The Vice Guide To North Korea Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. (tags: video funny videos travel film history politics interesting documentary geography Cinema documentation courses korea vice northkorea north shanesmith vbs vicemag magazine …)
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty – Free Media in Unfree Societies RFE/RL journalists report the news in 20 countries where a free press is banned by the government or not fully established. We provide what many people cannot get locally: uncensored news, responsible discussion, and open debate. (tags: free news culture russia caucasus language [...]
Pirate Bay trial starts The four defendants from the popular file-sharing web site are charged with being accessories to breaking copyright law and may face fines or up to two years in prison if found guilty. As organizers of the site, the defendants are “promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws," according to charges filed [...]
Synchronized Presidential Debating "Did watching the 2nd and 3rd debates give you a feeling of déjà vu? This montage of synced-up footage from all three presidential debates confirms our deep-seated belief that every debate was exactly the same." (tags: video news funny humor language humour politics mashup editing usa election government johnmccain election2008 2008 presidential [...]
Bill Hicks Home Page WARNING: This website contains everything your parents hate, everything the Church preaches against, everything the Government fears. Enjoy. – Bill Hicks (tags: arts fun video art website funny film humor History humour politics media people comics activism entertainment comedy drugs archive bill billhicks comedian comedians standup truth bill-hicks …)
Michael Moore – SLACKER UPRISING As promised a couple of weeks back, Michael Moore’s new documentary, “Slacker Uprising,” is available for viewing (and download) for free as of today. The movie documents Moore’s tour through 62 US cities in swing states during the 2004 U.S. presidential election, in which he rallied youngsters to vote. (tags: [...]
Kremlin counters fears of domino effect Some experts say the most important lesson learned by the Caucasus peoples from the conflict in Georgia is not universal national self-determination, nor a retreat from Russia’s often promoted agenda of maintaining its territorial integrity, but rather that Russia has the strength and arbitrariness to ensure its will is [...]
Le dessous des cartes Tchtéchénie (part 1) Magazine géopolitique et cartographique de la chaîne de télévision franco-allemande "Arte", sur le conflit en Tchetchenie, Caucase. (tags: KABARD kabarda KABARDIAN kabardino-balkaria kabards caucase ca caucasus tchetchenie geopolitics politics war video Russia …)
Uncle Bobby's Wedding "But if the library is doing its job, there are lots of books in our collection that people won't agree with; there are certainly many that I object to. Library collections don't imply endorsement; they imply access to the many different ideas of our culture, which is precisely our purpose in public [...]
The Most Curious Thing – Errol Morris The background story behind one of the notorious Abu Ghraib scandal photos. (tags: AbuGhraib Photography article education interview iraq news newyorktimes photo politics terrorism toread war writing …)
bush's war – FRONTLINE – PBS From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge — for seven years, FRONTLINE has revealed the defining stories of the war on terror in meticulous de [...]
The World's Dirtiest Cities – Forbes.com To see which cities in the world were dirtiest, we turned to Mercer Human Resource Consulting’s 2007 Health and Sanitation Rankings. As part of their 2007 Quality of Life Report, they ranked 215 cities worldwide based on levels of air pollution, waste management, water potability, hospital services, medical supplies [...]
The Wire's War on the Drug War By Ed Burns, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon "Our viewers worry or grieve for Bubbles, Bodie or Wallace, certain that these characters are fictional yet knowing they are rooted in the reality of the other America, the one rare (tags: Culture activism article crime drugs [...]
English Russia English Russia just because something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth surface (tags: Photos Russia blog culture funny information interesting international moscow news photo photography pictures politics read reading russian russie travel weird world )