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20 Million Years Old Antarctic secret: Scientists Find Ancient Vostok lake under 4 kilometers of ice + documentary

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How Russia's support for Syria is "defending the whole world from fascism"

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A Master Ocean Storyteller passes: Mike deGruy

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How I Commited Genocide in Sirte (and become an asshole) - Kevin Dawes talk about fighting alongside the rebels

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Current UK's Chief Executive Jane Mote on BSkyB closing us down: "New doc voices need an outlet"

On the 11th of January 2012, Current UK announced that BSkyB had withdrawn support for the channel and that we are now very likely to stop broadcasting by mid March 2012.
In her article in Broadcast magazine our Cheif Executive Jane Mote asks: "what channel will give producers the freedom to be bold now?"

New doc voices need an outlet
The barrier to entry has come down firmly against fresh documentary voices in the British TV industry with Sky’s decision to pull funding from Current TV at the 11th hour, with no notice or negotiation.
The UK’s only dedicated documentary channel – which is rooted among nearly 300 new storytellers nurtured over many years – is almost certain to close.
There’s no point in whingeing. Of course Sky has the power to do this and, frankly, independent channels like ours remain small, leaving us helpless to take it on. So much for plurality.
But what happens next to the new voices that struggle to get a platform on the hundreds of remaining channels in the UK? Morgan Spurlock will be okay; he’s a big enough name to get a job with McDonald’s – sorry, I mean Sky Atlantic – and I’m certainly not going to judge. He needs to earn his crust after all.
But those Brits starting out will have to try to get in on the reduced strands on the PSBs, where competition is so fierce and format freedom so rare that is hard to get your story heard – especially for the outspoken and opinionated, who may not be commercially valuable and are too problematic for those worried about igniting political interference.
Our supporters, viewers and producers alike are worried that there is nowhere left for (using their words) “brave, challenging, thought-provoking, unbiased and risk-taking TV”. No doubt Sky will create or buy an ‘off-the-rack’ channel that purports to do something similar. But Current’s roots run deep in the British documentary ecology and supporters believe it cannot be replicated at a stroke.
Andy Glynne, chief executive of the Documentary Filmmakers Group, the biggest UK collective of documentary film-makers, says he’s turned from being a loyal supplier to Current to being an advocate – for two reasons. First, unlike many broadcasters, we don’t pay lip service to new talent.
“Current supports rather than intimidates, trusts rather prescribes, and allows genuinely new film-makers from all walks of life to get started,” he told me. Second, he believes Current takes risks with form and content, allowing a freedom to both explore and defy convention with docs.
“It’s this risk-taking, and the inclusion of authorial voices, that seems to be ebbing slowly out of the genre, especially in today’s leanings towards the format,” he says.
His views are echoed in so many different voices and styles on our message boards. There is a real sense of grief here. Viewers and producers have lost a home, a place where they were guaranteed a gem of a story or a sympathetic ear to listen to them and nurture their stories.
Their grief offers hope. We are down but not out because we’ve sown seeds of belief that TV can be truly open to new voices, ideas and opinions.
We have 20,000 Twitter followers and some very loyal supporters and viewers – revolutions have been won with less. The important thing is, as Bob Helvey says in Ruaridh Arrow’s film How to Start a Revolution: “As long as we don’t surrender, we never lose.”
It’s not over until the fat lady sings and I am willing to put on a few pounds if it means regaining the ground pulled from under democratic TV’s feet.
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Ethos (Director's Cut) - Hosted by Woody Harrelson

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The Fluoride Conspiracy - the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century

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Look Homeward, Angel: Park Pretty

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A brief History of American intervention in Iran

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Eve Arnold, Legendary Photographer of Illuminating Images, Dies at 99

Eve Arnold, who came to be regarded as a grande dame of postwar photojournalism for her bold, revealing images of subjects as diverse as Marilyn Monroe and migratory potato pickers, died on Wednesday in London at the age of 99. Born in Philadelphia on April 21, 1912, Ms. Arnold had lived in Great Britain since 1961.

Her death was announced by Magnum Photos, the photography cooperative to which she had belonged for more than a half-century. She was among the first women Magnum hired to make pictures. Ms. Arnold was a leading light in what is considered to be the golden age of news photography, when magazines like “Life” and “Look” commanded attention with big, arresting pictures provided by photographers who included Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White.

Acclaimed for capturing celebrities in intimate moments after winning their trust, Ms. Arnold developed a particular rapport with Marilyn Monroe, the subject of a book of Arnold photographs. Foreshadowing the celebrity portfolios of photographers like Annie Leibovitz, Ms. Arnold captured Joan Crawford squirming into a girdle, Malcolm X collecting fistfuls of dollars at a rally in Washington and James Cagney and his wife doing an impromptu dance in a barn.

But other pictures, just as memorable, were of the unfamous. Among the more than 750,000 Ms. Arnold made were pictures in a South African shantytown, a Havana brothel and a Moscow psychiatric hospital. She documented a small Long Island town, Miller Place, and the first minutes of a baby’s life. She was an official photographer on 40 movie sets.

Her many honors include the Order of the British Empire and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. She was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and named a “Master Photographer” by the International Center of Photography in New York, considered by many to be the world’s most prestigious photographic honor.

This piece includes a number of high-resolution black-and-white photographs, as well as two documentary short films.

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Calendar Dieux Du Stade 2012: Nude Athletes for a Cause

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America: From the Road of Freedom to the Streets of Fascism released on YouTube

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Note: Due to copyright Content ID claims from eOne for using a 39 second excerpt from Alex Jone’s Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, this video is only viewable in America. If you are from another country try to use a United States proxy server after clearing your flash cookies (LSOs), a VPN Service that changes your IP Address to make it look like an American IP Address, or contact us and we will provide you with another site that streams our documentary for free and without regional restrictions. We have disputed eOnes copyright claims but eOne continues to ignore our pleas so we expect eOne to never even read our dispute on their copyright claims.

We are asking any of you outraged people to try to bombard eOne and their legal offices with phone calls, faxes and emails (with links to my blocked YouTube link of my documentary) until they review my dispute against their automatic Content ID claims and let my documentary go.

USWGO’s documentary mentioned since November in the trailers released on We Are Change, the documentary America: From the Road of Freedom to the Streets of Fascism is being released in full length on YouTube (Noted the YouTube embed above) for free. USWGO is still working on perfecting any errors before releasing to professional laser engraved labeled DVDs to release to Public libraries, friends/allies, family, and even Bittorrent with template files so that anyone can engrave the USWGO official labels. The DVD labels USWGO will be using is ones under Lightscribe.

This documentary will expose how America has deliberately been turn from a free humanity, a country that was of Liberty, a country founded under a Constitution that included a Bill of Rights, a country that supported Habeas Corpus, into a full blown Police State run by a tiny elite. It will expose the Bilderberg’s Copyright Wars being waged against the Open Internet, the growing police state, border patrols harassing and abusing citizens using interior checkpoints while on purposely giving welfare to illegal immigrants as a pretext to set up these aggressive checkpoints against Americans, how the Federal Reserve has taken over Americas currency, and also brings some already public-record information about how America got to this point of a New World Order. The USWGO Founder (myself) has visited New York City, 9/11 memorial New Jersey, Statue of Liberty Ferry, Washington D.C., and many other places for this documentary including Red Hill Plantation in Virginia. Patrick Henry Jolly, Jim Tucker, Popeye, Carl DeHart, and random U.S. citizens and foreigners all give their answers to the founder of USWGO’s questions in this documentary.

USWGO will hold no copyright restrictions on material by Brian D. Hill, USWGO, and those authorizing transferring their content in the documentary over to Public Domain to prevent copyrights from being registered by the U.S. Copyright office. Other content used is still under copyright and trademark restrictions and released under Fair Use (Fair Dealing) under the Copyright Act and other international treaties.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avZl0FODB9U Note: Due to copyright Content ID claims... more

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North Korea: Reality Check! - the reality of a country that has fought for its independence and won; surviving, like a little Sparta

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Remembering Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011

The death of Christopher Hitchens on Thursday night, of complications from esophageal cancer at the age of 62, ended one of the greater intellectual careers of the last 40 years. Born in Portsmouth, England, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Hitchens started his career as a Trotskyite at “The New Statesman,” working along with noted authors, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan, who would become his lifelong friends. In the early 1980s, he moved to the United States, becoming a citizen in 2007, and began working for liberal magazine “The Nation,” writing some of his earliest attacks on the conservative government and American foreign policy.

A prolific author, Hitchens left behind a massive body of critical writing, with more than a dozen books and hundreds of essays targeting everyone from the British Monarchy to Bill Clinton to George Orwell to God, usually with wit and more often than not, vicious and cutting remarks. Even those who hated his politics could not help but admire his skill as a writer and ability to craft a sharp turn of phrase, and many called him a friend.

Perhaps his most famous book was “The Missionary Position,” a scathing attack on Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity church, an organization that he called a cult. Hitchens described Mother Teresa as a “fraud” and accused her of glorifying poverty to enrich herself and the Catholic church, rather than truly helping the poor. The book infuriated Roman Catholics around the world, as well as politicians and celebrities who he claimed had used the charity and her reputation to mask their own evil deeds.

A later work, “The Trial of Henry Kissinger,” accused the former Secretary of State of “war crimes,” and argued that Kissinger should be prosecuted for “crimes against humanity, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture” for his involvement in atrocities in Southeast Asia and Central America. As a critic of the Bush administration’s use of torture, Hitchens filmed himself being waterboarded to demonstrate the cruelty of the practice. Hitchens claimed that, “The official lie about this treatment … is that it 'simulates' the feeling of drowning. This is not the case. You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning.”

Hitchens had an enviable career arc that began with his own brand of fiery journalism at Britain’s “New Statesman” and then made its way to America, where he wrote for everyone from “The Atlantic” and “Harper’s” to “Slate and “The New York Times Book Review.” He was a legend on the speakers’ circuit, could debate just about anyone on anything and won innumerable awards.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, a troublemaker and was a gift, if it dare be said, from God.

This piece includes color photographs, a photo-gallery and two documentary short films.

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Manufacturing Consent: A Propaganda Model

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Elderly Animals: Photographs by Isa Leshko

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Brian Williams Interviews Marcel the Shell on National TV!!

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For the Love of Libya

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