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Endangered tigers of Thailand |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 4 Jun 2011 Tigers are one of the world's most endangered species, with only 3200 believed to remain in the wild. About 200 of them are in western Thailand, but until recently it was thought that there were no tigers on the eastern side of the country. |
| Date: 2011-06-04 09:55:19 - Added by: KMC |
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Remembering Tiananmen |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 3 Jun 2011 Twenty two years after what some call the Tiananman massacre, tourists watch the flag-raising ceremony at the scene of the 1989 crackdown. Al Jazeera's Rob McBride reports from Hong Kong, China. |
| Date: 2011-06-04 07:05:01 - Added by: KMC |
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Inside Story:Has the global war on drugs failed? - Contoversal new report |
| Inside Story - Has the global war on drugs failed? From: AlJazeeraEnglish | 3 Jun 2011 A report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy has concluded that the global war on drugs has failed. The commission, which includes a group of politicians and former world leaders, says the current anti-drug policy has been fuelling organised crime, costing taxpayers millions of dollars, and causing thousands of deaths. Would legalising or decriminalising drugs help solve these problems or might that only make them worse? Inside Story discusses. |
| Date: 2011-06-04 06:56:49 - Added by: KMC |
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Apaches mark new phase in NATO Libya op |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 4 Jun 2011 NATO has used helicopters for the first time since its mission began in Libya. British and French helicopters were flown in overnight raids, in the country's East. Al Jazeera's Sue Turton reports from Libya's eastern frontier, on the move that signals a new phase in NATO operations, after a three-month standoff. |
| Date: 2011-06-04 06:51:01 - Added by: KMC |
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Rachel Maddow: Hi-Larity Watching Republicans Try To Unring The Stupid Comment Bell |
| MSNBC June 4, 2011, The Rachel Maddow Show where Rachel highlights hi-larious efforts by various Republican politicians as they inartfully try to "unring" the supid comment bell -- many of them having to do with Congressman Paul Ryan's kill Medicare budget. |
| Date: 2011-06-04 06:44:11 - Added by: KMC |
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E.Coli Outbreak Points to Gaps in US Food System |
| Published on 2 Jun 2011 by AssociatedPress In Europe a new deadly E.Coli strain has infected more than 1600 people and killed at least 18. And this has farmers, consumers and officials looking at possible gaps in the U.S. food system. (June 3) |
| Date: 2011-06-03 09:36:29 - Added by: KMC |
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Fukushima Tunnel Bunny: Earless rabbit born near radiation zone |
| Uploaded by RussiaToday on 3 Jun 2011 A nuclear rabbit has sparked online panic in Japan. Amateur footage shows an earless mutant rabbit, and the person who made the video claims it was shot just outside the exclusion zone near Japan's crippled Fukushima plant. The clip has given rise to fears the radiation threat in the area is far worse than previously thought. The funny bunny has caused an online frenzy, with predictions that babies in Japan may soon be born with mutations. |
| Date: 2011-06-03 09:26:06 - Added by: KMC |
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Seymour Hersh: Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran Nuclear Threat, US May Be Headed for Iraq Redux |
| Uploaded by mediagrrl9 on 3 Jun 2011 DemocracyNow.org - Democracy Now! interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh about his latest article for the New Yorker magazine, "Iran and the Bomb: How Real is the Nuclear Threat?", in which he reports that the United States might attack Iran based on distorted estimates of Iran's nuclear and military threat?just like it did with Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq. Hersh reveals that despite using Iranian informants and cutting edge surveillance technology, U.S. officials have been unable to find decisive evidence that Iran has been moving enriched uranium to an underground weapon-making center. |
| Date: 2011-06-03 09:19:00 - Added by: KMC |
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One hoax to rule them all: The Hobbit movie tar sands story revealed |
| From rabble.ca: One hoax to rule them all: The Hobbit movie tar sands story revealed By Judy Rebick | June 2, 2011 Print Write to editor Support rabble Corrections One hoax to rule them all: The Hobbit movie tar sands hoax revealed. Photo: Erin Byrnes Travellers at Terminal 3 in the Toronto airport were astounded Tuesday morning to see Gandalf the Grey and several hobbits march their handcuffed prisoner Stephen Harper, dressed as the evil lord Sauron, into a Syncrude Ltd. recruiting meeting. They demanded that Synacrude take him back to Mordor aka the Alberta tar sands, "the hell on earth that he created." The performance was the culmination of a series of media reports that director Peter Jackson is shooting scenes from "The Hobbit" film in the tar sands. In a press release issued today, a troupe of Toronto activists calling themselves Black Flood, working alongside the infamous pranksters of The Yes Lab, confirmed their role in the events for "the purpose of stirring up some hot and bubbly controversy on the Alberta tar sands." It all started on Saturday when Stop Mordor appeared on Facebook demanding that the Alberta government stop the plans to use the Alberta tar sands as Mordor in the new Hobbit film. At the same time there were some tweets claiming sightings of Elijah Wood, reprising his role as Frodo Baggins, in Fort McMurray. Using their extensive networks, the group starting pushing the news through social media. Naomi Klein, posted the first tweet "Apex of disaster capitalism: Hobbit being filmed in Alberta, with tar sands as Mordor. G8 way to save $ on sets." Naomi's tweet was followed in minutes by famed environmental activist Bill McKibben: "Hobbits in hot tar? It sure looks like mordor. Say it ain't so." Twitter was abuzz. The first responses on Twitter and Facebook were from tar sands supporters lauding the plans and then from Tolkien geeks who insisted that Mordor was not in The Hobbit and therefore the story couldn't be true. A debate then ensured as to whether it was a good thing to film Mordor in the tar sands. Some argued it would be a good thing so that millions of people would learn how devastated the land was. Others said it would lead to disaster tourism. Some of controversy was contributed by the troupe but a lot of it wasn't. I couldn't tell the difference so it got pretty confusing at times. The next day, a video blog from Peter Jackson emerged explaining why he chose to film in Alberta posted on a very professional looking Black Flood Productions website. At that point, some people charged that it was a hoax. Others weren't so sure. Soon afterwards more amateurish videos appeared, some from fans debating whether or not it was a good thing. The most hilarious video was from a young woman who chased Elijah Wood into a bathroom in Fort McMurray. I had never been in on a project like this before but I introduced a talk by Yes Man Andy Bicklbaum a couple of weeks ago, so I knew they were up to something. I was one of the first people to post about it. I was astounded by the reaction to it from my Facebook friends as well as the people posting on the Stop Filming Hobbit in Tar Sands page. Some people who were taken in by the hoax and then realized it were very angry. They didn't see the point of fooling activists. Some people claimed the Yes Men just fool corporations and that's funny but not when you fool activists too. Others didn't see the point at all claiming that this kind of hoax doesn't do anything to educate people about the tar sands. Some people were mad at me because they rely on my posts for finding out the truth and it upset them that I would knowingly post a hoax. Watching it unfold was like a rollercoaster ride. Advertising When Syed Hussan blogged on rabble about the speculation that filming was taking place using the opportunity to write about the devastation of the tar sands, rabble editors worried that his and their credibility might be compromised if it looked like they were taken in by the hoax. A lot of Yes Men hoaxes rely on the slow burn. Remember the Yes Men hoax at the Copenhagen UN Climate Change conference? They issued a phoney press release saying the Canadian government would support the developing countries demands on climate change. Noone believed that. Then they had a press conference with a phoney Uganda delegate thanking the Canadian government for their action and some people, including activists believed that. Then they issued a release from Canada denying the first release and almost everyone fell for that. This worked the same way. By Sunday, traditional news media in Canada and the United Kingdom had begun picking up the story, offering contradicting reports to the rumours. A Sun Columnist checked with Peter Jackson's production company and published a piece attacking Naomi Klein for his falling for a hoax; while admitting that it was pretty sophisticated. The hoax was now outed, so Naomi admitted to being in on it but that didn't stop the debate which was by now raging. The U.K. Guardian picked it up too in a story on the tar sands and ran the video on their website. Then YouTube pulled the video "due to a copyright claim from Warner Brothers." As to whether or not it was useful, just check the Facebook page. It's the most discussion I ?ve seen on the Alberta tar sands on Facebook and many of the activists used the page to post lots of articles and links on the tar sands. Maybe in this case, the pranksters put a mirror up to us as well showing that we could all take ourselves a little less seriously. Not to mention that I will forever see Stephen Harper now as the Evil Lord Sauron. Thanks guys! |
| Date: 2011-06-03 08:55:11 - Added by: KMC |
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US steps up cyber propaganda war |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 2 Jun 2011 The US military is developing software that would allow military personnel to use fake profiles in online chat rooms. The idea is to use social media to spread positive messages about the United States. While the Pentagon says it is a bid to counter violent extremist and enemy ideologies, critics call it propaganda. Al Jazeera's Cath Turner reports from New York on how the strategy is causing some legal and moral concerns. |
| Date: 2011-06-03 05:19:08 - Added by: KMC |
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