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War on the Weak - Eugenics Legislation Video
YouTube - War on the Weak by Liam Dunaway /
"Created for the 2007 NHD Competition. Following the theme "Triumph & Tragedy", this documentary depicts the U.S. Eugenic legislation throughout the early 20th Century and chronicles the compulsory sterilization faced by many Americans. "War on the Weak" continues to analyze negative eugenics by discussing the U.S. Supreme
Court case of Buck v. Bell. Furthermore, the parallels present among U.S. and Nazi ideologies on the nature of eugenics are presented, along with an exposition on the affinity Nazi scientists had for U.S. eugenics laws. The documentary concludes with a look at modern genetic research and leaves the viewer with the hopeful message of a society free of ailments but warns of the dangers on science that is not kept in check with the moral values of humanity.
Director: Liam Dunaway. Producer: Liam Dunaway. Production Company: The Radley Place. Keywords: eugenics; nazi medicine; buck v. bell; genome; ero; laughlin; strode; virginia; hitler; cumpulsory sterilization; procreational autonomy; nhd; triumph and tragedy; war on the weak;
Contact Information: liamdunaway@mac.com http://www.theradleyplace.com.
Click link to view informative video on the history of eugenics and forced sterilization of criminals and other undesirables that included immigrants, Mixed bloods French Canadians, and Blacks in the U.S. Prescott Bush was the head of the Connecticut Eugenics Society.
Picture is of the woman in the first court case where she was declared unfit to reproduce and ordered to be forcibly sterilized as part of the Eugenics Experiments of the early 20th century.
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Kart Vader VS Rendez Vous, a contrast in Street Racing Styles
People always talk about Rendez Vous as the ultimate street race video, but Kart Vader is the real deal! No fake audio or mystery cars.
Kart Vader is out of his mind and I love it. Lucky he survived!
The real question is, why do both these segments take place in French-speaking parts of the world?
Rendez Vous was filmed in Paris in the 1970s, and Kart Vader is filmed in Quebec in around 2004. I will admit that the Parisian version does have a more artistic appearance, almost Hitchcockian in feel. Kart Vader, being a Quebecois home video, has more of a “Jackass”, lo-fi, Guerrila quality.
There must be a genetic link to why the French come up with this crazy stuff. I do not think this is a coincidence. People always talk about Rendez Vous as the ultimate street race video, but Kart Vader is the real deal! No fake audio or mystery cars... more -
A Nascar driver named Jacques?
Formula 1 champion and Indianapolis 500 winner Jacques Villeneuve started his first Nascar cup race in Talladega, Alabama. Yesterday he ran his second Nascar truck race at Talladega, but got caught up in a late race crash. He joins Juan-Pablo Montoya as F-1 and Indy drivers who've mad the move to Nascar. I think the expansion of Nascar drivers to someone other than white American males is great. I'd like to see more diversity including women and blacks.
Talladega Nights is totally echoing in my mind. Formula 1 champion and Indianapolis 500 winner Jacques Villeneuve started his first Nascar cup race in Talladega, Alabama. Yesterday ... more
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