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Climate-Gate: Is there Any Truth to the Charges?
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Climate change skeptics have been making a lot of noise about a set of stolen emails from one of the world's leading climate centers, The Universtiy of East Anglia. The spin they're putting out is that the emails reveal what they always suspected, an evil global conspiracy.
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"Concision" in the US Media (excerpt from Manufacturing Consent)
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From the documentary "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media", Chomsky discusses the practice of 'concision' in framing thought and debate in a democratic society.
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Climate Change and National Security
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Climate Change will have profound implications for the security of every nation. Experienced military experts have come to some conclusions on what's coming.
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32,000 Leading Scientists Signed a Petition Against Climate Change?
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Is That Really True? Well, no....But to get to the bottom of this claim, we'll have to go back in history, and meet someone who really was, at one time, a leading scientist...
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The Big Idea of 2010: The Empathic Civilization (Full Presentation)
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Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
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Vancouver Media Co-op's Round Up of G20 Resistance
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Canadian police have arrested over 900 people in Toronto in a police crackdown on protests at the G20 summit. Riot police used batons, plastic bullets and tear gas for the first time in the city's history. More than 19,000 security personnel were deployed in Toronto, and a nearly four-mile-long security wall was erected around the G20 summit site at the Toronto Convention Center. The security price tag for the summit is estimated at around $1 billion. Franklin Lopez & Dawn Paley of the Vancouver Media Co-op filed this report from the streets...
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Naomi Klein: The Real Crime Scene Was Inside the G20 Summit
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"My feeling, when I went by the Convention Center after all the leaders had gone home, was that this was the real crime scene, not those shattered storefronts, but what actually happened at the summit on Sunday night, when the world leaders issued their final communiqué. And what that communiqué said was that there wouldn’t even be a measly tax on banks to help pay for the global crisis that they created and also prevent future crises. There wouldn’t be a financial transaction tax, which could create a fund for social programs and for action...
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The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Toronto Black Bloc Gets Green Light to Rampage
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Watch Your Foodometer!
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Interested in eating less oil? In this VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator Molly Schwartz keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field to fork.
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Big Idea: The Empathic Civilization (Excerpt - Animated)
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Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
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The Cost of Oil Addiction
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The great American experiment still has battles left to fight, freedoms we must achieve. The call of this generation is to finally achieve freedom from oil by moving to a clean energy future.
Oil giant BP has created a gaping wound in the Gulf of Mexico, dumping 3.3 million barrels of oil into America's ocean. This is now the largest oil spill and environmental catastrophe in our nation's history.
Meanwhile, in the Persian Gulf, American consumers send billions of dollars a week to pay for foreign oil, strengthening our enemies' hand...
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TEDx, Guy Dauncey: Seven Ways We Can Win the Sustainability Endgame
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Think it's all hopeless? Think there are too many problems and our children's future is doomed? In 16 minutes, renowned and inspiring speaker Guy Dauncey explains why pessimism is the wrong answer to our society's challenges. There's already a massive world-wide movement to shift the tide and create a sustainable, socially-just future, but you wouldn't know this from watching the mainstream media. The alternative media is where the real story of our generation is being told. Realizing the inspiring vision of a better world that Dauncey...
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Now Here This: Network Neutrality Is Critical
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Graphic designer Michael Mahaffey, in collaboration with ill.gates, wants you to listen up with his activist video about Net Neutrality. Take action at http://www.savetheinternet.com/
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Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction (trailer)
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all of Life is the first feature-length documentary to fully investigate the growing threat posed by the rapid and massive loss of biodiversity on the planet. Featuring leading scientists, social scientists, environmentalists and others, the film explores the scope, the causes, and the predicted global impact of a mass extinction occurring on a scale not seen since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
If current trends continue, scientists warn that half or more of all plant and animal species on Earth will become...
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The Impact Of Media Consolidation On News Content
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A short film exploring the impact of media consolidation on news content and how this affects youth, both as viewers and media makers.
In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called "alarmist" for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly. In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote "in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and operate 90% of the mass media" -- controlling almost all of America's newspapers, magazines, TV and...
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For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty
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As the 2007-08 presidential campaign cycle offered up the usual slate of Washington insiders, Ron Paul, an obscure Congressman from Texas brought an alternative voice that challenged the political establishment.
Advocating a philosophy of sound money, a non-interventionist foreign policy, strict Constitutionalism, and individual liberty, Dr. Paul inspired a unique grassroots movement unmatched in American history - the repercussions of which continue to reverberate today and into the future of the American psyche.
For Liberty: How the...
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The Vanishing of The Bees (trailer)
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The Vanishing of the Bees, a feature-length documentary, takes a piercing look at the economic, political and spiritual implications of the world wide disappearance of the honeybee, a keystone species vital to sustaining our ecosystem.
Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples,broccoli, watermelon, onions, cherries, almonds and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. Commercial honeybee operations pollinate crops that provide one out of every three...
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Chris Hedges to Poverty Scholars
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Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary brought Chris Hedges to their Poverty Scholars Strategic Dialogues on Media and Religion and he delivered a monumental address urging the poor deal effectively with the right wing's grip on power, counter their fascistic racial targeting of Islam and other scapegoats like immigrants, gays, feminists, and lefties, by getting the public to see it's a deliberate distraction to prevent our realizing the need to replace obsolete economic institutions, a corrupt media, and a criminal government...
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Dirt! The Movie (trailer)
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Dirt! The Movie is an insightful and timely film that tells the story of the glorious and unappreciated material beneath our feet. Inspired by William Bryant Logan's acclaimed book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, Dirt! The Movie takes a humorous and substantial look into the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to. Dirt! The Movie will make you want to get dirty.
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Within Reach (trailer)
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In celebration and exploration of all things green, two bicyclists are on a year-long journey around the United States to share what they've learned about sustainable communities. They’ve traveled more than 6,000 miles to visit and film 100 sustainable communities of all types, working to capture in film the abundance of community-oriented solutions out there that are already working. The result of their effort will be "Within Reach," a feature-length documentary to be released in 2011.
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