America's War On Democracy

Another must-see film. All available on YouTube, so spread it! First part below. Not suitable for sensitive souls!

"Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America's manipulation of Latin American politics during the last 50 years leading up to the struggle by ordinary people to free themselves from poverty and racism. Since the mid 19th Century Latin America has been the 'backyard' of the US, a collection of mostly vassal states whose compliant and often brutal regimes have reinforced the 'invisibility' of their majority peoples. The film reveals similar CIA policies to be continuing in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon. The rise of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez despite ongoing Washington backed efforts to unseat him in spite of his overwhelming mass popularity, is democratic in a way that we have forgotten or abandoned in the west. True Democracy being a solid 80% voter turnout in support of Chavez in over 6 elections."

There are moments when I'm really happy to have been born and to live in Northen Europe...

Hell on Earth

"Dachau. The meaning of pain. The way that I want you to die."

Ladies and gents, this is mankind at its worst: the Dachau WWII concentration camp.

The pix speak for themselves...

Boring Batterists?

You thought drummers were boring to watch?

Well, this guy certainly isn't - he's a real showman. And he's good too. In fact, he's absolutely flawless. Just too bad he plays in this b-grade coverband.

Great, Not Perfect

Okay, Munich is a great place to live at and all that - according to some, the best on the planet - but why are the escalators in the subway so goddamn slow?!

FtW (Fix the World)

Incredible is the word.

The Yes Men, who are on a mission to expose the nastiness of powerful evildoers, outshines the likes of Borat and even Michael Moore by numbers in their 2nd flick "The Yes Men Fix the World".

These elaborate, cunning pranks are political activism at its funniest, and once again prove that humour succeeds where dead-seriousness often fails in shedding a light on and drawing attention to ugly political subjects.

Personally I can't believe these guys haven't got locked up yet (well, actually I can, after reading up on The McLibel Case).



IMDB synopsis:

"The film consists of a several pranks on major corporations and governmental agencies that are performed by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (in real life Jacques Servin & Igor Vamos) who fancy themselves serious anti-globalization activists.

The two pose as executives from Exxon, Dow Chemical, Halliburton and the H.U.D. They give faux corporate interviews pretending to be DOW executives in which they supposedly announce setting up a $12 billion fund for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal disaster that killed 1,773 people. The BBC fell for this prank and aired the faux interview. This caused DOW's stock plummet. Our mindless heroes celebrate their power, but fail to realize that most of DOW's stock is held by pension funds; in other words, regular working class retirees. The dynamic duo conveniently found a few such victims who claimed to enjoy the hoax and its impact on DOW's stock."

This is the Iranian Underground

Being a musician in the West is hard. Being a musician in Iran is about a thousand times harder.

Cannes Film Festival award-winning drama "No One Knows About Persian Cats" by Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi gives a glimpse into the sprawling Iranian underground music scene that is as shocking as it is revealing, including heaps of beautiful pictures and a soundtrack that will rock your behind.

The film is currently on in (alternative) cinemas around Europe. In times of blood-splattered crackdowns and uprisings, the timing couldn't have been better.

Trailer (in French):