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CBC Hourly News
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CBC World at Six News - "What's Going On Out There?"
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Video | 9/11 - The Unofficial Story
You Tube / CBC - The Fifth Estate
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Video | Join The Fight For Clean Energy Jobs
Join us in urging Senate action on clean energy legislation this year
Americans United for Change - Current
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Music to accompany you on your cyber-visit
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Imaging Life

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. — Patrick Henry

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Canada | Death of a Freerider
Rolling Stone - By Jesse Hyde - August 5, 2009
A daring flight across the Canadian border in a helicopter. A legendary mountain biker's last run at age 24. A story akin to that of a Wild West broncobuster in his early 20s challenged by danger . Even his name is already approaching legendary proportions.
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The following documentary portrays Sam Brown's Young Life.

Full Documentary | Sam Brown
CBC / The Fifth Estate
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On February 23, 2009, 24-year-old Sam Brown of British Columbia was arrested by U.S. authorities in Washington State as he landed a helicopter he had piloted across the border. Sam’s crime: he was attempting to smuggle almost 200 kilograms of marijuana, “B.C. Bud”. Only a few days after his arrest, Sam hanged himself in his jail cell. In Over the Edge, Linden MacIntyre takes us into the world of drug smuggling in B.C. and the role in it of young people like Sam Brown.

Sam was an extreme sports enthusiast, who thrived on the adrenaline of risk taking. He grew up in the B.C. interior, living in Nelson, where the flourishing mountain biking scene offered him new challenges. Rugged and picturesque, Nelson is a hotbed for the young and unconventional, a magnet for extreme sports enthusiasts—and a centre for the lucrative, underground marijuana industry.

The homegrown pot, “B.C. Bud”, pours billions of illegal dollars into local economies in B.C. Huge demand for the drug has allowed Nelson to ride out normal economic swings. But “B.C. Bud” also fuels a multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise on B.C.’s lower mainland and the United States, sustained largely by a core group of thrill-seekers like Sam—young people who smuggle drugs for the sheer high of the risk and their addiction to the money.

In Over the Edge, the fifth estate reconstructs Sam’s final smuggling mission. Linden MacIntyre speaks with a former smuggler who recruited Sam into that world. Viewers will also hear from his sisters and father, still grappling with the circumstances of his arrest and his death, as well as Sam’s American lawyers, some of the last people to speak with him before he took his life.

The Sam Brown Saga
Holy Smoke - By Colin Payne - December 30, 2009
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New Story of the Year | The tale of a young mountain biker who captivated a nation and brought more international attention to the Nelson, BC area,

Sam Brown’s Story To Hit the Big Screen
Bike Mag - By Mazzman - November 13, 2009
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The story of Sam Brown is going to be told on the big screen. Just months after Rolling Stone wrote a feature story titled “Death of a Freerider” about Brown, Jason Priestley has optioned the rights to turn the story into a movie, Variety reports.

The 24-year -old Brown, who appeared in New World Disorder 3 and was known for building incredible stunts, like the Deconstructed Wheel, was apprehended earlier this in 2009 after flying a helicopter loaded with drugs from Canada into the United States. He then committed suicide while being held in a Washington jail.

According to the Variety report, Priestley plans to start shooting the film by the end of next year.

Related Story | Sam Brown R.i.P
nsmb - Words by Cam McRae. - Date: 2009-03-05
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I met Sam Brown once - by chance - back in 1999. I was with a few buddies and we had just ridden The Monster in Kaslo B.C. It was mid summer and we were sitting by the truck drinking a beer and revelling in the glory when he pedalled up to say hi. We soon learned that Sam had built much of The Monster himself - a truly world class marvel of a trail. He was just a kid and he was riding around on flat pedals with no shoes on - and he really looked like a forest elf. He was soft spoken and he seemed a kind, gentle spirit.

Related Story | Sam Brown Remembered As Inspiring Young Man
Holy Smoke - By Brandon Adams - March 16, 2009
Editor - The Holy Smoke Culture Shop was located a couple of hundred feet from the Homosapiens.ki office overlooking Kootenay Lake in Nelson, BC.
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“He was a powerful force in the community and inspired a lot of kids, but in the end he got tied up with the wrong people,” said Lou Brown of his son. “Somebody basically asked him to run stuff across the border, put him on a mission ... it was a sting, he’d walked right into it.”

UPDATE - BC drug smuggling kingpin revealed as informant
Holy Smoke - By Colin Patne - January 13, 2010
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Sicamoue man who supplied Sam Brown with his hiicopter wanted organized crime outfits. Yet another chapter in the drug smuggling saga of Sam Brown has unfolded on the pages of a local provincial newspaper. Late last week the Vancouver Province reported that admitted B,C, drug kingpin Colin Martin has a contract out on his life after leaked documents from an American court reveaked he had agreed to br an informant on other drug lords in exchange for immunity.

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Video | US - Atomic Ed and the Black Hole
A former nuclear scientist recycles junk generated by the nuclear industry.
Al Jazeera - July 30, 2009
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Breaking News

News Analysis | Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power
Projections suggest there is virtually no room over the next decade for new domestic initiatives for President Obama or his successors.
Yhe New York Times - Bt David Sanger - February 1, 2010
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Global Regions

Video | East Africa | America's New Frontline: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - Part 3
Al Jazssra - Seotember 27, 2009
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Rageh Omaar travels to the US and through East and West Africa to investigate the US strategy for the continent. Can Barack Obama make a decisive break with the path set in Africa by the Bush admin.
Nstional News

Bolivia | Video - Witness
Al Jazeera - Flmmaker: Rodrigo Vazque - June 18, 2009
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In 2005, Evo Morales made history by becoming the first indigenous person to be president of Bolivia. He was elected on the promise that he would get the poor indigenous people that make up 60 per cent of the population out of poverty through a revolution in democracy.

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The Haiti Earthquake

Google Minute By Minute Rolling Updates
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Africa mulls reseettling Haitians
The African Union has agreed to consider a proposal to resettle thousands of Haitians left homeless by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, and possibly create a state for them in Africa.
Al Jazeera - January 31, 2010
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Video | Rebuilding begins in Haiti
Al Jazeera - January 31, 2010
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Hundreds of thousands of Haitians made homeless by January's earthquake are still waiting for temporary shelters. Only a few thousand tents have been distributed so far, according to the International Organisation for Migration. But some Haitians, tired of waiting, are taking matters into their own hands. Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports on one man, Francoise Antoine, who has decided to begin work on replacing his destroyed home.

Near Quake/s Epicenter, A City Readt For Business
The New York Times - By Shala Dewan - January 1, 2010
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LÉOGÂNE, Haiti — Commerce was thriving at the warrenlike shantytown that has sprung to life on what was once this city’s main square. Shoeshines and hairstyles, coal and soap, Casino brand chocolate and Comme Il Faut cigarettes, even new homes constructed from salvaged wood and sheet metal — each could be had for a price.

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Sri Lanka | Rajapakse's minority report
Al Jazeera - By Suvendrini Kakuchi - January 31, 2010
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Now that the electorate has given its verdict, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse's victory in the just concluded presidential polls sends an ominous signal to the minority people of the island state. After all, the minority populations voted mostly for Rajapakse's challenger - former army commander Sarath Fonseka - in hopes that a victory for the latter would mean the fulfillment of their aspiration for equal recognition in a country that has seen deep divisions between ethic groups.

Such aspiration seems all but gone.

UK | Tony Blair: Poodle or Bulldog?
Al Jazeera - By Marwan Bishara - January 29, 2010
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Watching Blair answering questions of the Iraq public inquiry commission was fascinating for the same reason it was frustrating. It's British.

Fascinating, because of the precise and disciplined way the five member commission probed the former prime minister about the way in which he arrived at the decision to go to war along side the United States and how he co-managed it with President Bush.

Frustrating, because the commission is an internal British inquiry with limited mandate - not an international court of justice - one that is commissioned to review and reconstruct the political process behind the war, or the politics behind the policy.

UK | Commentary - Did Tony Blair blow it as Mideast envoy?
Blair's Iraq-inquiry gaffes roused anger against him in Britain -- and may disqualify him as peace envoy
Salon - By Joe Conason - February 1, 2010
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Tony Blair's widely panned appearance at last week's Chilcot inquiry into the origins of the Iraq war reminded the world about the former British prime minister's role in that lethal fiasco. Like many of the Iraq war's instigators here in the United States, Blair has gotten a free pass while flaunting his lack of remorse. Indeed, the failure to hold him accountable resulted in his appointment as the special envoy of the "Mideast Quartet" in June 2007, charged with reviving the peace process on behalf of its members -- the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and the Russian Federation.

Blair has been serving as the Quartet's representative in the troubled region for well over two years without much protest or much impact. But his smug, self-serving testimony about Iraq -- filled with the same deceptions and evasions that irreparably marred his reputation -- may at last render that position untenable. According to the Guardian, moreover, he will be called to testify again sometime within the next few months about the precooked and plagiarized intelligence reports used by his government to prove that Iraq's mythical "weapons of mass destruction" posed an imminent threat.

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United States Government

Billions for NASA, With a Push to Find New Ways Into Space
The New York Times - By Kenneth Chang - February 1, 2010
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The ambitious space initiative that President Obama unveiled for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Monday calls for sweeping changes in mission and priorities for the 52-year-old agency, yet it omits two major details: where the agency will send its astronauts and a timetable for getting them there.

If Mr. Obama’s proposed budget is implemented, NASA a few years from now would be fundamentally different from NASA today. The space agency would no longer operate its own spacecraft, but essentially buy tickets for its astronauts on commercially launched rockets. It would end its program to return to the moon and would pursue future missions to deep space by drawing more cooperation and financing from other nations.

Emanuel apologizes for 'retarded' remark
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has apologized for referring to liberals as "retarded" during a strategy session last summer.
Washington Post - By Michael D. Shear - Frbruary, 2010
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Topical News

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Activism at the Ground Level

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." -- Mark Twain

Arts & Culture

Video | Bolivian Jungle Music- ?
Al Jszeera - Filmmaker: Rodrigo Vazquez - January 12, 2010
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Classical music was introduced into Bolivia by Jesuit priests, but the tradition faded. It is now being resurrected by a classically-trained Bolivian musician who sees this type of music as a way out of the poverty and alienation felt by many young Bolivians. Today, this classical music is regaining popularity. Rodrigo Vazquez goes to meet the Bolivians making a very different kind of Jungle Music.

Lhasa De Sela Concert - Haunting. Chilling.The late singer Lhasa, performing La Frontera in a concert recorded in October 2004, as part of the Routes Montreal series in CBC Studio 12.)
Canada Live - January 15, 2010
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Bookworms Between the Pages

JD Salinger, author of Catcher In The Rye, dies at 91
BBC - January 29, 2010
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American novelist JD Salinger, author of classic 20th Century book The Catcher In The Rye, has died aged 91. The reclusive writer died of natural causes at his home in the state of New Hampshire, his son said.

Reading Under the Covers | Iran and the Future of Liberalism
The Liberal - By Danny Postel - n.d.
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As an authority against authoritarianism, liberalism is undergoing a renaissance in Iran, and reflecting back to the West its radical roots.

Climate Change

Study Finds a Tree Growth Spurt
The New York Times - By Leslie Kaufman - February 1, 2010
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Forests in the eastern United States appear to be growing faster in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a new study has found. The study centered on trees in mixed hardwood stands on the western edge of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland that are representative of much of the those on the Eastern Seaboard. All are growing two to four times as fast as normal, according to a study published in Tuesday’s issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

If we don't work quickly to curb the effects of climate change we may lose the bird-eating fanged frog. Most of us may not miss that one, but there is an enormous list of species and places we may never see again unless we reverse this crazy climate change ride we've put the earth on. The Natural Resources Defense Council reported that, "The first comprehensive assessment of the extinction risk from global warming found that more than 1 million species could be obliterated by 2050 if the current trajectory continues."

8 Things We Love That Climate Change Will Force Us to Kiss Good-Bye
We face losing everything from 50,000 species a year to the world's best wines. How to put it all in perspective?
Alternet - By Tara Lohan - Dececmber 18, 2009
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Economy and Finance

Bloomberg Economic News
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Bloomberg Current Worldwide Financial News
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Politcal Issues

Real cleat Politics Daily Rundown
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Religion and Philosophy

***** Book | The Weird World of Occult America -- How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation - By Mitch Horowitz
The author's new book unleashes America's occult past. Interesting historical contribution
Alternet - Review by Alexander Zaitchik - January 28, 2010
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Video and Text | Islam in America
Al jazeera - June 18, 2009
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Science & Technology

Bloomberg Index of Current Science News
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Social Issues

Society | Book - Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here, by Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman
The Big Theories Underwriting Society Are Crashing All Around Us -- Are You Ready for a New World?
AlterNet - By Terrence McNally - January 27, 201 - LINK ^

The ideas and institutions that define our culture are breaking down -- and that's a good thing, say the authors. In their new book they write that today's crises are part of a natural process -- clearing out what no longer serves us to make room for a new way of being. Are they cockeyed optimists or do they see things others miss?

Reality is alive, dynamic and interconnected. Science has been saying so for nearly a century, and we experience it every time we walk on a beach or look into another's eyes. Yet most of our cultural, societal, political and economic structures act as if it's not so. We can no longer afford to indulge outdated worldviews. In order to deal with the crises we now face, we've got to act on the new realities and understandings revealed by science.

Video | US - Forty Acres and A Dream
Al Jazeera - June 19, 2009
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Like lightning in a bottle, the struggle of black farmers in America has been captured in vivid black and white moments by documentary photographer, John Ficara. The stories he hears capture a dying way of life.

Roger Lamar is a dairy farmer. He works the same land that has been in his family for generations. He faces the harsh reality that family farms are being consumed almost as quickly as the produce they grow, due in part he claims, to institutional discrimination from banks and the government.

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