SICKO - High Quality! [AVI - Michael Moore - Conspiracy - Sept 1

SICKO ----- This is a high quality release. It is NOT a pot cam. It's 2007, and almost 50 million Americans are uninsured, and those who are covered are often victims of insurance company fraud and red tape. Interviews are conducted with both types, including former employees of insurance companies, who describe cost cutting initiatives that encourage bonuses for insurance company physicians to deny life saving medical treatments for policy holders. In Canada, Moore speaks to his relatives and other Canadians about their health care system. He learns about Tommy Douglas, who was voted the Greatest Canadian in 2004 for his contributions to the Canadian health system. Moore interviews a microsurgeon and people waiting in the emergency room of a Canadian public hospital. The history of health care debate in the U.S. is explained, as pundits argue against universal health care systems with the backdrop of 1950s-style anti-communist propaganda. A record distributed by the American Medical Association in the 1960s, narrated by Ronald Reagan, warns that universal health care could lead to communism. To counter this statement Moore shows images of American police, fire service, postal service, public education and community libraries, which are said to be "socialized" services that have not led to communism. The origins of the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 become evident in a taped conversation between John Ehrlichman and President Richard Nixon on February 17, 1971, leading to the expansion of the modern HMO-based health care system. Connections are highlighted between Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the lobbying arm of the largest drug companies in the United States, lobbying groups in Washington D.C., and the United States Congress. Hillary Clinton, who once championed the Clinton health care plan, is called the Senate's second-highest recipient of health care industry campaign donations. In a National Health Service (NHS) hospital in the United Kingdom, Moore attempts to find in-hospital expenses incurred by patients, only to be told laughingly that there are no out-of-pocket payments. Pharmaceuticals are free of charge if one is younger than 16 and older than 60, and subsidized so only a maximum of ?6.65 is charged. Moore finds a counter labeled "Cashier", discovering that low-income patients receive money to reimburse their trip to the hospital. Interviews include Tony Benn, a British former Member of Parliament, an NHS general practitioner, and an American woman residing in Great Britain. In France, Moore interviews the head of Obstetrics and Gynecology in a French hospital, and a group of Americans living in France. He also rides with "SOS Médecins", a 24-hour French medical service that provides house calls by physicians. Moore says that the French government provides exceptional social services, such as day care for $1 an hour, and neonatal support that includes cooking, cleaning, and laundry services for new mothers. Interviews with 9/11 rescue workers who volunteered after the September 11, 2001 attacks reveal that they were denied government funds to care for physical and psychological maladies they had subsequently developed, including respiratory disease and PTSD. Unable to receive medical care in the U.S., the 9/11 rescue workers sail from Miami to Cuba on three speedboats in order to obtain free medical care provided for the enemy combatants detained at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. The group arrives at the entrance channel to "Gitmo" and Moore uses a megaphone to request access, pleading for the 9/11 victims to receive treatment that is on par with the medical attention the "evildoers" are receiving. Moore gives up when a siren is blown from the base, and the group moves on to Havana, where they purchase cheap medicine and receive free medical treatment. Providing only their name and birth date, the volunteers are hospitalized and receive medical attention; Moore asks the physicians to provide the same level of care they would give to Cuban citizens. Moore emphasizes that people should be "taking care of each other, no matter the differences". To demonstrate his personal commitment to this theme, Moore sends an anonymous US $12,000 cheque to Jim Kenefick, webmaster of MooreWatch, which Moore describes as "the biggest anti-Moore website on the internet." Kenefick was forced to close the website because he needed US $12,000 to pay for his wife's medical treatment. Moore explains his charitable contribution, saying he doesn't want the health care system to trump the first amendment. Upon receipt of the anonymous cheque, Kenefick calls the anonymous Moore his "Guardian Angel", and continues to criticize Moore on his website. Run Time: 2 hrs 4 minutes For more information or to purchase other Micheal Moore movies, please visit: http://www.michaelmoore.com/ For more information/video clips of this movie, please visit the official movie site: http://www.sicko-themovie.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Additional information on September 11th, NWO, the Illuminati and the great threat to you can be found at www infowars com or www.prisonplanet.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 Ubehage (2007-07-26)

Nice collection :)
I love conspiracy theories, even though I don't believe most of them.
Anyways, I am 100% convinced that the US government did indeed know about 9/11 - maybe not participated, but they knew it for sure; and used it in their own policies.
Spread the word, m8!!

GORMEL1 (2007-07-27)

I don't know if it is my computer or not, but many times when if try to follow a thread on conspiracy, i get a 404 error, or my computer locks up, or a message that this page cannot be displayed.
For instance, when I try to access the 911 call, I get a voice giving date and time, then my computer locks.
Do any of you run into the same problem? or have any answes as to why this would happen?

squidbob (2007-07-27)

I have friends and relitives in Canada... and It's not really like that. example: june/07 A friend of mine got bit by a dog and needed stitches....yes, they didn't charge her for being seen, but she had to pay for everything else. suture, bandage wrap, antibiotics, ( which she had to pick-up at the pharmacy before she got to the hospital). fall/05 Another relitive had a sis in his lung about 1/4 inch in size. It was not "life threatning" at the time, so they left it....a year and a half later, it was the size of a large orange and he also had to walk around with an oxygen tank because of an inability to take in enough oxygen normally...they removed it and it took them 6 months to clear up post infections that occured afterwards. Summer/05 Another relitive got in a car accident... the hospital couldn't find the time to wash the glass out of her hair.....they wanted a family member to come and do it....the nearest relitive was an hour and a half away....her 78 year old father who doesn't drive... 4 days later they washed it for her. They don't have the best quality doctors because the pay is so low...a lot of Canadians actually come to the United States for major operations. They don't trust the medical system in Canada.
If you want to fix the system...you have to take the non-medical people out of the loop when it comes to deciding health care issues...(insurance companies)
This might not be the best system...and there things to fix, but the quality and expertise of the personal can't be touched anywhere in the world
GET THE INSURANCE COMPANIES OUT OF THE DECISION MAKING AND GIVE IT BACK TO THE DOCTORS... simple as that

koffbeer (2007-07-30)

Same problem here....just audio , no picture !?

joy_wilson (2007-07-31)

Um.. i'm Canadian and our health care system is not like that.. taking four days to get glass out of someones head.. i think your retarded and should actually be either canadian or know the facts before you start running your mouth aout shit you don;t know anything about.. thats like me saying crap about the united states helth care system.. i know shit about it.. and as for paying for every thing.. no you don;t have to pay for every thing just your meds if its not covered by your insurance company

moreinfo (2007-07-31)

Americans who have never been out of their country really have no clue as to what is really on. Have you ever seen their TV news channels ? What a bunch of nazi propaganda., no wonder they are so clueless. Sad very Sad

sebbo_nl (2007-08-03)

I guess you mean "the American Nightmare"? God, I feel really blessed to live in a country where you can actually get HELP when you're sick, without having to pay an arm and a leg.

iloveyourmom1368 (2007-08-04)

I'm American.. =P
*Note to self; Don't ever get sick..*

Aladin6 (2007-08-08)

I am new to torrents. I started this yesterday. Today all I get is "Problem connecting to tracker. Timeout exceeded."
Does that mean that the tracker is gone, or should I try again and again?
I almost have everything and believe that the message in this film needs to be spread as much as possible. It is a very good post.
Could somebody please help or point me into the right direction.
Thank you!

wazza1818 (2007-08-20)

Worked perfectly, thankyou. Fastest torrent I've ever downloaded. New Zealand broadband is hopless. At 80kb/s, this was my fastest torrent download ever. What sort of speeds is eveyone else getting?

moxie25 (2007-08-20)

I too had a problem with the video in Winamp 5.35. What fixed it was installing FFDShow.
wazza 1818, I got this at 150KB/sec.
Thank you for providing this lkobescak. Sicko is playing currently here in our "art" theatre. I went down to see it earlier today . There was a very long line to buy a ticket and then an hour's wait before it would begin. I didn't want to wait that long, so I came home and downloaded it. But I am going to see it in the theatre also next week.
I live in "Paradise" (Hawaii) and the County of Hawaii last year declared a state of emergency because we have such a severe shortage of physicians in the state and particularly on the Big Island. My family physician is 69 years old and does not do hospital visits so if I have to go to the hospital I will have a different doctor every day...I have heard horror stories about this from other patients. I have to wait 8-10 hours to see him even with an appointment...I usually leave his office around midnight. Yet, I am lucky. I have a doctor. Doctors here are not taking new patients. Folks who move here cannot find a doctor and folks whose doctor retires cannot find a doctor.
I am 64 with some chronic health problems so the movie really hit home. I had to stop it twice to go to the bathroom and vomit. I don't understand what has happened to us Americans...how we let large corporations come to run our nation. I did gain some very important, useful insights by recently reading Al Gore's new book The Assault on Reason. I recommend it as the perfect complement to Sicko. Every American needs to see this movie and read Gore's book and then use the Net as the new Market Place of Ideas where we citizens can come to talk with each other and our elected representatives and begin to take back the excessive power that now makes our government so lopsided in favor of the executive branch.

wauuw (2007-08-26)

My DVD player cannot play the movie - only audio. Crap!!!

gonzok (2007-08-27)

I cannot get this video to play at all. Running XP with codec pack all in 1, xp codec pack, k-lite codec pack installed. Tried playing with windows media player, divx player, and tcmp. All give me a codec error. Any suggestions?

addi123 (2007-09-01)

downloaded this at about 350kb/s.. great movie.. ok seed
ty m8

addi123 (2007-09-01)

srry the speed boosted to 900kb/s, so the seed is great too :)

jonathan_crisp (2007-09-02)

I'm getting incredible speeds too. I notice no one's mentioned the quality, but at this speed I'll find out for myself soon! I see on wikipedia that Moore has been accused of leaking the film himself... perhaps he's still seeding!

accuface123 (2007-09-05)

Hey lkobescak i downloaded the codec-pack you are mentioning, but i have no picture what so ever, only sound? U got an idea what i might be? Great post :) accuface1234

hopps1234 (2007-09-12)

I also am only getting audio, it will not play on any players, i have updated codec. All other .avi files i have downloaded work fine. Any advise would be welcome

alekies (2007-09-15)

Just get VLC for image.

bennyblancomtl (2007-09-15)

for those of you that are only geting audio, I converted the file to MP4 for my iPod Video using Videora and I got the video.

Webgris (2007-09-21)

WOW!!!! Nice quality :D thanks...
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Anti_Toast (2007-09-22)

I get audio, but no video on this torrent.... :( Ive tried using the video codec that was provided thru download, but it didnt do anything...

accuface123 (2007-09-22)

use the player advised in the read-me.. i did, and it works! vlc player great rls lkobescak i bow before you :)

FotherMucker (2007-10-04)

lkobescak, ur an awesome guy and this is a great release (well I'm not sure really, still downloading..) but save your Cold war crap for discussion groups who actually care or stick it up your ass. Anyway, I'll continue to seed (if it's any good) cuz I also am a 'truth soldier' but that's mainly because I'm stealing my neighbours' wireless internet connection.
And hell yeah, the d/l speed is like a fuckin taliban suicide bomber (let's face it, they're fast)! Awesome!
In short: Thanks :)

FotherMucker (2007-10-05)

Aight, it works (with VLC media player -> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ and perhaps even cramming ur pc with a whole bunch of unnecessary worthless codecs -> or
So keep in mind that you use a more general way of coding ur next release, asshole (XviD 1.1.3 or lower).
Other than that, superb release! I'm going to be seeding it for a few weeks :-)

rspoppi (2007-10-06)

People insist on trashing their PCs with codecs. Achtung, mates, some use them to invade ur comps and fuck u up.
It's simple. I always praise VLC. Use it,ull know what i'm saying.
Thanks uploader. Peace.

FotherMucker (2007-10-06)

True.. Fuck codec packs, they screw with ur system anyway. I can't seem to burn this release with XtoDVD (with subs) and I also can't convert it with VirtualDub (audio sync issues) so if any of you want to burn it to DVD with subs, d/l this version instead:

which is coded in XviD, something our little friend lkobescak here knows jack shit about :-)

glassmastter (2007-10-18)

Thanx for the upload !

glassmastter (2007-10-19)

Downloaded this torrent received audio only !

 lkobescak (2007-11-05)

While I can agree with you on that on FotherMucker but I can't say I actually coded this one.
For more movies like this, check out my other torrents at: http://thepiratebay.se/user/lkobescak

 lkobescak (2007-11-22)

U.S. government tricks hide trillions in debt

Every year, tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars are quietly added to the U.S. national debt -- on top of the deficits that we hear about. What's going on?
By Scott Burns
November 21, 2007
When it comes to financial magic, the government of the United States takes the prize. Sleights of hand and clever distractions by purveyors of line-of-credit mortgages, living-benefit variable annuities and equity-indexed life insurance are clumsy parlour tricks compared with the Big Magic of American politicians.
Consider the proud trumpeting that came from Washington at the close of fiscal 2007. The deficit for the unified budget was, politicians crowed, down to a mere $162.8 billion.
In fact, the U.S. government is overspending at a far greater rate. The total federal debt actually increased by $497.1 billion over the same period.
But politicians of both parties use happy numbers to distract American voters. Democrats routinely criticize the Republican administration for crippling deficits, but they politely use the least-damaging figure, the $162.8 billion. Why? Because references to more-realistic accounting would reveal vastly greater numbers and implicate both parties.
You can understand how this is done by taking a close look at a single statement on U.S. federal finance from the president's Council of Economic Advisers. The September statement shows that the "on-budget" numbers produced a deficit of $344.3 billion in fiscal 2007. The "off-budget" numbers had a surplus of $181.5 billion. (The off-budget figures are dominated by Social Security, Medicare and other programs with trust funds.)
Combine those two figures and you get the unified budget, that $162.8 billion. In the past eight years there's been two years of reported surpluses and six years of reported deficits. Altogether, the total reported deficit has run $1.3 trillion.
Some numbers don't add up
But if you examine another figure, the gross U.S. federal debt, you'll see something strange. First, the U.S. debt has increased in each of the past eight years, even in the two years when surpluses were reported. Second, the gross federal debt, which includes the obligations held by the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, has increased much faster than the deficits -- about $3.3 trillion over the same eight years.
That's $2 trillion more than the reported $1.3 trillion in deficits over the period. Can you spell "Enron"?
In other words, while the reported deficits averaged $164 billion over the past eight years, U.S. government debt increased an average of $418 billion a year. That's a lot more than twice as much.
How could this happen?
Easy. The U.S. Treasury Department simply credits the Social Security, Medicare and other trust funds with interest payments in the form of new Treasury obligations. No cash is actually paid. The trust funds magically increase in value with a bookkeeping entry. It represents money the American government owes itself.
So what happens if the funny money is taken away?
When the imaginary interest payments are included, Social Security and Medicare are running at a tranquilizing surplus (that $181.5 billion mentioned earlier). But measure actual cash, and the surplus disappears.
In 2005, for instance, the U.S. Social Security Disability Income program started to run at a cash loss. 2007 is the first year that Medicare Part A (the hospital insurance program) benefits exceeded income.
The same thing will happen to the U.S. Social Security retirement-income program in six to nine years, depending on which of the trustees' estimates you use. During the same period, the expenses of Medicare Part B and Part D, which are paid out of general tax revenue, will rise rapidly.
Despite this, the U.S. Social Security Administration writes workers every year advising them that the program will have a problem 34 years from now, not six or nine years. In fact, the real problem is al

Nonisan (2007-12-11)

Michael Moore, the man using left wing politics and a bunch of (proven) lies to make a name of him self. He has been proven several times with lies in his films. Saying people will not talk to him even if they have and more. Michael Moore likes to poke a camera in your face and fire of questions but when asked for an intervue he wants credentials, several months and sometimes years to respond. Live like you learn Michael =) What a hoax!

 lkobescak (2008-10-13)

I understand you don't like Michael Moore, cool. But were do you stand on Universal Health care?