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Green Gold - Indonesia By journeymanpictures July 2007 How green are biofuels made from palm oil? In Indonesia, forests are being felled to make way for palm oil plantations. Deforestation is now the world's second greatest cause of greenhouse gas. "This is very bad", laments Greenpeace representative, Hapsoro, looking around a palm oil plantation. In this area alone, 8,000 hectors of forest have been replaced with plantations. Last year, more than a billion tones of carbon dioxide was released into the environment by forest fires, caused to clear land for plantations. Indonesia has high hopes palm oil will become the new green gold. "We want to be the number one exporter", states forestry minister Ms Ka'ban. Produced by SBS/Dateline Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: biofuels, deforestation, exports, forestry, gases, gold, green, greenhouse, indonesia, journeyman, oil, palm, pictures, plantations 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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The Great Meltdown - Antartica By journeymanpictures May 2007 Of all the places affected by global warming, Antarctica seems to be experiencing the most dramatic climate change. The landscape has been transformed, leaving animals struggling to adapt. "On really hot days, penguins are gasping for air", states Antarctic historian Dave Burkitt. Nearly 90% of glaciers here are retreating and ice shelves are collapsing at an alarming rate. With less ice available, seals have moved inland, where they disrupt nesting birds and damage plants. "The continent warming opens up the door to the introduction of many species", explains biologist Gary Miller. "That's our immediate concern." In 1914, the explorer Ernest Shackleton set out to explore Antarctica on foot. Comparing pictures of his voyage with the situation there now reveals the scale of changes. Produced by SBS/Dateline Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: antarctica, caps, global, ice, journeyman, penguins, pictures, polar, seals, warming 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Love Hotels - Japan By journeymanpictures April 2003 With the 'Hello Kitty S&M Room', 'Cleopatra Love Suite' and 'Boxing Ring Bed', there's something to suit every taste in the new 'Love Hotels.' Japanese couples can escape their overcrowded family homes for an evening of the kitsch and kinky. We check into 'The Love Shack', which provides sex-toys in the vending machines, condoms on the pillows and the best room service on the planet. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: hotel, japan, journeyman, kinky, love, pictures, sex, shack, toys 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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The Siachen Syndrome - Pakistan By journeymanpictures Aug 1998 It's a battlefield like no other on earth, where the elements and not enemy fire accounts for 95% of all casualties. A cease fire line was mapped out in the lower country but the politicians didn't bother to negotiate a boundary here. It is after all, uninhabitable. But as the power struggle escalates, every bit of territory counts. The high altitude combat is costing each side $730 million dollars a year. At 19,000 feet both sides lose on average two soldiers a day to oxygen deprivation or frostbite. Those that are tough enough to survive often go mad with the 'Siachen Syndrome' - a result of the isolation, the constant bombardment, and the grim reality of having to kill the only other human beings they may see in their three month posting. Caught in the crossfire, a shell explodes overhead. Aimed at the small valley town of Athamuqam, these shells are designed to spray hundreds of deadly metal fragments. India's test of a nuclear artillery shell has the population daily expecting armaggeddon. We meet a truck-full of Kashmiris fleeing the besieged town in search of food. There is nothing low-key about this fighting, it's incessant and deadly. The K2 postings are a lesson in the lengths India and Pakistan are prepared to go, to secure the next victory in Kashmir. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: battle, conflict, journeyman, k2, kashmir, land, pakistan, pictures, politician 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Sex Slaves By journeymanpictures Thousands of women from the former Soviet Union are being smuggled into Israel by the Bedouin to work as prostitutes. I cant imagine that in this century there are people who are slaves, states Superintendent Ely Levy. But many of the women in the brothels of Tel Aviv have been purchased over the internet by Israeli criminal gangs. While the gangs earn millions, the Bedouin smugglers responsible for getting the girls into Israel earn relatively little. The smugglers claim their actions dont hurt any Israelis: Were not like those Gaza smugglers who send weapons to the West Bank. But how long will it be before the arms smugglers discover the Bedouins routes? Tags: documentaries, documentary, hidden, israel, journeyman, pictures, sex, slaves, soviet, underground, union, women 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Snake Boy - Cambodia By journeymanpictures September 2008. In Cambodia, a real-life Mowgli strokes and kisses his five-metre long pet, a giant Burmese python. Seven-year old Sambath rides, wrestles and even sleeps with a snake big enough to squeeze a man to death. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: boy, cambodia, journeyman, pet, pictures, sambath, snake 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Speaking Out - Israel/Palestine By journeymanpictures November 2004 Sharon's government is coming under increasing pressure to revive the stalled peace process. Even its soldiers have started criticising the occupation. "We want Israeli society to wake up and know what's happening there," states former commander Yehuda Shaul. Like most young Israelis, Yehuda served in the army. But his experiences there left him angry and traumatised. Now, he's organised an exhibit of photographs and videos taken by soldiers in the Occupied territories. The aim is to force Israelis to recognise what's actually happening there and how it's damaging many soldiers. "This exhibition is about Israeli soldiers and how they come home after serving in Hebron," explains exhibition contributor Yonathon Boumfeld. "It's like they have a scratch in the brain." The most contentious part of the exhibit is a series of video testimonies from soldiers that include description of war crimes they committed. The soldiers face possible prison sentences for going public with their stories. But they refuse to be put off. More and more conscripts are coming forward with testimonies illustrating how they've been traumatised by their experiences. As exhibition organiser Avihai Sharon explains "We're not trying to ruin the army. We're trying to build the army back to what it's supposed to be." Produced by SBS/Dateline Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: israel, journeyman, out, palestine, pictures, speaking 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!) |
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The God Particle By journeymanpictures September 2007 It's one of the great unanswered questions of science. What gives matter its mass? By generating conditions present moments after the big bang, scientists hope to locate the elusive 'God Particle'. "This is going to take us to the next layer of understanding", enthuses Prof Geoff Taylor. The Hadron Collider at CERN, due to be switched on next year, will shoot beams of energy around a 27 km loop, smashing them into each other at the speed of light. It's all in the hope of detecting the Higgs Boson, or 'God' particle, thought to give matter its mass. CERN scientists will also create mini black holes and search for dark matter. As Taylor states: "We are on the verge of discovering how our universe evolved from the first few fractions of a second." Produced by SBS/Dateline Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: bang, big, experiment, god, humankind, journeyman, mass, matter, particle, pictures, science, understanding, universe 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Aids in South Africa - 34-min documentary By journeymanpictures Feb 2004 In South Africa, cultural dismissal of Aids is making any advances against the disease almost impossible. A group of young Zulu women form an orderly queue. They are waiting to have their virginity tested and to check that they are free from Aids. To have Aids is a disgrace, and most blacks, especially men, don't believe the disease really exists. 'Cures' for Aids include having sex with a virgin, leading to 1 in 3 children in South Africa being abused. Until attitudes change, the pandemic will continue to grow. Tags: africa, aids, disease, documentary, hiv, journeyman, pandemic, pictures, south 2 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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The West's Torture farm - Uzbekistan By journeymanpictures April 2005 It's one of the nastiest, most repressive dictatorships in Asia but its relationship with Washington has helped it avoid censor. Just how valuable an ally is Uzbekistan in the War on Terror? Critics of the government risk being tortured to death, there's no freedom of speech and all opposition parties are banned. "This is not a government. It's a monster against its own people," laments Prof Mirsaidov. In the name of fighting Islamic terror, Uzbekistan has jailed thousands of members of Hiz-but-Tahrir. The problem is, many claim they are innocent and confessions are extracted under torture. But despite its appalling human rights record, few Western governments seem willing to criticise it. Uzbekistan is now regarded as a key ally in the War on Terror. It allows the US to use its airbases to support operations in Afghanistan and American agents are believed to have 'rendered' terrorist suspects to Uzbekistan to be tortured. However, there are growing fears that siding with this repressive regime to fight terrorism is counter productive. As former British Ambassador Craig Murray states: "Our short sighted policy in Asia is creating the terrorism we claim we are fighting." Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: east, farm, fighting, journeyman, middle, pictures, terrorism, terrorists, torture, uzbekisatn, west's 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/top/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Rape Club - Japan By journeymanpictures July 2004 Japan's attitude towards women is under the spotlight following revelations that students at an elite university ran a 'rape club' dedicated to planning gang rapes. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: club, gang, japan, journeyman, pictures, rape, students, university 2 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Air France Flight 447 - France By journeymanpictures November 2009 Tags: 447, air, brazil, crash, france, journeyman, paris, pictures, plane 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Sacrifice in Timor - East Timor By journeymanpictures May 2004 A power struggle between two former allies in East Timor is threatening to destabilise the country. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: australia, east, journeyman, oil, pictures, power, timor 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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21st Century War - Indonesia By journeymanpictures 8 January 2001 Arguably globalisation did everyone a favour by melting down the economy of Indonesia because it laid bare a lot of despotism and corruption, The tragedy is that globalisation didn't just flatten the crony capitalists, but also the ordinary people who had just been working hard according to the local rules. The question now is whether institutions like the IMF can take advantage of the moment, or whether it will squash them into the ground; whether ultimately the IMF cares only about the interests of powerful countries and corporations.... Tags: asia, christians, clashes, conflict, indonesia, islam, journeyman, massacre, murder, muslims, pictures, religion 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Untouchable? - India By journeymanpictures December 2000 Veerasamy takes in washing for his living. He lives in a small village in southern India where all the inhabitants are Dalits - outcasts or 'Untouchables' as they're known in India. But even among the dalits, there are divisions, and Veerasamy belongs to the lowest scale of the hierarchy. The only payment he receives for back-breaking work, washing and steaming and drying the laundry of the village's 19 families, is the left-overs from their meals to feed his small family. Tags: discrimination, hierarchy, india, journeyman, outcasts, pictures, poverty 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Shaming Mother Teresa - India By journeymanpictures April 2001 A young girl holds out her hand -- horribly scarred when a senior nun applied a red hot knife as a punishment for misbehavior. Allegations of child abuse and neglect are surfacing along with serious questions about the administration of the charity's vast pool of donated money. A volunteer claims she witnessed mistreatment: "I've seen smacking... yanking around babies by their arms, letting their heads wobble." In a rare interview Mother Teresa's successor, Sister Nirmala, defends the mission but says she has no idea how much money it has "No-body knows -- it's God's maths". Critics argue that funds go to religious campaigns rather than poverty relief. Meanwhile, one of Mother Teresa's many supporters defends her legacy: "She is in the hearts of most people a saint..." Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: abuse, corruption, india, journeyman, legacy, mother, pictures, power, saint, teresa 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Female Infanticide - India By journeymanpictures May 1997 In India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, female infanticide is so frequent that all second daughters are known as 'the girl born for the burial pit'. Desperately poor families routinely kill girl babies after birth for fear they can't afford to raise them or provide the extortionate dowry required by a groom's family. Pavati's husband killed her second daughter the day she was born. She went home to her father's house and didn't eat for a month following the death but with two other children she had to return to her tiny hut and carry on. Another baby, Hymera was luckier, brought to a safe house by her uncle despite fierce opposition from his neighbours. Now she is cared for by people who value her life. Teenage girls sit in a circle in a coconut grove discussing the strengths they will need as India's next generation of mothers. A report on the attempts of agencies, such as the Indian Council for Child Welfare, to stop infanticide through re-education, training of women and providing homes for unwanted girl babies. So far prosecuting local mothers for murder has done little more than punish the saddest victims of a social tragedy. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: daughters, dowry, female, india, infanticide, journeyman, nadu, pictures, poor, rights, social, tamil, tragedy, women's 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Lost Generations - India By journeymanpictures August 2000 Pushpa was only 13 when her mother forced her to drop out of school and get married. She was 14 when she had her baby, and today at 15 her health - as a child mother - has suffered, and she finds looking after her baby very difficult. And Pushpa's case isn't unusual. In six Indian states, the average age for marrying among rural girls is under fourteen years. Both the young mothers and their babies suffer from this early childbearing. Some mothers and babies die, and as many as one Indian baby in three is born with low birthweight (under 2.5 kg) - a handicap that remains with them for the rest of their lives. Tags: childbearing, early, forced, india, journeyman, marriage, pictures, pregnancy 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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A Eunuch's Life - India By journeymanpictures 1 September 1999 In the heat of a Bombay night, the city's Eunuchs writh to the strains of Hindi pop. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures Tags: class, cross, dressing, hindi, india, journeyman, myth, pictures, religion, social, transexuals 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Nawaz Sharif Crying in Jail By tahirmasoodnew NAWAZ SHARIF GANJA CRYING IN JAIL Tags: benazir, bhutto, hakim, journeyman, killer, mqm, muhtarma, murders, musharraf, nawaz, pak..., pakistan, pictures, political, rivals, saeed, serial, sharif, sind 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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