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"The Ambassador:" a gutsy Danish documentarian/journalist takes a hidden camera and attempts to

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become a Liberian diplomat to facilitate his diamond smuggling from the Central African Republic, a land torn by incessant civil war, coups, and almost absolute decadence and corruption.
This film shows how helpless indigenous people are when the most powerful nations on earth need the resources of a small and all but defenseless nation.
Fascinating for the courage shown by this guy and his assistant, and also for the amazing cast of real-life characters.
One telling fact: honest leaders get wasted, ones that "play ball" with foreign powers get gifted with wealth, foreign citizenships and residences.
Beautiful women, caviar, champagne, handfuls of diamonds, colorful diamond dealers, drunken pygmies, reams and reams of cash exchanging hands-----all this rushing headlong to a startling ending.
And all of it true.
Wow.

Edits: 03/15/13 03/15/13

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Any chance of a gutsy Danish journalist doing a film on Benghazi? - Victor Khomenko 12:37:24 03/16/13 (3)
I didn't think so.
- That's gotten far too much press already. I am eagerly awaiting one of those - tinear 15:38:05 03/16/13 (2)
  faux, PAC-funded conservative "documentaries," however, on that attack.
  - One would hope you would be eagerly awaiting the truth - Victor Khomenko 15:48:21 03/16/13 (1)
    But you don't seem too interested. You love the actors.
    - What truth would that be? That a bunch of thugs attacked our consul who was visiting an area he was told - tinear 14:36:37 03/17/13 (0)
      was extremely dangerous? That his death was the result of an attack similar to many that have caused the deaths of American state and other personnel over the past decades? That Republicans have held a witch-hunt, similar to the "Fast and Furious" one, that has NOT yielded any evidence of wrong-doing?
      Next, you're going to decry the lack of a great birther documentary.
      Even you must agree that with two unnecessary wars, Abu Ghraib, Hurricane Katrina, collapsed economy, unfunded drug program and school reform mandates---- the leadership over the past four years has been an amazing improvement over that shameful W/Cheney record.
      
      Edits: 03/17/13

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