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PBS - Bill Moyers Journal - October 9, 2009: Wall Street Reformed? | Moyers on the Health Industry Lobby | Remembering Charles Houston

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PBS - Bill Moyers Journal - October 9, 2009: Wall Street Reformed? | Moyers on the Health Industry Lobby | Remembering Charles Houston sdtv xvid 700kbps 1) Wall Street Reformed?: Simon Johnson and Rep. Marcy Kaptur Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform from Washington, has Wall Street really changed? Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) report on the state of the economy. >INSIDE THE BANKING CRISIS View the JOURNAL's complete coverage of the financial crisis. 2) Moyers on the Health Industry Lobby A Bill Moyers essay on the health industry lobby. >MONEY, POLITICS AND HEALTH Trace campaign contributions, ad spending and the revolving door between industry and government. 3) REMEMBERING CHARLES HOUSTON Bill Moyers remembers his friend, renowned physician and mountaineer Charlie Houston. View Bill Moyers complete 2004 interview with Houston and Houston's own film on his 1953 K2 expedition. ----- PBS Bill Moyers Journal website: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html
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Born Rich (2003) (Repost)

Category: Documentary
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Born Rich (2003) Born Rich is a 2003 documentary about the experience of growing up as a child in one of the world's richest families. It was created by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune. The video had two versions, an American one which is shown in America only, and a worldwide one. The American one included the fortunes of the Anderson Family, but this was edited out of the worldwide version at the family's request. It was purchased by HBO. The film was described as "a documentary on children of the insanely rich, directed by one of their own, Johnson & Johnson Inc. heir Jamie Johnson." It consists primarily of Johnson interviewing his friends and peers about the experience of living life free of financial constraints. These interviews are offset by Johnson's exploration of his own experience and family. Jamie's uncle is screenwriter and novelist Dirk Wittenborn, whom Jamie credits with encouraging him to make a documentary about the experience of wealthy children. The documentary was nominated for two Emmy Awards[1] including 'Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming' for the director, Jamie Johnson. The other nomination was in the category 'Outstanding Nonfiction Special' for the producers: Sheila Nevins (executive producer), Dirk Wittenborn (produced by) and Jamie Johnson (producer). Born Rich features interviews with: * Ivanka Trump, daughter of real estate tycoon Donald Trump * S.I. Newhouse IV, heir to the Condé Nast Publications fortune and grandson of Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. * Josiah Hornblower, of the Vanderbilt and Whitney families * Georgina Bloomberg, daughter of New York mayor and media mogul Michael Bloomberg * Stephanie Ercklentz, "finance heiress" * Cody Franchetti, heir to Milliken & Co * Luke Weil, heir to the Autotote gaming empire * Christina Floyd, "professional sports heiress", daughter of golfer Raymond Floyd * Carlo von Zeitschel, wealthy European who falsely claimed to be a titled descendant of Kaiser Wilhelm II, a German baron and an Italian viscount. * Juliet Hartford, A&P heiress, daughter of Huntington Hartford
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60 Minutes Special Don Hewitt August 23 2009

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60 Minutes Special Don Hewitt August 23 2009 (CBS) This has not been a happy summer for those of us who work at CBS News: last month Walter Cronkite died, and this past week we lost Don Hewitt, the man who created 60 Minutes 41 years ago. Don was 86, but in his head and in his heart he was a kid. Words like "passion" and "enthusiasm" are too weak to describe this human dynamo. As correspondent Morley Safer explains, Don was his boss for most of the 45 years he has worked at the network and he was not an easy man to please. But when you did please him, you were on top of the world. And so was he. He was also a thorn in the side of his corporate bosses, though he liked to describe himself as a pain in the ass. And he was madly in love with broadcast journalism. We take a look at Don Hewitt - this founder, producer and above all, ringmaster of what he regarded as the greatest show on earth. "I once said to CBS, 'In my next contract I want a gun, and a whip and a chair,' because it's like being in a cage full of tigers. And there are temperaments. Not the least of which is mine," Don Hewitt once said. Ringmaster and lion tamer - Don became a show unto himself. Since the very beginning of television news more than six decades ago, he lived by a deceptively simple motto: "It's four little words. Tell me a story. And that's all we do. Tell 'em a story," he explained. Years before 60 Minutes, he was at Edward R. Murrow's side as television expanded its reach to broadcast live, from coast to coast. He produced the very first televised presidential debate, Kennedy vs. Nixon, in 1960. He was with Walter Cronkite the day John F. Kennedy was shot. And with 60 Minutes, he revolutionized broadcast news, dispatching what he called his "team of tigers" to the four corners of the globe to carry out that four-word mandate: Tell me a story. "There is no place on Earth that you haven’t been," Hewitt said when the broadcast turned 25. "And there's nobody on Earth that you haven't met. …And that is the great value of what we do, I think." He was, in fact, the boy wonder of CBS News, and remained the awestruck kid well past retirement age. He was opinionated, outrageous, with a quick wit and a short fuse. "The only problem is that when you've been around as long as I have, you get to be kind of a pain in the ass," Hewitt once said. And as his friends and colleagues will tell you, on balance, the pleasure of Don's company was mostly worth the pain. "I mean, he put on a show in the control room. And it was just wonderful. It was hypnotic," Phil Scheffler remembered, who worked at Don's side for over half a century. 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager remembers his first meeting with Hewitt. "I remember it well. He said, 'Listen kid. All you need to do is bring us good stories.'" Fager succeeded Don in 2004 as executive producer, and he remembers all too well being the new kid on the block, 20 years ago: screening one of his first 60 Minutes stories for the ringmaster. It was a somewhat dry report on the Polish economy. "The first thing he said was, 'Where do you want it kid, right between the eyes?' He hated it. And what really was amazing is a couple of hours later he called and he said, 'I have some ideas for how we can make this story better.' And he did," Fager remembered. "He was like P.T. Barnum in the sense that he would bring the circus truck to town every time he got to talk to you," actor Alan Alda said. Don called Alda his best friend; Alda says that even after hours, Don talked constantly about work. "Because it excited him so much that he was, I think he was still a boy who was amazed at his success." The boy grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y., 45 minutes from Broadway. Fifteen cents would buy him a Saturday afternoon of cartoons, newsreels and melodramas. The movies got under his skin and stayed there. "He once said to me that when he goes to a Western movie, he comes out walking bowlegged," Safer remembered, laughing. "He told us many times how when he was in the war, he had seen so many war movies that when he was finally standing on the ship, and the enemy planes were coming at him, he thought 'Where's the music?'" Alda added. The movies gave him his role models: rascals who had the moxie to beat the system during the Great Depression. "I never knew whether I wanted to be Julian Marsh, the Broadway producer on 42nd Street, or Hildy Johnson, the reporter in Front Page," Hewitt said. Johnson came from the newspaper world, just as Don's father did. It was a whiskey soaked jungle of snappy talk and scooping the competition. And impresario Julian Marsh in 42nd Street was surrounded by bright lights and Broadway babes - Don's kind of world. "We always thought if Don Hewitt went into Broadway, he would have been just as big and just as successful," Fager said. "I mean, he had that way, he had that showmanship." In 1948, CBS put on its first TV newscast; Don was 25, with some wartime reporting experience under his belt. Somebody suggested he check out the CBS News studio, upstairs at Grand Central Station. "And I walked in. I couldn't believe it. You know, there are lights and cameras and makeup people and it looked like a Hollywood set. And I fell in love," Hewitt remembered. And the best thing was: no longer did he have to choose between being ace reporter Hildy Johnson or Broadway star maker Julian Marsh. "I thought, 'Oh my God, in television you can be both of them.' And I got hired," Hewitt remembered. Soon, he was producing Douglas Edwards' newscast, the forerunner of the CBS Evening News. There were no satellites, no computers - nothing much except huge, bulky cameras and Don's manic enthusiasm. "It wasn't very good, but it was respectable. I always thought it was the infancy of television. Like we were making those shows out of Play-Doh," Hewitt said when the Evening News turned 50. "Don has described those early days as playing with Play-Doh. Kind of making it up as you go along," Safer remarked. "No question about that. There were no signposts. No rules," Scheffler agreed. "Nobody had any experience in this before. And so he really was the inventor of the kind of television news that we do now." In the summer of 1956, the ocean liner Andrea Doria collided with a ship off Nantucket. Don, Doug Edwards and a cameraman flew off to have a look. The other networks had already come and gone, beating them to the first pictures of the crippled ship, dead in the water. "I said, 'Well, what the hell. We're here. Let's go anyway,'" Hewitt remembered. "We're flying over the Andrea Doria, it turns over, and like a big dead elephant, it sank right beneath us." "Dumb luck. By being late, we got the story," he added. Hewitt would do just about anything to get the story and shaft the competition. When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited a farm in Coon Rapids, Iowa in 1959, Don put one over on NBC. "He stole their truck, their video truck," Alda explained. "And drove it into the middle of a corn field, where no one could find it. Now that's not Mr. Nice Guy, you know. He did return it, eventually." But Hewitt clashed often with CBS News President Fred Friendly, who found him too brash and too unpredictable. In 1965, Friendly figured out a way to get Don off the Evening News; Don thought it was a promotion. "His wife told me later that he came home and said, told her the story about how Friendly had come to see him and said, 'You know, Don, this Evening News is not big enough for you. We're gonna find really great projects for you to do.' And his wife said to him: 'Idiot. You just got fired,'" Scheffler said. "It was devastating at the time. You know, I had my legs cut off," Hewitt remembered. He remained at CBS, but sought solace out on his beloved beach. Next to television, he worshiped the sun and his kids. He produced a few earnest documentaries, but hungered after something with a little more punch. "He got bored easily, is the problem," Scheffler said. And out of that boredom came Don's greatest idea: 60 Minutes. In a sense, it should have been called "15 minutes." Don couldn't sit still for anything longer than that. "It's really a reflection, I think, of his attention span," Scheffler said. "His attention span was 15 minutes. And so he said 'We'll do a program that has three 15-minute stories on it." It began in the fall of 1968, without, at first, Phil Scheffler. "I turned him down. I said, 'You know, Don, I don't think your show's gonna be serious enough.' And I said, 'Besides, you know, it's not gonna last very long,'" Scheffler remembered. That was more than 40 years ago. Scheffler eventually came on board, as did any number of oddballs. "Don managed to attract the best people in the business. And he kept this ensemble full of crazy egos all working towards the same end," Fager said. Asked what he means by crazy egos, Fager said, "More like tigers in a cage, and every once in a while they'd jump out of their cages and Don would have to figure out a way to coax them back in." With Don cracking the whip, it was not a place for the fainthearted. "I saw him fire the same producer three times in the halls," Fager recalled. "He fired Mike [Wallace] at least 50 times," Safer added. "Well, Mike probably deserved it," Fager joked. Alan Alda wondered if all that high drama achieved any purpose. "Was it successful in getting you to think on another level?" Alda asked. "Oh, absolutely," Safer replied. "I think it made the pieces, the stories, in the final analysis, much leaner and much more direct." "And would he turn out to be right?" Alda asked. "Mainly he was right," Safer said, laughing. But there were some rough moments in an otherwise brilliant career. In 1995, the then CBS management suppressed a 60 Minutes expose of the tobacco industry. The story eventually was broadcast, after it was reported in The Wall Street Journal. Though the tobacco story haunted him for years, Don continued masterminding the broadcast for another decade. "His job was his life. And that's what made it so hard for him to give it up. In fact, he said quite publicly 'I wanna die at my desk,'" Fager said. Don left the broadcast - reluctantly - in 2004, at age 81, and slowly made peace with the idea of having more time for the grandchildren. And of watching 60 Minutes not in the screening room, but in his own living room. Asked what he thinks Hewitt's legacy is, Phil Scheffler said, "His legacy is 60 Minutes. There's no question. I mean, this was his shining, his crowning success." Fager said, "It's a great legacy, this broadcast, and it hasn't strayed much from what he envisioned in the first place more than 40 years ago." "He gave the country nourishment but in the form of, to a great extent in the form of entertainment. It wasn't like eating your broccoli. What he gave us was a good old-fashioned hot dog, but somehow it nourished us like broccoli," Alda added. "There is some kind of genius in that. He was able to fuse those two things."
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SUPERPOWER (2008)

Category: Documentary
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SUPERPOWER [AVI] http://www.superpowerthemovie.com/home.html "The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." Frank Zappa Quote: Superpower: Far from a conspiracy film about the dangers of government secrets and regime change, this well-balanced film straddles the philosophical divide and allows viewers to understand the US quest for global dominance through economic and military strategy that is exposed through review of historical events, personal interviews, and analysis of US foreign policy. The heart of Superpower lies in the analysis produced from a re-examination of history through a series of interviews with historians, documentarians, and academians such as Bill Blum, Chalmers Johnson, Michael Chossudovsky, and Noam Chomsky, and others with expertise in this subject such as the Executive Producer of The Unit, Command Sergeant (Ret.) Eric Haney; former Chief Economist for the US Department of Labor, Morgan Reynolds; three-time Noble Peace Prize nominee, Kathy Kelly; and Lt. Col. (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski. Examining key moments in America's history elicits a more consistent and plausible set of motives for US foreign policy actions guided by global expansion and military dominance, rather than the hyperbolic calls for democracy and totalitarian regime change that we have become so accustomed to hearing. Should citizens trust that their government will keep them safe, a government that keeps secrets, and lies, in the name of national security? Does the simple act of withholding information lead to a world of eroding civil liberties and corruption? Superpower presents a view of US foreign policy, which lies in stark contrast to that depicted by corporate media, popular pundits, and US heads of state. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the US has emerged as the preeminent superpower of the world. Superpower illustrates how the United States has chosen to leverage that position to pursue a grand strategy which will ensure itself unilateral world domination through absolute economic and military superiority. It shows a consistent pattern of government deception. The United States emerged from World War II with its industrial base still intact and the only nation with the atomic bomb. It was without question the most powerful country on earth. What was done with this unprecedented power, the effects it's had on our Republic and the rest of the world is the story of Superpower. Review sourced from: http://www.911blogger.com Many thanks to Rayons who uploaded the original file which I have converted to AVI.
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Lenny Bruce - Audio & Video Collection - Godcanjudgeme

Category: Misc
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Lenny Bruce - Audio & Video Collection - Godcanjudgeme ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Here it is then, everything I own from Lenny Bruce, the 'original' social critic and satirist. -------------- AUDIO : * 1958 - Sick Humor Of Lenny Bruce [192kbps] * 1959 - Togetherness [192kbps] * 1961 - Carnegie Hall Concert [128kbps] * 1961 - To Is A Preposition, Come Is A Verb [192kbps] * 1961 - Warning, Lenny Bruce Is Out Again [128kbps] * 1962 - Busted (Live) [192kbps] * 1965 - Essential Lenny Bruce, Politics [320kbps] * 1969 - The Berkeley Concert [128kbps] * 2003 - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind [192kbps] * 2004 - Let The Buyer Beware [192kbps] * Vintage Comedy [128kbps] VIDEO : * 1965 - The Lenny Bruce Performance Film XVid/MP3 Size - 700MB Run Time - 01:00:04 Resolution - 576x432 * 1971 - Thank You Mask Man XVid/MP3 Size - 100MB Run Time - 00:07:17 Resolution - 720x544 * 1972 - Lenny Bruce Without Tears DivX/MP3 Size - 1.45GB Run Time - 01:09:41 Resolution - 720x540 * 1974 - Lenny XVid/MP3 Size - 2.20GB Run Time - 01:46:34 Resolution - 720x384 * 1998 - Lenny Bruce - Swear to Tell the Truth XVid/MP3 Size - 700MB Run Time - 01:40:50 Resolution - 512x384 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Please Seed x1/ x2 ..Keep Torrents Alive.. ..Godcanjudgeme..
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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Category: Documentary
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Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) ImDB: 8.3/10 From ImDB: Documentary about Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, who subsequently became president of the World Bank. The documentary will combine an interview with Mr. McNamara discussing some of the tragedies and glories of the 20th Century, archival footage, documents, and an original score by Philip Glass. Written by Paul Klenk Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 458 MiB Duration : 1h 47mn Overall bit rate : 598 Kbps Video Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format settings, BVOP : No Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263) Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD Duration : 1h 47mn Bit rate : 473 Kbps Width : 528 pixels Height : 304 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16/9 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.123 Stream size : 362 MiB (79%) Writing library : XviD 1.1.2 (UTC 2006-11-01) Audio Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 3 Codec ID : 55 Codec ID/Hint : MP3 Duration : 1h 47mn Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 112 Kbps Nominal bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 85.8 MiB (19%) Alignment : Aligned on interleaves Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame) Interleave, preload duration : 164 ms Language : English
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Noam Chomsky - 09.06.09 - Brian Lehrer Show - MP3 - Godcanjudgeme

Category: Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky - 09.06.09 - Brian Lehrer Show - Godcanjudgeme ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Chomsky answers questions on the New Mandarins as relating to Johnson, Kennedy, and Obama, and comments on his achievements over the last 40 years. --------------------------------- --------------------------------- Source : http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2009/06/09/segments/133799 Size : 6.48 MB Audio : MP3 - 56 kbps - mono Length : 00:16:08 --------------------------------- --------------------------------- Please Seed x1/ x2 ..Keep Torrents Alive.. ..Godcanjudgeme..
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Vietnam - A Television History - Pt 4 - America Takes Charge

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TV : Documentary : TV quality : English Series Description The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular war in which Americans ever fought. And there is no reckoning the cost. The toll in suffering, sorrow, in rancorous national turmoil can never be tabulated. No one wants ever to see America so divided again. And for many of the more than two million American veterans of the war, the wounds of Vietnam will never heal. Fifty-eight thousand Americans lost their lives. The losses to the Vietnamese people were appalling. The financial cost to the United States comes to something over $150 billion dollars. Direct American involvement began in 1955 with the arrival of the first advisors. The first combat troops arrived in 1965 and we fought the war until the cease-fire of January 1973. To a whole new generation of young Americans today, it seems a story from the olden times. In 1983, the unfolding of the Vietnam tragedy was the focus of an extraordinary documentary series broadcast on public television. When first aired, the series was recognized immediately as a landmark. It had taken six years to make. Researchers had combed film archives in eleven countries and the result was a stunning record of the conflict as it happened. The original thirteen-part program was later edited to eleven parts and rebroadcast in spring 1997. Episode 4 America Takes Charge (1965-1967) In two years, the Johnson administration's troop build-up dispatched 1.5 million Americans to Vietnam to fight a war they found baffling, tedious, exciting, deadly and unforgettable.
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Vietnam - A Television History - Part 3 - LBJ Goes to War

Category: Documentary
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Series Description The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular war in which Americans ever fought. And there is no reckoning the cost. The toll in suffering, sorrow, in rancorous national turmoil can never be tabulated. No one wants ever to see America so divided again. And for many of the more than two million American veterans of the war, the wounds of Vietnam will never heal. Fifty-eight thousand Americans lost their lives. The losses to the Vietnamese people were appalling. The financial cost to the United States comes to something over $150 billion dollars. Direct American involvement began in 1955 with the arrival of the first advisors. The first combat troops arrived in 1965 and we fought the war until the cease-fire of January 1973. To a whole new generation of young Americans today, it seems a story from the olden times. In 1983, the unfolding of the Vietnam tragedy was the focus of an extraordinary documentary series broadcast on public television. When first aired, the series was recognized immediately as a landmark. It had taken six years to make. Researchers had combed film archives in eleven countries and the result was a stunning record of the conflict as it happened. The original thirteen-part program was later edited to eleven parts and rebroadcast in spring 1997. Episode 3 LBJ Goes to War (1964-1965) With Ho Chi Minh determined to reunite Vietnam, President Lyndon Baines Johnson determined to prevent it, and South Vietnam on the verge of collapse, the stage was set for massive escalation of the undeclared Vietnam War.
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Real History

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Ward ChurchillVandana ShivaArundhati RoyMichael ParentiJeremy ScahillHoward ZinnJohn Taylor GattoJohn TrudellBill McKibbenBill MoyersChalmers JohnsonChris Hedges Noam ChomskyRichard HeinbergRobert FiskRobert McChesneyScott RitterTariq AliP. SainathZia Mian911 InquiryAmy GoodmanAlan WattsAnthony ArnoveAlexander CockburnAzmi BisharaBertolt BrechtGreg PalastGary WebbHelen CaldicottDerick JensenColonel Fletcher ProutyCynthia McKinneyDavid Ray GriffinDowning Street MemoEdward SaidNaomi KleinMichael RuppertPNACWTORalph NaderRamsey ClarkNative NationsHome SchoolingHistory of FascismEnvironmental IssuesFood and water issuesNeo-conUnwelcome Guests.orgTUCRADIO.orgAlternativeRadio.org
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