Notes of paid subscription documentary videos from Journeyman Pictures

I've been enriched and surprised at the amount of video documentaries
available and continually produced by Journeyman Pictures.

Below are notes about from paid subscription videos I have seen (the links do not work and will be updated):

The Invisible Ties That Bind
+East Timor as Australia's biggest foreign policy crisis since Vietnam
+Secuirty threats to Australia come from Indonesia or through Indonesia
+Australia's foreign affairs department ("national security" related)
seen as the "elite of the elite" and the "cream of the cream."
+Celebration came when 'president' Suharto stepped down from power
after 32 years

Long Shadow of the Big Man
+ Since 1960, out of 300 African heads of state, only 20 have
voluntarily stepped down
+ Mubuntu: installed by CIA, amassed $5B in over 30yrs in power
+ An AK47 can sell for as little as $6
+ In Mozambique, a program to trade guns for tools led to a collection
of 75,000 guns

Life in plastic
+"cradle to cradle" idea (book=http://tr.im/y6gy)
+"the trend is to move away from crude oil" (in relation to the
emergence of bioplastics)
+hormonely potent plastics affecting the biology of polar bears and
the need to bans the substances that cause such effects (such as
infertility)
+"think of the end" idea that when in place, all things can be reinvented
+The combined weight of ants on the planet is more than the human
population, yet they create zero waste compared to humans
+Pacific ocean garbage patch (plastics) 1,000 miles from Cali
http://cw086.tk
+The rise in plastics volume in its decomposition in the ocean
http://m5wae.tk

The Malaria Parasites
+Fake drugs is a global threat (and fraud in general)
+50 yrs ago malaria was in retreat
+Fake drugs were first noticed in Nigeria in 1968
+Fake drugs = blood money
+Medical mystery that is solvable
+(referring to taking on fake drug rackateers) "..it takes really
determined individuals who are willing to put their heads above the
parapet to stir things up.."
+The main fighter against fake drugs was personally affected, her
sister died
+Made of rice or chalk, packaged in anti-malaria drug packages
(Hal-Fan & Metakelfin)..selling information without substance.
+The mosquito injects about 10 parasites into the blood which make
their way into the liver, entering into red blood cells and eating
them away, and more and more red blood cells become invaded
+There are no reliable stats on how many people have died due to fake
drugs..some think that millions have been killed from fake
anti-malaria drugs
+BOMB ATTACKS by fake drug rackateers occurred in the offices of Dr
Dora Akunyili, destroying computers, new equipment, and documents from
2001-2004, and they did not have backups
+Auto-matic gunfire occurred, a bullet burned/grazed Dr Dora Akunyili's head
+*Selling* as a key to buying fake drugs..this selling as a security
threat, threat to health
+GlaxoSmithKline's secrecy about counterfeit product information
+There's a claim that GSK did not want public warnings in Ghana to be
held about fake drugs for kids
+Corporate threats and public health threats at odds
+Dr Dora Akunyili mentioned at least twice that it could be that 70%
of anti-malaria drugs are fake
+Fake drugs are killing people through resistance that destroys the
power of genuine drugs..leading to the resurgence of malaria
+**The World Health Organization (WHO) has missed opportunities to
warn people about the link between resistance and fake drugs**
+A real Chinese drug costs $1, the fake drug costs 50 cents, 50 cents
to kill a person, similar to the mindset spoken about in the Idi Amin
documentary, "it was more expensive to kill a chicken than a human
being because you had to pay for the chicken."
+"With the widespread use of sub-standard drugs, we are sitting on a
timebomb."
+Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has declined to discuss the fake
drug racket
+As this documentary was being completed, WHO, Geneva was preparing to
launch a global task force to fight the fake drug racket, but the
leader Dr. Zucker declined to answer any question about the racket
+The international federation of pharmaceutical manufacturers
associations Geneva quotes: "we dont think info is withheld for
commerical reasons...the industry practice is to systematically report
fake drug finds that we are aware of to the authorities...it is only
the authorities who can do anything about it...it is a criminal matter."

A New Cuban Crisis
+Known for ramming boats carrying Cubans trying to escape Cuba
+punished for speaking out against the government
+Strategic zone for advancing "Russian intelligence"
+Cuban right to an education
+ability to vaccinate the entire Cuban population
+minor land reform occured
+Large and small images of Che Guevera shown indoors and outdoors
+Largest investor in the country is Canada, with $500M
+US claims Cuba has a profoundly defective nuclear facility that
endangers the US

Capturing Idi Amin
+Fled to Saudi Arabia in 1978
+Died in exile in 2003
+statement that after Nelson Mandela, Amin was the most famous African
+represented the worst and all that is most savage about the "dark
continent"
+"he talked so much"
+"he was a plaything of the empire that turned around and said 'boo'."
+state security spies and soldiers without any value for human life
+"..to bring back the history that people are rapidly forgetting.."
+"Our sons will ask us how could Amin come into power...because they
didn't see it, so it's easy for it to happen again...you go to the
west and you find these guys don't know where Uganda is on the map,
but they know Idi Amin, so we should strive to make the country bigger
than Amin."

Supermax (fairly boring)
+designated for serial killers and gang leaders
+"AA classified inmates" = terrorists
+in 20yrs, Australia's prison population has doubled
+takes about $200/day to incarcerate prisoners
+gang war problems, and whole gangs arrested end up fighting inside
the prisons
+ethnic segregation of prisons
+use of 'chemical agents' to control riot outbreaks
+snipers are available "waiting in the wings" if needed

Looting the Russian economy
+The claim that Russians are the best in financial crimes
+how nation-states become irrelevant through globalization
+2-5% (2.8 trillion dollars) of global money leakage illegally
+communism having given way to corruptionism
+70 billion dollars circulating in cash
+(edit error) at the 7:17-7:34 mark, a woman speaks in Russian that is
not translated into English, as well as at the 11:11-12:10, and
26:46-26:57, and 27:11-28:00, 28:35-29:22, 33:58-34:17
+Fraudulent banking (shell banks) based in Nauru for 400 Russian
banks, and is in connection with Australia
+"Bank of NY" fraud scandal mentioned
+Where the online and offline worlds meet--offshore banking
+a fundamental weakness in the banking system being self-regulation
+"If I'm hearing this correctly, there's a chance we are about to
declare economic war on, among others, one of the most powerful
countries.."

Duel with the Devil
+200,000 people killed during the 36yr civil war and 10 yrs later mass
graves are still being uncovered
+2 million guns in a population of over 2 million
+gangs collect taxes from citizens and even bus drivers who drive thru
particular neighborhoods
+private security out number police 7 to 1
+10% of all guns are registered
+imports 30x more ammunition then it did when it was under civil war
for 36 yrs
+40% of homicides in 1993 were from guns, 2007(?) it's at 80%
+it is common that witnesses appearing at trials are killed after
tesitfying..one woman survived having two grenades thrown on to her
patio. She testified the next day in court and from then on was
guarded by the national civil police
+81% of those imprisoned are released for lack of physical evidence
+More then 20 members of Congress are paid by organized crime
according to a congresswoman stating there's a "national conspiracy"
+"Iqui Balam" community circus performed by young persons to prevent
them from joing gangs and prostitution

Water Pressure
+26% of water is lost to evaporation and seepage thru large open
channels...new private operators cannot afford the cost of replacement
of sealing and piping
+Australia stores more water per head than any other country
+takes 1550 litres of water to grow 1kg of rice
+irrigation re-education 'schooling' for farmers to move away from
inefficient irrigation methods of the distant past
+Quote by Tim Fisher of the Aust Conservation Foundation that "there's
an illiteracy problem in Australia, we haven't learned to read the
landscape...in many ways we see it through European eyes."

High Frontier
I liked the one-liner "our lives are run from space," referring to the
use of satellites in capitalism.

Overall, worth the watch. It's disconcerting about the chasm between
the man on the street interviews about space and those involved daily
in space issues. Add the deep-seated secrecy element, and a whole
other dark world emerges. And the addition of space tourism (and R.
Branson's claim that after tourists visit space they will be official
"astronauts" is ridiculous and more of a PR angle) brings an odd,
exciting, and dangerous public element to the whole picture.

It would have been useful if the film revealed more of an
investigation into the worldwide developments of anti-satellite
technology, which would have helped with the issue of the fear about
what stage are we in the "militarization of space." I would have liked
to have seen more about the "power brokers" of the SATCOM world as
well as other power brokers in the field
of security and space.

There was an interesting and peculiar statement by millionaire
'celebrity' Mary Ann Elliot (of "Arrowhead Global Solutions"). She
was asked if she would provide information that would give people a
glimpse into Arrowheads "control center." She said she could not
comment on that, and then said "its not that what were doing is that
classified, it's just that if people put all of the pieces of the
puzzle together then they would have the full picture."

Asked, "do you need to know what that information is that's being
transmitted...do you worry about what's in it at all?" She responded
with "No, I am not concerned, it is none of our business."

Colombia Frontline
+at the Bogota airport even cardboard lining, curtains, and flowers
are checked for cocaine
+foreign cocaine smugglers ("tourists") are employed (French man shown)
+A Romanian man was arrested after an x-ray showed 80 capsules of
cocaine in his stomach
+hidden camera revealed a meeting to recruit foreigners to smuggle 8
almond-sized capsules of cocaine and they would receive 6,000 euros
+dealer shows on hidden camera "re-oxidized dope" (claims 100% pure
cocaine), snorts some to prove it's quality and says his employer is
selling the cocaine because he needs the money to deal with his
gambling addiction
+Pablo Esocbar's grave was shown to still be adorned with fresh flowers
+FARC guerillas making $50M-$70M per year from cocaine sales to
purchase weapons and fighters
+20 anti-drug commanders die, and 40 seriously injured per week in the
Colombian drug war
+American trained fighters, and American-supplied heliocopters, and
Americans in charge of spreading pesticides to destroy coca crops.
Pesticide spraying in 7 yrs has not reduced drug crops, has targeted
wrong areas, and pollutes
+rocket fire is a threat to anti-drug fighters
+marijuana and poppy farmer was featured
+Heroin as a drug is growing in production in Columbia
+smugglers use capsules made of 4 layers of latex and one layer of wax
for 6-8 grams of cocaine
+hidden camera footage of a smuggler who admitted doing it for 14 yrs
without ever being caught, traveling to Italy, Germany, Holland,
France, US, Mexico
+one smuggler admitted during the hidden camera that he swallowed 1
kilo and 78 grams and another smuggler admitted swallowing 1 kilo and
90 grams
+Colombia exports 800 tons, $20B year, a world record

Peace Beyond Justice:
features in the 'film'
+Unified peoples divided by colonialism (hutu/tutsis)
+"genocide of 1994 was a conclusion to what started in 1959."
+accused prisoners on trial are forced to dress in light pink dress
shirts and shorts
+After 1994, judges, prosecutors and judicial support staff
significantly *decreased* compared to pre-1994 totals despite the need
to convict those involved in genocide. A Rwandan minister of justice
said that the judicial system needed to start fresh.
+120,000 prisoners were detained in the beginning, over 6,000 cases
were tried in 5 yrs using the 'classical' judicial system.

An ambassador said that eventually 132,000 prisoners were detained and
that using their judicial system, it would take 300 yrs for all the
cases, so another way had to be constructed
+in 2007 there were more than 9,000 active Gacaca courts in Rwanda.
One yr after this began, 75,000 cases were tried
+Five reasons for Gacaca courts: 1)Reveal the truth about the 1994
genocide 2)eradicate the culture of impunity 3)speed the trials of
genocide 4)reinforce the unity and reconcilation of Rwandans
5)Demonstrate Rwandan capacity to solve it's own problem
+Categorization of genocide suspects: [National/Int courts]
1)planner/organizers, perpetrators of rape/sexual violence
[Gacaca courts] 2)perpetrators & accomplices in murder or attempted
murder 3)perpetrators of crimes resulting in property damage
+Those in prison are organized into skill-groups to go out and serve
in town(s), each according to his knowledge
+There are cases of prisoners being be-friended by those they provide
community service for to the point where those they have be-friended
visit them in prison
+biggest challenge is the protection of the witnesses from being killed
+traumatized survivors who have not received proper medical care is
a problem
+too many people in prison as not productive...you cannot imprision
the whole country.
+Gacaca process has been revised 6 times
+There was mention to make all Gacaca documentation known outside of Rwanda

Diamonds of War: Africas_Blood_Diamonds
+Koidu = Capital of diamond smuggling, desolate town where people dug
for diamonds at gunpoint
+Sierra Leone = United Nations (at the time of this doc) has deployed
the most 'peace keepers' (17,000)
+Amputee camp mentioned as a symbol of SL's diamond war
+The Congo & Liberia mentioned as major connections. An interesting
video on Liberia is at tr.im/wjoI
+"Kimberly Process" = Meetings to prevent blood diamonds
+1-2% of the diamond industry are blood diamonds
+Love, care, affection...without it, a diamond is just a pebble
+The most expensive diamond to pass thru SL was valued at $1-1.5M. SL
would gain $30,000 in export taxes shipping it to Belgium
+In SL, no industrial machinery found for digging diamonds, only
manual labor. Agriculture had been abandoned
+It was said that for every lb f diamond, 18M lbs of mud must be removed.
+1M miners, 1,000 licensed dealers
+Use of a pinhole camera to record a discussion of smuggling diamonds
to other countries
+A guide nicknamed "case files" because he knew so many people in SL
+River diamond divers dove using only a tube connected to a fuel
powered pump to breathe. The divers would not work on Fridays because
the Devil did not permit it. They preferred to dive instead of work as
rebels or thieves
+"Maraka" diamond smugglers are feared for their magical powers to
disappear at the borders.
+$1B in diamonds smuggled each year
+Once polished, the identity of a diamond is un-deciferable
+Discretion & negotiation technique is at the core of the diamond
business. Handshakes & crumpled white paper
+Desire to track stones from "mine to market".

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