movie:around the world

The Secret History of #SEAL_Team_6: Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/world/asia/the-secret-history-of-seal-team-6.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=2

Around the world, they have run spying stations disguised as commercial boats, posed as civilian employees of front companies and operated undercover at embassies as male-female pairs, tracking those the United States wants to kill or capture.

Those operations are part of the hidden history of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, one of the nation’s most mythologized, most secretive and least scrutinized military organizations. Once a small group reserved for specialized but rare missions, the unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden has been transformed by more than a decade of combat into a global manhunting machine.

That role reflects America’s new way of war, in which conflict is distinguished not by battlefield wins and losses, but by the relentless killing of suspected militants.

Detention not a solution for migrants

Around the world, thousands of migrants are behind bars. Having already suffered many hardships on perilous journeys, migrants should not be subjected to administrative detention except as a measure of last resort, and States should provide alternatives, says the International Committee of the Red Cross in the run-up to International Migrants Day, 18 December.

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5 Places Where People Slow Down Aging - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/5-places-where-people-slow-down-aging

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Around the world, people are living longer, healthier lives than ever before. One area this is most visible is in the number of centenarians, or people living to the age of 100. In 1840, there were 90 centenarians in the United States—one for every 189,000 people—according to United States Census Bureau records. Today, there are more than 53,000—or one for every 5,800 people. Though we know people are living longer, we don’t necessarily how they do it.After discovering that there are longevity hot spots where people tend to live especially long, writer Dan Buettner spent the last 12 years locating and documenting these areas, dubbed “blue zones.” “I increasingly was interested in mysteries that dealt with the human condition,” says Buettner, a National Geographic fellow.Through that research, (...)

There You Go!
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/there-you-go

Around the world ‘development’ is robbing tribal people of their land, self-sufficiency and pride and leaving them with nothing.

Watch this short, satirical film, written by Oren Ginzburg and...

Obscene Gestures from Around the World » Sociological Images
▻http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/06/08/obscene-gestures-from-around-the-world

▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vk9vHUiw7Pg

The phrase “social construction” refers to the fact that things, symbols, places, sounds — basically everything — is devoid of meaning until we, collectively, agree as to what something means. Once that happens, it has been “socially constructed” and we can refer to it as a “social construct.”

The fact that gestures have any meaning at all, and that they can have different meanings in different places, is a simple example of this basic sociological concept. Enjoy this one minute compilation of examples!