Watch this fascinating and inspiring talk by Jill Bolte Taylor about human nature and how our brains function. Highly recommended!

Watch Here: A Stroke of Insight

Do we put everything into *NEAT LITTLE BOXES?*  lIKE COLOUR? RACE? GENDER?.. Who owns the media? and why is it allowed to happen?

A few examples of the way the minority are treated in todays society, do people care enough about how topics are handled? You know, i think they do, but don’t know how to change things, i know i wouldn’t know where to start..

Did you know that over 1/3 of the American population has Ethnic backgrounds, and are they properly considered in what is called *THE NORM* Take the African/American for example..are their rights observed properly, are their problems tackled head on or pushed to the back burner? I have mostly only heard about them if there is a problem with them, like crime, including robbery, rape, gangs and this sort of thing.

When the media is owned by the select few, how can we as an imprtant part of any society ever expect to be heard..action by the governments and i mean all of them need to address and put right the unfairness and maybe even have a grant for the unheard population to become an active, integral part of a people going forward, not backward..

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

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Money is an idea… it is a system whereby people within a society exchange value with one another. When the system is fundamentally flawed, we begin to see problems of the sort the world is experiencing now. After watching this short film, you may understand our current system a bit better and realize the essential need for monetary reform. See what you think…

film: money as debt

In the same manner that we were lied to about Iraq, a propaganda war is now being waged against Iran. To see what the media is not telling us about Iran, click on the link below for three short clips.

Action: Contact your congresscritters in support of peaceful diplomacy. Give them resources so that THEY can better understand this issue.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/169.html

As many scientists and researchers predicted long ago, corn is one of the worst possible feed stocks for biofuel. Many other options could prove far superior… such as algae. Take a look…

Fossil fuels in the short to medium term (see post below) leading to major advances in clean, cheap energy technology. Encourage your law makers, educate them, get on board…

Prior to watching this video, I had heard that there were secret oil reserves – not ANWR – in Alaska that had the potential of handling America’s oil problem. This video lays it all out quite clearly from someone who was in the board rooms of the corporations involved. Now, I am not an advocate of fossil fuels as our sole means of providing energy BUT the oil fields noted in this gentleman’s talk COULD provide a much needed buffer zone as we transition into a new energy paradigm. I recommend taking the time to watch this talk. Its important to us all. I’ll have more to say about it later…

WATCH THE ENERGY NON-CRISIS

Have you thought about *EARTH DAY*  and what you can do right now to help the environment? There is a saying… “Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” This is very true and sometimes we think we are doing just that – helping our Earth to survive – but is it enough? Procrastination is a big problem, as is thinking, “The little I can do will be of no help.” But that just isn’t so… that one appliance unplugged, the dripping tap fixed, the trash sorted into recyclable and compost… these few things can help toward creating a better world and make it a safe and beautiful legacy for our children.

Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, has now introduced a water purification system that will purify any type of water: salt water, polluted water, urine, “anything wet”; without the use of filters. This video, from YouTube, is from a recent interview on the Colbert Report.