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This is a fascinating extended interview with Alan Alda on the Australian public broadcasting network - ABC - on their "Elders" series. This is a really thorough piece. I have come to appreciate the value in public broadcasting from different parts of the world. It's fascinating to me also to watch the interviewer's expressions. He's a great interviewer, but I can tell that he doesn't know how to personally connect with Alda - there's an unfair judgement about Alda's character and mindset which is pretty evident from the reticence in his expression.
I always have really admired Alan Alda. His ideas and approach to life really I see as insightful, and I see him as a great role model.
There is a saint who is the President of East Timor. This country seems to have enjoyed peace and good relations with Indonesia in the past ten years since it won its independence from Indonesia. The man is very wise and caring, and is very pragmatic at maintaining this neighborly relationship with Indonesia. And central to this, is the forgiveness of people who oppressed East Timor between 1975 and 1999.
The interviewer here, is cute... but is rather malicious and headstrong in how she wishes to press the president for vindictive policies to "punish" those who hurt the country. She somehow doesn't see that these kinds of policies could easily return the region to a violent struggle struggle between the two nations.
The first segment of this broadcast, can be found here.
This is a fascinating 20 minute video with Lawrence Lessig, who has been a very erudite campaigner for reforming the government in Washington DC. Here, he again shows how noble he is by refusing to play one side or the other in a debate. Instead, he wants to talk about his honest reasoning.
This is a recent interview that Bill Clinton gave to John Stewart, in which he explains a very straightforward and sensible answer to this financial market crisis which we are seeing in September of 2008.
This is a very beautiful interview with the president of Bolivia - Evo Morales. The interview was conducted by the Al Jazeera news network in march of 2008. They asked him many pertinent questions, and gave him the opportunity to explain the current situation with the new constitution, and the nationalization of natural resources, and other contextual issues, very clearly.
