This 2-hour documentary exposes the myths surrounding AIDS (primarily, that AIDS is not caused by HIV), the failings of the ongoing battle against AIDS, and the vile deception that has been perpetrated for so long about it.
(Watch on Google Video)
It’s appalling to learn that politicians as well as scientists have been lying to defend [...]
Adakah masih layak dipanggil “akhbar”, jika berita yang dipampangkan besar-besar di muka depannya ialah tentang kematian pemain gusti WWE, Chris Benoit? Berita itu telah mengisi hampir separuh ruang berita halaman depan Berita Harian Singapura semalam (27 Jun 2007).
Tiadakah berita di dunia ini yang lebih mustahak, lebih bermakna dan lebih patut untuk dipaparkan di muka [...]
Alangkah terkejutnya saya apabila menonton siaran Suria baru-baru ini. Peserta-peserta peringkat akhir Anugerah 2007 telah mendendangkan sebuah lagu dalam sebuah klip video. Saya tidak pasti akan judul lagunya.
Yang saya perhatikan, lima dari keenam-enam para peserta itu mempunyai rambut yang tidak hitam; rambut mereka keperangan.
Setahu saya, orang yang dipanggil Melayu itu, rambutnya hitam. Warna rambut orang [...]
So, Richard Gere kissed Shilpa Shetty in front of an anti-AIDS campaign crowd (watch; RealPlayer format).
Did you watch as he progressed, from kissing the hand, to embracing, to… whatever? And how long he stayed there? Do we need to rationalise the kind of feelings that may be induced when a man kisses a woman—in such [...]
http://nymag.com/news/features/2007/sexandlove/30915/
Scary, really scary.
The pervasiveness, yes, the surreptitious pervasiveness. Little did I realise, until I read the article, that the concept has been thrown around in songs (”Stacy’s Mom”), movies (”American Pie”) and TV shows (”Desperate Housewives”) for a very long time.
Even scarier is the equanimity with which the authors write on it, without reference or [...]
Every afternoon, there is a man in the street who sells candies, and good candies they are, which attract many customers. But you also know that when night falls, he sells another type of ‘candy’, which attracts a group of customers as well—he is a drug trafficker.
Question: If you had a child, would you [...]
UPDATE (10 Nov 07): I see that many of you reached here from an email page. Just curious: why?
“Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women” by Jean Kilbourne
An eye-opening presentation on how women are featured in advertising. The words that come to mind are “pervasive”, and then “normalisation”. Indeed, the practice of advertising [...]
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