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BBC 4 - Podfather (October 18 2009)

Category: Documentary
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BBC 4 - Podfather (October 18 2009) Documentary telling the story of silicon chip inventor Robert Noyce, godfather of today's digital world. Re-living the heady days of Silicon Valley's seminal start-ups, the film tells how Noyce also founded Intel, the company responsible for more than 80 per cent of the microprocessors in personal computers. Noyce defined the unconventional, innovative culture of Silicon Valley - the likes of Apple and Google would be influenced by his egalitarian management style, which was inspired by his religious upbringing. Podfather shows why Noyce may be the most important person most people have never heard of. Contributors include industry giants Gordon Moore and Andy Grove.
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Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)

Category: Misc
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film) : Metropolis is a 1927 silent German expressionism science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and Thea von Harbou. Lang and von Harbou, who were married, wrote the screenplay in 1924, and published a novelization in 1926, before the film was released. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and examines a common science fiction theme of the day: the social crisis between workers and owners in capitalism.
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TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin, May 15, 2009: W(h)ither the United States?

Category: News & Current Affairs
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TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin, May 15, 2009: W(h)ither the United States? The Debate: W(h)ither the United States? The Obama administration's emerging foreign policy: mea culpa or managing the relative decline of American power? Guests: Andrew Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University, and author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. Peter Beinart is a senior fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, and a columnist for the Washington Post. Wenran Jiang is an associate professor of political science and Mactaggart research chair of the China Institute at the University of Alberta. He is a senior fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and an online columnist for Business Week. Sergei Plekhanov is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University. Janice Stein is TVO's international affairs analyst, the Belzberg professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage ----- Note: This is an iPod video podcast that is available for free download from the website.Quality is good. Audio podcasts (mp3 format) are also available for free download for the individual segments. Type: mp4 file Size: 114MB Runtime: 00:54:27 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240 Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps Download this episode using the attached torrent file or download it directly using this link: http://feeds.tvo.org/~r/tvo/TxZN/~5/M9G96kY7weU/TAWSP_Dbt_20090515_779513_0_320x240_304k.mp4 You can also watch a flash video of this episode through your web-browser here: http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779513&ts=2009-05-15%2020:00:35.0 ----- Andrew Bacevich is that rare breed in American political discourse: a principled conservative who stands out in stark contrast to the grotesque monstrosity and demonstrably incoherent, unprincipled ideology that is American conservatism, sometimes labelled libertarianism, of the Reagan revolution and Republican party variety, which is mostly a racist, "God Bless America and kill the darkies abroad!!" screeching, anti-government, anti-tax, corporate-and-private-power-worshipping philosophy. It is an ideology that hypocritically preaches incessantly about "limited government" but which is anti-government and anti-state only when it comes to social programs for the poor, the weak, the powerless and minorities, and whose criticisms of expansive government, coercive state-power, and executive and federal power overreach are notably absent when it comes to the expansion of the domestic police state and of the grotesque, weapons-of-mass-destruction-producing and mass-murdering apparatus that is the expansive American military establishment, American imperial power-structure and the National Security State. It is quite revealing to see a principled conservative like Andrew Bacevich arriving to very similar conclusions about American power, imperialism and foreign policy as someone from the left, such as Noam Chomsky. Resources and links to related material 1) Farewell to the American Century by Andrew Bacevich: Americans have perpetuated a mythic version of the past that never even approximated reality and today has become downright malignant. 2) Andrew Bacevich on PBS Bill Moyer's Journal: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/watch.html 3) Glenn Greenwald - The looming political war over Afghanistan 4) Glenn Greenwald - Our war-loving Foreign Policy Community hasn't gone anywhere 5) Chris Floyd - Beyond Here Lies Nothing: Surging Further Into the Abyss 6) Cheney/Obama ----- TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO's flagship current affairs program - devoted to exploring the social, political, cultural and economic issues that are changing our world, at home and abroad. The Agenda airs weeknights at 8:00 PM EST on TVO - Canada's largest educational broadcaster. TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin website: http://www.tvo.org/agenda/
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Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq "This is a stunning book which blows away all the myths about why America goes to war. American fights, the author demonstrates, to remake the world in its own image, for power and for markets. Its propaganda, 'as American as apple pie,' has historically sought to disguise this."--Phillip Knightley, author of The First Casualty "Marshalling compelling evidence, Susan Brewer documents the rhetorical strategies by which the U.S. government, often with the complicity of the media and key opinion-molding groups, has mobilized popular support for every major U.S. conflict from the Spanish-American war to the invasion of Iraq. Well written and deeply researched, this timely work should be read by all those concerned with issues of war and peace and with how propaganda can coarsen and debase civic discourse on vital public issues."--Paul Boyer, editor of The Oxford Companion to United States History "Susan Brewer's lively account of wartime propaganda from 1898 to the war in Iraq, Why America Fights, could well be sub-titled, Why America Is Still Fighting. May its account of the mobilization of patriotism for dubious purposes serve as a prophylactic for the future."--Marilyn Young, New York University "Susan Brewer writes that U.S. war propaganda since the dawn of the twentieth century has been both necessary and misleading. Judiciously argued and well researched, this engaging narrative examines the claims that policymakers advanced in their speeches, newspapers, radio programs, and films to sell America's wars. Brewer's provocative book deserves a wide readership from Americans who so often wonder how their lofty goals in war can end in disillusionment."--Emily S. Rosenberg, author of A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory Product Description On the evening of September 11, 2002, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering in the background, television cameras captured President George W. Bush as he advocated war against Iraq. This carefully stage-managed performance, writes Susan A. Brewer, was the culmination of a long tradition of sophisticated wartime propaganda in America. In Why America Fights, Brewer offers a fascinating history of how successive presidents have conducted what Donald Rumsfeld calls "perception management," from McKinley's war in the Philippines to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Brewer's intriguing account ranges from analyses of wartime messages to descriptions of the actual operations, from the dissemination of patriotic ads and posters to the management of newspaper, radio, and TV media. When Woodrow Wilson took the nation into World War I, he created the Committee on Public Information, led by George Creel, who called his job "the world's greatest adventure in advertising." In World War II, Roosevelt's Office of War Information avowed a "strategy of truth," though government propaganda still depicted Japanese soldiers as buck-toothed savages. In the Korean War, the Truman administration delineated differences between "good" and "evil" Asians, while portraying the conflict as a global battle between the Free World and Communism. After examining the ultimately failed struggle to cast the Vietnam War in a favorable light, Brewer shows how the Bush White House drew explicit lessons from that history as it engaged in an unprecedented effort to sell a preemptive war in Iraq. Yet the thrust of its message was not much different from McKinley's pronouncements about America's civilizing mission. Impressively researched and argued, filled with surprising details, Why America Fights shows how presidents consistently have drummed up support for foreign wars by appealing to what Americans want to believe about themselves. Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 2009) Language: English
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60 Minutes Special Don Hewitt August 23 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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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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Democracy Now! Thursday, June 25, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines 72 Killed in Baghdad Bombing Iran Breaks Up Opposition Protests Probe: Insurers Force Consumers to Overpay Billions in Health Costs Ex-Cigna Exec: Insurance Companies “Dump the Sick” Obama Signs War Funding Bill Ex-Bagram Prisoners Report Gunpoint Threats UN Human Rights Chief: Prosecute Bush Admin Officials who OKed Torture Arab League: Peace Offer Conditioned on Israeli Withdrawal Report: US Sends Arms Shipment to Somalia US, Venezuela to Restore Expelled Ambassadors Poll: 75% Back Regulating Greenhouse Gases Report: “Jena 6” Teens Reach Plea Deal EXCLUSIVE: Animal Rights Activist Jailed at Secretive Prison Gives First Account of Life Inside a "CMU" In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, we speak with Andrew Stepanian, an animal rights activist who was jailed at a secretive prison known as a Communication Management Unit, or CMU. Stepanian is believed to be the first prisoner released from a CMU and will talk about his experience there for the first time. He was sentenced to three years along with six other activists for violating a controversial law known as the Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of CMUs. We also speak with Stepanian’s lawyer and a reporter covering the story. [includes rush transcript] Rite Aid Workers Fight for a Union Ahead of congressional debates on the Employee Free Choice Act, or EFCA, we take a look at a long struggle of over 600 Rite Aid workers in California to form a union. The workers are based in Lancaster, California, at the Southwest distribution center for the nation’s third largest drugstore. After a two-year struggle, a majority of Rite Aid workers at the site voted to join the International Longshore Workers Local 26. The story has gained national attention and focused attention in the fight over the Employee Free Choice Act. We speak with a Rite Aid worker and with Ken Silverstein about his article in Harper’s Magazine, “Labor’s Last Stand: The Corporate Campaign to Kill the Employee Free Choice Act.”
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Leeches: 16

Democracy Now! Monday, June 22, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Iran’s Guardian Council Admits to Vote Irregularities Mousavi Calls for More Street Protests Iran’s Web Spying Aided by European Firms Siemens and Nokia Israel to Allocate $250 Million for West Bank Settlements US Admits Afghan Air Strike Killed At Least 26 Civilians Pakistan Faces Humanitarian Crisis Report: One Billion People Go Hungry Every Day Obama Admin Wants to Bring Spy Training Program to Colleges ACLU Files Suit over Communication Management Units Federal Authorities Approve Gun Sales to People on Terrorist Watch List Poll: 72% of Americans back Creation of Public Healthcare Plan Obama Jokes about Plight of Uyghurs Indian Musician Ali Akbar Khan, 87, Dies After a Day of Deadly Protests, Iran's Guardian Council Admits Voting Irregularities Took Place in Presidential Election Iran’s powerful Guardian Council has admitted that voting irregularities took place in at least fifty cities and that the number of votes cast exceeded the number of voters by a difference of as many as three million ballots. This comes as reformist presidential hopeful Mir Hossein Mousavi has called for another round of big street protests after a brutal crackdown this weekend. We speak to Iranian American independent filmmaker and journalist Kouross Esmaeli. [includes rush transcript] Report: Goldman Sachs on Pace to Pay Out Record Bonuses this Year The Guardian newspaper reports staff at Goldman Sachs can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm’s 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year, sparking concern that the big investment banks which survived the credit crunch will derail financial regulation reforms. We speak to Nomi Prins, a former managing director for Goldman Sachs in New York, about the possible record bonuses, President Obama’s proposed reforms of the financial regulatory system and the “The Big Bank Bailout Payback Bamboozle.” [includes rush transcript] Somalia Declares State of Emergency After Intense Fighting In Somalia, thousands have fled the capital of Mogadishu as government forces continue to fight opposition Islamist fighters. Fierce street fighting over the past month has claimed hundreds of lives. Just last week, bombs killed two lawmakers, the country’s security minister, the police commander of Mogadishu and nearly two dozen civilians. We speak to Somali American writer and human rights activist Sadia Ali Aden. [includes rush transcript]
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Documentary: GNU / Linux : The Codebreakers

Category: Documentary
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Watch this video as Stream: http://www.blip.tv/file/388239/ This Documentary shows the Benefits of Free and Open Source Software for development countries. The crew of the independent producers who made the film went to nearly a dozen countries around the world to see how the adoption of FOSS presents opportunities for industry and capacity development, software piracy reduction, and localization and customization for diverse cultural and development needs. Stories from The Codebreakers include computer and Internet access for school children in Africa, reaching the poor in Brazil, tortoise breeding programmes in the Galapagos, connecting villages in Spain, and disaster management in Sri Lanka. The documentary also includes interviews from key figures around the worl This Video was produced by the Asia Pasific Development information Programme. The Video is availible under an free creative commons attribution 2.5 Licsense. http://www.apdip.net/news/fossdoc http://www.tveap.org/news/0608foss.html Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license
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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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Blue Gold World Water Wars

Category: Documentary
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Synopsis: Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Can the human race survive? ------ Support the filmmaker and donate a small amount if you download the movie: http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/ Here's a statement from the filmmaker that was posted with a different version of this torrent: Dear Torrent users, I thank all of you for your interest in my film. When I read the book Blue Gold, I knew immediately I must utilize my film talents to relay the urgency of prioritizing our fresh water management for the survival of our race. I had no idea of the financial and physical risks that making this film would entail at the time, and if I did I honestly would not have made the film. Luckily for the world, the film exists, and so it is my goal to follow the advise of the first press review which proclaimed "Every person on the planet must see this film". In this respect I thank godcanjudgeme for uploading this torrent and bringing a new audience to the film. I have seen film festival audiences around the world transformed by the stories of the heroes of the water wars. I am thrilled that in the US and Canada the DVD is available via http://shoppbs.org and http://amazon.ca respectively. I respect the internet community that chooses to view films through torrents like this for whatever reason. In fact my first documentary, Hackers Wanted, focuses on the philosophy of true hackers and their journeys exploring cyberspace. It is important to understand that independent films costs a great deal of personal finances to create, in this case over $100,000. In order that I may make other films in the future, I must at least make my money back. I respectfully ask that if you download the film you consider donating $5-$10 to the further publicity of the film via PayPal on my site http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com. Also consider reviewing the film favorably on IMDB and recommending that others buy the DVD. Sincerely, Sam Bozzo Filmmaker "BLUE GOLD: WORLD WATER WARS"
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