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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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For a totally upbeat explosion of joy and laughter and music, watch this five minute video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0REJ-lCGiKU
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Photo slideshow shows ten Palestinian and Israeli civilians who are using nonviolence to work against the occupation. http://www.justvision.org/highlights
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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 [...]
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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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