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Democracy Now! Monday, October 26, 2009

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Today's Headlines International Day of Climate Action Marked in 181 Nations Report: Rainforest Treaty “Fatally Flawed” 155 Killed in Double Suicide Bombing in Baghdad US Troops Kill Four Afghan Civilians US Drone Kills at Least 16 in Pakistan Schumer: Dems Close to 60 Votes to Pass Public Option Senate Bill Won’t Force Businesses to Provide Health Insurance NYC Mayor Bloomberg Breaks Campaign Finance Records Madoff Billionaire Found Dead in Florida Swimming Pool Another Russian Human Rights Activist Killed Uruguayan Presidential Election Headed for Runoff Niger Delta Militants Declare Ceasefire Illinois Prosecutors Seek Records of Students Investigating Wrongful Convictions Clarence Kailin, Survivor of Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 95, Dies 155 Killed in Double Suicide Bombing in Baghdad In Baghdad, the death toll from Sunday’s synchronized suicide car bombings has risen to 155. More than 500 people were also injured. It was the deadliest bombing in Iraq in two years. The blasts targeted the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Public Works and the Baghdad provincial government. Dozens of civil servants were among the dead. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visited the site of the bombings and blamed al-Qaeda and former remnants of Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime. He said the attacks would not affect the political process or parliamentary elections due in January. US troops have been called in to help with the investigation. [includes rush transcript] Showdown in Chicago: Protesters Greet American Bankers Association Conference When the American Bankers Association scheduled their annual meeting in Chicago for this week, they probably weren’t expecting the reception they’ve received. Instead of a quiet convention in a downtown hotel, the ABA has been greeted by a parallel gathering of thousands of people in what organizers call the “Showdown in Chicago.” Spearheaded by the group National People’s Action, organizers have tried to bring together a cross-section of Americans affected by the financial meltdown, including homeowners, renters, farmers, workers and retirees. The Showdown kicked off Sunday when protesters entered the lobby of the hotel where the ABA delegates are gathering. [includes rush transcript] 100 Days of Resistance: Al Jazeera's Avi Lewis Reports from Honduras In Honduras, the conflict between the coup regime and supporters of the ousted president Manuel Zelaya remains at a standstill. Talks broke down last week after the coup regime refused to drop its objection to Zelaya’s return to office. Zelaya has accused the regime of trying to drag out negotiations until the presidential elections it plans to hold next month. Zelaya’s supporters are boycotting the elections, and the international community has refused to recognize them. The Canadian journalist and Al Jazeera English correspondent Avi Lewis recently traveled to Honduras for a rare look at the grassroots movement against the coup regime. This is an excerpt of his report, which aired on the Al Jazeera English program Fault Lines. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 80
Leeches: 13

CBS - 60 Minutes (October 4 2009)

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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

Democracy Now! Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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Today's Headlines Sotomayor Answers GOP Sens on Alleged Bias House Dems’ Health Plan Includes Surtax on Wealthy Obama Proposes $12B for Community Colleges Israel to Test Missiles in US Waters Gitmo Prisoners Staged Two-Week Sit-in Burmese Junta Promises Amnesty for Unspecified Prisoners Charges Dropped Against US Troops in Couso Killing Ex-Liberian President Takes Stand at War Crimes Trial Goldman Sachs Posts Record $3.44 Quarterly Profit Ousted GM CEO Rick Wagoner Gets Lucrative Severance Madoff Begins Jail Sentence at N.C. Prison Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor Answers GOP Critics on Prior Remarks The confirmation hearings for President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor continue on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, Democratic senators praised Sotomayor’s seventeen years on the federal bench, while Republicans repeatedly grilled her about statements she has made during a series of speeches over the years. We play excerpts of the hearings. [includes rush transcript] Review of Sotomayor's Record Belies GOP Charges of Biased Judicial Practice An exhaustive review of all 1,994 constitutional cases decided by the Second Circuit during the decade of Judge Sotomayor’s service found that Sotomayor is solidly in the mainstream of her colleagues. The Brennan Center for Justice report found Sotomayor voted with the majority of the court in 98.2 percent of constitutional cases. We speak with the report’s author, attorney Monica Youn, and Democracy Now!‘s Juan Gonzalez, who’s in DC covering the hearings. [includes rush transcript] As Goldman Sachs Posts Record Profits, Matt Taibbi Probes Role of Investment Giant in US Financial Meltdown Goldman Sachs, the nation’s most powerful financial company, has reported the richest quarterly profit in its 140-year history: $3.44 billion between April and June. Goldman’s record profits come just one month after it repaid $10 billion of TARP money to the US Treasury, freeing itself from restrictions on year-end bonuses. We speak to Matt Taibbi, whose new Rolling Stone article argues that “Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.” [includes rush transcript] US Lobbyists with Clinton Ties Hired to Defend Honduran Coup Regime Supporters of the coup in Honduras have begun hiring advisers and lobbyists with close ties to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an attempt to strengthen support in Washington for the coup. A Honduran business group has hired lobbyist Lanny Davis, who served as White House counsel for President Bill Clinton. The coup government has also hired Bennet Ratcliff, a public relations specialist with ties to former President Bill Clinton. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 71
Leeches: 7

Democracy Now! Thursday, July 2, 2009 :: John Pilger

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Today's Headlines US Forces Launch Major Afghan Offensive Militants Capture US Soldier in Afghanistan Senate Dems Revise Healthcare Proposal Lieberman Opposes Public Health Proposal US Suspends Military Cooperation with Honduras Amnesty: Israel Committed “Wanton Destruction” of Gaza Poll: Pakistanis Oppose US Attacks, Afghan Occupation Morales: Bolivia Trade Suspension Shows Obama “Lied to Latin America” California Fiscal Crisis Intensifies Staffer: SEC Officials Ignored Madoff Warnings Obama Admin Accused of Relying on Torture-Induced Statements Military Panel Urges Discharge for Gay Servicemember Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Speaks from Israeli Jail Cell After Arrest on Boat Delivering Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire speaks to us from her jail cell in Israel. She was taken into custody along with twenty others, including former US Congress member Cynthia McKinney, when the Israeli military boarded their ship in international waters as it tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. [includes rush transcript] Zelaya Vows to Return to Honduras Despite Threats of Arrest by Coup Leaders The ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has vowed to return to Honduras within the next few days in an attempt to reclaim power. Zelaya was forced out of office in a military coup d’etat on Sunday. He will reportedly return to Honduras accompanied by the OAS Secretary General, the presidents of Argentina and Ecuador, and the head of the UN General Assembly. But Roberto Micheletti, who was appointed interim leader by the Honduran congress, has given warning that Zelaya will be arrested should he return, regardless of who is traveling with him. We speak with Latin American historian Greg Grandin. [includes rush transcript] "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City" We speak with NYU professor Greg Grandin about his new book, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City. The book tells the story of Henry Ford, the richest man in the world in the 1920s, and his attempt to build a rubber plantation and a miniature Midwest factory town deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. [includes rush transcript] Up in Smoke: How the Tobacco Industry Shaped the New Smoking Bill President Obama signed into law a bill last week that gives the US government broad regulatory power over cigarettes and other tobacco products. Obama said the law would curb the ability of tobacco companies to market their products to children. But several public health professionals have come out strongly against the new legislation. They argue that it was largely shaped by Philip Morris, now called Altria Group, the largest cigarette company in the country. We speak with Dr. Joel Nitzkin, chair of the Tobacco Control Task Force of the American Association of Public Health Physicians. [includes rush transcript] John Pilger Calls UK National Health Service a Treasure, Blasts US Lawmakers for Being "in Bed with Powerful Interests" and Neglecting "Their Own People's Basic Human Rights" We play an excerpt of an extended interview with Australian investigative journalist, John Pilger. Speaking about the US healthcare system, Pilger says, “What is it about US legislators that they appear to be so in bed with such powerful interests, such as the insurance companies, that they can’t represent their own people’s needs, their own people’s basic human rights.” [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 69
Leeches: 7

The Madoff Hustle 2009 06 28 BBC2 This World

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The Madoff Hustle 2009 06 28 BBC2 This World 449 MB / 00:59:00 International investigative documentary series. On June 29th, Bernie Madoff will be sentenced for perpetrating an elaborate con. From his headquarters in New York, the capital of American finance, Madoff masterminded a fraud that netted billions of dollars and ensnared thousands, from Palm Beach billionaires and Hollywood movie stars to pensioners across the US. Madoff did not stop at America, however - he went global in his search for victims. Willard Foxton, whose father - a former British army officer - committed suicide after losing his life savings in Madoff's fraud, has embarked on a personal investigation into the Madoff con and the devastation it has wrought. On a 14,000-mile journey that takes him to New York, Florida and California, Willard meets fellow Madoff victims, two of Bernie's former employees and a Madoff family friend, who has known Bernie for over fifty years. As his investigation progresses, Willard tries to discover what happened to his father's money and gains an insight into how Bernie Madoff ran the con undetected for decades. Narrated by Robert Vaughn. Name.........: This World - The Madoff Hustle.WnA.avi Source: http://www.uknova.com/wsgi/torrent/view/80254 Cap: WnA Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 61
Leeches: 9

Assesssing the Madoff Ponzi Scheme and Regulatory Failures (2009)

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U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises Assessing the Madoff Ponzi Scheme and Regulatory Failures Monday, January 5, 2009, 2:00 p.m., 2128 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC – Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski (D-PA), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, today announced that the House Financial Services Committee will meet on Monday, January 5, 2009, to assess the alleged $50 billion investment fraud engineered by Mr. Bernard L. Madoff that is now the subject of multiple investigations. The hearing will help to guide the work of the Financial Services Committee in the 111th Congress in undertaking the most substantial rewrite of the laws governing the U.S. financial markets since the Great Depression. Original source: C-SPAN Committee page: house.gov There are 3 videos in this series. This is the January 5 hearing. February 4, Part 1 | February 4, Part 2 | January 5 Witness List & Prepared Testimony: Panel 1 - Mr. H. David Kotz, Inspector General, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Mr. Stephen P. Harbeck, President, Securities Investor Protection Corporation Panel 2 - Mr. Allan Goldstein, a retiree and investor with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities - Ms. Tamar Frankel, Professor of Law and Michaels Faculty Research Scholar, Boston University School of Law - Mr. Leon Metzger, adjunct faculty member at Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, and Yale University This movie is part of the collection: FedFlix Producer: House Financial Services Committee Audio/Visual: sound, color Language: English Keywords: financialservices.house.gov; c-span.org; public.resource.org Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States
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Frontline~ The Madoff Affair-2009 05 12 PBS

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Frontline~ The Madoff Affair-2009 05 12 PBS 700 MiB/56mn 5s 40ms On Dec. 11, 2008, Bernard L. Madoff confessed that his vaunted investment business was all "one big lie," a Ponzi scheme colossal in volume and scope that cost investors $65 billion. Overnight, Madoff became the new poster child for Wall Street gall, greed and corruption. Through exclusive television interviews with those closest to Madoff's operation, veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith unearths the details of the world's first global Ponzi scheme -- a deception that lasted longer, reached wider and cut deeper than any other business scandal in history -- in The Madoff Affair. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/madoff/ Support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs. Enjoy! Ekolb
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Democracy Now! Monday, April 6, 2009

Category: Documentary
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Today's Headlines At Least 179 Killed in Italian Earthquake Red Cross: US Medical Personnel Involved in Torture of Prisoners Report: Senate GOP Threatens to Block Nominees Over Torture Memo Obama: US Not at War with Islam US to Increase Use of Drones in Pakistan Gates Calls for Pentagon to Spend More on Counterinsurgency 122 Aid Workers Killed in 2008; Highest Total on Record Arkansas Democrat Opposes Employee Free Choice Act Hedge Fund Faces Charges Connected to Madoff Ponzi Fraud 15th Anniversary of Rwandan Genocide Marked Tamil Protesters Stage Protest in London British Police Accused of Hitting Man Who Died at G20 Protest Motorola Boycott Organizers Claim Victory Antarctic Ice Bridge Collapses Vermont Governor Vetoes Same-Sex Marriage Bill Supreme Court Denies Appeal for Death Row Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal The Supreme Court has denied an appeal from the journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal. On Monday, the court rejected without comment Abu-Jamal’s bid to overturn his conviction for the 1981 killing of a white police officer following a controversial trial before a predominantly white jury. Abu-Jamal contends the case was marred with racial bias, including the deliberate exclusion of blacks from the jury. “It shows you that precedent means nothing, that the law is politics by other means,” Abu-Jamal said in response to the ruling. A Roundtable of Local Florida Journalists on the Future of Newspapers, the Role of Community Media and Cubans in Florida As we broadcast from Tampa, Florida, we host a roundtable discussion about the state in Florida with Marty Petty, the executive vice president and publisher of the St. Petersburg Times, Florida’s largest newspaper; Patrick Manteiga, publisher and editor of La Gaceta Newspaper, one of the oldest minority-owned newspapers in the United States; and Rob Lorei, news director of community radio station WMNF. Florida Student Arrested by Immigration Three Days After Acquittal on Bomb Charges Immigration officials have arrested a twenty-three-year-old Florida student just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. Youssef Megahed was arrested in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store Monday, where he had gone shopping with his father. He had just begun a fast to celebrate his acquittal. Megahed’s attorneys say he now faces deportation proceedings, apparently on the same charges for which he was found not guilty. [includes rush transcript] Guantanamo Attorneys Face Possible Prison Time for Letter to Obama Detailing Client's Allegations of Torture Attorneys Clive Stafford Smith and Ahmad Ghappour could face six months in a US prison because of a letter they sent to President Obama explaining their client’s allegations of torture by US agents. Smith and Ghappour represent Binyam Mohamed, the British resident recently released after seven years in US custody, where he claims he was repeatedly tortured, first in a secret CIA prison and later at Guantanamo.
Seeders: 104
Leeches: 13