Ancient Cultures, UFO Abduction, Mythic Deities, Cosmic Wormhole in a Car Ad

2011 Kia Optima: One Epic Ride — Big Game 2011 Commercial Check out this very cool ad for the Kia Optima which includes an alien, flying saucer, worm hole and ancient Mayans.  Apparently Graham Hancock is now writing ads for car companies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGj6iSZvak

Lester Brown on the collapse of the world food bubble

  Over the last twenty-some years, in more than a dozen of his books and annual reports, Lester Brown has been describing the interlocking global economic/ecological changes that are converging in multiple ways to a variety of catastrophic outcomes – with rapidly increasing probability estimates.  Here is a (a selection from) a press release on his [...]

Bill McKibben: Catastrophic Weather Events Are Becoming the New Normal

Are You Ready for Life on Our Planet Circa 2011? For two decades now we’ve been ignoring the impassioned pleas of scientists that our burning of fossil fuels was a bad idea. And now we’re paying a heavy price. If you were in the space shuttle looking down yesterday, you would have seen a pair [...]

Child musical prodigy joyfully play-conducts Beethoven symphony

For a totally upbeat explosion of joy and laughter and music, watch this five minute video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0REJ-lCGiKU

Richard Wolff on the meltdown of the American capitalist system

Richard Wolff is an Economics Professor at the University of Massachusetts, whose documentary film Capitalism Hits the Fan reveals with stunning clarity the undeniable and ever more glaring deficits in the inherent structure of the capitalist economic model. Viewing this film could be used as wonderful starting point for a discussion or series of discussions [...]

Rare film footage of 1950s LSD studies

Journalist Don Lattin,  author of The Harvard Psychedelic Club, is writing a book about the relationship between the philosopher/writers Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard, and their shared interest in LSD, which led to Bill Wilson being cured of alcoholism and founding AA. (Fortunately for the subsequent extraordinary success story of AA, Wilson’s original idea of [...]

Just Vision:”Ten Unsung Visionaries of 2011″

Photo slideshow shows ten Palestinian and Israeli civilians who are using nonviolence to work against the occupation. 
http://www.justvision.org/highlights

Using Music for Globalizing Peaceful Change

While there are immensely wasteful and destructive uses of technology, the folks at Playing for Change, http://playingforchange.com/,  have used it to bring the people of the world closer together.  They continue to produce beautifully woven videos of musicians from around the world playing in synchrony and harmony. Playing for Change has used the proceeds from [...]

Rep. Ron Paul’s campaign to unmask the secretive manipulations of the Federal Reserve

Toward Sensible Monetary Policy By U.S. Rep. Ron Paul
Monday, January 10, 2011 http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1816:… Alone in the US Congress,  Representative Ron Paul has been waging a so far largely unsuccessful campaign to unmast the “wizards behind the curtain” of the Federal Reserve – a privately owned bank that avers it requires secrecy to steer the US [...]

A film about the historic and precedent-setting Nuremberg war crimes trial

This is a powerful documentary about the Nürnberg trials in 1945 was made by Stuart and Budd Schulberg, shown in Germany to appreciative audiences, but strangely, never released in the US (ostensibly not to distract people from the new enemy-creating propaganda campaign directed at the “red menace” of the Soviet Union).  The negative was lost [...]

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