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As Murdoch Eats National Geographic, Here’s A Documentary You Need To See

With billionaire news mogul Rupert Murdoch (of Fox News fame) buying National Geographic it becomes more important than ever to look at the man who controls one of the 6 biggest media empires in the world. This documentary, Outfoxed, presents a detailed study of Murdoch’s

The Other 9/11

“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.” – Henry Kissinger Ten days after the Salvador Allende government was overthrown in a Sept. 11, 1973, coup in Chile, U.S.

Lebron using $41 million to send 1100 kids to college

The great basketball player Lebron James has just committed a magnanimous offer of a free four year college education to at least 1,100 poor minority children. At an average cost of approximately $40,000 (Akron University) per student, this amounts to at least $41,000,000 million

The Royals: 18th century thinking in the 21st century

A country on its knees, families destitute and food banks rife, but as the government says: “we’re in it together.” We tolerate this based on the basic ideology that’s installed in us from a young age, namely that working hard makes anything is possible. Yet,

Does conventional law-and-order help native communities?

In Canada and beyond, native (first nation) peoples have high rates of suicide, child abuse, alcohol, drug abuse (including solvents and gasoline), and incarceration. They have lower than average per capita income, high rates of reliance on social assistance and school abandonment. Hundreds of

Baltimore schools giving all kids free breakfast and lunch

Since the beginning of June, every student in the city of Baltimore, regardless of income level, is being offered a free breakfast and lunch every school day under a federal program that allows school districts to eliminate a decades-old meal-subsidy structure for students in

Finally: list of 80 people with as much money as 1/2 of humanity

Since the “financial repression,” the most powerful people have only gotten more powerful. A 2013 Oxfam report found that 80 people had as much wealth as 1/2 of humanity, and a few months later Forbes said the number had dropped to 67. Many of

10 Pictures of Europe’s Shameful “Human Zoos”

It was not too long ago that people from France, Belgium, Germany, and other countries came to visit humans who were locked up in cages. In these zoos, humans were on exhibit in front of a large audience, locked in with animals at a

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Humanity

The fact is, there are actually a lot more than 10 things you don’t know about humanity. There are more than 10 things that even I don’t know about humanity, too! But, this list is comprised of 10 important facts, and I hope they teach you

Only 1 year of water left in California, NASA scientist suggests rationing

  NASA’s top water scientist says California only has about one year’s worth of water left in storage, and its groundwater – often used as a backup for reservoirs and other reserves – is rapidly depleting. He suggests immediately rationing water. California just had