Animations That Will Leave You Devastated (7 pics) Pics | 9 Jan, 2014 | Views: 7725 | Don't watch these animations if you are faint of heart. Do you like it? It is just one of the thousands of posts that we have on the Acidcow.com. Joseph Kony Joseph Kony (pronounced IPA: [koɲ];[7] born sometime between July and September 1961)[1] is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group which used to operate in Uganda. While initially purporting to fight against government suppression, the LRA allegedly turned against Kony's own supporters, supposedly to "purify" the Acholi people and turn Uganda into a theocracy.[2] Kony proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and has been considered by some as a cult of personality, and claims he is visited by a multinational host of 13 spirits, including a Chinese phantom.[2] Ideologically, the group is a syncretic mix of mysticism, Acholi nationalism, Islam, and Christian fundamentalism, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Biography Early life Rebel leader Lord's Resistance Army Indictment Religious beliefs Action against Kony Uganda United States
An Amazing 360-Degree Simulation Of The Big Bang “You are standing in an empty room. There are no chairs and tables. They were there, but they took them away. That’s the spiritual philosophy behind The Void, by the artistic collective Tundra. The experience is designed to drive the Buddhist phenomenon of Śūnyatā, a meditative openness or void within one’s self. “The Big Bang, as a cosmological event, is a good illustration of our main idea,” project manager Bulat Sharipov tells Co.Design. The room’s sensors, as stubborn as they may seem as they start the video over and over again, work as interventions from our own compulsions. In that light, one can see that The Void is designed with the opposite intent of most of the media we consume today. See more here.
Wall of Films! | Over 500 Social Change Documentaries on 1 Page Just imagine what could become possible if an entire city had seen just one of the documentaries above. Just imagine what would be possible if everyone in the country was aware of how unhealthy the mainstream media was for our future and started turning to independent sources in droves. Creating a better world really does start with an informed citizenry, and there's lots of subject matter to cover. From all the documentaries above, it's evident that our society needs a new story to belong to. The old story of empire and dominion over the earth has to be looked at in the full light of day - all of our ambient cultural stories and values that we take for granted and which remain invisible must become visible. But most of all, we need to see the promise of the alternatives - we need to be able to imagine new exciting ways that people could live, better than anything that the old paradigm could ever dream of providing. So take this library of films and use it.
9 Things Extremely Successful People Do After Work 'Have No Regrets' --Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group"The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets. Who gave me the advice? Mum’s the word. "If you asked every person in the world who gave them their best advice, it is a safe bet that most would say it was their mother. Le top 100 des plus beaux films français (1/4) Le top 100 des meilleurs films français ever, suite et fin. Ce classement a été réalisé à partir de 18 classements individuels de critiques écrivant ou ayant écrit au service cinéma des Inrocks (on trouvera leurs noms à la fin). Il photographie donc le goût d’une bande (avec ses particularismes, ses goûts partagés…), déterminé par l’appartenance à une génération (un peu large, la majorité des votants étant nés entre le milieu des années 60 et le milieu des années 80) et une histoire (celle d’une cinéphilie dont la Nouvelle Vague constituerait peu ou prou le terreau). Certaines périodes sont surreprésentées (les années 60 et 70), d’autres injustement minorées (le cinéma muet presque ignoré). 1. Quand est-il devenu le plus beau film français de tous les temps ? 2. A sa sortie, présence de BB oblige, le film fut un événement médiatique, mais un succès public insuffisant. 3. Le film fut un temps champion en titre de la catégorie meilleur film français de tous les temps. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Georgiy Gongadze Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze (Ukrainian: Георгій Русланович Ґонґадзе, Heorhiy Ruslanovych Gongadze; Georgian: გიორგი ღონღაძე; 21 May 1969 – 17 September 2000[1]) was a Ukrainian journalist of Georgian origin who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000. Gongadze's widow Myroslava Gongadze and their two children received political asylum in the United States and have lived there since 2001. Gongadze was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine by President Viktor Yushchenko on 23 August 2005.[7] Career[edit] A memorial plate in Kiev listing journalists who were killed while reporting. Born in Tbilisi, at the time the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, Gongadze was the son of a Georgian politician father and a Ukrainian nurse mother. In April 2000, Gongadze co-founded a news website, Ukrayinska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth), as a means of sidestepping the government's increasing influence over the mainstream media. Disappearance and investigations[edit]
Every country in the world without a single flight – Meet Graham Hughes | RLTgo.com On the morning of January 1, 2009 Graham took a ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia in Uruguay. This was the first of the many border crossings of the biggest adventure of his life: The Odyssey expedition, the first surface journey to every country in the world. The expedition took him to more than 200 countries, 60 islands and six continents in 4 years. Graham travelled alone on a shoe string budget with no professional support: no camera crew following in 4×4’s. I was just him against the world. Graham Hughes Born in 1979 as Graham David Hughes, is a British adventurer, filmmaker, television presenter and Guinness World Record holder. Why did he do it? “Obviously because I’m bonkers, and it’s been my dream for years” says Graham Graham wanted to set a brand new Guinness World Record, to raise money for WaterAid, and show that the outside world isn’t such a scary place. The Odyssey Expedition Graham named the world tour as “The Odyssey Expedition”. Anyone could do this!! “This is it guys!
"Assistance Mortelle” sur Arte: le film qui dénonce la “dictature de l’aide” en Haïti Pourquoi rien ne change en Haïti, malgré les milliards injectés pour la reconstruction du pays? Cette question très simple, beaucoup de personnes se la posent, en France, dans le monde. En Haïti aussi. La réponse, plus complexe, est parfois difficile à donner à travers un article (nous avons tenté de le faire sur Youphil.com, ici et là.) Voilà pourquoi il faut aujourd’hui remercier Raoul Peck qui y répond à travers un documentaire de 100 minutes à ne pas manquer. Des bailleurs aux intérêts divergents, des Haïtiens oubliés “Le soir du tremblement, comme beaucoup d’Haïtiens, j’ai eu un réflexe: il me fallait revenir au pays, aider, se souvient le réalisateur lors d’une projection à la presse, fin mars dans les locaux d’Arte. Rapidement, cet ancien ministre de la culture en Haïti, par ailleurs président de la Femis, décide de réaliser un documentaire. Pourquoi la reconstruction fut impossible en Haïti? Qui sauvera Haïti des sauveurs? > Voir la bande-annonce du film "Assistance Mortelle":
A Killer In Your Fridge ~ Sweet Poison…A MUST READ | Rhonda Gessner In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain. By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter’s name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of. She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19, I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn’t find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? Yes! Dr. Dr.
Ranking the Greats 10: Lars Von Trier's 10 Best Films When you mention the name Lars Von Trier, you get a decidedly diverse set of reactions. Many mainstream film fans have no idea who he is. They’ve never seen his work, perhaps could name check a movie or two they’ve “heard” about, and are perhaps better versed in his various recent tabloid tales than anything he’s done on celluloid. Others may be a bit better informed, mentioning his no-frills filmmaking ideal Dogme ‘95 or his controversial Cannes outbursts. On the other hand, it will be the rarified cinephile who can walk through the man’s output over the last few decades, delineating his output in both specifics and subtextual generics. As he would do with his far more impactful Dogme ‘95 style, Von Trier played with the rules of the cinematic artform for this tale of a young American struggling to “bring happiness” to a post-WWII Germany. #7 - The Five Obstructions
Desmond Tutu Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town and bishop of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). Tutu's admirers see him as a man who since the demise of apartheid has been active in the defence of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. He has campaigned to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, the imprisonment of Chelsea Manning, homophobia and transphobia. Early life[edit] Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal, the second of the three children of Zacheriah Zililo Tutu and his wife, Aletta, and the only son.[2] Tutu's family moved to Johannesburg when he was twelve. Tutu then travelled to King's College London, (1962–1966), where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in theology.
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