Preaching to ignorants

BBC Horizon 25 nov 2008
Jimmys GM Food Fight * *

"Following P.R. advice they choose as presenter a warm, familiar trusted figure in the shape of free range pig farmer and tv personality Jimmy Doherty. The script he followed was pure biotech. Jimmy expresses a reservation - film moves straight to the industry response without qualifications or mention of serious contradictory farmer experiences or scientific evidence for each of these 'gm wonder stories'. Nary a mention of the major environmental, social and economic consequences suffered from gm cropping nor of the chicanery of gm approvals, so brilliant at ignoring evidence of toxicity. Jimmy's globetrotting somehow missed India's livestock gm poisonings and where peasant farmer suicides multiplied fourfold in the gm cotton regions due to increased cost and gm failures.

BBC Horizon and Jimmy delivered a propaganda coup for the agri-biotech industry. They must be smiling all the way to their gm piggy banks." link

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early on the show, it become impossible to see "jimmy" as an advocate of sustainable farming, as he goes through pseudo-scientific half truths and biased comments. portraiting european concerns about GM foods as unfounded and ill-informed.
all in all a decent and, possibly efficient, GM propaganda piece.

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media 1992

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is a multi award-winning documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, a linguist, intellectual, and political activist. (...)
The film presents and illustrates Chomsky's and Herman's propaganda model, the thesis that corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas of the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society.

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Vaccination The Hidden Truth 1998

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The Disappearing Male CBC Doc Zone [Nov2008]

The Disappearing Male takes a close and disturbing look at what many doctors and researchers now suspect are responsible for many of these problems: a class of common chemicals that are ubiquitous in our world.

Found in everything from shampoo, sunglasses, meat and dairy products, carpet, cosmetics and baby bottles, they are called "hormone mimicking" or "endocrine disrupting" chemicals and they may be starting to damage the most basic building blocks of human development.

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Propaganda

Os Israelitas inventaram novo termo, "Pallywood".
Propaganda aberta tentado passar a imagem ao mundo de que os conflitos são encenados pelos palestinianos. E por absurdo que possa parecer a alguém minimamente informado e que não more nos estados unidos ... passou à fase seguinte. Aquela em que a propaganda ganha massa critica sendo defendida e difundida em 2a mão como verdade presenciada e indiscutivel.

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Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land:
Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Spin [1995] Brian Springer

Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public's perception of reality.

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Ainda perfeitamente actual, sendo um claro exemplo a campanha de ron paul para presidente em 2008 e o modo como foi abafada pelos media.

What Psychology Professionals Should Know About Polyamory

The Lifestyles and Mental Health Concerns of Polyamorous Individuals by Geri D. Weitzman