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Vietnam: American Holocaust
Vietnam: American Holocaust exposes one of the worst cases of sustained mass slaughter in history, carefully planned and executed by presidents of both parties.
US dedicated generals and foot soldiers, knowingly or unknowingly, killed nearly 5 million people, on an almost unimaginable scale, mostly using incendiary bombs.
Vietnam has never left the US national consciousness, and now, in this time, it has more relevance than ever. Claiborne documents the Whitehouse fabrication of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, and further, raises the question of whether JFK was assassinated to promote the Vietnam War.
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the feeding of the 5000!
It would be impossible for me to adequately express how much I hate the United States Government and its policies, and the deceit it uses to enforce those policies, even against its own citizens.
...and repeated the entire process in Iraq, sad, very sad.
Rice was the reason, America is a farmer country, do not be mistaken, Vietnam produced more quality rice than any country in the world, and America wanted that market, to monopolize the crops market. That is the excuse, do not be mislead, this is a good documentary but it does not address that fact.
So keep eating rice crispies
America is the biggest subsidizer of the farming industry in the world.
Watching America act like a fascist state for the last twenty years,its foreign policy driven by corporate interests at the expense of human rights
or morals ,its history distorted to represent itself as "the good guys",even though American history is full of examples of blatant land grabs ,broken treaties and back room deals?... What makes a nation supposedly founded on the principles of freedom and democracy to sell out?.
Your forefathers would be spinning in their graves to see the contempt that most of the world feels towards America today.
All this bulls*** to make a buck?.
There's a lot more behind why the US went into Vietnam than rice. I suggest watching "The Power Principle."
When I was growing up, I always thought those body count numbers read off each night on the CBS Evening News, were artificially inflated. Typically ten Vietcong or North Vietnamese regulars were said to be killed for every one American. This film makes be believe those numbers may have actually been accurate, but for the fact that they included Vietnamese civilians.
since i cant like a comment twice i will just tell you that this comment was excellent.
That's a sheer exaggeration.
Well, lucky for you, this is not North Korea. You're free to come and go as you please.
This was such a shameful period for our country. There needs to be a greater effort from the American government to own up and take full responsibility for what happened in Vietnam instead of trying to sweep it under the rug. Only then could change be possible.
Oh, what a shame for a civilized country :(
unfortunately, any country with power does this. look at russia, china, conflicts in africa, balkans, south... just realized conflicts all over the earth. it is not just vietnam
unfortunately it is not, and US is going for Iran now. Iranian people thought of U.S.A. as allies, they mourned sept.11....
You know, I lived through this era and even today I can't think of why the US had been involved in Vietnam. Maybe time has fogged my memory, but from this distance it seems so pointless and a horrible waste of life. Plus the broken lives it left behind.
I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1966 and was as naive as any other former Mouseketeer raised on the heady American Exceptionalism of the Eisenhower '50s. I did so to do my "bit" for my country and to see the world. However, I became rapidly educated into the politics of the era and emerged from the experience a life long anti-war activist. I am now convinced that nothing will profoundly change in the culture of militarism that has metastasized in our nation until we eliminate the tentacles of profit-driven corporatism from our public life. I'm one of those radical socialists that Fox news is always prattling on about---a real one, not a Wall St-friendly straw man like their favorite target in the Oval Office.
Check this out, though: I'm an American citizen, and my government is supposed to fear ME, and to act how I would prefer they did... and not Bell helicopter, for example. And when it deliberately hides the truth behind its policies because it is clearly aware the majority won't agree with them or support them otherwise, do you REALLY think that that majority should just pack up and leave the place to the liars who are running it? True patriotism is just as critical of the government as the government has warranted. Furthermore, if votes don't appear to matter in representing the will of the people, anymore, there's a reason beyond hunting game the Bill of Rights gave us the right to bear arms.
It generated BILLIONS of dollars for the defense industry. That's the most logical answer I've ever been able to see for this farce. Sure, it was during the Cold War, and masses of people had been stirred up by the "threat" of global communism... But the United States government KNEW that threat was not nearly as imminent as it had been propagandized to be. Ergo: The Vietnam War was about money, like almost all wars have been, and whatever lives stood in the way of accruing it were a secondary consideration, at best.
Excellent comment, Mr. Ford. And I have very, very little doubt that forefathers like Jefferson, Franklin, et al., if they were alive today, would be at the very front of the line for a second American Revolution.
That old adage about "absolute power corrupting absolutely" has probably never had a more perfect example in history than what the United States has become, especially in recent decades.
This was, and still is, the true face of the country often called the Torch of freedom and democracy that the world used to admire (me included, but this was a long time ago). This global admiration was actually never really deserved, the Torch was always just a carefully designed hologram projected by Hollywood et al.
BTW. I remember sitting in history class when the Gulf Of Tonkin incident was being reported. I recall Sen. Wayne Morse and the reactions to his dissent. Almost immediately there were pundits, opponents of the McNamara-Johnson Southeast Asia policy, who began to question the report veracity...but it was a distinct minority. I believe 80% supported the war even in 1965-66.
Did I learn anything? You betcha. I was against going into Iraq from the start and told my wife..."It will be Vietnam...the sequel."
And you can ask any Native American how they feel about it, too!
It seems to me it has always been about money and WHITE POWER over those nasty subhumans who dared to be colored otherwise. And the U.S., for all it's self-proclaimed melting-pot mentality, has been the whitest country in the world since its founding, with very few exceptions.
It always seems to work like that at the beginning. Look at how many bought into the deception about WMDs in Iraq, a deliberate obfuscation of the known facts: Just one of the TENETS of American foreign policy...
An American should not feel offended when I say don't like the American government at all on foreign policy. Think about it.
Clever mean to ignore responsabilties.
What else can be expected.
There shouldn't be one single proud american alive today if they would know their history, from indian natives, vietnam... Now playing, acting like they don't know what was 9-11, pretending blind with iraq, afganistan and so on...
this guys laugh when they talk about their slaughtering of civilians...
their grandgrandchildren whould be ashamed for who they are and where they come from..
killers of human kind, graverobbers. I am ashamed that I am from the same kind as americans are... I am ashamed for being human because of them!!
And they point their fingers at hitler still?? Sucking off werner von brauns or how he was called just because they got more killing tools from him so they can continue what they are about... Killing children?? Poisoning rice?
If Humans will be alive in 2000 years with a single chance to know their history - Americans will be a known as a country of caligulas, thats for sure!
Don't look at me. I'm Swiss.
"Civilized"? U're gross.
Remember always, the quote: -"How could anyone expect a democratic election in such countries"?
The problem these weirdo's are facing in the USA is exactly the same: -Who can expect devents and honest men to take power in the USA. It is now entrenched within their way of life and they take pride to claim it to be "Land of the Free"!
Another Bush shows up, who once dealt with the NAZIS?
Listen tp this movie, they'll go for it again & again.
Since Paperclip operation a little while after WWII, the USA has sheltered and nominated Ex-Nazi(S) at one of its most important Gov. Org. => They established the CIA.
It went through their gene, now runs through their blood.
Experimental syphilis dissimination in Guatemala, overthrow of the democratically elected Iranian Pres. Mossadeth to replace it with a psychotic & criminal puppet that fits their "Way of living", same in Chili, in Panama, Vietnam, etc, etc.
Tenfolds as the worst NAZI nightmare.
A bunch of psychopathic bullies who are unable, rather unfit to resolve their own problems.
Reckoning who's the so-called "Goons" & who's the human beings isn't much of a huge task.
If I'd be force to chose, I'd rather live in Vietnam with human beings than with sub-humans in the USA.
Now, let me get a relief and puke a little.
Cowardly and Gullible Bastards!
I lasted 6 minutes into this story . . .
But the sight of a helpless child laying motionless was enough for me.
We know WHO (done it), But HOW? and WHY? . . . There is NO REASON whatsoever to justify such an act.
War is such a waste of life . . . sad all around.
".....Ears for beers. It got to be a game" says an unemotional ex-soldier around the 47 min mark. People, especially Americans need to watch this film right through. Talk about believing a white-wash my whole life! America is Earth's leading exporter in State -Sponsored Terrorism. If you can't see that after watching this film then you really have been brainwashed.
As I watched 'American Holocaust' I was not surprised at any of its content. While I praise the film maker for their effort in exposing some of the criminalities and horrors which would make the Third Reich pale in comparison. I am not in the least bit encouraged to feel that there is an American conciousness that will stop the vile American imperialist machine. All too often this same legacy of lies deceit and brutality is metered out by the United States and its allies. Every new war fit generation will be duped without question into behaving in the same way as the repentant Vietnam vets did. Every war on this planet has had the greedy hand of America at its design and inception even if no shot was fired by an american. In the wake of Iraq and Afghanistan every American must know that their Gas they pump into their fuel tanks and thus everything they so gluttonously consume is tainted with the blood of innocent people around the world. I wait for the next documentary to be made soon about further atrocities, lies and deception by the USA in their current wars. To all involved in the making of this documentary, I praise your efforts and hope that somehow it will stir some action into motion to stop the american war machine, but I do not hold my breath.
I wait for their next move on Ugandan oil or more broadly African minerals when they will motivate Black American soldiers to murder rape and pillage the people and lands their ancestors were stolen from to be slaves to White americans. Furthermore this open warfare is something that can make a powerful statement such as this documentary but the covert genocide operations carried out by them with chemical and viral warfare is far more atrocious and deceitful.
The Nazis won the second world war by changing uniform. Goebbles taught Hollywood well.
Andrea, under our system of government any such change will not take place as that would require actual democracy.
• Why did we fight in Vietnam? An old anti-Vietnam -war song goes:
"We fight for coal and zinc and manganese, lumber, fruits and rice,
Rubber, pepper, iron ore, kapok, tea and spice,
Cattle, quinine, bauxite, sugar, all the country through,
We fight for tin and tungsten...
And freedom too!" by Fred Stanton
I solemly believe that L.B.J.and McNamara were the masterminds behind a military that neede to get rid of their bomb stocks and furthermore what lesson has been taught nothing.Look at the lies portrayed bye once again the C.I A.and Tenant sitting at the U.N.While General Powell sticks his neck out based on lies and fabrication at the U.N.While tenant cannot even look up he knows the B.S.will not be found out till later after the Invasion.What really makes me so angry is that no matter what nation the west wants to conflict with.We the civilians are the ones who half to try and make it right after the damage is done.What a revolting world i am so ashamed that those in the passsed pass the buck to those now in our future.Good Doc sounds like Sheen has aged since Apocalypse Now.All truth will come to an end one day.Peace to u Brother
i always believed it was about 'goodyear$' rubber robbery ?
To bad so called intelligent adults can't or won't see through the propaganda that our government has prpetuated ever since we became the global war machine after WW2. We(our government) became the world leaders of war machines and corporate wealth due to this new powerful enterprise.
Eisenhower warned us of the Military Industrial Complex that was trying to gain control of our government in his exit speech in 1961(look it up)
Kennedy also warned us of secret societies with hidden agendas shortly before they assasinated him. Google the speech that got kennedy killed.
Kennedy tried to stop them, he fired the top three leaders of the CIA, he called for our exit from Viet Nam, and his brother Bobby, was going after the Mob who had moved their opperations into more legal forms of corporate corruption to hide behind.
So you puffed up flag waving individuals need to realize that our government was high jacked a long time ago. They have reduced our nation to one that is only known for being the world leader of weapons and war. They have profited so much from war that they have gone mad with their power and have not only instigated wars, provoked wars, armed our enemies, but their elite banking buddies help fund them as well.
It is no shock to an educated person who actually is aware, that our own troops have been involved in drug trafficing,(remember Olly)illegal weapons sales, and terrorists acts as well as terrorist training,(your tax dollars trained Al Qiata) all under an american flag representing you and I.
We are, as a nation, not the worlds policemen bringing forth freedom and liberties as our bought and paid for media likes to portray. We are a nation of corporate gangsters and opportunistic profiteers. We produce and own more weapons of mass destruction than anyone else, provide weapons for many enemies, create civil unrest in other countries, then charge in to enslave them, under rulers we pick for them. We empower many warlords to political status, then tear them down when they disobey our corporate wishes.
We americans are seen as global bullies and our number one export is weapons of war and death. Our leaders are guilty of war crimes, and have prospered off of the innocent blood of not only our own soldiers, but many innocent men women and children across the world in conflicts that were avoidable.
We have the means to blow up the world, yet we drag out conflicts for years in order for the military industrial complex to push the market and to further their profits and tax dollars from us citizens to help further their agenda of world domination, by any means necessary.
To proudly wave our flag now, is an embarresment to anyone who believes in what the constitution was based on. Freedom and liberty. These criminals ruling our government now, do not care about us or our freedom, we are just a tax cash cow that allows them to opperate behind closed doors for "national security" reasons. Reasons that I am sure would cause riots in the streets if truth were ever allowed to be told.
It is sad that anyone who is aware, anyone who feels the need to speak out against our governments actions, like a true patriot, for the people, in favor of the people, is slandered by the mainstream media, insulted by brainwashed followers of the corporate elite who believe that rich, spoiled, beaurocrats, and corporate bankers and warmongers will ever do a damn thing to restore our constitution and let the will of the nations people be followed.
Wake up America. Conspiracies do exist, and have existed since the dawn of man. That is no crazy theory. Deny it if you will, you just need to decide if you are for the people, believe that government should be controlled by the people, or controlled by a corrupt shadow government that has stopped governing for us in favor of profiting for them selves behind closed doors.
Go ahead, insult me now. I know whos side I'm on. I am a Patriot.
you people are sick! i really don't want to have nothing more to do with americans, i am even ashamed to speak your language... you are really sick! i pity you, Nazis are nothing in compare to you... and it is still going on in several countries even as we speak, you should be ashamed, and you should not even comment this documentary. just check 38th minute before even think to write something. let that suffice!
try -selling chemicals and arms
They fall into one hole and other, But they never learn lesson in Vietnam war.
There will always be a war some where the big banks sponsor both side so its a win win for them, Ask why the Federal Reserve Bank is a not run by the government, but big banks,
Korea back where they started from all other war's lost.
Look at the USS Liberty case to see who controls USA and why military personal are just targets.
The lesson is not in the history but to see its continuation in current day situations. The sponsor of Pol Pot was Zbignew Brazinsky who is the mentor of Obama along with Kissinger and other scum. So the horror of it all is as much as Vietnam can be attributed to some players L.B.J, McNamara,Nixon and so on, the puppet masters of the VIETNAMESE holocaust are now playing their current day puppets. True leaders stand for something but the puppets of today bend for anything.
As as we believe we have seen the worst we have to realise their next target, the American Citizen. TSA, CIA, FEMA, NSA, FED's, Homeland security and other agents are brainwashed into seeing US citizens as the Vietnam soldiers saw the Vietnamese. SUBHUMAN. Imagine your child's ear traded for a beer. Monsanto, Dow and the like are currently poisoning the food, soil air and water in the US. The same companies that supplied the chemicals for warfare in Vietnam. Chemical warfare is illegal in terms of the Geneva convention but when ever does the US observe these rules except for to condemn others who do the same. I do not see limits to their potential for evil.
My mind is in turmoil every day as to what action can be taken to be affective in stopping these butchers. What can I do? Edmund Burke's quote"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." is foremost in my mind. To you Pete and all those who have been outspoken against these bastards I praise you for speaking out and to use Pete's words. Peace Brothers. Maybe our small rants could be counted as some action being better than nothing.
I am not counting myself as a good man but I surely recognise those who are Evil.
Fraud. War is fraud - all of it.
Brown and Root, the Halliburton of the 60's, a Texas firm, went from nothing to the sixth largest company in the U.S., or maybe the world under Texan LBJ. I forget. I forget a lot. What do you think war is really about. Or politics.
Thank you...
Precisely, as well.
When will we ever learn?
Piled like cord wood. But who cared. They're Slants.
Day after Memorial Day. Memorial Day for Whom?
The truth of what happened in Vietnam is bad enough, I don't see the point in exaggerating or using rumors to prop that up. It just gives denialists a foothold to base their arguments on. (Just a general observation about some of the information in the video, not a response to any comments here.)
As far as equivocating Iraq with Vietnam goes, there are definitely some fair comparisons that can be made. However, I can't agree with the notion that NATO actions to stop genocide in Bosnia and the other post-Yugoslavia territories were somehow meant to desensitize the US public to prepare for a future invasion and toppling of the Hussein regime in Iraq.
No way to justify senseless killing, and it's still happening. The fact the shot callers get away with it sickens me, they should be brought to justice.
What's sad is that we're still drinking the same old Kool-Aid they sold us back then. It's funny how Kool-Aid has never gone out of style. Maybe that's because the chief ingredient is sugar: you can make it as sweet as you can stand it. Now they tell us that sugar is a poison. It's trendy now
to tell servicemen that we thank them for keeping us safe. Man, we just love that Kool-Aid, don't we? Instead of buying stock in Facebook, you ought to get all the Kool-Aid stock you can. Buy and hold. You'll never lose with Kool-Aid.
You should have realized by now that there are many more informed Americans out there who are honest scholars, the kind of people who commit themselves to private research and uncover the frauds of their own governments. Instead of alienating Americans in total, we should be supportive of the truth-seekers among them and do our own research as well. The best lesson we should learn from the USA is to always question authority
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and yet within weeks of war's 'end' Congress gave them 3.3bn dollars in taxpayer funds for 'reconstruction aid.' How Americans can be so bind to not see that the Vietnam war had nothing to do with fighting communism (and the absurd 'Domino Theory' sold to the American public through a complicit corporate media)and everything to do with enriching the corporate share holders of the large military contractors. And today there are more than ever. Eisenhower warned us in his farewell speech (wherein he coins the term 'military industrial complex' in very unambiguous language. Many people think this is why Kennedy was killed because he was planning to diminish our role in SE Asia. He died and the war went n for a decade. How barbaric -all in the name so something so needless as the amassing of excess wealth.
As long as we have conflict or war for profit, we will have this kind of unacceptable, unforgivable and unbelievably barbaric behavior. It looks as if nothing has changed. It seems we will never learn to band together to stop this needless and unnecessary violence that is serving such a small minority of the world for profit only.
The Vietnam War was a tragedy and a waste of human life. But I believe that the Americans are learning from their mistakes. Take this documentary for example, these are American people working to educate the world around them and expose the lies for what they really were.
Shame on America and shame on us all for allowing the history to repeat and repeat and repeat................
We doom ourselves like this.
The article I'm posting is indirectly related to the above video on "The American Holocaust. However it points out that the people that cause these wars, are also the one's that profit from these actions. I remember George Bush and others saying something similar to the article I am placing below.
Who said this, can you guess?
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacekeepers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Herman Goering---"He was Adolph Hitler's #2 man."
He commented on how to generate an acceptance and enthusiasm for the mass slaughter that is war.
Can we recognize any similarities in the year 2003.
Seeing this video makes me feel ashamed at the methods that were used to subdue a small country and the Politicos that made the decision to bomb, used agent Orange. etc. We have our own war criminals that should be tried at The Hague.
1."Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it"
2."How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
3. "The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence"
4."Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election"
All the quotes above were by non other than Adolf Hitler. His impact on the American government is astonishing!
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I've played the Mass Effect games so Martin Sheen's narration makes me think of the Illusive Man, it makes this so much more fun to watch
Adolf Hitler was a genius of a man, one whom I respect for his pros but despise for his cons. Though like anything, he must be learned from.
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cowards always have an excuse for not serving.
I reservedly agree with your point about the Eastern European issues as related to the US public. I don't know enough about Eastern Europe as I should but that bolsters my point. In a seemingly warranted cause, little hype and slanted media (there is no other) attention is given to those issues. Lets remember that Europe is full of Muslim or Islamic people as well so the attack on 9-11 could have been pinned on them but hey they are not in the Middle East where OIL,MONEY, & POWER lie. They have also set up camp surrounding Iran. Only an I**** would not see the ultimate target. The horror of it all is that they are using your Son's, Daughter's, Brothers and Sisters to die for their gain and definitely not yours. Not to mention your money.
9-11 was the Blockbuster with as much hype and BS possible used to motivate the public into backing a war of any kind. I immediately thought it was a false flag on the day of the attack when CNN announced that a passport of one of the high-jackers was found blocks away from the towers. They must think very little of the US level of intellect. They named a culprit 3 or so days after 9-11 and bingo, America wanted blood and anyone's would do. Their aim is to keep America at war so that the focus is not on the domestic front. That's how they get to rape you all and you still say thank you because you believe that they are doing it all for your own protection.
Fly the flag at half mast every day because America is dying. It is being killed slowly, more and more every day and only a concious American public can save it.
i am sorry say what???? Amrican people are learning??? just coz one man made a documentary does not change the fact that the exact same is being repeated in Iraq. You kids will watch a Doc on Iraq and Vietnam and ask you what changed and your reply would be ' hey we made a movie about the truth' ???
There are some very serious concerns about the US war machine. It's not about peace on earth, or security of freedom anymore. I believe it was at the point of WW 2, but it's changed. War is big business, and big business runs the US. Oil, natural resources, consumables, anything and everything. Wal-mart heirs own bomb shelters, and I don't know why since the US has all the bombs. Apple runs it shops overseas for profitability, not for any human need beyond the monetary need of a few. Question everything! The stuff that is really solid will hold water, but question your governments (I question mine), and hold them to account for all their actions. Sadly the gears of our world and gears of justice move far too slowly.
You apparently have problems with your Christianity. You forgot what God said of those who refused to fight.
I agree with much of what has been said here, however, nothing is as one-sided as too many of the opinions here are. As one who served three years in the Marine Corps, 1962-'65, when there was a draft, I can state that I was a 17-year old juvenile delinquent who went in the Marines because I didn't want to go to the reformatory and they were the only branch who not only took me in but welcomed me with open arms and a huge smile (on the recruiter's face). Look, wars are fought not by self-serving generals and politicians but by the youth of the world, human beings, young males and females, who have not yet the knowledge or experience, never mind war, to understand completely what it is all about and exactly why it is that they are being asked to sacrifice their lives. We are formed as human beings by many things but one that almost all acknowledge is our parents and for me it was my father. He was a hard man, a German-American who was born in 1914 when Germany was waging WW I and who subsequently volunteered and fought in WWII. He was the epitome of an ardently patriotic American who loved his country and believed in serving it to his dying day. Remember, this is a man who knew from his own mother's mouth, she told him she had seen the Devil, of the horrors of WWI and who then saw the horrors of what Nazi Germany did to so many innocent human beings.
I was in a red-line brig, for going AWOL on a dare and $20 bet from a fellow marine, when I volunteered to go to Vietnam, at that time considered to be only a police action. No enlisted man at that time, or officers either, really understood what was going on in Vietnam, except, of course, for the chemical companies and weapons manufacturers who made, as usual, millions of dollars off that war, as they had, and continue to do, in every war before and since.
But, that being said, make no mistake about it, the privates and PFCs and corporals and sergeants were the guts of that war and every other war and if you don't believe in war, even as I say that I don't either, let me say this: if there were no "patriots" to fight in the Revolutionary War where would America be and if there were no one to fight in the Civil War where would America be and if there were no one to fight in WWI or WWII where would America be? We are all human beings and those of us who believe, as I do, that we come from God, have spiritual feelings that we cannot wholly explain, or put into adequate words, but (many) of us also realize that we lose them if they are not re-enforced, as mine were not, as we grow older and experience the coldness of the world and its acceptance and praise for everything we should not have praise and acceptance for, like money and power and becoming greedy and selfish and out for only yourself and your own interests. As human beings can become like this so can their countries. Vietnam was an awakening for many Americans but far too many of us have only one view or the other, pro-war or anti-war, and the groups that we align ourselves with, of course, re-enforce those views and, many times, magnify them because it is always the extremists who yell the loudest. If you are anti-war just ask yourself this: what would it take for you to "go to war?" What if they invaded America, as, regrettably admitted, America has invaded other countries? On the other hand, if you are pro-war please tell me why because I have yet to find a suitable answer, other than the previous one, where you would be defending yourself and your family.
I am a writer and just wrote a story "Any Other Name," soon to be published by Flarefont Publ., and I can tell you from all my knowledge and research on that subject, that, in 1962 JFK, Khrushchev and Castro held the very existence or annihilation of the world in their hands or mouths, as it would have been. And if, God forbid, a similar event ever happens again it will be 1000 times worse for all of human kind.
i think is better to have in hands of american politics and generals than in dictators and arab nuts like ghadafi was.
this is again my view that is better in hand of american generals and politicans than in arab fanatic and also dictator.
i dont think the americans would do bad things like the dictators and arabs would do.
You've got to be kidding me man. It was the generals who, in October 1962, wanted to blow Cuba off the map and that would have started WWIII with Khrushchev trying to blow America off the map and vice-versa. JFK saved the world in that particular case and we're all probably alive because of it. And, in Vietnam it was General Wm. Westmoreland who led the cover-up of phony body-counts and the Agent Orange debacle and it's been said that his own son died from Agent Orange contamination. Westmoreland was out for himself and his legacy (promotions and future political ambitions) I'm a writer and research this stuff and you are way off man, way off.
Its the same, by the way, in every war, since time immemorial. They are run by self-serving, greedy, psychotics who do everything with ulterior motives. The wars are fought by kids, kids and a few real patriots, usually E-7's and below.
what about when a decision has to be made who make it, a general officer with all his knowlege and training or a enlisted man with no so much training? wars are will be fought anyway so who makes the decisison to for instance drop atom bomb what stopped wwii from killing more people.
and i dont think you know so much about nutcase muslim and arabs and fanatic who will blow up themself even to just prove some stupid point and they are all crazy anyway who do this look at muslim writer salam rushdie who ayatollah khomeni put out reward to kill him for writing nothing bad about muslims and what about 14 year old gil who just was killed by bullet in head and neck in pakistan? you don't seem to understand that we have to protect freedom of the right to live without psychos coming to bomb us and ram planes into world trade center.
How can you ignore history? Americans originated from Europe and have always exploited other countries, including America, for their resources and cheap labor, cheap labor that they get from the Natives they find living in the country they then "discover" and claim it's resources for their own because the Natives are always too "primitive" to understand what it is they have. These exploiters are always those that end up becoming the President, Emperor, King, Chancellor, Prime Minister, CEO, in other words, the ruling class, and always end up stealing, owning, the most land, steal all the resources, take all the possessions, et al. Forget about the Cherry tree tale, George Washington was a General who owned over 300 slaves and took over 50,000 acres of land, which of course, many people fought over, as usual, because of its value in money, money, by the way, that the Native Americans didn't accept, money that the Americans made the Native Americans finally accept and value (money) because the armies first killed all the buffalo and food sources and then locked up all the captive Native Americans on reservations which they then claimed that they had finally civilized them ... the savage natives ... because now, finally, they accepted money. But, now, who were, and are, the savages and who are the civilized?
That was an unbelieve and eye opening account of the vietnam war. Unreal.
I read a lot and looked up Mr. Lanfenburgs books and he wrote one about the marine corps in vietnam. I read the free first 5 chapters on Amazon in the ebook store and decided to get it on my kindle which I have. The vietnam war was definitely a mess my uncle was there and has had big problem with adjusting to this life ever since. i really like the documentary and have watch abot half of it. anything that helps us get away from future wars like afghanistan and iraq has to help and i say this is a superior documentary and provides information that has never been shown to many in public unsuspecting people.
I read semperfi from writer below and thought vietnam was same as they say in this film say he must have been there. very good writing i would say and very good film about truth about wars and their causing so many problems.
I write this sort explanatoin that, so i hope i can inject a bit of brain to whom that untill now still see the VietNam was wrong. Just simple look at this way, nhew VN divided 2 part that North anh South, The North follows Communist regrim and the South belong like another freedoom western nation. If the Red North stay where they are belong to, do not invation the South the the VietNam War would not happen..
Don't let your government do this to you? So he must not be responsible for his own actions. What B.S.
Dam our government for doing this s*it in our name
and Dam us for letting them do it. This s*it should make
every true American SICK TO THERE STOMACH. My
God these are human being's and we treated them as
bad as the Nazi's treated the Jew's we gassed them we
shot them we burned them alive the savageness of it the
shame of it.
I'm very sadden that this happen please except my apology. I don't believe in war, why kill it makes no sense to me. I sometimes get into verbal war with religious sheeple, because I question them why would your GOD kill people this makes no sense to me. If your GOD did exist why would it allow this to happen? Their answer it pure evil. I just look at them because if GOD did exist none of this chaos would occur.
This doc shows what americans would do
"I don't want to take part in mass murder based on a lie" is more that "an excuse" in my book
Vietnam War was a holocaust of our own young men who were also victims. I witnessed the soldiers being brought back in US FLAG draped caskets. I had 2 young men from my block come back in one of those caskets. I had a friend come back without arms and legs. I had many friends come back with drug and alcoholic addictions.
All of these young men were from the barrio, 18 year old Hispanic teenagers that were conned into going to a war that was intended to destroy another country and our young men. The only way you could get out of the draft was to go to college, our young men could not afford to go to college or even ever dreamed of ever being able to do so. They were bought and sold and sacrificed for what. I say NO MORE! Do no let your boys fight the NEW WORLD ORDER WARS and help the INSANITY OF EVIL>
Seeing this documentary has made me realize that all the people who orchestrated the Vietnam war were not human, but inhuman. The Americans and the French have a lot to answer for such atrocities that could have been diverted but for greed. I am shocked and appalled by the fact that knowing parties (Governments) were involved in such senseless waste of lives and war-mongering. I indeed do believe that the indigenous people of Vietnam, should be compensated for these atrocities and Governments should be held accountable for those who suffered and died.
Psychopaths rule the world!
Tamtrolbien, if that is a real name, you need to read some history. Read all sides, and then you will be much better informed. There was no "2 part" or "divided" Viet Nam. There had been one land for thousands of years and was divided by various invading armies such as the Chinese, the Japanese, the French and finally the US. After the French were defeated, the country (one country) was temporarily divided for administrative purposes in preparation for elections to be held through out the country. The US interfered, prevented those elections and sent in troops, weapons and money to take control of the southern section. After you have done some more study, ask yourself how a small country bombed worse than all of Europe in WWII could survive and defeat the biggest military power? Don't blame it on help from China or the USSR. They helped, but it was mostly because the vast majority of Vietnamese wanted the US out and a unified, independent country. And finally, what gave the US the right to cause so much grief?
Yes and they first wanted a constitution like the USA and asked for help. The USA rejected them and went with the French
Eisenhower said they cannot have plebiscite because they will vote for the Communists, its was their vote and the USA denied it. The USA's guff about democracy. This is a country enslaved by money people since the 1913 FED act.
The USA lost 53000 in Vietnam, Australia 533 and Vietnam 3-5 million dead and how many injured ( double the number killed most likely).
Modern communism as we know was created because wall street money backed the Communist to sack a country with a royal family and large navy that could have been their greatest rival. On their fringe of their country they had found oil and would have been mega competition to the Rockefellers.
As Andrew Sutton in one of his video's put it the best enemy money could buy.
Go and read Andrew Sutton's Wall street and the bolsheviks , you can buy it at amazon. Look up his youtube video's they will blow you away, these interviews were made 30 years ago.
A lot of the sick basta*ds who were killing at will are now top brass in the US military. Serial killers (basically) running the US military. Lyndon Johnson was a scumbag. Too bad he wasn't strapped to a bomb and dropped over the pacific. I hope he's rotting in hell. I sincerely mean that too.
If you ever have the chance, read "The Trial of Henry Kissinger" by Christopher Hitchens
Anybody wishing to learn more about the extent of just how far these war crimes went, should read 'The Trial of Henry Kissinger" by Christopher Hitchens. His knowledge of these events is staggering.
I cannot believe how ignorant I have been all my life to the way this war went down, It's a terrible thing to think we are any better than Hitler, and that our OWN government still continues to justify killing people for WHAT? That I don't understand. This was a great film, however, I didn't see any evidence of any enemies throughout the whole film and is that the point this documentary is trying to make, that their weren't ANY enemies? Some of the people in power in our government today are straight war criminals. Makes me sick to know that they have gotten away with the atrocities they have committed.
I'm not surprised at the mentality of the US GI.The complex Conditions the young in America "Mattel's" GI.Joe for 1 ,They also make real weapons for the complex!,War and shooter video games partly financed by the complex and how there mainstream brings WAR into the living rooms like a Saturday night football game!
It's very sad! but well said!
It's when the soldiers, who have been mostly trained on computers & "war games" actually kill people but don't realize it until many years later that they begin to unravel. This is only one of the many reasons tht account for so many suicides by ex-military veterans.
We backed the wrong horse in the wrong race on that deal. I went over there with all the thinking of an american raised in the 50's and early 60's and came away with a very jaundiced view of our governments thinking. Talk about a total waste. Mountbatten told us not to get involved in that deal right after WWII but noooo we have to stick with the imperialistic French like big dummies.
biased comment. look into the words he is saying
I won't blame you personally but Switzerland is one of the premier financers of war, most often funding both sides of conflict. They don't like to get their hands dirty
but are just as guilty as any nation.
this is a fine documentary. The best part is reading the comments after you've finished watching... haha
They sound like comedy skits.
"i dont think the americans would do bad things like the dictators and arabs would do"
Come on... hahaha
Stop sniffing solvents and adding comments.
barry, am not sure if u have really viewed it to the end...but the recordings of top american officials is very chilling...
besides, stick to the topic, please don't include other races.
The United States has demonstrated one resounding—and overwhelming—point in the most recent wars we have been in, or caused. That point, is that we are the dictator. Iraq and Vietnam were both seized with inhumane force, and bombed unmercifully.
How the hell can any American (non-ignorant, that is, as hard as they are to find) be confused on why so many countries have hated us, and continue to hate us? Because we oppress entire countries with force to demonstrate our power. That is the definition of a dictatorship.
I agree. And we have one in our midst. His name, Barak Obama. Wait till you see what he does when all is over in the Communist Regime he has established.
Of course it is. He's an ex-NAZI. Check it out.
Come on! What about the 20 million Stalin killed in the 1936 purges. That's why the Russians got the hell kicked out of them in 1941 and1942. Their officer corps had been all but eliminated by Joe Baby.
Yeah boy! And Hitler's impact upon Europe was just as astonishing when one considers he copied the philosphy of the first American dictator. Abraham Lincoln.
You Americans better get controller over your government!
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i'm a ruby new bie.I'm trying to create a simple API using
rack that takes a json data and writes that to the postgres heroku database table.
i created a database on postgres heroku, but didn't find out any option to create a table there.
Can any one provide some pointers to some good tutorials which explain how to go about accomplishing this.
i'm a ruby new bie.I'm trying to create a simple API using
If you have a dev or basic plan, you won't be able to connect directly to the DB and manually create the table, so you will need to write a migration script that will create the table for you.
Using an ORM like ActiveRecord is generally a good idea and it makes it very easy to automate all the SQL grunt work. Use the sinatra-activerecord (https://github.com/janko-m/sinatra-activerecord
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A 218-page collection of essays on the greatest games of all time! ("Greatest" here meaning "voted as favorites by the denizens of GameSpite's forums.") From Tetris to Planescape: Torment to Super Metroid, an enormous variety of titles, formats, genres, national origins, and creators are touched on. This hardcover edition includes 37 pages of material not featured in the standard version of the book, including entries 41-48 and a New Game + feature for Summer and Fall 2009. It's new games journalicious.
A full breakdown of the issue (and eventually all text) is available for reference, as always: http://www.gamespite.net/toastywiki/index.php/Site/Issue15TableOfContents
Also available in a budget-friendly paperback edition: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/812476
The site currently hosted at GameSpite.net has been online in various incarnations since 1996, although it's only in the past few years that it's become a home to smart, incisive critiques by a loosely-associated team of writers.
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Merritt Van Meter looks to win her first Conference USA Championship in the pole vault
Feb. 22, 2013
NEW ORLEANS - Tulane's indoor track and field program will return to the Birmingham Crossplex for the fourth time this season when they compete in the Conference USA Championships on Friday and Saturday.
The meet will pit Tulane against the 11 other schools in Conference USA - ECU, Houston, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, SMU, Southern Miss, Tulsa, UAB, UCF and UTEP.
"We are going into this meet with the expectation of improving where we've been in the past by a lot," said Tulane director of track and field Eric Peterson. "Where we are strong, we are strong. Our expectations are very high for good performances."
The Green Wave is expecting a large portion of their scoring to come from the pole vault competition, where sophomore Merritt Van Meter(first), junior Joanna Lapucha (fifth) and sophomore Jessica Knierim (sixth) all sit in the top eight of the current conference standings. Van Meter holds the school record for the event, after clearing 4.23 meters (13-10.5) during the Tyson Invitational on Feb. 8. Lapucha's best jump on the season - 3.80 meters (12-5.75) -came during the Cherry and Silver Invitational. Knierim cleared 3.75 meters (12-3.5) during the New Mexico Classic for the sixth best jump in the conference.
"Obviously, we are excited about Merritt Van Meter leading the conference (in the pole vault) and going into this meet with an opportunity to really lead our team," stated Peterson. "We are hopeful that the depth we have (in the pole vault) will really pay off for us, from a team-scoring standpoint. Jessica (Knierim) and Joanna (Lapucha) have had real good, consistent seasons, and we are hoping they will continue that this weekend."
The triple jump is another event in which the Green Wave will weigh heavily. Star freshman Tamika Brazzel is third in the conference in the triple jump with a leap of 12.51 meters (41-0.5), followed by sophomore Estefany Cruz's fourth place jump of 12.49 meters (40-11.75). Junior Briana Santiago is also in the top eight, placing sixth with a jump of 12.17 meters (39-11.25).
"We have Estefany Cruz returning as the conference runner up from last year (in the triple jump)," added Peterson. "She has overcome some adversity this winter and she is going into this meet with high hopes to place well."
Junior Melanie Mainor has put together a very strong 2013 campaign, and she'll look to score points for the team during the high jump portion of the meet. Her jump of 1.73 meters (5-8) at the New Mexico Classic in early February is the fourth best jump in the conference this year.
"Not only has there been solid improvement from Melanie (Mainor), but she has been consistent with it - which is just as important at this point in time. She has been training well. She is very prepared to compete well in this meet," said Peterson.
On the oval, sophomore Paige Callahan sits in fourth place in the conference standings in the 5,000 meter run with a time of 16:59.70. Her time is the top mark in school history.
"I think Paige is arguably one of the most improved distance runners in Conference USA," stated Peterson. "The mid-season performance that she put out in the 5,000 meters indicates that she is really ready to challenge the more established distance runners from other programs in this meet. I think she is capable to be in the top five or top six in the 5K."
The Green Wave sits sixth in the conference with a time of 3:48.44 in the 4 x 400 meter relay. They will send Tiffanie Smith, Candice St. Etienne, Hilary Woods and Kayla Quincy to pass the baton during the event this weekend. Tulane will also compete in the distance medley, marking the first time the squad has taken part in the event on the season.
Tulane's participants are familiar with the Birmingham Crossplex, having competed in three meets there this season. Tulane participated in the Panther Ice Breaker in early December before the squad headed home for winter break. The first two meets of 2013 - the UAB Blazer Invitational and the Crimson Tide Opener - were held there on back -to-back nights in early January.
This year's championships mark the second consecutive season that UAB has served as hosts. The Green Wave last won a Women's Indoor Championship in 1999.
Live stats from the meet will be made available through www.flashresults.com/flashtexas.
You can follow the Tulane track and field programs on Twitter (@GreenWaveXCTF) or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TulaneXCTF.
Women's 200m Dash
Lilla McMillan
Women's 400m Dash
Tiffanie Smith
Hilary Woods
Candice St. Etienne
Women's 800m Run
Jessica Adamson
Charlotte Manogue
Women's One Mile Run
Emmi Aguillard
Mikayla Sonneborn
Women's 3,000m Run
Paige Callahan
Mikayla Sonneborn
Women's 5,000m Run
Paige Callahan
Women's 60m Hurdles
Adiyah Crute
Women's 4 x 400m Relay
Women's Distance Medley
Women's High Jump
Tiffany Kenney
Melanie Mainor
Dana Ohlson
Women's Pole Vault
Jill Doyle
Joanna Lapucha
Jessica Knierim
Haley Miller
Merritt Van Meter
Women's Triple Jump
Tamika Brazzel
Estefany Cruz
Briana Santiago
Women's Pentathlon
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WAR: Patch 1.0.4 Arrives
Game Update 1.0.4 is upon us!
We've got a bunch of great stuff inside most notably being the start of our first Live Event: Witching Night!
Wednesday, October 29th at 7:00AM EDT all North American Servers will be brought down to begin the update. Oceanic servers will follow at 9:00AM EDT. We expect servers to be online by 1PM EDT.
Please note that during the first 40 minutes of downtime the Mythic Account Center may be unavailable while it is updated as well.
Enjoy the notes below and we'll see you on the battlefield...WAAAGH!!!
- The Witching Night live event has begun! For details, see the Warhammer Online Herald.
- With the arrival of 1.0.4 we are now one step closer to offering Character Transfers from low population servers to medium population servers and the final stages of testing have begun. We're excited to share all the details, keep an eye on the WAR Herald for more information and to find out how you can help us test the Free Character Transfer service in the coming days!
- We have added three new guild rewards in the form of dungeon teleport scrolls. Each scroll can be purchased from a guild quartermaster, and is a single-use item that will teleport the player to a dungeon:
- Gunbad Teleport Scroll - This reward is unlocked at guild rank 29, and will teleport the player into the entrance lobby area of the Gunbad Tunnels.
- Bastion Stair Teleport Scroll - This reward is unlocked at guild rank 32, and will teleport the player into the entrance lobby area of the Bastion Stair.
- Lost Vale Teleport Scroll - This reward is unlocked at guild rank 35, and will teleport the player to just outside the entrance to the Lost Vale.
- Once a city has become contested, the attacking realm will now have 6 hours to capture it. If the invaders do not conquer the city in that time, the defenders will be declared victorious and the campaign will reset.
- Pets set to follow will now path properly to their master, and will no longer teleport instantly to their master's side.
- Fixed an issue that was causing pets to stop attacking their current target and return to their master's side. This issue would occur when a pet was ordered to change targets in mid combat, and the previous target subsequently died.
- Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause trainer icons not to appear on the minimaps.
- The successful capture of an enemy battlefield objective now rewards the capturing players with experience.
- In response to player feedback, the amount of renown earned from healing players has been increased slightly.
Campaign Adjustments
Tier 4 zones now require fewer scenario victory points to be captured. The mechanics of capturing a zone have not changed however. Zones which have no scenario opposition can still be captured if players join the queue for scenarios based on that Zone. Victory points towards zone control will be granted if a realm has enough players in the queue to launch the scenario and the other realm doesn't. If players in those queues join a launched scenario or leave the queue, the victory points towards zone control will be forfeit.
In other words, using "Join All" to queue for all available scenarios is still the fastest way to get into a scenario, but joining the scenarios in a specific zone will have the greatest impact on control of that zone, and by extension the greatest impact on the campaign in that pairing.
General Changes and Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause monsters to improperly flee at full speed. Monsters will now flee from combat at a more appropriate speed.
Capital Cities
- Adjusted the text messages that display when the capital cities become contested, to make them more appropriate.
Combat and Careers
- Balance Essence: The damage of this ability has been increased.
- Additional polish has been applied to monster pathing and behaviors in the Lost Vale to improve the overall gameplay experience.
- The Bastion Stair dungeon boss Kaarn the Vanquisher will no longer erroneously give "Target is Retreating" messages when attacked.
Realm vs. Realm
- The Statue of the Everchosen battlefield objective in the Chaos Wastes will no longer spawn guards of the wrong realm.
- The guards at the Maiden's Landing battlefield objective in Avelorn will now spawn at the appropriate level.
- Fixed an issue which was causing the RvR campaign to reset prematurely while a capital city was still contested.
- Fixed an issue which sometimes caused keeps and battlefield objectives to forget which realm and guild last owned them when the server was reset.
- The minimum number of players required to launch scenarios in Praag, Dragonwake and Thunder Mountain has been equalized to ensure even population distribution between all scenarios available when the campaign is in its default state.
Tome of Knowledge
- Tooltips for Tome of Knowledge tactic rewards have been revised to be more clear and helpful.
User Interface
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused trainer icons not to appear on the minimaps.
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From February 3-26, the Purina ONE mobile unit will be traveling to 11 cities from San Francisco to New York and stopping at local animal shelters to set up temporary food banks and adoption events. They will be visiting the Humane Society of Broward County on Tuesday, February 16th from 1:00 – 7:00 p.m.
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Rube Goldberg Machine Goes Global
by kenobi00 on 02/11/2008 at 10:23 pm
Got a spare several minutes? (you probably don't) Well watch this video after the jump.
In fact, with eight worldwide locations, six time zones, and roughly fifty people involved, IDEO's Global Chain Reaction looked more like a blueprint for possible points of failure than a functioning Rube Goldberg machine designed to run sequentially across three continents.
IDEO Global Chain Reaction from IDEO Labs on Vimeo.
More information on this amazing machine here.
Now for a few more timewasters as today winds up. Firstly, the British show off their ability to store two Lambos.
Secondly, the British show us how you really should get home.
Thirdly, the British some guy gives an a capella tribute to John Williams.
Finally, here is a complete timeline of Lego Minifigs.
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Tell me, do you know what the "M" in MTV stands for?
Yes, haha, that's a joke. Of course you know the "M" in MTV stands for "music," just as you know that MTV and music are almost entirely divorced from one another at this point. That's the joke. Haha.
Anyway, a couple days ago, it was announced that Universal Music Group—home to pretty much every big star in the pop-music world (Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber)—would pull all its music video content from MTV.com, and air it exclusively online at Vevo.com. Do you care about this news? I can't see why you would. If we've already agreed that MTV has nothing to do with music, and MTV.com is merely an extension of MTV, then why should this matter? If you want to see the new Rihanna video, you'll go to Vevo. It's really not a big deal.
And, in fairness, it shouldn't be. The powers that be at MTV long ago realized they could make a lot more money with consistent blocks of structured programming rather than by showing music videos. That's perfectly understandable. Furthermore, as bad as some MTV programming can be, some of it is also pretty great—for example, I sincerely love Jersey Shore; I think True Life is intelligent, compelling and generous. I would much rather watch either of those shows than Cobra Starship videos.
Still, as the network drifts further from its roots, I find myself looking back on its golden days and wondering how much it impacted and aided the evolution of popular music. It certainly impacted and aided the evolution of a generation of pop-culture consumers. Personally, MTV introduced me to not only countless new bands that would go on to impact my life, but it provided me with a cultural center, an understanding of myself in relation to others. It also provided me opportunities to grow as a person. Understand, that's because I defined myself very strictly in terms of the music I listened to, but isn't that what all teenagers do? (I still do it, so it's not necessarily exclusive to teenagers.)
This is what I mean: When I was a high school metalhead, I would watch Headbangers Ball, to see videos from obscure bands I loved (I remember the shock and excitement I felt in first seeing a Kreator video on TV), and in turn, discover new bands to love. In doing this, I found bands like Pantera, Voivod, Faith No More, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam… And as I found these new bands, my personal horizons expanded.
Of course, it helps that I was at Ground Zero when grunge exploded—as grunge was a new thing at the crossroads of heavy metal and modern rock (or Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes)—but MTV provided the setting for that explosion. Without MTV, would we have had "Smells Like Teen Spirit"? Would Nirvana have mattered? (For what it's worth, I'm of the mind that music was forever altered by Nirvana, maybe more so than any band since the Beatles, to the extent that nothing today would look the way it does had Nirvana not mattered. It bears mentioning that I was 17 in 1991, when the band's breakthrough Nevermind was released, so I may have a slightly distorted view.)
My point is, I don't think we would have had the phenomenon of Nirvana had MTV not been there to endlessly replay that video—but we needed more than just MTV; or, really, we needed MTV and nothing more. We needed to focus our undivided attention on one channel, one source, so that we as a culture were sharing this moment, so that we all knew who Nirvana was, and why they looked and sounded different than anything else we were seeing and hearing. Only MTV could have provided this. Or, more generally, only a source like MTV could have provided this. In this sense, 1991 offered the exact ingredients necessary for a perfect storm of cultural tectonic shift.
And, next year will be the 20th anniversary of Nevermind and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and 1991.
In other words, that was a long, long time ago. That is ancient history.
I don't hear many people decrying the demise of MTV. Sure, lots of people make that joke, that obvious joke, that I made at the top of this column—pointing out the irony to be found in the network's name—but not many people seem to recognize what MTV meant and why it mattered. Or if they do, they don't seem to care. And I can't say we're stronger or wiser or happier because we had MTV—nor even that I am a more interesting or more well-rounded person because of it—but I don't think anything would have been the same without it, and I don't think another generation will have anything quite like it. And in some ways I envy them this, and in other ways, I think the generation of which I was a part—the MTV generation, if you will—I think we were around at the moment of something very special, something magical, something that was, in its way, revolutionary.


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This has been a difficult post for me to contemplate, not to mention for me to actually write. It is my hope that anyone who has faced (or is facing) similar issues will find some guidance and peace of mind.
I grew up Presbyterian, but have attended mostly evangelical/charismatic 'style' churches for the last 20 years (see my earlier post). Twenty years is more than enough time for some common problems to have been reinforced: Many evangelicals have an underlying distrust (if not disdain) for intellectual thought, and have adopted a "fortress mentality" – where they attempt to combat the difficult questions and challenges of our culture with greater religious "emotional intensity" while never actually addressing or confronting the challenges leveled at them by those of different convictions. Nancy Pearcey, in her book "Total Truth" (a book I've found to be a wonderful resource on Christian worldview), writes at length on this phenomenon, since it is a common scenario in many evangelical churches. This vein of anti-intellectualism has caused evangelicalism to lend itself to a systemic distrust of questioning. In some cases, it's simply a moderate fear of "will I have the answers if someone questions my doctrine?" That can be a healthy fear – if it leads one to confront those questions in their own life head on, rather than hide behind 'religious experience' alone. However, in two specific instances, I have seen the 'distrust of questioning' taken to an extreme that I cannot find any Biblical support for.
At the heart of this is the desire – the need – for communal bonds. For all that good that came of evangelicalism's early days, there was a prevailing attitude of distrust towards the 'religious authorities' of the time. In Total Truth, Pearcey writes, "Taunting religious authorities became so widespread on college campuses that in 1741 the trustees at Yale University had to pass a college law forbidding students to call college officers 'carnal' or 'unconverted'" (pg 271). The point here is that while there was good that emerged from what evangelicals know as the "Great Awakenings", at the same time the old order of strong communal bonds within believing communities was disintegrating. You cannot assault the institutions that made those bonds possible, without also dissolving the bonds as well.
The result is a problem evangelical churches have wrestled with for decades: how to foster real community. Pearcey explains, "In the colonial period, the dominant political philosophy had been classical and Christian republicanism, which was highly communal. But in the new liberalism…the ethos of self-sacrifice was replaced by one of self-assertion and self-interest" (pg 280). In describing the emerging style of preaching at the time, Pearcey writes, "Increasingly, the populist preacher became a performer, stringing together stories and anecdotes…this method engaged the audience's emotions while subtly enhancing the speaker's own image by highlighting his own ministry and spiritual experiences. The outcome of all this was the rise of personality cults, the celebrity system that has become so entrenched in evangelicalism" (pg 287).
And here is where the fine and dangerous line is crossed. This is how many evangelical congregations have moved from the desire for real community, into the territory reserved for cults: "One of the dangers in personality cults", according to Pearcey, "is that they easily lead to demagoguery…strong-willed leaders who, ironically, ended up exercising an even higher degree of dogmatism and control than pastors in traditional denominations, whom they denounced" (pg 289).
How those leaders assert their control can vary. However, in my experience, the squashing of dissenting opinions seems to be a common symptom. A close companion to that symptom is that members (especially leaders) in that congregation have no qualms about severing relationship with those they disagree with, regardless of prior history. So, here's a short quiz for you: If you currently attend a church, how well do they handle disagreement? If you disagree, are you ostracized, directly or indirectly? What about others who have disagreed? Does your church push for "unity" by attempting to enforce "uniformity"? If the leaders of your church show no broken-heartedness over 'severed' relationships with those who've disagreed with them, may I humbly (albeit emphatically) suggest you find a new church? As Christians, we should be among the best examples of the power of reconciliation. We have several Biblical examples (Paul & Peter, Paul and Mark, to name two) of Christians who disagreed and came into conflict, and yet continued to support one another in the end. If we have a pattern of cutting people out of our lives because they won't "line up" with our "vision", are we not simply acting like petulant children? To borrow a paraphrase from Augustine: "In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, love."


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The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards hasn't started yet and there is already a flurry of action on the red carpet. Nope, there aren't any celebrities yet, just the fire department and a puddle of water. According to Mario Lopez on Sunday, a sewer line broke at the Beverly Hilton Hotel leaving a gigantic puddle of water in the middle of the walk way.
"Huge water leak on #goldenglobes red carpet...Bev Hills fire trying to clean up," tweeted Ryan Seacrest from his official Twitter account. He was one of the few stars who got to take a picture of the site before people were scurried away. The red carpet was torn up and the crew had water vacuums to pull the water off the ground. It's not pretty by any means, but luckily not too many folks will be filming at the location.
The bad part about water is the gowns on the red carpet. Golden Globe fashion has everyone being critical of the flaws of the dresses on the red carpet and if the fabric touches the mini pond (which is getting smaller by the minute) it could ruin the gowns. That would cause chaos or so everyone is led to believe.


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by Robyn Griggs Lawrence, Editor at Large
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For green cred and innovation, this prototype kit house is hard to beat.
Made from repurposed shipping containers and pre-engineered recycled steel building components, based on Prius engineering, with a gray water system and a living roof, the Tim Palen Studio at Shadow Mountain is a pre-fab residence and workplace in one of the country's harshest desert climates. Developed by ecotechdesign in conjunction with ecotechbuild, the hybrid house prototype is the first permitted shipping container house in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree, California. The kit-like housing product is being offered to the public for the first time, and its designer claims it costs about half of what locally available prefab alternatives run. It can be erected at the site, often in less than an hour.
"By combining high-efficiency and mass-produced modular construction methods with innovative design in one of the harshest climate zones in North America, we have developed a low-cost, sustainable, housing system that can be transported and quickly erected anywhere in the world," says architect Walter Scott Perry, principal of ecotechdesign.
Some notable features:
-Hybrid House Design: Based on the efficient Prius automobile engineering concept, the hybrid house concept combines diverse pre-engineered building and energy conservation features to maximize efficiency and cost savings while offering design flexibility.
-All Recycled Steel Construction: The project is composed of diverse steel components, including six repurposed ISO containers, a Butler pre-engineered building, a 10,000-gallon steel water tank and a metal shade canopy with integrated steel framing system that provides extraordinary strength, earthquake, fire and wind protection, as well as large window and door openings to maximize natural daylighting, ventilation, and cooling.
-Solar Home Shading System: A bolt-on, adjustable steel frame and shade system creates 50 percent solar heat, glare and wind reduction on the building, and a solar breezeway allows for plug-in attachment of future solar electric and water heating panel arrays.
-Living Roof: Movable, bolt and add-on modules are irrigated with gray water and planted with native desert plants and sedums to absorb heat, glare, dust and CO2.
-Water Conservation: Integrated gray water, water harvesting and storage systems.
A proprietary steel framing system reinforces and ties the container modules together to resist earthquake and wind forces. It allows large openings to be made in the container walls and forms a framework between the residence and studio. Photos by Jack Parsons Photography
The 18-foot-high curved stairway is sheathed in recycled, corrugated metal with a vertical slit window facing east to distribute morning light evenly across the walls.
Five ISO shipping containers are stacked between two levels with the living space below and the bedroom suite above. Large areas of the steel walls were removed to open the interior spaces to sweeping desert views, natural daylight and ventilation.
A solar shade canopy wraps the roof and south and west sides of the residence and solar breezeway to provide protection against desert heat, glare, wind and blowing dust.
The shaded, solar breezeway provides a protected and naturally cooled outdoor room as an extension of the interior, which connects the house to the studio.
A 160-square-foot green roof with drought-tolerant, native plant modules forms a visual extension of the living desert across the white "cool roof."
A recycled 3,000-gallon tank collects rainwater off the metal roofs to irrigate the solar breezeway desert landscaping. A 10,000-gallon tank stores emergency fire water and provides potable water. Grey water can be used to irrigate desert vegetation and the green roof modules.
Windows and large sliding glass doors are low-e, insulated and operable.
Comfortable and very livable, the house is ready for occupants. ISO containers have durable Philippine mahogany plywood floors that can be easily sanded down and refinished, using clear water-based urethanes or other non or low VOC sealers and/or paints.
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About Assistive Technology (AT):
A.T. includes any product, device or equipment used to maintain, increase, or improve the functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.
- The ADRC staff provides appropriate technology to students who have difficulties with their reading or writing skills, hearing, sight or concentration.
- We have several computers with a variety of specialized software and hardware.
Who has access to Oakton's services?
Though primarily intended for students with disabilities, all students have access to A.T. resources.
Where do I find these services at Oakton?
Resources are available throughout the semester in the Learning Centers at both campuses: Des Plaines (Room 2400) & Skokie (Room A135).
When can I receive services?
These resources are available throughout the semester in the Learning Center. Interested students must first speak with an ADRC staff member who will determine the appropriate services to provide.
Can students borrow equipment to use outside the college?
The ADRC has a loan program that will allow students to use certain equipment off campus. Students also can request assistive technology in their classrooms or other campus areas where they study.
Where can I learn more about Oakton's A.T. services?
The ADRC holds workshops throughout the semester to inform students about the resources the office provides. These workshops acquaint students with the technologies and services available through the ADRC. Students also can schedule one-on-one appointments with the Assistive Technology Specialist, Laura Pristera, at 847.635.2656.
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The Detroit Red Wings' lineup was bolstered by the return of their five Swedish Olympians Wednesday night and their impact was immediately felt, as the Swedes scored the game's only goals en route to a 2-0 Detroit win over the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
Goaltender Chris Osgood, making his first appearance since January 30, made 24 saves in the shutout effort. It was his second shutout of the season.
All of the game's scoring came in the first period, when Tomas Holmstrom and Henrik Zetterberg beat Anaheim netminder Jean-Sebastien Giguere.
At 7:28 of the period, Holmstrom scored just after coming out of the penalty box.
Pavel Datsyuk carried the puck into the Anaheim zone before sending a pass in to Zetterberg, who tapped it along to Holmstrom who was cutting through the crease. Holmstrom lifted a backhander over Giguere's glove to put Detroit on the board.
Just 46 seconds later, Zetterberg extended his team's lead.
When Anaheim's Vitali Vishnevski was called for tripping in his own zone, Zetterberg won the ensuing faceoff over to Datsyuk, who cleared the puck back to Nicklas Lidstrom at the blue line. Lidstrom fired a shot on goal as Holmstrom went to the front of the net to screen, and the puck ended up deflecting off the inside of Holmstrom's leg. The puck came to the side of the net where Zetterberg was wide open to tap it into the net.
Giguere shut the Wings down for the rest of the night, making 31 saves on 33 shots against, but the damage was already done.
The Zetterberg goal was Detroit's lone power play tally in eight attempts, while five power plays were not enough for the Ducks to get onto the board.
The Red Wings will continue their road trip on Saturday when they visit the Phoenix Coyotes in the first game of a home-and-home series.
Notes: The only point in the game not scored by a Swede was Russian Pavel Datsyuk's assist on Tomas Holmstrom's goal.
Homer comes out with a pretty backhand over Giguere's glove and Z puts a powerplay tap-in home and the Wings are up 2-0. Sweet.
I was there last night and I have to say that it was a pretty fun game to watch. Ozzie looked pretty solid in this one, but it was nice to have the Swedes back!. Was hoping to see Stevie Y score but he only ended up with a post! Great Game!
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