Tag Archives: video

How Fascism Happens

Posted on December 20, 2008 by Lee

All it really takes to get you to ignore the concentration camps right in front you of your eyes and turn you into a robot, is to say “hey, look at this.” That certainly wasn’t the purpose of this video, … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged concentration camp, fascism, Media, robot, video | 1 Comment

Penalty of Vision

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Lee

One of the finer moments from Carl Sagan’s old Cosmos series, the persecution of Kepler.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Carl Sagan, cosmos, Johannes Kepler, video, youtube | Leave a comment

Nixon and Kissinger in Watchmen

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Lee

The newish montage for the screen version of Watchmen, has a fine scene of the Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger characters about mid way through it (video). Looks like they finally found an actor who could do the nose.

Posted in Culture | Tagged Alan Moore, alternative history, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, video, Watchmen | 5 Comments

Flight of the Flightless

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Lee

Boy, I love this charming ad for the Washington state secret tax on the poor lottery.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged ad, advertising, birds, flight, flightless, marketing, poor, tax, video, Washington Lottery, youtube | Leave a comment

Editing Obama

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Lee

Pretty neat video visualization of edits to the Barack Obama Wikipedia entry from 2005 to election day.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged 2005, Barack Obama, election day, video, vimeo, visualization, wikipedia | Leave a comment

Laid Off By Lehman: One Broker’s Story

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Lance

Heh, heh, heh.

Posted in Economics, Humor, Lance's Page | Tagged brokers, Humor, Lehman Brothers, video | Leave a comment

A Childhood Dream of Death

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Lee

Equal to the horror of this, is the futility.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged BBC, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Palestine, suicide bomber, video | Leave a comment

Biden: Clinton Better

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Lee

Joe Biden says Hillary Clinton would have been a better pick than himself. A little amusing naturally, but I’m impressed by the candor and humility of it. Fine characteristics for a serving vice president who is expected to exert substantial … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Clinton, election, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, humility, Joe Biden, vice president, video, youtube | Leave a comment

Bomb Philosophy

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Lee

9/11 Denial comedic interlude of the day. I’d say we’re approaching a existential bomb philosophy moment with Andrew Kornkven and those of similar sentiment. One in which absolutely everything becomes a manufactured illusion to justify hidden purposes. A cynic might … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged 9/11 denial, Andrew Kornkven, bomb philosophy, conspiracy theorists, contheories, cynicism, Dark Star, existentialism, illusion, Philosophy, truthers, video, youtube | Leave a comment

Sarah Palin in the Green Room

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Lee

Sarah on babysitting, energy independence and CS Lewis in the Charlie Rose Green Room:

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008 | Tagged babysitting, Charlie Rose, CS Lewis, energy independence, Green Rose, national security, Palin, Sarah Palin, video, youtube | Leave a comment

New Media and “Defending the Ridge”

Posted on August 25, 2008 by MichaelW

Because the blogosphere and all its scions have much more prominence, and arguably more influence, with respect to this year’s election, I’ve been lazily paying more attention to how new media is tackling the subject at hand. I think the … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Media, MichaelW's Page | Tagged blogosphere, Domestic Politics, Election 2008, new media, political analysis, video | Leave a comment

The Pirate Army

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Lee

CCTV video capture of Russian soldiers robbing a Gori bank at gunpoint. While plunder has a bit of an enduring tradition in the Russian army even in modern times, this is pretty extreme. I’d be abusing the event as metaphor, … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged bank, bank robbery, caputres, CCTV, criminality, duocracy, duocrats, extreme, Georgia, Gori, gunpoint, heist, invasion, Lesterblog, metaphor, modernity, plunder, Russia, Russiam, Russian Army, soldiers, theft, video, war | Leave a comment

Those Vultures

Posted on August 15, 2008 by ChrisB

This is more for Lance than anyone else.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Lance, Music, Those Vultures, video, youtube | Leave a comment

War Crimes Live

Posted on August 14, 2008 by Lee

Georgian television reporter Tamara Urushadze gets shot by a Russian sniper as she delivered a live report near Gori. Tough girl, she finishes the report without a tear.

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Media | Tagged Georgia, girl, Gori, journalism, live, Media, reporter, Russia, sniper, Tamara Urushadze, television, tough, video, youtube | Leave a comment

McCain’s Turks vs. Obama’s Armenians?

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Lee

Tsitsernakaberd (photo: Adam Lederer) Just when bewilderment at the spectacle of Steve Cohen going absolutely berserk on an Armenian film crew had started to subside (they were trailing him over his opposition to recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide), I … Continue reading →

Posted in Election 2008, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged 1915, Armenia, Armenian genocide, Armenians, ethnicc, facebook, genocide, liveleak, McCain, nationalist, Obama, Ottoman, social, socnet, Steven Cohen, Turkey, Turks, video, war, war crimes | Leave a comment

Targeting the “Original Maverick”

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Lee

(photo: WBEZ Chicago Public Radio | site) Obama’s newish McSame style attack ad mocking McCain’s “original maverick” slogan is fairly good. As Ken Wheaton notes, all the time McCain had to spend trying to convince the GOP he was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008 | Tagged ad, Bush, change, Clintons, democratic, Democrats, equalitarianism, GOP, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, inequality, Karl Rove, Ken Wheaton, McCain, McSame, Obama, Repubican, Republican, rugged individualism, video, videotape, voters, youtube | 2 Comments

Life Under Stalinism

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Lee

Video clip of victims of the Terror recounting their experiences at the hands of the secret police. The levity that many exhibit in revisiting the systematic decimation of human dignity they experienced, is the ageless strength of Russia as a … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Lee's Page | Tagged documentary, Eric Bogosian, Great Terror, History, secret police, Soviet Union, Stalin, stalinism, victims, video, youtube, Zareh Tjeknavorian | Leave a comment

Pay Any Price

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Lee

The Club for Growth has a clip of Mitch McConnell’s struggles to find a price for gasoline which is high enough to persuade congressional Democrats to authorize expanded oil drilling. A bit of a theatrical exercise of course, but there … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Club for Growth, congress, Democrats, drilling, gallon, gasoline, Ken Salazar, Mitch McConnell, oil, theatrics, video | Leave a comment

F–k It.

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Lee

The way to travel. (via Adverbox)

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged 10 Cane, ad, advertising, rum, Travel, video, youtube | Leave a comment

Paris Politics Part II

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Lee

Uh-oh, Paris doesn’t like John McCain. But wasn’t that sorta the point? It’s amazing how McCain has cheapened the process through involving her though. However…perhaps not entirely for the bad. The 10% of the world that wasn’t paying attention to this election just … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged ad, celebrity, John McCain, Paris Hilton, video | Leave a comment

Exposing a Media Fantasy

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Lee

Jon Stewart hilariously ridicules the notion that McCain’s advertising contains hidden racist and sexist messages.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged advertising, fantasy, hilarious, Jon Stewart, McCain, Media, racism, RedState, ridicule, sexism, video | Leave a comment

China & Russia: Models and Modalities

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Lee

Francis Fukuyama chats with Robert Kagan on a number of interesting things: Flash | WMV | MP3 (via: The American Interest). Of immediate interest is Kagan’s notion that the the emergence of global multipolarity induces an imperfect, baseline bipolarity of … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged authoritarianism, bipolarity, Burma, Calvin Coolidge, China, China Model, Cuban Revolution, diplomacy, eastern, flash, Francis Fukuyama, imperial, internationalism, Kremlin, Lenin, Mao, Moscow, mp3, multipoliarity, nationalism, Nikolai Bukharin, oligarchy, power, revolution, Robert Kagan, Russia, russocentrism, sinocentrism, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalin, tibet, Trotsky, Tsarist, unification, vassal states, video, western, Zimbabwe | 3 Comments

Dissonance Control in Political Paranoia

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Lee

(photo: companyink) After writing about the Ronpaulist fear mongering of Jordan Page, and then reading Lance’s splendid post on the latest contheorist pandering of Glenn Greenwald, a common insight has reoccurred to me: the absurd amount of cognitive dissonance conditional … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Lee's Page, Uncategorized | Tagged ammunition, car bomb, Christopher Hitchens, cognitive dissonance, compartmentalism, contheorist, cynicism, Daniel Dennett, Four Horsemen, Glenn Greenwald, government, improbable politics, intelligence, Jordan Page, NSA, paranoia, realism, resistance, Richard Dawkins, Ronpaulism, Sam Harris, Twinkies, underground, video, youtube | Leave a comment

Defending the Second World War

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Lee

Here’s a five part Uncommon Knowledge segment featuring a superb pairing of Christopher Hitchens and Victor Davis Hanson, to discuss the new World War II revisionism led by Pat Buchanan. While it’s an entertaining exercise for a Saturday, I’ll warn … Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, fascism, History, Pat Buchanan, Peter Robinson, revisionism, Uncommon Knowledge, Victor Davis Hanson, video, World War II, youtube | Leave a comment

Viral Wal-Mart

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Lee

Anti-Wal-Mart hysteria seems to have curiously abated somewhat since the corporation started giving more generously to the Democratic Party. Not an uncharacteristic phenomenon for the centralized extortion tactics –er, “grassroots activism” of such campaigns. But there are still some people … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics | Tagged 1962, activism, Africa, AIDS, animation, Democratic Party, extortion, grassroots, inection, rural, video, viral, visualization, Wal-Mart | 3 Comments

Touring the Low Road

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Lee

The Obama campaign has a new video response to McCain. It’s an interesting approach. The heart of the ad is the beginning, in which quotes from major pro-Obama media editorials are superimposed over McCain, calling his (unspecified) criticism “baseless,” “baloney,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page | Tagged McCain, New York Times, Obama, polls, response, video | Leave a comment

The Muffin Mogul

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Lee

The power of capitalism in a lovely little ad by Nexus Productions for the Royal Bank of Canada: Quicktime Video via Motionographer. ||

Posted in Economics, Lee's Page | Tagged capitalism, muffin, Nexus Productions, quicktime, Royal Bank of Canada, video | 2 Comments

Sonny Landham Falls

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Lee

Looks like the Libertarian Party of Kentucky has dumped Sonny Landham, previously their clinically insane pick for US Senate. Good for them. Even if given the psychopathic nature of Landham’s views, I feel a little like I’m congratulating them for … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Lee's Page, Libertarianism | Tagged Bircher, bob barr, CoCC, David Lynch, election, film, Georgia, Google, hate group, Libertarian Party, libertarians, McCain, Obama, racism, senate, Sonny Landham, video, white supremacist, youtube | 1 Comment

Hot Water and Civilization in Ukraine

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Lee

In much of the former Soviet Union, urban heating is still managed at the block rather than per-building level. This is causing some protest from a population growing accustomed to a new ethos of individual convenience. Something we’ve always taken … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged BBC, central planning, convenience, heating, hot water, Soviet Union, Ukraine, urban, video, water | Leave a comment

Thuggery for Obama?

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Lee

Wow. They beat the crap out of this elderly school teacher, because she chanted for Hillary at the Rules & Bylaws Committee meeting: video. (via FDL). I suppose that’s one way to put down internal insurrection. Not a very good … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Democrats, Hillary Clinton, meeting, Obama, rules and bylaws, thuggery, video, violence, youtube | 1 Comment

Harriet and the Spies

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Lee

Politics makes for strange bedfellows. Vowing to vote McCain, an outspoken, paranoid and hopefully drunk Hillary supporter gets tossed out of the Democratic Rules & Bylaws Committee meeting, raving about race and CIA surveillance: video.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged CIA, democratic, Domestic Politics, drunk, harriet, Hillary Clinton, McCain, meeting, Obama, paranoid, rules and bylaws committe, spies, surveillance, video, youtube | 5 Comments

Bill Clinton’s Laws of Politics

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Lee

Video flashback from 2004. Bill Clinton:”If one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes…” You know where that’s going. Ahem. Clearly these were not carved in stone. (HT: BigDog)

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged 2004, Bill Clinton, Domestic Politics, election, fear, Hillary, hope, laws, video, youtube | Leave a comment

Pecking Order

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Lee

Drake vs. Rooster. Who will win in the ultimate battle for barnyard supremacy?

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged animals, barnyard, battle, chickens, ducks, supremacy, video, youtube | Leave a comment

Pompeii Against Allah?

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Lee

photo: Martin Dixon Here’s a grim laugh for your Friday morning. A Muslim propaganda video which preposterously seeks to explain the death and burial of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the 1st century, as the result of the wrath of Allah … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Africa, Herculaneum, islam, Muslim, Pompeii, propaganda, Saudi Arabia, sex, slavery, Vesuvius, video, volcno, youtube | 4 Comments

Errors in Modern Gender

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Lee

Meet Alan Finch (video report). Alan became Helen Finch at 21, through sexual reassignment surgery…and then became Alan again when he was thirty. As you can see above, the results of his original surgery were extraordinarily effective. But Alan has … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Alan Finch, Australia, cbc, doctor, gender, gender identity disorder, Health Care, Law, man, psychotherapist, psychotherapy, sexual reassignment, surgery, teenager, transgender, treatment, video, woman, youtube | 4 Comments

Pick Flick

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Lee

Hillary is Tracy Flick. HT: All of it

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Alexander Payne, film, Hillary Clinton, movie, Slate, Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick, video, youtube | Leave a comment

A Boy and His Hero

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Lee

You don’t have to be Colombian for this beautiful advertisement to touch your heart.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged advertisement, advertising, boy, Colombia, Ejército de Colombia, hero, military, solider, video, youtube | Leave a comment

The Warden

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Lee

I am really enjoying the cinematic PETA ads depicting KFC’s Colonel Sanders as an evil prison warden abusing anthropomorphic chicken men. This one in particular is hilarious. The premise and message is too ridiculous to take seriously as any kind … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged animal rights, Asia, chicken, Colonel Sanders, Humor, katana, Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC, peta, prison, samurai, video, warden, youtube | 6 Comments

The Practicality of Barack

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Lee

At some point along the way Obama became the pragmatist’s choice. Hillary used to own that territory when concerns turned to electability, but that’s all over with now. Perception is as PoliticalBuzz puts it, “Obama is someone who can rally … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged base, Ben Weyl, Clinton, Cuban, electability, guerrilla, Hillary, Judith Gayle, left, leftwing, Obama, political, progressives, video, youtube | Leave a comment

Deceptive Introductions

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Lee

Isn’t it unfortunate when a truly awful movie has a truly spectacular intro.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Cold War, intro, Moscow, movie, Red Heat, Soviet Union, video, youtube | Leave a comment

Barren Politics

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Lee

The vacuous Draft Bloomberg movement has made a viral video. I have no idea how this is supposed to make me support him. I’m not sure they even know why they support him. No policy proposals, no platform, no definable … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Bloomberg, draft, elections, Ross Perot, video, viral video, youtube | Leave a comment

Asking for it

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Lee

Never tease a camel: Video.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged British, camel, Humor, Iraq, tease, video | Leave a comment

Signal to Noise

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Lee

If like Keith and myself you were in doubt as to whether there were boos among the introductory applause for John McCain at CPAC (apart from this obvious moment), be not in doubt.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged boo, CPAC, McCain, video, youtube | Leave a comment

Berlusconi Comeback

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Lee

Italy’s President, Georgio Napolitano, has called a snap election after the collapse of the leftwing coalition government last month. This paves the way for a remarkable comeback by conservative Silvio Berlusconi, who is running ten points ahead of his center-left … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged BBC, conservative, election, Georgio Napolitano, Italy, leftwing, president, Silvio Berlusconi, snap election, video | Leave a comment

Ouch, Ouch, Ouch.

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Lee

Video clip of Sean Hannity asking Frank Luntz’s group of Democratic Obama supporters to name one (1) specific accomplishment of their candidate. They all fail embarrassingly and resort to offering Obama’s personality characteristics as achievements. One young girl does manage … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged 1980s, Barack Obama, Chicago, community organizer, Democrats, Developing Communities Project, FNC, Fox, Frank Luntz, Sean Hannity, video, youtube | 1 Comment

Fighting the Death of Germany

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Lee

75% of Germans believe that their society is hostile to children. That’s a toxic attitude to combine with an appalling 1.3 children-per-woman fertility rate. Well below the replacement rate, the country is literally dying out over time. To attack the … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged advertising, birth rate, campaign, children, death, demographics, Du bist Deutschland, fertility, Germany, Media, patriomny, population, video | Leave a comment

A Witness in Mauritania

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Lee

Israel Matzav has a video clip of a report on the Al Qaeda attack on the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania. You have to lament for the investigation when your eye witness refers to the scene of the attack as … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged al Qaeda, attack, crime, embassy, Israel, Mauritania, Nouakchott, Terrorism, video, youtube, zionist | Leave a comment

Faire du ciel le plus bel endroit de la terre

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Lee

Video of why I should have been a French pilot. Somewhat NSFW. Some tabloid back story on the scandal.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged France, French, girl, pilot, stewardess, strip, stripper, video | 2 Comments

Baby Polar Bear

Posted on February 2, 2008 by Lee

Painfully cute video. Fair warning.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged baby, polar bear, video | 3 Comments

Counter Coulter

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Lee

Video of Ann Coulter endorsing Hillary Clinton and pledging to campaign for her. Perhaps a worse political catastrophe for Team Hillary than drivers licenses for illegals.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Ann Coulter, Hillary Clinton, illegals, video, youtube | Leave a comment

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