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The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance
Michael Oswald's film The Spider's Web reveals how at the demise of the empire, the City of London's financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in The Secret World of Finance.
The landmark Roe v. Wade decision, handed down by the United States Supreme Court in 1973, touched off a divide deep within the American culture that shows little signs of healing. The reason is not necessarily that people have intransigent views when it comes to abortion. Instead, the issue is genuinely hard to grapple with, even from a moral standpoint, as Harvard Law Professor and bioethicist Glenn Cohen explains.
The first question we face when deciding whether abortion is immoral is this: are fetuses persons? That may seem like a straightforward question, but determining personhood requires understanding the distinction between a person, a human being, and being alive.
Certainly not all things that are alive are persons. A dog, for example, is very much alive and very lovable indeed, but not a person. As simple as this distinction seems, it has its detractors. The philosopher Peter Singer, for example, says that distinguishing between what is human life and inhuman life is an example of speciation — an act of discrimination that is ultimately logically untenable (and we should therefore abandon it).
According to Cohen, some scholars say that stem cells and embryos are human beings, but not persons. They are made of human being stuff but they do not have the moral and legal rights — namely, the right of inviolability — that we accord to individual persons.
Those who believe the granting of rights is more a political act than a natural one may look toward what Cohen calls a "capacity 'x'," i.e. some other quality that more accurately defines what a person truly is. Examples of such a capacity 'x' include experiencing a continuity of identity, or possessing self-knowledge. While these qualities form more naturally than the granting of political rights, they open the door to difficult-to-justify actions like infanticide (since the infant brain is insufficiently developed to have the concept of an identity, or to articulate self-knowledge).
If one decides to stick with a definition of "person" that is determined by the existence of moral and legal rights, thinkers such as Judith Jarvis Thomson point out that the rights of a mother countervail — she is a person, too, after all. Thomson's famous thought experiment, "the famous violinist" has become perhaps the most recognizable philosophical defense of abortion.
Glenn Cohen's book is Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics.
Barbara Amaya ran away at the age of 12 after being abused by family members. She was taken in on the streets of Washington, DC by a couple who seemed nice, but ended up selling her into human trafficking. She was used for months and then sold to a man named Moses who took her to New York and continued to traffic her for many years. Now Barbara fights for other victims of human trafficking and to change policies that treat victims as criminals.
Barbara is an anti-trafficking advocate, speaker, trainer, author and survivor leader in the movement to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. She is Senior Technical Adviser, Policy, Programs and After Care Services at SeraphimGlobal, and has been actively raising awareness of the sexual exploitation of children and domestic sex trafficking since 2012.
I live in the Netherlands, where we have some pretty great trains. But there's a country in Europe that does trains better. Much better, in fact.
Switzerland has some of the best trains in the entire world - second, perhaps, only to Japan. What makes these trains so good? And what is it like to actually ride them?
Slavery didn’t start in 1492 when Columbus came to the New World. And it didn’t start in 1619 when the first slaves landed in Jamestown. It’s not a white phenomenon. The real story of slavery is long and complex. Candace Owens explains.
Atomiser est bien le mot, puisque désormais la France n'exportera plus son uranium que de sources pro-russes: l'Ouzbékistan, le Kazakhstan et maintenant le Niger... et donc en effet Moscou vient d'atomiser calmement la Françafrique.
En somme, pendant que Paris envoyait ses VAB, ses CAESAR, ses AMX10-RC et ses SCALP à l'Est, Moscou déstabilisait 75% de son influence en Afrique et retournait le Niger et le Burkina Faso. Aujourd'hui presque quatre nations africaine sur cinq ont signé un accord de coopération militaire avec la Russie.
La prochaine ciblé désormais est le Tchad, de toute évidence. Dans cette guerre Froide 2.0, Moscou a commencé par démontrer plusieurs fois son incapacité à sauver la peau des chefs d'Etat amis (e.g. Khadaffi) puis au contraire, a manifesté sa diplomatie du "plus un pas en arrière" (e.g. Bachar el Assad), et se trouve dès lors crédible pour protéger ses nouveaux alliés sur le continent (eg. Ibrahim Traoré). Ndjamena en fera-t-elle partie? Ce qui est certain, c'est qu'entre Paris et Moscou, ce pivot africain qu'est le Tchad devra choisir.
Enfin, les russes viennent de se positionner pour absorber l'empire économique français en Afrique, ou tout du moins une partie, et apporter aux BRICS ce qui fut autrefois le système Franc CFA...
The Music Industry has an infamous history as one of the shadiest. Within this new docuseries we will be take a look at it's dark side. Between the ties to organized crime to the rigging of the charts, the goal of this series is to be a walkthrough, and tour through the stories the industry would probably like to ignore.
Climate change is causing temperatures to rise. And everyone is consuming more water - whether it’s to make soda, microchips or cattle feed. But our reservoirs are running dry. Investors are buying water rights, prices are going up and farmers are running out of water.
The climate crisis is worsening worldwide. In many countries, increasing drought is threatening not only human survival, but entire ecosystems. Livestock farmers are running out of water. In India, farmers can no longer irrigate their fields. People are fleeing their homes in large numbers.
Who owns water? Will there be more and more conflicts, even wars, over water? What will happen if our water disappears?
This is a three-part documentary series:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MZFrJPPIQ8
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTg-Gpb2Tw
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9edWX7TTsLw
Après le coup d’État du 26 juillet 2023 au Niger, une grande partie de la population nigérienne manifeste son mécontentement quant à la présence sur son territoire de l’État français : l’ancien colonisateur subit un nouvel échec dans ses relations africaines et ne comprend visiblement pas pourquoi car il commet encore et toujours les mêmes erreurs. Ce sentiment de rancœur est le produit d’une histoire lourde, celle de la Françafrique.
Nous allons voir le cas de l’entreprise ELF-Aquitaine : pionnière du système néocolonial et bastion du renseignement français en Afrique, c’est une des clefs de voûte de la domination sans précédent et du paternalisme français envers ses anciennes colonies.
Depuis sa création en 1967 à son rachat par Total en 2000, la compagnie pétrolière a usé de différents stratagèmes tous plus fourbes et cachés les uns que les autres pour assouvir l’indépendance énergétique de la France à prix cassé, en collaboration directe avec l’État français bien sûr. Manipulations politiques, contrats illégaux, affaires de corruption et mensonges sont au programme de cette émission.
Il existe des plantes anti-moustiques qui sont efficaces et particulièrement décoratives au jardin.
Alors autant joindre l’utile à l’agréable !
Si vous voulez limiter les piqûres de moustiques, j’ai sélectionné 6 plantes parfaites à planter :
- Soit dans les massifs du jardin proche de votre terrasse.
- Ou bien dans un massif sous votre fenêtre de chambre
- Elles se plaisent aussi très bien en pot ou en bac à poser sur le rebord de la fenêtre
Vous pourrez faire de belles compositions avec ces 6 plantes qui vont vraiment bien ensemble, de jolis feuillages, de belles et longues floraisons.
Si vous les plantez toutes ensemble, les moustiques n’ont qu’à bien se tenir ! ;)
La question englobe les sujets mystérieux mentionnés dans le récit de Genèse 6. Comment comprendre et aborder ce texte lorsqu'il est question des héros géants de l'antiquité ou d'un bateau capable de contenir un nombre incalculable d'espèces d'animaux? Florent Varak nous aide à y voir plus clair.
Cet épisode au format un peu spécial est extrait du temps de questions/réponses enregistré lors de notre dernier camp TPSG.
This is the FULL MOVIE! - The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.
Director / Producer: Brian Knappenberger
Projet 12³ = Je lance 12 SaaS en 12 mois pour atteindre 12k€ / mois 🚀 et je documente le process pour vous 📸
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Our investigation reveals more than $1 billion raised by the Mormon church in Canada has been funnelled to the U.S. rather than going to charitable works in this country. We hear from former members in Canada and elsewhere who say concerns about how money is spent have led them to leave the church.
In February 2020, a shocking video began to circulate on Chinese social media. A group of African children are being instructed, by a voice off-camera, to chant phrases in Chinese. The kids repeat the words with smiles and enthusiasm — but they don’t understand that what they’re being told to say is “I am a black monster and my IQ is low.” The clip ignited outrage in China and beyond.
But no-one ever answered the crucial questions: Why was this filmed? Where was it shot? Who made it?
These questions send #BBCAfricaEye and #BBCEyeInvestigations reporters Runako Celina and Henry Mhango on a journey into a Chinese video-making industry that exploits vulnerable children across the continent.
Why would a megachurch pastor leave his faith? What questions are raised through his journey that we need to address, and how can we better love people who deconstruct and ultimately deconvert? In this episode, Sean and Scott discuss a book called Goodbye Jesus by former megachurch pastor, now Humanist, Tim Sledge.
Jennifer Bilek is an investigative journalist, a feminist and a leading voice really looking behind the curtain at who is pushing this TRANS AGENDA!
In this interview, we discuss one of the most controversial subjects of our time: the massive effort to promote transgenderism and to push "gender-affirming care" on children. Everyone has heard of the documentary "What is a Woman" but that film didn't dare ask: "Who is behind this?"
This interview was shot as apart of a documentary What Happened At School?
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We located the most hard-hitting professional journalist digging into who is imposing this bizarre agenda on us. Jennifer Bilek is a lifelong feminist, alarmed by men who don the mask of womanhood and then demand that all of society affirm this "identity."
People are free to do what they like with their own bodies and time, but asking—nay, forcing—everyone else to ignore biological reality is another matter.
Jennifer Bilek blows the whistle in her hard-hitting investigative pieces that can be found at:
www.The11thHourBlog.com
We contacted her and got this in-depth interview that gets to the bottom of WHO IS BEHIND ALL THIS?
The INSANE Story of Uber....
Welcome to the story of Uber, covering the journey of Uber from idea to empire. Uber in many ways is an incredible business success story, of how Travis Kalanick defied the odds and grew Uber so rapidly despite countless challenges. However, this video also looks at many of the controversies Uber faced along the way, such as Uber's culture issues, Uber's fight in China, and their battles to outwit local authorities by using their secret Greyball software.
DISCLAIMER: This video utilises a wide variety of secondary sources, but is heavily based on the book Super Pumped by Mike Isaac. Whilst every effort has been made to cross reference information, this video should be treated as one (simplified) version of the Uber story, and NOT a documentary. As with any story, there will always be differing views, and nuance that is lost. This video is meant to provide a summary of existing public information about Uber's story, and is not a piece of journalism. Any views expressed in the video are not connected to the sponsor.
Depuis le début de la pandémie, plus de 900 millions de doses de vaccins anti-Covid ont été administrées en Europe. Si ce vaccin est globalement bien toléré, il provoque parfois des effets secondaires sévères. L'absence de points d’accueil et de traitements renforce le sentiment d'abandon chez de nombreuses personnes présentant de graves symptômes après la vaccination. Elles se battent désormais pour être reconnues.
Reportage (Allemagne, 2022, 32mn)