I’m needing something sultry but sophisticated; laid back but toe-tapping. Django Reinhardt’s Blue Drag arranged by Allen Toussaint, from his album “The Bright Mississippi”. Just because … [Read more…]
National Weather Service Puerto Rican Video – Wind Turbines With Blades Snapped Off, Solar Panel Debris Strewn Across Fields | Video Worth Watching
On Tuesday the National Weather Service posted a video documenting Hurricane Maria damage. Among the scenes of collapsed highways, buildings reduced to rubble and power poles strewn like matchsticks, were views of wind turbines with their blades snapped off and solar farms with shards of demolished panels strewn over the fields. One aspect helping to mitigate the despair engendered by these scenes is Kevin MacLeod’s “Mesmerize” as the soundtrack. [Read more…]
4 Myths About the Spread of Hepatitis A | Video Worth Watching
Voice of San Diego’s Lisa Halverstadt busts four myths about the current Hepatitis A outbreak, including one about contracting it simply by touching a homeless person. [Read more…]
Has Former Brain Surgeon Ben Carson Flatlined HUD? | Video Worth Watching
During a full House Financial Services Committee hearing with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), when questioned by Representative Al Green (D-TX), former brain surgeon Secretary Ben Carson refused to answer simple questions about the amounts of cuts to specific budgetary programs. Carson attempted to launch his own narrative at one point with “I’d like to talk about …” and Rep. Green had to remind the Secretary that the reason for his presence was to answer questions posed by the committee. Unfortunately, very little in the way of answers was provided. [Read more…]
Sophia Bush Talks Birth Control | Video Worth Watching
From Planned Parenthood’s Twitter feed: If more lawmakers could get pregnant, we wouldn’t have to keep convincing them that birth control matters. Sophia Bush breaks it all the way down. [Read more…]
A Harvard Economist Asked 5,000 Americans to Chart the Distribution of Wealth in the U.S. – They Weren’t Even Close | Video Worth Watching
Do you think you have a good picture of how unequal the distribution of wealth is in the United States? A 2010 survey by Harvard economist Dan Ariely and Mike Norton asked 5,000 Americans to graph their understanding of how wealth is distributed in the United States, as well as what they thought an ideal distribution would look like. The results were eye-opening. This video graphically displays the perceived, the “ideal” and the actual (2010) distribution of wealth captured in this study. Admittedly the study is a bit dated now, but I would bet dollars to doughnuts that the distribution hasn’t gotten any more equitable, and in fact all signs point toward it having gotten substantially worse. [Read more…]
¡Que Viva Changó! | Video Worth Watching
Time to fire up the Way Back Machine and set it for 1949. That’s when this recording of ¡Que Viva Changó! by Celina González and her partner Reutilio Domínguez was made. Pair it up with some smooth Rumba dance moves and that’s a winner for me! [Read more…]
Prophets of Rage – Radical Eyes | Video Worth Watching
Do the events of this last week (or last nine months) have you enraged? Are you ready to let it all out in a cathartic frenzy? Prophets of Rage are here to help. [Read more…]
Could Puerto Rico’s Water Supply Be the Next Target for Privitization? | Video Worth Watching
Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism provides numerous examples of corporations taking advantage of natural disasters to privatize public resources and utilities. Could Puerto Rico’s water supply be the next target? [Read more…]
Gold Star Parents of Army Specialist Etienne Murphy, Who Died in Syria in May, Talk About What Matters to Them Now | Video Worth Watching
Gold Star parents, Sheila and Calvin Murphy, interviewed by MSNBC’s Ari Melber, talk about their son who was killed in Syria. 22-year-old Army Specialist Etienne Murphy died in May after an armored vehicle he was in rolled over. For Sheila, the issue is “not really about whether or not [the president] may have called or did something more than the previous one. It’s about what are you doing now to help those who are left behind, who have to struggle day to day …” [Read more…]
The White House Makes Its Own Fake News – You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up! | Video Worth Watching
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes reports how the White House has devised a way of getting its story out while making the source appear to be the Main Stream Media. Unfair and imbalanced? You decide. [Read more…]
This Republican Farmer from Kansas is Calling for #NotOnePenny | Video Worth Watching
Remember in 2012 when Kansas Governor Sam Brownback launched his “live experiment” in conservative governance? Cutting taxes was going to spur growth and create jobs. So how did that work out? Meet Mike – a Republican farmer from Kansas who has experienced first-hand what happens when the GOP cuts taxes for the rich. Now, he’s calling for #NotOnePenny in tax cuts for the wealthy: notonepenny.org. [Read more…]
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