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Orang Rimba - Happiness Lies in the Forest

2012-11-18T19:50:00.002+08:00

If you happen to see, please please stop and take some time to watch this video and share it as much as possible.

This video hits me pretty hard. It's about the ongoing deforestation in Indonesia for the palm oil industry and how it affects the ingenious people. Often, we think deforestation are merely trees being chopped down, land being cleared.

What we often miss out are these people and all the animals living in the forests, this is their home. You can't just simply integrate them into cities, they'd rather die. On a similar note, you can't put someone from the city into the rainforest, they'll starve.

I'm not advocating boycott palm products, they are much more industries out there that are causing rainforest destructions. But i think it's wise for the government to earmark lands to be left untouched. These rainforests are the lungs of the earth, if we lose them, we're gonna have a hard time breathing.

Ape Genius

2012-09-22T13:26:00.000+08:00

Very good, eye-opening documentary.

Broadcast (2008) At a research site in Fongoli, Senegal, a female chimpanzee breaks off a branch, chews the end to make it sharp, then uses this rudimentary spear to skewer a tasty bushbaby hiding inside a hollow tree. The footage represents an astonishing breakthrough for primate researchers: It's the first time anyone has documented a chimpanzee wielding a carefully prepared, preplanned weapon.

But it's only the latest in a slew of extraordinary new findings about ape behavior. The more researchers learn about the great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans (see Our Family Tree)—the more evidence they find of creative intelligence. What, then, is the essential difference between us and them? "Ape Genius," a NOVA-National Geographic special, explores that provocative question and examines research that is illuminating the ape mind.

The spear-wielding chimps were documented by anthropologist Jill Pruetz of Iowa State University, who also observed the Fongoli colony doing something else never documented before: holding a pool party. Chimps were long thought to be afraid of water, but as charming poolside footage reveals, these hairy bathers swing from the trees and take the plunge in high spirits.

In addition to Pruetz, "Ape Genius" features contributions by other noted researchers, including Brian Hare of Duke University, Andrew Whiten of the University of St. Andrews, Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University, Rebecca Saxe of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Josep Call and Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (For an extended interview with Rebecca Saxe, see The Ape That Teaches.)

Bit by bit, these investigators are converging on an explanation for why the non-human great apes never made the breakthrough into an accelerating human-style culture that builds on the achievements of previous generations. After all, apes are stronger and more agile than we are. They have also shown previously unsuspected talents for reasoning, creative problem solving, and other intelligent traits. Some have even demonstrated rudimentary language abilities (see Kanzi the Bonobo). And their emotional lives seem on a par with ours, as is evident in moving footage of a mother chimp dealing with the sickness and death of her child.

But something has held them back. What?

Great cave diver Dave Shaw's last dive

2012-09-19T23:05:00.000+08:00

David Shaw was an Australian scuba diver, a technical diver and an airline pilot for Cathay Pacific, who flew the A330-300, A340-300 and A340-600. He is one of only nine people who have dived below a depth of 240 metres (800 ft) on self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.

David Shaw died on 8 January 2005 while seeking to recover the body of Deon Dreyer, a South African diver who had himself died 10 years previously, and whose body Shaw had discovered at a depth of 270 metres (890 ft) of fresh water in Bushman's Hole, South Africa in October 2004

The world Longest Overseas Bridge - Hangzhou Bay Bridge

2012-09-19T22:10:00.001+08:00

E-mail Order Bride

2012-09-17T22:41:00.003+08:00

In Singapore, our order brides are mostly from neighbouring countries such as Vietnam and China. I think largely because they are gentle and good with chores.

Still Pumping

2012-02-19T00:42:00.000+08:00

A good inspirational video where Arnold Schwarzenegger discusses about what it took for him to be a champion by committing to a goal and pushing through pain and failure and then how he applied this mindset to acting and politics.

Inside Story - Dubai's future

2012-02-18T15:20:00.001+08:00

Dubai asked for a delay on its debt payments - a move that triggered panic amongst investors. Is the once prosperous, gleaming city in the Gulf on the brink of collapse? And what are the implications for the global economy?

Genghi khan

2012-01-28T15:03:00.002+08:00

The Great ruler

Jimmy's GM Food Fight

2012-01-14T11:06:00.001+08:00

Jimmy Doherty, pig farmer, one-time scientist and poster-boy for sustainable food production is on a mission to find out if GM crops really can feed the world.

We need to double the amount of food we produce in the next fifty years to feed the world's growing population. Are GM crops the answer? Or are they a dangerous Frankenstein technology that could start an environmental catastrophe?

To find the answers Jimmy is on a journey that will take him from the vast soya plantations of Argentina to the traditional Amish farms of Pennsylvania; and from the cutting-edge technology of the GM laboratories to the banana plantations of Uganda.

North Korea 7 days diary tourism video

2011-12-19T22:55:00.001+08:00

The national geographic photographer David Pluth traveled 2007 through North Korea. This is his video diary!

Welcome to North Korea

2011-12-19T22:42:00.000+08:00

The winner of the 2001 International Emmy award for Best Documentary, Welcome to North Korea is a grotesquely surreal look at the all-too-real conditions in modern-day North Korea. Dutch filmmaker Peter Tetteroo and his associate Raymond Feddema spent a week in and around the North Korean capital of Pyongyang -- ample time to produce this outstanding film

The Wikileaks Documentary

2011-12-13T23:35:00.001+08:00

Sniper: Inside The Crosshairs

2011-12-11T00:31:00.000+08:00

The deadliest weapon on the battlefield is neither bullet nor gun.

It's the lone sniper. Journey inside the science and psychology behind the greatest shots in military history, through the scope of the world's most extreme marksmen.

Deconstruct the missions, ranging from Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan,

United We Fall - Full Film

2011-11-19T23:14:00.000+08:00

A film by Bryan Law and Dan Dicks "United We Fall" is a documentary about the North American Union that is being developed right now between Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

For years this topic has been debated in the news and in political circles as being a possible future for North America. In recent years, the mood has shifted and a rift is developing between those who want a Deeply Integrated North American Community, and those who wish to retain their national sovereignty.

This film takes a look at both sides by interviewing both insiders and activists who have been at the heart of this heated debate. The film also looks to the broader agenda of building a world government and its implications.

Extraordinary People: The Million Dollar Mind Reader

2011-11-19T21:31:00.000+08:00

"Derek Ogilvie says he can read the minds of infants who are too young to communicate verbally. Now he agrees to undergo a series of controlled experiments to test the limits of his alleged abilities. He even faces the ultimate sceptic in the form of James Randi, an investigator of the paranormal who has offered $1million to anyone who can provide evidence of the supernatural."

Russia's Toughest Prisons

2011-11-19T00:26:00.002+08:00

An inside look into the high security prisons of Russia. Probably very tamed down for the cameras.

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Derren Brown - Miracles for Sale (Faith healing Documentary)

2011-11-19T00:19:00.001+08:00

With the cameras in hot pursuit, Derren faces his toughest project yet, going in search of an unsuspecting member of the British public prepared to adopt the guise of a pastor and miracle worker.

His chosen one then has six months to learn the trade and flourish across the pond as a convincing pastor.

The final phase of the volunteer's extraordinary challenge sees them attempt to perform faith healing miracles live in Texas, but will Derren's new recruit be accepted as a faith healer or cast away as fake healer?

Mysterious Treasure on Oak Island

2011-11-09T22:12:00.001+08:00

Forty feet below, two million pounds are buried." This cryptic inscription on a stone uncovered at the 100-foot level of the Oak Island "money pit" has kept treasure hunters digging for almost 200 years. Over the centuries, Oak Island, which lies just off the coast of Nova Scotia, has gobbled up the resources and lives of many men without producing a single doubloon.

Designed by some ancient engineer, the pit is a complex hole with timber crosspieces every 10 feet. Near the 100-foot level, any attempt to break through brings the Atlantic Ocean rushing in. So far, all efforts to solve the puzzle of the protective design have failed.

Even using the most modern technology, no one has been able to get through to those two million pounds... 50 billion dollars! Who built it and why? Some surprising answers in this video!

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I Shouldn't be Alive - Shark Survivor HD

2011-11-08T22:25:00.002+08:00

Favourite episode from this series because of the love for sailing.

When sailing from Maine to Florida, a luxury yacht with five crew members sinks in the middle of a storm. While all five of the individuals manage to get onto the dinghy, they find themselves in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean without food, water or even an idea of where exactly they are; though matters turn worse when a group of sharks start to follow them and their conditions deteriorate with time.

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2011-11-08T21:47:00.002+08:00

Good informative documentary about the 0'9 subprime crisis.

In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakness; a ferocious Wall Street predator; and the power behind the throne.

The crash of September 2008 brought the largest bankruptcies in world history, pushing more than 30 million people into unemployment and bringing many countries to the edge of insolvency. Wall Street turned back the clock to 1929.

But how did it all go so wrong?

Lack of government regulation; easy lending in the US housing market meant anyone could qualify for a home loan with no government regulations in place.

Also, London was competing with New York as the banking capital of the world. Gordon Brown, the British finance minister at the time, introduced 'light touch regulation' - giving bankers a free hand in the marketplace.

All this, and with key players making the wrong financial decisions, saw the world's biggest financial collapse.

Cradle to Cradle

2009-06-15T01:50:00.003+08:00

An inspiring documentary on the Cradle to Cradle design concept of the chemist Michael Braungart and the architect William McDonough. Winner of the Silver Dragon at the Beijing International Science Film Festival 2006. OUTLINE: Man is the only creature that produces landfills. Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising in nations like China and India.

The waste production world wide is enormous and if we do not do anything we will soon have turned all our resources into one big messy landfill. But there is hope. The German chemist, Michael Braungart, and the American designer-architect William McDonough are fundamentally changing the way we produce and build. If waste would become food forall the technical products we make, production and consumption could become beneficial for the planet.

A design and production concept that they call Cradle to Cradle. A concept that is seen as the next industrial revolution. • Design every product in such a way that at the end of its lifecycle the component materials become a new resource. Design buildings in such a way that they produce energy and become a friend to the environment.

Large companies like Ford and Nike are working with McDonough and Braungart to change their production facilities and their products. They realize that economically seen waste is destruction of capital. You make something with no value. Based on their ideas the Chinese government is working towards a circular economy where Waste = Food. An amazing story that will definitely change your way of thinking about production and consumption.

In Debt We Trust

2009-06-12T01:30:00.002+08:00

In America's earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and desperation.

IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media's role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer's new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. While many Americans may be "maxing out" on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands, with frightening consequences.

IN DEBT WE TRUST shows how the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Americans and our government owe trillions in consumer debt and the national debt, a large amount of it to big banks and billions to Communist China.

Video is available for download from itunes here (Thanks John!):
http://www.itunes.com/movies/indebtwetrust

Air Crash Investigations

2009-06-06T14:09:00.002+08:00

The recent disappearance of the Air France Airbus A330 which carried 228 passengers has led me to search for documentaries regarding plane crashes. This is a few of the clips from the series 'Air Crash Investigations'. I will add on more clips when I find them

Air Crash Investigation - Air Canada 797

Aircrash Investigations-United Airlines Flight 232

Air Crash Investigation - Air France 358

Air Crash Investigation - Bashkirian Airlines Flight 293

Aircrash Investigation - Aeroméxico Flight 498

Aircrash Investigation-EgyptAir Flight 990

Control Room - Propaganda of the Iraq War

2009-05-28T16:55:00.000+08:00

See how tight constraints and desire to win over the hearts and minds of people world wide to support the baseless cause for the invasion of Iraq. See how different the sides are between east and western reporting. You be the judge of the truth.

Great Natural Wonders of The World

2009-05-28T16:08:00.002+08:00

Sir David Attenborough takes us into a journey of nature, impressive and aspiring natural wonders. From the depths of death valley, to peaks of Yosemite Falls, to the volcanoes of Hawaii, this video will certainly be well worth your time.