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In "Under the Knife Abroad," "Vanguard" correspondent Adam Yamaguchi travels to India, Mexico and Barbados to investigate one industry flourishing in these tough economic times: medical tourism. Americans are increasingly being forced to seek medical care overseas, often life or death procedures, because they can't afford it here at home. Is healthcare America's next industry to be outsourced to foreign lands?
Watch the premiere of "Under the Knife Abroad," Monday, November 14 at 9/8c on Current TV.
"Vanguard" is Current TV's no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
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By: Michael Carmen
In this point of time since fate was distant at a very young age, and boredom was at the juncture of life, awfully associated to illed people. The endeavor for verification of an intelligence fund of ISAFP was demanding while they as well exploit every sufferers, victims that they could kidnap. The police were high on drugs when catching offenders from side to side and to the back or front. And when you cross down the streets of Taft Avenue, up to the streets of Blumentrit were also some extra crooks payable by meth following the PRESS or other hacked elements. The intrigues were phoned by some people who were called human transmitters. This method used by the police, military, government officials and other so called authorized personnel were tried in other countries to detect criminal elements. The transmitters were called “mediums” by the FBI. It was approximated that in the vicinity, people affiliated or in some companies commanded of orders to monitor the ones that were not contacted by the authorities. Communicating through a virus from a computer mind reader installed reportedly by the government definitely by the military. Skulking around the gutter of Dagupan Road pointing towards the towers of Binondo Manila while several ones abuses other’s liberation when extorting calls from the cell phone. Hacking their accounts according to the Associated Press. At a very certain point and realizing to rather drink wine or beer, an indication of progress signifies early now since infrastructure increases as well as those english speaking vendors who could had been an NBI agent.
In a daily basis from a view of a drug-free individual, serenity for all time. So called agents were mostly faggots pretending as some men but from some other syndicative elements before. Informations which were announced through the computer of the surveyors were transmitted around to Bulacan area, a province of modest behavior and everyday report from the media and other people were chit-chats and mostly allegations about evil stories.
After 3 days from a seminar in a life insurance corporation, some tip-off a plot of several trespass acts to kidnap foreigners in Manila. The streets were politely calming down purchasers of drugs while the sellers were notified about the paparazzi surveillance and that it would bring some pimps for the Caucasians, ignoring the thugs who transported fake speed for the white nerd victims. Remaining in the delay of the scene some say that the place was boring. Subsequent to that, impressive PR in the internet about politicians, celebrities, and other individuals were reported through electronic media, thieves around the places from Valenzuela City to Manila were some rebel soldiers from provinces prowl behind the crowd that greets you everyday. Amidst the majority of the population, the majority that you see in the street, the people that was educated long before the hacking occurred. As days passed, everybody in the list of the government was verified as reported so every case was checked. Nobody told Gutternation Publications about the truth (a DIY publication) and it was only identical to compare the killings and cases which involved police matters in the media. The kidnapping of Ces Drillon was a cue for an execution after Gutternation left the constrained area of the NBI and was blown by the news, bearing the combat in NCR. A morning in Wednesday and another journalist was slain, premeditatedly pursuing to go to a festival but of course the stings that blows inside my mind, enemies that wouldn’t capitulate ‘till they die.
Monster looking stalkers at Thursday still never gave up distantly, people were ordinary looking and beyond their characteristics were a cult from another country. “The former mentally retardate ladies & gentlemen was on the phone ready to answer questions from your highness”. A pity beyond human nature which was caused by a negligence for some secrets about insane people, and the mental institutions were hiring agents for a maneuver, a setup for the so called rich & famous in this hanuman’s land. Or to secure money from their victims.
Abounding metropolis apparent with the panorama of a conurbation celebrating economic triumph in stockmarkets, finance, investments and other several factors that created to rise these infrastructures in Binondo. Staring upward to the site were tall buildings that few of them were under-construction. Duping mugs gazing while examining targets and preys around their area adulating the most pregnant monster in the killing field. Loads of citizens around embracing the area where centers were complete, various of all kinds of products with the sway that chinese owners were common. Alongside a street was a clean asphalt road shadowy of the entire surrounding, walking pedestrians at both sides since it was the run of the mill and habitually sauntering the obscure boulevard while lots of deprived natives hovers around the concrete. Stings at every sides putting off for lot’s of moments like snatchers, the kings and queens of the underground drug scene. Garbage at the end of the first road around Escolta by which the bureau office of one of the pioneers in the insurance business is located, the former Pilipinas Life Insurance Corporation. The populace was thick and chinese looking but the majority were Filipinos shopping and hanging back just like a Christmas day in December – full of shopping spree for very very cheap prices. As the night was passing and stores were closing off, adversaries awaits beside roads while one scoffing his face while eating stool on the pavement, insane hobos from provinces. Some say it’s not Ananda Marga but the NPA who were absurdly insane but ugly though not verified. Fools at your side, some members of the cult counting your blessings and karma while selling drugs in the streets and greet you ananda marga or hare Krishna. They’re the ones deciding who will stalk who or who will kill who, as primitive as a barbarian, an enemy who stares at in the eye after an introduction was but a coward pretender who desires the money from your pocket. A cheap homo description of a person. A cult without god but money and some so called gods including Satan. Some of them will die in hell!
After 5 days, coming home from a gig was somewhat prudencial pictogram for it was a blooper while figuring out a strange confrontation of cowards from inner barrios in the areas. Cars on the road, women customary snubish, vendors speaking French, or the military when without proper education affects your existence that you wouldn’t have the right anymore because it was a province out of fields. The cows, the goats and even marijuana leaves hopefully at that stance. The pipes under the sink needed repair as well as the holes on the roof, a little havoc at noon. Another store houses at the sides bursting of supply goods for retail and wholesale while back from the first spot road was convenient stores dealing for vast bargaining. Cops at the corners of the area supposedly inquiring for the surname of Matus klan but disgraceful to that deportment.By: Michael Carmen
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1950-ongoing : WORLDWIDE.
George Orwell's grim novel of totalitarianism, 1984, and his satirical political novel, Animal Farm, describe all too well the mechanisms of oppression and distortion of the truth by the state and the realities of political power. Orwell was opposed to totalitarianism in all its forms, whether Stalinist, fascist or pseudo-democratic. Ironically, Orwell had unknowingly fallen into the clutches of the very propagandists and distorters of truth he vilified and satirized. His British publisher, Fredric Warburg, was secretly working for the CIA. Warburg would later become notorious for publishing and distributing a CIA propaganda magazine, Encounter, for one of the CIA's countless front organizations, the ironically named Congress for Cultural Freedom.
Following Orwell's death in 1950, Warburg persuades his widow to unwittingly sell the movie rights to 1984 and Animal Farm to the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), a creation of Rockefeller cousin, Hitler Project kingpin and Nazi shyster cum CIA head, Allen Dulles. According to its secret charter, OPC's activities on behalf of the "free" world include propaganda, economic warfare, sabotage, demolition and subversion. Two of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Workshop staff obtain the screen rights to Orwell's novels. The head of the operation is none other than CIA operative Howard Hunt, who will later become infamous as a member of the Watergate gang of criminals. Hunt selects Louis De Rochemont to be the producer of the animated Animal Farm at Paramount. De Rochemont has considerable experience with propaganda, having created The March of Time series for Henry Luce and, during the Second World War, working with the U.S. Navy's propaganda film unit. To meet the CIA's objectives, the ending of Animal Farm is changed and the point of the story, that cruel capitalist farmers are no better masters than tyrannical Stalinist pigs, is destroyed.
The CIA's sanitized version of Animal Farm is distributed around the world by a CIA front, the U.S. "Information" Agency (USIA). The CIA then produces 1984 in Britain in 1954. Inevitably, Orwell's message is distorted and perverted by the CIA to suit the goals of the U.S. ruling class.
The CIA's Orwellian sabotage of two of the most powerful political works in literature is a masterstroke of pre-emptive mind control. As the psychological warfare experts at the CIA are only too aware, a successful movie, like television, can be seen by tens or hundreds of millions of people and, consisting of graphic images, is much more powerful and widely assimilated than the written word. By sabotaging the movie versions of 1984 and Animal Farm, the CIA effectively stopped the vast majority of Americans ever learning of the relevance of Orwell's writing to their own situation.
The role of the CIA in sabotaging Orwell's masterpieces is hidden for half a century. To the present day, many American school teachers use the CIA's movie version of 1984 to "teach" the novel, spoonfeeding young Americans "prolefeed" created by the CIA rather than the true, chilling and all too relevant message of Orwell's book.1950-ongoing : WORLDWIDE.
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Nonprofit investigative journalism outfits are breaking new ground. Can they sustain themselves?
May 14, 2010 |
At a story meeting for California Watch, the nonprofit investigative news startup, employees sit around a conference table as Robert Salladay, the organization’s senior editor, begins to describe the findings of a six-month investigation by one of his state capital reporters. “It gives me chills,” Salladay tells the group. “Each paragraph could be its own story.” Robert Rosenthal, the founder of California Watch, peers over his glasses at an open laptop, then nods in agreement. “The reporting is so amazing,” he says.
This is a sweet moment in any investigation, a charmed time that used to feel familiar in newsrooms, back when editors could afford to detach reporters for a few months of digging. Corey G. Johnson had used his shovel well. The California Watch reporter amassed twenty boxes of documents—so many that one government agency he’s probing set up a private office for him to go through the material. Now Johnson was laying it all out for his editors, certain he had uncovered something important.
The editors agreed; this was big. But then the conversation veered in a direction unfamiliar to traditional newsrooms. Instead of planning how to get the story published before word of it leaked, the excited editors started throwing out ideas for how they could share Johnson’s reporting with a large array of competitive news outlets across the state and around the country. No one would get a scoop; rather, every outlet would run the story at around the same time, customized to resonate with its audience, be they newspaper subscribers, Web readers, television viewers, or radio listeners. California Watch’s donors—at this point, a handful of high-powered foundations—expect it to publish high-impact investigative journalism about California as widely as possible.
“If we do six hundred schools [in a mapped database] . . . could we get KQED to come work with us?” Rosenthal asked.
“Maybe The Sacramento Bee or The Orange County Register could help with graphics,” suggested Louis Freedberg, California Watch director.
“Could we ask Long Beach to do the history . . . pull some stories and photos from their files?” asked Rosenthal, adding that perhaps they should enlist a few college students to help with on-site interviews. pbs was interested in the story, as were each of the television networks, Rosenthal said, ticking off a list of colleagues he’d already contacted to share the story’s gist.
“Okay. There are a lot of balls in the air here,” warned Mark Katches, California Watch’s editorial director. “How are we going to keep track of all this?”
California Watch is one piece of what Charles Lewis, the well-known founder of the Center for Public Integrity, calls “an emerging ecosystem of investigative reporting.” Nonprofit investigative news centers aren’t new; Lewis founded the Center for Public Integrity back in 1989. The Center for Investigative Reporting was launched even earlier, in 1977; it is the parent of California Watch and shares its offices in Berkeley. Rosenthal is CIR’s executive director and has overall responsibility for both it and California Watch.
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There is simply no better journalist in the world over the last 30 years than Allan Nairn.
Journalist Allan Nairn Facing Possible Arrest in Indonesia for Exposing US-Backed Forces Assassinated Civilians
In Indonesia, investigative journalist Allan Nairn is facing possible arrest for exposing that US-backed Indonesian armed forces assassinated a series of civilian activists last year. Since Allan Nairn broke the news of the assassination program on Democracy Now! on Friday, the Indonesian press has been buzzing with the allegations. A military spokesman told the Jakarta Globe that the military is considering legal action against Nairn. Earlier today, Nairn issued a public challenge to the Indonesian military to arrest him so that he could face off with the military in open court.There is simply no better journalist in the world over the last 30 years than Allan... more
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For everyone who missed the new Vanguard last night, "Cuba: Waiting for a Revolution" worry you not - the whole thing is online!
Cuba: Waiting for a Revolution (Video)
Next week, Vanguard continues with another amazing episode: "Forest of Ecstasy", where Adam Yamaguchi travels deep into Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains looking for loggers illegally chopping down trees that can used to make the illicit club drug. Here's a promo:
Forest of Ecstasy: Promo (Video)
As you anxiously await the next episode, there's still plenty to do! You can watch the extra web material from the Cuba show, keep tabs on the Vanguard team on the Vanguard blog, and get your questions in for Adrian Baschuk to answer in the Q&A.
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3D Porn is back and it's bigger than ever. Do you like seeing boobs and butts in 3D? Then check out this report from infoMania's Ben Hoffman.
The infoMania Tech Report is a weekly segment where technology guru Ben Hoffman takes a look at the newest tech products, gadgets and video games. It has been called "the funniest tech show on the web." (No source for that quote is available at this time. In fact, there's a good chance it was made up.)
For more Ben visit http://current.com/techreport/ and Current TV. infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.3D Porn is back and it's bigger than ever. Do you like seeing boobs and butts in... more
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There's a special time in every woman's life when she snaps and murders someone. The Oxygen Network helps you prepare for it on their real-life crime show, 'Snapped.'
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Target Women is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania. In each episode of Target Women, Sarah Haskins takes a look at the often-ridiculous way the media reaches out to women.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.There's a special time in every woman's life when she snaps and murders... more
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Conor Knighton takes a peek into one of the most popular segments in a news broadcast: The Decoy. If you're a cheater, a racist, or just an asocial creep, watch this and learn how to spot the decoy who's trying to bust you.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Conor Knighton takes a peek into one of the most popular segments in a news broadcast:... more
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By the numbers, Philadelphia is a violent city. This pod explores reasons for the violence and potential solutions, by speaking with some of those who have been affected by tragedy.By the numbers, Philadelphia is a violent city. This pod explores reasons for the... more
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