Politics Board Viewing Recommendation Thread

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by Mel Brennan, Jul 12, 2005.

  1. VFish

    VFish Member+

    Jan 7, 2001
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Why?
     
  2. Coach_McGuirk

    Coach_McGuirk New Member

    Apr 30, 2002
    Between the Pipes
    Walking with Cavemen so you have a good idea of the primordial swamp from which we all come...

    Cross of Iron, so you know war is hell...

    Debbie Does Dallas, so you can see how bad porn used to be...
     
  3. Chris M.

    Chris M. Member+

    Jan 18, 2002
    Chicago
    I have to admit that I have never seen it, but I have seen the artwork on the box. Do they really wear the little DC Cheerleader outfits? If yes, then how bad can it be -- even with the 70s porn music. ;)
     
  4. Fires Of Fulham

    Fires Of Fulham New Member

    Mar 30, 2005
    Chicago, USA
    Horns And Halos

    An actually very neutral documentary on the author of Bush's unauthorized biography "Fortunate Son" (and the controversy that surrounded it). It explores the media's coverage of candidate Bush, the independent press movement, and the tactics of suppression the administration would later become famous for (lawsuits, revenge stories, etc.).

    But it also digs into the shady background of the author leaving the viewer to make up their own mind about whether the accusations of the biography are true or not.
     
  5. Coach_McGuirk

    Coach_McGuirk New Member

    Apr 30, 2002
    Between the Pipes
    Oh, it's downright terrible. Robin Byrd was in it, if that helps you to understand the level of horridness
     
  6. Riz

    Riz Member+

    Nov 18, 2004
    R-ville, Murrlin
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
  7. VFish

    VFish Member+

    Jan 7, 2001
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Great RR movie, but 'Three Days of the Condor' was better
    (yeah, I know, it's fiction, but still a great movie).
    [​IMG]
     
  8. Mel Brennan

    Mel Brennan PLANITARCHIS' BANE

    Paris Saint Germain
    United States
    Apr 8, 2002
    Baltimore
    Club:
    Paris Saint Germain FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    War makes beasts of men

    Watch this video (part 2 here) of an Arabic-speaking former United States soldier, Aidan Delgado, who faced abuse and attacks after filing for Conscientious Objector status. His compassionate and powerful talk includes detailed Geneva Convention violations and shockingly personal accounts of the inhumanity he witnessed and experienced...

    On the morning of September 11, 2001, New College student Aidan Delgado was at the Army recruiting station in Tampa, Florida finalizing his paperwork to enlist in the Army Reserves.

    Later that morning, still at the station, Delgado watched the second plane crash into the World Trade Center. A year and a half later, as the US invasion of Iraq was in full swing, Delgado was shipped off to fight.

    Delgado served in Iraq from April 2003 to April 2004 where he was deployed in Nasiriyah and Abu Ghraib. Soon after his arrival in Iraq, he sought conscientious objector status and turned in his weapon. At Abu Ghraib, he witnessed U.S. soldiers abuse and kill Iraqi detainees. After serving his full tour of duty, Aidan Delgado was finally granted conscientious objector status and was honorably discharged.
     
  9. BenReilly

    BenReilly New Member

    Apr 8, 2002
    Sorry Mel, but screw all of the above and make sure you don't miss:

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  10. Dante

    Dante Moderator
    Staff Member

    Nov 19, 1998
    Upstate NY
    Club:
    Juventus FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I can vouch for that one, Ben's spot on.
     
  11. Matt in the Hat

    Matt in the Hat Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 21, 2002
    Brooklyn
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Caligula. Historic and Nekkid.
     
  12. Mel Brennan

    Mel Brennan PLANITARCHIS' BANE

    Paris Saint Germain
    United States
    Apr 8, 2002
    Baltimore
    Club:
    Paris Saint Germain FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    I know you wish you were here.
     
  13. Sine Pari

    Sine Pari Member

    Oct 10, 2000
    NUNYA, BIZ
    I have the same dream

    But I'm in an uparmored hummer tearing out of the green zone yelling yippe kay yay motherhumpers

    Because we don't want to offend our tender islamic friends

    I mean beheadings are one thing, the F-bomb.......well it's just not right !

    ;)
     
  14. Sine Pari

    Sine Pari Member

    Oct 10, 2000
    NUNYA, BIZ

    The book is infinitely better
     
  15. Revolt

    Revolt Member+

    Jun 16, 1999
    Davis, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Happiness is:

     
  16. CosmosKramer

    CosmosKramer Member

    Sep 24, 2000
    Yokohama
    Club:
    Yokohama F Marinos
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The Corporation

    http://www.thecorporation.com/index.php?page_id=2


    SYNOPSIS

    THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.
     
  17. Mel Brennan

    Mel Brennan PLANITARCHIS' BANE

    Paris Saint Germain
    United States
    Apr 8, 2002
    Baltimore
    Club:
    Paris Saint Germain FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  18. Sine Pari

    Sine Pari Member

    Oct 10, 2000
    NUNYA, BIZ
    Wait there really are ignore lists ?

    You can't be serious ?

    Do you have to click a little icon of a child with it's fingers in it's ears yelling " la la la i'm not listening "

    Someone tell Revolt to grow up
     
  19. Mel Brennan

    Mel Brennan PLANITARCHIS' BANE

    Paris Saint Germain
    United States
    Apr 8, 2002
    Baltimore
    Club:
    Paris Saint Germain FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [​IMG]

    An exploration of the complex manifestations and effects of colonialism today, of identity, of nationality...réalisateur, Alain Gomis.
     

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