Delius Song Of Summer

Based on Eric Fenby's 1936 memoir 'Delius as I knew him', it traces the last years of Frederick Delius, and Fenby's dedication in giving up five years of his life to helping the blind, paralysed composer set down the unfinished scores he could hear in his head. Perhaps the finest of the series of biographical films that Ken Russell made for the BBC in the Sixties, Song of Summer is an immensely moving story of sacrifice, idealism and musical genius.

History Channel:Secret Societies

History Channel, 41 min. Watch on Google.

Best Evidence: Chemtrials

Discovery Channel 59 min. Watch on Google.

This special program of the show "BEST EVIDENCE" was broadcasted August 10th, 2007. It looks at those who claim that jet fuel of ... all » commercial and military aircrafts contain secret experimental additives, such as aluminum oxide, for weather modification purposes.

The Truth Behind The Moon Landings

Channel Five (2003) 49 minutes. Watch on Google.

Ruby Ridge: Anatomy of a Tragedy

Discovery Times Channel (2003). Review of this program in Slate magazine.

WACO: The Rules of Engagement, Part One

"Waco: The Rules of Engagement," a new, nearly 3-hour-long documentary, comes down very hard on Washington. It stops short of endorsing anti-government conspiracy theories beloved by far-right zealots, but argues persistently -- and at times persuasively -- that federal agents used excessive force against the Davidians, failed to understand what motivated them, and covered up mistakes. ~San Francisco Examiner~ Watch on Google.

WACO: The Rules of Engagement, Part Two

Watch on Google.

The Legend of Ruby Ridge

Jon Ronson meets with Randy Weaver and daughter Rachel, two surviving members of the Weaver family. The film shows previously unseen archive footage to describe the life of a family who moved to a cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho to escape what they saw as the tyrannical elite of international bankers bent on enslaving the world. Ronson also explains how the Weaver family's paranoid conspiracy theories became a self fulfilling tragedy when the American Government killed two of the family members including 14 year old Sam Weaver. Ronson explores the unsympathetic media response to the killings and how this incident might have influenced the siege at Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing and the growth of the America militia movement. Watch on Google.

The Satanic Shadowy Elite?

First shown on the British television network Channel 4 on April 2001. Watch on Google.

Jon Ronson follows theorist and radio host Alex Jones as he attempts to infiltrate the annual gathering of dignitaries and business leaders (reportedly including George Bush and Henry Kissinger) at Bohemian Grove, California. The film includes footage of attendees dressed in robes and burning an effigy at the foot of a giant stone owl. Jones believes that the ceremony is related to occult secret societies. After the event, Ronson meets comedy actor and fellow attendee Harry Shearer who describes the event as a glorified fraternity party. Shearer largely dismisses Jones's dramatic retelling of the gathering and notes that the music is supplied by The Symphony Orchestra of San Francisco.

Alex Jones’ overwrought (and over long) video account of this weekend can be viewed here. Jon Ronson’s posted his account from his book ‘Them’ on the JREF forum. Philip Weis article on the Bohemian Grove from Spy Magazine, November 1989.

Jon Ronson: The Oklahoma Bomb

Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber, was a conspiracy theorist. He believed that a shadowy elite secretly controls the governments of the world, conspiring to establish a genocidal New World Order. Jon Ronson goes in search of the truth about the Oklahoma bombing. Along the way he meets terrorists on the run, eccentric strip-club owners, conspiracy theorists, elevator engineers, and ends up in the mysterious Elohim City, a bizarre survivalist compound in Oklahoma that might hold they key to the mystery.

Beyond Conspiracy: The Kennedy Assassination

BBC 1 hr 28 min. Watch on Google.

Forty years after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot on November 22, 1963, over 70 percent of Americans still believe there was a conspiracy to kill him and that the suspected assasin, Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. Utilizing modern technology, computer animator

Dale Myers created a digital simulation of the only known film of the murder, a 16 mm home movie taken by Abraham Zapruder, a bystander that filmed the fatal shots. Then Myers matched this digital film to a three dimensional computer model of Dealey Plaza which he created that reconstructs the plaza exactly as it appeared at the time of the murder.

The resulting digital animation allowed Myers to recreate the exact view point from any perspective within the plaza at the moment and finally provide concrete evidence of whether or not Oswald was a long assasin or if an actual conspiracy consisted.

Also examined is new evidence discovered years later on an audio tape from an open police microphone at the scene and other theories that circulated including Communist ties and mob involvement in the assassination.

Dylan Avery Schooled By The BBC

BBC interviewer from ‘The Conspiracy Files’ show explains with some exasperation to Loose Change wunderkind Dylan Avery the meaning of a simile. Dylan seems perplexed even after the explanation. The expression on Dylan’s face is priceless. He obviously has no idea what the BBC guy is talking about.

9-11 Truthers Speak At Ground Zero!

CHF from the JREF Forum:

On Saturday Aug 25th,[2007]... I headed down to Ground Zero for a chat with the truthers. I spent a good hour or so with these folks; some were polite, some were complete punks, and it was difficult at times to not get annoyed at hearing the same claims for the 500th time...

THE REASONING SHOW

"TRUTH AND HUMANITY - DR. SUSAN BLACKMORE

In this show, the seemingly indefatigable Susan Blackmore and hosts David Quinn and Dan Rowden try to come to grips with issues as diverse yet integrated as mystical experiences, memes, free will, consciousness and how truth can become integrated into the nature of what we are as humans. In a wide ranging and stimulating discussion other subjects touched upon include reincarnation, the illusory nature of the self and what it's like to get beyond such an illusion, emotional attachments, cognitive dissonance, life and death and the nature of modern academic life."

THE REASONING SHOW - Truth and Humanity - Dr Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore: "Consciousness Isn't What It Seems To Be"

PROGRAM NOTES
03:30 Jon Hanna introduces Susan Blackmore
08:04 "A lot of people kind of think that scientists like myself are kind of pushing the problem [of what is consciousness] away, some are, but there’s a huge excitement about what we do with this mystery, and it’s a very strange mystery indeed."
09:22 "That’s what we mean by consciousness, in contemporary science, what it’s like for you."
09:38 Susan talks about ‘the great chasm’ between mind and brain, sometimes called the ‘fathomless abyss’ . . . "It’s the chasm between subjective, how it is to me, and objective, how we believe it must be in the real physical world. Don’t underestimate this problem."
11:48 "So that’s the sense in which I mean consciousness might be an illusion: not what it seems to be."
18:48 Susan begins her discussion about free will.
24:34 "You can see the readiness potential building up in someone’s brain a long time, a long time in brain terms, before they know they are spontaneously and freely act."
26:56 "We can believe that free will is an illusion. That’s my preferred solution. I don’t want to press it on you, but it seems this way: When you look at these results, and many other results too, consciousness just doesn’t seem to be the thing that starts things off."
51:07 "I suggest, that when you’re walking around in your ordinary life, just realize how much you are not seeing, but you are not seeing it all."

» Podcast 104 - "Consciousness Isn't What It Seems To Be"