in their interest to encourage people to feel they were unique individuals and then sell them ways to express that individuality. To do this they turned to techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner desires of the new self.</p>
<p><strong>Episode 4. &#8220;Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfil the inner desires of the self.</p>
<p>Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, used the focus group, which had been invented by psychoanalysts, in order to regain power. They set out to mould their policies to people&#8217;s inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism had learnt to do with products.</p>
<p>Out of this grew a new culture of public relations and marketing in politics, business and journalism. One of its stars in Britain was Matthew Freud who followed in the footsteps of his relation, Edward Bernays, the inventor of public relations in the 1920s.</p>
<p>The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of individual. But what they didn&#8217;t realise was that the aim of those who had originally created these techniques had not been to liberate the people but to develop a new way of controlling them.</p>
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