What do Christianity, 9/11 and The Federal Reserve all have in common?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHiuaGJ46zo
Zeitgeist Addendum
This sequel documentary attempts to locate the root causes of the pervasive social corruption exposed in Zeitgeist: The Movie, while offering a solution. This solution is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912
The Coconut Revolution
Bougainville, with a population of only 160,000 has managed to close and keep closed one of the biggest mines in the world. They have held their ground for a decade with antique weapons and homemade guns. These people have taken on the biggest mining company in the world and won.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9073157933630784238&ei=twVmSt7MMpz4rALxl9WvDg&q=the+coconut+revolution&hl=en
Earthlings
Earthlings is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers."
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142
Why We Fight
This documentary describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex and its fifty-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The documentary asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was told a lie, so that the Government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9219858826421983682
We. Featuring the words of Arundhati Roy
Fast-paced musical documentary that visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous "Come September" speech.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4100322562082185221
Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrAShtolieg
Zero-waste Living, Kamikatsu, Japan
This is a town singularly focused on banishing waste – all waste – by 2020. The 2,000 people of Kamikatsu have dispensed with public trash bins. They set up a Zero Waste Academy to act as a monitor. The town dump has become a sort of outdoor filing cabinet, embracing 34 categories of trash – from batteries to fluorescent lights to bottle caps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lNoa8mvBmk
Krishnamurti - The Real Revolution
This 30-minute documentary is the first from an original series of eight made for television in 1966. They were the earliest sound-films of Krishnamurti speaking to audiences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKvz3BdB2EE [Part 1 of 2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qy6YZSseAo [Part 2 of 2]
Zero Waste Interview Series - Thanal, Kerala, India
"If you look at fifty years behind [in India], and you look at our villages and cities, the way we lived, we never had things to waste....Our extraction from the Earth was very little, what we used was very little...and then, in the last twenty-twenty five years, what has happened is that industrialization has come in so much, that now people are not living in a way that they need to."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szlfT0JJD1s
Welcome to North Korea
The winner of the 2001 International Emmy award for Best Documentary, Welcome to North Korea is a grotesquely surreal look at the all-too-real conditions in modern-day North Korea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ6E3cShcVU
Waste = Food
Winner of the Silver Dragon at the Beijing International Science Film Festival 2006. "Man is the only creature that produces landfills. Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising in nations like China and India. The waste production world wide is enormous and if we do not do anything we will soon have turned all our resources into one big messy landfill."
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3058533428492266222&ei=UNlnSt62KaLCqALuyfmfCw&q=documentary&hl=en
Super Rich: The Greed Game
As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3305522889894137433&ei=bOdnSvbNPI6irAKd2ai8CQ&q=documentary&hl=en
Vanishing Black Male
Are African American males becoming extinct? Will future generations of African American women not be able to find husbands? These are but a few of the questions explored in this 1 hour 16 minute documentary.
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/vanishing_black_male/
"Are we in control of our decisions?"
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X68dm92HVI
The Business Logic of Sustainability
At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful vision for sustainable commerce.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP9QF_lBOyA&feature=channel
Time Management
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch gave a lecture on Time Management at the University of Virginia in November 2007. Randy Pausch is a virtual reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center and creator of the Alice software project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0
A World Without Water
The world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision's timely film tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting privatization of water supplies. More than a billion people across the globe don’t have access to safe water.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3930199780455728313&ei=D7xqSpKJMsHslQfpjcBt&q=water&hl=en
The Corporation
You'd think that things like disasters, or the purity of childhood, or even milk, let alone water or air, would be sacred. But no. Corporations have no built-in limits on what, who, or how much they can exploit for profit.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1371416
The Yes Men Fix the World
Anti-corporate pranksters and gonzo political activists the Yes Men are back with a new film, The Yes Men Fix the World. The movie follows Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno as they infiltrate and expose the world of big business through high-profile outrageous pranks. From ExxonMobil to Halliburton, no industry is too big for the Yes Mens hoaxes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWlvBro9eI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lScyQYUHLA
The Story of Stuff
This video is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8
Fractals - The Colors Of Infinity
Arthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry. This show relates the science of the M-Set to nature in a way that seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe itself.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8570098277666323857&ei=J7VuSoW9H5LV-AbGzZzjDg&q=arthur+c+clarke&dur=3
Local Living Economies: Green, Fair and Fun
Judy Wicks, White Dog Cafe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 2007 Renaissance of Local was a county-wide community festival, conference and expo celebrating local food, local energy, local economy, local culture, and local community. It was an energizing focus for Boulder County Going Local! in their campaign to build community self-sufficiency and to strengthen the local economy through partnership, collaboration, and engagement.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2210922692607360119&hl=en
The Green Chemistry Revolution
California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy--a new paradigm for reducing and managing hazardous wastes. Robert Spear, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, University of California-Berkeley. Maureen Gorsen, Director, California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Peter Hsiao, Partner, Morrison & Foerster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPxL0YW1Yow
The Take
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats, and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. What shines through in the film is the simple drama of workers' lives and their struggle: the demand for dignity and the searing injustice of dignity denied.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8149373547373833649&ei=tQdySr66N4zerQKU-KH_Ag&hl=en
The Wisdom of Cradle to Cradle
Architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRjz8iTVoo
Biomimicry
In this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencing the products and systems we build.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n77BfxnVlyc&feature=channel
Cultures at the Far Edge of the World
With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL7vK0pOvKI&feature=channel
Greening the Ghetto
In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how minority neighborhoods suffer most from flawed urban policy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ-cZRmHfs4
Ford and Taylor in the 1920s
In the 1920s, Ford Motor Co. was considered the leader in manufacturing technology and practices. Elements of Taylor's scientific management were combined with what economists now call "efficiency wages."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbG9Sjp97o [Part 1 of 2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFsBC0_Uglg&feature=related [Part 2 of 2]
The Future Of Food
This documentary offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food
How Technology Will Transform Us
Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A
Four Environmental 'Heresies'
Stewart Brand, the man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s, has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification and geo-engineering. This talk at the US State Department is a foretaste of his major new book, sure to provoke widespread debate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxwiVFgghE&feature=channel
To Upgrade is Human
In this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (and controversial) technologies, like customizable babies, whose adoption might drive human evolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVsnkRoYfX0&feature=channel
How Cellphones, Twitter, and Facebook Can Make History
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_iN_QubRs0&feature=channel
The Real Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs41JrnGaxc&feature=channel
The Life of Buddha
Over 2,500 years ago, one man showed the world a way to enlightenment. This beautifully produced Buddhist film meticulously reveals the fascinating story of Prince Siddhartha and the spiritual transformation that turned him into the Buddha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2NLQGrbf5U
The Real Crisis; We Stopped Being Wise
Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for practical wisdom as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-zdh_bQBo&feature=channel
Sicko
Writer/producer Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by our health care insurance companies -- companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. The consequences for the individual subscribers range from bankruptcy to the unnecessary deaths of loved ones.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6646340600856118396&ei=e0SKSvSgKKbmqQLOlbn8DQ&q=sicko&hl=en
Urban Homestead
Path to Freedom presents 'A Homegrown Revolution' A collaboration of selective media clips which feature their urban homestead and farm which focus on the need of radical action -- growing food in the city.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCPEBM5ol0Q
Super Size Me
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject in this documentary about the commercial food industry. Rigorously eating a diet of McDonald's fast food three times a day for a month straight, Spurlock is out to prove the physical and mental effects of consuming fast food.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Tv_mihMBA
Manufacturing Consent
The classic Canadian documentary Manufacturing Consent, based on the Noam Chomsky/Edward Herman book by the same name, explores the the propaganda model of the media.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730&ei=nlOTSsm2E4-cqAPH5LTRCA&q=manufacturing+consent&hl=en
Distorted Morality
MIT professor Noam Chomsky's lecture at Harvard University about America's war on terror.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4054523048548733881&ei=aYeTSrvtGIGwqAOTkpGABQ&q=noam+chomsky&hl=en
The New Nuclear Danger
Dr. Helen Caldicott, M.D. is the Founder & President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute. She is also the Founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility. In her unique style, she makes a compelling case against the use of Nuclear Power.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2178087280500628030&ei=tnuUSrWPPJu4qAPiyOHwAw&q=Helen+Caldicott&hl=en
World Peace
Jiddu Krishnamurti speaks at the 40th anniversary of the United Nations on the subject of world peace, followed by a question and answer session. Recorded in 1985.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fzV8QH1JeE [Part 1 of 8]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUhqPSi2n_k&NR=1 [Part 2 of 8]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGIAVK5KgyE&NR=1 [Part 3 of 8]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HStYBxe9Hek&NR=1 [Part 4 of 8]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY3yxz1h2XA&NR=1 [Part 5 of 8]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOdNR4Owb7g&NR=1 [Part 6 of 8]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=864jc8CfmU4&NR=1 [Part 7 of 8]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TepJ2c73K2Q&NR=1 [Part 8 of 8]
Pale Blue Dot
Some time before he died in 1996, Carl Sagan recorded a partial audio version of his 1994 book "Pale Blue Dot." This video is "episode one" of an unauthorized attempt at producing a series of videos based on Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" audio book combined with a soundtrack and appropriate video and still images intended to recall the feel of the classic documentary series "Ascent of Man" and "Cosmos."
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2588435272514121795&ei=o3uUSoLNDY_0qAPUxsXCCw&q=carl+sagan&hl=en
Conversation in Amsterdam with U.G. Krishnamurti
To read U.G. Krishnamurti is to be introduced to a "spiritual terrorist": he overturns all of our accepted beliefs -- God, mind, soul, enlightenment, religion, humanity, heart, love, relationships -- and gives us a totally different picture of who we are. The result is a grenade in the brain. People who come across this odd little man are indelibly marked by a strange and lasting impression that each one finds difficult to define.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8596210496748866088&ei=FhKcSpbzI6LwqAP06tz4Bw&q=conversation+in+amsterdam+krishnamurti&hl=en
Water
Documentary about the mysteries of water. Produced by: Telekanal Russia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwgEMssaqwg&NR=1 [Part 1 of 9]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfce6McAcQ4&NR=1 [Part 2 of 9]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_MOPORFNY&NR=1 [Part 3 of 9]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMwUrcRWUSY&NR=1 [Part 4 of 9]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iUBo1BWpKw&NR=1 [Part 5 of 9]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYzcuAOFXJs&NR=1 [Part 6 of 9]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dlctlV_Zfg&NR=1 [Part 7 of 9]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5GkDtkj2Jg&NR=1 [Part 8 of 9]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRO-ZGSMJc&NR=1 [Part 9 of 9]
The Extraordinary Nature of Water
You will be guided through forests, rivers, and the global water cycle, revealing insights into water's nature and how it needs to be handled for us to stay healthy. See the effects of nature's amazing vortex motion in water, how to harness clean abundant energy, and how to generate lightning from a fine water jet.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8915966819502040048&ei=fTucSuWFAYeWqAP8_PzwAg&q=Extraordinary+Nature+of+Water&hl=en
Home
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
A Crude Awakening
An unforgettable and shocking wake-up call, A Crude Awakening offers the rock-solid argument that the era of cheap oil is in the past. Relentless and clear-eyed, this intensively-researched film drills deep into the uncomfortable realities of a world that is both addicted to fossil fuels and blissfully unaware of the looming “peak oil” crisis.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-665674869982904386&ei=xx-gSo-8KqfmqQKFpJyaBw&q=crude+awakening&hl=en#
What Would Jesus Buy?
Follow Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir as they go on a cross-county mission to save the Holidays from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt! The Shopocalypse is upon us...Who will be Saved?
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/what_would_jesus_buy/
Peace is Every Step
Buddhist monk Thich Naht Hanh expounds on the statement, "Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand new hours to live."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXQhspVJKxY&feature=fvw
Throwing Away
Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh discusses what he calls the most important practice in Buddhist meditation—the practice of letting go or “throwing away.” Wrong perceptions, ideas and notions are at the root of our suffering—they are the ground of all afflictions. In order for us to touch happiness in the here and now, we need to throw away the ideas and notions that prevent us from learning and growing.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4240638521557497291&ei=N2GoSvKNMoeYqAPtjdmaAw&q=Thich+Nhat+Hanh&hl=en#
Ayn Rand Interview, 1959
In this engaging 1959 interview, her first on television, Ayn Rand capsulizes her philosophy for CBS's Mike Wallace. The discussion ranges from the nature of morality to the economic and historical distortions disseminated about the "robber barons." She also comments on her relationship with Frank O'Connor, provides some autobiographical information and gives her perspective on the future of America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ukJiBZ8_4k [Part 1 of 3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMTDaVpBPR0 [Part 2 of 3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEruXzQZhNI&NR=1 [Part 3 of 3]
Religulous
Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3791007322683758535#
Skinheads USA: Soldiers of Race War
This documentary takes you inside to an actual neo-Nazi Skinhead organization for a extended look at the methods and mentality that fuel the White Power youth movement in America. Focusing on the Alabama-based Aryan National Front and its leader, Bill Riccio, this special features behind-the-scenes footage of group members in their rural commune, at a series of White Power rallies, at a cross-burning Skinhead/KKK "Unification Rally," and on the brink of extinction following the arrest of Riccio.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1340783985795633271&ei=Hf-pSsWSH4X-qAPcqeGgAw&q=Skinhead+USA&hl=en#
The Hanging of Atefah Rajabi
On August 15th, 2004 a 16-year-old girl was hanged in a public square in Neka, Iran, a small industrial town by the Caspian Sea. Her death sentence was for crimes against chastity. Her name was Atefah Sahaaleh. The only evidence against Atefah was her own forced confession.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jqQVqsOw4U [Part 1 of 6]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFRTAlavFQ&NR=1 [Part 2 of 6]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYMNiSnlz_w&NR=1 [Part 3 of 6]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0joZr2LlLo&NR=1 [Part 4 of 6]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PYJHUniri0&NR=1 [Part 5 of 6]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2jqKlNNXo&NR=1 [Part 6 of 6]
The Gaza Strip Documentary
A glimpse of life on the Gaza Strip.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3314551902204881249&ei=Uw2qSvTLN4eYqAPtjdmaAw&q=palestine+documentary&hl=en#
Animal Cruelty - Cows
This is a short, self-explanatory video for those who eat beef or drink milk. Witness what animals endure to sustain the human way of life. Consider change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAn0TgbavSQ
Love and Fearlessness
What would you do if you didn't own or rent a place where you could sleep, but it was illegal for you to sleep anywhere that you didn't own or rent?
http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2008/08/05/love-and-fearlessness/
Testify! Eco-Defense and the Politics of Violence
This 50-minute video discusses the tactics and philosophy of revolutionary environmentalism and animal liberation. It includes footage of ALF and ELF actions plus interviews with many direct-action environmentalists.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4775386036539190090&ei=yIHBSsa9NYSIlAeJ99DMBg&q=Testify%3A+Eco+Defense+and+the+Politics+of+Violence&hl=en#
The Accumulation of Capital
The work of Rosa Luxemburg as it relates to today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFLbgSdpFe8 [Part 1 of 3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzwbF8q6O94&NR=1 [Part 2 of 3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOWPS1vSJzk&NR=1 [Part 3 of 3]
The Bhopal Disaster; Twenty Years Without Justice
The Bhopal tragedy was an industrial disaster that took place at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. At midnight on 3 December 1984, the plant released an estimated 42 tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate gas, exposing more than 500,000 people to MIC and other chemicals. The first official immediate death toll was 2,259. The government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release. Others estimate 8,000-10,000 died within 72 hours and 25,000 have since died from gas-related diseases.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0csW97x8d24
How Food Shapes Our Cities
Every day, in a city the size of London, 30 million meals are served. But where does all the food come from? Architect Carolyn Steel discusses the daily miracle of feeding a city, and shows how ancient food routes shaped the modern world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0
James Howard Kunstler speaks at ERA Launch
The only center of its kind in Canada, ERA brings together over 45 researchers from natural, physical, and social sciences to analyze how complex, vulnerable ecological sustains are coping in today's uncertain climate - further, the Centre takes a problem solving, evidence based approach toward identifying how these ecosystems can become more resilient and how humans and ecosystems can better adapt. James Howard Kunstler gave the keynote speech at the launch event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Zg_Nb-3bA
Deļ¬nancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation
Dmitri Orlov is an engineer and a writer on subjects related to "potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States something he has called “permanent crisis”. Orlov believes collapse will be the result of huge military budgets, government deficits, an unresponsive political system and declining oil production.
http://vimeo.com/5699779
Confronting the Peak Oil Crisis
Michael Ruppert is the founder and editor of From The Wilderness, a newsletter and website dedicated to investigating political cover-ups. In the Sep. 29th article, Ruppert wrote, "I have broken an unspoken deal with the government to remain retired and not speak out." Ruppert was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Collapse, in which he was interviewed about his theories, writings and life story.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/7311477
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
Life is Worth Losing
George Carlin shares with us his brilliant perspective on life in America, and the human race in general in this, his last stand-up performance.
http://www.guba.com/watch/3000026166/Life-is-Worth-Loosing
A Place Called Chiapas
A documentary about the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=211108422793632049#docid=4513202692382805096
Off The Grid: Life On The Mesa
Twenty-Five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of eco-pioneers, teenage runaways, war veterans and drop-outs, live on the fringe and off the grid, struggling to survive with little food, less water and no electricity, as they cling to their unique vision of the American dream.
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/off_the_grid_life_on_the_mesa/
Controlling Our Food
On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television - a documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6262083407501596844#
Television Under The SwastikaLegend has it that the triumphal march of television began in the United States in the 'fifties. But in reality its origins hark back much further. As early as the 'thirties, a bitter rivalry raged for the world's first television broadcast. Nazi Germany wanted to beat the competition from Great Britain and the U.S. - at all costs. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1992130789606468647#
The Century of SelfThe Century of the Self is a British television documentary film that focuses its attention on Sigmund Freud's family, especially his daughter and nephew, who exerted a surprising amount of influence on the way corporations and governments throughout the 20th century have thought about, and dealt with people. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126# [Part 1 of 4]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-678466363224520614# [Part 2 of 4]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811# [Part 3 of 4]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1122532358497501036# [Part 4 of 4] The Money MastersThe powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole...Their secret is that they have annexed from governments, monarchies, and republics the power to create the world's money. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936#
Powerdown Talk by Richard HeinbergA 1-hour talk about the energy challenges we face in the near future. The lecture is given by Richard Heinberg, author and member of the core faculty at the New College of California in Santa Rosa. The lecture reviews the history of oil discovery and production (both in the U.S. and globally), problems with supply forecasts, key locations of remaining oil, the current course of U.S. policy, energy alternatives, and the importance of demand-side solutions. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1073425200911585815#
What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy
A powerful 10-part compilation that (in important ways) pulls aside the veil of Official myths and Lies about "freedom", "democracy", Human Rights, etc., being the basis of U.S. foreign policy. The subtitle: "The War Against the Third World" by Frank Dorrel.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6171375275571061709# [Part 1 of 2] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3531833983618290712# [Part 2 of 2] The One PercentThis 2006 documentary focuses on the growing wealth gap between America's wealthy elite and the citizenry on the whole. It was created by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, and produced by Jamie Johnson and Nick Kurzon. The film's title refers to the top one percent of Americans in terms of wealth, who control forty percent or more of the nation's wealth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFU2O_UP_2c [Part 1 of 8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnETWCxoOnQ&NR=1 [Part 2 of 8]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XpAQETuhZY&NR=1 [Part 3 of 8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNyWxQ9R2vA&NR=1 [Part 4 of 8] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzRs8PnWcHA&NR=1 [Part 5 of 8] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb9G-Xeo0p4&NR=1 [Part 6 of 8] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNKXTn6xgLg&NR=1 [Part 7 of 8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbgcHE6oLpQ&NR=1 [Part 8 of 8] The Advertising World and the Human EgoAb interesting documentary about how advertising is working on our human mind subconsciously and subliminal. Why and how are people attracted to advertised goods and services? With which tricks is advertising working to get you? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8254887027300302831#
FLOWIrena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
http://blip.tv/file/1816415/ The LoraxThe book is commonly recognized as a fable concerning industrialized society, using the literary element of personification to give life to industry as the Once-ler (whose face is never shown) and to the environment as the Lorax. It has become a popular metaphor for those concerned about the environment. I dedicate this one to you, Mike!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6650219631867189375#
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