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The VICE Guide to Travel (2006)

Category: Documentary
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The VICE GUIDE TO TRAVEL is the first installment in VICE magazine’s new DVD series. The series will feature short documentaries arranged around a different theme. For this edition we went to the kinds of places that nobody else wants to visit. We traveled to the corners of the world where news is happening, the forgotten locales where strange people and stories lie and where history is being made every day. This is the VICE idea of a vacation. - Places visited: Chernobyl, Pakistan, Paraguay, Rio, Beirut, Congo, Bulgaria
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Checkpoint XviD AC3 (www.mvgroup.org)

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Checkpoint (2003) Information This film provides a fly on the wall account of various checkpoints on the Palestine-Israel border. Miles from anywhere, people travel frequently, walking long distances, to go to hospitals or to work. The Israeli guards like to 'show them' and routinely harass them by making them stand in the blazing sun, driving rain, or deep snow for many hours (eg up to ten hours) before returning their papers and often sending them home. They are polite, but admit to the cameras that this is how they deal with people - force them to stand in the rain. It could almost be a laid back Palestinian expose of what is happening at the checkpoints except - and here is the double-whammy - it is made by an Israeli, with Israeli funding - and it has not only been snapped up and promoted by the Israelis in cinemas but also by the Palestinians. What is perhaps even more shocking is that it is now being used by the Israeli forces as training material for their guards. The filmmaker has certainly got his message across to a wide audience! Produced by Edna and Elinor Kowarsky Directed by Yoav Shamir Edited by Era Lapid Subtitles by Aley Koteret 1 hour, 20 minutes, Hebrew, Arabic and English audio, 2003 Winner of five international awards and two nominations Further Information Buy the DVD here IMBD (8.1/10) Related Documentaries Palestine is Still the Issue Beirut to Bosnia The Birth of Israel Occupation 101 Victory for Us is to See You Suffer Technical Specs Video Codec: XviD Video Bitrate: 1764 Kbps Video Resolution: 656x480 Video Aspect Ratio: 1.367 / ~11:8 Video Framerate: 25 Video AR Error: 0.1% Quality Factor: 0.22 b/px Audio: Hebrew, Arabic and English Audio Codec: Dolby AC3 Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s @ 48KHz Runtime per Part: 1 hour, 20 minutes Number of Parts: 1 Part Size: 1120 MB (1/4 DVDR) Encoded by: PolarBear Subtitles: Hard-coded to the video ed2k://|file|Checkpoint.XviD.AC3.MVGroup.org.avi|1174111516|8ED823028E385A1FAF10630293CF97F4|h=WFNSQEEOGBP3XPKOTAFNNRWIQDJB5FGK|/
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Robert Fisk - From Beirut to Bosnia (BANNED FROM DISCOVERY)

Category: Documentary
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An example of how advertising and lobbying groups censor American news, this three part documentary by the famous middle east war correspondent Robert Fisk was banned by the Discovery channel in 1993. The films seek to explain the rise of anti-Western sentiment throughout the ?Muslim world? (from the Middle East to the Balkins, the range of the former Ottoman Empire) by highlighting the oppressiveness of Western-supported governments (Israel and Egypt, in particular) and the West\'s broader anti-Muslim racism. The Discovery channel pulled the films in response to a letter campaign by pro-Israel groups. Here is Fisk's summary of the incident from a speech at Concordia University in 2002: Back in 1993, I made a 3 part documentary film for the Discovery Channel in the United States, and also for Channel 4 in Britain. It was called Beirut to Bosnia and it attempted to find out why an increasing number of Muslims had come to hate the West. Indeed, the title was "Why Muslims Have Come to Hate the West.\" We filmed in Beirut, Southern Lebanon, Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Egypt, Bosnia and Croatia. . . . In due course, we discovered that Discovery was being sent American Express cards cut in half. American Express being one of the sponsors of the original series. Discovery rang me in Beirut to say they were receiving lots of letters condemning the films from various groups. Then director Mike Dutfield and I heard that Discovery had canceled the reshowing. In an imperishable letter to Dutfield, Bunting wrote - and I ask you not to laugh until the end - quote, "Given the reaction to the series on its initial airing we never scheduled a subsequent airing. So there\'s not really an issue as to any scheduled re-airing being canceled.\" When I read those words, ladies and gentlemen, I was ashamed to be a foreign correspondent. There are examples of these lobbying efforts by pro-Israel groups (and correspondence with the Discovery channel) at the following: http://primerct.org/index.php?content=unger/beyondbias&title=Beyond%20Bias http://world.std.com/~camera/docs/oncamera/ocdisc.html VHS rip but the quality is very good. Part I: The Martyr's Smile: This Films for the Humanities production focuses its capable eye on Lebanon's guerilla war that aims to liberate southern Lebanon from Israeli control. The scope of this tragic conflict is brought into sharp focus in this documentary through the use of extensive interviews with participants from the Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad movements, views of civilian casualties caused by Israeli air attacks, and photographic evidence of the ongoing destruction of life and property in the region. The viewer should be advised that this video contains some disturbing scenes of this conflict. Part II: The Road to Palestine: Another in the Beirut to Bosnia series from Films for the Humanities, The Road to Palestine provides the viewer with a glimpse into the ongoing conflict in the region around Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Through interviews with members of the militant Islamic group Hamas, as well as Zionist settlers and Jewish refugees, this documentary succeeds at revealing some of this tragic situation. Part III: To the Ends of the Earth: Another in the compelling series Beirut to Bosnia from Films for the Humanities, To the Ends of the Earth compares the plight of Muslims in Egypt and Bosnia. Though separated by geography and the distinct cultures in which they live their lives, this video reveals the feeling of betrayal by the West experienced by these two Muslim communities. Interviews with Islamic freedom fighters and war casualties shed light on the dynamics of the ongoing struggle for the survival of these communities. AVI File Details ======================================== Name.........: Part-I-The-Martyrs-Smile.avi Filesize.....: 446 MB (or 457,547 KB or 468,529,148 bytes) Runtime......: 00:50:35 (90,972 fr) Video Codec..: XviD Video Bitrate: 1103 kb/s Audio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3) ID\'d as MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Bitrate: 123 kb/s, monophonic VBR Frame Size...: 512x384 (1.33:1) [=4:3] ------------
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Israel project - AIPAC - Collection 1 of 5

Category: Documentary
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Something interesting and relevant. Please help me out here and upload anything you guys have about Israel that is educational and truthfull if you know what i mean, Upload these and other good ones to as many trackers as you can. Start your title with Israel project that's it, Peace. I call this one collection 1of 5. Next pack will be 2 of 5 Occupation incorporated. Educate yourself and don't forget to check and spread my next collection.... AIPAC's role in American politics divx 24 min Doha debates on AIPAC divx 45 min Lobbying for Israel divx 25 min The Israel Lobby AIPAC divx 45 min Chomsky says: I've received many requests to comment on the article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (henceforth M-W), published in the London Review of Books, which has been circulating extensively on the internet and has elicited a storm of controversy. A few thoughts on the matter follow. It was, as noted, published in the London Review of Books, which is far more open to discussion on these issues than US journals -- a matter of relevance (to which I'll return) to the alleged influence of what M-W call "the Lobby." An article in the Jewish journal Forward quotes M as saying that the article was commissioned by a US journal, but rejected, and that "the pro-Israel lobby is so powerful that he and co-author Stephen Walt would never have been able to place their report in a American-based scientific publication." But despite the fact that it appeared in England, the M-W article aroused the anticipated hysterical reaction from the usual supporters of state violence here, from the Wall St Journal to Alan Dershowitz, sometimes in ways that would instantly expose the authors to ridicule if they were not lining up (as usual) with power. M-W deserve credit for taking a position that is sure to elicit tantrums and fanatical lies and denunciations, but it's worth noting that there is nothing unusual about that. Take any topic that has risen to the level of Holy Writ among "the herd of independent minds" (to borrow Harold Rosenberg's famous description of intellectuals): for example, anything having to do with the Balkan wars, which played a huge role in the extraordinary campaigns of self-adulation that disfigured intellectual discourse towards the end of the millennium, going well beyond even historical precedents, which are ugly enough. Naturally, it is of extraordinary importance to the herd to protect that self-image, much of it based on deceit and fabrication. Therefore, any attempt even to bring up plain (undisputed, surely relevant) facts is either ignored (M-W can't be ignored), or sets off most impressive tantrums, slanders, fabrications and deceit, and the other standard reactions. Very easy to demonstrate, and by no means limited to these cases. Those without experience in critical analysis of conventional doctrine can be very seriously misled by the particular case of the Middle East(ME). But recognizing that M-W took a courageous stand, which merits praise, we still have to ask how convincing their thesis is. Not very, in my opinion. I've reviewed elsewhere what the record (historical and documentary) seems to me to show about the main sources of US ME policy, in books and articles for the past 40 years, and can't try to repeat here. M-W make as good a case as one can, I suppose, for the power of the Lobby, but I don't think it provides any reason to modify what has always seemed to me a more plausible interpretation. Notice incidentally that what is at stake is a rather subtle matter: weighing the impact of several factors which (all agree) interact in determining state policy: in particular, (A) strategic-economic interests of concentrations of domestic power in the tight state-corporate linkage, and (B) the Lobby. The M-W thesis is that (B) overwhelmingly predominates. To evaluate the thesis, we have to distinguish between two quite different matters, which they tend to conflate: (1) the alleged failures of US ME policy; (2) the role of The Lobby in bringing about these consequences. Insofar as the stands of the Lobby conform to (A), the two factors are very difficult to disentagle. And there is plenty of conformity. Let's look at (1), and ask the obvious question: for whom has policy been a failure for the past 60 years? The energy corporations? Hardly. They have made "profits beyond the dreams of avarice" (quoting John Blair, who directed the most important government inquiries into the industry, in the '70s), and still do, and the ME is their leading cash cow. Has it been a failure for US grand strategy based on control of what the State Department described 60 years ago as the "stupendous source of strategic power" of ME oil and the immense wealth from this unparalleled "material prize"? Hardly. The US has substantially maintained control -- and the significant reverses, such as the overthrow of the Shah, were not the result of the initiatives of the Lobby. And as noted, the energy corporations prospered. Furthermore, those extraordinary successes had to overcome plenty of barriers: primarily, as elsewhere in the world, what internal documents call "radical nationalism," meaning independent nationalism. As elsewhere in the world, it's been convenient to phrase these concerns in terms of "defense against the USSR," but the pretext usually collapses quickly on inquiry, in the ME as elsewhere. And in fact the claim was conceded to be false, officially, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when Bush's National Security Strategy (1990) called for maintaining the forces aimed at the ME, where the serious "threats to our interests... could not be laid at the Kremlin's door" -- now lost as a pretext for pursuing about the same policies as before. And the same was true pretty much throughout the world. That at once raises another question about the M-W thesis. What were "the Lobbies" that led to pursuing very similar policies throughout the world? Consider the year 1958, a very critical year in world affairs. In 1958, the Eisenhower administration identified the three leading challenges to the US as the ME, North Africa, and Indonesia -- all oil producers, all Islamic. North Africa was taken care of by Algerian (formal) independence. Indonesia and the ME were taken care of by Suharto's murderous slaughter (1965) and Israel's destruction of Arab secular nationalism (Nasser, 1967). In the ME, that established the close US-Israeli alliance and confirmed the judgment of US intelligence in 1958 that a "logical corollary" of opposition to "radical nationalism" (meaning, secular independent nationalism) is "support for Israel" as the one reliable US base in the region (along with Turkey, which entered into close relations with Israel in the same year). Suharto's coup aroused virtual euphoria, and he remained "our kind of guy" (as the Clinton administration called him) until he could no longer keep control in 1998, through a hideous record that compares well with Saddam Hussein -- who was also "our kind of guy" until he disobeyed orders in 1990. What was the Indonesia Lobby? The Saddam Lobby? And the question generalizes around the world. Unless these questions are faced, the issue (1) cannot be seriously addressed. When we do investigate (1), we find that US policies in the ME are quite similar to those pursued elsewhere in the world, and have been a remarkable success, in the face of many difficulties: 60 years is a long time for planning success. It's true that Bush II has weakened the US position, not only in the ME, but that's an entirely separate matter. That leads to (2). As noted, the US-Israeli alliance was firmed up precisely when Israel performed a huge service to the US-Saudis-Energy corporations by smashing secular Arab nationalism, which threatened to divert resources to domestic needs. That's also when the Lobby takes off (apart from the Christian evangelical component, by far the most numerous and arguably the most influential part, but that's mostly the 90s). And it's also when the intellectual-political class began their love affair with Israel, previously of little interest to them. They are a very influential part of the Lobby because of their role in media, scholarship, etc. From that point on it's hard to distinguish "national interest" (in the usual perverse sense of the phrase) from the effects of the Lobby. I've run through the record of Israeli services to the US, to the present, elsewhere, and won't review it again here. M-W focus on AIPAC and the evangelicals, but they recognize that the Lobby includes most of the political-intellectual class -- at which point the thesis loses much of its content. They also have a highly selective use of evidence (and much of the evidence is assertion). Take, as one example, arms sales to China, which they bring up as undercutting US interests. But they fail to mention that when the US objected, Israel was compelled to back down: under Clinton in 2000, and again in 2005, in this case with the Washington neocon regime going out of its way to humiliate Israel. Without a peep from The Lobby, in either case, though it was a serious blow to Israel. There's a lot more like that. Take the worst crime in Israel's history, its invasion of Lebanon in 1982 with the goal of destroying the secular nationalist PLO and ending its embarrassing calls for political settlement, and imposing a client Maronite regime. The Reagan administration strongly supported the invasion through its worst atrocities, but a few months later (August), when the atrocities were becoming so severe that even NYT Beirut correspondent Thomas Friedman was complaining about them, and they were beginning to harm the US "national interest," Reagan ordered Israel to call off the invasion, then entered to complete the removal of the PLO from Lebanon, an outcome very welcome to both Israel and the US (and consistent with general US opposition to independent nationalism). The outcome was not entirely what the US-Israel wanted, but the relevant observation here is that the Reaganites supported the aggression and atrocities when that stand was conducive to the "national interest," and terminated them when it no longer was (then entering to finish the main job). That's pretty normal. Another problem that M-W do not address is the role of the energy corporations. They are hardly marginal in US political life -- transparently in the Bush administration, but in fact always. How can they be so impotent in the face of the Lobby? As ME scholar Stephen Zunes has rightly pointed out, "there are far more powerful interests that have a stake in what happens in the Persian Gulf region than does AIPAC [or the Lobby generally], such as the oil companies, the arms industry and other special interests whose lobbying influence and campaign contributions far surpass that of the much-vaunted Zionist lobby and its allied donors to congressional races." Do the energy corporations fail to understand their interests, or are they part of the Lobby too? By now, what's the distinction between (1) and (2), apart from the margins? Also to be explained, again, is why US ME policy is so similar to its policies elsewhere -- to which, incidentally, Israel has made important contributions, e.g., in helping the executive branch to evade congressional barriers to carrying out massive terror in Central America, to evade embargoes against South Africa and Rhodesia, and much else. All of which again makes it even more difficult to separate (2) from (1) -- the latter, pretty much uniform, in essentials, throughout the world. I won't run through the other arguments, but I don't feel that they have much force, on examination. The thesis M-W propose does however have plenty of appeal. The reason, I think, is that it leaves the US government untouched on its high pinnacle of nobility, "Wilsonian idealism," etc., merely in the grip of an all-powerful force that it cannot escape. It's rather like attributing the crimes of the past 60 years to "exaggerated Cold War illusions," etc. Convenient, but not too convincing. In either case.
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Car Bomb (Pt 1 & 2) 2008 07 27 (Ch 4)

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Car Bomb (Pt 1 & 2) 2008 07 27 (Ch 4) 696.10 MB 1.35 min (total) For generations the greatest perceived threat to the West has been nuclear. But the greatest threat is actually a far less sophisticated piece of weaponry, comprising just a stolen vehicle and a boot-load of homemade explosives. Crude and deadly, this threat is the car bomb. From the team behind the critically acclaimed Cult of the Suicide Bomber comes this two-part series. Ex-CIA operative Robert Baer, whose life story was depicted by Oscar-winner George Clooney in hit Hollywood movie Syriana , charts for the first time the evolution of this simple, but most deadly of insurgent weapons. He travels through London, South Armagh, Oklahoma, Sicily, Iraq and New York, and using the access only available to a former intelligence officer, secures interviews with former members of the IRA, the Cosa Nostra and student radicals. Combining this with never-before-seen footage, this major exploration into the methodology of terrorism shows just how serious a threat the car bomb is and sets about to answer the big question: Can we defeat it? Baer is obviously a man who knows his stuff and he's a good interviewer, whose deceptively easy-going manner draws forth some appalling stories of mass murder in the pursuit of a cause. Continuing his look at the nature of terrorism today he examines of what he describes as "the deadliest weapon of the 21st century". Baer looks at the car bomb's origins finding the actually go much further back, to 1920 when an Italian anarchist (or so it's believed) steered a horse-drawn cart packed with explosives into Wall Street. The blast tore at the heart of the New York financial district and killed more than 40 people. Baer tracks the development of a terrifyingly simple, cheap and appallingly effective weapon of guerrilla war from this first outrage to its devastating contemporary prevalence. Along the way, he revisits Beirut and recalls the bombing of the city's American Embassy in 1983, which killed many of his friends and CIA colleagues. Episode Information: Part 1 Original Air Date: 27 July 2008 Baer looks at the car bomb's origins finding the actually go much further back, to 1920 when an Italian anarchist (or so it's believed) steered a horse-drawn cart packed with explosives into Wall Street. The blast tore at the heart of the New York financial district and killed more than 40 people. Baer tracks the development of a terrifyingly simple, cheap and appallingly effective weapon of guerrilla war from this first outrage to its devastating contemporary prevalence. Along the way, he revisits Beirut and recalls the bombing of the city's American Embassy in 1983, which killed many of his friends and CIA colleagues. Part 2 Original Air Date: 3rd August 2008 In the second part ex-CIA operative Robert Baer continues to chart the evolution of the car bomb, the simplest but most deadly of all insurgent weapons. He travels to Belfast, securing interviews with an IRA explosive manufacturer, an IRA bomb maker and a female bomb planter. He also meets investigators in London and Oklahoma who have been on the trail of those responsible for car bombing shunster ex: http://www.bitme.org/details.php?id=110379 Other active torrents/uploads at: http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
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Democracy Now! Friday, May 9, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines UN Chides Burma Junta for Delaying Aid Relief US Denies Capture of al-Qaeda Leader in Iraq KBR Faces New Sexual Harassment Claims in Iraq Beirut Clashes Stoke New Fears of Civil Conflict Israelis, Palestinians Mark 60th Anniversary of Israel’s Founding Israeli PM Denies Taking Bribes Clinton Cites White Support to Press Case for Campaign CIA Ordered to Release 2002 Torture Memo Special Counsel Thwarted Siegelman Probe State Dept. Imposes Gag Order on India Nuke Deal Pentagon Cancels Pakistan Post for Gitmo General House Approves Homeowner Measure Bolivia to Hold Referendum on Morales Government 14 Killed in Sudanese Government Bombing of Darfur Village UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the Sudanese government for Sunday’s air raids against three villages in North Darfur that killed fourteen civilians and injured several others. Antonov bombers targeted a marketplace, water installations and a village school that was holding classes. We speak to filmmaker, activist and writer Jen Marlowe of Darfur Diaries, an independent American project that helped raise funds to restart the school last year. [includes rush transcript] Free from Nigerian Military Custody, "Sweet Crude" Director Sandy Cioffi on Oil Politics in the Niger Delta The Nigerian government, along with foreign oil companies, have reaped enormous profits over the years from the sale of oil and gas reserves, while the residents of the Niger Delta live in abject poverty. We speak to Sandy Cioffi, director of the the upcoming documentary Sweet Crude. She was recently arrested by the Nigerian military and held for a week before being released following international pressure. [includes rush transcript] Author, Blogger Arianna Huffington on How John McCain Has Changed Since Telling Her He Didn't Vote for Bush in 2000 Blogger, author and nationally syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington revealed this week that Senator John McCain had told her eight years ago that he did not vote for President Bush in the 2000 election. McCain has angrily denied the claim. Huffington joins us to talk about her disillusionment with McCain, whom she says has abandoned his principles in his quest for the Republican nomination. Huffington is author of the new book, Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe—and What you Need to Know to End the Madness.
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American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan (2006)

Category: Documentary
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www.imdb.com/title/tt0953303/ sdtv xvid **** "This gripping doc might be controversial, but it certainly thinks big" The Montreal Gazette **** "A captivating documentary" Nicolas Houle – Le Soleil **** "Convincing, gripping, moving" Daniel Rioux – Le Journal de Montréal "A smartly balanced and probing documentary" Geoff Pevere – Toronto Star "A compelling portrait" Brian D. Johnson – Maclean's When in 2001 Iranian director Mohsen Makmalbaf’s feature film Kandahar was acclaimed in Cannes and shown around the world, the international press picked up on a surprising appearance. The film’s African-American “doctor” was in fact a man called David Belfield, wanted in the United States for murder, and now living in exile in Iran. American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan tells the story of this wanted man, an American—known in Iran as Hassan Abdulrahman—who says: "There is life after America." Through this story of an unrepentant assassin who openly accuses “the real culprits,” another tale emerges: that of covert networks, international political manipulation, and state-sponsored violence. In Washington D.C. in the summer of 1980, at the behest of Iranian intelligence, an African-American named David Belfield shot dead Ali Akbar Tabatabai, the former press attaché and representative of the Shah at the Iranian embassy. Tabatabai was thought to be involved in a plot to kill the Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, and topple the new regime. American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan tells the story of a young African American's sudden awareness of race in the United States in the aftermath of the killing of Martin Luther King, and of his long-running personal confrontation with Uncle Sam that began with the Black Power movement of the 1970s and the rise of Islam in the United States. The confrontation continues to this day, as David Belfield alias Dawud Salahuddin alias Hassan Abdulrahman remains on the FBI's most wanted list. Exiled in Iran for the last 25 years, Hassan is a sharp-eyed observer and first-hand witness to several of the events that have shaped relations between Islamic Iran and his native America. His story is also that of US domestic and foreign policies and their role in the Middle East crisis. In American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan, we meet Americans who question their country’s domestic and foreign policies and their impact on the conflict between the Western world and Islamic countries. Featuring interviews with Joseph Trento, an investigative journalist specializing in espionage, Gary Sick, who served on the National Security Council staff of President Carter, and the assassinated man’s twin brother, the film raises grave questions about the convergence between Iran 's conservative clerical rulers and their neo-conservative counterparts in Washington. American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan provides rare insight into one of the most critical issues of our time, and into the soul of a man with no place to go. Hot Docs 2006 ( Toronto ) International Documentary Festival of Marseille 2006 Dubai International Film Festival 2006 DocuDays 2006 (Beirut) New Cinema Festival 2006 (Montreal) 75 / 52 min
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Pretty Dyana (Lepa Dijana) (2003)

Category: Documentary
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Pretty Dyana (Lepa Dijana) (2003) Information It seems that many in the city of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, have fallen in love with 'Dyana'. But this Dyana is a bit in need of a makeover. While to some, she is still the stuff of dreams, the rest of the world knows Dyana by another name: the Citroen 2CV, an iconic French car designed "to carry two people and fifty kilos of potatoes at 60km/h". It is, in the words of its inventors, "easy to maintain, and able to drive over a ploughed field carrying a basket of eggs without breaking a single one". To the dispossessed gypsies (Roma) living in squatter camps around Belgrade, she has her uses: Dyanas are cannibalized until they resemble apocalyptic workhorses from a science fiction film, and even the car batteries are used as power generators in order to get some light, watch TV and recharge mobiles - practically an alchemist's dream come true! But the gypsies' love affair with their 2CVs is deeply practical. Unfortunately, Belgrade police and residents do not hold the same high regard for these handy vehicles as their refugee neighbors. Boris Mitic's film, Pretty Dyana, is an intimate, humorous look at the marriage of the 2CV and the Roma people of Belgrade. Winner of 12 international awards Filmed, edited, written and directed by Boris Mitić 45 minutes, Serbo-Croatian audio with English hard-coded subtitles, 2003 Further Information Roma on Wikipedia Movie homepage This documentary on Google Video Related Documentaries Beirut to Bosnia Technical Specs Video Codec: DivX Video Bitrate: 777 Kbps Video Resolution: 640x480 Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33 / 4:3 Video Framerate: 25 Quality Factor: 0.10 b/px Audio: Serbo-Croatian Audio Codec: MP3 Audio Bitrate: 64 kb/s @ 44.1KHz CBR Audio Channels: 1 Runtime per Part: 45 minutes Number of Parts: 1 Part Size: 273 MB Ripped by: Unknown Edited by: PolarBear Release Notes Don't let the technical specs fool you - this is a very watchable encode. You might try the Google video, but a few minutes of enthralled viewing will make you want the AVI. There is currently one version of this documentary available on ed2k with the same video but PCM/Wav audio. Pretty.Dyana.Lepa.Dijana.DivX.mp3.pb.avi (273.99 Mb)
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Sinan Antoon UMaine April 3 2008 (two talks)

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Talks by SINAN ANTOON University of Maine, April 3, 2008 12:30 "The Destruction of the Modern State of Iraq" (audio only) 19:00 "Debris and Diaspora: Iraqi Culture Today" (w/video) Produced by peacecast.us These are gripping talks that paint a devastating picture of what has happened to Iraq and its people. The tragedy of Iraq hits home for Sinan. It once was a country with great potential that has been eviscerated by America and its "student," Saddam Hussein. It is rare in America to see Iraq from an Iraqi point of view. Sinan Antoon helps us do that. Highly recommended. SINAN ANTOON is an Iraqi-born poet, novelist, and translator. He studied English literature at Baghdad University before moving to the United States after the 1991 Gulf War. He did his graduate studies at Georgetown and Harvard where he earned a doctorate in Arabic literature. His poems and essays (in Arabic and English) have appeared in various journals and publications around the world, including as-Safir, an-Nahar, al-Adab, and Masharef, as well as The Nation, Middle East Report, al-Ahram Weekly, Banipal and the Journal of Palestine Studies. He has published a collection of poems, (A Prism; Wet with Wars, Cairo 2003). A translation of his poems appeared in English in May 2007 by Harbor Mountain Press entitled “The Baghdad Blues.” His debut novel I`jam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (published in Arabic in Beirut in 2003) was translated and published in English in May, 2007 by City Lights Books. It was chosen by Kirkus Reviews for its special edition on debut fiction “2007: New and Important Voices.” His poetry was anthologized in Iraqi Poetry Today. He has also contributed numerous translations of Arabic poetry into English. His co-translation of Mahmud Darwish’s poetry was nominated for the PEN Prize for translation in 2004. Antoon returned to his native Baghdad in 2003 as a member of InCounter Productions to co-direct/produce a documentary About Baghdad about the lives of Iraqis in a post-Saddam occupied Iraq. He is a senior editor with the Arab Studies Journal, a member of Pen America, a contributing editor to Banipal and a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report. Antoon is currently an Assistant Professor at New York University.
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