About damn time. Really.
Posts under ‘Current Events’
America, the economy, fascism, and more!
There’s a lot of shit happening out there. The economy is in shambles, and it’s just now really starting to show.
Members of Congress have been threatened with martial law if the $700 billion bailout bill has not been passed. In this video, Representative Brad Sherman reports the threat of martial law if they voted no [...]
A new media
Sometimes, I think I should be keeping up more with current events. I don’t often read the news. I often find it to be mostly rubbish, and I know that I’m not getting what I want to hear from most mainstream sources.
If I ever check the news, it’s usually very briefly, and usually at the [...]
Greenwashing
The art of greenwashing.
What a way to go…
This looks like the film I have been thinking about for a couple of years. I’ve been either wanting to somehow make it myself, or see it made, or whatever. Nevertheless, the documentary, What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, features a theme and issues that are very important to me [...]
Elsewhere
Old ways never die.
Get that wallet out.
San Francisco bans plastic bags
‘San Francisco first city to ban plastic bags’
So great.
Oh hey, wait… that kinda reminds me of something…
Seriously, though. Nice news.
¡Sí, Se Puede! on ¡Gigante: Despierta! DVD
Check it out… ¡Sí, Se Puede! is appearing on a compilation DVD organized by Submedia, due out before May 1, 2007:
The Giant Awakens: In 2006, a historic mobilization for immigrant rights swept the USA as millions took the streets. Mainstream news media predictably covered the [...]
Escape from Suburbia
Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream (official site)
New trailer here for the follow-up to End of Suburbia.
Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The END of SUBURBIA explored the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet enters the age of [...]
Doomsday food vault
“An Arctic “doomsday vault” aimed at providing mankind with food in case of a global catastrophe will be designed to sustain the effects of climate change… The top-security repository, carved into the permafrost of a mountain in the remote Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole, will preserve some three million batches of seeds from all [...]
Indestructable Language
Subversive… and in NJ!
“Something mysterious happened in Jersey City this past Monday night… On this grey and windy evening, while most people were at home watching TV, giant neon lights emerged up in the windows of an abandoned factory, spelling out the sentence: ‘It is green thinks nature – even in the dark’.”
Here.
Don’t call Bush an idiot
Girl, 14, quizzed over MySpace anti-Bush page
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