| Climate Catastrophe Cancelled: Part 1/3 |
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This film was produced by "Friends of
Science" to educate the public on the Global
Warming issue through dissemination of
relevant, balanced and objective technical
information.
This film encourages a public debate on the
scientific merit of Kyoto and the Global
Warming issue.
"Our major environmental concern is the
significant shift in recent years away from
the important emphasis of previous decades on
continual reductions in air and water
pollution, to focus almost exclusively on
global warming. The current obsession with
global warming is misguided in that climate
fluctuations are a natural phenomena and we
suggest that adaptation should be emphasized
rather than misguided attempts at control."
http://www.friendsofscience.org/
Tags : Global Warming Hoax Fraud False Scam Swindle Invalid Crisis Exposed |
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Affichage : 5488
Durée : 586 s |
| Pakistan quake catastrophe - 29 Oct 08 |
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Rescue efforts are underway in south-western
Pakistan after a powerful earthquake hit the
region. More than 150 people are confirmed
dead. The 6.4 magnitude earthquake has
flattened hundreds of mud and timber houses.
The epicentre of the quake was 60kms from
Quetta near the valley of Zairat. Al
Jazeera's Kamal Hayder has the details.
Tags : Rescue earthquake Pakistan Quetta Al Jazeera English Kamal Hyder |
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Affichage : 1859
Durée : 103 s |
| "Al Nakba"--The Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948 |
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The Palestinian Exile, also known as Al Nakba
(Arabic for "The Catastrophe"), refers to the
ethnic cleansing of native Palestinian
peoples ... all » during the 1948
Arab-Israeli war.
From December 1947 until November 1948,
Zionist forces (namely the Irgun, Lehi,
Haganah terrorist gangs) expelled
approximately 750, 000 indigenous
Palestinians--almost 2/3 of the
population--from their homes.
Hundreds of Palestinians were also murdered
for refusing to leave their homes. The most
notable massacre is the Deir Yassin Massacre,
in which an estimated 120 Palestinian
civilians were brutally murdered by an
Irgun-Lehi force. Other massacres include the
ones at Sahila (70-80 killed), Lod (250
killed), and Abu Shusha (70 killed). About 40
other massacres were carried out by Zionist
forces in just the summer of 1948.
Not only did Zionist forces conduct massacres
of Palestinian civilians, rape occured as
well. According to Israeli historian Benny
Morris, "In Acre four soldiers raped a girl
and murdered her and her father. In Jaffa,
soldiers of the Kiryati Brigade raped one
girl and tried to rape several more. At
Hunin, which is in the Galilee, two girls
were raped and then murdered. There were one
or two cases of rape at Tantura, south of
Haifa. There was one case of rape at Qula, in
the center of the country. At the village of
Abu Shusha, near Kibbutz Gezer [in the Ramle
area] there were four female prisoners, one
of whom was raped a number of times. And
there were other cases. Usually more than one
soldier was involved. Usually there were one
or two Palestinian girls. In a large
proportion of the cases the event ended with
murder. Because neither the victims nor the
rapists liked to report these events, we have
to assume that the dozen cases of rape that
were reported, which I found, are not the
whole story. They are just the tip of the
iceberg."
During Al Nakba, Palestinians were murdered,
raped, and ethnically cleansed from their
villages. According to Israeli historian,
Ilan Pappe, "In a matter of seven months, 531
villages were destroyed and 11 urban
neighborhoods emptied."
Palestinians were forced into were forced out
of Palestine and into neighboring countries
(i.e. Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan), where they
lived in refugee camps. Many were also sent
to camps in West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Most Palestinian towns were demolished and
taken by the newly established Israeli
government to make room for new Jewish
immigrants. Old Palestinian infrastructures,
as well as many ruins dating back from the
Canaanites, Romans, Greeks, Crusaders, Arabs,
and Ottoman Turks were completely destroyed.
This signified the end of historical
Palestine and the birth of modern-day Israel.
Al Nakba marked the beginning of the
Palestinian refugee crisis. Al Nakba
destroyed a thriving and diverse Palestinian
society and scattered them into diaspora.
According to the UNRWA, the number of
registered Palestinian refugees today is
approximately 4.5 million. These refugees are
dispersed throughout the world, many of which
are still living in poverty-stricken refugee
camps. Today, the situation keeps worsening
and thousands die from malnutrition,
contaminated water, or scarce medical supply.
Israel has since refused to allow Palestinian
refugees to return to their homes, and has
refused to pay them compensation as required
by UN Resolution 194, which was passed on
December 11, 1948.
Historically, the Israeli government, Israeli
schools, and Israeli historians have denied
that Al Nakba has occured. However, The New
Historians, a loosely-defined group of
Israeli historians, have recently published
information recognizing the Al Nakba tragedy
and controversial views of matters concerning
Israel, particularly events concerning its
birth in 1948. Much of their material comes
from recently declassified Israeli government
papers. Leading scholars in this school
include Benny Morris, Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim,
and Tom Segev. Many of their conclusions have
been attacked by other scholars and Israeli
historians, who continue deny Al Nakba even
occured.
Tags : al nakba 1948 catastrophe ethnic cleansing genocide palestinians israeli occupation zionism zionist terrorism refugees |
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Affichage : 19772
Durée : 579 s |
| Hijacking Catastrophe - Intro (1 of 10) |
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http://www.HIJACKINGCATASTROPHE.org
"By helping us understand how fear is being
actively cultivated and manipulated by the
current administration, Hijacking Catastrophe
stands to become an explosive and empowering
information weapon in this decisive year in
U.S. history."
Naomi Klein | Author, No Logo
"The Media Education Foundation has been
carrying out vitally important work on major
issues of the day, in a highly meritorious
effort to raise public awareness and
understanding, work that is particularly
crucial in advance of the coming election,
which may well cast a long shadow over the
country's future."
Noam Chomsky | Professor of Linguistics, MIT
"The next Presidential election will be a
watershed mark in our history and the urgency
of producing and distributing materials that
show exactly what is at stake has never been
higher. Hijacking Catastrophe will be a vital
tool in the campaign to rescue American
democracy from its internal enemies. It will
enrage and empower as it enlightens and
explains."
Robert McChesney | Author, Rich Media, Poor
Democracy
�What it really comes down to is this: Are
the American voters going to sit still for
this? Are we going to treat our democracy
like some sort of spectator sport, like
watching the Super Bowl, or are we going to
ask a little more of ourselves this time? Are
we going to explore the Bush
Administration�s claims? Are we going to
look at the details of what this
administration has actually done?�
William Hartung | Senior Fellow, World Policy
Institute
The 9/11 terror attacks continue to send
shock waves through the American political
system. Continuing fears about American
vulnerability alternate with images of
American military prowess and patriotic
bravado in a transformed media landscape
charged with emotion and starved for
information. The result is that we have had
little detailed debate about the radical turn
US policy has taken since 9/11.
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the
Selling of American Empire examines how a
radical fringe of the Republican Party has
used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to
advance a pre-existing agenda to radically
transform American foreign policy while
rolling back civil liberties and social
programs at home.
The documentary places the Bush
Administration's false justifications for war
in Iraq within the larger context of a
two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to
dramatically increase military spending in
the wake of the Cold War, and to expand
American power globally by means of military
force.
At the same time, the documentary argues that
the Bush Administration has sold this radical
and controversial plan for aggressive
American military intervention by
deliberately manipulating intelligence,
political imagery, and the fears of the
American people after 9/11.
Narrated by Julian Bond, Hijacking
Catastrophe features interviews with more
than twenty prominent political observers,
including Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Colonel
Karen Kwiatkowski, who witnessed first-hand
how the Bush Administration set up a
sophisticated propaganda operation to link
the anxieties generated by 9/11 to a
pre-existing foreign policy agenda that
included a preemptive war on Iraq.
Joining Kwiatkowski in a wide-ranging,
accessible, and ultimately empowering
analysis of American foreign policy, media
manipulation, and their global and domestic
implications, are former Chief UN Weapons
Inspector Scott Ritter, former Pentagon
analyst Daniel Ellsberg, Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate Jody Williams, author Norman Mailer,
MIT professor Noam Chomsky, Code Pink founder
Medea Benjamin, defense policy analyst
William Hartung, author Chalmers Johnson, and
Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Stan Goff
(Ret.).
At its core, the film places the deceptions
of the Bush Administration within the larger
frame of questions seldom posed in the
mainstream: What, exactly, is the agenda that
drove the administration's pre-war
deceptions? How is 9/11 being used to sell
this agenda? And what are the stakes for
America, Americans, and the world if this
agenda succeeds in being fully implemented
during a second Bush term?
INTERVIEWS INCLUDE
Tariq Ali | Benjamin Barber | Medea Benjamin
| Noam Chomsky | Kevin Danaher | Mark Danner
| Shadia Drury | Michael Dyson | Daniel
Ellsberg | Michael Franti | Stan Goff |
William Hartung
Robert Jensen | Chalmers Johnson | Jackson
Katz | Michael T. Klare | Lt. Col. Karen
Kwiatkowski (Ret.) | Norman Mailer | Zia Mian
| Mark Crispin Miller | Scott Ritter |
Vandana Shiva | Norman Solomon | Greg Speeter
| Fernando Suarez del Solar | Immanuel
Wallerstein | Jody Williams | Max Wolff
Directed by Sut Jhally & Jeremy Earp
Tags : MEF Iran Bush War Neocons Neoconservatives Iraq Empire Propaganda 9/11 WMD EFP oil media Rumsfeld Cheney |
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Affichage : 43109
Durée : 284 s |
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