Ghosts in my Shell

To show all the pneumatic musings roiling around my militantly atheist and skeptical mind.

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The German-Russian War Documentary: It has often been complained of that Americans are generally ignorant of the overwhelming contribution of the Soviets in winning WW2.  Of course, for history buffs this is not the case, as they are likely to even overemphasize Russia's contribution (if that is possible) almost to compensate for the perceived ignorance of the public at large. Anyways, this is a BRILLIANT old documentary spanning the whole period of the Russian German war. It treats the incident in isolation, as mostly separate from the western front, and by doing this gives it the focus it deserves. It is absolutely brilliant, and dark. Overall, one of the finest ww2 documentaries to be found on youtube.

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Okay, so it has been two years. But now I think I should get back to posting my surreal spooky stuff on tumblr rather than keeping it to myself. Today: The Dyatlov Pass incident. Always keeps me up at night. While there are some good skeptical interpretations of this, it is always just the right kind of spooky when it is both mysterious and plausible. I'll stick to the wikipedia article and its links, the FauxHistory Channel's documentaries just don't do it for me.

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WIKIPEDIA: Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism is a 3 hour PBS documentary film (sometimes recut as a 3 episodes documental mini-series) hosted by Ben Wattenberg and narrated by Henry Strozier. Its companion book is Joshua Muravchik's 2003 book of the same name, which covers around the same material and follows pretty much the same structure (although it is has a first chapter on Babeuf's Conspiracy of Equals, it adds George Meany to the Samuel Gompers chapter, the Kibbutz data are all in one conclusion, the Tanganyica/Tanzania chapter on Third World Socialism is not divided in two, just like the chapter on Mikhail Gorbachev is not, and the decay of the Labour Party and rise of Margaret Thatcher in the 1970s are just referred in the beginning of the Tony Blair chapter). It premiered in June 2005. According to the film's official site: «This 3-hour documentary explores one of the most powerful political ideas in history. Socialism spread farther and faster than any religion. Then, in almost the blink of an eye, it all collapsed. What happened?»

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  Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

Pure Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need.

Bureaucratic Socialism:...

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One Man Captured Secret Video in North Korea and Lived to Blog About It

 In a quest to document daily life in the notoriously secretive North Korea, Steve Gong managed to capture video footage inside the country without anyone noticing. How’d he do it? Well, North Korean’s don’t know the Canon 5D records video.

Filming in North Korea is a bit of an iffy task, and you never know when a minder may decide to confiscate your memory cards or camera. That was a risk I didn’t want to take, so I decided not to reveal to them the fact that my 5D was capable of shooting video. I taped up the back screen with black electrical tape.

Because I shot with Nikon lenses by way of a simple adapter, I also lost any form of autofocus. Moreover, to be truly covert, it was a good idea to manually focus without looking through the viewfinder anyway.

For a few weeks before my trip, I’d practice every day, shooting with the camera around my neck, manually focussing and composing blindfolded.

Gong had to join a tour group just to get into North Korea, whose citizens are kept at arm’s length from outsiders. It’s pretty neat to catch even a glimpse of what an average day is like there.

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"Welcome to North Korea"(1995)- Peter Tetterroo documentary on life within North Korea during the mid-1990s, a time of great famine that killed nearly 10% of the population during the 'arduous march'.  It's a jaunt down the rabbit hole.

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Great documentary on the Battle of Berlin (1945).  The German Gottandamerung has to be one of the most interesting events in history, period.

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Soy Cuba(1964)- "I am Cuba" a Soviet feature film depicting life in Cuba under American Imperialism and the subsequent liberation, widely considered one of the greatest Soviet films.  For full movie, see (http://www.56.com/u41/v_NTgyMzM4NTQ.html)

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Porn- yeah, it's this good.

Source: Metropolis, Yosiwara scene

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I bet bee hasn't seen Sulu like this before :)

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Rescore of the Yoshiwara scene in Fritz Lang's silent movie "Metropolis", they don't make movies like they used to.

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elbavaro:

HELP!! ES UN ZOMBEE…. is a ZOMBEE

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For my Bee- The opening to 'Welcome to the NHK', a story about the ultimate ab's life

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Jacky Cheung- "July Rhapsody (Man 40) Theme" Vocals (2002)

Took me several days to find this.

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Song "Drawing" composed by Tommy Wai Kai Leung for "July Rhapsody" 2002

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The most exquisite and beautiful movie i've ever seen- a cantonese story of midlife crisis, soul-searching, and taboo as a young student seduces her 40 year old Classics teacher, himself lost in a midlife crisis.

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Images of Kowloon Walled City (-1993)