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Democracy Now! Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Blackwater Prepared Bribes After 2007 Nisoor Massacre Report: Top Officials Back 30,000 Additional Troops in Afghanistan US Citizen Sues FBI for Kidnapping, Mistreatment in Africa Obama Honors Ft. Hood Victims DC Sniper Executed by Lethal Injection 4 Arrested at Sen. Lieberman’s Offices Ex-Bear Sterns Execs Acquitted in Fraud Case India Criticized for Opening Bhopal Disaster Site Ahead of 25th Anniversary Justice Dept. Subpoenaed Indymedia Site for Web Visitors Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance On Veterans Day, a new study estimates four times as many US Army veterans died last year because they lacked health insurance than the total number of US soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period. A research team at Harvard Medical School says 2,266 veterans under the age of sixty-five died in 2008 because they were uninsured. We speak to the report’s co-author, Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of medicine at Harvard University and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. Sexual Assaults, Inadequate Healthcare Among Spate of Issues Facing Women Servicemembers The rate of sexual assaults within the US military also exceeds that of the general population. A Pentagon report earlier this year found one in three female servicemembers are sexually assaulted at least once during their enlistment. Sixty-three percent of nearly 3,000 cases reported last year were rapes or aggravated assaults. Despite what some have called an epidemic of military sexual trauma, the delivery of healthcare to women veterans remains grossly inadequate. Parents of Iraq Veteran Receive Mistaken Notice from US Gov't, Not Condolence Letter They Await from Obama The parents of US Army Reserve Specialist Chancellor Keesling, an Iraq war veteran, received a letter yesterday from the VA asking that their son complete his “Post Deployment Adjustment.” The only problem is, Chance Keesling had killed himself in Iraq nearly five months ago. We speak with Chance’s dad, Gregg Keesling, who’s still waiting for the letter he’s never received: condolences from President Obama. A longstanding US policy denies presidential condolence letters to the families of soldiers who have committed suicide.
Seeders: 55
Leeches: 48

PBS Independent Lens-Journals of a Wily School.Oct 27, 2009.WS-PDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Category: Documentary
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Episode: Journals of a Wily School Aired: Oct 27, 2009 “In childhood when we would play thieves and police, I would always be the thief. Being a thief must have become a habit, and now I’ve become a real one!” —Azad Jalaluddin, pickpocket On the hot and crowded streets of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), three thousand pickpockets ply their trade every day, three hundred of them circulating through police custody at any given time. JOURNALS OF A WILY SCHOOL takes viewers inside the world of these petty thieves and the detectives who doggedly pursue them, day in and day out. With unprecedented access, first-time director Sudeshna Bose follows a young and talented pickpocket named Azad Jalaluddin, revealing in cinema verité style the many layers of his life. The eldest of five children, the 22-year-old lives with his family. While his sisters go to school and his father works in the wholesale fish trade, Azad spends his days picking pockets, using drugs and binging on Bollywood films. His mystified father voices frustration over the wayward son who fancies himself a don and compares himself to the stars of the big screen. Azad speaks candidly about his profession, seemingly delighted to have a film crew following him about his day. He happily shares the tricks of his trade, which in Kolkata have been elevated to an art form. To hone his craft, Azad attends an unusual school where a master pickpocket leads his attentive disciples through a series of challenges. In one, they must reach their hands into a bucket of water and retrieve a coin without creating ripples. In another, the students must carefully use a razor blade to slit a cloth wrapped around a melon, without cutting the melon’s smooth skin. Although a thief, Azad maintains an ethical stance in certain areas. As a matter of course, he returns wallets to their rightful owners—usually by mail—after he has pilfered all cash and valuables. Following a particularly lucrative haul, he returns some small change to the wallet so its owner can buy cigarettes. “Have to help the poor guy,” he says. But Azad’s ethics are put to the test when he inevitably lands himself in jail. Police detective Bidhan Saha, a hard-nosed cop with a fatherly bent, takes Azad under his wing, offering him a pardon and a salary if he will turn in his fellow thieves. The detective is convinced of Azad’s promise and works diligently to build rapport, visiting his home and even taking him on a beach vacation. Given a second chance and the hope for redemption, what choice will Azad make? Collaboration or incarceration? Loyalty or self-interest? Respectability or the lure of the city streets? As it follows Azad’s dilemma, the film offers a fascinating look into crime and criminal justice in a city recognized the world over for its intense poverty. The former home of Mother Teresa, Kolkata—like much of India—is also a city in transition: a teeming metropolis with a growing economy and a burgeoning middle class. With more capital in the city, the stakes for those on both sides of the law are set ever higher. JOURNALS OF A WILY SCHOOL is a classic tale of cops and robbers, set in changing and paradoxical times—for even as the ancient city creeps towards modernity, many of its inhabitants, like Azad, will remain caught in the age-old struggle to survive. Update In August 2009, the film’s producer, Debu Bhattacharyya, reported that Azad had returned to his life as a pickpocket, noting that, despite the hardships, “He says that this is where his heart lies.” Police detective Bidhan Saha was continuing his work and expanding his networks of informants to address issues of national security. Format : AVI Length : 465 MiB for 55mn 19s 185ms Codec : XviD Source : PDTV Language : Hindi Subtitles : English Hardcoded Genre : Documentary Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 1 024 Kbps Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.810) at 29.970 fps Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 138 Kbps Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Enjoy! Ekolb
Seeders: 9
Leeches: 9

Tar Wars ~ 2009 BBC Our World

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Tar Wars ~ 2009 BBC Our World 30/10/09 Our World investigates why a small band of Cree Indians in Canada's Alberta Tar Sands are taking on the world's oil companies, and being bankrolled by a high-street business in the UK . The UK’s Co-Operative Financial Services is assisting Canada’s Beaver Lake Cree Nation in pursuing legal action to stop the development of tar sands in Alberta. The Cree nation has constitutionally protected rights to the land, and is seeking an injunction against the developments to preserve the area’s ecological integrity, an action which could affect companies including BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell, and Total. http://www.climatechangecorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5995
Seeders: 8
Leeches: 1

The Anarchist Library on torrent

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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The whole archive of theanarchistlibrary.org
Seeders: 14
Leeches: 3

BBC - The future of food Pt 3 of 3 - Cuba

Category: Documentary
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History, Science Documentary hosted by George Alagiah and published by BBC in 2009 - English narration Information ------------------------------ Future of Food In the past year, we have seen food riots on three continents, food inflation has rocketed and experts predict that by 2050, if things don't change, we will see mass starvation across the world. This film sees George Alagiah travel the world in search of solutions to the growing global food crisis. From the two women working to make their Yorkshire market town self-sufficient to the academic who claims it could be better for the environment to ship in lamb from New Zealand, George Alagiah meets the people who believe they know how we should feed the world as demand doubles by the middle of the century. 1) India George joins a Masai chief among the skeletons of hundreds of cattle he has lost to climate change and the English farmer who tells him why food production in the UK is also hit. He spends a day eating with a family in Cuba to find out how a future oil shock could lead to dramatic adjustments to diets. He visits the breadbasket of India to meet the farmer who now struggles to irrigate his land as water tables drop, and finds out why obesity is spiralling out of control in Mexico. Back in Britain, George investigates what is wrong with people's diets, and discovers that the UK imports an average of 3000 litres of water per capita every day. He talks to top nutritionist Susan Jebb, DEFRA minister Hilary Benn and Nobel laureate Rajendra Pachauri to uncover what the future holds for our food. 2) Senegal George heads out to India to discover how a changing diet in the developing world is putting pressure on the world's limited food resources. He finds out how using crops to produce fuel is impacting on food supplies across the continents. George then meets a farmer in Kent, who is struggling to sell his fruit at a profit, and a British farmer in Kenya who is shipping out tonnes of vegetables for our supermarket shelves. He also examines why so many people are still dying of hunger after decades of food aid. Back in the UK, George challenges the decision-makers with the facts he has uncovered - from Oxfam head of research Duncan Green to Sainsbury's boss Justin King. He finds out why British beef may offer a model for future meat production and how our appetite for fish is stripping the world's seas bare. 3) Cuba In the final episode George Alagiah heads out to Havana to find out how they are growing half of their fruit and vegetables right in the heart of the city, investigates the 'land-grabs' trend - where rich countries lease or buy up the land used by poor farmers in Africa - and meets the Indian agriculturalists who have almost trebled their yields over the course of a decade. George finds out how we in this country are using cutting-edge science to extend the seasons recycle our food waste and even grow lettuce in fish tanks to guarantee the food on our plates. He hears the arguments about genetically modified food and examines even more futuristic schemes to get the food on to our plates. Screenshots ------------------------------ Technical Specs ------------------------------ * Video Codec: XviD * Video Bitrate: 1505 kbps * Video Resolution: 704x400 * Video Aspect Ratio: 1.76 * Frames Per Second: 25 * Audio Codec: (Dolby AC3) * Audio Bitrate: 256kb/s 48000 Hz * Audio Languages: English * RunTime Per Part: 59mins * Part Size: 746MB * Number of Parts: 3 * Subtitles: none * Ripped by: artistharry * Source: TVrip Links ------------------------------ 1) Further Information * www.tenalps.com 2) Related Documentaries * The Truth about Food * The Future of Food 3) ed2k Links ed2k://|file|BBC.Future.of.Food.1of3.India.XviD.AC3.MVGroup.org.avi|782280704|FCD3133CE599D59745B555FBBD693415|h=WXFQB44DZ5RJTHKRJP2ATSVQ7QCWTJAH|/ ed2k://|file|BBC.Future.of.Food.2of3.Senegal.XviD.AC3.MVGroup.org.avi|782370816|B6A810239EC9F35632D42D2C55FFCD36|h=6PXX5QVRC4E4RGQQXANXLEM3G34S54W5|/ ed2k://|file|BBC.Future.of.Food.3of3.Cuba.XviD.AC3.MVGroup.org.avi|783464448|8181AC820DBCE7BE19F5F9D645E30062|h=2YAP3CTCTXUB5O6GYS3KUO7KZ2BPJ3FL|/ Source: http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Future_of_Food
Seeders: 85
Leeches: 36

BBC - The future of food Pt 2 of 3 - Senegal

Democracy Now! Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Senate Panel OKs Healthcare Reform Without Public Option Health Rallies to Be Held at Insurers’ Offices Thousands Rally in DC as Immigration Bill Unveiled Iraq: 85,000 Deaths Since 2004 UN: 100,000 Displaced by Northern Iraq Drought Russia Rejects New Iran Sanctions Groups Warn of Civilian Toll in Congo Fighting Obama to Sign Pakistan Aid Bill Zelaya Delegation, Coup Regime Discuss Restoration Alleged Cuban Spy Re-Sentenced to 22 Years EPA Releases Email Ignored by Bush Admin Jury Selection Begins in Trial of Bear Stearns Execs With Senate Finance Vote, Fate of Public Option Uncertain as Healthcare Reform Talks Move Behind Closed Doors The Senate Finance Committee has become the fifth and final congressional panel to approve legislation to reform the nation’s healthcare system, voting 14-to-9 to approve an $829 billion measure. Maine Senator Olympia Snowe was the only Republican to support the package, which omits a public option. Talks now move behind closed doors, where Senate leaders will craft final legislation. We get analysis from Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake. [includes rush transcript] "Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War": Groundbreaking Journalist Mark Danner on Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and Torture Award-winning journalist, writer and professor Mark Danner has just released a new collection of dispatches about Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and the use of torture in the US war on terror. It’s called Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War. We speak to Danner about torture in the so-called war on terror and his career of chronicling US-backed human rights abuses abroad. [includes rush transcript] As US and Other Wealthy Nations Slash Aid, UN Warns of "Silent Tsunami of Hunger" in Global Food Crisis The UN World Food Program is calling the current global food crisis “a silent tsunami of hunger.” This week the WFP warned that more than 40 million people will have their food rations reduced or eliminated because of the drastic aid cuts. We speak with award-winning Indian journalist, writer and activist Devinder Sharma. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 83
Leeches: 17

Devil's Playground (2002) DVDrip

Category: Documentary
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Title: Devil's Playground Runtime: 77 minutes Devil's Playground is a 2002 documentary film by Stick Figure Productions, directed by Lucy Walker about the alleged Amish rite of passage called Rumspringa. The film follows Amish teenagers in LaGrange County, Indiana who enter the "English World" and experiment with illegal drugs, drinking, partying, and pre-marital sex. After a certain amount of time, the teenagers are expected to either become baptised as adults in the Amish community, or permanently leave the church and be forever shunned by their families and friends. more info at the wiki for this film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Playground_%28film%29 notes compiled 10-13-09
Seeders: 8
Leeches: 0

Democracy NOW Tuesday the 6th of October 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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* White House: No Plans to Withdraw from Afghanistan * 61 Antiwar Protesters Arrested at White House * Abbas Faces Calls to Resign over Goldstone Report * Coup Gov’t Lifts Emergency Decree in Honduras * Taliban Claims Responsibility for World Food Program Bombing * DynCorp’s Role in Pakistan Scrutinized * Suspect in 1994 Rwandan Genocide Arrested * 3,000 Protest Outside Climate Talks in Bangkok * Obama to Speak Before Leading Gay Rights Organization * Ohio Postpones Four Executions * Flooding in India Kills 250; Leaves 2.5 Million Homeless * Anti-Vietnam War Mom Peg Mullen, 92, Dies Twitter Crackdown: NYC Activist Arrested for Using Social Networking Site during G-20 Protest in Pittsburgh Elliot Madison was arrested last month during the G-20 protests in Pittsburgh when police raided his hotel room. Police say Madison and a co-defendant used computers and a radio scanner to track police movements and then passed on that information to protesters using cell phones and the social networking site Twitter. Madison is being charged with hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility, and possession of instruments of crime. Exactly one week later, Madison’s New York home was raided by FBI agents, who conducted a sixteen-hour search. We speak to Elliot Madison and his attorney, Martin Stolar. [includes rush transcript] # Wallst-web A Hidden $34 Billion Bank Subsidy? Study Exposes How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Other Large Banks One of the key terms to come out of the nation’s economic meltdown has been “too big to fail.” The government has funneled billions of dollars to large financial firms by arguing that their collapse would deal an irreparable blow to economic recovery. A new study has calculated the tab of the “too big to fail” approach, and it amounts to a far larger taxpayer-funded subsidy than previously thought. The Center for Economic and Policy Research says the bailout has allowed “too big to fail” banks to pay significantly lower interest rates than those paid by smaller banks. According to one estimate, that’s meant a subsidy for the nation’s eighteen largest bank holding companies of $34.1 billion a year. That amount represents nearly half these companies’ combined annual profits. We speak to the study’s author, Dean Baker. [includes rush transcript] # Nyc-water-web Environmental Battle Brews in New York over Natural Gas Drilling Last week, government regulators opened the door to natural gas drilling inside the Marcellus Shale watershed, which supplies drinking water to some 15 million people, including nine million New Yorkers. Stretching from New York to Kentucky, the shale is believed to hold some of the world’s largest deposits of natural gas. Proponents say the drilling will boost the nation’s economic recovery and reduce dependence on foreign oil. But environmentalists are warning the drilling could contaminate New York’s water supply as it has in other states. The proposed regulations are now open for public comment until the end of the next month, followed by a final decision early next year. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 102
Leeches: 18

National Geographic - Seed Hunter (2009)

Category: Documentary
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National Geographic – Seed Hunter Seed Hunter Solutions to this crisis lie within Mother Nature herself in the form of diverse genes found in the wild ancestors of our staple foods – and the man to hunt them down is Dr Ken Street, the Indiana Jones of agriculture. Ken and his team will travel to the land where agriculture began nearly 10,000 years ago. In the remotest parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, the genetic origins of our daily bread and other food still survive. The crops growing here have taken centuries to develop robust genetic traits that allow them to thrive in the harshest of climates. Scientists around the world want access to these genes so they may be integrated into food crops compromised by global warming.
Seeders: 186
Leeches: 94