Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has returned to LiSTNR with a new season of his successful podcast series Defending Democracy with Malcolm Turnbull.
Expanded to eight episodes for season two, Mr Turnbull continues to examine the threat to democracy through insightful interviews with leading experts on key issues such as artificial intelligence, defence capabilities and social media algorithms.
Following the impressive season one roll call, which featured former British Prime Minister Theresa May and veteran Homeland Security official John Cohen, the subject matter and guest list for the new season is equally thought-provoking and includes conversations with guests such as Australian Strategic Policy Institute Executive Director Justin Bassi and Moby Group Chairman and CEO Saad Mohseni.
Former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, said: “In this series we discuss artificial intelligence, Tik Tok, killer robots and ask the question - is technology driving the decline of democracy?
LiSTNR Head of News and Information,...
Expanded to eight episodes for season two, Mr Turnbull continues to examine the threat to democracy through insightful interviews with leading experts on key issues such as artificial intelligence, defence capabilities and social media algorithms.
Following the impressive season one roll call, which featured former British Prime Minister Theresa May and veteran Homeland Security official John Cohen, the subject matter and guest list for the new season is equally thought-provoking and includes conversations with guests such as Australian Strategic Policy Institute Executive Director Justin Bassi and Moby Group Chairman and CEO Saad Mohseni.
Former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, said: “In this series we discuss artificial intelligence, Tik Tok, killer robots and ask the question - is technology driving the decline of democracy?
LiSTNR Head of News and Information,...
- 7/18/2023
- Podnews.net
A man who hit a flight attendant on a flight going from Mexico to Los Angeles was arrested after the plane touched down, and American Airlines said he has been banned from their airline for life as well.
According to an online video recorded by Barrie Livingstone, the passenger was arguing, and the person who shared it said the flight attendant didn’t let him use the first class bathroom. The attendant is heard saying “are you threatening me?”
As the attendant starts walking away, a man in a Hawaiian shirt advances and punches him in the back of the head.
Livingstone told Ktla the altercation was “totally unprovoked,” and that he was restrained by passengers with zip ties for the rest of the flight.
Along with being banned from the airline according to a statement by American, he was charged with the federal offense of interfering with a flight crew.
According to an online video recorded by Barrie Livingstone, the passenger was arguing, and the person who shared it said the flight attendant didn’t let him use the first class bathroom. The attendant is heard saying “are you threatening me?”
As the attendant starts walking away, a man in a Hawaiian shirt advances and punches him in the back of the head.
Livingstone told Ktla the altercation was “totally unprovoked,” and that he was restrained by passengers with zip ties for the rest of the flight.
Along with being banned from the airline according to a statement by American, he was charged with the federal offense of interfering with a flight crew.
- 10/2/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
Editor’s note: Seasoned foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the Isis Battlefield author Hollie McKay recently returned to Afghanistan to cover the planned U.S. troop withdrawal. In the past week, McKay has watched as a nation long cited as where empires come to die struggle itself to stay in the 21st century as its past and now present rulers seek to sugarcoat their stated aims to take Afghanistan back to harsh Islamic edicts suited more to the 15th century.
In a special report for Deadline less than a week after the Taliban took full control again and just before she left the country, McKay examines the perilous state of media, a free press, and technology in Afghanistan today.
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For Mujib Merdad, Editor-in-Chief of Afghanistan’s premiere news and lifestyle magazine 8 am Daily; it’s a nerve-wracking waiting game.
“The Taliban knows we...
In a special report for Deadline less than a week after the Taliban took full control again and just before she left the country, McKay examines the perilous state of media, a free press, and technology in Afghanistan today.
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For Mujib Merdad, Editor-in-Chief of Afghanistan’s premiere news and lifestyle magazine 8 am Daily; it’s a nerve-wracking waiting game.
“The Taliban knows we...
- 8/21/2021
- by Hollie McKay
- Deadline Film + TV
Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, has been called Afghanistan’s first media mogul. Born in London, Mohseni is one of four children of an Afghan diplomat and spent his early years in the U.K., Afghanistan's capital Kabul, Islamabad, Pakistan and Tokyo, before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia. Starting his career as a commodities and derivatives trader, Mohseni led the equities and corporate finance division at an Australian investment bank. After the removal of the Taliban government, he, his brothers and sister returned to Afghanistan and in 2003 launched Arman FM, the country's first privately-owned radio station, which
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- 10/19/2016
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London — For more than three decades, foreign countries lined up to see American-made films with big stars and directors, plenty of noisy spectacle and the latest hi-tech innovations from CGI to 3D. Hollywood became one of the America’s leading exporters and an attractive global investment target. And if its U.S.-centric happy endings came at the expense of Russians, Chinese, or Middle East villains, too bad.
Cut to the New Now. DVD revenues flattened. Swing-for-the-fences movies, the ones that can generate $1 billion in global ticket sales, became astronomically expensive, Every studio is owned by a global conglomerate whose fortunes fluctuate. All of them impose tight fiscal restrictions which work in some industries but strangle a creative business traditionally known for excess. Domestic box office has become a smaller piece of a movie’s P&L each year, as non-u.S. ticket sales today account for 70% of business and climbing.
Cut to the New Now. DVD revenues flattened. Swing-for-the-fences movies, the ones that can generate $1 billion in global ticket sales, became astronomically expensive, Every studio is owned by a global conglomerate whose fortunes fluctuate. All of them impose tight fiscal restrictions which work in some industries but strangle a creative business traditionally known for excess. Domestic box office has become a smaller piece of a movie’s P&L each year, as non-u.S. ticket sales today account for 70% of business and climbing.
- 1/19/2015
- by Ali Jaafar
- Deadline
Title: The Network Director: Eva Orner A nonfiction look at Afghanistan’s first independent news channel, Tolo TV, “The Network” charts the difficulties inherent in trying to establish and grow a business, inform a disparate and under-educated populace, and achieve just a basic level of regained cultural stability in the face of almost constant mortal uncertainty. In her directorial debut, Eva Orner exhibits a deep and sincere passion for her surrogate subjects and what she clearly believes to be the balm of this unique “edu-tainment,” facts which help offset a somewhat jumbled editorial vision. An Afghani refugee who fled his homeland during the war with the Soviets, Saad Mohseni returned with [ Read More ]
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- 10/15/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
When President Obama announced in the State of the Union that the war in Afghanistan would effectively end by 2014, the news was greeted with little more than a collective shrug. That thing was still going on? But what is very far away for most Americans is very close for all Afghans, a fact made clear in the SXSW-premiering documentary, The Network. The feature directorial debut of the Academy Award-winning producer Eva Orner, The Network tells the story of Tolo TV, Afghanistan’s first independent television network. Granted complete access by Saad Mohseni, the founder of the network (dubbed the “Rupert …...
- 3/10/2013
- by Mary Anderson Casavant
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
While I've yet to see the doc myself (I reference Claire Denis' White Material when I think of what the film might hold narratively), when the Cinema Eye Honor Noms were released I was surprised to see that, despite the positive buzz, Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's Mugabe and the White African only manage to grab one nomination. Clearly the film is a favorite for the 2009 edition of the Ida Awards - it picked up three nominations in the Feature Documentary, ABCNews VideoSource Award an the Pare Lorentz Award categories. - While I've yet to see the doc myself (I reference Claire Denis' White Material when I think of what the film might hold narratively), when the Cinema Eye Honor Noms were released I was surprised to see that, despite the positive buzz, Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's Mugabe and the White African only manage to grab one nomination.
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
HBO Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. TV rights to "Afghan Star," the two-time 2009 Sundance award-winning film directed by Havana Marking.
The documentary, currently in theatrical release through Zeitgeist Films, is slated to premiere on HBO in early 2010.
The film, winner of the directing and audience awards in Sundance's 2009 World Cinema Documentary competition, follows the dramatic stories of four young finalists – two men and two women – as they risk everything to win "Afghan Star," a popular "American Idol"-style TV series in Afghanistan, where television and pop culture are slowly taking root after decades of Taliban rule.
"Afghan Star" is a Roast Beef, Redstart Media, Kaboora production. Martin Herring, Mike Lerner, Jahid Mohseni and Saad Mohseni are exec producing.
The documentary, currently in theatrical release through Zeitgeist Films, is slated to premiere on HBO in early 2010.
The film, winner of the directing and audience awards in Sundance's 2009 World Cinema Documentary competition, follows the dramatic stories of four young finalists – two men and two women – as they risk everything to win "Afghan Star," a popular "American Idol"-style TV series in Afghanistan, where television and pop culture are slowly taking root after decades of Taliban rule.
"Afghan Star" is a Roast Beef, Redstart Media, Kaboora production. Martin Herring, Mike Lerner, Jahid Mohseni and Saad Mohseni are exec producing.
- 8/10/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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