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| The Israel Lobby (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 2007) |
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For many years now the American foreign policy has
been characterized by the strong tie between the
United States and Israel. Does the United States
in fact keep Israel on its feet? And how long will
it continue to do so? In March 2006 the American
political scientists John Mearsheimer (University
of Chicago) and Steve Walt (Harvard) published the
controversial article 'The Israel Lobby and US
foreign policy'. In it they state that it is not,
or no longer, expedient for the US to support and
protect present-day Israel. The documentary sheds
light on both parties involved in the discussion:
those who wish to maintain the strong tie between
the US and Israel, and those who were critical of
it and not infrequently became 'victims' of the
lobby. The question arises to what extend the
pro-Israel lobby ultimately determines the
military and political importance of Israel
itself. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell's
former chief-of-staff) explains how the lobby's
influence affects the decision-making structure in
the White House.
With political scientist John Mearsheimer, neocon
Richard Perle, lobby organization AIPAC,
televangelist John Hagee, historian Tony Judt,
Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth, colonel
Lawrence Wilkerson, Democrat Earl Hilliard,
Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy and
investigative journalist Michael Massing.
Research: William de Bruijn
Director: Marije Meerman
For more information visit
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/aflevering
en/34338524/
Tags : Israel lobby US Powell WMD Perle AIPAC Roth Wilkerson Mearsheimer Judt Massing Levy Hagee Hilliard UN Obama Iraq Biden |
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Affichage : 95629
Durée : 3031 s |
| Google: Behind the Screen (IJsbrand van Veelen VPRO 2006) |
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This 50 minutes documentary gives an in-depth look
in the world of Google and search.
What if all the world's information would be
available and easy to find? What if all the news,
all books, all texts, photographs and videos would
be collected in one place, and made available,
always and everywhere?
This is the goal of Google, and the company seems
to be realising its core mission at an amazing
speed: through its popular search engine, through
Google Earth, with which users can find any kind
of information based on geography, and through
Google Print, a project in which Google digitizes
complete libraries.
Google is divulging ever more information, in the
process hiring the smartest people in the
industry. But is the company aware of the
responsibility it has, being the guard to all the
world's information, including personal
information about its users?
This documentary takes a look into the world of
Google, in the company's headquarters in Mountain
View, California and in its London offices. We see
--among others- Vint Cerf, named 'the father' of
the Internet who explains the inner workings of
Google as a company. Since 2004, Cerf has been
working for Google, helping them to develop new
applications for the Internet. What is his view on
the development of the Internet, and on the role
Google plays in today's world?
With its motto 'Don't be evil', Google seems to
have the best intentions. But there are also
claims that Google is slowly turning into Big
Brother, keeping track of its users and
continuously making decisions about the
information it provides to an ever faster growing
number of users.
Will Google turn out to be a new Library of
Alexandria, serving as a middleman that brings all
useful information to anyone? Or is it turning
into a monopolistic Big Brother that challenges
the freedom of information?
Research: Martijn Kieft
Director: IJsbrand van Veelen
VPRO Backlight 2006
Tags : google information privacy search silicon valley cerf digitize internet big brother monopoly |
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Affichage : 40770
Durée : 2827 s |
| Saudi Solutions (Bregtje van der Haak, VPRO 2005) |
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How to combine modernity and fundamentalist Islam.
"Saudi Solutions" is a unique and revealing
documentary about the lifestyles and attitudes of
ambitious career women
in conservative Saudi Arabia -- the only country
in the Arab
world where women are obliged to cover themselves
inabayas and aren't allowed to drive cars. Because
of the strong influence of fundamentalist Islam on
society, filming
is severely restricted in Saudi Arabia. With
unique access to the Kingdom, Backlight had the
opportunity to film the daily routines of Saudi
working women. This documentary
features a top gyneacologist, a TV news anchor
woman, a photographer, and a university professor.
It also introduces
the wealthy Prince Al-Waleed, who passionately
promotes the acceptance of women into the
workforce. He kindly invites
Backlight to his luxury desert camp, but there are
no women to be found—only thousands of men.
Tags : documentary backlight politics Saudi tegenlicht women waleed islam VPRO haak |
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Affichage : 112085
Durée : 4628 s |
| Intel vPro 2007: better remote administration, security ... |
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http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2007/08/intel_vpro_bet
ter_remote_administrationsecurity_but_theres_a_cat
ch.php
Last Friday, Intel hosted a launch event at San
Francisco's Palace Hotel for the upgrade of its
vPro technologies (virtualisation, security and
remote administration): a platform for business
desktop PCs that includes a CPU, a chipset, a
firmware, and a gigabit network interface (NIC).
The first iteration of vPro launched last Fall and
already enabled IT administrator to remotely
managed PCs, even when turned off, and install
patches/bug fixes, etc. With vPro 2007, Intel
added:
- the Trusted eXecution Technology (TXT) that
insures the integrity of virtual machine monitors
e.g. VMWare, Parallels, XenSource...;
- the System Defense filters that now has a
firewall type of functionality (deep packet
inspection, screening for malicious behaviour...)
for the integrated Gigabit NIC;
- a capability to allow a PC that does not have
its OS active, because it's turned off, to
securely come on to an IEEE 802.1x or a Cisco NAC
network; - support for DASH and WS-Man management
standards;
- virtualisation for Directed I/O which prevents
unauthorised access to the hardware.
http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2007/08/intel_vpro_bet
ter_remote_administrationsecurity_but_theres_a_cat
ch.php
Tags : intel vpro 2007 uberpulse security virtualisation administration |
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Durée : 465 s |
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