We are a culture dependent on media for gratification, creating the illusion of experience on our psyche. Real knowledge is gained through experience. A film like this can only point towards something. What you got from this film comes with responsibility. “If we don’t use our intelligence, on a …See the Rest
The Issues
TEDxPannonia 2011 – – Society 2.0 – Entering a World Without Money
Prof. Franz Hörmann is Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the department for Business Taxation and Tax Planning, of the Department for Accounting at the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna. Works on further development of the semantical accounting theory, an approach studying accounting information systems from a linguistic perspective …See the Rest
Food That Kills – Full Documentary
At the beginning of the 20th century the US ranked 1st in health among the major industrial nations. US spending per capita on health is currently the highest in the world yet the US now ranks 37th in actual health statistics in the top industrial countries and has the highest …See the Rest
The Creature From Jekyll Island (by G. Edward Griffin)
The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin Did you know that Federal Reserve is a private corporation and not a part of the Federal government? This is a great history lesson that you never learned in school.
Peter Joseph on the Solution to Debt Slavery and American Consumerism
From RT: Peter Joseph from the Zeitgeist Film Series and Movement speaks about possible social and economic solutions in response to the systemic collapse of our economic, environmental and social world. His ideas are radical, but please listen with an open mind. Watch the full episode @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3qidsAMfr4&feature=channel_video_title Watch more …See the Rest
Pharmageddon: America’s bitter pill
From RT: The United States has a passion for pills, being the world’s biggest users of psychotropic drugs, consuming 60 per cent of them. And pharmaceutical firms are keen to keep cashing in on the multibillion-dollar market, even if it costs people’s health. America is regarded as a country with …See the Rest
The High Price of Materialism
Psychologist Tim Kasser discusses how America’s culture of consumerism undermines our well-being. When people buy into the ever-present marketing messages that “the good life” is “the goods life,” they not only use up Earth’s limited resources, but they are less happy and less inclined toward helping others. The animation both …See the Rest
Two Decades Of Spills – NY Times
Since 1990, more than 110 million gallons of mostly crude and petroleum products have spilled from the nation’s mainland pipeline network. More than half of it occurred in three states — Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana — where more pipelines exist. …See the Rest