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Democracy Now! Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Blackwater Prepared Bribes After 2007 Nisoor Massacre Report: Top Officials Back 30,000 Additional Troops in Afghanistan US Citizen Sues FBI for Kidnapping, Mistreatment in Africa Obama Honors Ft. Hood Victims DC Sniper Executed by Lethal Injection 4 Arrested at Sen. Lieberman’s Offices Ex-Bear Sterns Execs Acquitted in Fraud Case India Criticized for Opening Bhopal Disaster Site Ahead of 25th Anniversary Justice Dept. Subpoenaed Indymedia Site for Web Visitors Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance On Veterans Day, a new study estimates four times as many US Army veterans died last year because they lacked health insurance than the total number of US soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period. A research team at Harvard Medical School says 2,266 veterans under the age of sixty-five died in 2008 because they were uninsured. We speak to the report’s co-author, Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of medicine at Harvard University and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. Sexual Assaults, Inadequate Healthcare Among Spate of Issues Facing Women Servicemembers The rate of sexual assaults within the US military also exceeds that of the general population. A Pentagon report earlier this year found one in three female servicemembers are sexually assaulted at least once during their enlistment. Sixty-three percent of nearly 3,000 cases reported last year were rapes or aggravated assaults. Despite what some have called an epidemic of military sexual trauma, the delivery of healthcare to women veterans remains grossly inadequate. Parents of Iraq Veteran Receive Mistaken Notice from US Gov't, Not Condolence Letter They Await from Obama The parents of US Army Reserve Specialist Chancellor Keesling, an Iraq war veteran, received a letter yesterday from the VA asking that their son complete his “Post Deployment Adjustment.” The only problem is, Chance Keesling had killed himself in Iraq nearly five months ago. We speak with Chance’s dad, Gregg Keesling, who’s still waiting for the letter he’s never received: condolences from President Obama. A longstanding US policy denies presidential condolence letters to the families of soldiers who have committed suicide.
Seeders: 55
Leeches: 48

CBC Doc Zone-Berlin: 20 Years After (2009).HDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Category: Documentary
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Berlin, 20 Years After Thursday November 5, 2009 at 8 pm on CBC-TV It was a completely unexpected event, a dizzying moment shared by millions across the world. The Berlin Wall, which, for close to thirty years, had divided a nation and seemed as permanent as the concrete out of which it was built, had fallen. What had once been a powerful symbol of Communist repression and the Cold War had suddenly become the site of a jubilant and seemingly never-ending street party. A country had been freed, a people reunited. Communism was dead. All without a single shot. When the border crossings were finally opened, a throng of ecstatic East and West Germans fell into one another's arms. Families, friends and neighbours were finally reunited. The party, which would last for weeks, unfolded before the eyes of the entire world, everyone caught up in the euphoria and optimism of a moment marking the end of the Cold War and the dawn of a freer age. The entire planet was witnessing history being written. Once the wall had fallen, a 1.3-km portion was preserved and artists from across the globe were invited to come and paint on it. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the City of Berlin decided to breathe new life into the murals, inviting the same artists to repaint their works. With over 100 murals, this piece of wall is known as the East Side Gallery and is today a monument to freedom. It's also the world's biggest outdoor gallery. Berlin, 20 Years After takes a fresh look at the fall of the Berlin Wall using unseen archival material and contemporary accounts. The story is told from the perspective of three family members spanning three generations, and through the recollections of a CBC correspondent who was covering Germany at the time. The film discovers people who experienced the event in unique ways: a border guard posted in East Berlin; a Quebec filmmaker in search of inspiration; the first artist who dared to paint the Wall; a well-known jazz singer who was spied on by the secret police; the last German to have been imprisoned for attempting to cross the Wall; a writer made famous by his descriptions of the lives of young people behind the Wall; and two Quebec architects who helped build the new Berlin. CBC correspondent Jerry Thompson had been covering the situation in Germany for some months. "Here is the iron curtain, you know the wall of shame between the east and west and nobody seriously believed that that was going to come down and yet as the night wore on people started lining up just to see what would happen." Twenty years later, Thompson is back in Berlin. "It is an amazing difference in 20 years. I remember seeing how wrecked all of eastern Europe was at the time and Germany, alone, has been able to completely transform all of that and people like Jamila and her generation has none of that baggage. They're forward into a new future with a completely a new kind of optimism, the new Germany the new Europe - it's probably going to be pretty good for them." Berlin, 20 years after is a one-hour documentary, produced by CBC/Radio-Canada. Format : AVI Length : 349 MiB for 44mn 29s 2ms Codec : XviD Source : HDTV Language : English CA Subtitles : None Genre : Documentary Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 951 Kbps Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.810) at 29.970 fps Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 132 Kbps Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Enjoy! Ekolb
Seeders: 1
Leeches: 1

Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection Series: Contemporary Political Theory Michael Taylor University of Washington pdf eBook version (not scanned). "A powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a dehumanizing ideology that cannot properly recognize that normal people have attachments and commitments to other people and to practices, projects, principles, and places, which provide them with desire-independent reasons for action, and that they are reflective creatures who think about what they are and what they should be, with ideals that can shape and structure the way they see their choices. The author’s views are brought to bear on the economic way of thinking about the natural environment and on how and when the norm of fair reciprocity motivates us to do our part in cooperative endeavors. Throughout, the argument is adorned by thought-provoking examples that keep what is at stake clearly before the reader’s mind." from the author of: Anarchy and Cooperation. London: John Wiley & Sons, 1976 Community, Anarchy and Liberty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982 The Possibility of Cooperation (A substantially revised and expanded edition of Anarchy and Cooperation.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987 Bio: Michael Taylor (born 1942), is a political theorist and political economist who currently teaches at the University of Washington. His research interests include rational choice theory, moral motivation and game theory. Although game theory was applied in social sciences before Taylor's work, he was the first to explicitly link rationality with collective action. He sets out a theory for a rationally motivated revolution and rational cooperation. His theory specifically states that cooperation can be achieved without the intervention of the state. Rational individuals will cooperate as it will maximise their long term utility. Taylor shows this through game theory and especially the Prisoner's Dilemma supergame. (Editor and co-author) Rationality and Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Seeders: 9
Leeches: 0

Race and Intelligence: Science's Last Taboo 2009 10 26 Ch 4

Category: Documentary
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Race and Intelligence: Science's Last Taboo 2009 10 26 Ch 4 513.01 MB /1:03:07/XviD In 2007, Nobel Prize-winning US scientist James Watson was quoted referring to research suggested that black people were less intelligent than other races. His comments caused a storm of controversy, and Watson was condemned. Meanwhile, right-wing websites hailed him as the new Galileo: a martyr to political correctness, which was concealing the fact that there is indeed evidence that shows different races score differently in IQ tests. But are the tests biased? Is race really a scientific category at all? In this documentary, Rageh Omaar sets out to find out the truth, meeting scientists who believe the research supports the view that races can be differentiated as well as those who vehemently oppose this view. By daring to ask the difficult questions, Omaar is able to explode the myths about race and IQ and reveal what he thinks are important lessons for society. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/race-and-int...category/features Source: http://www.thebox.bz/details.php?id=96771 Cap: evil-koala Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 20
Leeches: 2

TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin - October 20, 2009: Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival - Wired 24/7?

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin - October 20, 2009: Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival - Wired 24/7? Overwired? Technology and our daily life. Part II of The Agenda at The Quantum 2 Cosmos Festival. The Debate: Wired 24/7 Would you be able to survive one day without your television? Computer? your Blackberry? Our grandparents didn't need them. Some of our parents lived without them. And yet these technologies are now an integral part of our lives, for better or for worse. Where will the wired world lead us next? And will we be happy with what we find at that destination? Guests Neil Gershenfeld is the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, and has been named one of Scientific American's 50 leaders in science and technology. He is best known as a pioneer in personal fabrication--small-scale manufacturing enabled by digital technologies, which gives people the tools to build literally anything they can imagine. Raymond Laflamme is the Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, and an Associate Faculty memeber at Perimeter Institute. Amongst his most important theoretical results was inventing, with Emmanuel Knill and Gerard Milburn, a radically new approach to Quantum computing using linear optics. Jaron Lanier is the author of You Are Not A Gadget and was a pioneer in, and popularized the term, 'Virtual Reality'. His monthly column Jaron's World in Discover magazine is devoted to his own wide ranging ideas and research that include computational approaches to the fundamentals of physics. His current appointments include Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, CET, UC Berkeley. Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume epic The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) and the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. His most recent book is Anathem. Tara Hunt is the author of The Whuffie Factor and has spent the past fifteen years living her life online. From the first wave of online marketing as it emerged in the late 90's while in Canada all the way to being a pioneer of new marketing in Silicon Valley in 2005, leading the wave into Web 2.0: the participatory web. 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: 102MB Runtime: 00:52:49 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/LkR4fFfZxVY..._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....0-20%2020:00:00.0 ----- Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) FOR 10 EXCITING DAYS THIS OCTOBER, Perimeter Institute's Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) will take a global audience from the strange world of subatomic particles to the outer frontiers of the universe. All events will occur on-site in Waterloo, Ontario and online at q2cfestival.com and TVO.org. Q2C's extensive program features more than 50 events - including panel discussions, keynote presentations, special screenings, exhibits including the full-scale model of the next Mars Rover (named Curiosity), and recorded sessions with Honorary Festival President Professor Stephen Hawking. Q2C will transcend traditional festivals by streaming events live and on demand, offering virtual interaction with exhibits, and providing special opportunities for students and teachers. THE AGENDA WITH STEVE PAIKIN will be broadcasting live for 5 nights from Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. The themes that The Agenda is planning to explore in these programs include: Monday, October 19 » Plan B: Colonize Space? Stephen Hawking thinks it's a good idea, given the multiple problems facing earth. Can we imagine a human future off earth? Tuesday, October 20 » Does/Does Not Compute So you think technology controls your life now? From nanotechnology to quantum computing, what the future has in store. Wednesday, October 21 » Designer Genetics The legal, social, and medical implications of trying to engineer humans without defects. Thursday, October 22 » Robotics Artificial Intelligence, evolution, and the man/machine interface. Friday, October 23 » The Importance of Science Do we still believe that science is the path to progress and a better life? FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION on Q2C festival events, programs, speakers, and tickets, go to their website. Resources and links to related material TVO's Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival webpage: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicro...ientific_literacy Watch video on demand of lectures from all Q2C sessions: http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/literacy/index.c...=blog&blog_id=484 ----- 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/
Seeders: 1
Leeches: 0

The Living Matrix (2009)

Category: Documentary
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In our full-length film, The Living Matrix - The Science of Healing -- we bring you breakthroughs that will transform your understanding of how to get well and stay well. Now you can get an up-close look at the science of information as medicine. Leading researchers and health practitioners share their discoveries on the "miracle cures" traditional medicine can't explain. the film features today's most innovative researchers, authors and health practitioners. Among those expanding the boundaries of alternative medicine: Read more Change the way you think about your health: Watch the Trailer Now
Seeders: 1
Leeches: 0

Food Matters (2008)

Category: Documentary
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Let's take small steps towards a healthier life and a healthier you! Food can be your best friend! Discover how you can Detox, Lose Weight, Reverse Diabetes, Conquer Cancer, Beat Heart Disease, Ditch Depression and more using a nutritional approach. It’s not as hard as you think. Food Matters is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health. Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies. Patching up an over-toxic and over indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient sparse foods is definitely not helping the situation. Add on the high demands made upon our already over-burdened health care system and it s little wonder that doctors and health care practitioners have less and less time to teach people about how to eat and live well, precisely the information that could prevent people from being there in the first place. Food Matters hosts several world leaders in nutrition and natural healing who claim that not only are we harming our bodies with improper nutrition, but that the right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification can be used to treat chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer. The film sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide sickness industry and points out that not every problem requires costly, major medical attention and reveals many alternative therapies that can be more effective, more economical and less harmful than conventional medical treatments. Find out what works, what doesn't and what's killing you. Becoming informed about the choices you have for you and your family's health could save your life. "Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine, And Thy Medicine Be Thy Food." - Hippocrates Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4DOQ6Xhqss http://www.foodmatters.tv/
Seeders: 47
Leeches: 8

TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin - October 19, 2009: Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival - Are We Bound For Space?

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin - October 19, 2009: Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival - Are We Bound For Space? Space: the final frontier ... or our next home? Part I of The Agenda at The Quantum 2 Cosmos Festival. The Debate: Are We Bound For Space? April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to leave earth and travel into space. But in the near half-century since that day, only 500 others have taken that special voyage. Is that now about to change? Do problems here on earth mean we should start thinking about a new home in outer space? Guests: Chris Hadfield is a Canadian astronaut, engineer, and pilot. He has made two space flights--one in 1995 and one in 2001--and he is currently training for a future stay on the International Space Station. Chris McKay is a planetary scientist with the Space Science Division of NASA Ames. His research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. He is playing a significant role in the planning of the MSL mission for 2011 and is also the deputy program scientist for Constellation--the NASA program for future human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Bob Richards is the founder and CEO of Odyssey Moon Ltd., a commercial lunar enterprise based in the Isle of Man, and the first official registrant in the $30M Google Lunar X Prize competition. He is also the Director of Space Technology at Optech Incorporated of Canada, where he presided over the first commercial lidar scanner flown in space. Donna Shirley is a former manager of Mars Exploration at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the author of the book Managing Martians. She managed the team that built Sojourner, the Microrover, which was landed by the highly successful Mars Pathfinder project on the surface of Mars in 1997. Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist and author of several bestselling books including The Physics of Star Trek. His research interests include the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology. He writes regularly for various newspapers and magazines, and appears frequently on radio and television. Karl Schroeder is a science fiction author of several popular books, including, The Sunless Countries: Book Four of Virga. He also consults in the area of Strategic Foresight (technology foresight, chiefly in scenario design). 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: 103MB Runtime: 00:52:18 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/Gf8CVxIMxjA..._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....0-19%2020:00:00.0 ----- Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) FOR 10 EXCITING DAYS THIS OCTOBER, Perimeter Institute's Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) will take a global audience from the strange world of subatomic particles to the outer frontiers of the universe. All events will occur on-site in Waterloo, Ontario and online at q2cfestival.com and TVO.org. Q2C's extensive program features more than 50 events - including panel discussions, keynote presentations, special screenings, exhibits including the full-scale model of the next Mars Rover (named Curiosity), and recorded sessions with Honorary Festival President Professor Stephen Hawking. Q2C will transcend traditional festivals by streaming events live and on demand, offering virtual interaction with exhibits, and providing special opportunities for students and teachers. THE AGENDA WITH STEVE PAIKIN will be broadcasting live for 5 nights from Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. The themes that The Agenda is planning to explore in these programs include: Monday, October 19 » Plan B: Colonize Space? Stephen Hawking thinks it's a good idea, given the multiple problems facing earth. Can we imagine a human future off earth? Tuesday, October 20 » Does/Does Not Compute So you think technology controls your life now? From nanotechnology to quantum computing, what the future has in store. Wednesday, October 21 » Designer Genetics The legal, social, and medical implications of trying to engineer humans without defects. Thursday, October 22 » Robotics Artificial Intelligence, evolution, and the man/machine interface. Friday, October 23 » The Importance of Science Do we still believe that science is the path to progress and a better life? FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION on Q2C festival events, programs, speakers, and tickets, go to their website. Resources and links to related material TVO's Quantum to Cosmos (Q2C) Festival webpage: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicro...ientific_literacy Watch video on demand of lectures from all Q2C sessions: http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/literacy/index.c...=blog&blog_id=484 ----- 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/
Seeders: 2
Leeches: 2

BBC - The future of food Pt 3 of 3 - Cuba

Category: Documentary
Description:
History, Science Documentary hosted by George Alagiah and published by BBC in 2009 - English narration Information ------------------------------ Future of Food In the past year, we have seen food riots on three continents, food inflation has rocketed and experts predict that by 2050, if things don't change, we will see mass starvation across the world. This film sees George Alagiah travel the world in search of solutions to the growing global food crisis. From the two women working to make their Yorkshire market town self-sufficient to the academic who claims it could be better for the environment to ship in lamb from New Zealand, George Alagiah meets the people who believe they know how we should feed the world as demand doubles by the middle of the century. 1) India George joins a Masai chief among the skeletons of hundreds of cattle he has lost to climate change and the English farmer who tells him why food production in the UK is also hit. He spends a day eating with a family in Cuba to find out how a future oil shock could lead to dramatic adjustments to diets. He visits the breadbasket of India to meet the farmer who now struggles to irrigate his land as water tables drop, and finds out why obesity is spiralling out of control in Mexico. Back in Britain, George investigates what is wrong with people's diets, and discovers that the UK imports an average of 3000 litres of water per capita every day. He talks to top nutritionist Susan Jebb, DEFRA minister Hilary Benn and Nobel laureate Rajendra Pachauri to uncover what the future holds for our food. 2) Senegal George heads out to India to discover how a changing diet in the developing world is putting pressure on the world's limited food resources. He finds out how using crops to produce fuel is impacting on food supplies across the continents. George then meets a farmer in Kent, who is struggling to sell his fruit at a profit, and a British farmer in Kenya who is shipping out tonnes of vegetables for our supermarket shelves. He also examines why so many people are still dying of hunger after decades of food aid. Back in the UK, George challenges the decision-makers with the facts he has uncovered - from Oxfam head of research Duncan Green to Sainsbury's boss Justin King. He finds out why British beef may offer a model for future meat production and how our appetite for fish is stripping the world's seas bare. 3) Cuba In the final episode George Alagiah heads out to Havana to find out how they are growing half of their fruit and vegetables right in the heart of the city, investigates the 'land-grabs' trend - where rich countries lease or buy up the land used by poor farmers in Africa - and meets the Indian agriculturalists who have almost trebled their yields over the course of a decade. George finds out how we in this country are using cutting-edge science to extend the seasons recycle our food waste and even grow lettuce in fish tanks to guarantee the food on our plates. He hears the arguments about genetically modified food and examines even more futuristic schemes to get the food on to our plates. Screenshots ------------------------------ Technical Specs ------------------------------ * Video Codec: XviD * Video Bitrate: 1505 kbps * Video Resolution: 704x400 * Video Aspect Ratio: 1.76 * Frames Per Second: 25 * Audio Codec: (Dolby AC3) * Audio Bitrate: 256kb/s 48000 Hz * Audio Languages: English * RunTime Per Part: 59mins * Part Size: 746MB * Number of Parts: 3 * Subtitles: none * Ripped by: artistharry * Source: TVrip Links ------------------------------ 1) Further Information * www.tenalps.com 2) Related Documentaries * The Truth about Food * The Future of Food 3) ed2k Links ed2k://|file|BBC.Future.of.Food.1of3.India.XviD.AC3.MVGroup.org.avi|782280704|FCD3133CE599D59745B555FBBD693415|h=WXFQB44DZ5RJTHKRJP2ATSVQ7QCWTJAH|/ ed2k://|file|BBC.Future.of.Food.2of3.Senegal.XviD.AC3.MVGroup.org.avi|782370816|B6A810239EC9F35632D42D2C55FFCD36|h=6PXX5QVRC4E4RGQQXANXLEM3G34S54W5|/ ed2k://|file|BBC.Future.of.Food.3of3.Cuba.XviD.AC3.MVGroup.org.avi|783464448|8181AC820DBCE7BE19F5F9D645E30062|h=2YAP3CTCTXUB5O6GYS3KUO7KZ2BPJ3FL|/ Source: http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Future_of_Food
Seeders: 85
Leeches: 36

BBC - The future of food Pt 2 of 3 - Senegal