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Edward Bernays and the Art of Public Manipulation

tags: bernays, propaganda, public relations, corporations, class war, theleftlibertarian

" [The] American business community was also very impressed with the propaganda effort. They had a problem at that time. The country was becoming formally more democratic. A lot more people were able to... more inside
posted by dystopianfuturetoday  2 days 16 hours 33 minutes ago • 1 comment • 410 views

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10

Alaskan Adventure, 1959

tags: alaska, 50s, 1959, travel, film archive, tourism

from travelfilmarchive on YT: A tour of the state of Alaska in the late 1950s.
posted by Issykitty  5 days 22 hours 48 minutes ago • 2 comments • 247 views
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posted by winkler1  2 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 5 comments • 2649 views
 
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posted by blankfist  6 days 8 hours 7 minutes ago • 18 comments • 1546 views
 
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The Day After Trinity trailer

tags: J Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, Nagasaki

The Day After Trinity is a 1980 documentary about Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the Manhattan Project. "The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist.... more inside
posted by JesseoftheNorth  5 days 16 hours 47 minutes ago • 2 comments • 351 views
 
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Spectacular New York, 1956

tags: new york, travel, archival film, documentary, 50s, 1956, history, tourism

from travelfilmarchive on YT: A tour of New York in 1956 in color.
posted by Issykitty  5 days 22 hours 41 minutes ago • 1 comment • 548 views
 
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Invictus Trailer

tags: invictus, trailer, morgan freeman, matt damon, clint eastwood, nelson mandela, rugby

From director Clint Eastwood, 'Invictus' tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africas rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), to help unite their country.
posted by demon_ix  1 week 2 days ago • 3 comments • 354 views
 
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David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

tags: ted talks, david deutsch

from Ted Talks - For tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through myths, and the pace of change was glacial. The rise of scientific understanding transformed the world within a few centuries.
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posted by geo321  1 week 4 days ago • 4 comments • 338 views
 
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15

International Piracy in brief (2:35)

tags: somalia, malaysia, the economist

from YT: Stronger states can fix piracy. With the right financial incentives, Indonesia and Malaysia did; Somalia can't.
posted by geo321  1 week 3 days ago • 1 comment • 280 views
 
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25

The History of Afghanistan in 3 Minutes

tags: ze frank, time, afghanistan, graveyard of empires

Thanks to GeeSussFreeK for pointing me to this video.
posted by NetRunner  1 week 3 days ago • 1 comment • 448 views
 
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11

They Chose China (part 1)

tags: Shuibo Wang, China, Korean War, POW, 1954

They Chose China is a documentary about 22 American POW's captured during the Korean War that refused repatriation and decided to stay in communist China after the war ended in 1954. McCarthyism was at... more inside
posted by JesseoftheNorth  1 week 4 days ago • 1 comment • 248 views
 
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CIA Director Richard Helms on Ways to Kill Castro

tags: richard helms, cia, fidel castro, black leaf 40, assassination, embargo

From Y/T: Many assassination ideas were floated by the CIA during Operation Mongoose. The most infamous was the CIA's alleged plot to capitalize on Castro's well-known love of cigars by slipping into... more inside
posted by blankfist  1 week 5 days ago • 1 comment • 300 views
 
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Washington bin Ladin

tags: washington, george, croissant boy, uncanny parallel

Fighting them over there.....
posted by longde  1 week 5 days ago • 4 comments • 613 views
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10

BBC Documentary - Russian Godfathers

tags: Russia, Oligarchy, Godfathers, Elites, Fall of the Union, BBC, Doc

An elite group of entrepreneurs amassed vast wealth, huge influence and bitter enemies in the fall of the Soviet Union. Andrew Mueller examines the gilded misery of the oligarchs. Russian politics,"... more inside
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posted by EndAll  1 month ago • 3 comments • 557 views
 
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25

Our Lowly Origins / lovely Origins ;)

tags: apes, chimps, evolution, science, humans, war, behavior, love, darwin, religion

This video really sums up a nice view on the subject.
posted by redyellowblue  2 weeks 1 day ago • 5 comments • 475 views
 
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson On The Day He Met Carl Sagan

tags: neil degrasse tyson, carl sagan, astrophysics, universe, application, influence

I want to meet teenage Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Something tells me he was a geeky cool guy.
posted by demon_ix  1 week 6 days ago • 20 comments • 6261 views
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Propaganda Techniques - 1950

tags: Propganda, 1950, vintage

A vintage educational video on the techniques of Propaganda in the 1950s
posted by Mauru  3 months ago • 2 comments • 675 views
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Frontline: The Age of AIDS 4

tags: medicine, HIV, human immunodefficiency, virus, AIDS, PBS, epidemiology, pandemic

"Twenty-five years after the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in America, "Frontline" probes the social, political, economic and scientific factors that led to the rise -- and hindered the fall -- of the... more inside
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Rare Film: Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady

tags: ginsberg, cassady, poetry, beats, beatnik

This is the first footage I've been able to find showing Neal Cassady talk to his great friend, Allen Ginsberg. The two men were very close and may at one time have been lovers (Neal's wife found Neal... more inside
posted by rougy  4 months 3 weeks ago • 4 comments • 495 views

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