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A Hidden America-Children of the Mountains 2009 02 13 (20/20)

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A Hidden America-Children of the Mountains 2009 02 13 (20/20) 350mib / 40mins In the hills of Central Appalachia, up winding, mountain roads, is a place where children and families face unthinkable conditions, living without what most Americans take for granted. Isolated pockets in Central Appalachia have three times the national poverty rate, an epidemic of prescription drug abuse, the shortest life span in the nation, toothlessness, incest, cancer and chronic depression. It's been 41 years since Robert Kennedy called on the rest of America to reach out and help the people of Appalachia. These are the descendents of Davey Crockett, Daniel Boone, Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline and the families of legendary soldiers and pioneers who helped open up the treacherous mountain passes and create an American continent. They are fighters steeped in family, ferocity and faith. For nearly two years, ABC News cameras followed four Appalachian children, each one facing unimaginable obstacles. "A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains" is a continuation of Diane Sawyer's reporting on America's forgotten children. Sawyer won an Emmy for outstanding feature story in a news magazine for "Waiting on the World to Change. More decription: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=6845770&page=1
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 23, 2008

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Today's Headlines US to Fund Afghan Militias Government Accused of Entrapment in Fort Dix Terror Case Bailed-Out Banks Can’t Account for Gov’t Funds Iraq Delays Vote on Allowing Non-US Troops to Stay in Iraq Lawyer: Journalist Will Not Apologize for Shoe-Throwing Incident Europeans May Take Guantanamo Prisoners Military Seizes Power in Guinea After Death of President Doctors Without Borders Lists World’s Worst Humanitarian Crises Groups Sue EPA Over Mountaintop Mining Rules No Charges Yet Against Student Who Disrupted Gas & Oil Auction in Utah Chico Mendes Honored on 20th Anniversary of His Murder Pope: Homosexuality Could Lead to Self-Destruction of Human Race Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Calls for Independent Counsel to Investigate Cheney and Rumsfeld for Violating Torture Laws Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York has urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and other senior Bush administration officials for violations of the law relating to the torture of prisoners in US custody. Nadler is the chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. [includes rush transcript] Max Blumenthal on "Rick Warren's Double Life" President-elect Barack Obama is drawing criticism from many supporters for his choice to deliver the invocation at next month’s inauguration. Obama has selected the Reverend Rick Warren, a leading evangelical opponent of abortion and same-sex marriage. Warren supported California’s recent gay marriage ban and has compared abortion to the Nazi Holocaust. In a recent interview with the website BeliefNet.com, Warren said he thinks gay marriage is comparable to incest, polygamy and child abuse. We speak to investigative journalist Max Blumenthal. [includes rush transcript] 25 Years of the Harper's Index Harper’s Magazine is marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of its popular monthly feature, the Harper’s Index. The Index reports sometimes funny, often sobering political realities through statistics and unusual figures. Turn to this month’s edition, and you’ll find out things like how much the Bush campaign paid Enron and Halliburton for use of corporate jets during the 2000 recount, or the estimated total calories members of Congress burned giving President Bush’s 2002 State of the Union standing ovations.
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2005 - Eugene Jarecki - Why We Fight

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He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.
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PBS NOW - 2006.04.14 - South Dakota Abortion Ban (TVRip.SoS)

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This Weeks Show: No Right to Choose ? South Dakotas has signed into law the countrys most restrictive abortion ban, outlawing abortions in almost all cases, including rape, incest and to protect the mothers health, in a blatant violation of Supreme Court rulings. NOW examines how anti-abortion activists in the state are not only working to overturn Roe v. Wade but also to promote abstinence-only education for young people and limit the availability of contraception. "Theres been a lot of emphasis on the part of the right-to-lifers on what they call the traumatic aspects of abortion and I think, over time, this has created a higher degree of anxiety in our patients," Sarah Stoesz, head of Planned Parenthood in Minnesota and the Dakotas told NOW. Stoesz has vowed to keep open the states only abortion clinic - which flies in doctors from Minnesota to perform the procedure - despite the ban. South Dakotas Alpha Center, headed by Leslee Unruh, is one of dozen clinics across the state that provides what they call post abortion counseling. "There is no freedom after abortion. You carry an empty crib in your heart forever," Unruh said. One of the centers clients, a young woman named Carrie, attributed her stress to the abortion she had when she was 21. She is now married and the mother of three children. "Taking a life is considered murder sometimes I think I should take myself down to jail," Carrie said. NOW attended the Alpha Centers Purity Ball in which young girls in South Dakota pledge their chastity to their fathers in an effort to abstain from pre-marital sex. In an age where the lines of politics, personal ethics, and religion are blurred, NOW asks the question: When is it appropriate for personal morality to become government policy? more info: http://www.pbs.org/now/ == runtime = 25mins xvid.640x480.854kbps.mp3.103.vbr Federal funding for CPB/PBS is going to be cut significantly over the next two years, so if you watch any of these programs, please support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs. To help speed up future releases, please try to seed this torrent as much as possible. Thanks. == SoS = http://www.sonofshun.com/forums ------------ Content Type: [Documentary] [News] [Talk]
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