saucerpeople
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If you were asked to rotate your company on a desert island for a week - would you ask to be joined by sceptics or someone with a more open approach to the possibilities of other layers to reality existing?
The problem is that in this era, science has reverted to scientism and skepticism has become a discipline all of its own when in fact science and spirit used to blend in a far more intelligent manner than we are surrounded by today.
This film did nothing to change that situation - in fact it detracted from both sides of the "debate" with inane discussion and school-yard humour. Barry 'the believer' was possibly the worst advocate for the paranormal you could find... there's more articulate discussion in random YouTube comments than anywhere in this hour long romp into nowheresville.
I'll just add one case to any true skeptics out there... it was monitored and analysed by science based observers... but of course no-one dares bring this case up in any media efforts. The Scoles Project.
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The problem is that in this era, science has reverted to scientism and skepticism has become a discipline all of its own when in fact science and spirit used to blend in a far more intelligent manner than we are surrounded by today.
This film did nothing to change that situation - in fact it detracted from both sides of the "debate" with inane discussion and school-yard humour. Barry 'the believer' was possibly the worst advocate for the paranormal you could find... there's more articulate discussion in random YouTube comments than anywhere in this hour long romp into nowheresville.
I'll just add one case to any true skeptics out there... it was monitored and analysed by science based observers... but of course no-one dares bring this case up in any media efforts. The Scoles Project.
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- So we all want cultures and political "regimes" that are repressive to be removed - especially these days by 'the people', not a stealth bombing run. What this docu made me realise most of all is that most of us lead such hectic, confused lives that just as we think 3 lines of facebook sums things up or 75 characters on Twitter is a suitable digest version of various events - the same is true for catching the news headlines once a day after work. What I realised most ppl required to *really* grasp the complexities and nuances of the Ukraine 'revolution' could not be anywhere near accurately presented in news coverage on TV - nor in any one hour documentary - whatever side or angle you may have tried to represent. Geopolitics is now what Peter Dale Scott called 'Deep Politics'. There are now so many layers to events that end up on our on dimensional TV screens that one single person can no-longer, truly get some sort of 'objective' take on events at the time. As with 9/11, wars in Iraq, chaos after subtle intervention by the West in Libya etc - the truth either comes years later or continues to get further blurred. So Winter on Fire for me may have shown the true nature of a movement growing and asking for change but it wasn't that it failed to report the 'other' (Russian) side - it simply could not do so in the allotted time. Complex histories, funding from US and Euro 'Foundations', the re-hash of the newer Russia framed as the old gulag Soviets (Stalin was a psycho to many, including Ukrainians) meant that in the desire to show the latest colour revolution - it masked some really underhand tactics by factions of the Ukrainian side which you'll only have seen if you had hours to spend watching several news mediums in real-time... at the time. Which few of us could manage.
I watched the first phase of the Balkans 90s conflict play out whilst studying for a degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at a UK college... it was made immediately part of the course. Since then I've made a constant effort to keep an eye of how things have progressed - right up to the recent duping of the people in Kosovo - who seem to welcome being made one big US/NATO base.
Anyway - apart from a 5 part BBC series - nothing has tackled this issue in the depth it demands till now apart from this Documentary. Ignore the handful of reviewers who claim it's "Serb propaganda" - that's just idiotic - in fact this is one of the best produced and written documentaries I've seen on contemporary geopolitical monkey-business to date! The interview snatches are all from erudite commentators, the chronology is unravelled in a comprehensive manner and footage they've amassed really adds a human quality to things. The footage of elderly Serb and Croat neighbours being forced to pack-up and leave after living together without and issue is heart-wrenching (and definitely not staged before someone suggests this).
Also - by peeling away the propaganda the Serbs have been framed with for so long - we finally begin to hear the real ramifications of the war... which was partially a CORPORATE war. Bosnitch adds some amazing facts - such as the Yugo car industry being terminated by clever bombing - and the take-over by US firm Philip Morris by Clinton agreeing to bomb three times a very successful Serb cigarette factory - so much for military targets??! Recommended. A total and much needed breath of air.
Anyway - apart from a 5 part BBC series - nothing has tackled this issue in the depth it demands till now apart from this Documentary. Ignore the handful of reviewers who claim it's "Serb propaganda" - that's just idiotic - in fact this is one of the best produced and written documentaries I've seen on contemporary geopolitical monkey-business to date! The interview snatches are all from erudite commentators, the chronology is unravelled in a comprehensive manner and footage they've amassed really adds a human quality to things. The footage of elderly Serb and Croat neighbours being forced to pack-up and leave after living together without and issue is heart-wrenching (and definitely not staged before someone suggests this).
Also - by peeling away the propaganda the Serbs have been framed with for so long - we finally begin to hear the real ramifications of the war... which was partially a CORPORATE war. Bosnitch adds some amazing facts - such as the Yugo car industry being terminated by clever bombing - and the take-over by US firm Philip Morris by Clinton agreeing to bomb three times a very successful Serb cigarette factory - so much for military targets??! Recommended. A total and much needed breath of air.