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Link to playlist (3 episodes): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9K3eFPha-IwNdvLwJuGWQQSxPR8xwXcr

• The Harita Group, a major Indonesian conglomerate, persistently found high levels of the carcinogenic chemical chromium-6 in waters around its nickel mine, which opened in 2010.
• The conglomerate’s own internal tests showed chromium-6 levels regularly breaching Indonesian legal limits for a decade.
• Leaked emails show senior Harita executives were aware of the pollution since at least 2012.
• Residents in the area say they received no warnings about pollution, and the conglomerate has repeatedly stated that local water is safe to drink.
• Harita did not respond to repeated requests for comment. It has previously stated that its operations were in compliance with local environmental regulations, despite continuing internal reports of chromium-6 levels that exceeded legal limits. Harita also implemented a series of measures to control the pollution, including installing ponds to collect toxic runoff and carrying out chemical treatments.

“I think what is happening in America is they are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state.” Carole Cadwalladr, the award-winning journalist behind the Substack newsletter “How to Survive the Broligarchy,” talks to Jon Stewart about how the U.S. government ignored the huge wake-up call that was the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook data breach scandal – a story Cadwalladr broke and which resulted in no legislative protections for citizens’ private data. She warns about the unregulated dangers that data-mining and AI pose to individual privacy and freedom, and what people and institutions can do to push back on big tech’s authoritarian agenda.

Jessa Lynch says she hasn't been able to grieve the death of her 13-year-old son, who was struck and killed while cycling last year.

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l32N-e0QPeI

This video is about how China uses fashion and its digital presence to exert influence globally and bypass diplomatic tensions

This documentary is some months old, but still relevant. Turn on the subtitles, the English ones are human made.

Ziarul de Gardă once again penetrated Ilan Shor’s network. For three months we have documented from the inside with the help of a hidden camera how money circulates and how people working for Ilan Shor are recruited and lured to serve Moscow. The stakes – hijacking the country’s European course by compromising the October 20 referendum and the organized vote for a Shor-backed candidate to be announced just one day before the elections.

For three months, an undercover ZdG reporter, acting under a false identity, attended events organized by Shor’s people: so-called protests before or after court hearings of Shor’s corrupt politicians, electoral meetings with one of Shor’s candidates, whom the oligarch’s people believe will be eliminated from the race, and even handed out leaflets with false information about the European Union and the Eurasian Union.

The Shor network opened an account for the ZdG reporter in a Russian state bank using personal data that does NOT exist in reality. With the help of ZdG’s technical team, an identity card with made-up data was “cloned”, and in September, after almost two months in the service of Shor and Moscow, the ZdG reporter received the promised “iablociki”, i.e. 15 thousand Russian roubles, equivalent to about 2.7 thousand MDL (140 Eur). After all, the reporter ended up with less money for her “work” after being charged several fees along the way, both by the banks involved in the transactions and by the individuals who coordinated it. In October, another 15 thousand Russian rubles were transferred to the same account. Throughout this period, the ZdG reporter received several phone calls “from Moscow” thanking her for her work.

The scheme operated even on the day when the police and prosecutor’s office announced that they had dismantled a national bribing network. They had discovered that around 130 thousand Moldovans had been bribed for their vote on October 20, however this scheme was still in effect after the law enforcement bodies had uncovered it.

Two years after the publication of the investigation “Protesters to rent”, in which we showed that the participants in the protests organized by the former “Shor” party were paid, ZdG has penetrated again into Ilan Shor’s network. We found a similar reality, where money dictates and fuels any protest movement and spirit. But the differences are at the level of organization and circulation of money.

https://democracynow.org/