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AQUACULTURE — THE FUTURE OF SEAFOOD OR A FISHY FIASCO?
With 50% of seafood now farm-raised, aquaculture is having more and more impact on the health of the oceans and wild fish stocks. Can we afford to stay on this path?
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Other hot clips for the 10-day period ending 16 Ju1 2010 include:
Financial Enlightenment (But First, The Endarkenment) ... Understanding the relationship between us, the bankers, corporations, military, and government ...
Disaster Probability, Impact and Commonality ... Don't freak out about peak oil, deep conspiracies, and the rest – triage the threat matrix ...
New Cap Stops Gulf Oil Leak, BUT ... Should we believe them? Plus lots more on the Gulf situation...
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AS THE WORLD BURNS — CLASH OF THE CLIMATE TITANS
Now that we're moving past the climate-skeptic phase largely promoted by Big Oil and Big Coal, the characteristics of the current cap-and-trade scheme makes it clear we're entering the Big Finance phase.
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Other hot clips for the week ending 29 Jan 2010 include:
Obama in a Trap ... Catherine Austin Fitts says Obama has no good politically acceptable options on the financial crisis ...
Money Talks ... Here's an ingenious way to limit money's influence on elections and still support free speech...
The Right to Raw ... USDA seems determined to ban raw milk, raw almonds, and other straight-from-nature foods ...
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A SUBVERSIVE PLOT
This short presentation explains the great reasons to grow more of your own food—from peak oil to avoiding GMOs to redistributing power back to the people, away from the corp-gov axis of weasels. Watch reasons to garden video.
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YOU ARE HERE — THE OIL JOURNEY PRESENTATION
Though we have all become hooked on the technological and societal benefits of the cheap-energy age, that age is unavoidably about to end. In this good presentation on the peak-oil problem, we first see the proof, then we get a few thoughts on how we might navigate the transition.
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HERR HOPPE AND THE NUCLEAR WASTE
Metaphorically, nuclear waste is the energy elephant in the global livingroom. Cartoon character Herr Hoppe, however, finds himself with actual radioactive waste in his livingroom. Watch his humorous—and strikingly unsuccessful—attempts to get rid of it. Watch funny nuclear waste videos.
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THE STORY OF ELECTRONICS
The high-tech revolution's collateral damage includes 25 million tons of e-waste (and counting), plus poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill. This good electronic-waste video uses funny/clever graphics to accent its points.
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THE CHOCOLATE CHROMOSOME
Rumor has it that many women luuuuuuv chocolate. This Target Women bit exposes the dark, smooth, delicious underbelly of the cocoa-nuttiness. Watch funny video on women and chocolate.
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BRUNCHABLES
If you live in the bizarro world of insane food marketers, you might come up with some of these conveniently packaged kids' meals. Watch funny school lunch video.
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Informing brains and expanding minds ... one set of ears at a time. All audio downloads are free!
The Powers That Be recognize that propaganda is essential to getting us to voluntarily cooperate with their agenda. From false flag operations to internet freedom to the false left-right duality, disinformation reigns in today's infosphere.
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Disastrous scenarios! Deep conspiracies! It's all here! From intentionality in the Gulf oil disaster to Planet X to the battle for scenarios in the conscious co-creation of reality. A fascinating ride, if you can stand the curves and whooshes.
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More than 90,000 internal records of US military actions in Afghanistan have been published by the website WikiLeaks. The documents reveal how coalition forces have killed hundreds of Afghan civilians in unreported incidents, how a special unit hunts down targets for assassination or detention without trial, and how attacks have soared.
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An EPA analyst says his agency and BP have covered up the dangers of the oil dispersant Corexit. Surprise, surprise—it's all about money...
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This is one of the best analyses we've heard on which is the bigger threat: global energy constraints or the Ponzi money system; and within the latter, which is the more likely scenario, serious inflation or crushing deflation?
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Populist revolutions are sweeping Central and South America, retaking power and repatriating wealth from corrupt elites, foreign corporations, and empirical Western governments.
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This is an excellent discussion of the basics of food storage and food security---the logic of it and how to do it safely, in a way that saves you money in the long run.
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Scientists are increasingly seeing a relationship between solar events (like large prominences) and changes on the earth (such as earthquakes and volcanic activity).
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There are astonishing parallels between the crises in the Gulf of Mexico and in the global financial system, from the "advanced technologies" used to the inept and duplicitous responses from all parties involved.
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Western governments—driven by multinational agribusiness corporations—are changing food and farming laws in ways that squeeze out small producers, maximize profits for agribusiness, and drive the food supply towards a pure industrial-food model.
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GMOs are found in one form or another in a majority of the foods we eat. What are the risks, and how can you avoid them?
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Mat Stein talks about the need for personal disaster preparedness, whether it's for regular old natural disasters of for the six human-driven scenarios he thinks could lead to widespread disruptions in the future.
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In his last episode on PBS, Bill Moyers says farewell with a final blast at the Democrat-Republican-corporate-elite hijack of representative government (not to mention the wealth of the nation and its citizens).
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An everyday South Dakota rancher became a tragic hero when he took on the corrupt US money system. Hear about his exploits and how he found out that poking the beast is a dangerous game.
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What impact will the FDA's new authority to regulate tobacco products have on the industry and smokers? Also covered are the new "nicotine candies."
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After decades of lagging, solar electricity is starting to make economic sense at both the home scale and at the industrial scale.
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New fuel efficiency standards won't even get the US to where Europe and China are now.
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A whistleblower has shot a huge hole in The Powers That Be's game of manipulating and profiting unfairly from commodities markets. Find out why you should care.
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Mike Ruppert discusses peak oil and alternative energy; economic collapse and "the way money works"; and what the average person can do about any of it.
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What is the nutritional importance of essential fatty acids? How does one balance fish oil, flax oil, and other oils?
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The findings of a study of low-wage workers are surprising in areas like job opportunities, career strategies, employment levels, and work habits.
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Gold is the main alternative to fiat currencies and the financial markets based on them. How much longer can the suppression of the price of gold go on?
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In the next decade or two, as oil and other fossil fuels peak and decline, wood energy seems bound to make a comeback. But with 6 billion people on the planet, can our forests stand it?
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Jim Sinclair explains that the unseen hand manipulating financial markets is attached to the international finance/banking cabal that has quietly taken de facto control of most western governments.
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Author and food-system critic Michael Pollan discusses the entire spectrum of food issues, from industrial farms and pollution to nutrition research and deceptive marketing.
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Michael Hudson makes a compelling case that President Obama is not only failing to correct the financial fiascos begun under the Bush Administration, he is accelerating the Wall Street vultures' pillaging of the remaining middle class wealth.
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Big banks have transferred their debt to the government debt pool. Ultimately, government will transfer the burden to the taxpayers. Also discussed—the 'dead pool' on currencies.
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By minimizing processed foods and instead focusing on real foods, eaten in the right amounts and at the right time of day, you can feel good physically, sleep better, and have a bright, shiny, happy mind.
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On a country-by-country basis, what do data reveal regarding the relationship between income levels, health, overall well being, and happiness?
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What might we expect between now and 2012 and beyond? What do we know about the 2012 Mayan prophesy, correlations from science, and references in historical records?
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