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Long Distance Love (2008).WS-PDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Category: Documentary
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Long Distance Love (2008) North American Premiere: Kyrgyzstan today: Just married Alisher (18y) has to leave his pregnant wife Dildora (17y) to work in Russia, 3.500 km from home. He's one of the 12-16 millions Russian guest workers, who are forced to leave their countries and work, mostly illegally, under harsh conditions in low-paid jobs in order to support their families. After eight months of hardship in Moscow, Alisher decides to return to his young family, although he has failed to earn enough money to provide for them, he faces harsh conditions low pay, abuse from employers, deceit by unscrupulous employment agencies, and hate-motivated attacks.. This is a love story clouded by migration and modern slavery. Directors: Magnus Gertten and Elin Jönsson Director of Photography: Jon Rudberg Editor: Jesper Osmund Music: Magnus Jarlbo Sound Design: Alexander Thörnqvist Post production: Minerva Film, Copenhagen Technical coordinator: Erik Varde Associate producer: Lina Bertilsson Kyrgyz producer: Jyldyz Bekbaeva Produced by Magnus Gertten and Lennart Ström. Produced by Auto Images. In co-production with SVT/Lars Säfström and Film i Skåne/Joakim Strand, with support from The Swedish Film Institute/Tove Torbiörnsson and Nordic Film and Television Fund/Eva Færevaag. Format : AVI Length : 465 MiB for 58mn 15s 28ms Codec : XviD Source : PDTV Language : Russian Subtitles : English Hard Coded Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 982 Kbps Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.810) at 29.970 fps Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 120 Kbps Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Enjoy! Ekolb
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Leeches: 10

A Mighty Heart Directed by Micheal Winterbottom (2007)

Category: Misc
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A Mighty Heart Directed by Micheal Winterbottom (2007) On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband Daniel (Dan Futterman), the South Asia Bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi, Pakistan, where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane (Angelina Jolie) he might be late for dinner. He never returned. In the face of death, Danny’s spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murderer in her memoir "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl," the basis for this film. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane’s courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared.
Seeders: 55
Leeches: 33

Istgah-Matrouk (aka Deserted Station) (Raisian, 2002)engsub-aNaRCHo

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Istgah-Matrouk (aka Deserted Station) (Raisian, 2002)engsub-aNaRCHo FARSI WITH HARDCODED ENGLISH SUBTITLES The leaders of Iranian film, Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, have spent a good deal of their time training and helping young filmmakers get started. Makhmalbaf has his own film school, and his wife and daughter have released extraordinary films under his tutelage. Kiarostami has helped out new filmmakers like Jafar Panahi by contributing story ideas and taking "story" credit on films like "The White Balloon" and the recent "Crimson Gold." Less familiar in the US, filmmaker Ali Reza Raisian also gets a little help from Kiarostami for his latest film, "The Deserted Station." It could be that Kiarostami has the magical touch. His films often consist of simple ideas that can be easily explained in a one or two-sentence pitch, and yet when you sit down to them, they grow much more complex and much more truthful than expected. "The Deserted Station" follows the adventures of an Iranian couple, a photographer husband (Nezam Manouchehri) and a schoolteacher wife (Leila Hatami). The wife has retired due to some unknown sickness or weariness, and the couple now makes a cross-country journey by truck to Tehran. When their truck breaks down, the husband walks to the nearest town, a dismal little place devoid of men; they are all off working in the cities. One man, Feizollah (Mehran Rajabi) stays behind to take charge of the local school. He's also a mechanic and a farmer. Feizollah accompanies the husband to help fix the abandoned truck while the wife temporarily takes over the class. It's a simple enough setup, but Raisian packs so much into it that multiple viewings may be necessary. When the couple's truck breaks down, it's because they swerved to avoid hitting a deer or some kind of fleet-footed beast. But everyone tells them that no deer live anywhere near there. At the same time, a pregnant sheep wails in pain in a room underneath the schoolhouse; she's been in labor for two days. When the lamb comes in the middle of the day, it's stillborn. One of the children in the school is a deformed little girl who can't walk on her own and must be carried. Another of the children can't come to class without shirking his duties in his family's cornfield. Many of these details circle around back to issues of birth and death and the fear surrounding both. We come to know so much about this little village in a ludicrously short amount of time. The photographer learns all about the jack-of-all-trades Feizollah and his utterly selfless care for the well-being of his village (he does admit from time to time that he's looking for good karma points for the afterlife), while the wife becomes attached to all the little children and each of their funny little faults. Credit should go to both Kiarostami and Raisian for another powerful, beautiful female character in an industry that very seldom recognizes such things. When we first meet the wife, she's asleep in the truck. Her husband lovingly photographs her and tells her how beautiful she is. Later we come to see her patience, intelligence and care for the schoolchildren. Even her nightmares and her deepest fears come to light during a hide-and-seek game aboard an abandoned train. Usually if women are the centerpiece of an Iranian film, it's to underline their suffering. But with Kiarostami's recent "Ten" and this new film, things appear to be changing for the better. Kiarostami has always cooked up powerfully affecting endings for his works, and "The Deserted Station" is no exception. When it comes time to leave the village, the husband and wife attempt to drive off, but the children do something extraordinary. I can't describe it without taking its force away. It's a near-great film, but I'm not sure if "The Deserted Station" quite attains greatness. Raisian's mise-en-scene doesn't quite have the rhythmic punch that Kiarostami or Panahi have and his use of space and terrain isn't quite as polished or poetic. (Consider Kiarostami's brilliant use of these elements to enhance the emotional impact of "Where Is the Friend's Home?" and "The Wind Will Carry Us.") PLEASE SEED AND ENJOY!!!
Seeders: 2
Leeches: 2

Democracy Now! Friday, April 10, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines US Attack Kills 5 Afghan Civilians, Wounds Pregnant Mother Obama to Request $84.3B for War Iraqis Stage Massive Anti-US Protest CIA Head: Overseas Prisons Closed, Contractors Barred from Interrogations Marine Acquitted Despite Confessing to Killing Unarmed Iraqi Court OKs Apartheid Victims’ Suit Against US Companies Protesters Tell Summers “We Want Our Money Back” Palestinian Doctor Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Failed Nuclear Funding Measure Reinserted into Senate Budget Bill Terrorism Charges Dropped Against RNC 8 Poll Shows Declining Support for Capitalism CDC: US Food Safety Efforts Fail to Improve Massive Cutbacks Proposed at Detroit Schools A New Way Forward: Protests Scheduled Across the Country Calling on Banks to Nationalize, Reorganize, Decentralize National demonstrations are scheduled in more than fifty cities across the country tomorrow to protest the government’s handling of the economic crisis. The demonstrations are organized by the recently launched group A New Way Forward. They are calling on the government to take three main actions on the country’s banks: nationalize, reorganize and decentralize. [includes rush transcript] The Challenge for Africa: Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai on Obama, Climate Change and War We turn now to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Kenyan environmentalist, lawmaker and civil society activist, Wangari Maathai. Her latest book, The Challenge for Africa, tackles the broad obstacles to living in peace, justice, environmental and economic security for the one billion people across the continent of Africa. [includes rush transcript] Five Years After Helping to Expose Abu Ghraib Scandal, Christian Peacemaker Teams Continue Human Rights Work Five years ago this month, in April of 2004, the first photographs from inside Abu Ghraib appeared in the US media. The photos showed Iraqi prisoners being tortured, abused and humiliated by US forces and private contractors. The initial reports of abuse came from Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq. We speak with Peggy Gish and Art Gish of the Christian Peacemaker Team.
Seeders: 51
Leeches: 68

Gambling With Health Care-Now on PBS-3.20.09-sdtv xvid

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Gambling With Health Care-Now on PBS-3.20.09-sdtv xvid [Streaming video of this program will be available online after broadcast] How the economic collapse is creating a health care calamity. Losing your job is a blow not just to your income, but also to your health insurance. Many can't afford high COBRA premiums, much less private insurance. And the sputtering economy is making a bad situation tragic. NOW travels to Nevada, where a huge budget deficit, spiking unemployment, and cuts in Medicaid and other public services are forcing people to gamble with their own lives. Recently, the only public hospital in Las Vegas had to shut its doors to cancer patients and pregnant women. Should the government be helping out? NOW shares the human stories behind the distressing numbers, and investigates possible solutions and responses with insight from Dr. Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. With the economic disaster blowing holes in society's health care safety net, who's left to catch our fall? Support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs.
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Leeches: 1

Democracy Now! Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Israeli Attack Intensifies; Tanks Enter Khan Yunis Israel Bombs UN School, Three Killed Doctor: Most Palestinian Casualties Are Civilians Red Cross: Gaza Is a “Full-Blown" Humanitarian Crisis Bush Refuses to Call for Ceasefire Poll: Americans Divided Over Israeli Attack Obama Taps Leon Panetta to Head CIA Bush Critic Picked to Head Office of Legal Counsel Canvassing Board: Al Franken Won Minn. Recount; Coleman to Sue Video: Police Shoot Dead Unarmed Black Man on Oakland Train Platform Israeli F-16 Attack Kills Father of Palestinian Journalist; Israel Bombs UN School, Killing Three The UN says around a quarter of the dead are civilians, but that figure only counts women and children, excluding adult males. Today, we will look at one of those men killed. I am joined by Fares Akram. He is the Gaza correspondent for The Independent of London. His father was killed in an Israeli F-16 attack on Saturday. His wife is nine months pregnant. We also speak with UNRWA’s Christopher Gunness on the Israeli bombing of an UN school that killed three people. [includes rush transcript] Prominent Austin Activist Admits He Infiltrated RNC Protest Groups as FBI Informant An Austin-based activist named Brandon Darby has revealed he worked as an FBI informant in the eighteen months leading up to the Republican National Convention. Darby has admitted to wearing recording devices at planning meetings and wearing a transmitter embedded in his belt during the convention. He is expected to testify on behalf of the government later this month in the trial of two Texas activists who were arrested at the RNC on charges of making and possessing Molotov cocktails. [includes rush transcript] New Trouble for an Obama Nominee: Admiral Dennis Blair Aided Perpetrators of 1999 Church Killings in East Timor Investigative journalist Allan Nairn reveals Admiral Dennis Blair played a critical role in backing the Indonesian occupation of East Timor during the 1990s. At the height of a wave of ruthless attacks on Timorese that killed hundreds and displaced tens of thousands, Blair personally informed top Indonesian general, Wiranto, of unwavering US support. He continued to support the Indonesian military until international outcry forced the Clinton administration to withdraw its military and diplomatic backing. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 66
Leeches: 1

Malaysia: Asia's Slaves 2006 06 02 (Unreported World, Ch 4)

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Malaysia: Asia's Slaves 2006 06 02 (Unreported World, Ch 4) 245 mgs 24.16 mins Unreported World travels to Malaysia and highlights the plight of hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers who end up working as virtual slaves, imprisoned and terribly abused by their "owners". Reporter Ramita Navai begins her journey in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur at the Indonesian Embassy. The Embassy has become a refuge to scores of women who have fled their abusive employers and who face arrest by the authorities since their visas are no longer valid because they have left their jobs. Many of the women, who work as maids, have their passports taken away by their employers and work for the equivalent of US $2 a day. One tells her that she'd been forced to work 18 hours a day, seven days a week for ten months. Throughout that time she'd never been paid and had been beaten regularly with a golf club. Another tells how she'd been branded with an iron by the woman she worked for and then forced to clean the iron because her flesh had stuck to it. All of them had their passports held by their employers so they couldn't run away. Navai speaks to a woman who owns a maid agency responsible for recruiting Indonesian women. She tells Navai that the maids are immoral characters who may get pregnant or come back with a disease. Other women who have paid agents to get jobs as maids never make it into domestic service and instead have been sold on to work in the sex trade. Navai travels to the Indonesian island of Batam, where many girls hoping to work as maids end up. Batam caters to tourists from Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore and has a booming sex trade, with around 19,000 sex workers on the island, nearly half of whom are under 18. Some are as young as fourteen or fifteen and they live in brothels as virtual prisoners. Namai travels back to Kuala Lumpur to interview the Minister of Human Resources, Dr Fong. He's been negotiating with the Indonesian government which has been demanding a minimum wage, a day off and the worker's right to keep their passport. Despite the horror stories from women who have managed to return home, the lure of domestic service in Malaysia remains strong to the poverty stricken Indonesians and the trade in human beings seems destined to continue. Unreported World series 11 episode 7 shunster thebox.bz
Seeders: 46
Leeches: 22

PHILIPPINES: CITY OF GUILT 2006 05 12 (Unreported World, Ch 4) avi

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PHILIPPINES: CITY OF GUILT 2006 05 12 (Unreported World, Ch 4) avi 235.87 mbs 0:23:54 mins In the next 30 years the population of the Philippines is set to double to 170 million. Contraceptives are frowned on and abortion is illegal but as this week’s Unreported World reveals, every year more than half a million Filipina women are so desperate they undergo harrowing illegal abortions, despite the fact that at least 80,000 end up seriously ill in hospital. Reporter Sharmeen Obaid Chinay’s journey begins in Metro Manila, where 35% of its 12 million inhabitants live in slums. Not many of them have jobs and many women are desperate to avoid large families which they can’t support. The Filipino Catholic church holds rallies against abortion and it is backed by wealthy American pro-life groups such as Operation Outcry. The Christian Right in the US is pushing the Bush government into stopping foreign aid to clinics giving contraception advice. Unreported World meets Remy – whose two previous attempts at abortion ended in failure. Pregnant with a third child, she was so desperate she took bitter herbs, threw herself out of a window then massaged her abdomen until she started bleeding. The team talks to a Helot – a traditional midwife who provides induced abortions to poor women. Concealing her identity as she’s very scared of reprisals, the Helot explains how she charges £7 to carry out the procedure, without any anaesthetic. Many patients end up in hospital, and some of them on the verge of death. For those women who can afford it, the alternative to a Helot is an illegal clinic charging £60 a session. Unreported World visits one clinic where a terrified 17-year-old about to undergo an abortion tells Obaid Chinay that having given birth just three months before and already pregnant she has now other choice. Unreported World then interviews the Mayor of Manila, Lito Atienza. Vehemently against abortions, he says that contraceptives are a poison against a woman’s body. He tells the programme that the number of abortions is being controlled, that the number of illegal clinics is diminishing, that the authorities are clearing up the stalls selling illegal herbs and drugs and overall, women are careful not to indulge in abortions. Obaid Chinay visits one such area of stalls which the Mayor claimed to have cleared up. She is able to easily buy the herbs and drugs needed to induce abortion. Ironically situated next to a church, the location sums up the terrible dilemma facing so many women in the Philippines. Unreported World s11e04 Philippines - City of Guilt (2006).avi shunster
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Leeches: 19

Sex Slaves - Frontline Documentary

Category: Documentary
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In "Sex Slaves," FRONTLINE follows Viorel on an extraordinary journey deep into the world of sex trafficking to try to find his wife, Katia, who was four months' pregnant when she left home, and then free her from the violent pimp who now "owns" her. Along the way, the production team takes a rare, hidden-camera look at the various traffickers, pimps and middlemen who illegally buy and sell hundreds of thousands of women each year. Lured by traffickers who prey on their dreams of employment abroad, many of the women are then kidnapped and "exported" to Europe, the Middle East, the United States and elsewhere. During this process, they may be sold to pimps, locked in brothels, drugged, terrorized and raped repeatedly. In Eastern Europe, since the fall of communism, sex trafficking has become the fastest growing form of organized crime, with Moldova and Ukraine widely seen as major suppliers of women into the global sex trade. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811064/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/ FileName.....: Sex.Slaves.2006.PBS.Frontline.TVRip-lkobescak.avi Filesize.....: 376,598,564 bytes Runtime......: 55:26.823 (99704 frames) Video Codec..: DivX 5.2.1 Alpha Video Bitrate: 796 kbps Aspect Ratio.: 640x464 Framerate....: 29.970 fps B-VOP/NVOP...: B-VOP / QPel/GMC.....: / Audio Codec..: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Bitrate: 96kbps 2ch VBR 44100Hz Language.....: English / Russian Subtitles....: English hardcoded when Russian is spoken ed2k://|file|Sex.Slaves.2006.PBS.Frontline.TVRip-lkobescak.avi|376598564|B78A195842AB422B0DD5E5CE22BF7301|/
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Blood, Church & State (Unreported World,Ch.4) 2008 02 22 avi

Category: Documentary
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Blood, Church & State (Unreported World,Ch.4) 2008 02 22 avi Reporter Kate Seelye visits Nicaragua where, thanks to an alliance between President Daniel Ortega and the Roman Catholic Church, legislation has been passed outlawing abortion under any circumstances. What this ban means in human terms is brought home with unflinching force by the cases Seelye shows us. We meet pregnant women with health problems that force them into an appalling choice: to endanger their lives by continuing with their pregnancy, or risk jail by seeking an illegal abortion. As usual, Unreported World gives us plenty to think about. (As in other parts of the 3rd World such as Africa and the Philippines, the Roman Catholic uses unbridled political power to dominate these weak societies. It limits birth control programs so that innocent people are murdered by HIV and millions suffer the slow death of starvation from overpopulation. A real caring bunch.) Unreported World - Blood, Church & State (22 February Filesize.....: 243,679,232 bytes Runtime......: 23:56.600 (35915 frames) Video Codec..: XviD ISO MPEG-4 (B-VOP//) Thebox.bz shunster
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