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Global Dimming

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:29:32 +0000

Revealing the devastating affects of a phenomenon that scientists are calling ‘global dimming’.

McLibel – Two People Who Wouldnt Say Sorry

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:27:02 +0000

McLibel is a documentary movie which tells the story of political activists, Helen Steel and Dave Morris who were taken to court by the McDonalds fast food chain for claims they had made about the company. The couple had accused McDonalds of paying low wages for staff, poor treatment of animals, environmental damage and advertising to children.
The trial which followed turned into the longest in English legal history and pitted the pair against the companies £10 million legal team.

The Denial Machine

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:09:16 +0000

A 2006 British report estimated that the projected costs of global warming to be as costly as both world wars and the Great Depression added together. Yet, with such consequences, some scientists still insist that climate change, if it is happening at all, could be a good thing.

The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming. It tracks the activities of a group of scientists, some of whom previously consulted for Big Tobacco, and who are now receiving donations from major coal and oil companies.

Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:03:54 +0000

Through a series of interviews, this film argues that the bizarre events surrounding the 9/11 attacks, and the equally bizarre prosecution of the so-called “war on terror”, can be more credibly understood in the wider context of an imminent divergence between the supply and demand of global oil.