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PBS Frontline-A Death in Tehran.S28E04.WS-PDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Category: Documentary
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FRONTLINE: A Death in Tehran Aired: November 17, 2009 FRONTLINE investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the reform movement alive in Iran. At the height of the protests following Iran's controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death filmed on a camera phone, then uploaded to the Web quickly became an international outrage, and Soltan became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hard-line government's hold on power. In A Death in Tehran, FRONTLINE revisits the events of last summer, shedding new light on Neda's life and death and the movement she helped inspire. FRONTLINE World Uganda's "Impenetrable Forest," home to half the world's population of Mountain Gorillas, is also a hotbed for a number of deadly diseases that cross the species barrier from animals to humans. Format : AVI Length : 465 MiB for 56mn 14s 280ms Codec : XviD Source : PDTV Language : English Subtitles : None Genre : Documentary Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 1 006 Kbps Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.810) at 29.970 fps Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 136 Kbps Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Enjoy! Ekolb
Seeders: 39
Leeches: 9

PETA shows How the Chinese treat Animals for Fur

Category: Documentary
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Undercover video showing how chinese fur farm workers torture and beat animals while laughing and skin them alive
Seeders: 0
Leeches: 0

Is It Better to be Mixed Race?~Science's Last Taboo 2009 11 02 Ch 4

Category: Documentary
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Is It Better to be Mixed Race?~Science's Last Taboo 2009 11 02 Ch 4 389.61 MB/ 47:43./ XviD Before 1967, it was illegal in 16 American states for a black person and white person to marry. Right-wing groups on both sides of the Atlantic continue to espouse that the mixing of races is destructive and against some kind of natural order. Aarathi Prasad, a geneticist and mother of a mixed-race child, sets out to challenge the science of racial purity, as part of the Race: Science's Last Taboo season, and examines provocative claims that there are in fact biological advantages to being mixed race. It's a controversial subject that has aroused much opposition from both ends of the political spectrum, but does greater genetic diversity confer advantages in humans, as seen in the breeding of plants and animals, or are lifestyle and environment the primary influences? (Editor's Choice, Subtitles) http://www.channel4.com/programmes/is-it-better...-to-be-mixed-race Source: http://www.thebox.bz/details.php?id=97702 Cap: evil-koala Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 11
Leeches: 1

Off The Radar (presented by Te Radar) AUDIO FIXED

Category: Documentary
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Each set of four chapters is one tv episode. About the show There is much romance surrounding the concept of escaping the rat race to live a self-sustainable lifestyle and surely Aotearoa is the best place on earth to make this back-to-basics dream come true... comedian Te Radar is finding out. This series explores the delights and difficulties of trying to sustain oneself off what one man can hunt, grow and fish. Te Radar is discovering there is much to keep one occupied on long cold nights in the tent; do saucers of beer really keep snails off cabbages? Does goat make tasty salami? And what happens when the time comes for Willie the pet pig to hit the dinner platter? Off The Radar also touches on topical green issues facing New Zealand like the viability of solar power and how simple steps like composting and starting a worm bin reduce landfill. In his quest to become more self sustainable, Te Radar is calling on the help of many fascinating folk - like Project Pete, the man with at least 100 projects half-finished in his shed and back paddock, Shawn, a local with a degree in fixing things with #8 wire, Pru and Trish the growing gurus and Wolfgang, the self-proclaimed king of scything and mud oven maker. Then there are the animal characters - Sainsbury and Campbell the calves, Willie and JT the pet porkers and a bevy of tasty birds... chickens that is. From breaking in the veggie patch to selling off the home made pickle and home grown spuds... life Off The Radar is filled with ups and downs of living in small town New Zealand, relying on the neighbours for a hand and battling the elements. tvnz.co.nz/view/tvone_minisite_index_skin/tvone_off_the_radar_group
Seeders: 4
Leeches: 2

The Anarchist Library on torrent

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

Food.Inc.LiMiTED.DVDSCR.XviD-ARROW

Category: Documentary
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The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business - with an emphasis on the business - has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies. Health and safety (of the food itself, of the animals produced themselves, of the workers on the assembly lines, and of the consumers actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of these negative consequences. Many of the changes are based on advancements in science and technology, but often have negative side effects. The answer that the companies have come up with is to throw more science at the problems to bandage the issues but not the root causes. The global food supply may be in crisis with lack of biodiversity, but can be changed on the demand side of the equation
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Leeches: 0

King Corn 2007 PBS Independent Lens

Category: Documentary
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King Corn 2007 PBS Independent Lens 703 mb/ 90 mins/ Behind America’s dollar hamburgers and 72-ounce sodas is a key ingredient that quietly fuels our fast-food nation: corn. In KING CORN , recent college graduates Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis leave the east coast for rural Iowa, where they decide to grow an acre of the nation’s most powerful crop. Alarmed by signs of America’s bulging waistlines, the filmmakers arrive in the Midwest enthusiastic about their new endeavor. For their farm-to-be, they choose a tiny town in Floyd, County, Iowa—a place that, coincidentally, both Ian and Curt’s great-grandfathers called home three generations ago. They lease an acre of land from a skeptical landlord, fill out a pile of paperwork to sign up for subsidies and discover the U.S. government will pay them 28 dollars for their acre. Ian and Curt start the spring by injecting ammonia fertilizer, which promises to increase crop production four-fold. Then it’s planting time. With a rented high-tech tractor, they set 31,000 seeds in the ground in just 18 minutes. Their corn has also been genetically modified for another yield-increasing characteristic: herbicide resistance. When the seedlings sprout from Iowa’s black dirt, Ian and Curt apply a powerful herbicide to ensure that only their corn will thrive on their acre. "The apple juices and the grape juices that are canned and they say 'sweetened,' that’s going to be a high-fructose corn syrup. And then you look down the meats—beefs, porks, chickens. You feed them corn and that gets turned into their biomass that we consume." By summer, their modern farm is thriving, and the Corn Belt is moving toward a record harvest of 11 billion bushels of corn. But where will all that corn go? With their crop growing head-high, Ian and Curt leave the farm to see where America’s abundance of corn ends up. As they enter America’s industrial kitchen, they are forced to confront the realities of their crop’s future. In Brooklyn, it sweetens the sodas of a diabetes-plagued neighborhood. In Colorado, it fattens the feed trough of a 100,000-head cattle feedlot. Ian and Curt are increasingly troubled by how the abundance of corn is helping to make fast food cheap and consumers sick, driving animals into confinement and farmers off the land. Animal nutritionists confirm that corn feeding can make cows sick and beef fatty, but it also lets consumers have fast food at low prices. As feedlot operator Bob Bledsoe says in KING CORN, “America wants and demands cheap food.” But that ignores the billions in subsidies that agri-corporations receive. As Ian and Curt discover, almost everything Americans eat contains corn. High-fructose corn syrup, corn-fed meat, and corn-based processed foods are the staples of the modern diet. America’s record harvests of corn are supported by a government subsidy system that promotes corn production beyond all market demand. As Ian and Curt return to Iowa to watch their 10,000-pound harvest fill the combine’s hopper and make its way into America’s food, they realize their acre of land shouldn’t be planted in corn again—if they can help it. .edit http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/film.ht Watch preview:http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/film.html : Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 28
Leeches: 2

CBS - 60 Minutes (October 4 2009)

Category: News & Current Affairs
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CBS - 60 Minutes (October 4 2009) Marc Dreier: The Swindler To understand how Bernie Madoff could have done what he did, listen to so-called "mini-Madoff" Ponzi schemer Marc Dreier tell Steve Kroft in his first TV interview how he scammed $400 million. Coal Ash: 130M Tons of Waste If coal ash is safe to spread under a golf course or be used in carpets, why are the residents a Tenn. town being told to stay out of a river where the material was spilled? Lesley Stahl reports. The Great Migration Scott Pelley visits Kenya, the site of the great wildebeest migration, and looks at the threats to this natural spectacle comprised of over a million animals.
Seeders: 68
Leeches: 30

Gypsy Child Thieves 2009 09 02 This World BBC2

Category: Documentary
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Gypsy Child Thieves 2009 09 02 This World BBC2 File Name:.....This World.Gypsy Child Thieves.bobuk.thebox.avi 467 mb/58:59.840 Gypsy Child Thieves. Across Europe children are being forced onto the streets to beg and steal. They come from one of the poorest communities in Europe - the Romanian Gypsies. For centuries Gypsies have lived on the margins of society and faced brutal discrimination. Many have resorted to stealing and begging to survive. But in the last 20 years, organized crime has taken over. And since 2007, when Romania joined the EU, Gypsy children have been trafficked and exploited on a much larger scale. In an attempt to understand what is happening to these children Romanian film-maker Liviu Tipurita embarks on a journey through Europe which takes him inside the closed world of the Gypsy community, and talks to the authorities and institutions meant to be dealing with this disturbing phenomenon.... In Italy, where Gypsies face a shocking tide of racism, a major police investigation found enslaved children locked in a shack like animals. Two years on, Tipurita's investigation finds out that the elaborate police operation has not saved them from a life of crime. In an attempt to trace the roots of the problem and the origins of this exploitation within the Gypsy community, Tipurita travels to his native Romania, home to the largest Gypsy population in the world. He meets up with one of the most powerful leaders of the Gypsy underworld, for whom stealing is a profession that has been passed from generation to generation, and who provides a special insight into the history of Gypsy crime. This World asks whether these children are the victims of a culture of crime and a wider society that seems to have abandoned them. And raises a question - will anyone save them from the hands of their exploiters? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/8212251.stm Source: http://www.thebox.bz/details.php?id=89895 Cap: bobuk Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 51
Leeches: 32

Animal Liberation

Category: Documentary
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From the classic scenes of the first A.L.F. raids on British laboratories and factory farms, to the legendary voyages of the sea shepherd fleet, ramming ships on the high sea to shut down illegal whaling and sealing operations, to the E.L.F., dedicated to taking the profit motive out of environmental destruction by causing economic damage to businesses, to activists of the A.L.F. using non-violent direct action in the defence of non-human life.
Seeders: 6
Leeches: 6