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Let's Make Money (Erwin Wagenhofer, 2008)

Category: Documentary
Description:
Erwin Wagenhofer's Let's Make Money (Austria, 2008) follows on the heels of his previous We Feed the World (Austria, 2005), a similar statement on how and under what circumstances comes the food to our plates. This time, in Let's Make Money, Wagenhofer hits even harder at the exploitation of Third World countries, at the global money market that corrupts the world monetary system, and at the crass side of neoliberalism that endorses political manipulation of free trade and free markets by transferring control of the economy from governments to private investors. We see the fertile cotton fields of Burkino Faso turned into dusty deserts from misuse of crop rotation and sheer abuse of the land. A huge billboard over an Indian slum proclaims a dubious message to "join the millionaires club today." Housing complexes are built in Spain on picturesque cliff-sides with watered golf courses, although these apartments will never be used, while other communities in Spain are in dire need of water. An investment banker maintains his office in Singapore, where the rent is not only cheaper but international oversight is at a minimum. Thanks to deregulation, the tax haven in Jersey protects investment bankers, hedge-fund directors and private equity managers, while millions hunger in Asia, Africa and South America because they have no access to the natural goods at their doorstep. An eminent tax expert explains why Swiss banks support "making money" over humanitarian principles, which could eventually lead to global environmental catastrophes. We see how the gold bricks arrive in Switzerland from mines in distant lands. Worse of all from a political standpoint, an internationally employed world-bank agent details how weak government leaders in the Third World are bribed, threatened and arbitrarily eliminated by "jackals" commissioned in assassination coups. Seen from this angle, these "hit-men" are synonymous with "economy killers," particularly when World Bank "development loans" drive poor countries deep into debt and thus make them vulnerable to political blackmailing. Sundance Film Festival Erwin Wagenhofer has crafted a momentous and chilling work of reportage in this documentary that maps and analyzes the contemporary global financial system.Shuttled around the world in private limousines and welcomed to corporate offices atop gleaming towers, we are treated to a litany of explanations by people close to the action, outlining how the financial world works and where it stands. It is unsurprising for many to learn that capitalism is ruthless. More alarming is the degree to which the financial (ad)ventures of an unaccountable and often-invisible few are facilitated by public policies and monies and arcane schemes that drain vast quantities of wealth away from civilizations into private hands. In settings ranging from India to Austria, from Burkina Faso to Washington, D.C., the legacies of decades of relaxed credit, deregulation of markets, and privatization of public facilities are illustrated by concrete examples so bizarre, outsized, and chilling that you'd expect to find them in a science-fiction movie rather than a documentary. The testimonies of economic theorists, proponents of offshore tax havens, and even one ""economic hit man"" combine to create a portrait of high stakes and shortsightedness, with war, mass migration, and ecological disaster as only a few of the downsides.Viewed in such volatile economic times as these, this prescient, shocking, and expertly crafted primer will spark many urgent debates. Spoken Languages: German, Spanish, English, Tamil, French Subtitles: English [SRT] Rip Specs: File Name .........................................: Let's Make Money (Erwin Wagenhofer, 2008).avi File Size (in bytes) ..........................: 1,163,937,792 bytes Runtime ............................................: 1:47:40 Video Codec ...................................: XviD ISO MPEG-4 Frame Size ......................................: 656x352 (AR: 1.864) FPS ..................................................: 25.000 Video Bitrate ...................................: 1243 kb/s Bits per Pixel ...................................: 0.215 bpp B-VOP, N-VOP, QPel, GMC.............: [B-VOP], [], [], [] Audio Codec ...................................: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3 Sample Rate ....................................: 48000 Hz Audio Bitrate ...................................: 192 kb/s [2 channel(s)] CBR Interleave (in ms).............................: 40 Preload (in ms).................................: 480 Split/Aligned Across Interleaves.....: Split No. of audio streams .......................: 1
Seeders: 61
Leeches: 17

BAMAKO-Abderrahmane Sissako-2006-French/bambara SPA SUB DVD5

Category: Documentary
Description:
Dirección y guión: Abderrahmane Sissako. Países: Francia, Mali y USA. Año: 2006. Duración: 118 min. Género: Drama. Interpretación: Aïssa Maïga (Melé), Tiécoura Traoré (Chaka), Hélène Diarra (Saramba), Habib Dembélé (Falaï), Djénéba Koné (hermana de Chaka), Hamadoun Kassogué (periodista), Hamèye Mahalmadane (presidente del tribunal), Aïssata Tall Sall (abogada), William Bourdon (abogado), Roland Rappaport (abogado), Danny Glover (cow-boy). Producción: Denis Freyd y Abderrahmane Sissako. Producción ejecutiva: Danny Glover y Joslyn Barnes. Fotografía: Jacques Besse. Montaje: Nadia Ben Rachid. Diseño de producción: Mahamadou Kouyaté. Vestuario: Maji-da Abdi. SINOPSIS Melé (Aïssa Maïga) canta en un bar, su marido Chaka (Tiécoura Traoré) está en el paro y la pareja está a punto de romper. El patio de la casa que comparten con otras familias se ha convertido en una sala de juicios: portavoces de la sociedad civil africana acusan al Banco Mundial y al Fondo Monetario Internacional de los males que afligen a África. Y mientras se suceden las declaraciones de acusadores, defensores y testigos, la vida en el patio continúa. Chaka no parece muy preocupado por este deseo insólito de África de luchar por sus derechos. Direction and screenplay: Abderrahmane Sissako. Countries: France, Mali and the USA. Year: 2006. Length: 118 min. Genre: Drama. Interpretation: Aïssa Maïga (Melé) Tiécoura Traoré (Chaka), Hélène Diarra (Saramba), Habib Dembélé (Falaï) Djénéba Koné (sister of Chaka), Hamadoun Kassogué (journalist), Hamèye Mahalmadane (presiding judge), Aïssata Tall Sall (lawyer), William Bourdon (lawyer), Roland Rappaport (lawyer), Danny Glover (cow-boy). Producer: Denis Freyd and Abderrahmane Sissako. Executive producer: Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes. Photography: Jacques Besse. Editor: Nadia Ben Rachid. Production design: Mahamadou Kouyaté. Costumes: Maji-da Abdi. In Bamako, also known as The Court, Sisako has staged a mock trial of the IMF, the World Bank, and the other international financial institutions run by the rich countries that have perhaps contributed to the impoverishment and demographic ravaging of contemporary Africa more than they have helped the continent. This event takes place in the middle of a big busy square in a section of the capital of Mali, Bamako.   There is a whole panoply of characters – a beautiful queen bee (an example of the grace and poise of African women), Melé (Aissa Maiga) and her husband Chaka (Tiecoura Traore). Melé's a popular singer whose marriage is disintegrating and two of her spirited songs are integrated into the film. People watch TV, and the director ironically injects into his film a "western" set in Timbukto, in which incongruous white men as well as Palestinian director Elia Suleiman and Bamako's producer Danny Glover shoot each other. The effect is grotesque, but that's the point: why should Africans be watching TV westerns? Elsewhere on the earthy "set" of the film there's a young man, also beautiful, who lies dying inside a nearby building with no medical care. There are many children, some playing about, some being breast-fed. A couple marry, and the festivities interrupt the trial. There's a flinty gatekeeper who decides who can come in and who can't. There's a traditional griot who's one of the "witnesses" and who ends the proceedings with a hypnotic chant (not translated, but strangely stirring and stunning). There's another "witness" – a former schoolteacher – so hopelessly demoralized he refuses to utter a word; a sound recordist; a video photographer who says he prefers to take pictures of the dead because they're more real; and many authentic-looking extras, including a variety of dried-up tough young-old (or ageless) stick-men, all of them coming and going.   You get a vivid sense from all this, which is rhythmically inter-cut with the trial itself, of the harmonious seeming chaos of African village life; the color, the beauty and dignity of the people. You get above all a sense that life goes on. There are two white men on the "stage" of the trial, one an advocate for the international organizations (Roland Rappoport) and the other (William Bourdon) eloquently speaking for the African people and for socialism who concludes that the first world should be sentenced "to community service" "forever." Eloquent though he is, a Malian woman lawyer who speaks after him (Aissata Tall Sall) is more touching.   Like An Inconvenient Truth, Bamako's trial presents facts and arguments of enormous present day importance – this time surrounding not global warming and the disintegration of the earth's eco-system, but another set of the planet's major problems: the social imbalances, the domination of the many by the few; poverty and disease, "terrorism" used to excuse world domination, the richest nations' doing harm while seeming to do good; the ravages of globalization, the privatization of natural resources down to land and water, perhaps ultimately to air; the national debts of poor nations collected by the economic organizations of the rich ones, and thereby preventing the poor ones from gaining any ground against the ravages of poverty and underdevelopment. Seed
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Leeches: 3

Parity_Talk_May-17-2009__We_Have_NO_CHOICE_24kbps.mp3

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
Description:
We have NO CHOICE but to push on with the message. Greed is a deadly sin and not just because the church says so. Today we discuss current events and the fact that we have no choice but to keep working towards change. The avarice system has to go because it's unsustainable and toxic despite what the selfish and immature minded segment of our population may say. Our show is a serious talk, not party talk for those of you with a psychological maturity of 25 or older. It's not popular to oppose wrongdoing, but we must do it if we desire a better future. Topics addressed on this world information day – Internet day are: - Sorry we have to repeat over and over the messages in our show we have no choice. -Its poem reading time again. - The privatization of Canada and the corruption scandal in Guatemala highlight how our society is in the grip of a corrupt class of so called rulers that is always related in greed based activities. - To show non violent anger is the key to get us out of this state of sedation and passivity. - The third way, Freud and the avoidance of pain and how they shape the world we live in. - Why are people prone to do inconsequential meaningless tasks and compensate it with gossip and other trivial behavior? Maybe it’s because deep down they feel they are living a wholly inauthentic life. - Aleister Crowley, scarlet and the beast and their relevance in today’s society. - Moneys is means of exchange, a current to keep the flow and the system going nothing more. -The panic of the week “Conspiracy INC.” we discuss the general state of the so called conspiracy movement and it turning into a serious money machine . + BILDERBERG UPDATE - Greed has to go once and for all. - New discoveries show that honey is infested with over 17 different antibiotics including organically grown. Maybe we should look for alternatives like stevia. - Swine flu update it seems that thank god it was a false alarm after all. Links to the show at: http://www.honesty.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=144 you can find us at : http://www.paritytalk.com http://www.paritytalk.org http://www.honesty.org and of course our new forum http://www.paritycheck.org
Seeders: 1
Leeches: 0

Flow : For Love Of Water - AVI,XVid,MP3 - Godcanjudgeme

Category: Documentary
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Flow : For Love Of Water - AVI,XVid,MP3 - Godcanjudgeme http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149583/ How did a handful of corporations steal our water? ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- "Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?" Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround." Quote from : http://www.flowthefilm.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Source : DVDRip AVI, XVid, MP3 Size : 835 MB Resolution : 640x352 Frame Rate : 23.976 fps Audio Bitrate : 192 kb/s - stereo Sample Rate : 441000 Hz Duration : 01:23:33 ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Please Seed x 1 / x 2 .. Keep Torrents Alive! ..Godcanjudgeme..
Seeders: 5
Leeches: 3

Speaking Freely Volumes 1-5 (2007-2008)

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Volume 1 - John Perkins Author and former economic consultant John Perkins takes aim at himself, confessing his shameful role in helping organizations such as World Bank and the IMF drive poor nations into crippling debt while enriching U.S. corporations. His social conscience awakened, Perkins finally got fed up and quit his job. Now, he runs a successful nonprofit group that works to help indigenous peoples protect and strengthen their environments and cultures. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245106/ Audio: 128 kb/s CBR MP3, Joint Stereo (English) Subtitles: None Video: 806 Kbps Xvid at 23 fps Resolution: 720 x 416 Codec: Xvid Running Time: 51 Minutes 59 Seconds ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 2 - Susan George Join award-winning scholar Susan George for an enlightening hour as she reveals the forces at work behind the problems that plague our global community today, such as poverty and unfair international trade practices. Far from a dry lecture, her talk traces the intriguing history behind the politics of empire building with a freedom, depth and élan you won't find on the 6 o'clock news. Beware: This presentation is dangerous to complacency! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245362/ Audio: 128 kb/s CBR MP3, Joint Stereo (English) Subtitles: None Video: 845 Kbps Xvid at 23 fps Resolution: 672 x 384 Codec: Xvid Running Time: 49 Minutes 48 Seconds ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 3 - Ray McGovern Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses the inner workings of the U.S. spy factory and explains how the agency's mission has evolved from uncovering facts about global security to delivering conclusions that support White House policy. In this installment of the Speaking Freely film series, McGovern examines the CIA's role in promoting the invasion of Iraq and speaks candidly about the rapidly changing geopolitics of the Middle East. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245363/ Audio: 128 kb/s CBR MP3, Joint Stereo (English) Subtitles: None Video: 796 Kbps Xvid at 23 fps Resolution: 688 x 384 Codec: Xvid Running Time: 52 Minutes 33 Seconds ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 4 - Chalmers Johnson Writer and professor Chalmers Johnson warns of the dangers of American imperialism, a trend evidenced in the presence of U.S. military bases abroad, the passage of the Patriot Act and the executive branch's use of military force. The outspoken author of Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic predicts that the fall of the so-called American Empire is imminent. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245364/ Audio: 128 kb/s CBR MP3, Joint Stereo (English) Subtitles: None Video: 799 Kbps Xvid at 23 fps Resolution: 688 x 400 Codec: Xvid Running Time: 52 Minutes 23 Seconds ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 5 - Hugo Chavez In this volume of the thought-provoking series, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addresses the international press corps on what he sees as the advantages of socialism and the flaws of capitalism and America's version of democracy. Suggesting that a healthy government is one in which all citizens play a role, Chavez questions U.S. practices of privatization, foreign policy and military intervention. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1249186/ Audio: 128 kb/s CBR MP3, Joint Stereo (Spanish) Subtitles: English Video: 802 Kbps Xvid at 23 fps Resolution: 512 x 288 Codec: Xvid Running Time: 52 Minutes 11 Seconds ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please seed and enjoy.
Seeders: 9
Leeches: 4

Democracy Now! Monday, March 23, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Report: US Will Appoint “Afghan PM” to Bypass Hamid Karzai Obama: Exit Strategy Needed for Afghanistan Obama: Bush-Cheney Policies Haven’t Made Us Safer Geithner to Unveil Plan to Purchase $1 Trillion in Toxic Assets White House Officials Oppose Tax on Wall Street Bonuses World Bank: 2009 Will Be “Very Dangerous” Year Israel Accused of Targeting Medical Personnel in Gaza IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot at Gaza Rescuers Soldier: Israeli Rabbis Turned Gaza Invasion into Religious War Antiwar British MP Barred from Canada Family of Slain Iraqi Guard Sues Blackwater Costco, Starbucks and Whole Foods Fight Proposed Labor Law NYC Pays $1.5 Million to Families of Two Killed by NYPD Four Oakland Police Officers Killed in Shoot-Out Protests Mark 6th Anniversary of US Invasion of Iraq "The Zombie Ideas Have Won" - Paul Krugman on $1 Trillion Geithner Plan to Buy Toxic Bank Assets Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is preparing to unveil a plan today to purchase as much as $1 trillion in troubled mortgages and other assets from banks. The government is reaching out to hedge funds, private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds to help buy the toxic assets. The Obama administration has described the plan as a public-private partnership, but most of the actual money will be put up by the government. We speak with Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman. [includes rush transcript–partial] Water Rights Activists Blast Istanbul World Water Forum as "Corporate Trade Show to Promote Privatization" Sunday was World Water Day and marked the close of a week-long gathering held in Istanbul, Turkey to discuss water policy at a time when over a billion people lack access to clean water and 2.5 billion people lack water for proper sanitation. Activists from the People’s Water Forum, an alternative formation representing the rural poor, the environment and organized labor, slammed the official event as a non-inclusive, corporate-driven fraud pushing for water privatization and called for a more open, democratic and transparent forum. Dam Politics: India's Leading Activist Medha Patkar Takes on Corporate Control of Water We speak with Medha Patkar, one of India’s best-known and best-loved social activists. She is the iconic founder of the Save the Narmada Movement and the National Alliance of People’s Movements. She led the nonviolent struggle against the Sardar Sarovar dam project over the Narmada River for more than two decades and continues to fight for the rights of some 300,000 people, those already made homeless and those facing displacement by the dam. Patkar has organized several mass rallies, demonstrations and hunger strikes, survived numerous jail terms and police violence, and won many important victories.
Seeders: 45
Leeches: 91

Obama's Budget Will Impoverish America - Guns And Butter-March 11, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
Description:
"America's Fiscal Collapse - Obama's Budget Will Impoverish America" with economist and author, Michel Chossudovsky. The administration's 2010 budget will entail the most drastic curtailment in public spending in American history, leading to social havoc and the potential impoverishment of millions of people. Defense spending and bank bailouts will consume all government revenue resulting in fiscal collapse that will lead to the privatization of the state. "Guns & Butter" investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, "Guns & Butter: The Economics of Politics" reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state.
Seeders: 12
Leeches: 0

Speaking Freely Volume 5 with Hugo Chavez - Xvid

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
Description:
In this volume of the thought-provoking series, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addresses the international press corps on what he sees as the advantages of socialism and the flaws of capitalism and America's version of democracy. Suggesting that a healthy government is one in which all citizens play a role, Chavez questions U.S. practices of privatization, foreign policy and military intervention. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1249186/Audio - 128 kb/s MP3 (Spanish)Subtitles - EnglishVideo - 802 Kbps Xvid at 23 fpsResolution - 528 x 304Running Time: 52 Minutes
Seeders: 8
Leeches: 5

Democracy Now! Monday, September 22, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
Description:
Today's Headlines Congress Asked to Approve $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Leave Investment Banking Obama Slams McCain Over Privatization of Social Security McCain Defends Deregulation of Financial Industry South African President Mbeki Resigns Hotel Bomb Blast Kills 53 in Pakistan Jimmy Carter Urges Georgia to Stay Execution of Troy Davis Study: Ethnic Cleansing Was Primary Factor in Reducing Iraq Violence St. Paul Drops Charges Against Journalists Arrested at RNC Army Unit to Deploy in October for Domestic Operations 200 Arrested in Immigration Raids Vermont Candidate Pledges to Prosecute Bush for Murder Sen. Bernie Sanders, Robert Scheer and Dean Baker on the Proposed $700 Billion Bailout of Wall Street, the Largest Government Bailout of Private Industry in US History It’s being described as the largest government intervention in private markets since the Great Depression. The Bush administration has asked Congress to swiftly approve a massive $700 billion package to rescue the crippled financial institutions on Wall Street. Some analysts say the final cost to taxpayers could top one trillion dollars. Over the weekend, the size of the proposed bailout grew as the Bush administration said foreign banks, including Barclays and UBS, should be eligible for the bailout. [includes rush transcript] Farnaz Fassihi on "Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq" It was the email read around the world. Four years ago in September 2004, Farnaz Fassihi, an Iranian American correspondent in Iraq for the Wall Street Journal, sent a private email to family and friends that described the situation in Iraq more sincerely than her published newspaper articles ever could. She wrote, “One could argue that Iraq is already lost beyond salvation. For those of us on the ground it’s hard to imagine what if any thing could salvage it from its violent downward spiral." She is author of the new book Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 180
Leeches: 33

Noam Chomsky Audio+Text Pack (incomplete) FIXED

Category: Chomsky
Description:
i had some trouble with thepiratebay, but now it's all fixed, ok? if you had the old torrent, stop it, download this one and point it to the same directory as the old one, it will work. ** this is a pre-release and includes a few duplicates, broken files, and is generally incomplete, but there is so much stuff here, that you probably don't care anyway! the text files are in text.rar so you NEED WINRAR OR 7zip to extract the text. 7zip is free: http://www.7-zip.org/ video is not included (it's fucking huge!) and will be released in a separate release called "Noam Chomsky Video Pack" more noam can be found on planetchomsky.com and chomsky.info
Seeders: 4
Leeches: 1