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| Love in the Time of Cholera - Shakira Trailer |
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This is an international trailer for 'Love in
the Time of Cholera'. Featuring the new song
'Despidida' from Shakira. In theaters this
November from 20th Century Fox and Stone
Village Pictures.
www.loveinthetime.com
Posted with permission from Stone Village
Pictures.
Tags : Love in the Time of Cholera Shakira |
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Durée : 143 s |
| Cholera Epidemic in Orissa |
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October 2007. There is no clear data on the
number of people who have died in the
epidemic so far. When the epidemic happened
the public health system run by the state
government failed to attend to ailing people.
The health system of orissa had attracted
much ridicule recently when a fake drug scam
became public. In recent times the health
ministry of the state government has been
attacked for many reasons. In the capital
city's neighboring district Nayagarh a doctor
turned out to be a vile criminal responsible
for many foeticides.
Orissa is a state of multiple paradoxes. It
has the maximum number of poor people while
being most mineral rich. Droughts, starvation
deaths, cyclones, floods & for other reasons
the people have been in distress for years.
Researching the other reasons tells you that
be it drought, cyclone or floods; all were
manmade disasters.
For decades crores of rupees were pumped into
the 'development' of
Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput districts despite
which people languish in disease. From the
Congress Govt to the BJD-BJP coalition, the
tradition of corruption, negligence and
inefficiency continued using the foreign aid
plea as a mask for development activities.
The only development that happened in Orissa
in the last 20 years is that the
infrastructure was laid by the state so that
miners could come and dig Orissa's mineral
wealth away, mostly found in these K-B-K
regions.
The mining companies have a brute style of
operating their business. Their moduc
operandi is to first build a relationship
with the bureaucracy, the politicians, the
oligarchy & the mafia before actually
beginning their real operations. They spend
years doing so and the real reason behind
this sort of approach by the cos. is the
strong resistance by the people of orissa
opposing the very presence of these
companies.
The state and people have been at loggerheads
since years now. It began fifty years ago
when 350 villages were forcefully displaced
to dam the Mahanadi river in Sambalpur.
People were beaten out of their homes by the
police. It is said that Jawaharlal Nehru, the
then Prime Minister of India told the people
to be displaced for the dam, "if you have to
suffer, you must suffer in the name of the
country". The people continue to suffer with
the very electricity that the dam makes yet
to reach them. They were picked out of
centuries old villages and put in tiger
infested forests. In their own words, "they
were pushed back in time". All that in the
name of development.
More recently the chief minister of orissa
Naveen Patnaik echoed Nehru when he said, "No
obstacle in the path of industrialisation
will be tolerated". He said that after
village people were murdered by the state
police at his orders
because they were opposing a Tata steel
factory. Tata is a company known to work in a
brute manner as in Singur & Chattisagarh
where the hands of the state police are
stained with blood of villagers opposing Tata
factories.
It is not less than a civil war with gun
totting people representing the left and the
right ideologies shooting at each other in
jungles. In all that violence the cries of
the people is suppressed.
In Kashipur three people were shot dead right
outside their villages because they were
strongly oppossing the aluminium company
Hindalco. Today they are known as martyrs in
Orissa and a source of inspiration many
villagers in Orissa who liken these three
people to the legendary Bhagat Singh & other
freedom fighters.
The epdidemic happened in the same region of
Kashipur and took many lives. The people in a
conflict situation with the state govt. since
2001 when the murders happened. Therefore it
is not a surprise that the state run health
system's inefficiency, negligience &
corruption could not contain the epidemic in
time.
Like the people of Sambalpur who have been
"pushed back in time" the so called
development of the Kashipur region has also
pushed back its people into the medieval age
with murders, mining & no medicine.
Tags : orissa epidemic cholera health development kalahandi rayagada koraput adivasi corruption governance shining india |
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Affichage : 3054
Durée : 378 s |
| David McGahan's World - Cholera |
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C-c-c-cholera, c-c-c-cholera, la la, la la,
la la, la la, la la lah.
David McGahan's World was a series of
sketches from the popular Australian 1990's
sketch comedy show, Full Frontal. The
sketches were a parody of your typical nature
documentary, and featured a mix of Shaun
Micallef's regular nonsensical and eccentric
humour, mixed with some crazy set designs.
Almost every single mockumentary shown on the
sketch ended with a video of two antelopes,
frequently referred to by David as 'goat
creatures'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Frontal_%28
TV_series%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Micallef
Tags : full frontal shaun micallef sketch comedy aussie humour funny tv david mcgahan's world cholera |
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Affichage : 9176
Durée : 151 s |
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