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Leeches: 3

Unreported World S18E03 - Peru Blood and Oil (9 October 2009)[PDTV(XviD)].avi

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Unreported World-Peru ~Blood and Oil 2009 10 09 Ch 4 File Name:Unreported World S18E03 - Peru Blood and Oil.torrentbookmark 232.73 MB /24:14.960/ XviD Unreported World travels deep into the Peruvian jungle to investigate how the government's auctioning off vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest to global corporations has led to violent clashes with thousands of indigenous tribal people. Reporter Ramita Navai and director Alex Nott begin their journey travelling for three days up the river Corrientes into the homeland of the Achuar people, who've lived in one of the Amazon's remotest areas for thousands of years. They find the community of Jose Olaya almost deserted. Despite its remoteness, oil companies have been drilling in the area for years. .. A government study has shown that two thirds of all children tested had above safe levels of lead in their blood. The company involved denies the allegations, and says it's unaware of any credible data to support them. The team are taken to visit another area of land more than six kilometres long, which has become seriously polluted by oil residues. Despite a clean-up operation, a thick, black tar-like substance lies just beneath the soil, emitting a powerful stench. Navai and Nott travel to the city of Iquitos, Peru's largest jungle town, to meet with an environmental group. Its spokesman tells Unreported World that indigenous people are becoming increasingly angry about the pollution and breaches of their basic rights by a government that is proposing to open up huge areas of the Amazon to oil, gas and mining companies. ..edit.. The team travels to the north-western town of Bagua, where, in June 2009, 3000 demonstrators blockaded a major road and the protesters were fired upon by police with 3 people dead. President García has admitted to a series of errors in the handling of the protests and public outrage over the incident that has forced the prime minister to resign....edit http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-w...s-2009/episode-13 Source: http://www.thebox.bz/details.php?id=94517 Cap: geclipse Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 12
Leeches: 2

Democracy Now! Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Today's Headlines July Becomes Deadliest Month for US in Afghanistan Taliban Launch Multiple Attacks in Gardez Killing 14 Obama’s Guantanamo Task Force Misses Deadline Gates: Military to Expand by 22,000 Troops Watchdog: Financial Bailouts Could Cost Taxpayers up to $24 Trillion Police Accused of Bias After Arresting Harvard Scholar Inside His Own Home California Lawmakers Reach Deal to Close $26 Billion Budget Gap Gov’t Agency Withheld Research on Dangers of Cell Phones & Driving Salazar Bans New Mining Near Grand Canyon for Two Years Ex-Peruvian President Convicted of Embezzlement Number of Latino Workers Killed on Job Rises TV Commentators Criticized over Racist Remarks Despite Pledge to Cut Military Ties to Coup Regime, US Continues to Train Honduran Soldiers at School of Americas While the European Union cut off aid to the coup regime in Honduras, the United States continues the money flow, and while the US says it has cut military ties, the National Catholic Reporter reveals Honduran army officers are still receiving military training at the notorious School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. [includes rush transcript] "From Arbenz to Zelaya: Chiquita in Latin America" “When the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya two weeks ago there might have been a sigh of relief in the corporate board rooms of Chiquita banana,” writes journalist Nikolas Kozloff. “Earlier this year the Cincinnati-based fruit company joined Dole in criticizing the government in Tegucigalpa which had raised the minimum wage by 60%.” Kozloff goes on to trace Chiquita’s “long and sordid” political history in Central America. [includes rush transcript] As Obama Continues Push for Healthcare Reform, House Committee Approves Kucinich-Sponsored Measure to Keep Single-Payer Option Alive On Capitol Hill, Democratic leaders say they’re open to paring down a healthcare reform bill in order to sway “conservative” Democrats who’ve threatened to oppose the measure that would create a government-run public insurance option. We speak with progressive Democrat, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). A House committee recently approved his amendment that would allow individual states to adopt a single-payer system. [includes rush transcript] Frank McCourt (1930-2009): Late Author's Younger Brother Malachy Remembers Childhood Poverty Depicted in "Angela's Ashes" We remember the author Frank McCourt, who died Sunday at the age of seventy-eight. McCourt was best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela’s Ashes. The book chronicles McCourt’s poverty-ridden childhood in Brooklyn and Ireland, a childhood he said he felt lucky to have survived. McCourt published the book after a thirty-year career as a New York City schoolteacher, which he also chronicled in a later memoir, Teacher Man. We speak with Frank McCourt’s younger brother, actor and writer Malachy McCourt. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 83
Leeches: 7

Democracy Now! Monday, June 15, 2009 :: Iran, Netanyahu

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Today's Headlines Iran Supreme Leader Calls for Probe into Disputed Election UN Approves New North Korean Sanctions Netanyahu Backs Demilitarized Palestinian State Top Sunni Lawmaker Assassinated in Iraq Report: 30 Lawmakers Have Financial Holdings in Healthcare Industry Obama Administration Urges Court to Toss Rendition Lawsuit Judge Rules Jose Padilla Can Sue John Yoo over Torture CIA Fires Mitchell Jessen & Associates CIA Head Says Cheney Almost Wishing US Be Attacked Again Peruvian President Alan Garcia Accused of Ethnic Genocide Obama Admin to Spend $350 Million on New National Educational Standards Top Minutemen Officials Arrested on Murder Charges Domestic Workers Rally in New York Iran in Turmoil After Disputed Presidential Election; Anti-Ahmadinejad Street Protests Continue Iran remains in a state of turmoil after Friday’s much-anticipated elections ended in a result strongly disputed by opposition candidates and many thousands of their supporters. Today, Iranian officials refused to allow the leading opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi and his supporters to hold a major rally protesting the re-election of President Ahmadinejad. Demonstrators began calling for the election to be canceled after the Interior Ministry announced that President Ahmadinejad had won over 62 percent of the vote. The official results gave Mousavi less than 34 percent of the vote. Heavily armed riot police have been cracking down on street protests that continued through the weekend. Early Monday morning, security forces raided a dormitory at Tehran University, injuring fifteen. Opposition websites report that over a hundred prominent opposition members were detained and then released over the weekend. We speak to Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council and David Makovsky, co-author with Dennis Ross of a new book called Myths, Illusions, and Peace. [includes rush transcript–partial] Netanyahu Outlines Vision for a Demilitarized Palestinian State with Israel Controlling the Borders and Airspace of Palestine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered what was billed as a major policy speech on Sunday, accepting the creation of a Palestinian state on the condition that it would be completely demilitarized and have no control over its airspace. He also said that Israel would refuse to engage with Hamas. Palestinian officials condemned Netanyahu’s speech, saying it closed the door to permanent status negotiations.
Seeders: 98
Leeches: 17

Democracy Now! Friday, June 12, 2009

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Today's Headlines Admin Rules Out US Resettlement for Gitmo Prisoners 6 Gitmo Prisoners Freed Dems Reach Agreement on War Funding Bill Antiwar Lawmakers Urge Rejection of War Funding Senate Backs Sweeping Tobacco Regulation Contradicting Obama, Sen. Baucus Rules Out “Public” Healthcare Von Brunn Charged with Murder in Holocaust Museum Shooting WHO Declares Swine Flu Pandemic General: Afghan Violence Worse Since 2001 Iran Holds Presidential Elections Aid Groups to Return to Darfur Thousands of Peruvians Rally Against Indigenous Crackdown New Mountaintop Removal Rules Criticized as Ineffective Interior Dept. Report Criticizes Bush Sale of Utah Federal Land Iraq War Vet Commits Suicide Owner of Medical Marijuana Dispensary Sentenced to One-Year Term Survey: 2.8M Homes Unprepared for Switch to Digital TV Iranians Flood to Polls in Pivotal Presidential Election Iran goes to the polls today following an acrimonious election campaign that has polarized the country between the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and three opposition candidates. A record turnout is expected for this presidential election, and the enormous mobilization generated by some of the candidates has been described as unseen since the early days of the Iranian revolution. We speak with Trita Parsi, founder and president of the National Iranian American Council. [includes rush transcript] AMA Opposition to Obama Public Health Plan Echoes Group's Decades-Long Resistance to Healthcare Reform On Monday, President Obama is scheduled to address the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest doctors’ group with 250,000 members. They have expressed strong opposition to a government-run plan. We take a look at how the AMA has fought almost every major effort at healthcare reform over the past seventy years. Report: Health Insurers Hold Billions in Tobacco Stocks A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals US, Canadian and British health and life insurance firms hold at least $4.4 billion of investments in companies whose subsidiaries manufacture cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and related products. We speak with the co-author of the report, Dr. Wesley Boyd. Domestic Workers Fight for Bill of Rights The Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, if passed, would amend New York state labor law and guarantee the over 200,000 nannies and housekeepers in New York state a living wage, overtime pay, sick leave, severance and health benefits, and protection from employment discrimination. It would be the first such bill in the country to challenge the exclusion of the nearly two million domestic workers countrywide from national labor law and set an important precedent for other states. We speak with a nanny-turned-organizer. 80th Anniversary of Anne Frank's Birth: How a 13-Year-Old Girl Became the Defining Voice of the Nazi Holocaust Events are being held today around the world to mark what would have been Anne Frank’s eightieth birthday. In Amsterdam, the Anne Frank House museum has announced it will put her diaries on permanent display. Anne Frank died at the age of fifteen of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the spring of 1945, just weeks before the concentration camp was liberated. Her diary was first published in 1947 and has since become one of the most widely read books in the world. We play a reading from the Anne Frank Diary Recording Project.
Seeders: 69
Leeches: 36

Democracy Now! Monday, June 8, 2009

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Today's Headlines Two US Journalists Sentenced to 12 Years in North Korea US-Backed Coalition Wins in Lebanon Nation’s Unemployment Rate Surges to 9.4% Anti-Abortion Activist Warns of More Violent Acts More than 100 Killed in Somalia; Radio Journalist Assassinated Panel Finds Lax Oversight of Wartime Contracting Iraqi Government Arrests Five US Contractors Report: Global Military Spending Rose to $1.46 Trillion in 2008 Couple Accused of Spying for Cuba Nominee Linked to CIA Torture Declines Position Palestinian Protester Shot Dead by Israeli Troops Gay Rights Activist Cleve Jones Calls for March on Washington Civil Rights and AIDS Activist Dr. Alan Berkman Dies Peruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle Dozens of people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between police and indigenous activists protesting oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Peruvian authorities have declared a military curfew, and troops are patrolling towns in the Amazon jungle. Authorities say up to twenty-two policemen have been killed, and two remain missing. The indigenous community says at least forty people, including three children, were killed by the police this weekend. [includes rush transcript] Obama's Pick to Lead Afghan War Linked to Abuse of Prisoners & Secret Assassination Unit Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal formerly served as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to 2008. During that time, he oversaw a secretive program to hunt down and assassinate suspected terrorists around the globe. Last year, lawmakers delayed Stanley McChrystal’s nomination for a key position because of questions about prisoner abuse by forces under his command. Many of the reports of abuse center on Camp Nama, a US base near Baghdad’s airport where Special Operations troops ran an interrogation and detention center. [includes rush transcript] "Diary of Bergen-Belsen, 1944-1945": Amira Hass Discusses Her Mother's Concentration Camp Diary President Obama followed up his trip to Saudi Arabia and Egypt with a visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany on Friday, where 56,000 were killed during World War II. Obama invoked his great-uncle who had helped liberate a Buchenwald prison camp and returned a haunted man. Israeli journalist Amira Hass, columnist for Ha’aretz newspaper, comes from a family of Holocaust survivors. Her mother, Hanna Levy-Hass, survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Amira Hass edited her mother’s diary from that period, and it’s being published this month from Haymarket Books. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 96
Leeches: 19

Democracy Now! Monday, December 15, 2008

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Today's Headlines Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoes at President Bush Senate GOP Rejection of Auto Loans Seen as “First Shot Against Organized Labor” State Unemployment Funds Run Low Loophole Prevents Congress from Limiting Executive Pay Report: CIA Shot Down 15 Civilian Aircraft in Peru Portugal Offers to Take Guantanamo Prisoners Climate Talks End Without New Goals to Cut Emissions Internal Gov’t Report Criticizes US Reconstruction in Iraq Domestic Spying Whistleblower Speaks Out Workers at Smithfield Hog Plant in NC Vote to Unionize Tanzanian Mine Shut Down after Thousands Raid Mine Sarah Palin’s Home Church Set on Fire Jimmy Carter Urges Hamas and Fatah to Come Together Ecuadorean Immigrant Dies After Brutal Beating Arundhati Roy: 9 Is Not 11 (And November Isn't September) As comparisons between the attacks in Mumbai and the September 11th attacks continue to be made, Indian officials unveiled a massive revamp of the country’s security and anti-terror infrastructure last week. I am joined now by someone who warns of the dangers of comparing the attacks in Mumbai to the attacks in New York: award-winning novelist, essayist and activist, Arundhati Roy. Her latest article is called “9 Is Not 11 (And November Isn’t September).” It was published in India’s Outlook magazine, Britain’s Guardian newspaper, and on TomDispatch.com here in the United States. [includes rush transcript] Filmmaker Ron Howard on His New Film "Frost/Nixon" Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard’s new film is about the only American president who was forced to resign from office, Richard Nixon. The film is called Frost/Nixon and is set in 1977, three years after Nixon’s resignation. It recreates a famous set of televised interviews where Nixon broke his silence for the first time since leaving office. He was interviewed by British talk show host David Frost for more than twenty-eight hours. The interview ended with Nixon making a tacit admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 123
Leeches: 19

Democracy Now! Friday, November 21, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines S&P 500 Index Falls to Lowest Level in 11 Years Jobless Claims Jump to 16-Year High Report: Obama to Nominate Clinton for Secretary of State Waxman Elected to Chair Energy and Commerce Committee Coleman’s Lead Over Franken Down to 126 Votes Judge Orders Release of Five Guantanamo Prisoners Bush Administration Attempts to Weaken Endangered Species Act Six Long Island Teenagers Arraigned in Immigrant Stabbing Case LA Considers $13M Settlement Stemming from Immigration Protest Crackdown CIA Accused of Lying over Agency’s Role in Downing of Plane in Peru in 2001 Report: 90 Trade Unionists Murdered in 2007; 39 in Colombia Ex-Marine Reveals Gov’t Created Dossiers on Muslims and Arab Dershowitz Says He Pressured Obama Not to Let Carter Speak at DNC US Activist Detained in Israeli Jail Condemns Blockade of Gaza Israel’s tightened blockade of a million and a half Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is now entering its third week. On Monday, the Israeli navy seized fifteen Palestinian fishermen and three international activists off the coast of Gaza. The fishermen were released, but the activists remain in an Israeli jail. We speak to Darlene Wallach from inside the Masiyahu Prison near Tel Aviv. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Election of Barack Obama, the Israeli Blockade of Gaza, US Foreign Policy under President Bush and More South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of the leading voices for peace, justice and human rights around the world. He was a central figure in the South African struggle against apartheid and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. Today he will receive the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding for his work for peace in South Africa and elsewhere. [includes rush transcript] As New York Renames the Triborough Bridge for Robert F. Kennedy, We Speak with RFK's Daughter Kerry Kennedy on Her Father's Legacy, Her Human Rights Activism and the 2008 Election On Wednesday, the Kennedy family celebrated the renaming of the Triborough Bridge for Robert F. Kennedy. Attendees included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Harry Belafonte, New York Governor David Paterson and former President Bill Clinton. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 107
Leeches: 46

Democracy Now! Thursday, August 21, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Report: 79 Million Have Trouble Paying Medical Bills FBI Agents May Get More Power to Probe Anyone 40 Die in Bomb Blasts at Pakistani Arms Factory Iraq and US Negotiators Complete Draft Security Agreement Poll Shows McCain Takes 5-Point Lead Over Obama Obama Ad Criticizes McCain Ties to Abramoff Colleague McCain on Reinstituting a Military Draft: “I Don’t Disagree” Libby Questioned Over Forged CIA Iraq Letter Report: NATO Friendly Fire Killed French Troops in Afghanistan Court Rules Passengers Can Challenge Inclusion on No-Fly List Peruvian Indigenous Groups End Protests After Land Law Thrown Out Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, Dies Texas Death Row Prisoner Faces Execution Tonight for Murder He Didn't Commit A thirty-five-year-old man on death row in Texas faces execution tonight for a murder he didn’t commit. Jeff Wood is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6:00 p.m., unless Governor Rick Perry grants him clemency. Wood was an accomplice in a 1996 convenience store robbery. He was sitting in a truck outside when the clerk was shot and killed. The man who pulled the trigger was executed six years ago, but Wood was given a death sentence for the same crime under the Texas law of parties. We go to the prison where Jeff Wood is awaiting death to speak with his wife, mother and father outside. We also speak with Liliana Segura of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. Tensions High as NATO Suspends Formal Contacts with Russia Over Georgia Conflict Tensions are high between the United States and Russia over the ongoing conflict in Georgia. On Wednesday, soon after NATO foreign ministers decided to cut formal ties with Russia until it withdrew all its troops from Georgia, President Bush vowed to continue to support Georgia. We speak with William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. NYC Agrees to Pay 52 Antiwar Protesters $2 Million The City of New York has agreed to pay $2 million to a group of fifty-two protesters who were swept up in a mass arrest during a peaceful antiwar protest outside the headquarters of the Carlyle Group in 2003. We speak with the lead plaintiff in the case, Sarah Kunstler.
Seeders: 22
Leeches: 79

Democracy Now! Thursday, July 10, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Senate Backs Expansion of Bush Admin Domestic Spying Kennedy Returns to Help Senate Reverse Medicare Cuts Iran Test-Fires Missiles for Consecutive Day Rice: Iran Test Proves Need for Missile System Rev. Jackson Apologizes to Obama for “Talking Down” Criticism McKinney Selects VP Running Partner in Green Bid Career NC Civil Servant Refuses to Honor Helms 7 Foreign Troops Killed in Darfur Thousands Protest Neoliberal Policies in Peru Katrina Contractor Admits Failing to Disclose Toxic Levels in Evacuee Trailers Conviction Overturned for Jailed Black Panther in “Angola 3” Case African Dictatorships and Double Standards: Where is the International Criticism Over US-Allied Equatorial Guinean Leader Teodoro Obiang? As world attention is fixed on Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, there has been hardly any outcry from the international community about the dire human rights situation in another African country—Equatorial Guinea—where Teodoro Obiang has ruthlessly ruled for nearly thirty years. Obiang has been called the worst dictator in Africa, but since vast oil and natural gas reserves were discovered in the mid-1990s, he has become a close US ally. We speak with Ken Silverstein of Harper’s Magazine and Frank Ruddy, who served as US ambassador to Equatorial Guinea during the Reagan administration. [includes rush transcript] Longest Walk 2: Thirty Years After Historic Cross-Country March, Thousands Walk From San Francisco to DC for Native American Rights Thirty years ago, some 40,000 Native Americans and their supporters participated in a historic cross-country march called the Longest Walk to protest Congressional legislation that would have abrogated treaties protecting Native American Sovereignty. On Friday, thousands are expected to gather in Washington, DC after another five-month long journey across the country to draw attention to the state of the environment and press for the protection of sacred Native American sites. We speak with the co-founder of the American Indian Movement, Dennis Banks.
Seeders: 127
Leeches: 31