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In December of 2019, my best friend Kit took me and my partner to the place where she grew up, in the remote Thora Valley, in the pristine forested foothills of Eastern Australia’s Great Dividing Range. As we drove down Darkwood, the single road into the Thora, Kit told us...
There have been plenty of videos examining the YouTube far-right radicalization machine, but far fewer looking at the effect of Fox News and conservative talk radio hosts on older generations. This video by Second Thought is an attempt to explain why so many people from our...
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For decades, Americans have used the words "capitalism" and "freedom" as synonyms. In this video by Second Thought, we'll explore why capitalism not only fails to provide the freedom it promises, it also actively suppresses real freedom.
11 min
The two major parties aren't as different as you think they are. Democratic and Republican voters are more divided than ever, but that's not the case for elected officials. In this episode of Second Thought, we'll discuss the similarities between the two major parties, and...
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The story of George Soros, fake news & the Americanisation of far right politics.
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Ever wonder how to become a woke white person? In this step by step instructional, you’ll slice through social justice warrior school and emerge with a high level degree in woke-ology. You’ll know not only how to get offended by anything, you’ll understand how to accrue woke...
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What will the future be like in the year 2050? A mere three decades away, most of us hope to still be around. So, what kind of future are we riding into? ENDGAME 2050 gives us a glimpse into that future, and it does not look good. Humanity has backed itself into an ecological...
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Well... this took longer than expected. I am sorry you had to wait so long for me to finish this video, I had some reading to do, then write the video, record the audio, and then the editing itself, which took a month and two weeks. But then again, you voted for this video...
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Ayishat Akanbi is a stylist and cultural commentator. Her monologue 'The Problem with Wokeness' went viral a couple of years ago. She argues that modern social justice movements, or 'wokeness', often creates division, and harms those it is intended to help.
63 min
The Appeal of Fascism
Matthew R. Bishop - September 24th, 2020
As I ponder the imminent demise of our republic, I have arrived inadvertently at the answer to a question I did not mean to ask: Why has fascism so easily taken over what we once believed to be a resolute...
INFINITE POTENTIAL tells the story of the man Einstein called his “spiritual son” and the Dalai Lama his “science guru.” A brilliant physicist and explorer of consciousness, Bohm’s profound insights into the underlying nature of reality and the interconnectedness of the...
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Summary of Chomsky's analyses on how the corporate media functions. Excerpt from the documentary Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992). Watch the whole thing here.
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The Circular Economy Action Plan, adopted by the European Commission in 2020, is one of the cornerstones of the European Green Deal. The plan includes a series of measures to ensure that the resources used in the EU are kept in use for as long as possible. The final goal is...
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In part 1, Kyle Kulinski critiques the corporatization of anti-racist philosophy, which conveniently leaves the power structures (ie the true engines of inequality and exploitation) of these corporations unchallenged.
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What counts as work and what doesn't? Nancy Folbre shows how nearly half of all work done in this country is ignored by economists. She argues that we need to create better measures of non-market income, consumption and investment.
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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” ― Noam Chomsky
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The promise of globalization is built on a lie, designed to spread risk while concentrating reward. Joe Stiglitz digs into why so many economists and policymakers have twisted the facts in support of this form of globalization.
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Brazil’s Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, covering an area nearly the size of Britain. Only today, it isn’t so wet. After a summer of drought, catastrophic fires are raging that have devastated 2.4 million hectares of land already this year. (That’s more...
Charles Eisenstein
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THE LAST PROPHECY, THE AFTER WORLD SEEN BY ROMAIN DEMONGEOT
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Part 1: introductions are made, along with a treatment on the origins and nature of systemic racism in the USA.
120 min
The Contributions of Puerto Rican, Chicana, & Latinx Feminist Movements To Activism
Maria a Norris
Why Histories Told By Marginalized Women Are Paramount In Feminist Research Methodology
The arc of history is long and tiresome, but the events of the past are never as far away as we would like to believe they are. To understand where we are going, we must reflect on where we’ve been. In doing so, we will find the troubles of the past are not yet laid behind us...
Hailstone's Dance: In the wake of the Me Too movement taking off in Iran, this timely portrait of a survivor of sexual abuse reflects the uphill struggle for justice. Subscribe to Journeyman here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures For more...
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Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film...
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Since the passing of renowned feminist scholar and philosopher María Lugones, I wanted to revisit and remember some of her lessons regarding gender's relationship to colonization. I had the privilege of
Maria a Norris
InterReflections is an experimental, mixed genre narrative feature film by Peter Joseph, adapted from his book The New Human Rights Movement. The ambitious, nearly 3 hour work challenges not only contemporary thinking about society, it challenges the very art of filmmaking...
165 min
The Fight Of Their Lives documents the citizens fight against a Hazardous Waste Incinerator in Granville County, North Carolina in 1990. But it was more than just a single county's fight, it was a statewide fight that garnered national attention. It shows the many faces...
235 min
If Julian Assange goes to prison for revealing government secrets, no journalist is safe—even the famous Washington Post reporter, Bob Woodward, who broke the “Watergate” story uncovering secret crimes of the Nixon administration. To illustrate this point I’ve logged dozens...
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Anthropologist David Graeber guides us on a profound analysis of the financial systems, current crisis and upheavals in the world. Taking as a starting point the tireless Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, the documentary uses reflections of Graeber and other experts to...
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JAMES GOODALE, former executive vice president, vice chairman, and general counsel of The New York Times is best known for leading the NYT to victory in the famous free-press-threatening Pentagon Papers case. In his book, “Fighting for the Press”, he warned about the danger...
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JAMES GOODALE, former executive vice president, vice chairman, and general counsel of The New York Times is best known for leading the NYT to victory in the famous free-press-threatening Pentagon Papers case. In his book, “Fighting for the Press”, he warned about the danger...
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QAnon & Twitter Ban discussed with Travis View of the "QAnon Anonymous" podcast Support me on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Orf Matt Orfalea https://twitter.com/0rf https://medium.com/@0rf https://facebook.com/MattOrfVids
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My wife, Stella, recently shut down her account on the social-media-platform-that-must-not-be-named. “It feels like I’m walking away from a fight,” she said. “Almost everything I read there is a signal as to what side the poster is on. Or an attempt to promote the idea that...
Charles Eisenstein
Unseen: A look into the final hours of life for pigs from Smithfield. A powerful, new mini-documentary follows pigs on a 700 mile journey from a @SmithfieldFoods farm in the Utah desert to a California slaughterhouse. It captures their brutal final moments and exposes how...
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Imagine a future in which every person was afforded the basics of life. How would this change our society? Is UBI the future? – Second Thought
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A Prison With No Locks: To combat repeat crime offences in Brazil, one controversial prison, APAC, has been created with open doors. It teaches rehabilitation and reform to nonviolent offenders, rather than fear and violence. Subscribe to Journeyman here...
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Hungary: Europe's Right Wing Rebels: Since far-right Viktor Orban gained power, Hungary has taken an uncompromising stance against migration, media and academic freedom, causing alarm across Europe and beyond. Subscribe to Journeyman here...
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Plastic Oceans (2012): What impact is plastic waste having on marine life and environment? For similar stories, see: Is Recycling the Solution to the World's Plastic Problem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY-FKOOkPcM India Has a Booming Recycling Industry...
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For the Palestinian Olympic team, getting to Beijing is already a victory.
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(2009) From the heart of China's drug epidemic comes Using, the story of a journalist and an addict, who despite all odds, develop a relationship of mutual dependency. Few docs have come so close to the bone. For similar stories see: Oxyana - Trailer...
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Israel Ticas is El Salvador's only forensic archeologist. In one of the world's most dangerous countries, his job is to unearth the hundreds of missing people murdered and buried by the rival gangs MS-13 and 18 Street, as their street war rages. Without him the murdered would...
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Exploring the revolutionary Bitcoin digital currency. It doesn't need banks or to be printed. It can be transferred in a second to anywhere in the world. With global financial instability in the headlines daily, more and more people are taking their money away from the banks...
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African American Homeschooling: In the last 15 years in the USA, the number of homeschooled black children has doubled from 103,000 to about 220,000. Increasingly, parents are citing school-related racism as a reason to keep students at home. Subscribe to Journeyman here...
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Australia on Fire: Australia's deadliest fire season claimed the lives of 33 people, over 1 billion animals, destroyed over 300 homes and burnt 12 million hectares. These are the devastating stories of Australians waking up to the destruction to their homes and property...
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As Lukashenko is re-elected into his fifth term, we revisit the violent crackdown that followed the 2010 rigged elections, providing a rare glimpse into Europe's most repressive state and its last dictator. Subscribe to Journeyman here...
56 min
Mediastan: A Wikileaks Road Movie: Due to the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the arrests of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, Sixteen Films and Journeyman Pictures are providing a time-limited free access to the Wikileaks road movie Mediastan. Mediastan is a...
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Our love-hate relationship with plastic started with the invention of a simple shopping bag. In 1965, Scandinavian shoppers discovered they no longer needed to bring their own canvas bags to the store. Thanks to the ingenious invention of engineer Sten Gustaf Thulin from...
"It’s Okay to Panic" is a nostalgic portrait of 62-year-old Professor Szymon Malinowski, Director of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Warsaw, who worries that climate change may cause human civilisation to collapse in the coming decades. A career educator...
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The discipline that involves doing sports combined with the mental clarity that comes from being immersed in nature is a combination that has enabled thousands of people to abandon addiction, have a spiritual renewal, re-evaluate their lives and find their purpose in life.
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In this episode of Enlightenment Today, I will explain the Taoist cannibal thief Robber Zhi found in the Zhuangzi text. Robber Zhi is one of the least known and understood in the Zhuangzi text. He is the embodiment of the Taoist attitude towards life, but people confuse this...
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John Oliver discusses a week that saw the Republican National Convention, a horrific series of shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and a strike in professional sports -- three stories that are really one story, about race in America.
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It's Crazy Times. (*Explicit lyrics)
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Meditating properly requires a lot more than closing our eyes and observing our thoughts. Meditation actually requires a complete transformation of our lifestyle to cultivate concentration so that we can harvest a deeper level of meditation. To achieve the ultimate benefit...
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You're probably aware that Disney owns Marvel and Lucasfilm, but do you really know how consolidated the American media landscape is? In this episode of Second Thought, we're looking at how just five mega-corporations control the entirety of US media.
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Inner Sense is a short, abstract documentary that touches upon the ideas of meditation, pain, and our inner, innate human strength.
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