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Trouble in Amish Paradise 2009 04 07 BBC

Category: Documentary
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Trouble in Amish Paradise 2009 04 07 BBC 599 mb/60mins An extraordinary insight into the secretive world of the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Trouble In Amish Paradise tells the story of Ephraim and Jessie Stoltzfus who, along with their wives, have become disillusioned with the amount of control the church now exerts over their lives. They are extremely proud of their Amish heritage and have no wish to leave their community, but feel they can no longer unquestioningly follow every pronouncement from the bishops. Church And Culture Are Not The Same As more and more Amish read the Bible in English, rather than the original German, some have begun to ask who they should be following – the leaders, or the word of God. As Ephraim observes, “They combine church and culture and that’s wrong, you cannot do that. If that’s the way it’s supposed to be then Jesus would have made those rules specific and said ‘You gotta drive a horse with a green harness or you to go hell’. And he didn’t say that.” Jesse and Ephraim, along with several other families in the community, gather regularly for bible study classes, which is strictly forbidden by the bishops. These two radical Amish men, Ephraim and Jesse Stoltzfus, start to question some of the most fundamental aspects of their Amish culture, they face excommunication from their church and total rejection by their friends and family.
Seeders: 16
Leeches: 7

Lenny Bruce - Audio & Video Collection - Godcanjudgeme

Category: Misc
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Lenny Bruce - Audio & Video Collection - Godcanjudgeme ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Here it is then, everything I own from Lenny Bruce, the 'original' social critic and satirist. -------------- AUDIO : * 1958 - Sick Humor Of Lenny Bruce [192kbps] * 1959 - Togetherness [192kbps] * 1961 - Carnegie Hall Concert [128kbps] * 1961 - To Is A Preposition, Come Is A Verb [192kbps] * 1961 - Warning, Lenny Bruce Is Out Again [128kbps] * 1962 - Busted (Live) [192kbps] * 1965 - Essential Lenny Bruce, Politics [320kbps] * 1969 - The Berkeley Concert [128kbps] * 2003 - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind [192kbps] * 2004 - Let The Buyer Beware [192kbps] * Vintage Comedy [128kbps] VIDEO : * 1965 - The Lenny Bruce Performance Film XVid/MP3 Size - 700MB Run Time - 01:00:04 Resolution - 576x432 * 1971 - Thank You Mask Man XVid/MP3 Size - 100MB Run Time - 00:07:17 Resolution - 720x544 * 1972 - Lenny Bruce Without Tears DivX/MP3 Size - 1.45GB Run Time - 01:09:41 Resolution - 720x540 * 1974 - Lenny XVid/MP3 Size - 2.20GB Run Time - 01:46:34 Resolution - 720x384 * 1998 - Lenny Bruce - Swear to Tell the Truth XVid/MP3 Size - 700MB Run Time - 01:40:50 Resolution - 512x384 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Please Seed x1/ x2 ..Keep Torrents Alive.. ..Godcanjudgeme..
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Democracy Now! Thursday, August 13, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Headlines 60 Arrested as Honduran Police Occupy Teacher’s College Pakistan: 12 Militants Killed at Taliban Base 18 Die in Iraq Violence 2 Journalists Wounded in Afghanistan Another Ft. Hood Soldier Refuses Afghanistan Deployment Report: Cheney Felt Snubbed by Bush in 2nd Term Judge Rejects Reversal of Bush Mountaintop Removal Rule “Cap and Trade” Founder Doubts Use in Reversing Climate Change Foreclosures Rose 7% in July Gay Rights Group: No Prop 8 Reversal Until 2012 Alabama Town Pardons Civil Rights-Era Protesters More Headlines… "All Roads Lead to Rove": Fmr. New Mexico US Attorney David Iglesias on New Evidence Linking Bush Admin to Firings Documents released by Congress this week offer powerful new evidence that Karl Rove and other senior Bush administration figures took the lead in the firing of nine US attorneys in 2006. We speak to former New Mexico US attorney David Iglesias, who was fired after refusing Republican pressure to take on allegations of voter fraud and pursue cases against Democrats to help a Republican lawmaker’s re-election campaign. [includes rush transcript] GOP, Right-Wing Pundits' Misinformation Fuels Hysteria at Democrats' Public Forums on Healthcare Reform Opponents of President Obama’s healthcare plan continue to disrupt town hall meetings held by Democratic lawmakers. We speak with Stanley Zuber, a registered nurse who attended a town hall in Pennsylvania and was shouted down while trying to ask Senator Arlen Specter a question. We’re also joined by Chip Berlet about the right-wing populism that has fueled the town hall disruptions. [includes rush transcript] Alleged Obama-Era Rendition Victim Accuses US of Torture, Coercion A Lebanese contractor named Raymond Azar says he’s the first known victim of rendition under President Obama. Azar alleges that he was coerced into confessing to bribing a contract officer after being seized and tortured by armed federal agents in Afghanistan. We speak with attorney and legal expert Scott Horton about Azar’s case. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 67
Leeches: 9

Democracy Now! Monday, July 27, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Israel: All Options on Iran Are Still on the Table Cheney Wanted US Troops to Arrest Suspected Terrorists Inside US Teenager Held at Guantanamo May Face Civilian Trial Clinton Describes Zelaya’s Brief Returns to Honduras as “Reckless” Palin’s Farewell Message to the Media: “Quit Making Things Up” Obama Weighs In Again on Henry Louis Gates Controversy Court Demands Accounting for Indian Trusts US to Sign UN Convention on Rights of Disabled Bill Introduced to Restore Voting Rights to Former Prisoners House Bill Lifts Ban on Needle Exchanges Worldwide Rallies Condemn Iran’s Treatment of Opposition Protesters Veterans Commit Murder at Home After Return from Iraq 10 NYC Homeless Activists Arrested at Encampment Anti-Gay Singapore Prof Cancels NYU Stint Real Video MP3 Purchase DVD/CD More Formats… National Exclusive...Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, Wife of Ousted Honduran President, Calls on US to Aid Her Husband's Return Home: "We Want Justice, We Want Peace, We Demand the Return to Democracy" After a failed attempt to return to Honduras over the weekend, ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has complained that US condemnation of the coup against him is waning. Zelaya had tried to cross back into Honduras from Nicaragua on Friday but stayed for less than an hour. We speak with the wife of the ousted Honduran president, First Lady Xiomara Castro de Zelaya. She’s spent the past day trying to get to the border with Nicaragua, and she joins us now from the town of Jacaleapa. [includes rush transcript] Tensions Rise in Latin America over US Military Plan to Use Three Bases in Colombia The Colombian government has agreed to grant US forces the use of three Colombian military bases for South American anti-drug operations. The move has heightened tensions between Colombia, the largest recipient of US military aid in the Americas, and its neighbors, particularly Venezuela and Ecuador. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned that the US Army could “invade” his country from Colombia. [includes rush transcript] Parole Hearing to Be Held Tuesday for Imprisoned Native American Activist Leonard Peltier The sixty-four-year-old activist has been in prison for thirty-three years and is now being held at the Lewisburg prison in Pennsylvania. Peltier was convicted of killing two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. At his last hearing, the Parole Commission originally denied Peltier parole in 1993 based on their finding that he “participated in the premeditated and cold blooded execution of those two officers.” However, the Parole Commission has since said it “recognizes that the prosecution has conceded the lack of any direct evidence that [Peltier] personally participated in the executions of the two FBI agents.” Peltier has long maintained his innocence and is widely considered a political prisoner who was not granted a fair trial. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 60
Leeches: 47

Democracy Now! Thursday, April 16, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Report: Recent NSA Spying Exceeded Guidelines Obama Backtracks on Full Release of Torture Memos Spanish Prosecutors Recommend Dropping Torture Probe Against Bush Admin Lawyers Armitage: I Should Have Resigned over Torture Interpreter: FBI Interrogators Beat Kenya Bombing Suspect Obama Admin Appoints Mexico “Border Czar” US Army Sergeant Convicted of Iraqi Prisoner Killings Afghan Women Protest Rape Law Venezuela to Seek Posada Extradition Jurors Criticize Deportation Proceedings Against Egyptian Student Report: US Hate Groups Up 34% Since 2000 Potential Foreclosures Rise 24% Justice Dept. Whistleblower Defends Decision to Leak Bush Domestic Surveillance Program & Calls for Prosecution of Gov't Officials and Telecoms We speak with Thomas Tamm, the man who blew the whistle on the Bush administration’s secret domestic surveillance program. Tamm worked as an attorney at the Justice Department when he leaked the story to the New York Times in 2004. In 2007, the FBI raided his home and seized three computers and personal files. He still faces possible arrest for disclosing classified secrets. [includes rush transcript] Obama Administration Claims "Sovereign Immunity" in Attempt to Dismiss Lawsuit Against NSA over Domestic Surveillance We speak to attorney and blogger Glenn Greenwald about how the Department of Justice has demanded the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation based on “state secrets” and “sovereign immunity.” Greenwald says the “sovereign immunity” claim is “of breathtaking scope—never before advanced even by the Bush administration—that the PATRIOT Act bars any lawsuits of any kind for illegal government surveillance unless there is ‘willful disclosure’ of the illegally intercepted communications.” [includes rush transcript] "Without Struggle There Is Nothing" - Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks from Death Row about His Case, Prison Reform and "Jailhouse Lawyers" We speak with author, journalist and death row prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal. Speaking from his Pennsylvania jail cell, Abu-Jamal calls the recent Supreme Court decision to deny his appeal to overturn his conviction “Kafkaesque.” He goes on to say, “The fight goes on…without struggle there is no progress…without struggle there is nothing.” Abu-Jamal’s new book is Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA.
Seeders: 114
Leeches: 24

Democracy Now! Friday, March 27, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Admin Unveils Wall Street Regulatory Overhaul AIG Questioned on Billions in Bank Payouts Obama to Order Additional 4,000 Troops to Afghanistan 48 Killed in Suicide Attack on Pakistan Mosque 16 Die in Iraq Car Bombing Attack US Says Israel Carried Out Sudan Bombing Estimate of Chronically Hungry Passes 1B Obama Questioned on Marijuana Legalization in Online Town Hall North Dakota Braces for Flooding as Red River Rises Pennsylvania Youth Sentences Overturned Sen. Sanders Introduces Single-Payer Healthcare Act House Expands Wilderness Protection Sen. Webb Calls for Review of Criminal Justice System Canada Stays Deportation Order of US War Resister Geithner Outlines Plan to Overhaul Nation's Financial Regulatory System Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner outlined plans Thursday to rewrite the nation’s financial rules as part of what the Wall Street Journal described as the most comprehensive changes to financial market regulation since the New Deal. Geithner’s plan includes the creation of a single regulator to monitor any firm whose failure could threaten the financial system. We speak with economist James Galbraith. [includes rush transcript] Labor Victory in Guadeloupe After Six-Week Strike Reverberates Across French Caribbean and France The financial crisis has had reverberations beyond the United States and Europe, with people taking to the streets in cities across the globe to protest rising wealth inequality and to call for economic and labor rights. Perhaps the most significant action took place in the French Caribbean, on the island of Guadeloupe. Amid rising costs of living, labor leaders in Guadeloupe led a forty-four-day general strike that closed down roads, schools, gas stations and public transportation. The strikers claimed a victory earlier this month with a plan to improve wages and living standards. [includes rush transcript] Robert McChesney on "The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers" The New York Times and Washington Post have become the latest newspapers to announce plans to downsize their staffs. As papers across the country continue to fold or downsize, policy officials and experts are contemplating a series of proposals to help newspapers stay afloat. On Capitol Hill, Democratic Senator Benjamin Cardin of Maryland has introduced the Newspaper Revitalization Act. Meanwhile, in an article in The Nation magazine titled “The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers,” media activists Robert McChesney and John Nichols are proposing a multi-part journalism economic stimulus package. [includes rush transcript] Three Mile Island: 30th Anniversary of the Worst Nuclear Accident in US History Thirty years ago this Saturday, the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania malfunctioned, sparking a meltdown that resulted in the release of radioactivity. It was the worst nuclear accident in US history. The accident at Three Mile Island fueled the nuclear debate in this country that continues to rage to this day. We speak with anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman.
Seeders: 128
Leeches: 29

High School (1968) - Frederick Wiseman DVDrip x264 mp4

Category: Documentary
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from dvd to handbrake mp4 x264 75 minutes, black and white documentary classic from wikipedia High School is a 1968 direct cinema documentary film which follows the typical day of a group of students at their high school (Northeast High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.) It was one of the first direct cinema (or cinéma vérité) documentaries. This film was actually banned from being shown in Philadelphia for a number of years due to the way it depicted high schoolers as being oppressed, although the students, faculty, and administrators in the film all attested after the first screening of the film that they were shown in an accurate light. The movie was directed by Frederick Wiseman and was selected in 1991 for preservation in the National Film Registry. (Source: IMDB) This movie ranked number 13 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies.
Seeders: 3
Leeches: 3

Democracy Now! Thursday, July 24, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines House OKs Housing Aid After Bush Drops Opposition Military Town Foreclosures 4 Times the US Average Woman Commits Suicide Before Foreclosure Inflation Offsets New Minimum Wage Increase Dems Push Withdrawal of Workplace Toxin Rules Obama Avoids Gaza Strip on Mideast Trip Senate Drops Pressure on Chevron in Burma Bolivia Presses US on Interference Charges Oil Tanker Spills Near New Orleans Cancer Researcher Warns on Cell Phone Use Appeals Court Rejects Abu-Jamal Re-Trial Protesters Target Fox News for Coverage of African Americans Death by Taser: Police Accused of Cover-Up in Death of African American Man Shocked Nine Times While in Handcuffs Police in the city of Winnfield, Louisiana are being accused of covering up the death of twenty-one-year-old Baron Pikes. He died in police custody on January 21 after being shot nine times with a taser gun while in handcuffs. The city police chief initially claimed that Pikes was high on crack cocaine and PCP at the time of his death. But the coroner recently ruled Pikes’ death to be a homicide, after an autopsy determined there were no drugs in his system. The coroner also determined that the police shot Pikes twice after he lost consciousness. We speak with Chicago Tribune reporter Howard Witt, who broke the story nationally; Kayshon Collins, Baron Pikes’ stepmother; and Winnfield Police Lieutenant Charles Curry. [includes rush transcript–partial] Friend of Mexican Immigrant Beaten to Death in Pennsylvania Gives Eyewitness Account of Attack Luis Ramirez, a twenty-five-year-old Mexican immigrant, was beaten to death last week by a group of teenagers in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He was walking home last Monday night when six white high school students brutally beat him while yelling racial slurs. Despite eyewitness testimony, no charges have been filed. We speak with Arielle Garcia, a friend of Ramirez who witnessed the attack. The Forgotten War: Sonali Kolhatkar on Why Afghanistan is "Just as Bad as Iraq" Coming on the heels of Barack Obama’s highly publicized visit to Afghanistan—what he calls a central front in the so-called war on terror—we play an address by Pacifica radio host Sonali Kolhatkar, one of this country’s leading voices against the occupation of Afghanistan and co-author of the book Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence. She spoke last month at the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis about what she called widespread misconceptions about the occupation of Afghanistan.
Seeders: 4
Leeches: 61

John Pilger - Palestine Is Still The Issue - DvDRip - XviD

Category: Documentary
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Movies : Documentary : DVD Rip : English In 1977, the award-winning journalist and film-maker, John Pilger, made a documentary called Palestine Is Still The Issue (1977). He told how almost a million Palestinians had been forced off their land in 1948, and again in 1967. In this in-depth documentary, he has returned to the West Bank of the Jordan and Gaza, and to Israel, to ask why the Palestinians, whose right of return was affirmed by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo -- refugees in their own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation in modern times. "The fate and struggle of the Palestinians," says Pilger, "are not just critical to the overdue recognition of their basic human rights, but are also central to whether the region, and the wider world, are plunged into war. Israel is now one of the biggest military powers in the world. While nothing changes, the dangers become greater. This is a film about a nation of people, traumatized, humiliated and yet resilient. In trying to liberate less than a quarter of historic Palestine, they have had no army, no air force, and no powerful friends -- and have fought back with slingshots and now with the terrorism of the suicide bombers." In a series of extraordinary interviews with both Palestinians and Israelis, John Pilger weaves together the issue of Palestine. He speaks to the families of suicide bombers and their victims; he sees the humiliation of Palestinians imposed on them at myriad checkpoints and with a permit system not dissimilar to apartheid South Africa's infamous pass laws. He goes into the refugee camps and meets children who, he says, "no longer dream like other children, or if they do, it is about death." Continually asking for the solution, John Pilger says it is time to bring justice, as well as peace, to Palestine. Awards: The Chris Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival Best of Category, Vermont International Film Festival Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Television Awards Mountaintop Film Festival, Vermont Istanbul International Labor Film Festival Reviews: "[Pilger] allows the viewer to hear candid and powerful statements that it is vital for outsiders to hear. I would advise professors: If you don't have time to show the entire video in your class, at least show your students the first fifteen minutes. The frank comments by both Palestinians and Israelis...will provide the basis for a spirited debate among the students for the remainder of the class period." Ann Lesch, Villanova University, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin "Highly recommended for its bold analysis of the Palestine problem...crucial viewing for those interested in challenging their assumptions." Michael J. Coffta, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Educational Media Reviews Online "John Pilger has made a well-informed and engaging documentary against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. His argument is clear and consistent throughout: the root cause of violence in Israel/Palestine is Israeli colonialism. Israel has dehumanized the Palestinians and subjugated them to the longest occupation in modern times, and the Palestinians have been resisting the occupation and fighting for their freedom and independence. These facts are incontestable, and Pilger presents them very well, mixing interviews, authorial commentary, and historical narration to convey a picture of a whole society degraded and denied its fundamental national and human rights." Bashir Abu-Manneh, Journal of Palestine Studies
Seeders: 0
Leeches: 10

Democracy Now! Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Dozens of Civilians Feared Dead in US Attack on Sadr City UN to Form Task Force on Food Crisis Rev. Jackson Urges Haiti Food Aid Bush Rejects Biofuel Link to Food Crisis Latin American, European Leaders Meet on Poverty, Inequality Zimbabwe Opposition Accuses Mugabe Supporters of Crackdown Chevron Accused of Complicity in Burma Abuses Obama Condemns Former Pastor McCain Healthcare Proposal Mirrors Bush Admin Study: Nearly 1/3 of Americans Struggle to Pay for Medical Care, Insurance Home Foreclosures Rise in 1st Quarter of 2008 Obama Repudiates Ex-Pastor over Controversial Remarks On Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama said he was “outraged” and “saddened” by “divisive and destructive” comments by his former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Since the weekend, Reverend Wright has publicly defended himself after weeks of being lambasted by politicians and pundits for his sermons. We hear from both Obama’s and Wright’s speeches. [includes rush transcript] The Politics of the Rev. Wright Controversy: A Debate with Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Adolph Reed, Jr. As the Reverend Wright controversy continues to dominate media attention, we host a debate with two guests. Melissa Harris-Lacewell is associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton University. A Barack Obama supporter, she was a member of the Trinity United Church, and Reverend Wright was also her pastor. And Adolph Reed, Jr. is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He makes the case against voting for Senator Barack Obama in the latest issue of The Progressive magazine. [includes rush transcript] CorpWatch’s Pratap Chatterjee and Ex-Titan Translator Marwan Mawiri on Corporate Cronyism and Intelligence Outsourcing in Iraq CorpWatch Managing Editor Pratap Chatterjee has just returned from Iraq, where he was embedded with the US military and investigating the outsourcing of both military logistics and intelligence gathering. A new CorpWatch report offers a scathing assessment of intelligence contractors L-3 and Titan. We also speak to Marwan Mawiri, who worked in Iraq as a translator with Titan in 2003 and 2004. [includes rush transcript]
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Leeches: 0