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We’re making no claims about whether it’s a good or bad idea, whether it works or fails. But the meeting in this video is real and the people in it are from the very top on both sides. The ‘fly on the wall’ perspective has a unique and unprecedented feel.We’re making no claims about whether it’s a good or bad idea, whether it... more
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Vanguard correspondent Adam Yamaguchi takes a look around Chongqing, China, a rapidly growing city where overcrowded, smoggy conditions may overpower the availability of modern accommodations.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Wednesdays at 10/9c, is a 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, Kaj Larsen, 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.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.Vanguard correspondent Adam Yamaguchi takes a look around Chongqing, China, a rapidly... more
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I just don't understand how everyone that caused all of these financial problems are trying to walk away like they had nothing to do with any of this...
Good read: By Robert Scheer Via Truthdig
The corruptions of journalism were on full display when CNN’s Fareed Zakaria turned to Robert Rubin this past Sunday for advice on how to fix the financial crisis that he, as much as anyone, caused. I was trapped on a treadmill in front of an overhead television and unable to turn the thing off in time to avoid this assault on my mental and physical health.
As a result I was forced to hear Rubin, Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary, insist that he always favored regulating toxic derivatives and is therefore not at all responsible for the ensuing economic meltdown. He was responding to the sole critical question from the CNN host, who quoted a question by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman: “Did all the senior members of the [Obama] economics team have to be protégés of Robert Rubin, the apostle of financial deregulation?” Unfortunately, Zakaria just rolled over when his guest simply lied in response:
“First of all, I am not the apostle of financial deregulation. Quite the contrary. On derivatives … I developed a deep concern about the systemic problem that was created. When I was back at Goldman Sachs, it was a concern I had … a concern I had when I was in government. And in fact, when I wrote my book in 2003, I was so concerned about it that I actually included that that discussion in there.”
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin testifies on Capitol Hill on April 8 before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which was seeking an accounting of decisions that inflated a mortgage bubble and triggered the financial crisis
(Does this look like the face of a innocent man?)
read more:The Rubin Con Goes On - Asking the Devil Questions
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_rubin_con_goes_on_20100810/I just don't understand how everyone that caused all of these financial problems... more
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Featuring: Ghayda Nawrus
Youth Filmmakers: Ghayda Nawrus, Aya Al Tal
Adult Mentors: Mustafa Tell, John Gwinn
Ghayda Nawrus is one of almost one billion Muslims worldwide who adheres to her faith, traditions, and family. But Ghayda, who lives in Amman, Jordan, attends a Christian school and is also a product of satellite television and the Internet. This bright, soft-spoken 16 year-old looks candidly at the issues causing her and her family the greatest fear: the challenges and complexity of a modern society embedded in traditional culture.
"A Divided City" is one of eleven short films in the "Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet" series.
What do youth fear most in their lives? How do they overcome those fears? 'Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet' is a creative burst of defiance and hope by teenagers who are overcoming the huge obstacles and ignorance that have defined their lives. It's an inspiring compilation of nine short films written, shot and edited by teenagers who weave documentary filmmaking, animation and archival footage to tell personal stories on fear and security. With mentorship from professional filmmakers, youth produced films that are powerful, startling and awe-inspiring.
With stories from Afghanistan, Argentina, Colombia, England Jordan, Korea, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Ukraine and the United States, these youth-produced films will challenge audiences to redefine fear and the priorities we make in a post 9/11 world.Featuring: Ghayda Nawrus
Youth Filmmakers: Ghayda Nawrus, Aya Al Tal
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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Peter Arnett takes a nostalgic trip around Saigon half a century after his coverage of the war from 1962 to 1975 with the Associated Press.
The documentary captures candid insights from Arnett and Saigon denizens as they survey old and new landmarks in Ho Chi Minh City. Saigon 2009 with Peter Arnett is a preview of "Vietnam 2020," a film by Othello Khanh set to document the nation's road to modernity. It is made in association with the whats on publication, The Word Ho Chi Minh City, and Créa TV.Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Peter Arnett takes a nostalgic trip around Saigon... more
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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Peter Arnett takes a nostalgic trip around Saigon half a century after his coverage of the War from 1962 to 1975 with the Associated Press.
The documentary captures candid insights from Arnett and Saigon denizens as they survey old and new landmarks in Ho Chi Minh City. It is made in association with the whats on publication, The Word Ho Chi Minh City and Créa TV.
Saigon 2009 with Peter Arnett is a preview of "Vietnam 2020", a film by Othello Khanh set to document the Nation's road to modernity.Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Peter Arnett takes a nostalgic trip around Saigon... more
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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Peter Arnett takes a nostalgic trip around Saigon half a century after his coverage of the War from 1962 to 1975 with the Associated Press.
The documentary captures candid insights from Arnett and Saigon denizens as they survey old and new landmarks in Ho Chi Minh City. It is made in association with the what’s on publication, The Word Ho Chi Minh City and Créa TV.
“Saigon 2009 with Peter Arnett” is a preview of "Vietnam 2020," a film by Othello Khanh set to document the Nation's road to modernity.Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Peter Arnett takes a nostalgic trip around Saigon... more
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This article wasn’t highly publicized, but it will prove to ring true for Ages.
German philosopher backs Archbishop in Sharia row
By: George Conger.
JÜRGEN HABERMAS has waded into the debate on Islam in Europe backing the line taken by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his Temple lecture on Shariah law.
German philosopher backs Archbishop in Sharia row
In the "Dialectics of Secularisation," the noted German philosopher argued that Europe must adopt an inclusive, critical discussion on the role religion plays in public life through a dialogue in which all parties cooperate as equals for the purpose of achieving understanding.
Writing in the April issue of the German journal Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, Habermas cited the controversy over Dr Williams’ comments to the BBC that some aspects of Sharia law “seems inevitable” in Britain as an example of the unsettled state of intellectual discourse over the place of religion in public life.
He rejected the argument of secularists who seek to exclude religious discourse from civic discourse, saying that religious faith must inform public life. But he also chided multiculturalists who would permit exclusion and discrimination in the name of religious dogma.
Adapted from a March 17 lecture at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, Habermas’ article accepted the contention of secularists who insist on the “absolute essentialness of equal inclusion of all citizens in civil society.”
“Religious citizens and religious communities should not only assimilate on the surface level. They must embrace the secular legitimisation of the community within the premises of their own belief,” he said.
However, the state must make room for religious belief and “avoid rushing to reduce the polyphonic complexity of the spectrum of public voices because it cannot be certain that this might not sever society from the meager resources that generate meaning and identity.”
Habermas also questioned the contention that modernisation presumed secularisation and necessarily lead to a diminished role for religion in the public sphere. Europe was entering a post-secular phase, and its loss of religious beliefs was the exception not the rule, he argued.
America was the “spearhead of modernization,” he noted, but "the vibrancy of American religious communities and the unchanging proportion of America's religious committed citizens" belied the theory of secularisation going hand in hand with modernity.
America “seems to exemplify the norm, while Western rationalism that was once supposed to serve as model for the rest of the world is actually the exception,” he said.
The task facing society was to find the proper balance between the claims of religion and culture against the democratic imperative, becoming aware “of the fact that the other is a member of an inclusive community of citizens of equal rights, in which equal citizenship and cultural difference complement each other."
Muslims in Europe "must not only superficially adjust to a constitutional order. They are expected to appropriate the secular legitimation of constitutional principles under the very premises of their own faith,” Habermas said.
However, secularists must also enter a complementary learning process, for if they continued to reject the people with a religious mindset, they were abandoning the mutual recognition that shared citizenship entails.
Secular citizens must remain open to the possibility that even religious utterances, when translated into a secular context, can have meaning for them. "As not everything can be achieved by political decision and legal enforcement,” Habermas concluded.
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