"This chilling documentary film examines the relationship between the
media, corporate America, and government. In a country where the 'top
1% control 90% of the wealth', the film argues that the media system is
nothing but a 'subsidiary of corporate America."
"'Oil, Smoke & Mirrors' offers a bleaker view of present global
circumstances than many of us would dare consider. It deals with issues
that are largely marginalised, if not ignored, in the discourse of
mainstream media and politics."
"Richard Dawkins explores the state of the three Abrahamic religions in
the world today, from the political influence of rich and powerful
Christian fundamentalist institutions in America to the deadly clash of
Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Middle East. He describes the
Holy Land as the least enlightened place in the world, a microcosm of
the threat to rational values and civilisation posed by religion, whose
irrational roots, he says, are nourishing intolerance and murder."
"How is it, asks Richard Dawkins, that despite science having exposed
old religious myths, militant faith is back on the march? The mechanism
for perpetuating beliefs that Dawkins describes as leading to murderous
intolerance, is by imposing religion on children who are too
inexperienced to judge it for themselves We wouldn't categorise
children according to their parents' political stance, says Dawkins,
since they are too young to make up their minds about such matters. But
we segregate them in sectarian religious schools, where they are taught
superstitions drawn from ancient scriptures of dubious origin, which
promote a 'contradictory and poisonous system of morals'."
"Zeitgeist was created as a nonprofit filmiac expression to inspire
people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective
and to understand that very often things are not what the population at
large think they are. The information in Zeitgeist was established over
a year long period of research and the current Source page on this site
lists the basic sources used / referenced and the Interactive
Transcript includes exact source references and further information."
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