There are 7 billion of us in the world today and we are facing some huge problems, but talk alone doesn't help someone escape from poverty, awareness doesn't reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick, that takes doing and Manoj Bhargava, the billionaire CEO of 5-Hour Energy drinks has decided to put his money towards the cause in order to better the world we live in. Bhargava is investing 9
They say that death is the great equalizer, that no matter who you are or where your from we all turn to dust in the end but in Cleveland where Wilbert L. Cooper was born and raised life has long been divided by race and class, injustice stretches well into the hereafter. Over the course of two and a half years (2007 and 2009) 11 women were raped, strangled and murdered by one of the most heinous
In this film VPRO Backlight take us into a world where we can become our own bank. We tend to take it for granted that money creation is controlled by government and banks but there is a community of people who don't see this as a given, this community is switching to what they believe is a far superior monetary system, a system where banks are no longer needed or in control because with this new
10 years after releasing his debut album The Documentary, Compton rapper, The Game, recently released a double album in two separate installments. The first disk was titled The Documentary 2 and the second which dropped a week later was called The Documentary 2.5. This 50 minute film is the official making of and we get just that, giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at the recording sessions that
Boy Interrupted is a HBO film that examines the life of Evan Perry a 15 year old boy from New York who took his own life in 2005. This film which was made by his parents Dana and Hart looks at how Evan's bipolar disorder and depression consumed him and affected his family.Mental illness was something that ran in Evan's family; his uncle had also committed suicide at a young age, just 21. Evan
Located high in the Peruvian Andes there is an ancient city known as Machu Picchu, it is a ruin that appears to defy explanation. Who were the mysterious people that built this extraordinary place and for what reason did they build it in this particular location?With no defensive wall it doesn't look like a fortress, instead there are fountains and small pools, temples and strange alters cu
Something has gone very wrong with the Irish diet, the consumption of sugar has tripled over the last 100 years and it seems to be everywhere. Unless something dramatic is done the children of today may be the first generation in centuries to have shorter life expectancies than their parents.When consumed in excess it can cause liver damage, hearth attacks, strokes, kidney disease, blindnes
These day's it seems as though The Middle East is fracturing with Arab uprisings and military interventions taking place all across the region. As a result many civil wars have broken out and we have also seen the rise of many terrorist organisations. Stuck in the middle of all this madness is Saudi Arabia, a country which seems to be confronted by extremism on all sides, so much so that
Donald Trump: Make America Hate Again is a film which sets about examining the many parallels between Donald Trump and many well known narcissists. It also explores how Trump is using right-wing populism, Islamophobia, racism and nationalism to stir up the political pot in order to gain attention. However in doing so he has found much support in the form of white supremacy, many of these individua