"Intended for release during World War II, this U.S. War Department film was revised after Germany’s surrender into an orientation film for occupying forces and released in the fall of 1945. Tracing the modern history of Germany from the 1700s, the film sets out to understand how a cultured people ended up launching two world wars and murdering millions of innocent civilians. The film also casts blame upon post-World War I Allies for allowing Germany to rebuild its military, and argues that this can never happen again. This film includes scenes of death camps and war that viewers may find disturbing."
"Dedicated to Susan Sontag
From November 9 through November 15, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Marina Abramović: Seven Easy Pieces, seven consecutive nights of performances in the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda from 5 pm to 12 am. Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramović has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has always served as her subject and medium, and the parameters of her early works were determined by her endurance. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in the quest for transformation. With Seven Easy Pieces Abramović reenacts seminal performance works by her peers dating from the 1960s and ’70s. The project is premised on the fact that little documentation exists for most performances from this critical early period; one often has to rely upon testimonies from witnesses or photographs that show only portions of any given piece. Seven Easy Pieces examines the possibility of redoing and preserving an art form that is, by nature, ephemeral.
Funding for Seven Easy Pieces has been generously provided by the Marina Abramović Leadership Committee. In-kind support provided by Chrome Hearts and Carl Zeiss, Inc."
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/marina-abramovi-seven-easy-pieces
Book TV interviewed Judith Reisman about her book, "Sexual Sabotage," which takes a critical look at the work of biologist Alfred Kinsey. This interview was recorded at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Mr. Nunberg spoke about his book, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times, published by PublicAffairs. In the book, the author notes that words convey the ideas of our time and, through careful consideration, can shed light on important and controversial issues. He suggests that "there are discrepancies between what a word means and what we think it means". Mr. Nunberg compares the origins of several words with their current meanings to illustrate the way in which definitions change over time. He also examines the language used by Republican and Democratic speakers, and attempts to explain why they use certain words and not others. He says that Ronald Reagan is an example of a speaker who used stylized language to simulate a sense of closeness.
Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times by Geoffrey Nunberg
C-Span June 17, 2004
https://www.c-span.org/video/?164852-1/going-nucular-language-politics-culture-controversial-times
Reports of bias incidents have risen since the Bend La-Pine School board pushed for a broader scope of these problems and more awareness throughout the district. As a resolution, they have created pie graphs and charts to categorize the complaints as they are received by the young Karens.
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John Robison (1739-1805) was a Scottish scientist, who late in life wrote the one of the definitive studies of the Bavarian Illuminati. He was a contemporary and collaborator with James Watt, with whom he worked on an early steam car, contributor to the 1797 Encylopedia Britannica, professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and inventor of the siren. Although Robison was very much an advocate of science and rationalism, in later life, disillusioned by the French Revolution, he became an ardent monarchist. In this work, Proofs of a Conspiracy, Robison laid the groundwork for modern conspiracy theorists by implicating the Bavarian Illuminati as responsible for the excesses of the French Revolution. The Bavarian Illuminati, a rationalist secret society, was founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 in what is today Germany. They had an inner core of true believers, who secretly held radical atheist, anti-monarchist and possibly proto-feminist views, at that time considered beyond the pale. They recruited by infiltrating the numerous (and otherwise benign) Freemasonic groups which were active at the time on the continent. Necessarily they had a clandestine, compartmentalized, hierarchical organizational form, which has led some modern conspiracy theorists to identify them as the original Marxist-Leninist group. However, this is most likely simply a case of parallel evolution. Since we don't have convenient access to the source documents of the Bavarian Illuminati we have to rely on Robison and the Abb Barruel's Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, both in the 'opposing views' category, for information on this group. The Illuminati have today become a byword for a secret society which hoodwinks its junior members and puppet-masters society at large. This reputation is in no little part due to Robison's book. However, reading between the lines, it becomes obvious that the Bavarian Illuminati were what the American Old Left called a 'talk shop, ' barely able to organize a picnic, let alone the Terror. Instead, it seems, they were only expressing views widespread in intellectual circles of the day. They were not, as Robison claims, the fuse that lit the downfall of the French Monarchy. Nonetheless, this book make fascinating reading, and in conjunction with other historical accounts of the French Revolution, helps dimensionalize the period for students of history.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s choice of running mate is the subject of mounting speculation. Zerlina Maxwell argues that it should be one of the many qualified Black women in politics today. She speaks with Michel Martin about her new book “The End of White Politics,” and explains how the Democrats’ failure to focus on communities of color could be their downfall.
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This exciting documentary unfolds the fascinating "untold" history of the Bible, revealing critical information often overlooked in modern histories. Enter into a World of saints and martyrs battling against spies, assassins and wolves in sheep's clothing. Learn the stories of valiant warriors of faith, such as John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, the ancient Waldenses, Albigenses, etc.
Director: Christian J. Pinto
Writer: Christian J. Pinto
Stars: David Brown, Kirk Divietro, Jack Moorman