“Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives” + Yes, Virginia, Sea Level Really is Rising

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Jul 9, 2012 by greenman3610

Don’t miss the Companion video at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media
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Dallas Hail Storm

Thomas Drake: After 9/11, NSA had secret deal with White House

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Jul 9, 2012 by RussiaToday

RT talks to former a National Security Agency executive in the US [Thomas Drake] who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrong-doings inside the NSA.

Edgar Allan Poe’s Purloined Letter and Intelligent Design by Rocket Kirchner

by Rocket Kirchner
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July 9, 2012

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I have never been one to take the bait of the red herring of the so-called evolution/creation debate because it is so charged with a political power play on both sides, and also because none of us was there when it happened. I happen to be one of those odd Christians who believes that any great artist (like the Creator) takes His/Her time to finish one hell of a drop dead beautiful universe. After all, masterpiece art really does take time. So, I offer to you a whimsical philosophical musing on the matter via my favorite past time reading, namely the detective novel.

To Be Or Not To Be… Subversive by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
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July 9, 2012

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Cultures that endure carve out a protected space for those who question and challenge national myths. Artists, writers, poets, activists, journalists, philosophers, dancers, musicians, actors, directors and renegades must be tolerated if a culture is to be pulled back from disaster. Members of this intellectual and artistic class, who are usually not welcome in the stultifying halls of academia where mediocrity is triumphant, serve as prophets. They are dismissed, or labeled by the power elites as subversive, because they do not embrace collective self-worship. They force us to confront unexamined assumptions, ones that, if not challenged, lead to destruction.

Surviving Progress (2011)

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Film no longer available.

Aug 24, 2012 by youloopaccount

Film about the risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress; connecting financial collapse, growing inequality and global oligarchy with the sustainability of mankind.

Seeds of Freedom

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Suggested by David Llewellyn Foster. Thank you, David.

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by The ABN and The Gaia Foundation

http://vimeo.com/43879272#

A landmark film narrated by Jeremy Irons. Find out more at seedsoffreedom.info

The story of seed has become one of loss, control, dependence and debt.

9500 Liberty (2009)

9500 Liberty (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sent to DS from Johnna Harrison; thank you.

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July 4, 2012

9500 LIBERTY documents the first time in U.S. history that an Arizona-style immigration law was actually implemented—and the surprising grassroots opposition that led to its repeal.

Racial tension and threats of violence erupt when Prince William County, Virginia adopts a law requiring the police to question people who appear to be undocumented immigrants. Supporters of the law ride a wave of hysteria to an election victory.