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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: 2

One Family, Two Armies Nepal 2009.avi

Category: Documentary
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-30 17:57:04 Description (required) Our World - One Family, Two Armies 2009 10 21 BBC 199 MB/ 00:22mns / XviD Charles Haviland reports from Nepal on the affect of war on one family. A monarchy throughout most of its history, Nepal was ruled by the Shah dynasty of kings from 1768 when Nepal was unified to become one state. However, a decade-long People's Revolution by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) along with several weeks of mass protests by all major political parties of Nepal in 2006, culminated in a peace accord and the ensuing elections and it's been over a year since the Maoists came to power in Nepal. Now the people of this former kingdom, wait to see if two armies, till recently bitter enemies, can peacefully become one. Haviland looks at how 10 years of war affected one family.
Seeders: 8
Leeches: 2

Hemp Hemp Hooray! The Growing Industrial Hemp Market (DVDrip)

Category: Documentary
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Hemp Hemp Hooray! is a fast paced, fun educational glimpse into the potential of the world's most useful and versatile plant, cannabis hemp, and its burgeoning renewed industrial marketplace. Hear the voices of hemp - entrepreneurs, manufacturers, farmers, experts, activists and concerned consumers. See: a house furnished almost entirely with hemp products. Fine textiles and fashion for all family members, protein rich foods, cosmetics, soaps, housewares, paper, papermaking, ropes, shoes, on and on....products galore and glorious! Learn about the environmental advantages, essential fatty acids and hempseed nutrition, making plastics and building materials from hemp, historical facts and how to evolve into a hempen world. Woven into this fabric of possibilities are rare scenes from around the world. Germany...High tech farm equipment in action harvesting hemp France...Learn the process to make hemp bricks and see a demo house Romania...This factory has been spinning hempthreads for over 50 years Canada...Harvesting the first year crops of legal hemp near Toronto Santa Cruz Industrial Hemp Expo * SF Hemp Expo * Kentucky Farmers Feel:the palpable enthusiam where hempsters gather. The hope of a world free of toxic chemicals, giving back to the Earth and it's creatures. A vision of right livelihood amidst a circle of respect and sustainability where we each must take responsibility to learn, change and give what we can. Hemp Hemp Hooray ! The Growing Industrial Hemp Market is an inspired look at a renewable natural resource that can provide many of our world's needs while cleaning and rebuilding the environment. Educate yourself, your community and your legislators with this exhilarating video.
Seeders: 3
Leeches: 0

TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin - October 20, 2009: Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival - Wired 24/7?

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin - October 20, 2009: Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival - Wired 24/7? Overwired? Technology and our daily life. Part II of The Agenda at The Quantum 2 Cosmos Festival. The Debate: Wired 24/7 Would you be able to survive one day without your television? Computer? your Blackberry? Our grandparents didn't need them. Some of our parents lived without them. And yet these technologies are now an integral part of our lives, for better or for worse. Where will the wired world lead us next? And will we be happy with what we find at that destination? Guests Neil Gershenfeld is the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, and has been named one of Scientific American's 50 leaders in science and technology. He is best known as a pioneer in personal fabrication--small-scale manufacturing enabled by digital technologies, which gives people the tools to build literally anything they can imagine. Raymond Laflamme is the Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, and an Associate Faculty memeber at Perimeter Institute. Amongst his most important theoretical results was inventing, with Emmanuel Knill and Gerard Milburn, a radically new approach to Quantum computing using linear optics. Jaron Lanier is the author of You Are Not A Gadget and was a pioneer in, and popularized the term, 'Virtual Reality'. His monthly column Jaron's World in Discover magazine is devoted to his own wide ranging ideas and research that include computational approaches to the fundamentals of physics. His current appointments include Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, CET, UC Berkeley. Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume epic The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) and the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. His most recent book is Anathem. Tara Hunt is the author of The Whuffie Factor and has spent the past fifteen years living her life online. From the first wave of online marketing as it emerged in the late 90's while in Canada all the way to being a pioneer of new marketing in Silicon Valley in 2005, leading the wave into Web 2.0: the participatory web. For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage ----- Note: This is an iPod video podcast that is available for free download from the website. Quality is good. Audio podcasts (mp3 format) are also available for free download for the individual segments. Type: mp4 file Size: 102MB Runtime: 00:52:49 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240 Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps Download this episode using the attached torrent file or download it directly using this link: http://feeds.tvo.org/~r/tvo/TxZN/~5/LkR4fFfZxVY..._320x240_304k.mp4 You can also watch a flash video of this episode through your web-browser here: http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index....0-20%2020:00:00.0 ----- Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) FOR 10 EXCITING DAYS THIS OCTOBER, Perimeter Institute's Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) will take a global audience from the strange world of subatomic particles to the outer frontiers of the universe. All events will occur on-site in Waterloo, Ontario and online at q2cfestival.com and TVO.org. Q2C's extensive program features more than 50 events - including panel discussions, keynote presentations, special screenings, exhibits including the full-scale model of the next Mars Rover (named Curiosity), and recorded sessions with Honorary Festival President Professor Stephen Hawking. Q2C will transcend traditional festivals by streaming events live and on demand, offering virtual interaction with exhibits, and providing special opportunities for students and teachers. THE AGENDA WITH STEVE PAIKIN will be broadcasting live for 5 nights from Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. The themes that The Agenda is planning to explore in these programs include: Monday, October 19 » Plan B: Colonize Space? Stephen Hawking thinks it's a good idea, given the multiple problems facing earth. Can we imagine a human future off earth? Tuesday, October 20 » Does/Does Not Compute So you think technology controls your life now? From nanotechnology to quantum computing, what the future has in store. Wednesday, October 21 » Designer Genetics The legal, social, and medical implications of trying to engineer humans without defects. Thursday, October 22 » Robotics Artificial Intelligence, evolution, and the man/machine interface. Friday, October 23 » The Importance of Science Do we still believe that science is the path to progress and a better life? FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION on Q2C festival events, programs, speakers, and tickets, go to their website. Resources and links to related material TVO's Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival webpage: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicro...ientific_literacy Watch video on demand of lectures from all Q2C sessions: http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/literacy/index.c...=blog&blog_id=484 ----- TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO's flagship current affairs program - devoted to exploring the social, political, cultural and economic issues that are changing our world, at home and abroad. The Agenda airs weeknights at 8:00 PM EST on TVO - Canada's largest educational broadcaster. TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin website: http://www.tvo.org/agenda/
Seeders: 2
Leeches: 0

TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin - October 19, 2009: Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival - Are We Bound For Space?

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin - October 19, 2009: Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival - Are We Bound For Space? Space: the final frontier ... or our next home? Part I of The Agenda at The Quantum 2 Cosmos Festival. The Debate: Are We Bound For Space? April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to leave earth and travel into space. But in the near half-century since that day, only 500 others have taken that special voyage. Is that now about to change? Do problems here on earth mean we should start thinking about a new home in outer space? Guests: Chris Hadfield is a Canadian astronaut, engineer, and pilot. He has made two space flights--one in 1995 and one in 2001--and he is currently training for a future stay on the International Space Station. Chris McKay is a planetary scientist with the Space Science Division of NASA Ames. His research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. He is playing a significant role in the planning of the MSL mission for 2011 and is also the deputy program scientist for Constellation--the NASA program for future human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Bob Richards is the founder and CEO of Odyssey Moon Ltd., a commercial lunar enterprise based in the Isle of Man, and the first official registrant in the $30M Google Lunar X Prize competition. He is also the Director of Space Technology at Optech Incorporated of Canada, where he presided over the first commercial lidar scanner flown in space. Donna Shirley is a former manager of Mars Exploration at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the author of the book Managing Martians. She managed the team that built Sojourner, the Microrover, which was landed by the highly successful Mars Pathfinder project on the surface of Mars in 1997. Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist and author of several bestselling books including The Physics of Star Trek. His research interests include the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology. He writes regularly for various newspapers and magazines, and appears frequently on radio and television. Karl Schroeder is a science fiction author of several popular books, including, The Sunless Countries: Book Four of Virga. He also consults in the area of Strategic Foresight (technology foresight, chiefly in scenario design). For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage ----- Note: This is an iPod video podcast that is available for free download from the website. Quality is good. Audio podcasts (mp3 format) are also available for free download for the individual segments. Type: mp4 file Size: 103MB Runtime: 00:52:18 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240 Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps Download this episode using the attached torrent file or download it directly using this link: http://feeds.tvo.org/~r/tvo/TxZN/~5/Gf8CVxIMxjA..._320x240_304k.mp4 You can also watch a flash video of this episode through your web-browser here: http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index....0-19%2020:00:00.0 ----- Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) FOR 10 EXCITING DAYS THIS OCTOBER, Perimeter Institute's Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) will take a global audience from the strange world of subatomic particles to the outer frontiers of the universe. All events will occur on-site in Waterloo, Ontario and online at q2cfestival.com and TVO.org. Q2C's extensive program features more than 50 events - including panel discussions, keynote presentations, special screenings, exhibits including the full-scale model of the next Mars Rover (named Curiosity), and recorded sessions with Honorary Festival President Professor Stephen Hawking. Q2C will transcend traditional festivals by streaming events live and on demand, offering virtual interaction with exhibits, and providing special opportunities for students and teachers. THE AGENDA WITH STEVE PAIKIN will be broadcasting live for 5 nights from Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. The themes that The Agenda is planning to explore in these programs include: Monday, October 19 » Plan B: Colonize Space? Stephen Hawking thinks it's a good idea, given the multiple problems facing earth. Can we imagine a human future off earth? Tuesday, October 20 » Does/Does Not Compute So you think technology controls your life now? From nanotechnology to quantum computing, what the future has in store. Wednesday, October 21 » Designer Genetics The legal, social, and medical implications of trying to engineer humans without defects. Thursday, October 22 » Robotics Artificial Intelligence, evolution, and the man/machine interface. Friday, October 23 » The Importance of Science Do we still believe that science is the path to progress and a better life? FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION on Q2C festival events, programs, speakers, and tickets, go to their website. Resources and links to related material TVO's Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival webpage: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicro...ientific_literacy Watch video on demand of lectures from all Q2C sessions: http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/literacy/index.c...=blog&blog_id=484 ----- TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO's flagship current affairs program - devoted to exploring the social, political, cultural and economic issues that are changing our world, at home and abroad. The Agenda airs weeknights at 8:00 PM EST on TVO - Canada's largest educational broadcaster. TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin website: http://www.tvo.org/agenda/
Seeders: 3
Leeches: 0

Our World - Mine Games 2009 10 14 BBC World

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Our World - Mine Games 2009 10 14 BBC World 175 MB/ 00:18:45 /XviD Karen Allen reports from the Eastern Congo for Our World The BBC's Southern Africa Correspondent Karen Allen reports from the conflict zones of Eastern Congo, to trace the minerals that make it into global electronics goods and mobile phones. Poor miners struggle to extract rare minerals needed to fuel the never-ending boom of cell phone production while being paid about $1 per day. These miners are exploited and taxed by criminal gangs thinly disguised by as 'militias', themselves chased by ineffectual, government soldiers who play the same game. Amongst them are impotent, international forces whose pious purposes include protecting women and children from the predators who abound. Over 5 million have died in the Eastern Congo in the last 5 years. Meanwhile, human rights workers point out the games of international mining companies who fake the source of the materials from the illegal mining operations and wistfully hope for international action. Source: http://www.uknova.com/wsgi/torrent/view/85589 Cap: Wn.a Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 6
Leeches: 1

Our World - Politics Of Thirst. 2009 10 09 BBC

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Our World - Politics Of Thirst. 2009 10 09 BBC 199mb / 22 min / Xvid File: Our World - Politics Of Thirst.WnA Our World looks at the impact that the water scarcity has on security in the already fragile Middle East. The UN says Syria urgently needs help to tackle devastating effects of the worst drought the Middle East has seen in decades. Iraq, parts of Turkey, Jordan and Syria have all been affected with more than a million people suffering in Syria alone. With hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the drought stricken areas, Our World looks at the impact that the water scarcity has on security in the already fragile Middle East. Source: http://www.uknova.com/wsgi/torrent/view/85138 Cap: Wn a Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 7
Leeches: 1

TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin, May 15, 2009: W(h)ither the United States?

Category: News & Current Affairs
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TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin, May 15, 2009: W(h)ither the United States? The Debate: W(h)ither the United States? The Obama administration's emerging foreign policy: mea culpa or managing the relative decline of American power? Guests: Andrew Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University, and author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. Peter Beinart is a senior fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, and a columnist for the Washington Post. Wenran Jiang is an associate professor of political science and Mactaggart research chair of the China Institute at the University of Alberta. He is a senior fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and an online columnist for Business Week. Sergei Plekhanov is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University. Janice Stein is TVO's international affairs analyst, the Belzberg professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage ----- Note: This is an iPod video podcast that is available for free download from the website.Quality is good. Audio podcasts (mp3 format) are also available for free download for the individual segments. Type: mp4 file Size: 114MB Runtime: 00:54:27 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240 Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps Download this episode using the attached torrent file or download it directly using this link: http://feeds.tvo.org/~r/tvo/TxZN/~5/M9G96kY7weU/TAWSP_Dbt_20090515_779513_0_320x240_304k.mp4 You can also watch a flash video of this episode through your web-browser here: http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779513&ts=2009-05-15%2020:00:35.0 ----- Andrew Bacevich is that rare breed in American political discourse: a principled conservative who stands out in stark contrast to the grotesque monstrosity and demonstrably incoherent, unprincipled ideology that is American conservatism, sometimes labelled libertarianism, of the Reagan revolution and Republican party variety, which is mostly a racist, "God Bless America and kill the darkies abroad!!" screeching, anti-government, anti-tax, corporate-and-private-power-worshipping philosophy. It is an ideology that hypocritically preaches incessantly about "limited government" but which is anti-government and anti-state only when it comes to social programs for the poor, the weak, the powerless and minorities, and whose criticisms of expansive government, coercive state-power, and executive and federal power overreach are notably absent when it comes to the expansion of the domestic police state and of the grotesque, weapons-of-mass-destruction-producing and mass-murdering apparatus that is the expansive American military establishment, American imperial power-structure and the National Security State. It is quite revealing to see a principled conservative like Andrew Bacevich arriving to very similar conclusions about American power, imperialism and foreign policy as someone from the left, such as Noam Chomsky. Resources and links to related material 1) Farewell to the American Century by Andrew Bacevich: Americans have perpetuated a mythic version of the past that never even approximated reality and today has become downright malignant. 2) Andrew Bacevich on PBS Bill Moyer's Journal: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/watch.html 3) Glenn Greenwald - The looming political war over Afghanistan 4) Glenn Greenwald - Our war-loving Foreign Policy Community hasn't gone anywhere 5) Chris Floyd - Beyond Here Lies Nothing: Surging Further Into the Abyss 6) Cheney/Obama ----- TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO's flagship current affairs program - devoted to exploring the social, political, cultural and economic issues that are changing our world, at home and abroad. The Agenda airs weeknights at 8:00 PM EST on TVO - Canada's largest educational broadcaster. TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin website: http://www.tvo.org/agenda/
Seeders: 2
Leeches: 1

Powers of Ten (1977)

Category: Documentary
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Powers of Ten (1977)In 1977, Charles and Ray Eames made a nine-minute film called Powers of Ten that still has the capacity today to expand the way we think and view our world. Over ten million people have since seen the film and it continues to be shown in classrooms, business meetings, festivals and retreats everywhere. Starting with a sleeping man at a picnic, the film takes the viewer on a journey out to the edge of space and then back into a carbon atom in the hand of the man picnic, all in a single shot. It is an unforgettable experience.
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National Geographic - Six Degrees That Could Change The World

Category: Documentary
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National Geographic - Six Degrees That Could Change The World By the year 2100, many scientists believe that the Earth's average temperature could rise by as much as six degrees Celsius. In a compelling investigation, National Geographic leads a degree-by-degree journey to explore what each rising—and critical—degree could mean for the future of our people and planet. Through powerful filmmaking and intimate profiles, this special illustrates how global warming has already affected the reefs of Australia, the ice fields of Greenland, and the Amazonian rain forest. With a sobering look at the effects of our world's insatiable appetite for energy, Six Degrees Could Change the World explains what's real, what's still controversial, and how existing technologies and remedies could help dial back the global thermometer.
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