BBC2 - Please Vote for Me

bazza
October 11, 2007, 12:14 AM posted in General Discussion

Probably should have posted this before it was on really.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=yesterday&service_id=4224&filename=20071010/20071010_2320_4224_14130_55

I watched the beginning and saved it to watch tomorrow. Looks to have some good easy language as it's mostly school kids.

 

 

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bazza
October 11, 2007, 12:15 AM

Forgot to define the link again hehe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=yesterday&service_id=4224&filename=20071010/20071010_2320_4224_14130_55

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bazza
October 11, 2007, 12:18 AM

Here's a short clip from it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwARnU2xrao

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azerdocmom
October 11, 2007, 03:06 AM

Thanks, Bazza :) Quite a remarkable clip.

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henning
October 11, 2007, 05:27 AM

I second the Doc. Good one.

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artkho
October 11, 2007, 05:37 AM

I read the article about this last week at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7030725.stm and came away with a different conclusion. There's manipulation and bribery, and that's how the winner won.

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bazza
October 11, 2007, 10:52 PM

I didn't know that the character 正 is used to count things like votes, every stroke is 1 and 1 character is 5. So 正正正 is 15. :)

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christian
October 14, 2007, 12:48 PM

This will be showing tonight at 21h10 central European Time on BBC World. I'm not sure I'll be able to see it, but would love to as it looks really interesting. Here is the trailer, which I found over on Youtube:

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bazza
October 14, 2007, 07:07 PM

I didn't realise we could post Youtube clip, I'm sure I tried before it didn't work.

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Joachim
October 14, 2007, 07:30 PM

The why democracy initiative looks impressive. I haven't yet gotten my head around their motives. Maybe, I am a bit too sceptic and always have the old "Cui bono?" in mind. Strangely, I just saw a book asking if democracy becomes unjust in the face of globalisation.

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kimiik
October 14, 2007, 10:51 PM

I wonder if this video is really in favor of democracy. It only shows the drifts not the useful return. One of the children even speaks of the danger to bring dictatorship at the head of the class. Where does it come from ???