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Truth is often more harrowing than fiction, but it is a desperately elusive entity; even in a case such as the one explored in this disturbing but mesmerizing documentary, for which first-time filmmaker Andrew Jarecki enjoyed remarkable access to his subjects. Even Jarecki, who persuaded the family of accused child molesters Arnold and Jesse Friedman to cooperate with him, cannot decide whether the two are guilty, and his film raises as many questions as answers.
Capturing the Friedmans deals with the middle-class Long Island family torn apart in 1987 by child-molestation charges filed after a police raid uncovered kiddie porn apparently belonging to dad Arnold, a respected high school science teacher. He and his 18-year-old son, Jesse, were subsequently accused of molesting dozens of young boys, and their travails are painstakingly documented in this videotaped compilation, which even includes family footage recorded by another Friedman son, David.Truth is often more harrowing than fiction, but it is a desperately elusive entity;... more
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Originally created in support of charity, the popularity of the Dieux Du Stade Calendars has been credited for the increased fame of the Stade Français rugby team, as well as for rugby in general, in France. During the calendar’s 10 years, the basic concept hasn’t changed: the calendar features nude and semi-nude photographs of members of Stade Français, the Paris-based domestic French rugby team, and in more recent years, it includes players from other rugby union clubs. Photographed by Francois Rousseau, in his 3rd collaboration with Dieux Du Stade, the theme for 2012 tells the story of “survivors of a lost world, trying to get on board a ship.”
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a photo-gallery and a two-minute documentary short film.
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For The Love Of Libya is a documentary on the founding of new Libya, seen not through the eyes of government ministers or news cameras, but through the eyes of young British Libyans who have returned to their homeland to help build a country they’ll be proud to call home. The film will explore this new dawn and although it will touch on the uprising and revolution dominating the world’s headlines at the moment, it will also explore the notion of Day Zero, a crucial element to the lives of the films’ key characters. They’re there to shape a new country and see their lives change as they adapt to being Libyan (and not British) in some cases for the first time.For The Love Of Libya is a documentary on the founding of new Libya, seen not through... more
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This December sees the return of the On Series with Richard Corrigan On Hunger. With the global economy continuing to stall and rising food and fuel prices biting into pockets, chef and broadcaster Richard Corrigan meets the ordinary people who are finding it increasingly difficult to feed themselves and their families.
The past few years has seen a huge spike in the rise of food banks, just one example of a growing section of society struggling to get to grips with the bare essentials. At the same time, the UK wastes a staggering £12 billion of food every year.
Could more be done to promote a sustainable food policy in the UK? Should British citizens be relying on charitable handouts? Does the government even have a coherent policy on food poverty? Richard Corrigan will find out.This December sees the return of the On Series with Richard Corrigan On Hunger. With... more
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This message is to the Libyan people, but particularly to the leaders of militias, “gangs”, the Green Resistance, and whatever other leader, amongst the COMMON people, that I have left out. I am no one special. I am a citizen of the United States, whose government, unfortunately, is filled to the brim with DEMONS–a problem that good people here hope will one day be solved. On behalf of the good citizens of the United States, I APOLOGIZE for the conduct of our government in helping to destroy Libya. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43061-open-letter-to-the-libyan-people-of-an-american-citizen
----- A video showing the rebel attack against civilians in Misrata Taouerga (11 February 2012) --- video comment ---- thanks nato this is what Libya is now! A video showing the rebel attack against civilians in Misrata Taouerga (February 11, 2012) Rebels attack against civilians in Misrata Taouerga in a camp rises to 12 dead and 30 injured children and women. The TV version of the Al Jazeera is that the rebels of Misrata where looking for pro Gaddafi people in the camp Taouerga.This message is to the Libyan people, but particularly to the leaders of militias,... more
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It took researches 30 years of drilling through a four-kilometer-thick ice to reach the renowned subglacial lake. Most importantly, million years-old secrets will be unveiled without causing harm to the lake's ecosystem. "2/5/2012 our scientists at the Vostok polar station in the Antarctic completed drilling at depths of 3,768 meters and reached surface of the subglacial lake," RIA Novosti quoted unnamed Russian scientist. Lake Vostok is a unique aquatic ecosystem hidden under some four kilometers of ice. Its water has been isolated from the atmosphere -- and therefore from the outer biosphere -- for millions of years. Scientists believe that surveys of the lake can provide invaluable details on past and future climate changes. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/43060-20-million-years-old-antarctic-secret-scientists-find-ancient-vostok-lake-under-4-kilometers-of-iceIt took researches 30 years of drilling through a four-kilometer-thick ice to reach... more
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Despite the Arab League observers’ report verifying the threat that the Free Syrian Army (or the “Free Army” (FA) as critics prefer to call it in reference to the fact that many of the organisation’s members are of non-Syrian origin) the European Union responded to the clearly defensive military operation by threatening further sanctions against the Syrian people. Predictably, the NATO and GCC media, in perfect unison with the warmongering stance of their states, published unsubstantiated claims from unverifiable sources that the Syrian government was committing a massacre against Homs’ civilian population. Arab League observers in Syria Ahmed Manaï in Tunisian publication Nawaat where he stressed that the same media who accused the government of a massacre of 200 in Homs on February 4th (the day of the vote on the United Nations Security Council Resolution that if passed would have paved the way for military intervention in Syria) “were making fun of our intelligence”. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43059-how-russias-support-for-syria-is-qdefending-the-whole-world-from-fascismq-
video ----- Now we will see a service in which NATO propaganda (Al Jazeera) accuses the Syrian Army, of killing the Syrian child Sari Saoud. In the service, Al Jazeera shows the mother crying, while she embraces her child. Then you'll see the interview released by the very same woman, who reveals that the baby was not killed by the Army, but by the very same entities that the Army is fighting.Despite the Arab League observers’ report verifying the threat that the Free... more
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Based on Newton's autobiography book "Gold Thunder", GROOVEMONSTER is a historical portrait and documentary of legendary bassist/pianist/composer/author and Funk-Rock-Fusion innovator TONY NEWTON.
The film covers Newton's start at 16 with Blues legend, John Lee Hooker, his discovery and time at Detroit's Motown records and the Funk Brothers, his classic fusion compositions and performances with Miles Davis drummer, Tony Williams and the Lifetime. From the 60's to the present, the many hits performed on from R&B to Rock, up to his latest 2012 project, "Thunderfunkfusion."Based on Newton's autobiography book "Gold Thunder", GROOVEMONSTER is a... more
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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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Subscribers to Broadcast magazine can read the article here.
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Ethos, a powerful new documentary hosted by Woody Harrelson, is an investigation into the flaws in our systems, and the mechanisms that work against democracy, our environment and the the common good.
With a stunning depth of research and breadth of analysis, this film delves deep into the inter-connected worlds of Politics, Multi-National Corporations and the Media.
Most of us have wondered at some point how we have arrived at a situation where democracy is touted as having created an equal society when all we see is injustice and corruption.
Politicians openly deceive the public with the support of major corporations and the mainstream media. Wars are waged, the environment is destroyed and inequality is on the rise.
But what is the source of these institutional mechanisms which – when we scratch the surface – are so clearly anti-democratic, so contradictory to the values we hold in common and yet so firmly embedded that they seem beyond discussion?
Ethos opens a Pandora’s box that has it’s roots in the cross-roads where capitalism-meets-democracy, implicates every power-elite puts profit before people and finally offers a solution whereby you – the viewer – can regain control using the one thing they do care about – your cash.
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The history of forcing fluoride on humans through the fluoridation of drinking water is wrought with lies, greed and deception. Governments that add fluoride to drinking water supplies insist that it is safe, beneficial and necessary, however, scientific evidence shows that fluoride is not safe to ingest and areas that fluoridate their drinking water supplies have higher rates of cavities, cancer, dental fluorosis, osteoporosis and other health problems. Because of the push from the aluminum industry, pharmaceutical companies and weapons manufacturers, fluoride continues to be added to water supplies all over North America and due to recent legal actions against water companies that fluoridate drinking water supplies, precedent has been set that will make it impossible for suits to be filed against water suppliers that fluoridate. There is a growing resistance against adding toxic fluoride to our water supplies, but unfortunately, because fluoride has become "the lifeblood of the modern industrial economy"(Bryson 2004), there is too much money at stake for those who endorse water fluoridation . The lies of the benefits of water fluoridation will continue to be fed to the public, not to encourage health benefits to a large number of people, but to profit the military-industrial complex. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/bizzareweird/43055-the-fluoride-conspiracy-the-greatest-case-of-scientific-fraud-of-this-centuryThe history of forcing fluoride on humans through the fluoridation of drinking water... more
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Many years ago, during my time as a child and through young adulthood, I was immersed in the (sometimes solitary) lavish joys of nature in rural South Carolina. The memories of the steaming, dusty red clay roads and the smells of downstate piney-woods are now fading away, replaced by years of gritty urban life in Chicago’s inner-city. However, that doesn’t mean that now I’ve become completely blind to the beauty of rural landscapes. I just have to enjoy it from the comfort of a chair, in more climate-controlled conditions. So this video is pretty perfect for me.
“Yosemite HD” is an amazing four-minute time-lapse short art film, a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. They made numerous trips to Yosemite National Park, where they captured the beautiful landscape it offers for visitors every year. Set to “Outro,” from M83′s lovely and stratospheric “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming,” this might be the best music video you could ask for. So stop whatever you’re doing right now, put this video in full-screen mode and breath very deeply during the film’s duration!
This piece includes colorful high-resolution photographs, as well as the exhilarating short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/look-homeward-angel-park-pretty/Many years ago, during my time as a child and through young adulthood, I was immersed... more
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U.S. Involvement in the middle east did not begin on 9/11. Watch this documentary and learn the facts. http://youtu.be/4eBv4UKXkA4U.S. Involvement in the middle east did not begin on 9/11. Watch this documentary and... more
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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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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.
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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
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Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) have constantly been the subject of colonial wars and aggression. Korea fought a stubborn anti-colonial struggle against the Japanese since the latter occupied their country brutally from 1910 until 1945. The Koreans in fact emerged from the Second World War as a victorious member of the allied forces. But US imperialism, hungry to expand its colonial domination, took up seamlessly from the Japanese in occupying the south of the Korean peninsula, setting up its puppet Syngman Rhee as the head of a fascistic comprador capitalist clique, rather than allowing nation-wide elections as was its obligation; realising that the victorious national liberation forces led by Marxist revolutionaries (Kim Il Sung, et al) would sweep to power. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43043-north-korea-reality-checkDemocratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) have constantly been the subject of... more
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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.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/remembering-christopher-hitchens-1949-2011/The death of Christopher Hitchens on Thursday night, of complications from... more
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The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfill this role requires systematic propaganda. In countries where the levers of power are in the hands of a state bureaucracy, the monopolistic control over the media, often supplemented by official censorship, makes it clear that the media serve the ends of a dominant elite. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/section-blog/43042-manufacturing-consent-a-propaganda-model-book-excerptThe mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general... more
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