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Documentary: I knew bin Laden |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 11 May 2011 Ahmad Zaidan, Al Jazeera's Islamabad correspondent, speaks to people who knew Osama bin Laden. |
| Date: 11 May 2011 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 749 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 |
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Smita Narula on Report: Every 30 Minutes: Farmer Suicides, Human Rights & Agrarian Crisis in India |
| Uploaded by mediagrrl9 on 11 May 2011 DemocracyNow.org - Democracy Now! speaks with Smita Narula, the co-author of the new report, "Every Thirty Minutes: Farmer Suicides, Human Rights and the Agrarian Crisis in India." A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 years?an average of one suicide every 30 minutes. The crisis has ballooned with economic liberalization that has removed agricultural subsidies and opened Indian agriculture to the global market. Small farmers are often trapped in a cycle of insurmountable debt, leading many to take their lives out of sheer desperation. Narula is the Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University Law School, which released the report May 11. |
| Date: 11 May 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Food Gap Between China's Rich and Poor a Problem |
| Uploaded by AssociatedPress on 11 May 2011 The Chinese middle class is enjoying bounty at the dinner table, but the urban poor are seeing lean times. Observers warn the gap could create problems for China's communist rulers. (May 11) |
| Date: 10 May 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Media Criticized for Over, Under Coverage of Southern Floods |
| Uploaded by NewsyVideos on 10 May 2011 Transcript by http://www.newsy.com BY ALLIE SPILLYARDS ANCHOR CHRISTINA HARTMAN As the Mississippi River rises to historic levels- reporters are grabbing their boots and waders and heading to the underwater parts of Memphis. "Just so you can see, I'm only half way down this stair case down into this area where tourists normally walk over to the riverboats back there. But this water could be easily six feet or higher as we get down this staircase." (CNN) "We've seen fish and snakes just running around and we're told this water could still be here by next week." (ABC) "The danger continues south of here. Natches, Mississippi, Vicksburg, Mississippi are in line next. The casinos and businesses there are now starting to close. (NBC) But is all the attention too little, too late? At a time when international affairs are stealing headlines, a blogger for American Thinker thinks the dangerous flooding took a backseat to more sensational stories. "Virtually unreported by the national media ... is the greatest flood on the Mississippi River and lower parts of the Ohio River since 1937. Are radio stations playing- as they did after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans ... Randy Newman's great 'Louisiana 1927'? Is CNN going wall-to-wall? ... Nope." But a blogger for Gather writes, maybe the situation isn't as dramatic as Katrina because lessons were learned after levys broke in New Orleans. "Southerners and Memphis residents won't go down without a fight: ...lessons from past disasters... have shown city officials the importance of going door-to-door to warn residents. They are also taking care to patrol neighborhoods to prevent looting." And reporters from Sacramento's KCRA focus on those door-to-door efforts- reporting- local officals aren't relying on TV stations to get the word out about evacuating threatened areas. "They're doing that door to door because during Katrina people relied on TV quite a bit and what they discovered was people were out sandbagging and weren't necessarily watching TV the entire time." According to The New York Times, flood waters in Memphis are expected to crest on Tuesday. The river will remain at its peak for nearly 2 days before beginning to recede. |
| Date: 10 May 2011 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 811 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 |
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Pakistani Media Outs Supposed CIA Chief |
| Uploaded by NewsyVideos on 10 May 2011 Transcript by http://www.newsy.com BY TRACY PFEIFFER ANCHOR ANA COMPAIN-ROMERO You're watching multisource U.S. news analysis from Newsy The United States' relationship with Pakistan could go from bad to worse after Pakistani media revealed the name of who they believe is the CIA's station chief in Islamabad. The Associated Press says the name is "incorrect," but sources like... ...The New York Times use more specific language, saying the name was misspelled, rather than incorrect. It's unclear who's behind the leak, but reports indicate the U.S. has no plans to pull the station chief from the post. The Australian explains -- having to replace the operative would be a major blow to U.S. intelligence operations in Pakistan. "The Islamabad station chief is one of the CIA's most critical and sensitive assignments. The position oversees the agency's covert programs, including the drone campaign that targets al-Qa'ida and Taliban leaders, as well as fighters who cross the border into Afghanistan." And Neon Tommy reports, this is the second time in six months a CIA operative's identity has been revealed in Pakistan. "In December, the previous CIA station chief in Islamabad had to leave because his name started to circulate in the Pakistani media. The U.S. quietly blamed the leak on willful disobedience by Pakistan's intelligence agency." The Wall Street Journal's Jerry Seib explains a popular Western theory as to why the name was publicized. JERRY SEIB: "You had both a Pakistani newspaper and a television station yesterday out what they said was the name of the CIA station chief in Islamabad, which a lot of people see as a sign that the government is getting back at the U.S. and its intelligence services for mounting a raid against Osama bin Laden without telling the Pakistanis what it was up to." Seib goes on to suggest the top echelons of both U.S. and Pakistani government have actually tried to quell tension over the past few days without giving up too many of their playing cards. And in his first public statement since the bin Laden raid, Pakistan's prime minister lashed out at those who suggest his country knew anything about the fugitive's whereabouts -- but as Al Jazeera reports, he eased up when it came to direct statements about the United States. PRIME MINISTER YOUSUF RAZA GILANI: "Any attack against Pakistan's strategic assets, whether overt or covert, will find a matching response." REPORTER: "A pointed dig at the United States, which provides Pakistan with billions of dollars of military aid, he later tempered." PRIME MINISTER YOUSUF RAZA GILANI: "Pakistan attaches high importance to its relations with U.S. We have a strategic partnership which we believe serves our mutual interest." On Fox News, a former CIA analyst acknowledges the importance of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship -- but says recent events prove the United States should make its sometimes reluctant ally work harder for the aid money it gets. LISA CURTIS, FORMER CIA ANALYST: "I think rather than cutting off aid altogether, it would be correct for the U.S. to withhold future aid and tell Pakistan that any future aid disbursements will rely on their future assistance. For instance, tracking down terrorists like al-Zawahri, al Qaeda's number two, maybe even Mullah Omar, the chief of the Taliban. I think we should use this opportunity to get more cooperation from Pakistan." Finally, a correspondent for CNN says -- even if all these individual conflicts sort themselves out, recent events have revealed a difficult road forward for the two countries. "I think the bigger issue here is the fact that these allegations are happening. It really underscores the volatile, the uncertain, and adversarial sometimes relationship that Pakistan and the U.S. has. These are two countries that are supposed to be partners in this crucial fight against extremism, but they're finger-pointing." |
| Date: 10 May 2011 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 810 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 3.67 |
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GRITtv: Laurie Anderson vs. Homeland Security: Still the Same War |
| "If people think about how they might want to create something that isn't just me me me, that could be revolutionary," says musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson. Anderson has crossed genres, created new instruments, performed in "audio drag" and even created some comics, but she's best known for her experimental violin playing. Laurie joins Laura in studio for a feature-length interview on art, electronics, making music for fish, and why Homeland Security still has one of her instruments. "I'd like my title to be 'explorer,' but on my passport it just says 'artist,'" she says. |
| Date: 10 May 2011 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 753 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 |
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Matt Drudge: The Perez Hilton of Politics |
| From: Snarkipedia | 5 May 2011 Written by Freida Bee ( http://freidabee.blogspot.com ) and Dennis Trainor, Jr ( http://www.youtube.com/ncftTV ) |
| Date: 10 May 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Fox News: Endangered Species - Who Cares? |
| Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on 6 May 2011 Conservatives on Fox Business mock concern over endangered species. Cenk Uygur breaks it down. |
| Date: 10 May 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editor of The Nation on Bush Torture Apologists: This Country WAS Run By War Criminals! |
| May 09, 2011 MSNBC |
| Date: 10 May 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Tripoli bombarded by Nato Missile strikes [Warning: Contains some disturbing images] |
| Uploaded by telegraphtv on 10 May 2011 Nato planes struck Tripoli early Tuesday in the heaviest bombing of the Libyan capital in weeks. Pictures from AP |
| Date: 09 May 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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