A short excerpt featuring Bagua training from the 1983 film Wu lin zhi, known in English as Pride’s Deadly Fury, and The Honor of Dongfang Xu, an unusual case of Martial Arts cinema using real martial artists.

Emlyn has a good deal of information on the film, and identifies the older female martial artist as Ge Chun Yan.

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Rothbardite on foreign policy, but otherwise pretty good stuff.

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Documentary on the One Inch Punch popularized by Bruce Lee , featuring martial arts film clips, demonstrations, and discussion by Jeet Kune Do and Wing Chun instructors.

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So artist Aron Falk is educating frogs to prepare them for survival.

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Interview

A US Army unit evidently captured this in-production insurgent video near Dulab, Iraq, and supplied the soundtrack and a different ending from the one originally intended.

5:52 video

CAUTION: A bit gory.

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Information is completely lacking, but this :57 Google video shows a confrontation between a rabbit and what looks like a rattlesnake. The rabbit wins. If I had to guess, I would identify the locale as Texas.

It’s good to have a little dog to run those tigers out of your village, before they get into the garbage cans!

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A 6:13 stop-action animation made in 1913 by the Lithuanian film-maker Wladyslaw Starewicz.

Starewicz web-site.

7:30 Pathé Frères silent film Moscow Clad in Snow shot in the winter of 1908. The power of the state is conspicuously on display in the first portion.

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According to Nancy Grace on Saturday Night Live, commenting on the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.

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H/t to Seneca the Younger.