A Film about Dustin Kott, the Californian bike builder who makes custom British style Cafe racers out of old Japanese bikes.

The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy is the greatest motorcycle road race in the world, the ultimate challenge for rider and machine. It has always called for a commitment far beyond any other racing event, and many have made the ultimate sacrifice in their quest for victory. A story about freedom of choice, the strength of human spirit and the will to win. It’s also an examination of what motivates those rare few, this elite band of brothers who risk everything to win.

There is nothing new in the video above to anyone who reads Zero Hedge or any other impartial news source, but if it takes a documentary to reach the masses who don’t read, it’s better late than never since this mess is still ongoing. There has been no recovery, only a cover up.

The Yen hit a 15-year high against the dollar yesterday. Since Japan’s economy is heavily reliant on exports, a stronger Japanese currency curbs the profits of large Japanese companies. Also yesterday, existing U.S. homes fell more than 27% in July, the largest one-month drop on record, California is To Issue IOUs For the Second Year In A Row, the second time in as many years (going all the way back to the Great Depression), U6 unemployment is around 17% and all of the western sovereign nations are bankrupt already with no way to pay for their future liabilities, let alone pay down their debt. All this before we have even started sliding down the back of Hubberts peak after the bumpy plateau we have been on since 2005.

[4/17/10 9:01:01 PM] yann berger: he’s the chef
[4/17/10 9:01:30 PM] piers: u know it
[4/17/10 9:02:08 PM] yann berger: he made a legend of his name, soulful skier
[4/17/10 9:02:19 PM] piers: artiste
[4/17/10 9:03:03 PM] yann berger: how big are those switch jumps…
[4/17/10 9:03:14 PM] yann berger: retarded
[4/17/10 9:03:55 PM] yann berger: he’s so good in free ski
[4/17/10 9:03:59 PM] piers: enorme
[4/17/10 9:04:20 PM] yann berger: candide for president. lol

Really nice edit from Kenson‘s trip down to Salzburg from Antwerp for a long and epic snow filled weekend.

Story of a group of riders exploring the winter playgrounds of Ruka & Pyhä ski resort areas in Finnish Lapland. From the dark days of October, through magical Christmas time and midwinter, sunny & funny spring events till season ending jibbing sessions in June. It´s all about winter!

Been reading and learning from Michael Ruppert for years.

Check him out reaching the mainstream in this Wall Street Journal interview,

“Money is useless without energy and money has no respect for power or ideology. We have to reconnect with the requirements that we’re living on a planet that’s falling apart. And we have to maintain some relationship that’s separate from the illusory power of money. Clearly, the power in this country is not in Washington, it’s in New York, with the Fed and with Wall Street. . . . Until you change the way money works, you change nothing. The current economic paradigm calls for infinite growth, from fractional reserve banking to compact interest. So Wall Street needs to somehow help us find an economy that works without requiring more and more consumption” (“Sounding an Alarm on Oil,” Nov. 4).

Nice write up here on it…

Somehow the progression just keeps on coming. Check out the first air at 36secs..how big is that??!

Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to use Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn’t need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.

Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, his most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. But Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle Freud had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile.

Where once the political process was about engaging people’s rational, conscious minds, as well as facilitating their needs as a society, the documentary shows how by employing the tactics of psychoanalysis, politicians appeal to irrational, primitive impulses that have little apparent bearing on issues outside of the narrow self-interest of a consumer population. Curtis cites a Wall Street banker as saying “We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. [...] Man’s desires must overshadow his needs.”

I might be a little late on this, but I watched it last night and it kind of puts things in perspective. Full vid above. Not sure how long it will last though.

Absolute Classic. I love this level on Colin McRae (RIP) Dirt too.