Leo's Geography Challenge - Mega-Thread

[LoneWonderer]

Syria 

*Note that this documentary and many of the documentaries I post here are pretty one sided and biased to one set of views, so always watch knowing there is much more to the story than is being said here. Endevr channel often releases many liberal documentaries that make the mistake of preaching values that are very liberal but these values are non existent and fail in countries such as Syria.

[Puer Aeternus]

Big fan of this channel for African history and biographies of African leaders. It's a good resource into a region with less coverage.

[Leo Gura]

@Puer Aeternus Great share! Thanks.

[Puer Aeternus]

Rising from the ashes of the USSR, Estonia was finally independent but it's future uncertain. Poor as dirt and it's borders unsecured, Estonia seemed at risk of becoming Russian territory.

 

But, this did not happen. This documentary covers the early years of independence. The pragmatic and machiavellian moves made to secure political survival and wealth in desperate circumstances. A unique view of nation building and it's consequences in the late 20th century

Link to stream ($3 rental). Documentary is too obscure, so no freebies this time.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://vimeo.com/ondemand/rodeo&ved=2ahUKEwi8q62cw_KNAxW7EFkFHfy9M-4QwqsBegQIFRAE&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw0QCE6shgRWqCM8wclLCU1b

Not sure if link is working because Vimeo is weird. The title is "Rodeo, Taming a Wild Country" if you need to search.

 

 

Edited June 15 by Puer Aeternus

[Puer Aeternus]

"He promised us we could travel to America without a visa.." "Your body is like a suit. Do you stop existing when you take it off? So it is necessary to turn your body into atoms. And you disappear in the blink of an eye! Then I materialize you in America!"

"Vampires give us more problems than police."

"When you treat female patients, do you ever get aroused?" "We have a special prayer. An invisible spiritual force comes to us. It blows the passion out! Then I become like female. And a woman with a woman.. obviously, nothing happens!"

All taken from the first 15 minutes of this ethnographic film of Shutka, Macedonia. 

 

 

[LoneWonderer]

21 hours ago, Puer Aeternus said:

"He promised us we could travel to America without a visa.." "Your body is like a suit. Do you stop existing when you take it off? So it is necessary to turn your body into atoms. And you disappear in the blink of an eye! Then I materialize you in America!"

"Vampires give us more problems than police."

"When you treat female patients, do you ever get aroused?" "We have a special prayer. An invisible spiritual force comes to us. It blows the passion out! Then I become like female. And a woman with a woman.. obviously, nothing happens!"

All taken from the first 15 minutes of this ethnographic film of Shutka, Macedonia. 

 

 

Brother this was insane 😂 Self deception at it's finest.

Edited June 19 by LoneWonderer

[Puer Aeternus]

1 hour ago, LoneWonderer said:

Brother this was insane 😂 Self deception at it's finest.

Hahaha so true! They make it entertaining at least 

Together we can all be Shutka champions of self-deception.

Edited June 20 by Puer Aeternus

[LoneWonderer]

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2721744/

City 40 - A documentary about Russia's closed off secret cities that produce advanced nuclear and military weaponry. They are still innacessible to outsiders today. In this documentary a camera crew smuggled in cameras inside the infamous City 40.

Edited June 20 by LoneWonderer

[Puer Aeternus]

3 minutes ago, LoneWonderer said:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2721744/

City 40 - A documentary about Russia's closed off secret cities that produce advanced nuclear and military weaponry. They are still innacessible to outsiders today.

BET! We watchin

[Rafael Thundercat]

A good friend soon will  visit Creta Island, the land of the suppouse Minoan Culture.

Well suppouse because as in the episode of Openmindness, open your mind for the idea that a lot of what we know about Minoans was a fabrication by Evans

Check the video

And plus. The girl is hot,in my opinion and taste.

[Puer Aeternus]

You probably got it real good

 

[Puer Aeternus]

On 6/20/2025 at 3:23 PM, Rafael Thundercat said:

A good friend soon will  visit Creta Island, the land of the suppouse Minoan Culture.

Well suppouse because as in the episode of Openmindness, open your mind for the idea that a lot of what we know about Minoans was a fabrication by Evans

Thanks for the sauce, this is a big reason why I'll never trust scientific theory that's too distant from my direct ability to test.

I'll always just treat it as a story, maybe it happened. Maybe I didn't.