Ah, Farfur, you squeaky-voiced, incendiary, singing, dancing promoter of violence to children, we hardly knew ye. Good.

This week, Tomorrow's Pioneers, a children's program on Palestinian Hamas station Al-Aqsa TV, featured Mickey-Mouse-like Farfur getting "martyred" by Israel. Farfur has been making international headlines for a few months now, with his cheerful lessons about worldwide Islamic rule and his call-in segments where kids chat about annihilating the Jews and sing about using AK-47s as he dances along.

But just in case the kids watching had ANY doubts left about which side they were supposed to be on, there's this kicker of a final episode, in which Farfur takes a beating for not giving up his land to Israel, and then his cute-as-a-button young cohost, Saraa, sweetly informs us that Farfur has taken the long dirt nap for the cause. Charming.

Incidentally, wiki reports there's been controversy about how accurately the show's been translated by the Middle East Research Institute. However, I can't help but notice nobody's challenged the authenticity of the AK-47 song. Good riddance, Farfur.

Most of the Iraq War's propaganda videos we've seen -- whether they're for the war or against it -- tend to be put together without too much thought behind them. "Lee's life for Lies" is a curious exception.

The desricription of this clip by YouTube uploader "tamerghonym" claims that it's "A Message from a US soldier in Iraq Lee K. Tucker to his family. The message was found in a flash memory after his Humvee had been attacked by the Islamic Army in Iraq." The footage of Tucker, along with a recorded letter he wrote to his parents, implies that Lee was against the war. It also implies that he died when his Humvee was blown up.

The problem is that Lee is alive and well. And he almost certainly never wrote or recorded the letter. The footage of him and his fellow soldiers was either stolen or found, and then manipulated to make it seem genuine. (The other four parts can be viewed on tamerghonym's YouTube channel while it's still up.)

In the run-up to this year's G8 summit in Germany, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets to protest issues like globalization, the exclusion of China from the G8, and other social and economic issues the member countries are said to create and/or ignore. Oh, and there is always "the war."

Thanks to YouTube and sites like IndyMedia, global protesters can now distribute footage of demonstrations within hours of the event. "Protester porn," the remixing of video and still photos to an angry-but-beautiful soundtrack, makes me want to throw bricks and get informed. It is also eerily beautiful -- a bit remniscent of TDR's favorite overlooked movie of 2006: Children of Men. The similarities are a testament to how good amature journalism/filmaking is getting, and that great filmmakers are taking a cue from reality's aesthetic.