Monday, August 24, 2009

En tus brazos - In your arms


Tango Animation - En Tus Brazos (In Your Arms) - More free videos are here

French-made Spanish animation movie "En Tus Brazos" about how nothing can stop a tango dancing couple ... not even fate. With an embrace they enjoy and imaginary last dance.

Directed by François-Xavier Goby Edouard Jouret and Matthieu Landour. France 2005.
Music "En Tus Brazos" by Alfredo de Angelis and Oscar Larroca (vocal). Composition by Carlos Zárate. Lyric by Elizardo Martínez Vilas (Marvil). Music (final part): "El Huracán" by Edgardo Donato.

Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism (must-listen)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/chris-hedges-on-health-care-war-and-the-new-racism-must-listen/

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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 2 of 2

With or without religion


"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

Steven Weinberg quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
US physicist (1933 - )

Friday, August 21, 2009

To have, and not to hold, so hard, yet so cold - Madonna



Love this song!

Sita Sings the Blues


This is a great animation created by Nina Paley. It is based on the Indian epic Ramayana. It a great piece of ingenious art. The Ramayana (Devanāgarī: रामायण, Rāmāyaṇa) is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon. It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. Nina Paley's version combines this epic story with modern thinking, beautiful animations and 1920's Jazz Music. I truly recommended it.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

American Christian Paradox



By Bill McKibben

How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong. What does it mean to be a Christian in the U.S.?

"Only 40 percent of Americans can name more than four of the Ten Commandments, and a scant half can cite any of the four authors of the Gospels. Twelve percent believe Joan of Arc was Noah's wife."

For many Christians, deciphering a few passages of the Bible to figure out the schedule for the End Times has become a central task. You can log on to RaptureReady.com for a taste of how some of these believers view the world—at this writing the Rapture Index had declined three points to 152 because, despite an increase in the number of U.S. pagans, “Wal-Mart is falling behind in its plan to bar code all products with radio tags.”

A rich man came to Jesus one day and asked what he should do to get into heaven. Jesus did not say he should invest, spend, and let the benefits trickle down; he said sell what you have, give the money to the poor, and follow me. Few plainer words have been spoken. And yet, for some reason, the Christian Coalition of America—founded in 1989 in order to “preserve, protect and defend the Judeo-Christian values that made this the greatest country in history”—proclaimed last year (2008) that its top legislative priority would be “making permanent President Bush's 2001 federal tax cuts.”

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