Inside Obama’s Presidency | FRONTLINE | PBS
As Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, FRONTLINE takes a probing look at the first four years of his presidency.
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FRONTLINE: A Climate of Doubt
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Coming October 23, 2012.
FRONTLINE explores the massive shift in public opinion on climate change.Four years ago, climate change was hot. Politicians from both parties, pressed by an anxious public, seemed poised to act. But that was then. Today, public opinion about the climate issue has cooled, and politicians either ignore the issue or loudly proclaim their skepticism of scientific evidence that human activity is imperiling the planet. What’s behind this reversal? FRONTLINE correspondent John Hockenberry of PRI’s The Takeaway goes inside the organizations that fought the scientific establishment, environmental groups, and lawmakers to shift the direction of debate on climate issues and redefined the politics of global warming.
Watch on air and online beginning October 23 at 10 pm ET on PBS.
Destro
The people who should be ashamed of themselves are the American right wing base that bought into this scheme.
The American right wing is always claiming it is on the look out for govt manipulation and lies yet finds itself easily fooled by lies from the private sector.
The people who should be ashamed of themselves are the American right wing base that bought into this scheme.
The American right wing is always claiming it is on the look out for govt manipulation and lies yet finds itself easily fooled by lies from the private sector.9/30/12 3:56:01 pm
Money, Power & Wall Street, Part Two (VIDEO)
Episodes 3 & 4
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Radical suggestion after having watched this: Reform the motherfathers already! Probably the most hope-inspiring are the young Wall Street professionals, (former) bankers, traders, and analysts who know the game and have decided to formulate proposals to change it (see, for instance, occupythesec.org and mathbabe.org ). Think of ex-burglars as being the most qualified people to instruct security companies.
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Episode Four:
See Part One (Episodes One and Two) here or go directly to Frontline’s main page for this program which has lots of other good extras.
Preview: Money, Power and Wall Street, Part Two (VIDEO)
Actual Part Two airs Tonight
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Stolen from here.
If you haven’t watched Part One, yet, you should:
The front page for Frontline’s Money, Power and Wall Street has lots of other great stuff like additional interviews worth watching, e.g. this one with Cathy O’Neill.
Money, Power & Wall Street, Part One (VIDEO)
Episodes 1 & 2
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It is pretty clear, actually, that there was massive illegality going on; and if somebody with subpoena power was intent on prosecuting that, I don’t think there’s really much doubt that they would be quite successful in criminal prosecutions.
— Dennis Kelleher
It is time to end fraudulent lending, lending based on no collateral or lender’s own capital. This is destroying the credit market we all rely on. Watch:
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Episode 2:
Part Two (Episodes 3 & 4) coming on May 1st. Preview:
Main website: pbs.org
Inside the CIA’s ‘Kill List’
Inside the CIA's 'Kill List' | Top Secret America | FRONTLINE | PBS
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Inside the CIA’s ‘Kill List’
September 6, 2011, 10:34 am ET
An excerpt from Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin. Reprinted with permission from Little, Brown and Company
Targeted killings — critics call them assassinations — have been conducted by the U.S. government for a decade, and drones have played a large part in the continuation and frequency of such activities. Armed Predators and Reapers have become the weapons of choice for killing individual terrorist leaders in foreign lands. The success of weapon-carrying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) created a demand within every branch of the military and the CIA for as many of them as their corporate inventor, California-based General Atomics, could produce. It also spawned a development and production frenzy within the niche community of manufacturers experimenting with other types of unmanned aircraft, and with the many larger defense contractors whose technology is used to move a drone’s surveillance pictures and targeting information around the world — from the battlefield to the sanctuary — in a matter of seconds.
The number of drones in the U.S. arsenal has increased from sixty to more than six thousand since 9/11. Funding for drone-related projects and activities was about $350 million in 2001, when the first CIA Predator was being flown from a trailer once used as a daycare center in the parking lot of the agency’s headquarters. In ten years, spending on drones has ballooned to over $4.1 billion, and there are over twenty different types of UAVs in the government’s inventory. Most of them are used for surveillance. Some of the experimental ones are as small as a dragonfly, and disguised as one, too.
Video Previews: ‘Top Secret America’ - FRONTLINE | PBS
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FRONTLINE | Preview “Top Secret America” | PBS
FRONTLINE “Top Secret America” | Excerpt: “Obama’s Inaguration” | PBS
Coming 9/6: On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, FRONTLINE examines how a decade of fighting terrorism has reshaped the country and whether it has made us any safer.
In the years after Sept. 11, FRONTLINE produced more than 45 hours of award-winning films documenting the 9/11 attacks and America’s response to them. Now on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk (Bush’s War, The Torture Question and Cheney’s Law) teams up with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest, to investigate the dramatic changes that have reshaped America in the last decade. The program examines the history of the secret side of America’s “war on terror.” From the creation of black site prisons abroad and super-secret facilities here in America, to targeted killings and covert wars waged by special forces, and the creation of a multibillion-dollar terrorism-industrial complex, FRONTLINE and Dana Priest ask how a decade of fighting terrorism has reshaped the country and whether it has made us any safer.
Watch on air and online beginning Tuesday, September 6 at 9 pm ET on PBS (check local listings).
FRONTLINE | ‘Revolution in Cairo’ | Preview and Excerpt | PBS
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FRONTLINE: Revolution in Cairo | PBS
FRONTLINE goes inside the April 6th youth movement that helped light the fire on the streets of Cairo. Watch “Revolution in Cairo” on PBS Feb. 22. Due to rights restrictions, online steaming of this film will be limited to the United States. Please note: this program contains graphic imagery and descriptions of police abuse. Viewer discretion is advised.
In “Revolution in Cairo,” FRONTLINE goes inside the youth movement that ignited the uprising. We follow the “April 6th” group, which two years ago began making a bold use of the Internet for their underground resistance — tactics that led to jail and torture for many of their leaders. Now, starting with the “Day of Rage,” we witness those same leaders plot strategy and head into “Liberation Square” to try to bring down President Mubarak.
Also in this hour, veteran Middle East correspondent Charles Sennott of GlobalPost lands in Cairo for FRONTLINE to take a hard look at Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood — the most well-organized and powerful of the country’s opposition groups — as a new fight for power in Egypt begins to takes shape.
Watch on air and online beginning Tuesday, February 22 at 9 pm ET on PBS. Due to rights restrictions, online steaming of this film will be limited to the United States. Please note: this program contains graphic imagery and descriptions of police abuse. Viewer discretion is advised.
Facing Death | Frontline - PBS
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Facing Death | Frontline - PBS
Note: This program and trailer embeded herein deal with very sensitive issues. Viewer discretion is advised.
How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love, or your own? With extraordinary access to one of America’s top hospitals, FRONTLINE intimately chronicles today’s complicated end-of-life decisions. Watch “Facing Death” on PBS Tuesday, Nov. 23 and online now.
When the moment comes, and you’re confronted with the prospect of “pulling the plug,” do you know how you’ll respond? Unfounded rumors of federal “death panels” grabbed headlines last summer, but the real decisions of how we die — the questions that most of us prefer to put off — are being made quietly behind closed doors, increasingly on the floors of America’s intensive care units.
In “Facing Death,” FRONTLINE gains access to the ICU of one of America’s top hospitals to examine the complicated reality of today’s modern, medicalized death. Here, we find doctors and nurses struggling to guide families through the maze of end-of-life choices they now confront: whether to pull feeding and breathing tubes, when to perform expensive surgeries and therapies or to call for hospice.
The film also offers an unusually intimate portrait of patients facing the prospect of dying in ways that they might never have wanted or imagined.
Watch “Facing Death” Tuesday, November 23 at 9 pm ET on PBS (check local listings) and online now at FRONTLINE: Facing Death | PBS
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researchok
We'll see more of this. As health care funds are rationed out (and they are already are) these kind of real world choices and decisions will be brought to the fore. The real shame is that more often than not, these decisions are made during the period of medical crisis. If there were a forum where end of life discussions can be had prior ...
We'll see more of this. As health care funds are rationed out (and they are already are) these kind of real world choices and decisions will be brought to the fore. The real shame is that more often than not, these decisions are made during the period of medical crisis. If there were a forum where end of life discussions can be had prior ...11/15/10 12:18:43 pm
Frank says: