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60 Minutes - The 44th President and The Next First Family (November 16, 2008)
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Airdate: 11/16/08 In his first interview since the election, President-elect Barack Obama -- the 44th President of the United States -- talks with Steve Kroft about the challenges he'll face on his first day in office, including a crumbling economy and two wars. In part two of this DVD, Barack and Michelle Obama discuss the prospect and challenges of raising their daughters (and the dog) in the White House as they become the next first family.
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60 Minutes - Beatrice's Goat (June 12, 2005)
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Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Wonderful experience 5 out of 5 stars.
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The video was top notch. A wonderful story depicting the good works of Heifer International.
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How does a poor girl from Uganda wind up at a college in New England? Bob Simon tells the surprising and inspiring story of a girl named Beatrice, who made it out of her tiny village and into a school in America -- thanks to a goat from an Arkansas charity called Heifer International.
60 Minutes - Gustavo The Great (February 17, 2008)
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Simply...amazing. 5 out of 5 stars.
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This kid is simply amazing. To watch, to listen to, as an inspiration.
This piece is, as usual from 60 minutes, very very good. Dudamel is a monster in the sense that his energy, his charisma, his poise..leaves everyone speechless. Watch it.
Dudamel 5 out of 5 stars.
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What a wonderful story....As venezuelan, I am very proud of him and of what he represents.
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Airdate: 02/17/08 Who's the world's most precocious conductor? It's got to be Gustavo Dudamel, that shaggy haired prodigy from Venezuela who has become classical music's newest rock star. Aside from the hair, the first thing you might notice about Dudamel is the joy, the exuberance, the passion, and the sheer energy with which he leads the orchestra. Bob Simon reports.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
60 Minutes - Brain Power (November 2, 2008)
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Airdate: 11/02/08 People who are completely paralyzed used to be considered "locked in" -- unable to move or to communicate in any way. Now, new technology allows a computer to be directly linked to their brain, allowing them to express their thoughts and needs. If such technology allows them to express themselves, can it one day get them mobile again? Scott Pelley reports on this great merging of machine and mind.
60 Minutes - Wake Up Call (March 4, 2007)
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Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Govenment coverup with our future 5 out of 5 stars.
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This was just what I needed to show to some of my clients. Thanks
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Good DVD and the man makes a lot of sense 5 out of 5 stars.
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When my father was receiving medical care, the doctor offered to write a prescription for a walker. He doesn't need a walker, I told the doctor, because he has one at home.
"Don't worry," the doctor replied. "The walker is free."
"Hold on there, bub," I said to Dr. E. Z. Munny. "It's not free. The taxpayers are paying for it."
"Yeah, you're right," he replied with a wry grin, "but they can afford it."
Our system is tottering with the current generation of old people leaning heavily on our over-burdened American budget but what will happen when the BIGGEST generation hits retirement (and becomes eligible for Medicare)?
Walker calls the massive numbers of baby boomers coming into retirement an "actuarial nightmare." People keep living longer and health care costs keep rising and according to Walker, President Clinton made problems much, much worse when he expanded medicare to cover prescription drugs. In this interview, Walker says, "We've promised way more than we can afford to do. We can't afford the promises we've already made."
He also states something I've observed for many years: "We're offering unlimited health care to senior citizens and the system is unsustainable. We're going to have reform our health care system in installments and if we don't it could bankrupt America."
It's a sobering video but very well done and one of the most interesting points is, no-one is contradicting David Walker. All the smart people agree with him. How I wish I could force all 535 members of Congress to sit and watch this film and then give a BOOK REPORT on how they're going to deal with it.
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Airdate: 3/4/07 - David Walker says: beware, the end is near, but he is neither a nut nor a prophet. Walker is the Comptroller General of the United States, and his job is to audit the country's books. Walker predicts that unless the U.S. changes its fiscal course, it could go bankrupt when its 78 million baby boomers become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. The nation's chief accountant tells Steve Kroft that the U.S. has a fiscal and moral duty to reform its spending.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
60 Minutes - Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction (October 26, 2008)
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Airdate: 10/26/08 Steve Kroft digs deeper into the unregulated financial instruments called "credit default swaps" that have had such a huge role in the country's economic downturn. These swaps started out as a way for bondholders to insure against loan defaults, but became a floating game of craps in which it wasn't necessary to own the bonds in order to buy the swaps on them. In other words: it was all a huge a gamble.
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60 Minutes - Hiding From Death (December 03, 2006)
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Average rating: 4.0 of 5
What the world chose to ignore. 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is a very touching account of what happened in Rwanda. I will encourage anyone to view this.
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Air Date: 12/03/06The genocide in Rwanda in 1992 killed 800,000 people, almost wiping out the Tutsi minority tribe. Among the survivors is Immaculee Ilibagiza, an inspiring Tutsi woman who hid from Hutu attackers. Along with six other women, Ilibagiza was crammed into a tiny bathroom for three months, often within earshot of the killers. Ilibagize returns to Rwanda with correspondent Bob Simon, shows him her hiding place, and recalls this time of terror.
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60 Minutes - The Wasteland (November 9, 2008)
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Worth a look 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you have heard of the trash in the Pacific ocean gyre and it disgusted you, then you will be equally disenchanted by this short 60 Minutes story on trashed electronics, and where they end up.
The story traces containers of electronics waste - such as printers, computer monitors, cell phones, and keyboards - to what is supposed to be a US based recycling facility. Instead, some containers are diverted from the original route to a port in Hong Kong and eventually a small urban area in the China mainland. There, the circuit boards and computer monitors are manually "recycled".
If the footage is to be considered as real evidence, it shows people without any protective gear or any safety equipment cooking circuit boards over an open fire and pouring the solder into a pan. There are men pulling chips off boards with pliers over an open fire. The reporter and crew are eventually forced to leave by those who appear to be owners of the dump. A translator informs the crew that if they don't leave, the men will beat them up.
The concern is twofold. First, these pieces of electronics are fairly inert when intact, but with the application of heat, gases and metals are released from the electronic components. Either airborne or suspended in water, lead, mercury, and chromates from circuit board components threaten the air quality and the water table. The burning of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) releases chlorine gas, among other things, but the long term worry is how none of this byproduct waste is controlled. The second concern is that these pieces of electronics were never intended to go offshore, but they were loaded onto a ship anyway due to what is expected to be illegal activity. Consumers intending to do good by recycling so-called "e-waste" are inadvertently contributing to hazardous waste elsewhere in the world.
Regardless of your opinion on environmental concerns, this 60 Minutes episode is worth a viewing, if for no other reason than to show you that when you throw something away, it doesn't just disappear.
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Airdate 11/9/2008 Where do our millions of cast-off computer monitors, cell phones, and other electronic refuse end up? In this investigative report, Scott Pelley finds that some of it is shipped illegally from the United States to China, where toxic "e-waste" is harming both the environment and the desperate people who salvage its valuable components.
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60 Minutes - Obama Biden '08 (August 31, 2008)
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Airdate: 08/31/08 When Sen. Barack Obama accepted the nomination as the democratic candidate for the presidency, more Americans saw his speech than watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics. In their first interview together as running mates, Sen. Obama and his vice-presidential choice, Sen. Joseph Biden, discuss their roles and strategies for the upcoming presidential election. And Sen. Obama defends his bowling skills. Steve Kroft reports.
60 Minutes - Dubai Inc. (October 14, 2007)
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60 Minutes - Dubai Inc. (October 14, 2007) 5 out of 5 stars.
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60 Minutes - Dubai Inc. (October 14, 2007)
see what a small sheikdom can do .love it proud to live in Dubai.
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Airdate: 10/14/07 Dubai is a Middle East success story, an island of stability and prosperity in a region torn by conflict. In less than a decade, Dubai has gone from desert to metropolis, with $300 billion worth of construction projects including luxury hotels and some of the world's tallest buildings. It is all the vision of one endlessly ambitious man: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, who gives Steve Kroft a tour of his extraordinary and expanding sheikdom.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.