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They are children who have fallen through the cracks of society, outcasts who have run away or been thrown out of their homes. Known as ‘Toyoko kids’, they hang out in the most infamous neighbourhood in Tokyo. This episode of ARTE Reportage went to meet them.

Japanese society is quite harsh on minors

the Five Eyes Alliance, a clandestine intelligence network involving the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Originally formed to share signals intelligence during World War II, the group evolved into a global surveillance infrastructure that serves as a tool for American imperial dominance. These agencies operate with minimal democratic oversight, often keeping elected leaders in the dark while engaging in the subversion of foreign governments and industrial espionage. Historical examples, such as the dismissal of an Australian Prime Minister and the monitoring of European allies, are used to illustrate how the alliance prioritizes geopolitical control over national sovereignty.

PRISM. Tempora. MUSCULAR. These programmes were the product of an alliance that had spent decades building toward exactly this capability , and using it not just against enemies, but against allies, trading partners, and of course, their own citizens. Snowden also confirmed that personal phones of US allies had been on an NSA target list for years, a list containing over 100 other world leaders. And also that GCHQ was tapping fibre-optic cables carrying the majority of transatlantic internet traffic and sharing everything with Washington. That NSA employees were using the same surveillance infrastructure to spy on their own romantic partners, what they called internally as, ‘LOVEINT’.

Still, Premo found the constant macho rhetoric and violence he witnessed while filming mentally and emotionally exhausting. He went to rallies dressed in protective gear, prepared for a riot. Even if there weren’t skirmishes between the Proud Boys and other groups, there were men talking about what they wanted to do to antifa or others.

While he included the violence in his film, Premo is clear that it is not meant to make these men exceptions, but to situate them within a broader pattern.

“One of my critiques of American history and polite, middle-class white liberal society is this idea that violence is only an aberration of the norm. It’s only something that is carried out by the fringe or the extremes of society, when fundamentally, the American project is a project built by violence,” he says.

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I found the ease with which Quaglin committed these acts astounding. The interspersion of political violence and domesticity doesn’t allow viewers to compartmentalize what’s on screen as fringe behavior, safely outside the bounds of ordinary American life. It suggests something more uncomfortable: that the difference is often not one of belief, but of expression—who says what out loud, and who knows not to.

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High Class is a feature-length investigative documentary exposing the realities of the escort industry and the links between prostitution, exploitation, and sex trafficking in one of America’s most iconic cities.

Through firsthand survivor accounts, this documentary reveals the human cost behind the fantasy—and the systems that keep it hidden.

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Under former dictator President Zia, Pakistan plunged into the dark ages with the strict "Zina Ordinance," a brutal set of Islamic laws that saw rape victims routinely jailed and women facing public whippings or stoning to death for adultery. In 1990, 60 Minutes reporter Jennifer Byrne travelled to a Peshawar women's prison to meet the innocent victims of these barbaric laws, shedding light on a human rights crisis that would take decades of political fighting to finally reform.

This documentary was researched and written by Dr Raoul McLaughlin.

Sources for this project - Mallory, J. The Origins of the Irish (2017). Warren, G. Hunter-Gatherer Ireland: Making connections in an Island World (2021). Cooney, G. Death in Irish Prehistory (2023). Woodman, P. Ireland's First Settlers: Time and the Mesolithic (2021). Cummings, V. The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland (2017). Waddell, J. The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland (2010).

History Time is written, researched and produced by Pete Kelly.

In the late 1840s, a British naturalist named Henry Walter Bates set out on an 11-year expedition into the Amazon jungle. When he returned to England in 1859, he had a collection of over 14,000 rare and new species of insects, never before discovered by science.

At the time, many other naturalists were doing the same thing. What set him apart was that he also studied and observed their behavior and went in-depth into their relationships and how they interacted with one another. For Bates, this was a way to understand each species' different roles within an ecosystem.

At one point in his expedition, he noticed that the "Ithomiini" butterfly - a slow-flying and extremely abundant species - was hardly ever hunted by predators. "Oh, maybe they taste terrible!" he thought and decided to gather specimens to examine them more closely.

He soon discovered that there was another type of butterfly species living amongst the Ithomiinis that he caught. They were of two different families, yet their body shape, wings, and appearance were nearly identical. This newfound discovery left him puzzled, yet he observed that this was a common occurrence throughout the Amazon Rainforest. What's more, it was not exclusive to butterflies, but hundreds of different insects and animals replicated this behavior.

Of the two families, he found that the Ithomiini was ignored by predators, while the lookalike was regularly targeted - despite it being the faster of the two. Bates concluded that the lookalike had evolved to mimic the Ithomiini to confuse predators, essentially allowing them to hide in plain sight.

This phenomenon is now known as Batesian mimicry, where a weaker or disadvantaged species would mimic the appearance of a stronger species to increase its chances of survival.

Batesian mimicry is a natural and unconscious evolutionary process. If an animal changes itself consciously, then it is no longer Mimicry. It can include appearance, sounds and even behaviors, and there are endless examples across the insect and animal world.

Batesian mimicry is also different from camouflage, where an animal actively hides to blend in with his environment. In Mimicry, species want or mean to be detected, and the goal is to confuse predators. The size of the “model” population is also crucial - when there are more of the models, it is easier for the mimics to imitate.

In a nutshell, Mimicry, as a phenomenon, is an incredibly complex, nuanced, and exciting field of natural science. Over the years, more types of mimicry have been observed and recognized, such as Mullerian mimicry, Defensive mimicry, and even aggressive mimicry - all with their unique criteria.

Mimicry is considered significant proof of Darwin's Theory of Evolution. In fact, he included Batesian mimicry in his then-controversial book. Batesian mimicry allows us to witness first-hand the effects and outcomes of natural selection. It offers a deeper understanding of evolution, which can help us ponder how it applies to our human species.

On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quO_Dzm4rnk

I would share a link to a copy on the Internet Archive, but I think they're all in lower quality.

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You can watch the trailer here