Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts

Friday, April 30, 2010

The Holy Grail , "those who know" and the Scientists of the "The Ahnenerbe"- Documentary by historian Michael Wood- BBC

"Hitler and the Holy Grail" -documentary by historian Michael Wood, broadcasted in August 1999, BBC Channel 4 (UK) , as part of its Secret History series.

The documentary presents an in-depth analyses of "The Ahnenerbe", a Nazi German think tank, that promoted itself as a "study society for Intellectual Ancient History."
As hundreds of scientists and Institutions joined the organization, the order, the brotherhood of "Holy Grail" around "the Holy Grail of the pure blood" expanded its activities searching for the "truly pure" and noble - eternal life would be valid only to "the trully pure", those "who really know".


PART I of 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWb8g6X59NM




PART II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTTx3j3wzho




PART III


PART IV -


PART VI - "These guys are all scientists"

PART VII - "Everything we admire is the creative product of a few"




PART X - "other races"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI62Fmx5-EQ

Friday, January 15, 2010

On YouTube: Guantánamo Guard and Ex-Prisoners Meet (via the BBC)

On January 11 and 12, 2010 the BBC’s Newsnight ran "Tales From Guantanamo", a two-part feature on America's Guantánamo Prison.

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) took former guard Brandon Neely over from the United States to UK to meet — and apologize to — former prisoners Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed, two of “The Tipton Three,” from the West Midlands, who were freed in March 2004 and whose story was later featured in “The Road to Guantánamo”.

The two parts of Newsnight’s feature are available on the BBC website here and here,AND the blogger Rick B announced on his site Ten Percent that he has made the part in which the men meet available as a two-part video on YouTube. These parts were posted on Andy Worthington's Blog and are posted below:

Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison.



Monday, July 13, 2009

Torture, murder and disappearances: US tools in US Wars - THE CONTAINERS

Afghan Massacre - The Convoy of Death - Documentary by former BBC producer Jamie Doran

The film tells the story of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the US military's Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz. Some three thousand of the prisoners were forced into sealed containers and loaded onto trucks for transport to Sheberghan prison, when the prisoners began shouting for air, U.S.-allied Afghan soldiers fired directly into the truck, killing many of them. The rest suffered through an appalling road trip lasting up to four days, so thirsty they clawed at the skin of their fellow prisoners as they licked perspiration and even drank blood from open wounds. Witnesses say that when the trucks arrived and soldiers opened the containers, most of the people inside were dead. They also say US Special Forces re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead into the desert and stood by as survivors were shot and buried. Some of the witnesses in the film have already been killed. While US Administration has deepened the United States’ commitment to Afghanistan, sending 21,000 more American troops there and asking the support of its allies, Afghan General Dostum, was on the CIA payroll at the time of the massacre, has been reappointment as military chief of staff to the Afghan president Karzai.

On July 10, 2009, in the New York Times, James Risen wrote about the massacre HERE.

Obama on the Massacre - CNN's Anderson Cooper July 12, 2009:


THE DOCUMENTARY:


Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Military involvement in Torture - What is next and the role of American General Odierno and others - "There’s a lot to hide"

The American military establishment and its complicity in torture is coming to light and pressure is increasing to avoid accountability.
In an interview with Jane Mayer , American investigative journalist and author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, and British attorney Philippe Sands, author of Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values , Mayer and Sands discuss the Obama danger of becoming part of a cover-up and about the fact that the issue of torture is not going to go away.
So tells History in the case of torture in other countries like Chile, where even the once powerful General August Pinochet had to face Justice and was arrested in London in October 16, 1998 , for torture and other human rights violations during his 1973-1990 regime.
In the case of the General, regardless the open support of influential personalities like Margaret Thatcher, who campaigned for his release since his arrest in London, and regardless the "debt" she believes the UK owed him for being an ally during the 1982 Falklands War, the General was not above the Law and was arretsed and brought to Justice. (article HERE)

Thursday, May 14, 2009

The meaning of Words and the Euphemism for Torture - The US "Enhanced Interrogation" Techniques

If a Rapist called rape an "enhanced seduction technique" would you buy it?

Ted Koppel , BBC World News America - an analysis of US torture. Using the "enhanced interrogation Technique" euphemisms for torture makes it legal?

An analysis by Ted Koppel, BBC News can be watched HERE.