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This time, we get into online videos.

BogdogFIGHT

http://www.bodogfight.com/

Here we have a video trailer for Emmy-winning Panamanian journalist and filmmaker Gabriela Sosa’s latest TV project, in which she serves as producer. It’s hard to call a series of fights between seven pairs of American martial artists set against beautiful Costa Rican outdoor backdrops a “reality show,” but nevertheless this eight-part series, to be aired in the USA on the DISH network and via this website, ought to be able to attract an audience away from mainstream television.

El Canal de la Discordia

http://www.panamaprofundo.org/boletin/canaldepanama/Video/canal_discordia.htm

Way back when the Pope censored the works of Galileo. Nowadays Panama’s Catholic bishops tried to do the same with this video. In Spanish, a collaboration between CARITAS Panama (before the bishops fired Héctor Endara as its coordinator) and the Alicante University in Spain. This is the sort of journalism about the canal expansion proposal that both church and state are trying to suppress, and it puts the garbage that you get from MEDCOM to shame.

Life in the field in Panama

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/plants-fungi/

webcast-panama/life-in-the-field-in-panama.html

The tale of an isthmian field excursion with British botanist Alex Monro, of the Natural History Museum in London. He got wet and muddy, but the wildlife didn’t get him this time.

Patriotism and the Cost of War

http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm and scroll down to that video

An interview with US Representative John Murtha, about the real issues that the Iraq War creates for the US national defense and the cheap political attacks that come when a former US Marine Corps colonel and Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania talks realistically about them.

Real Chinese Kung Fu Video

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/38599/real_chinese_kung_fu/

Just so you know what you’ll really be up against if you betray The Master and offend the Shaolin Temple. No, not the American music --- it’s all those chops, kicks and punches that will turn a Kung Fu Christmas into a New Year in which you are too sore to party.

Also in this section:
Cool Internet Sites
Books, Exodus from Empire