University Of Nairobi 45th Graduation Documentary 2011 Part 1

University Of Nairobi 45th Graduation Documentary 2011 Part 1 



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This documentary showcases the education might in University of Nairobi. The story is told from the Vice Chancellor to the students.

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Mary Abukutsa-Onyango: Why we should eat more indigenous plants and fruits

Mary Abukutsa-Onyango: Why we should eat more indigenous plants and fruits



公開日: 2012/07/05

Mary Abukutsa-Onyango, scholar and Professor of Horticulture at Jomo Kenyatta University, empowers citizens to learn sustainable uses and methods of production of indigenous African crops.
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Open Access and Research from Kenya and other Developing Countries
 

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In an interview conducted by Leslie Chan of Bioline International, Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology discussed the challenges she faced when trying to publish her original research on African Indigenous Vegetables (AIV) in "international" journals, and the importance of Open Access journals in Africa in ensuring that important research relevant to the continent are being published, read, and applied. The implications of Open Access for development in African countries were also discussed. The interview was recorded on Feb. 19th, 2010 at the University of Nairobi during a Workshop on Increasing the Impact of Research through Open Access, co-hosted by the University of Nairobi Library, eIFL.Net and Bioline International. bioline.org.br

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Strength Of A Woman: Dr Susan Mboya

Strength Of A Woman: Dr Susan Mboya 



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Tom Mboya Legacy



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Capital Talk Susan Mboya Kidero Part 1



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Capital Talk Susan Mboya Kidero Part 2



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Kenya - Tom Mboya's fatal links with CIA

By: Douglas Okwatch

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Fresh details of a conspiracy that could have provided a motive for the assassination of Cabinet Minister Thomas Joseph Mboya have emerged ahead of the 39th year since his death.

The CIA appears to have recruited the flamboyant minister and former trade unionist in a heavily funded "selective liberation" programme to isolate Kenya's founding President Jomo Kenyatta, who the American spy agency labelled as "unsafe."

Declassified information in an undated issue of Ramparts, an American political and literary magazine published in the 1960s and early 1970s, accessed by The Standard at the Kenya National Archives, shows an elaborate conspiracy by CIA to prop up Mboya and isolate Kenyatta.

Ramparts closed shop in 1975. Whether this scheme sowed seeds of suspicion and mistrust between Kenyatta and Mboya, who at the time of his assassination was the Economic Planning minister and Kamukunji MP, is a matter for further investigation.

The revelations come four months after Mboya's widow, Pamela, wrote to Mr Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general who also chaired talks that ended political violence in Kenya early in the year, asking that the matter be investigated afresh by a truth commission.

"The assassination of my husband, like others after him, is a matter that has remained shrouded in mystery and speculation, and which has been avoided by successive regimes in this country," she wrote.

 

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Trail of Questions

In a telephone conversation with this writer last month, Mrs Mboya promised to "drop the bombshell" in an interview. But she later changed her mind. Her last word was that she would spill the beans at an "appropriate time."

Questions also abound on whether the convicted assassin, Nahashon Njenga Njoroge, was actually executed. The testimony of the assassin's own brother and anecdotal evidence that he has been seen by a retired military officer, among other claims, pile on the doubts of his execution.

Secret letters, also declassified, further show that Mboya had a particularly tumultuous relationship with Mr Mbiyu Koinange, a minister and power broker of the Kenyatta presidency.

In one instance, Koinange wrote an emotional letter to Kenyatta to defend himself against allegations of disloyalty by Mboya.

"Sir, you know my loyalty to you personally, to our Kanu party; of my long loyalty to Kenya and latterly my loyalty to our new independent Council of Ministers."

"My loyalty is beyond doubt, therefore, my Prime Minister. I frankly feel that there is no need for me to reply to Mr Mboya's letter."

"It is unfortunate, ill-timed, egoistic and, if I may say so, an irresponsible letter which is skilfully designed by one of my colleagues to endanger the good working spirit among us."

Koinange was then Minister of State in the Office of the President and one of the most powerful figures in the Government. He died in September 1981.

The secret letters in our possession cover the period between 1961 and 1966. Desperate to extricate himself from the tag of traitor, Mboya, in a letter on March 11, 1961, pleaded with Kenyatta, who was languishing in a Lodwar jail: "I'd hate to appear a hero at your expense."

He attached copies of various statements he had made in meetings with the Governor for Kenyatta's perusal. The move appeared to capture his own internal consciousness that Kenyatta may have begun to perceive him as a threat.

The letters also reveal how the CIA used Kenyatta to finish Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, his Vice-President, politically by amending the Constitution to his office of all powers.
Traitor or nationalist?

Ramparts reported that: "The CIA programme in Kenya could be summed up as one of selective liberation. The chief beneficiary was Tom Mboya who, in 1953, became general secretary of the Kenya Federation of Labour."

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Both a credible nationalist and an economic conservative, Mboya who was popularly known as 'TJ', was ideal for CIA's purpose. The main nationalist hero and eventual chief of state, Kenyatta, was not considered "sufficiently safe" owing to his initial deep socialist leanings, the dossier said.

Ramparts quotes Mboya as saying: "Those proven codes of conduct in the African societies, which have over the ages conferred dignity on our people and afforded them security regardless of their station in life.

"I refer to the universal charity, which characterises our societies, and I refer to the African thought processes and cosmological ideas, which regard men, not as a social means, but as an end and entity in society."

This powerful quote not only captures Mboya's own prescription of African socialism, which endeared him to the West and made the CIA view his policy as safe, but it also paints the picture of an articulate, sophisticated and ambitious political thinker.

Soon after, Mboya joined the CIA jet set, travelling around the world from Oxford in the UK to Calcutta in India on funds from such conduits as the Africa Bureau and from the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU).

ICFTU, which played a key role in Kenya's independence through trade unionism, is an aggregation of international trade union secretariats set up in 1949 to counter an upsurge of left-wing trade unionism outside the communist bloc, according to Ramparts. The CIA allegedly funded operations at the time.

But when George Cabot Lodge, one of the directors of the ICFTU, made the statement (believed to have been in specific reference to Mboya at the time) that "the obscure trade unionist of today may well be the president or prime minister of tomorrow," he left no doubt about Mboya's personal ambitions and by extension the CIA's scheme of things.

Initially, CIA's natural strategy was to underwrite Mboya and his labour federation as a force against Kenyatta. But when tact changed in accordance with the world order and the CIA's new priorities, it was agreed that Western labour groups stop funding Mboya.

An accommodation with Kenyatta was now thought necessary, particularly to ensure that he did not support rebels in Congo, and to get him to close ranks against the agitating Kenyan left.

But the die had been cast. The CIA, through its activities, had effectively propped up Mboya as a possible future President of Kenya. That threat was real during Kenyatta's time and even at the dawn of the second decade of his leadership, according to Ramparts.

It was a strategy that the CIA would use again to the benefit of Kenyatta against Odinga – use the credibility of the appropriate militant to crush the rest. The CIA link, which Mboya vigorously fought to distance himself with, would be used later to fight him politically by branding him a traitor and a man who could not to be trusted. He wrote lengthy responses in his defence.

But had the CIA sowed enough seeds of wrath between Mboya and the political establishment in Kenya to provide someone with enough reason to kill him?

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Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya's murder & the return of one-party State

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 Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya (15 August 1930 – 5 July 1969) was a Kenyan politician during Jomo Kenyatta's government. He was founder of the Nairobi People's Congress Party, a key figure in the formation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU), and the Minister of Economic Planning and Development at the time of his death. Mboya was assassinated on July 5, 1969 in Nairobi.

Biography
Thomas Odhiambo Mboya was born on August 15, 1930 in Kilima Mbogo, near Thika town in what was called the White Highlands of Kenya.^[1]

Education
Mboya was educated at various Catholic mission schools. In 1942, he joined a Catholic Secondary School in Yala, in Nyanza province, St. Mary's School Yala. In 1946, he went to the Holy Ghost College (later Mang'u High School), where he passed well enough to proceed to do his Cambridge School Certificate. In 1948, Mboya joined the Royal Sanitary Institute's Medical Training School for Sanitary Inspectors at Nairobi, qualifying as an inspector in 1950. In 1955 he received a scholarship from Britain's Trades Union Congress to attend Ruskin College, Oxford, where he studied industrial management. Upon his graduation in 1956, he returned to Kenya and joined politics at a time when the British government was gaining control over the Kenya Land Freedom Army Mau Mau uprising.

Political life
Mboya's political life started immediately after he was employed at Nairobi City Council as a sanitary inspector in 1950. A year after joining African Staff Association, he was elected its president and immediately embarked at molding the association into a trade union named the Kenya Local Government Workers' Union. This made his employer suspicious, but before they could sack him, he resigned. However, he was able to continue working for the Kenya Labour Workers Union as secretary-general before embarking on his studies in Britain. Upon returning from Britain, he contested and won a seat against incumbent C.M.G. Argwings-Kodhek. In 1957, he became dissatisfied with the low number of African leaders (only eight out of fifty at the time) in the Legislative council and decided to form his own party, the People's Congress Party.
At that time, Mboya developed a close relationship with Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana who, like Mboya, was a Pan-Africanist. In 1958, during the All-African Peoples' Conference in Ghana, convened by Kwame Nkurumah, Mboya was elected as the Conference Chairman at the age of 28.
In 1959 Mboya organized the Airlift Africa project, together with the African-American Students Foundation in the United States, through which 81 Kenyan students were flown to the U.S. to study at U.S. universities. Barack Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a friend of Mboya's and a fellow Luo; although he was not on the first airlift plane in 1959, since he was headed for Hawaii, not the continental U.S., he received a scholarship through the AASF and occasional grants for books and expenses. In 1960 the Kennedy Foundation agreed to underwrite the airlift, after Mboya visited Senator Jack Kennedy to ask for assistance, and Airlift Africa was extended to Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (now Tanzania), Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and Nyasaland (now Malawi). Some 230 African students received scholarships to study at Class I accredited colleges in the United States in 1960, and hundreds more in 1961-63.^[2]
In 1960, Mboya's People's Congress Party joined with Kenya African Union and Kenya Independent Movement to form the Kenya African National Union (KANU) in an attempt to form a party that would both transcend tribal politics and prepare for participation in the Lancaster House Conference (held at Lancaster House in London) where Kenya's constitutional framework and independence were to be negotiated. As Secretary General of KANU, Mboya headed the Kenyan delegation.
After Kenya's independence on 1 June 1963, Mboya was elected as an MP for Nairobi Central Constituency (today: Kamukunji Constituency)^[3] and became Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs,^[4] and later Minister for Economic Planning and Development. In this role, he wrote the important "Sessional Paper 10" on Harambee and the Principles of African Socialism (adopted by Parliament in 1964), which provided a model of government based on African values.

Assassination
He retained the portfolio as Minister for Economic Planning and Development until his death at age 38 when he was gunned down on July 5, 1969 on Government Road (now Moi Avenue), Nairobi CBD after visiting a pharmacy.^[5] Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge was convicted for the murder and later hanged. After his arrest, Njoroge asked: "Why don't you go after the big man?.^[6] Who he meant by "the big man" was never divulged, but fed conspiracy theories since Mboya was seen as a possible contender for the presidency. The mostly tribal elite around Kenyatta has been blamed for his death, which has never been subject of a judicial inquiry. During Mboya's burial, a mass demonstration against the attendance of President Jomo Kenyatta led to a big skirmish, with two people shot dead. The demonstrators believed that Kenyatta was involved in the death of Mboya, thus eliminating him as a threat to his political career although this is still a disputed matter.
Mboya left a wife and five children. He is buried in a mausoleum located on Rusinga Island which was built in 1970.^[7] A street in Nairobi is named after him.

Mboya's role in Kenya's politics and transformation is the subject of increasing interest, especially with the coming into scene of American politician Barack Obama II. Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a US-educated Kenyan who benefited from Mboya's scholarship programme in the 1960s, and married during his stay there, siring the future Illinois Senator and President. Obama Sr. had seen Mboya shortly before the assassination, and testified at the ensuing trial. Obama Sr. believed he was later targeted in a hit-and-run incident as a result of this testimony.^[8]

Personal life
Mboya's father Leonard Ndiege was an overseer at a sisal plantation in Kilima Mbogo.^[9] Mboya married Pamela Mboya in 1962 (herself a daughter of the politician Walter Odede). They had five children, including daughters Maureen Odero, a high court judge in Mombasa, and Susan Mboya, a Coca-Cola executive who continues the education airlift program initiated by Tom Mboya. Their sons are Luke and twin brothers Peter (died in 2004 in a motorcycle accident) and Patrick (died aged four). After Tom's death, Pamela had one child, Tom Mboya Jr., with Alphonse Okuku, the brother of Tom Mboya.^[10] Pamela died of an illness in January 2009 while seeking treatment in South Africa.^[5]

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RUSSIA'S PLOSKY TOLBACHIK VOLCANO ERUPTS PRODUCING STUNNING



公開日: 2013/03/05

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Spectacular images of Plosky Tolbachik volcano eruption - no comment



公開日: 2013/03/07

http://www.euronews.com/nocomment/ A volcanic eruption in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula has produced stunning images of lava flows oozing through a snowy wilderness.

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FOUR VOLCANOES ERUPT AT ONCE ON RUSSIA'S REMOTE KAMCHATKA



公開日: 2013/02/06
(Joel 2:30-31) "And I will show wonders in the Heavens and in the Earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke (VOLCANO ERUPTIONS) . The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, (Before) the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord."...Thanks to ADRENALINEJUNKY -Jason Hendricks

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Volcan Tolbachik, Kamtchatka



公開日: 2013/03/07
Nuits de braise au cœur de l'hiver russe.
Entré en éruption le 27 novembre dernier, le volcan Tolbachik continue de déverser des torrents de lave dans les contrées immaculées du Kamtchatka. Notre photographe a planté sa tente 11 jours durant, dans la neige et le froid pour suivre ses effusions.

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Close up view; Lava Flows From Russian Volcano, amazing footage of lava rivers



公開日: 2013/01/29
A volcano is continuing to erupt in Russia's Far East, sending plumes of gas and ash into the sky. The Plosky Tolbachik volcano started erupting in November after lying dormant for almost 40 years. (Jan. 28)

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Tolbachik Earthquake animation 2012



公開日: 2012/12/05

Earthquake animation Tolbachik 2012
This an animation of earthquakes in the Tolbachik area since the beginning of 2012 up to November 30th.
The elevation is shown with correlating colormap on the right. The main volcanoes of the zone are indicated.
Dot size is proportional to earthquake magnitude.

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トルバチク山（Tolbachik）とは、ユーラシア大陸のカムチャツカ半島に存在する複合火山である。なお、トルバチク山は、この山の一番高い場所であるOstry Tolbachikという名で呼ばれることもあるのだが、同じカムチャッカ半島のen:Ostryという全く別の火山があるので、混乱しないよう注意願いたい。

トルバチク山は、2つの火山を含んでいる。1つは、Plosky Tolbachik（なだらかなトルバチク、標高3085m）の盾状火山であり、もう1つは、Ostry Tolbachik（急峻なトルバチク、標高3682m）の成層火山である ^[1] 。 この火山は過去何千年にも渡って噴火を繰り返してきたことが知られている。それらの噴火の中で、1975年から1976年にかけて起こった噴火は、カムチャッカ半島の火山が起こした噴火としては、史上最大級の規模の噴火であったとされている ^[2] 。 そして、この噴火は「The Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption」、すなわち「トルバチクの巨大割れ目噴火」として一般に知られている。なお、この噴火の前には群発地震が発生したこともあり、ソビエト連邦の火山学学会の科学者達は、この噴火の予知に成功したことでも知られている。この1975年から1976年にかけての噴火によって噴出した玄武岩質の溶岩の量は、カムチャッカ半島の火山が1回の噴火で噴出した溶岩の量としては史上最大級であったとされる。この噴火の結果、幾つかの噴石丘（英語版）が新しく形成された。

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Miracle Money by Prophet Angel

Miracle Money by Prophet Angel



公開日: 2012/10/05

http://www.SHAREtheFIRE.org
This is an incredible Prophet from Zimbabwe named Prophet Uebert Angel. He is the most accurate personal prophecy Prophet that I have ever witnessed in my 26 years of ministry. The fear of the Lord is almost tangible on this video, let it touch your heart.
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BBC - WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower (Ep. 1)



公開日: 2012/03/22

Originally aired March 21, 2012 on BBC Two.

Richard Bilton uncovers a struggle at the heart of US diplomacy between the ideals of freedom and spreading democracy, and the ruthless demands of American security and narrow self-interest. He examines what the WikiLeaks cables reveal about America's conflicted dealings with Egypt's deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak, and shows how US diplomats in Cairo missed warning signs that revolution in Egypt was coming. And he details the moral tension in US diplomacy brought about by America's controversial War on Terror. Using the cables, Richard uncovers the moral compromises made by America's diplomats over the repatriation of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, and he shows the secret US efforts to block investigations into alleged CIA rendition and abuse.

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BBC - WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower (Ep. 2) 



公開日: 2012/03/28

Originally aired March 28, 2012 on BBC Two.

In the second of two programmes about American diplomacy and the leaked US embassy cables, Richard Bilton examines what the cables reveal about how America handles its enemies and rivals.

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Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks 



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The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and videos. Founder Julian Assange, who is reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished and what drives him.

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The Great Euro Crisis - 2012

The Great Euro Crisis - 2012



公開日: 2012/06/09

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Self-confessed Eurosceptic Michael Portillo visits debt-stricken Greece. He believes that the euro crisis must have shaken the Greeks' faith in Europe's single currency and wonders if there'll be a desire to revert to the free-floating drachma. In Athens he meets everyone from a destitute young family to the former finance minister and the outgoing Prime Minister, and is surprised by some of their answers.

Meanwhile in Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, Michael encounters the taxpayers who are paying most towards Greece's mammoth financial bailout while having to watch angry Athenians burning the German flag.

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America's Money Vault - National Geographic Documentary

America's Money Vault - National Geographic Documentary



公開日: 2013/02/22

Whether it's cash, gold, or digital-data bits, we all know that money makes the world go round. But what our host, Jake Ward of Popular Science magazine discovers in this one hour special is that without the engines that power the world's financial systems, that world would grind to a halt.

For the first time, National Geographic Channel takes you inside the heart of the money machine to places that you're not allowed to bring a camera... straight into the vaults of some of the world's largest stashes of what you want, need, and bust your butt to get: Money.

America's Money Vault follows 55 million dollars worth of gold as it makes it's way down into the most valuable gold vault in the world. Hidden deep under the streets of New York City, hundreds of billion dollars in gold bars—the wealth of nations—are tucked away in a bunker that is anchored to the bedrock of Manhattan Island itself.

Next, we head above ground to a place where twenty four billion dollars changes hands every year, New York's Gold District. Jake goes behind the storefronts to see how everybody from the street level to the brokers make their money buying, selling and even finding gold. He meets Onikwa Thomas who calls himself the urban miner and claims to earn up to four hundred dollars a week off of gold specks found in the cracks of sidewalks. And steps away thousands of dollars in transactions take place, made by Dimitriy Nezhinskiy as he wheels and deals in the world of gold hawkers.

America's Money Vault then takes you to Washington, DC to hear from one of the most powerful men in the world of money, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Chairman Bernanke gives us a window into the history of economic meltdowns.

Jake then heads to East Rutherford, New York where a vault that can reportedly hold $60 billion in cash sits in the middle of a suburban neighborhood. EROC is one of The Fed's currency operations centers. Here rows and rows of cash and coin are counted, sorted, stacked, cleaned and shredded. EROC is equipped with special machines that are designed to detect counterfeit cash.

From the engraver's studio to the production floor at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Jake goes deeper in the world of counterfeit deterrence and profiles the next generation $100 bill that's not yet in circulation.

Finally, America's Money Vault profiles the exclusive story of how the New York Federal Reserve Bank responded to the 9/11 crisis. Never-before publically-seen footage taken from the New York Fed's security cameras help to tell the story of how the Fed's actions prevented the terrorists from crippling the financial markets in the days and weeks that followed the collapse of the twin towers.
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Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve



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Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, "Federal Reserve" is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates.

Dedicated to Murray N. Rothbard, steeped in American history and Austrian economics, and featuring Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell, this extraordinary documentary is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority.

Alan Greenspan was not, we're told, happy about this 1996 blockbuster. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating. This movie is changing America.

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Park Avenue - Money, Power & the American Dream [HD] 



公開日: 2012/12/30

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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) presents his take on the gap between rich and poor Americans in Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream. Gibney contends that America's richest citizens have "rigged the game in their favor," and created unprecedented inequality in the United States.

Nowhere, Gibney asserts, is this more evident than on Park Avenue in New York. 740 Park in Manhattan is currently home to the highest concentration of billionaires in the country. Across the river, less than five miles away, Park Avenue runs through the South Bronx, home to the poorest congressional district in the United States.

In Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, Gibney states that while income disparity has always existed in the U.S., it has accelerated sharply over the last 40 years. As of 2010, the 400 richest Americans controlled more wealth than the bottom 50 percent of the populace — 150 million people. In the film, Gibney explains why he believes upward mobility is increasingly out of reach for the poor.

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Stealing Africa - Why Poverty?



公開日: 2013/01/05

STEALING AFRICA: How much profit is fair?

Rüschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Based on original research into public documents, the film describes the tax system employed by multinational companies in Africa.

Director Christoffer Guldbrandsen
Producer Henrik Veileborg
Produced by Guld­brandsen Film

Why Poverty?
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Africa you never see on TV - Poverty in Europe



アップロード日: 2011/09/10
In the Western Media we are bombarded every single day with images of AFRICANS in deplorable situations.
FLASH NEWS!!! Poverty is found in all Nations but the MEDIA has maliciously attributed poverty ONLY to AFRICA!!

Inventions of the American Mind regarding the global world. For most Americans the mention of Africa immediately conjures up images of ferocious animals, strangely dressed "tribesmen" and impenetrable jungles.

... Meanwhile the WEST (big corporate industries) gets rich of African Natural Resources they turn around and say Africa is poor!!!!

GO FIGURE!!!

I call it the AFRO-INFO REVOLUTION!!!!

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Land Rush - Why Poverty?



公開日: 2013/01/06

LAND RUSH: How do you feed the world?

75% of Mali's population are farmers, but rich, land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas into agribusiness farms. Many Malian peasants do not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism. As Mali experiences a military coup, the developers are scared off - but can Mali's farmers combat food shortages and escape poverty on their own terms?

Director Hugo Berkeley & Osvalde Lewat
Producer Eli Cane
Produced by Normal Life Pictures

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Education Education - Why Poverty?



 公開日: 2013/01/04

EDUCATION EDUCATION: What does an education get you?

In ancient times in China, education was the only way out of poverty -- in recent times it has been the best way. China's economic boom and talk of the merits of hard work have created an expectation that to study is to escape poverty. But these days China's higher education system only leads to jobs for a few, educating a new generation to unemployment and despair.

Director Weijun Chen
Producer Don Edkins
Produced by Steps International

Why Poverty?
http://www.whypoverty.net/en/video/39/

Video URL: http://youtu.be/BP61LwODTnY

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非営利団体と社会活動

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Give Us The Money - Why Poverty?



公開日: 2012/12/10

GIVE US THE MONEY: How do you change the world?

From Live Aid to Make Poverty History, celebrities have become activists against poverty. Bob Geldof and Bono have been the most prominent voices advocating on behalf of the poor. But have their concerts and campaigns really lifted millions out of poverty?
Geldof, Bono and Bill Gates speak candidly about how to lobby effectively and how to play to politicians' weaknesses for glitz and popularity.

Director Bosse Lindquist
Producer David Herdies
Produced by Momento Film

Why Poverty?
http://www.whypoverty.net/en/video/33/

Video URL: http://youtu.be/cgGP3zV8kdU

カテゴリ
非営利団体と社会活動

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Solar Mamas - Why Poverty?



公開日: 2013/01/06

SOLAR MAMAS: Are women better at getting out of poverty than men?

Rafea is the second wife of a Bedouin husband. She is selected to attend the Barefoot College in India that takes uneducated middle-aged women from poor communities and trains them to become solar engineers. The college's 6-month programme brings together women from all over the world. Learning about electrical components and soldering without being able to read, write or understand English is the easy part. Witness Rafea's heroic efforts to pull herself and her family out of poverty.

Directors: Mona Eldaief & Jehane Noujaim
Producer: Mette Heide
Produced by Plus Pictures


Why Poverty?
http://www.whypoverty.net/en/video/37/

Video URL: http://youtu.be/ON_NQ1HnRYs

カテゴリ
非営利団体と社会活動

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BBC HARDtalk - On the Road : Equatorial Guinea (17/12/12)



公開日: 2012/12/17
HARDtalk on the Road has journeyed to the tiny, oil rich West African nation of Equatorial Guinea for an exclusive look inside one of Africa's most controversial regimes. For the past 33 years the country has been ruled by President Teodoro Obiang; his critics accuse him of systematic corruption and repression, he describes himself as a champion of African development. Thanks to an oil and gas bonanza Equatorial Guinea should be, per capita, one of the wealthiest nations on earth. In fact most of the population lives on little more than a dollar a day. Why? Stephen Sackur and HARDtalk go on the Road in Equatorial Guinea.

Credits
Interviewed Guests in order of appearance -
anonymous,
Plácido Micó Abogo,
Max Bai,
Vincente Cabrera,
Teodoro Obiang

Presenter - Stephen Sackur
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pd1s8

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ニュースと政治

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Stolen Money Keeps Africa Underdeveloped 

アップロード日: 2012/02/24
Exposing how an oil rich African country like Equatorial Guinea can still remain poor.

カテゴリ
非営利団体と社会活動

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Poor Whites - South Africa



アップロード日: 2007/08/16

June 2006
Since the end of apartheid, thousands of white South Africans have been forced into poverty. They blame the government's positive discrimination policies, which favour black employees.

Twelve years ago, Afrikaners like Betsie Dreyer lived a privileged and cocooned life. Now, many are dependent on charity handouts. "We are fighting all the time to survive." The government is determined to see the workforce appropriately reflect the population. It gives black people priority in employment, sets 'black quotas' for businesses and favours companies owned by black people. But critics accuse the government of neglecting its responsibility to white citizens. As union rep Kallie Kriel states: "It's ironic that a government that fought racial laws is now doing exactly the same thing."

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

カテゴリ
ニュースと政治

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