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With fast development of urbanization in China, the air pollution becomes worse and worse which has been a big challenge of both government and citizens. Beijing, the capital city in China, is under attack by fog and haze. The air suspension with a lot of smoke,dust...
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“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.”
Maria Popova
This body of words deals with themes of addiction and escalation, scrutinising the interface between fast porn, human trafficking and global debt exploitation. It focuses on case studies and perspectives from developed nations, rubbing up against the perilous misconception...
A. Person
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VICE's Ryan Duffy went to Colombia to check out a strange and powerful drug called Scopolamine, also known as "The Devil's Breath." It's a substance so intense that it renders a person incapable of exercising free will.
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The Freedom Project documentary, "Every Day in Cambodia", first broadcast last year, airs again this weekend. The film, presented by actress Mira Sorvino, documents the appalling plight of children sold into sex slavery, sometimes by their own mothers, and the people fighting...
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Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ) was formed in 2009 by white people from across the US to respond to the significant increase of targeting and violence against people of color in the aftermath of the election of Barack Obama. The killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson...
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
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Oh, rebel winds can be cruel, as it whispers
its laments, of battles won and battles lost,
it makes for a weary heart...read the rest of the poem here: http://www.mysticalpoetryandpolitics.com/2011/02/rebel-wind.html
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The battle can be tough for those who fight the good fight everyday. Our souls get weary from the constant strife, but we must remain still undefeated...read the rest of the poem here: http://www.mysticalpoetryandpolitics.com/2011/02/still-undefeated.html
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There is a rebel spirit in every man, who fights for truth and justice. It has withstood the blows of many years, and will do so to the end...read the rest of the poem here: http://www.mysticalpoetryandpolitics.com/2011/02/rebel-spirit.html
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The rise of fundamentalism is a decidedly modern phenomenon in which US imperialism has always played a major role. The Islamic State is no exception.
Jerome Roos
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The shooting of Michael Brown offers Americans yet another reminder that their criminal justice system is riddled with racial disparities. From encounters with police to prison sentences, Ferguson is another drop in a very full bucket.
Read the latest updates on Ferguson...
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A public event held in Newtown Powys on 4.8.14 to comemorate the 100 year anniversary of the declaration of WWI In memory of the many who served and died in the First World War.
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The corporate media, reflecting their owners’ anxiety at the failure of Black people to revert to a state of passivity in Ferguson, Missouri, have arrived at a general consensus on two counts: the need to “demilitarize” the police (fewer bullets, smaller armored vehicles?)...
Glen Ford
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - April 4, 1967 - Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence Full and unabridged.
Personal favorite quotes:
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"A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor -- both...
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Is it possible
That weapons somehow create
The urge to use them? (via NYT)
Fun fact: Violence fetishizes itself. Worships. Adores itself with psychotic levels of megalomania and self-aggrandizement – sociopathic and chilling and face-slappingly obvious throughout all of...
Mark Morford
“The military character and mission of the police is more clear today than when the Black Panther Party and others sounded the alarm in the Sixties.”
The brave and besieged people of Ferguson, Missouri, have already caused serious complications for the U.S. National Security...
Glen Ford
Smearing a Progressive Website to Support Israel
Like many other news websites, Common Dreams has been plagued by inflammatory anti-Semitic comments following its stories. But on Common Dreams these posts have been so frequent and intense they have driven away donors from a...
Lance Tapley
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Some priceless wisdom shared by the one and only Michael Tsarion.
Michael Tsarion is a researcher and alternative historian who has written and spoken extensively on the Occult, Symbolism, Religion, Freemasonry, Secret Societies, Psychology, Spirituality, Consciousness...
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Abby Martin remarks on the growing militarization of America's local police forces in the midst of the unrest in Ferguson, MO, highlighting a program known as Urban Shield, where US police forces train and learn military tactics together. LIKE Breaking the Set @...
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Rally for Tibet March 10, 2013 Nashville, TN with One Human Race For Justice
From Nashville
Song "The Wind" by Shawn Gallaway
One Human Race for Justice (1HR4J)
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Stolen Wages is a short documentary aimed at creating awareness about the ongoing demand by the Aboriginal community for the return of wages that were withheld from them during the years 1905 to 1972. A period where the Australian Government had made the decision to withhold...
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Minorities have it rough in this country. We are the 1%.
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Everyone who is not us is the enemy and should be branded as infidel. This seems to be the prevailing ideology of the extreme Takfiri terrorists known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Their aim is said to be the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate. Shias...
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This is the story on the people who have existed and thrived in their land for thousands and thousands of years before they were kidnapped, tortured, chained, raped, and enslaved. This is the African who was stolen from his motherland and civilization and had everything taken...
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Not many Americans know that the value of the minimum wage has dropped significantly since its peak in 1968. One could have bought a grocery basket full of food with only one hour’s worth of minimum wage work in 1968 (working out to $10.75 in 2014 dollars) . Today, one would...
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Richard Register invites permaculturists to scale up their ideas on a bigger level to cater for our increasingly large world population.
Richard Register & Sven Eberlein
Let me start by saying something that sounds controversial but actually isn't:
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AtPeace Makita, a single mother of five children who turned to activism after her water was shut off by the Detroit Water and Sewage Department, talks with Dennis Trainor, Jr. about the Detroit Water Brigade and what it is like to living during the current push for the...
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How we think about and talk about ecological crises and our role in them form the structures of our responses. This is why thought forms, concepts, frames as George Lakoff calls them, are all central, form the crux, of attempts to protect species and the planet’s systems...
Elizabeth Oriel
Institutionalized Racism and the Militarization of Police in Ferguson, MO
Last week, after days of violent police rampages in Ferguson, Missouri, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Michigan) said the Senate will "review" the Defense Department program...
Nadia Prupis
Every once in a while, a dramatic news story can actually produce real reform. More often the momentum peters out once the story disappears from the news (remember how Sandy Hook meant we were going to get real gun control?), but it can happen. And now, after the aftermath of...
Paul Waldman
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This is the first episode of HOME FREE, giving a broad overview of the two plans that have been created to end homelessness through the Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness and Dr. Robert Marbut. Regardless of the challenges we may face along the way, Sarasota has every...
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Last week I got to visit Sweden. It is an impressive place. The accomplishments of the Swedish social model are many, but the lessons it teaches may be different from what you think...
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Looting, chanting, tear gas, rubber bullets – these are the images from Ferguson, Mo. entering American homes. But the vast majority of protesters are armed with little more than chalk and paper signs, hoping to create a memorial for Michael Brown, the teenager killed by a...
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Proponents of the pro-choice lobby say abortion promotes womens rights, forgetting that at least - and in Asia more than - 50% of victims of abortion are female. This poem gives voice to one of these unborn female victims of abportion, and outlines how the women rights lobby...
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Music; Golden Silvers- Magic Touch
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We don't need no education. At least not of the traditional, compulsory, watch-the-clock-until-the-bell-rings kind. As a growing movement of unschoolers believe, a steady diet of standardized testing and indoor inactivity is choking the creativity right out of our kids. The...
Ben Hewitt
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In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, John Oliver explores the racial inequality in treatment by police as well as the increasing militarization of America's local police forces.
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In a land of poverty, where the majority of people can't swim, Jamaican spearfishermen are an elite breed of free spirits and bold adventurers who head underwater in order to make their living.
Since Jamaica is now so heavily
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Mai Ali, is a Sudanese human rights defender, activist, and nonviolence trainer, affiliated with several NGOs and nonviolent social movements in Sudan. She remains deeply committed for change and the people in Sudan. After facing human rights violations in Khartoum in 2010...
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“There is nothing like art” to effect change in society, actor Ahmad Srour said.
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“When people ask me, ‘What do you do?’ I say I create crisis, because crisis is that edge where change is possible.” – Lisa Fithian
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How do you turn your nonviolent protest into a street theatre? By hiring unwilling actors, who might be very good at their job, like the police. In this video you will learn from the world-famous Yes Men how to incorporate predictable actors in your protest and create a...
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During their stay in Turkey in February 2014 the directors Arash and Arman T. Riahi themselves have been involved in a dangerous situation, when the police attacked civilians with tear gas. One of them even got hit by a tear gas catridge. For some time they could only breath...
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A short anti-legal high music video for Plasmator's song Vortex this is my directorial debut and I must say that I am rather pleased with it I hope you enjoy it cheers
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In an article that will no doubt make “progressive” hearts go pitty-pat (“The 1% May Be Richer Than You Think, Research Shows,” Bloomberg, August 7), Jeanna Smialek suggests that top 1%’s wealth is far greater even than official statistics indicate – and that because so much...
Kevin Carson
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"Global ecological initiatives are like energy that lies dormant until activated." Household waste can now be turned into fuel. Does the World’s first Waste-to-Biofuel facility located in Canada inspire you?
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"Art changes people and people change the World."
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"Art changes people and people change the World."
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Since Israel decided to pull out from Gaza in 2005, following a 38-year occupation, the strip has been subjected to near constant bombardment from the air. It has also acted as a base for various rocket attacks that have pounded Israel over the years.
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Take action for a slavery-free 2022 World Cup at www.walkfree.org/qatar Migrant workers in Qatar are living, working and dying in modern slavery to bring the world the 2022 World Cup. Watch this video to find out why this happening -- then take action to stop it...
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This viral public awareness video has a powerful and heart-tugging message about the consequences of our eating and lifestyle habits - dating back to our first years of life.
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"We are interrelated in all aspects. So the technology in the physical side of our global connectivity is really a skeletal manifestation of interconnectivity that exist energetically between all of us."
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Here are a shot movie about The Repression In the Basque Country.
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What can we do that honors and respects every human being on the planet?
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120 horas la tortura contra euskal herria: a documentary from 2013,
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Want to change the world? Show people that it is already happening. (An inspirational primer on how to get started.)
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Bill Hicks explains why he's glad that psilocybin mushrooms aren't legal. In 2 minutes you'll see what he means.
If you want to learn more, Erowid has long been a useful resource for learning about everything you'd be curious to know...
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The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and...
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If you're poor, the only way you're likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car.
But if you're tremendously wealthy, you can practice...
Rebecca Solnit
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Wolfgang Gartner - Illmerica from Ultra Music. Can you guess the common theme?
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In this epic moment of radical environmental and social disruption, the world is experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation to becoming an ecologically literate and socially just civilization.
Kenny Ausubel
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HOME FREE is a documentary web series that explores answers to the crisis of homelessness, and offers greater understanding of the mindsets that refuse rehabilitation and sanctuary. In Sarasota, Florida, we have recently begun implementing 11 of 12 steps recommended to us by...
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“The future belongs to the most compelling story.”— Drew DellingerHumans are story-makers — we are continually weaving disparate events into coherent narratives. It gives form and substance to our life journey; it gives us meaning. At any given moment, we are making choices...
Velcrow Ripper
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The 21st century is set to become a period for unprecedented change that is nonlinear and exponential. New generations of young children are set to become our 'system-busters': ushering in new systems, models, technologies, ways of doing things, that will transform our...
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As the ongoing events in Ferguson, Missouri show us, America’s racial tensions didn’t disappear when George Wallace backed down from the schoolhouse door. Dr. King didn’t wave a magic wand, and we never got together to feel all right. White America remembers this at ugly...
Manic Pixie Dream Mama
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A Visionary Art Interactive experience featuring 36 world famous visionary artists. Download the app. This project has been initiated to empower a new culture that broadens our perspective towards the world with respect to Art, Spirituality, Metaphysics, Science, History.
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July 26th March and rally for the people of Gaza in London, the second march in as many weeks - 'Messages for Gaza'
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People from around the UK descended on London on July 19th 2014 in perhaps the largest march against war since 2003. These are their messages for the people of Gaza and to the UK government.
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Transformational festival culture strives to create and become the more beautiful world it imagines. Traveling to several of these festivals across the world, this short film looks at the ways these festival communities are putting sustainability into practice.
Certainly...
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The changing of the Earth is evident all around us, sea levels are rising, greed is rising, species death counts are rising, and more. Stephen Hawking predicts the end of humanity will occur in less than 40 years' time. It is quite clear that what we are doing now isn't...
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I'm fascinated by how the human psyche deals with climate change, whether denial, disillusion or activism. I took a rest from being a climate change policy analyst and ended up in rural England interviewing Nan, 78 years old. Curiousity took me there to understand why...
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I will show you how easily you can reduce your footprint
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We set about to reate climate change awareness in our own unique way. Using current technology and the proliferation of smartphones, we intend to create a series of mobile games that educate people about Climate Change and inspire behavioural change...Sortables is our first.
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Pequeño is a quest around Mexico city looking for alternatives to live in a less aggressive way.
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This video describe about mangrove rehabilitation efforts, to against rob (seawater inundation) at Semarang city, Central Java, Indonesia. Seawater inundation is caused by sea level rise and land subsidence. KeSEMaT is organization who care with this phenomenon, and take...
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This is "The Stone and the Moon - Promo" by vincenzo mistretta.
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How would you live without water? Prevent climate change to save our water. Water needs us as it's expected to become scarce in the future. ACT NOW!
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Regardless of who we are, we are all part of a similar problem. Some of us affected, some not yet, but we are all in the same boat. While carbon targets fail to be met; while extreme weather increases in severity and instance; and while the worst case scenario looks ever more...
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Quick and reactive documentary done in 7 days, investigates the connection between our individual actions and climate change.
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The news: If you're following the events in Ferguson, you may be wondering why a group of suburban St. Louis police look like something out of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare."
Image Credit: AP
Zak Cheney-Rice
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Truce by Sharee Anne Gorman (annienomad-cyberpoet) was written to address the tragic impact that war has on everyone, but especially the young. The poem can be read in the text, while the soundtrack "The Tide" is a song I wrote that illustrates the root cause of...
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Miguel Ochavano, a shipibo shaman visits his community (Paoyhan) after the flood. The people of Paoyhan, a native community on the Ucayali river, in the peruvian amazon has seen their land flooded and their crops washed away every year since 2011, old people recall events...
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Uploaded by Andrew D. on 2014-03-02.
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There's a man going around taking names...And he decides who to free and who to blame...Everybody won't be treated all the same...There will be a golden ladder reaching down...When the man comes around...Words by Johnny Cash...
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Zephyr Teachout describes two possible futures for New York in her race for governor in the Democratic primary against Andrew Cuomo.
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An amazing cartoon made by Gavin Aung Than, which is inspired by this great lecture of the philosopher Alan Watts.
Gavin Aung Than
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Our climate is changing and no matter what, we have to adapt to it. Climate TV is a series of short movies, showing how the Netherlands takes innovative and smart measures to deal with climate change. Researchers themselves present the documentary and show what they do the...
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A lot of media organizations focus on breaking news. We're focused on breaking knowledge.
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The human spirit is the power to give form to our life and its corresponding formation field in a way that transcends an absolute determination [by materialist/social forces]...The apparent human ability to transcend purely mechanistic processes necessarily implies an...
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Is it melancholy to think that a world that Robin Williams can’t live in must be broken? To tie this sad event to the overarching misery of our times?
Russell Brand
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This film is about Jill's very special suit of stories. Jill Watts is a painter, sculpture, activist, and humanist. She became disturbed about an exhibit at the Worcester Art Museum which showed suits of armor from the middle ages.
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Most of us, as citizens responsible for making the choices which set our nation’s policy agenda, are nevertheless at a loss to understand the real constraints we face when it comes to matters of the annual federal budget, deficit spending, and long-term federal debt. This is...
Doug Bowles
Nonviolence is not for the cowardly, the weak, the passive, the apathetic or the fearful.
John Dear
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Mortgages doled out to people on the breadline, loans to refugees with no English and no jobs, reams of maxed out credit cards; welcome to Debtland. But this is not America’s sub-prime meltdown. We are in Australia, investigating the country's own subprime crisis, every bit...
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Are we on the cusp of discovering what determines gender? The old mantra - all girls have XX chromosomes and all boys have XY - is no longer reliable. Scientists are now looking beyond chromosomes to "brain sex" and the role of newly discovered genes. By studying transsexuals...
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At the height of the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan in 1999, a burqa-clad woman was executed in Kabul's main football stadium. Footage of the killing shocked the world and galvanised international opposition to the Taliban's brutal rule. Yet just two months ago, 22-year-old...
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A look at the hidden force controlling Hollywood and the Music Industry...Things are not what they seem...
The Industry, if you ain't got a strong mind, the industry will break you down, it's a matter of time...The Industry, vultures with nothing to feast on, see me, i'm...
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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives...
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