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A look at Chelle Lindahl's rocket mass heater 7 min
Chelle Lindahl, who lives in an off-grid home near Canton, NY, speaks about the rocket mass heater she uses to heat her home. She also discusses other aspects of how she tries to have a low-impact lifestyle. Rocket mass heaters (RMH) are low-cost, high-efficiency wood-burning...
An Earthship-type home in Chertsey, Quebec 7 min
Hélène Dubé shows us around the house she built with her partner Alain Neveu near Chertsey, in Quebec's Lanaudière region. The walls of this Earthship-inspired home are built with tires filled with earth, and its main source of heating is the sun which comes through large...
Better Farm, a sustainability education center in Redwood, NY 8 min
Nicole Caldwell speaks about Better Farm, the sustainability education center she owns and runs in Redwood, NY. As people look for ways to lead a more sustainable lifestyle, training and education centers like Better Farm are becoming ever more important.
Les Jardins de Marie-Bio, a small-scale, organic farming incubator 8 min
In Saint-Basile-le-Grand, Quebec, Les Jardins de Marie-Bio rents half-hectare plots to people who want to get started in organic farming. For $2000 a year, the renter gets access to land, but also to infrastructure such as a greenhouse, an irrigation system, and cold storage...
Troy, NY, a Transition Town 5 min
Members of the Troy, NY Transition Town initiative talk about the group during one of their monthly meetings. The Transition Town network is a community-based initiative aimed at building resilience in response to peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability.
Wild native plants, the abundance all around us 9 min
Amber Westfall discusses how she came about discovering her life passion, wild edible and medicinal plants, and talks about the incredible abundance of useful plants that grow even in urban areas.
The Radix Center, ecological sustainability in the heart of Albany, NY 7 min
Scott Kellogg runs the Radix Center in New York state's capital Albany, where he teaches ecological literacy and showcases different aspects of sustainability to urban residents. He talks about the importance of working in cities to effect real change in society.
An Integral Yoga System as a Holistic structure We owe to the great Sage Patanjali a workable Yoga system that became the blueprint of most of the Yoga practiced today. Patanjali’s amazing wisdom comes not only from the knowledge he is teaching but mostly from his ability to...
(Excerpted from the book, The Story of B) With every audience and every individual, I have to begin by making them see that the cultural self-awareness we inherit from our parents and pass on to our children is squarely and solidly built on a Great Forgetting that
It would seem there are certain strands of thought within many religions that are highly unsustainable, for the health of individuals, society and the planet as a whole.
Warmongering Continuing Full Speed Ahead The government shutdown isn’t slowing down the warmongers.  For example:
America’s heartland! Place of milk and honey! Where cows frolic happily in fields full of corn, butterflies, and maple syrup (just go with it). Or not? You’re telling me the flatlands are actually covered in festering scabs, thanks to factory farming? OK, maybe YOU aren’t...
Jesse Ventura Breaks the Set on JFK Conspiracy, Running with Howard Stern for President 13 min
Abby Martin speaks with former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, about his new book ' They Killed our President', going over the most compelling reasons why he thinks the assassination of JFK was a conspiracy, Bin Laden's death, and his potential presidential run in 2016 with...
Journey to Lucidity: The Planted Seed. A Consciousness Shifting Movie (trailer) 4 min
A full length consciousness shifting movie. A visceral experience through a transformational festival implemented with themes of dream exploration, oneness, community, and consciousness.
Paradigm Shift Radio 65 - Becoming More Psychic w Lightworker Twins Gianna and Genevieve 115 min
What does it mean to become more psychic? Is it about more than just reading someone's mind? Yes - it is about becoming more conscious
Love is Viral. Free Hugs Can Change the World. 5 min
Shiftivism - The act of showing love to help assist in the awakening of consciousness.
People of a Feather (trailer) 2 min
Featuring stunning footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather takes you through time into the world of the Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Canada's Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present and future is a unique relationship with the eider duck. Eider down, the...
Holy Wars (Trailer) 2 min
Shot over a four year period in America, Britain, Lebanon, and Pakistan, Holy Wars follows a danger-seeking Christian missionary and a radical Irish Muslim convert, both of whom believe in an apocalyptic battle, after which their religion will ultimately rule the world.
Holy Wars 65 min
Shot over a four year period in America, Britain, Lebanon, and Pakistan, Holy Wars follows a danger-seeking Christian missionary and a radical Muslim Irish convert, both of whom believe in an apocalyptic battle, after which their religion will ultimately rule the world...
In his complaints against the wing of the Republican Party that engineered the present government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid derided his opponents as “Tea Party anarchists.” It’s hard to decide who should be more annoyed — the Tea Party or the anarchists. In...
Belfast Palestine Arts Festival 2013 (trailer) 1 min
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Joe Rogan Breaks the Set on DMT, Weed, Transhumanism, and God 14 min
Abby Martin speaks with comedian Joe Rogan, host of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, discussing everything from psychedelic drugs to violence in the UFC. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
Participating we're losing the fear 5 min
"I'm going to talk to you about how important it is to have the poorest members of our society participate. For us, participation lets us escape our isolation, break the silence and bring an end to fear." That's ho
Seeds of Discontent 22 min
A powerful new documentary film “Seeds of discontent” was launched today that draws attention to the role of a Swedish investment firm, Dutch pension fund and Norwegian church endowment firm in land grabbing in Mozambique. Part 2 is the full film. Amsterdam...
A Senator Bluntly Says What We're All Thinking About The Awful And Obnoxious Government Shutdown 5 min
Dear Congress: if you can't cope with the realities of democracy, then get out of the way.
U.S. news reports are largely blaming the government shutdown on the inability of both political parties to come to terms. It is supposedly the result of a "bitterly divided" Congress that "failed to reach agreement" (
Top 5 Charity Pyramid Schemes Stealing Your Cash 4 min
Abby Martin calls out the top 5 American charities that are stealing your money, while giving less than one percent of donation to their respective causes.
Senator Bob Graham: Government Covered Up 9/11-Saudi Connection | Interview 12 min
Abby Martin conducts an exclusive wide ranging interview with former Senator and Florida Governor, Bob Graham, about the deficiencies in the 9/11 investigation, Bush-era enhanced interrogation techniques, and accountability for the BP oil spill. LIKE Breaking the Set @...
The Story of Solutions: Why Making Real Change Starts with Changing the Game 9 min
The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal. In the current 'Game of More', we're told to cheer a growing economy -- more roads, more malls, more Stuff! -- even...
Fmr NYT Journalist Seymour Hersh Blasts Bin Laden Fairytale, Calls for Corporate Media Shutdown 4 min
Abby Martin gives props to world renowned journalist Seymour Hersh, for calling out the abysmal failure of the corporate media in the US, saying that the MSM should fire 90 percent of its reporters and that "not one word" of the bin laden death narrative is true. Read the...
Growing Cities: Urban Farming in America 2 min
Growing Cities is a film about two young men's journey across America to learn about urban agriculture and how it is revitalizing cities one animal, vegetable, and chicken at a time.
Passive House: A Building Revolution 4 min
48% of all CO2 generated and energy consumed in the U.S. is from the construction and operation of buildings. Most climate scientists agree that CO2 emissions must be reduced 80% by 2050 to help stabilize the earth’s climate. Passive House is a new building standard for...
A Vision of America the Possible 6 min
Gus Speth imagines a compelling vision of a better, happier country—and how to make it possible. Read more: http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/america-the-possible-a-manifesto
Sorry, Guys. She Doesn't Actually Agree With You. She's Mocking You. Viciously. 3 min
This comes across as jokingly flippant but turns very dark and serious quite quickly. Definitely an interesting approach to spreading light on this disturbing epidemic.
The Post Carbon Institute released a new
How Media Shield Law Threatens Journalists | Interview with Zoe Carpenter 7 min
Abby Martin speaks with Zoe Carpenter, reporter for the Nation, about the 'Free Flow of Information Act', a bill whose broad definition of journalism is raising questions over the protection of journalists.
10,000 Cuts and Counting: The Appalling Human Cost of the Work Capability Assesment 4 min
10 Thousands Cuts & Counting was a ceremony of remembrance and solidarity with those who have had their lives devastated by the UK government's austerity programme, including more than 10,000 people who died shortly after undergoing the Atos Work Capability Assessment, a...
The richest 400 Americans now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million taken together. The political system is in deadlock. Social and economic pain continue to grow. Environmental devastation and global warming pre
Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back
Peter Joseph's 15 Minute Critique of Anarcho-Capitalism 15 min
Peter's assessment of the talk with Stefan Molyneux on Sept. 23rd 2013 relating to several key anarcho-capitalist ideas. Please share. Part 2 is the full discussion.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: What We Are 4 min
Mind = blown.
On September 4, 2013, James Comey became the 7th director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The first change in leadership at the bureau since the 9/11 attacks
Not just a book review of Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated
In 1833, William Miller predicted the second coming of Jesus Christ in the year 1843. Only after his fourth failed prediction, each of which saw hundreds of thousands of followers turn out, did his followers abandon him. By this time, Miller had already absconded with copious...
Love the Clit! Get Your Cliteracy on with Artist Sophia Wallace 8 min
Abby Martin talks to Sophia Wallace, artist and founder of the 'Clieteracy Project', about her work in exploring the taboos and misconceptions about the clitoris, and using the term as a symbol of freedom, sovereignty and sexual equality.
Ctrl! Halt! Del? 45 min
A case study of the proposed ban on violent pornography in Iceland. Submitted as minor thesis for the MSc Equality Studies in the School of Social Justice, UCD. The thesis question is to determine if the threat to internet freedom is warranted in Iceland's efforts to ban...
Surfing For Change: Indonesia Trash Tubes 13 min
Bali is a little island with a big problem - it's drowning in trash. In this short film, host & pro-surfer, Kyle Thiermann, shows the good, the bad, and the ugly of Indonesia and what we can do to restore it to the pristine, tropical paradise it once was.
Oh crap... This sh-t is funny! 1 min
Sure, this video might be funny but eating shit is no laughing matter.
Food Stamps vs. Farm Stamps: Subsidizing GOP Hypocrisy 3 min
Abby Martin breaks down the hypocrisy of the GOP pushing to defund food stamps by separating the program from the congressional farm bill, all the while accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks from the federal government in the form of subsidies for their private farms.
Assange And Digital Democracy - Hotspots Episode 2 26 min
As the world reels from Edward Snowden's revelations about NSA surveillance, this episode of HotSpots explores Julian Assange and WikiLeaks' engagement with these issues and asks strong questions about how democracy as we know it is faring in the information age.
Journey to Lucidity: The Planted Seed. 96 min
∞ A full length consciousness shifting movie through a transformational festival with themes of dream exploration & unity. ∞   The Story Continues at http://ParadigmShiftCentral.com Facebook - http://fb.com/Journeyt
Shiftivism - Creating Portals to World Peace and Hacking the Matrix. 5 min
A hub for a global collective of Paradigm Shift Communities actively engaged with promoting open-mindedness, healthy living, and the evolution of consciousness.
The Botany of Desire 76 min
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World is a 2001 nonfiction book by journalist Michael Pollan. Pollan presents case studies that mirror four types of human desires that are reflected in the way that we selectively grow, breed, and genetically engineer our...
Corroding Our Democracy: Canada Silences Scientists, Targets Environmentalists in Tar Sands Push 15 min
Five years ago this month, the firm TransCanada submitted a permit request to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would bring tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast. The project has sparked one of the nation's most contentious environmental battles in...
Mobile Showers & Toilets for the Homeless 3 min
Across the country there is a massive shortage in showers and toilets for the homeless. In San Francisco alone, there are 16 shower stalls for teh 3,100+ people who make the streets of the city their home.
New data shows that many will be paying less for private insuran
21st Century Slavery: Mass Incarceration in America | Interview with Eugene Puryear 12 min
Abby Martin speaks with Eugene Puryear, author of 'Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America', about how the US became the country holding a quarter of the world's prisoners, the privatization of prisons, and the racial bias inherent in the criminal...
Rep. Peter King of Islamophobia: Shocking Remarks on Al Shabaab Terrorism | Heroes and Villains 3 min
Abby Martin calls our Rep. Peter King, for grouping all Somali-Americans with Al-Shabaab militants, and calling to racially profile Muslim-Americans yet again. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
From gated communities in outer space to graphs about who owns the wealth, two new films are giving Americans a window into the issue of income inequality
Earlier this month, I had the honour of being interviewed by
Into the Fire: The Hidden Victims of Austerity in Greece 38 min
Into the Fire is being crowd-released: All over the internet people are embedding Into the Fire on their website or blog. With everyone who participates the audience and distribution network will grow. Are you participating?
There’s something profoundly despicable about a Justice Department that would brazenly violate the First and Fourth Amendments while spying on journalists, then claim to be reassessing such policies after an avalanche of criticism—and then proceed, as it did this
Outsourcing America Exposed 3 min
This video exposes the privatizers and profiteers selling out our democracy.
$6,000. That's over and above our payments
Abu Ghraib Victims to Pay Their Torturers 3 min
Abby Martin calls out Judge Gerald Bruce Lee as the day's villain, for ruling in favor of the defense contractor CACI International in a lawsuit brought by former Abu Ghraib torture victims, citing the two tiered justice of forcing torture victims to pay their torturers for...
One young adult with Spastic Cerebral Palsy grew in to adolescence seeing and feeling no way to get medical help for his condition once he wasn't a kid any more. What shocked him the most, though, was the impact he began to see had happened to all the other adults with the...
The Nerves Of Us 7-Minute Teaser Movie 8 min
This film is an international combination medical-science and social-justice film made by, and made about, adults with Spastic (muscle-tightness) Cerebral Palsy. The Nerves Of Us allows this age group, sidelined for hundreds of years compared to their baby and child...
A World Without Water 76 min
A World Without Water
42 Amazing Maps 4 min
The map, as an innovation, is extremely important. Simply constructing a useful representation of our world onto a piece of paper (or clay or vellum or whatever) vastly increased the capabilities of humankind. But we continue to add and alter this medium, in ways that allow...
The World's Most Powerful Photographs 2 min
What makes a great photograph great?
On the World Car Free Day, take a submarine! 2 min
My name is Felipe Carrelli and together with Thiago Carvalhaes and Tobias Rodil we are part of the Occupy the Car!  We found a wrecked car on the street of Sao Paulo, and decided to turn it into an aesthetic statement. Passersby joined us, and it turned out a real community...
"They Got Away With it" - White House Terror Chief Alleges CIA 9/11 Malfeasance and Cover-Up in 2013. Why was the Media Silent on This? 13 min
In a surprisingly low-key interview, Richard Clarke, former White House Counterterror "Tsar" to Presidents Clinton and Bush, goes on record about what he believes happened at the CIA in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks, accusing then-CIA Director George Tenet and two of his...
Inequality For All (trailer) 2 min
A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich—professor, best-selling author, and Clinton cabinet member—as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American econom
They Would Sell Your Heart If They Could... 3 min
Where do you draw the line?
Derrick Jensen: How the West Has Won 28 min
Peak Moment 200: "Is the world a better place because you were born?" asks author Derrick Jensen. He contrasts sustainable indigenous cultures, who enrich their habitat, with the current "dominant culture destroying everything." He explores how industrial civilization is...
Bill Maher on the Insane Amount of Hatred We Have in America 5 min
Bill Maher looked at just how much utter disturbing unhinged hatred there is in this country.
TED is a powerful and paradigm shattering initiative that brands itself with the slogan “Ideas worth spreading.” At this point, we have probably all heard of TED and the short talks given by inspiring people from all around the world to audiences at different conferences...
A FEW MONTHS AGO at a gathering of activist friends someone asked, “If our world is really looking down the barrel of environmental catastrophe, how do I live my life right now?”
Chasing Ice 2 min
Acclaimed photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the...
The Society of the Spectacle: Guy Debord's Classic Work Remade into a Mind-Bending Short Film 18 min
Guy Debord's classic 1967 text, remade into a contemporary context, with all sorts of visual remixing in the grand spirit of 'the spectacle.' Also includes Marshall McLuhan and John Berger.
What's the Economy for, Anyway? 40 min
Ecological economist Dave Batker questions whether GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being and suggests workable alternatives. In this film produced by John de Graaf of AFFLUENZA fame, ecological economist Dave Batker presents a humorous, edgy, factual, timely...
Affluenza 56 min
AFFLUENZA diagnoses a serious social disease - caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism - that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities, and the environment. We have more stuff, but less time, and our quality of life seems to be...
Bill McKibben: Draw the Line on Keystone XL 2 min
On September 21st, we will draw the line to protect our communities from climate change and show President Obama that there is no turning back -- to keep his climate promises, he has to stop Keystone XL and the tar sands.
We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I suppose it takes a true radical these days to question the progressive’s sacred cow: Ronald Reagan. You read that right. This paradigm of modern conservatism was one of the most important American champions of gun control in recent decades, and so he has become a convenient...
Republished in light of the recent Naval Yard shooting. - Ed On December 14th, 2012, a horrible tragedy took place at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut. Adam Lanza walked into the school and fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff. Some of...
Solutions: Overcoming Stockholm Syndrome 30 min
In the 1970s, a strange psychological phenomenon was identified: in traumatic abduction situations, a certain percentage of the population is prone to falling in love with their abductors. But if we are living in a societal prison of the mind, then are there those who have fa
His Beautiful Philosophies About Life Will Make You Feel OK That We're Running Out Of Oil 15 min
When our economy is based on, y'know, stuff ... and stuff is made out of, y'know, stuff we get from the Earth ... how exactly do we think this is going to end?
Ever had the feeling that your job might be made up? That the world would keep on turning if you weren’t doing that thing you do 9-5? David Graeber explored the phenomenon of bullshit jobs for Strike Magazine's summer issue – everyone who’s employed should read...
"Bottle" by Kirsten Lepore 5 min
Please watch at 720p (HD quality)*** Animated on location at a beach, in snow, and underwater, this stop-motion short details a transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle. MAKING OF VIDEO JUST ADDED: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgJ6R0S_H8...
Vigilante "It's Our Time" (Official Video) 4 min
Vigilante "It's Our Time" (Official Video)   First Single of Upcoming new Vigilante Album "Turning Point".   Directed by Brice Beillant (http://vimeo.com/bricebeillant)   A powerfull mix of Electro, Industrial and Dubstep. #INDUSTEP   All the money raised by...
Preface: Not all banks are criminal enterprises. The wrongdoing of a particular bank cannot be attributed to other banks without proof. But – as documented below – many of the biggest banks have engaged in unimaginably bad behavior.
The FBI is instructing local police departments and "communities against terrorism" to consider anyone who harbors "conspiracy theories" about 9/11 to be a potential terrorist, in a circular released to local police departments.   The circular thus adds 9/11 official story...
MACHINE MEN 4 min
Machine man speech by Charlie Chaplin in the great Dictator
The Afghanistan War Has Been Widely Considered a Failure, But How Has It Been a Resounding Success? 5 min
The Afghan war has provided NATO with access to control the $200+ Billion opium trade. The war has given NATO a key toe-hold in a geostrategic region, bordering perennial US target Iran as well as providing access to the key Central Asian nations- a vital area in NATO’s...
Building A Solidarity Economy Under the cooperative model, workers own the business, reducing injustice because they have a stake in the community and because an individual will find it hard to exploit oneself. Workers often buy into their jobs (upfront or amortized), vote...
Now that public pressure has foiled U.S. plans to bomb Syria, the next urgent step is to build public pressure for stopping the deluge of weapons into that country.
Nestle Water Takeover | Interview with Sheila Muxlow 9 min
Abby Martin talks to Sheila Muxlow, campaign director of the WaterWealth Project, about Nestlé's massive water extraction operation in Hope, Canada, what North Americans can do to protect this valuable resource from exploitation. LIKE Breaking the Set @...
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