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Crumpling America

Crumpling America is a 2009 History Channel Documentary about the ageing and failing infrastructure of the United States of America. The show is still relevant because most of the issues brought up have not been attended too and have also become worse.

10 Facts Common Slavery Myths

TED TALKS The Power of Believing You Can Improve

Carol Dweck talks about how children can be changed into better students by taking them away from "the tyranny of now" thinking. When they think like this they believe they are judged when they don't preform well. Instead they can change their thinking to "not yet" where they can see the moment as a chance to challenge themselves and become smarter and better.

THE TROUBLE with ANTIBIOTICS

This Frontline Report is about how bacteria and viruses are becoming resistant to antibiotics. On America farms animals are fed antibiotics to keep them from becoming sick but this may be leading to dangerous new resistant bacteria. Also in hospital new superbugs are on the rise that are resistant to antibiotics and are highly infectious.
This report shows how the thinking "the markets will stop something bad" mentality is so wrong. Here we have a situation where people may be becoming sick, where worse situation and possible epidemic may be caused. But they can't or won't be stopped by people, or government because industry has too much money and therefor to much corrupting influence on politician, people and sadly the science. Because without a "smoking gun" many will happily allow themselves to be infected or allow the possibility. They will stop the science or allow it to not continue or be in depth so they can have cheap food and so the industry can continue to make fortunes.

GREEN WORLD RISING DOCUMENTARIES

GREEN WORLD RISING

This documentaries series is about the effect the industrial revolution is having on Earth's living system. It is meant to inspire people to tell their representatives and leaders around the world that we need to protect humanities present and future. And to get people on the local level to make changes individually and in communities. To learn more go to Greenworldrising.org.

CARBON is the first episode. It focuses on the carbon still in the ground. How to find a way to keep it in the ground. And how to regulate the price of atmospheric pollution.


THE LAST DAYS is the second episode. It focuses on the tipping points of climate change created from putting so much carbon in the atmosphere.


GREEN WORLD RISING is the third episode. It focuses on the changes that would be needed in life and technologies to make a clean environment.

COSMOS a spacetime odyssey

Pictures from the Amazingly visual show Cosmos.

FRONTLINE - THE UNITED STATES OF SECRETS PART 2

This is the second part of the PBS's Frontline investigative series on mass surveillance in America.

FRONTLINE UNITED STATES OF SECRETS PART 2
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Part two of this documentary tells the story of corporations and surveillance. The first thing of interest to me is how many internet providers, phone companies, and internet search engine companies are willing help the government giving much of the information they acquire. Second is none of them are willing to say no, that it is unconstitutional to give information about people. If corporations are people then aren't they also giving up their right to privacy as well. Third was even when these companies cooperated with the government it isn't enough and they would "hack" their system to get more information. These were the key things too me. To say the NSA has overreached is an understatement. But of course they still use fear. Fear that another attack will happen so of course they have to acquire everyone's information. It's ridiculous.

FRONTLINE - UNITED STATE OF SECRETS

If you want real investigative reporting on events happening in America I suggest you go to PBS Frontline. They take the time to get facts. They also will give in-depth accounts about a story you will not hear or at least not get a full description on from twenty four hour news.

FRONTLINE UNITED STATES OF SECRETS (PART 1)
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Part one of this documentary tells the story after 911 in America. How fear lead those in the Bush administration to create "The Program" a National Security Agency operation to spy on American citizens. For decades the NSA by law and protocol would only spy on foreign services. The Bush administration would use half truth, faulty legal standing, and war powers to create and keep this unconstitutional and illegal system.

It also talks about the NSA and intelligence committee individuals that struggle with what they knew was wrong and how they wanted or did bring the program to the press and public view.

President Obama ran against these same programs but when Bush put before congress legislation to make the program law he voted for it as Senator. Then as President months later did nothing to pull back the program from spying on Americans. Everyone has the same fear. What if you take this system away and there is another 911? If I stop this and it happens my Presidency is over or hurt severely. People will die and it will be my fault.

It a simple situation in my eyes. The right to privacy is constitutional. People died to make this a law. To make it a right of the people. If people have to die to keep it law then so be it. One has to make a choice either privacy law matters even if others can use it to hurt you or it doesn't. If it doesn't then let the NSA spy on whomever but don't lie to yourself that you live in the same America anymore. You don't live in a constitutional America at that point. You live in an authoritarian America. Where those in power decide what is law and what isn't.

However my thinking changes on this if the people in question are not citizens of America. It doesn't matter if they are on American soil or not. They don't get the same constitutional protections at least I don't believe they should.

FORAtv - THE WORLD'S OLDEST LIVING ORGANISMS

Fora tv Photographer Rachel Sussman photographs living organisms that are two thousand or more years of age. She hopes through her works more science will be done about these organisms.

ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM

Elephant in the Living Room is a documentary about how in America in most states it is legal (I repeat LEGAL) to buy exotic animals. Not only is it legal to buy these animals but one doesn't need to have a license. There is little to no state or federal regulations on those who own these animals.

I watched this documentary on Netflix. One of the moments that blew my mind was the emergency 911 call of a full grown lion on a interstate chasing cars. What makes this even more crazy is they captured the lion. They brought the lion back to it's "owner". Then Tim Harrison of public safety animal rescue says they can't take the lions from the owner until he decide he wants to let them go. I found this to be insane. The moment the lion escaped it becomes a public safety issue. How can it be they don't have the legal recourse to take the lions from him?

Over the years I have seen reports about how exotic animals can be bought in America. I have seen reports of how more tigers exist in America in private hands than they do in the wild in India. It is a lack of proper state and/or federal law making to have so if one owns a dog you need to have a license but if you buy a lion or a venomous viper you don't need one. You don't have to register the animal. I wonder when natural disasters happen will these animals get free? Has this happened?

I suggest you watch this documentary if you want to watch an interesting, sad and dramatic story about two captive lions. Or watch an interesting story of Tim Harrison fight to protect these animals and the general public from them. Or if you want to learn more about the dangers of people owning animals they can't control or can overwhelm them.


The trailer for Elephant in the Living Room.

YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY

Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously is about the changes of Climate Change. It is about how people are living with those changes now and how they may live with them in the future.

The first episode has Harrison Ford learning about deforestation around the world and palm oil in Indonesia.

Don Cheadle learning about droughts in Texas and Mexico and a scientist who is also a devout Christian attempting to educate fellow Christians on Climate Change.
Journalist Thomas L. Friedman travels to Syria to learn how the civil war there started because of four years of heavy drought.

This documentary series is produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger among others.

I like the feel of this show. It attempts to bring the emotions of everyday life effects of Climate Change to the audience. It tries to show how Climate Change effects jobs, living, economics and politics. But what it also shows is that Climate Change is here now. It is no longer something that will happen decades from now. Now is here.

VICE NEWS - PETCOKE: TOXIC WASTE IN THE WINDY CITY

One of the by products of Tar sands oils from Canada creates a fine powder charcoal dust like substance. The crazy thing is this stuff is stored by rivers in open areas near neighborhoods. It's in the windy city but just sitting out in the open. If the Keystone pipeline is built this pollution will be created in greater volume.

NOVA - BECOMING HUMAN

Nova documentary about how modern Homo Sapiens became what we are. What makes us human?

This video has three parts in one.
Part one, "First Steps" what are the factors that separated us from other great apes.
Part two, "Birth of Humanity" The first humans to look like us.
Part three, "Last Human Standing" What happened to the other humans that lived on the Earth.

TED TALKS - DONG WOO JANG The Art of Bow-Making

Dong Woo Jang talks about how he decided one day to make a bow and how that would bring him to discover his own ancestry.

TED TALKS - GERALDINE HAMILTON Body Parts On a Chip

Geraldine Hamilton explains how they place cells from the human body onto chips, creating an environment they can live in. This allows for them to create different internal and external human conditions for testing drugs and other things. This may lead to no more animal testing and drugs created for specific individual or communities.

TED TALKS - My Underwater Robot

David Lang talks about how he and a friend were able to build their own underwater robots.

TED TALKS - 4 Stories We Tell Ourselves About Death

Stephan Cave explains the four stories individuals and society tell themselves to deal with death.

Pure Nature Specials: Animal Homosexuality

Pure Nature Specials: Animal Homosexuality this documentary talks about how science has and still does in some ways avoid homosexuality in animals in the wild. I laughed out loud when they spoke about scientist in the past attempting to cover up or defend what they were seeing with religious or socially acceptable thoughts.



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