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► Taming the Tigers - Thailand. Published on Jan 7, 2013 by journeymanpictures :: Thailand's Tiger Temple is one of the country's best-known tourist attractions. Yet marketed as a sanctuary to help conserve an endangered species, activists claim it has a history of exploitation and abuse. "If you're selling animal exploitation as a conservation project, then I have a serious concern," states Edwin Wiek of the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand. There's something undeniably mysterious and majestic about tigers, even in captivity. But while tourists are told the temple is a sanctuary for rescued animals, conservationist and animal rights activist, Sybelle Foxcroft, claims they are treated appallingly. "I personally saw sticks being broken across tigers' backs." The temple claims "assertive treatment" is the only way to train these powerful animals. In stark contrast, Foxcroft describes it as "probably one of the most horrific things I've ever seen." - SBS
► Documenting Asia's Illegal Animal Trade. Published on Jan 8, 2013 by VICE :: We visited photographer Patrick Brown to talk about his forthcoming book, Trading to Extinction, which documents the illegal trade of endangered animals in Asia. We then travel with Brown to Guangzhou, China, where he finishes his decade-long project.
► The Bubble - Raw footage of Marc Faber interview. Published on Nov 26, 2012 by TheBubbleFilm :: Raw footage of Marc Faber interview from The Bubble.
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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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► Hearing Loss Accelerates Brain Function Decline in Older Adults - Jan. 21, 2013 — Older adults with hearing loss are more likely to develop problems thinking and remembering than older adults whose hearing is normal, according to a new study by hearing experts at Johns Hopkins.
► Clairvoyant Camel Predicts Baltimore Ravens to Win Super Bowl - By Eliza Murphy | ABC News Blogs – Mon, Jan 21, 2013 || Jan 27, 2012 - Camel Predicts Super Bowl Winner
► Astronauts See Obama Inauguration Site from Space - by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com Staff Writer | Date: 21 January 2013
► Barack Obama inauguration speech: a greatest hits of rhetorical tricks. The president gave a smash-hits selection of oratorical devices, from emphatic anaphora to substantial syntheton - by Sam Leith | guardian.co.uk, Monday 21 January 2013
► U.S. debt limit vote set for Wednesday; Obama likely to sign. By Mark Felsenthal and David Lawder | Tue Jan 22, 2013
► Analysis: In speech, Obama pushes activist government and takes on far right. By Steve Holland | Tue Jan 22, 2013
► Obama's ball: No room to dance, but a night to remember. By Andy Sullivan and Andrea Shalal-Esa | Mon Jan 21, 2013
► Netanyahu turns to Iran after narrow election win
► Netanyahu tops exit polls - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won Israel's election according to exit polls. Deborah Gembara reports. :: Exit polls show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the winner of Israel's election . Celebration at his party's headquarters. Seen here earlier in the day, Netanyahu's Likud party along with the ultra-nationalist Yiserael Beitenu still have the most seats in the 120-member assembly --- reportedly 31 seats ---down from the 42 they held in the previous parliament. The centrist Yesh Atid party led by a former television talk show host came in second with 18 or 19 seats, a stunning result for a political newcomer. The once dominant Labour party was projected to take third place with 17 seats. Lawmaker Isaac Herzog says he thinks the left could form an alliance against Netanyahu's leadership. SOUNDBITE: ISAAC HERZOG, ISRAELI LAWMAKER FROM LABOUR PARTY, SAYING: I believe that right now we can be the center of a coalition with Yair Lapid, for a new government for Israel." During his campaign, 63-year-old Netanyahu promised to focus on tackling Iran's nuclear ambitions, if he won.
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► President Barack Obama's Inauguration Day Speech: Read His Complete Address - Access Hollywood – Mon, Jan 21, 2013
► Obama lauds progress on gay civil rights in inaugural address - By Mark Felsenthal | Reuters – Mon, Jan 21, 2013 (VIDEO)
► Boehner Pressures Senate to Pass Budget or Have Pay Withheld - By John Parkinson | ABC OTUS News
► Boehner has 'no clue' what he said to prompt Michelle Obama's eye roll - By Chris Moody, Yahoo! News (VIDEO)
► Inaugural parade highlights - The day's full highlights from the 57th Presidential Inauguration parade Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, in Washington, DC.(PHOTOS)
► 2013 Inauguration - Scenes from the day's events of the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. (PHOTOS)
► Martin Luther King Jr. honored. America's concern over gun violence became the focus of speeches in Atlanta on Jan. 21 honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who led a non-violent struggle for civil rights before he was gunned down at age 39. (VIDEO)
► 27th Amendment gets publicity in budget battle - By Scott Bomboy | National Constitution Center
► Clinton Benghazi Questioning Set -By Sarah Parnass | ABC OTUS News
► Taliban responds to Prince Harry: 'It's not a game—it's very, very real' | By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News
► Indonesia sentences UK woman to death over drugs - By FIRDIA LISNAWATI | Associated Press
► Space Explosion to Blame for Tree Ring Mystery, Astronomers Say - By Clara Moskowitz | SPACE.com
► Did Beyonce Lip-Synch At The Inauguration? - By Mike Krumboltz
► Al Green Turns Down Inauguration Celebration Invitation - By Billy Johnson, Jr.
► Shakira Gives Birth to Baby Boy -By Lizbeth Scordo
► Sheryl Crow Speaks Out About Lance Armstrong's Doping Confession: 'Honesty Is Always the Best Bet' - By Suzy Byrne
► Group Finds More Fake Ingredients in Popular Foods - By JIM AVILA and SERENA MARSHALL | Good Morning America
► Netanyahu pledge after narrow win
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to form "as broad a government as possible" after his bloc narrowly wins general elections.► Israel election exit polls suggest Netanyahu victory. 22 January 2013 - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to win a third term in office according to election exit polls. They suggest a narrow majority for Mr Netanyahu's Likud-Beitenu and potential nationalist and religious allies. The high turnout is thought to have benefited Labour and centrists, as Wyre Davies reports from Tel Aviv. (VIDEO) || NEWS :: Netanyahu setback in Israel poll
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► UK PM to promise EU referendum
Prime Minister David Cameron is to promise an in/out referendum on the EU if the Conservatives win the next election.► N Korea nuclear vow after UN acts
* Nick Robinson: Cameron's Europe test
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North Korea reacts angrily to a UN resolution condemning its rocket launch and expanding sanctions, pledging to strengthen nuclear capabilities.► 23 January 2013 - The rise of Islamist militants in the Sahara
* Pyongyang thumbs nose
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► Bali drugs: Death sentence for Briton Lindsay Sandiford. 22 January 2013 - A British grandmother has been sentenced to death by firing squad in Indonesia for drug trafficking. Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was arrested at Bali's airport in May last year after 4.8kg (10.6lb) of cocaine was found in the lining of her suitcase during a routine customs check. Her lawyers say they are "surprised" at the sentence and will appeal. Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire has condemned the sentence. Karishma Vaswani reports. (VIDEO)
* Death penalty for Bali drugs Briton► Mexican family living between a rock and a hard place. 22 January 2013 - As a boy, farmer Benito Hernandez came across a cave in the remote arid region of Coahuila in Mexico, and decided that one day he would make it his home. And for the past 30 years he and his family have been living in it, supporting themselves by harvesting a variety of local desert bush. Daniel Gallas reports. (VIDEO)
* Prosecutors drop Bali drug charge
► Lance Armstrong: Man buys 7,000 DVDs before Oprah interview. 22 January 2013 - A man in the UK has revealed he bought 7,000 DVDs of Lance Armstrong DVDs, days before the cyclist admitted to Oprah Winfrey that he had used doping. Karl Baxter, director of Wholesale Clearance UK, got the discs, which provide cycling tips to amateur cyclists, hoping to sell them on. (VIDEO) || NEWS - 21 January 2013 Australia library in Armstrong pledge prank
► 23 January 2013 - Salmon steak from GM fish could soon be on your plate | By Katia Moskvitch Technology reporter, BBC News
► Burmese boat people 'sold to smugglers'. 21 January 2013 - An investigation by the BBC has revealed that Thai officials have been allegedly selling boat people to human traffickers. Thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Burma's far west have taken to the sea in the last few months, heading east to Thailand. The BBC found that boats from Rakhine state were being intercepted by Thai navy and police, with deals then being done to sell the people to traffickers. Jonah Fisher reports from Thailand. (VIDEO)
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Arash Khalatbari, Press TV, Tehran || ► 'US not worried about Myanmar killings'. Published on Jan 5, 2013 :: An analyst says that the US and its Western allies are not concerned about the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. In the background of this a UN report says some 13,000 people have fled Burma now known as Myanmar chased out by racist Buddhists wanting an all-Buddhist country. Hundreds have been killed escaping and massacres have been committed by the Buddhist group. The government of Myanmar is complicit in the ethnic cleansing as is Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi by her silence in this matter. The mainstream international community are not only permitting this act to go ahead, but their media intentionally keeps this story well in the background. Press TV has interviewed Mr. Jahangir Mohammed, Director of the Center for Muslim Affairs, Manchester about this issue.
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► Smoking chimp evacuated from Lebanon zoo to sanctuary in Brazil. Uploaded on Nov 9, 2010 by Russia Today :: A 12-year-old chimpanzee is heading to a sanctuary in Brazil after animal rights workers discovered him smoking cigarettes to entertain visitors at a Lebanese zoo. Omega, who weighs around 60 kilograms, has never climbed a tree or seen other chimpanzees and has a troubling smoking habit he maintained from picking up cigarettes that visitors threw into his cage. Organizers of Omega's evacuation say it marks the first time a chimpanzee has been rescued in Lebanon, a country with virtually no animal rights protection laws.
► 22 January 2013 - How we became biohackers: Part one
► Serbia's seductive charms
► Amsterdam hotel proud to be the world's worst (ahahhaa... I could not help but laugh while reading this headline. The worst hotel in the world? Proud? ehehhee .... Why not? After all, just a hotel. I do not feel my self-esteem to go down just because I have to spend the night in the worst hotel in our city, for example. For me, it's still better than getting lost in a snob metropolitan)
► 22 January 2013 - Day in Pictures: 22 January 2013
► Today's African Proverb :: "A vulture has no business with the barber" - A Yoruba proverb sent by Anyanwu Chima, Lagos, Nigeria
► Netanyahu to form coalition 'as soon as possible' after tight win
► 'Muslim Patrol' in homophobic tirade during second London vigilante video
► At least three shot at Texas college (PHOTOS)
► Pentagon's DARPA reveals plans to reuse old satellites
► On the day of his death, US ambassador to Libya warned that he was in danger
► UN tightens sanctions on North Korea
► Rand Paul slams House Republicans over debt ceiling deal
Migrant workers in Russia face language test. Published on Dec 2, 2012 by Aljazeera English ::Russia's economy relies heavily on immigrant workers but starting from December all immigrants will have to sit a Russian language test in order to receive a work permit. Experts estimate that one third of all possible applicants are likely to fail. Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford reports from Moscow. ( My older post :: on 3 Desember 2012)
► Russia's lost opportunity to monitor orphans adopted in US – Ambassador
► Lower House indefinitely postpones gay propaganda hearings
► Communists fail to strip Russian ex-presidents of immunity
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► Fault Lines
■ Obama's Policy on Torture. Published on Jan 22, 2013 :: As a candidate for president, Barack Obama promised a new direction. Just days after taking office, the new US president issued a series of executive orders banning all acts of torture, discontinuing the use of CIA black sites, and calling for the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay to be closed. But what will it really take to dismantle the Bush administration's legacy of torture when there is the same leadership at the Pentagon, the same rhetoric about protecting "state secrets", and the same refusal to allow victims of rendition to file lawsuits in US courts - not to mention a fully functional US military prison at Bagram air base in Afghanistan?► Stream - Israel's new right
Among other things, since taking office, the Obama administration has asserted in court that prisoners held at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan have no right to challenge their detentions in US courts, pre-empted a supreme court ruling on whether a legal US resident can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial, and argued to dismiss cases brought by alleged victims of rendition on the grounds that they might pose a threat to US "national security". The litany of disappointing actions on human rights and civil liberties seems to be growing longer every day.
This week on Fault Lines, we talk to people on all sides of the so-called "war on terror" - from human rights lawyers to former Bush administration officials; from a former US detainee who was rendered to torture to the CIA analyst who helped author his fate. Where at first glance the US appears to be heading in a new direction, to what extent has the Obama administration turned its back on the abusive policies of the Bush era? And to what extent can we expect more of the same? (VIDEO)
■ A Tale of Two Bankruptcies. Published on Jan 22, 2013 :: Double standards. You hear a lot about them in the US these days, particularly from families facing economic disaster while they watch big banks get trillions of public dollars to shore up their bottom lines. To get a better understanding of what pundits call "populist rage," we compare the fates of two American institutions: one family, one bank.
Frank and Jeanne Bachard of Bridgeport, Connecticut were both city employees until health problems forced them into unemployment. They turned to their credit cards to pay for household necessities, amassing deep debt. And now they are discovering that - thanks to changes in the bankruptcy laws - they are actually too poor to go bankrupt.
Two years ago Citigroup was the biggest company in the world. Thanks to heavy bets in the risky derivatives market, it has plummeted from those heights, sinking under hundreds of billions in toxic debt. Some economists argue that it is actually bankrupt - a zombie bank that is being kept alive at taxpayer expense (more than $450bn and counting). One family, one bank. Obviously not comparable in most respects. But both are facing towering debts, both need help to get through this crisis. How did they both end up here? And what will happen to them next? Therein lies the tale. (VIDEO)
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(So, though you both have the same name (Martin), that does not mean Luther King is you, Mark ...ehehhee ....)► Hijacked Legacy: MLK's dream used & abused to push Pentagon agenda.Uploaded on Jan 18, 2011 by Russia Today :: When people across the globe joined together to honor Dr. Martin Luther King on his birthday, it showed the legacy of this moral crusader in America's race war - lives on. But as RT's Kristine Frazao discovered, some are also taking advantage of his name to gain support for U.S. wars abroad.
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