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Four Horsemen

Four Horsemen is a bare-bones documentary about how we can restart the world’s economy. 23 international thinkers, government advisers and Wall Street money-men break their silence and explain their ideas on how to establish a moral and just society. This film takes a new look at the current economic climate without bashing bankers or taking sides. It just tells it like it is.

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Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Building

Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Building, is a documentary which retells the incredible story of Enron which in just 15 years grew to become the 7th largest company in America with over 21,000 staff Worldwide. This success turned out to be an elaborate scam. Watch the incredible story with eyewitness accounts, recordings and court footage as a huge part of corporate America comes crumbling down.

ENRON: OS MAIS ESPERTOS DA SALA / The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) LEGENDA PTfrom Enron Enron on Vimeo.

Mars: The Red Planet

If humans were going to visit another planet in our solar system, the first possible planet would be Mars. Its deserts are similar to earth’s, with dunes and mountains full of iron oxides. Though its atmostphere isn’t friendly to humans, it does have potential similarities to earth, like the possibility of underground oceans and ancient bacteria life-forms. With it being the closest planet to earth, Mars has caught our attention as the first planet we could explore.

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America's Book of Secrets: The White House

It is home to the most powerful person in the world, it is a center of global military power and it is one of the most heavily protected fortresses ever built, but behind the classic columns and lush green lawns are secrets, secrets so outrageous, so controversial, so dangerous that they must be kept hidden from the public. There are those that believe in the existence of a book, a book that contains the most highly guarded secrets of the United States of America, a book who’s very existence is known to only a select few but if such a book exists what would it contain? Secret histories, secret plans, secret lies? 

Dangerously Rich: Billionaire Super Security

Protesters, Pirates, even Kidnappers are targeting today's super rich. Some say these threats are intensifying and as a result billionaires from around the world are fortifying their personal security with sophisticated, cutting edge and so called head of state level protection. From high security on the high seas to when the bad guys come, the tools and technologies to take down any intruder at any cost. While their jet setting or on the move an entire industry is on call ready to sell the super rich, super security and even some good old fashioned muscle.

Defeating the Hackers

Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people’s online lives, and the scientists who are joining forces to help defeat them.

Searching for Exile: Truth or Myth

For centuries, Jews have lamented the destruction of their holy city Jerusalem and their temple by the Romans, which they believed was the beginning of their long 2000 years of exile. Exile is not only a religious Jewish belief but for millions of Jewish and non Jewish alike it is a historical fact. But what has been considered as fact for centuries is now being challenged by archeaological evidence unearth across Israel. Here in the ancient town of Sepphoris just 70 miles from Jerusalem evidence points not to a people driven into exile but on the contrary to a population that not only survived but flourished. So why has exile been seen as a reality for thousands of years? and if it did not take place exactly as told, then what accounts for the millions of Jews who over the centuries have settled around the world? and perhaps the inevitable question, what happened to the inhabitance (sic) of places like Sepphoris who were never exiled.

The Mafia's Secret Bunkers

There is a new front line in the war against organized crime. In southern Italy’s rugged highlands a previously unknown criminal group know as the ‘Ndrangheta meet, it’s bosses are some of Europe’s biggest cocaine traffickers. The police are fighting back forcing mafiosi underground into bizarre sophisticated bunkers. From here they run their criminal empires protected by a wall of silence. “They dug up the entire street to bury their bunkers and no body breathed a word”. This is the story of a little known mafia who’s secret inner workings are only now coming to light.

20.Jan.2013 - The Documentary Issue: Park Avenue, Memory of the Camps, 21st Century Slavery, Extradition, Renegade Jewish Settlers, Vatican Sex Crimes, America's Prison Problem, Get Away with Stealing

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Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream

Memory of the Camps

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Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world’s conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Work began in the summer of 1945 on the documentary, but the film was left unfinished.

FRONTLINE found it stored in a vault of London’s Imperial War Museum and, in 1985, broadcast it for the first time using the title the Imperial War Museum gave it, ‘Memory of the Camps.

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Slavery: A 21st Century Evil

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Stepping into the lives of men and women who until recently were slaves demands the softest of treads.

The experience of being enslaved – forced to work for no pay, often under the threat of violence and with no hope of escape, burns deep and leaves wounds which take a long time to heal.

From impoverished and often illiterate Thai farmers to women forced into prostitution; from men tricked into servitude in Brazil’s brutal charcoal industry to entire families trapped as bonded labourers in Pakistan’s feudal brick kilns; we met and filmed dozens of slaves for this series.

Food Chain Slaves. It is a nation built on the abolition of slavery, but there are at least 40,000 slaves in the US today. In the opening episode of Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Al Jazeera’s Rageh Omaar investigates food chain slavery in the US.

Sex slaves. There are an estimated 1.4 million sex slaves in the world today and international trafficking is on the rise.

Bonded Slaves. It is a form of slavery that is passed down from one generation to the next, enslaving millions.

Child Slaves. There are at least 8.4 million child slaves in the world today, many of them held as forced labour.

Charcoal Slaves. Poverty-stricken men from the north of Brazil are often lured to remote camps where they are used as slave labour.

Bridal Slaves. In the midst of widespread poverty, fueled by economic inequality and rampant corruption, a new form of slavery – bridal slavery – has flourished in India. Women and young girls are sold for as little as $120 to men who often abuse them.

Prison Slaves. Over the past 20 years China has become the world’s biggest exporter of consumer goods. But behind this apparent success story is a dark secret – millions of men and women locked up in prisons and forced into intensive manual labour.

Bonus: Al Jazeera slavery debate. Luis C d’Baca from the US State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons; Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves; David Batstone, president of Not for Sale; and Joy Ezeilo, UN Special Rapporteur for Trafficking in Persons.

Watch the full documentary now (playlist – 3 hours, 42 minutes)

Extradition

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Extradition is a film that explores the injustices of the Extradition Act 2003 through the suffering of two individuals and their families.

Talha Ahsan and Babar Ahmed held without charge can be extradited according to the European Court of Human Rights. They have been held without charge for over 14 years collectively.

The court concluded that “there would be no violation of the applicants’ rights if extradited to stand trial in the United States”.

These men have been let down by the British justice system and now face being incarcerated in one of America’s toughest prisons. It may be four more years before these men face trial in the United States all the while they will be kept in Prison.

These men are UK citizens; they were born in this country and paid their taxes in this country. There is not enough evidence to charge these men in Britain.

The UK police have admitted that they have not seen the bulk of evidence seized from Babar’s home but it was instead sent to the US authorities and which now forms the bulk of the indictment against Babar and Talha.

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Renegade Jewish Settlers

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Israeli settlers have been slowly nibbling away at Palestine’s West Bank territory for four decades.

300,000 setllers now occupy outposts that range in size from plywood shacks to full-blown suburban housing complexes.

Their abundance has grounded the much-ballyhooed two-state solution to a halt.

VICE correspondent Simon Ostrovsky travels from Tel Aviv to the remote West Bank outposts where young Israelis squat for the sake of their heritage.

But first, Simon pops in for some quick counter-terrorism training with a member of Israel’s Special Forces, just in case.

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Sex Crimes and the Vatican

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Created in 1962, a now infamous document was issued in secret to bishops. Called Crimen Sollicitationis, it outlined procedures to be followed by bishops when dealing with allegations of child abuse, homosexuality and bestiality by members of the clergy. It swore all parties involved to secrecy on pain of excommunication from the Catholic Church.

This document was reissued in 2001 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and sent to all bishops. Yet rather than ordering more openness and cooperation with the authorities as demanded by both law enforcers and the victims, he reiterated its policies and ensured that the Code of Silence be applied to all cases of child abuse involving a priest. Cardinal Ratzinger also instructed that all cases should now be referred to his office directly and that he would maintain ‘exclusive competence’ over the handling of allegations. This is the Catholic Church’s policy to this day and Cardinal Ratzinger is now Pope Benedict XVI.

The policy laid out in the above document has led to systemic failure by the result that a significant number of priest have, in effect, been allowed to abuse again, and further children have been put at risk.

As the documentary explores, Colm O’Gorman is the man responsible for breaking open decades of abuse by Catholic Priests in Ireland in the BAFTA award-winning BBC special Suing the Pope. He links international ‘systemic evidence’ to argue the Vatican has a policy to cover up the sexual abuse of thousands of children across the world.

In Sex Crimes and the Vatican O’Gorman explores four separate cases internationally of widespread clerical abuse, putting the Roman Catholic Church on trial for the reckless endangerment of children. O’Gorman raises the question, ‘Is the Church in default of its obligation as a signatory to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child?’ (Excerpt from news.bbc.co.uk)

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America’s Prison Problem

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The US locks up more people than any other country in the world, spending over $80 billion each year to keep some two million prisoners behind bars.

Over the past three decades, tough sentencing laws have contributed to a doubling of the country’s prison population, with laws like the ‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’ mandating life sentences for a wide range of crimes.

Why does the US put so many people behind bars and what lies behind California’s new push for leniency? But a clear sign that Americans are rethinking crime and punishment is a voter’s initiative on California’s November ballot called Proposition 36 that seeks to reform the state’s three-strikes law.

Some 27 states have three-strikes laws patterned after California’s version, which was one of the first to be enacted in the country.

Activists who are campaigning to change the three-strikes law in California are also trying to raise awareness about conditions inside prisons. They are targeting the use of special security units at maximum security prisons

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How to Get Away with Stealing

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This short documentary looks at how easy it is to make fake passports and scam the rich into trusting you with thousands of dollars.

If the fraud industry were its own country, it would have the fifth strongest economy in the world, just ahead of the UK.

Meet the fraudsters who’re making a killing from the fastest growing crime on Earth.

VICE showcases the British fraud industry and the unapologetic mindset of the type of people who turn to that life to make a living.

It’s interesting to see it from their perspective, but it’s nothing short of violating to know that these are the types of people who think identity theft, credit damage and stealing are viable ways to make a living.

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16.Nov.2012 - Israeli Torture of Palestinians, Bloodshed in Gaza, Zionist Oppression, College Students Petitioning for 100%$ Tuition Refund, Secession States, Government Censorship Increasing, Obama's Secret Directive on Cybersecurity, Wal-Mart Faces Strikes, Noam Chomsky on Gaza, Is God a Civil Libertarian?

Israeli who revealed “medieval-style” torture of Palestinians faces virulent backlash
An Israeli who posted a testimony on Facebook about the “medieval-style” torture of Palestinians he assisted in during his army service in the occupied territories has faced a virulent backlash from fellow Israelis, including threats of violence. Yuval Lev published the testimony in Hebrew on his Facebook page on 8 November.
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-who-revealed-medieval-style-torture-palestinians-faces-virulent-backlash

Bloodshed In Gaza and Beyond–Israel’s National Orgasm
For the record, I generally shy away from, well, “sensitive” themes such as this, and for the simple reason that I hold ‘it’–meaning sex–to be something sacred. Given to us as a gift by our creator, in my opinion it is not something to be handled coarsely, discussed crudely or made to be the butt of adolescent-level jokes as it has in “western” (again, meaning Jewish) media.
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/bloodshed-in-gaza-and-beyond-israel%E2%80%99s-national-orgasm/

For Those Living Under the Heel of Zionist Oppression And Terror, Every Day is Apocalypto
Like mob lawyers tasked with getting their criminal clients acquitted (despite the fact they know they’re guilty as hell) all can be rest assured powerful Jewish groups in the US and elsewhere–and particularly those constantly loudmouthing about Jewish persecution–have known from the beginning about the now-infamous organ-trafficking business officially sanctioned by the Israeli government. After all–in addition to spying on and then blackmailing certain targeted individuals–it’s the job of these various groups to know what kind of problems might be lurking out on the horizon possibly impacting their most valued client, meaning the Jewish state. Therefore knowing everything–including the most heinous crimes their client has committed–is a prerequisite of sorts if these groups are to successfully engage in the “great commission” for which they were created, meaning damage control for that great criminal headquarters disguising itself as a viable political entity known as Israel.
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/for-those-living-under-the-heel-of-zionist-oppression-and-terror-every-day-is-apocalypto/

College students petitioning Obama to refund 100% of their tuition in trade for their diplomas
In the name of Consumer Protection, recent college graduates should have the ability to return the diploma and not make any reference to receiving education from the college in exchange for a 100% refund of college tuition.
http://worldduh.com/2012/11/14/college-students-petitioning-obama-to-refund-100-of-their-tuition-in-trade-for-their-diplomas/

Hey Secession States: If You Want To Secede, You Will No Longer Receive A Penny Of Federal Dollars

Ever since the Kenyan Socialist won a second term in the most uproarious fashion possible, Teabaggers and their miserably (and hilariously) uninformed ilk are irate. Further, they’re essentially throwing the tantrum of a child who didn’t get what he wanted for Christmas. For their part, democracy is only acceptable when a really, really white guy wins.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/11/14/hey-secession-states-if-you-want-to-secede-you-will-no-longer-receive-a-penny-of-federal-dollars/

It's Scary How Rapidly Government Requests For Info And Censorship Are Increasing

Google's latest transparency report is out and the notable bit of info is that governments continue to increase how often they're seeking info about users. The increase there is a steady growth which is immensely worrisome. There's also an equally troubling increase in the attempts to censor content via Google, though in that case, it was relatively flat until the first half of this year when it shot way, way up.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121113/17473621038/its-scary-how-rapidly-government-requests-info-censorship-are-increasing.shtml

The DHS And FBI Present: You Might Be A Terrorist If... (Hotel Guest Edition)

As we seem to be told repeatedly, seeing something and saying something is perhaps the greatest duty an American citizen can perform in service to this country. It's simply not enough anymore to install an American flag in the front yard and purchase domestic vehicles. Now, every citizen should be keeping his eye out for (and on) his fellow citizens. The price of freedom may be eternal vigilance, but the price of security is endless paranoia.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121110/17435521005/dhs-fbi-present-you-might-be-terrorist-if-hotel-guest-edition.shtml

Homeland Security Spent $430-Million To Tune Its Radios To A New Frequency, And Failed

The incompetence of Homeland Security when it comes to actually doing things is well documented -- though, they're often so clueless that they take credit for successfully misleading Congress about their own failings. So I guess it should come as little surprise that a new report shows that DHS spent about $430 million of your taxpayer dollars to get all of its radios to communicate on the same frequency and it doesn't work. At all.

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20121114/11412221047/homeland-security-spent-430-million-to-tune-its-radios-to-new-frequency-failed.shtml

President Obama Signs 'Secret Directive' On Cybersecurity

While we're hearing that the Senate is likely to take up (though not pass) the Cybersecurity Act yet again either today or tomorrow, and the White House is still sitting on a cybersecurity "executive order," in the meantime it's being reported that President Obama has signed a "secret directive" to allow the military to "act more aggressively to thwart cyberattacks." 

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121114/11312121046/president-obama-signs-secret-directive-cybersecurity.shtml

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes... But Why Now?

Last month, when strikers from Southern California arrived in Bentonville, Arkansas to protest Wal-Mart’s labor practices with reggae beats, pots and pans, and a Latin American-inflected protest culture, it became clear to onlookers that America’s superstore was no longer the small family business that Sam Walton had founded and grown in the cradle of the anti-labor culture of Southern evangelicaldom.
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/6615/wal-mart_faces_a_new_round_of_historic_strikes..._but_why_now

Israel's Operation Pillar of Cloud
Bombing and shelling Gaza continues overnight.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israel-s-Operation-Pillar-by-Stephen-Lendman-121115-911.html

Don't expect a second-term Obama to take on Israel
Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential election last week was greeted with general unease in Israel.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Don-t-expect-a-second-term-by-Jonathan-Cook-121114-39.html

How the Israeli Army Used Social Media To Brag About an Assassination
On Wednesday, the Israeli Air Force took out a car carrying Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari, head of the military wing (the Al-Qassam Brigades) of Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that governs the Gaza Strip.
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/How-the-Israeli-Army-Used-in-General_News-121115-33.html

Noam Chomsky on Gaza, and the 2 Positives of Election 2012: The Worst Didn't Happen -- and It's Over
World-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MIT professor Noam Chomsky joins us to discuss his recent trip to the Gaza Strip, where he publicly called on Israel to put an end to the blockade on the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave. '[Gaza] is a lesson for people from the West,' Chomsky says. 'If they can struggle on under really harsh and brutal conditions, it tells us we ought to be doing a lot more.' Chomsky also comments on President Obama's re-election, saying: 'There are two good things: one, the worst did not happen, and it might have. The second is, it is over. We can put it behind us and get back to work.'
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Noam-Chomsky-on-Gaza-and-in-General_News-121114-109.html

Is God a Civil Libertarian? How the American Surveillance State Devoured General Petraeus

That the stars of America's national security establishment are being devoured by out-of-control surveillance is a form of sweet justice.

http://www.alternet.org/god-civil-libertarian-how-american-surveillance-state-devoured-general-petraeus

5 Giant Contradictions That Are Sinking the GOP

Republican dinosaurs fell into their own quicksand of contradictions.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/5-giant-contradictions-sunk-gop

What the President Should Propose for the 'Grand Bargain' to Reduce the Deficit

If the past four years have proven anything it’s that the White House should not begin with a compromise.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/what-president-should-propose-grand-bargain-reduce-deficit

Holder announces record $4.5 billion settlement with BP over Gulf oil spill
US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] announced [press release] Thursday that British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] has agreed to pay a record $4.5 billion in penalties and to plead guilty [plea agreement, PDF] to felony misconduct for its role in the devastation caused by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive].
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/11/holder-announces-record-45-billion-settlement-with-bp-over-gulf-oil-spill.php

Investigate the FBI
The real Petraeus scandal is why the bureau was rummaging around in his private communications in the first place.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/14/investigate_the_fbi?page=0,1

Inside a Gaza Hospital as Israeli Military Attacks Escalate: 200 Air Strikes

No one knows where the next missile will hit, no one knows where they can be safe. Parents are unable to keep their children safe, let alone provide them a sense of safety.

http://www.alternet.org/inside-gaza-hospital-israeli-military-attacks-escalate-200-air-strikes

No Heat, No Electricity -- Desperate New Yorkers Beg for Help Post Sandy

While victims and volunteers look to government, Madonna moons fans to get them to donate.

http://www.alternet.org/after-sandy-suffering-and-frustration-bloomberg-grows-celebs-and-grassroots-step

Hostess Blames Striking Workers As it Liquidates, Romney-Style

Company had already planned to close plants even if the workers accepted the cuts and stayed at work.

http://www.alternet.org/bye-twinkies-and-workers-rights-hostess-blames-striking-workers-it-liquidates-romney-style

Occupy's Rolling Jubilee Has Raised Enough to Forgive $5 Million of Debt

Symbolic OWS action will have real-world consequences: less debt.

http://www.alternet.org/occupys-rolling-jubilee-has-raised-enough-forgive-5-million-debt

Energy Independence for America Is a Worthy Goal -- But It's a Death Wish If We Do It with Oil & Gas

New report says US is poised to become THE world leader in extracting fossil fuels.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/energy-independence-america-worthy-goal-its-death-wish-if-we-do-it-oil-gas

Israeli Negotiator: Hamas Commander Was Assassinated Hours After Receiving Truce Deal from Israel

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"Nowhere to Run": Israel Fires Over 500 Strikes in Gaza, Civilian Toll Grows in Humanitarian Crisis

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Oliver Stone on the Untold U.S. History from the Atomic Age to Vietnam to Obama’s Drone Wars

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Bailout Of The People, By The People.

General Strike Sweeps Europe as Millions Reject Austerity as Solution to Economic Crisis

Bill McKibben: Global Warming's Dystopian Future

Will Obama Tackle Climate Change in his 2nd Term?

Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza, Killing Hamas Military Chief