sábado, 28 de abril de 2012

'HBOS Whistleblower' Paul Moore on Banking Reform


http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/

Paul Moore, former Head of Group Regulatory Risk at Halifax Bank of Scotland, whose claims about risk taking at HBOS led to the resignation of its former boss Sir James Crosby from the UK's financial watchdog, reveals some very interesting insider experiences with the practices of bank lending, sales culture...

He answers some crucial questions:
Do the guys at the top of the banks understand that bank lending creates new money?
Do they consider the impact they have on economy?
Has anything actually changed since the crisis began?

"Incentives are all about sales."
"The Head of Risk himself in retail bank said that they pay no attention whatsoever to risk management."
"The banking crisis drove more than a hundred million people back into poverty, the mortality statistics of people who go into poverty, rise hugely... So, the banking crisis isn't just about becoming poorer, it was about killing people as well."

O dinheiro à grande e à portuguesa




O primeiro capítulo da série documental "Aurora" foi lançado no passado dia 5 de Dezembro de 2011. Neste primeiro capítulo é explicado o paradigma económico do sistema monetário na sua essência. A partir deste ponto, o espectador entenderá como as políticas monetárias actuais estão à partida condenadas ao fracasso. Esperar que "a mão invisível" dos mercados corrija os problemas que por ela foram criados é contraditório. O povo diz que "o amor ao dinheiro é a raiz de todos os problemas", e enquanto não interiorizarmos esta realidade, não nos será possível evoluir pacificamente para um novo paradigma.

Mean World Syndrome, The Media Violence & the Cultivation of Fear


For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these debates have descended into simplistic battles between those who claim that media messages directly cause violence and those who argue that activists exaggerate the impact of media exposure altogether. The Mean World Syndrome, based on the groundbreaking work of media scholar George Gerbner, urges us to think about media effects in more nuanced ways. Ranging from Hollywood movies and prime-time dramas to reality programming and the local news, the film examines how media violence forms a pervasive cultural environment that cultivates in heavy viewers, especially, a heightened state of insecurity, exaggerated perceptions of risk and danger, and a fear-driven propensity for hard-line political solutions to social problems. A provocative and accessible introduction to cultivation analysis, media effects research, and the subject of media influence and media violence more generally.

Also includes three additional short features -- ideal for classroom use -- that take a closer look at Gerbner's analysis and the Mean World Syndrome.

1. Media as Storytellers: "Nothing to Tell but a lot to Sell" -- Explores the significance of commercial media eclipsing religion and art as the great storyteller of our time. (7:32)

2. A Mean World Case Study: Child Abductions -- Provides an in-depth look at how media coverage of child abductions has fed parental anxieties out of proportion with statistical reality. (4:17)

3. Further Effects of the Mean World Syndrome: Desensitization & Acceleration - Examines how heavy exposure to media violence normalizes violence, numbing some people to real-world violence even as it whets the appetite in others for ever-higher doses. (8:48)

Source : http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=143

Michael Albert - La Economía Participativa / PARECON ( EN+ES subt.)




La Economía Participativa es un sistema económico alternativo al modelo capitalista y sus valores claves que la guían son la autogestión, solidaridad, diversidad, equidad y equilibrio ecológico.
Michael Albert junto a Robin Hahnel han desarrollado este modelo desde los años 80 y sostienen que estos valores principales deben ser aplicados con un mínimo de jerarquía y un máximo de transparencia en todos los debates y la toma de decisiones. Este modelo está diseñado para eliminar el secreto en la toma de decisiones económicas, y en su lugar alentar la cooperación amistosa y el mutuo apoyo.

Michael Albert - Participatory Economy (Audio quality Improved)




Conferencia impartida el 18 de octubre de 2011. ETS Ingeniería Informática (UPV) Con la colaboración de CGT.

Patricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter




Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can't be directly measured, but their influence is immense.

Patricia Burchat studies the structure and distribution of dark matter and dark energy. These mysterious ingredients can't be measured in conventional ways, yet form a quarter of the mass of our universe.

quinta-feira, 26 de abril de 2012

How Does Current Banking System Affect YOU?, Ben Dyson at Edinburgh Just Banking 2012


http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/

What does the current banking system mean for housing, debt, inequality, jobs, businesses and taxes?

Ben Dyson, founder of Positive Money, speaking at Just Banking Conference on 20th April in Edinburgh.

Source : http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/2012/04/how-does-current-banking-system-affect-you-new-video/

The Renegade Economist in conversation with Ann Pettifor




Ann is director of PRIME (Policy Research in Macroeconomics) - an economic think-tank that promotes understanding of the nature of credit, and its role in determining macroeconomic outcomes. Fundamental to their approach is an implicit and explicit restoration of ethics in relation to money and credit (she blogs at www.primeeconomics.org). She is also a fellow of the New Economics Foundation.

In 2003 she edited 'the Real World Economic Outlook' (Palgrave) with a prescient sub-title: 'the legacy of globalisation: debt and deflation'. In 2006 Palgrave published her book: "The coming first world debt crisis". In 2008 she co-authored "The Green New Deal" and in 2010 co-authored an essay with Professor Victoria Chick: "The economic consequences of Mr. Osborne." (click on the link where you can download vid pdf).

Ann Pettifor's work and writing has concentrated on the international financial architecture, the sovereign debts of the poorest countries, and the rise in sovereign, corporate and private debt in OECD economies.

She is well known for her leadership of an organisation Jubilee 2000, that placed the debts of the poorest countries on the global political agenda, and brought about both substantial debt cancellation, and radical policy changes, at national and international levels.

Source : http://www.renegadeeconomist.com/blog/video/in-conversation-with-ann-pettifor.html

quarta-feira, 25 de abril de 2012

James Galbraith : "The Impact of Inequality on Macroeconomics Dynamics"




James Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government and Business Relations, University of Texas speaking at the panel entitled "The Impact of Inequality on Macroeconomics Dynamics" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 14, 2012.
http://ineteconomics.org/

David Korten: End Money as Power and Build Real Community Wealth



Economist and visionary, David Korten, dicusses the deceptions of Empire in the languaging of economic practices that serve the wealthiest at the expense of communities. He discusses the Occupy Movement, the IMF, and World Bank and also the need to shift to an economy based on natural systems.

Special thanks to the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.

TEDxTransmedia 2011 - Jem Bendell - The Money Myth




Jem Bendell is a professor and the owner-director of Lifeworth Consulting, providing solutions for systemic change towards sustainable development. For 16 years he has consulted with business, United Nations (UN) and civil society, while writing over 100 publications on the social responsibility of organisations.

In TEDxTransmedia he denounces the crisis in the monetary system.

Donos de Portugal



Donos de Portugal é um documentário de Jorge Costa sobre cem anos de poder económico. O filme retrata a proteção do Estado às famílias que dominaram a economia do país, as suas estratégias de conservação de poder e acumulação de riqueza.

Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo – as fortunas cruzam-se pelo casamento e integram-se na finança. Ameaçado pelo fim da ditadura, o seu poder reconstitui-se sob a democracia, a partir das privatizações e da promiscuidade com o poder político. Novos grupos económicos – Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - afirmam-se sobre a mesma base.

No momento em que a crise desvenda todos os limites do modelo de desenvolvimento económico português, este filme apresenta os protagonistas e as grandes opções que nos trouxeram até aqui.

Produzido para a RTP 2 no âmbito do Instituto de História Contemporânea, o filme tem montagem de Edgar Feldman e locução de Fernando Alves.

A estreia televisiva teve lugar na RTP2 a 25 de Abril de 2012. Desde esse momento, o documentário está disponível na íntegra em donosdeportugal.net.

Donos de Portugal é baseado no livro homónimo de Jorge Costa, Cecília Honório, Luís Fazenda, Francisco Louçã e Fernando Rosas, editado em 2011 pela Afrontamento e com mais de 12 mil exemplares vendidos.

terça-feira, 24 de abril de 2012

About time - Examining the case for a shorter working week




Speaker(s): Professor Juliet Schor, Professor Lord Skidelsky, Professor Tim Jackson
Chair: Anna Coote
Recorded on 11 January 2012 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.

As the economic crisis deepens, this is the moment to consider moving towards much shorter, more flexible paid working hours -- sharing out jobs and unpaid time more fairly across the population. The new economics foundation (nef) set out the case in its report 21 Hours: Why a shorter working week can help us all to flourish in the 21st century.

Now, in partnership with CASE (Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion) at the London School of Economics, this event brings together a panel of experts to examine the social, environmental and economic implications. They will consider how far a shorter working week can help to address a range of urgent social, economic and environmental problems: unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being and entrenched inequalities.

Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College, and author of Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, and The Overworked American.

Professor Lord Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick and biographer of J. M. Keynes. He is the co-author, with Dr Edward Skidelsky, of the forthcoming book, How Much is Enough? Economics and the Good Life.

Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at Surrey University, and author of Prosperity without Growth.

mp3 audio podcast available here - http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEv...

Richard Werner : Banking & The Economy




Banks have a pivotal function in the economy, they are the main creators of the money supply. In granting or issuing so called 'loans' to their customers they create the money that is essential to make the modern economy work. In fact says Prof Werner: 'there is no such thing as a bank loan' he says what happens is credit creation, when banks make the money (credit ) needed out of nothing.
He explains how the system works, whereby, from a miniscule deposit of funds a huge amount of money is created.

Richard Werner: Debt Free & Interest Free Money




Dr Werner discloses facts about money creation that are at the core of every modern economy. About how the creation of the essential money that is needed to sustain growth is founded on debt. This suits banks, of course. Governments have huge debts, to banks, and few people realise that it does not have to be like this. Taxes are needed for paying for decades of past interest on government borrowing. Banking is an extracting mechanism. It extracts resources from the economy, through interest payments and the taxation needed to cover the debt burden of the government. Why borrow from banks and pay interest when there is an alternative way of money creation and allocation? Governments could create the money and allocate it into circulation through its spending programmes.
Nearly 1000 years ago Winchester in England was the centre of such a money creation system - debt free and interest free. The tally stick system was used. It expanded the money supply needed by government and it was without debt. Tally sticks were accepted for tax payments. It worked for centuries. The system was not popular with banks who prefer to create the money supply and charge interest and so their way has come to dominate. But with modern technology we have the possibility of launching an alternative money creation system without the burdens we suffer under, and which would be even better than the proven tally stick system.

Fantasia Lusitana de João Canijo




A propaganda imaginada e imaginária do salazarismo, durante a II Grande Guerra, pregava a proeza de uma neutralidade devida ao génio de Salazar. Segundo essa propaganda, que proclamava a ausência da guerra no meio da guerra, mesmo com o fluxo de refugiados que chegava a Lisboa, Portugal era um paraíso de paz e tranquilidade, um «oásis de paz» totalmente alheio a uma guerra que só dizia respeito aos outros.

A sensação que a propaganda transmitia era a de uma guerra que só afectava os portugueses na medida das dificuldades de sobrevivência. A propaganda, elevada a extremos nas crónicas do Jornal Português, ajudou a criar uma espécie de inconsciência protectora que seria cómica se não fosse trágica.

segunda-feira, 23 de abril de 2012

Josh Ryan Collins of New Economics Foundation at the Just Banking Conference




Josh Ryan Collins at the Just Banking Conference on 20th April 2012. (www.justbanking.org.uk)
"an overview of the banking system, and its influence on growth and financial instability".

Josh joined the New Economics Foundation in 2006 and works in the Finance and Business team leading work on monetary reform. His work encompasses both practical interventions, such as researching and developing complementary currencies, local and ethical banking and macro-level research on reforms to the monetary system in the UK and internationally.

He is the lead author of nef's recently published 'Where Does Money Come From?: A guide to the UK monetary and banking system' and a co-author of nef's 'The Great Transition'.

Josh is also a Director and one of the founders of the Brixton Pound, the largest sterling-backed complementary currency in the UK, based in his native South London. He is studying for PhD in Finance examining historical examples of public credit creation at the University of Southampton and trained in Sociology.

MARINALEDA, Uma Cidade Cooperativa...



 
Marinaleda é uma cidade/município da província de Sevilha , Andaluzia , Espanha, que funciona como uma cooperativa agrícola de 2.650 pessoas.

UPLOAD PATROCIONADO POR:
www.NOVACOMUNIDADE.org - O MODELO COOPERATIVO FAMILIAR
www.MDDVTM.org - MOVIMENTO DE DEMOCRACIA DIRECTA VTM

"Tudo que o homem não conhece não existe para ele. Por isso o mundo tem, para cada um, o tamanho que abrange o seu conhecimento."
(Carlos Bernardo González Pecotche)
"Um povo ignorante é um instrumento cego da sua própria destruição."
(Simón Bolivar)

Orwell Rolls in his Grave (Full 3HR Documentary)


WarCrime911

Director Robert Kane Pappas’ ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth, Pappas explores what the media doesn’t like to talk about: itself.

Walter Lippmann (Public Opinion) - Full Book Link @ http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper2/CDFinal/Lippman/contents.html

Chapter VII. Stereotypes As Defense - http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHyper2/CDFinal/Lippman/ch07.html
Chapter VIII. Blind Spots And Their Value - http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHyper2/CDFinal/Lippman/ch08.html

Adorno and Horkheimer - The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (1944)
The predictions in this essay are stunningly accurate @
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Adorno-Horkheimer-Culture-Industry.pdf

Edward Bernays - Propaganda (1928) only 150 pages - http://www.scribd.com/doc/4057578/Propaganda

(Books)
When Corporations Rule the World - David C. Korten (One of the best reads ever)
News: The Politics of Illusion - W. Lance Bennett (One of the best media)
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky

Education for a Sustainable Future


http://newfuturemedia.net/

SYNOPSIS: Education For A Sustainable Future presents information on how today's practices in schools are socially unsustainable. The documentary film critically analyses what is considered socially relevant in a new education system which brings out the most potential in all of humanity whilst also detailing specific educational methods from a wide range of sources on how to nurture social skills, critical thinking techniques and a larger variety of important practices to positively reinforce from our earliest years onwards. It must be recognised that a sustainable education is one of the most critical components of any advanced society.

Education For A Sustainable Future is an independent film production and has been uploaded online for free download and distribution. The views expressed in this documentary are not necessarily shared by the originators of source material presented.

The Crisis of Civilization : Full Movie




A dark comedy remix mash-up bonanza about the end of industrial civilization. Based on the Book by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed - http://crisisofcivilization.com/book/

The Crisis of Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.

Weaving together archival film footage and animations, film-maker Dean Puckett, animator Lucca Benney and international security analyst Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It – offer a stunning wake-up call proving that ‘another world’ is not merely possible, but on its way.

Like the book on which it is based, the film consists of seven parts which explore the interconnected dynamic of global crises of Climate Catastrophe; Peak Energy; Peak Food; Economic Instability; International Terrorism; and the Militarization Tendency – with a final section on The Post-Peak World.

The film reveals how a failure to understand the systemic context of these crises, linked to neoliberal ideology, has generated a tendency to deal not with their root structural causes, but only with their symptoms. This has led to the proliferation of war, terror, and state-terror, including encroachment on civil liberties, while accelerating global crises rather than solving them.

The real solution, Nafeez argues, is to recognise the inevitability of civilizational change, and to work toward a fundamental systemic transformation based on more participatory forms of living, politically, economically and culturally.

The Myth of the Liberal Media : The Propaganda Model of News



Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."

"If you want to understand the way a system works, you look at its institutional structure. How it is organized, how it is controlled, how it is funded." -Noam Chomsky

"The Mainstream media really represent elite interests, and what the propaganda model tries to do is stipulate a set of institutional variables, reflecting this elite power, that very powerfully influence the media." -Edward Herman

Sections: The Propaganda Model & Agenda Setting | The Ownership Filter | The Advertising Filter | The Newsmakers Filter | The News Shapers Filter | The Flak Filter | The Attack on the Welfare State | The Attack on Social Security | The Attack on Health Care | Labor & Business | Anti-Communism & The Free Market | Anti-Communism & The Free Market: Russia | Anti-Communism & The Free Market: Cuba | Dictators & Democracy | Dictators & Democracy: Saddam Hussein | Dictators & Democracy: Suharto

Filmmaker Info
Producer, Director: Sut Jhally
Line Producer, Editor: Katherine Sender
Assistant Editor: Sanjay Talreja
Camera: Robert Massey, David Rabinovitz & Mark Tebo
Sound: John Hawkes
Animation: Sanjay Talreja
Graphics: Kim Neumann & Matthew Soar

Institutional Corruption



 
State College, PA, 28 Mar 2012: Penn State Richard B. Lippin Lectureship in Ethics. This refines a bit the earlier talks on Institutional Corruption, and adds food as a domain.

domingo, 22 de abril de 2012

William Rees - The Dangerous Disconnect Between Economics and Ecology




The world economy is depleting the earth's natural resources, and economists cling to models that make no reference whatsoever to the biophysical basis that underpins the economy. That's why ecological economics is needed, says William Rees in this INET interview.
http://ineteconomics.org/video/interview/william-rees-dangerous-disconnect-be...

Laura Flanders at the Economy Futures conference




2011 rocked the world: people’s uprisings spread across the globe – from Arab Spring to Occupy – in the grips of the deepest recession in living memory and unprecedented environmental phenomena proliferating against a backdrop of rising temperatures and the largest annual increase in greenhouse gas emissions in history. Both nationally and globally the modern economic system came under intense scrutiny, along with many assumptions we have so long taken for granted. More and more we are beginning to recognize the barriers to action on the issues we care about are embedded in our economics.

We need a new vision: a more inclusive, democratic, and realistic economic paradigm for our generation, one that puts people and planet above profit.

At the Transition to a New Economy conference in March 2012, social justice and environmental organizers from across the country will come together to start seeing our discourse, activism, and campaigns as key steps in the transition to a new economy. Coming together will allow us to view our struggles through a systemic lens and evolve our action plans accordingly. http://www.economyfutures.org/?q=node/24

Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory: An Introduction (Davidson Films, Inc.)




Treading new ground in the field of social psychology, Albert Bandura's work has become basic to an understanding of how social forces influence individuals, small groups and large groups. From his early BoBo doll experiments through his work with phobias, to his recent work on self-efficacy, Bandura has given us a sense of how people actively shape their own lives and those of others.

Utilizing archival materials and newly shot visuals, students will be introduced to the vocabulary and innovative methods of this influential thinker. Dr. Bandura's narration imbues this video with his compelling presentation style and intellectual authority.

For more information, visit www.davidsonfilms.com

Interview with psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Eugene Paashuis, VPRO Backlight 2011)




Psychologist Zimbardo conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment in the seventies. The goal was to research the influence of circumstances on the behaviour of people. Zimbardo was also called as a specialist witness for the security guards of the Abu Graib prison in Iraq. In this interview he talks about all these subjects. http://www.lucifereffect.com/

The Milgram Experiment



Award-winning short film chronicling the true story the controversial "obedience experiment" of Professor Stanley Milgram at Yale University.

Official selection at 2009 Salt Lake City Film Festival

Asch Conformity Experiment




The Asch conformity experiments were a series of laboratory studies published in the 1950s that demonstrated a surprising degree of conformity to a majority opinion. These are also known as the Asch Paradigm.

Solomon Asch attributed his research on group conformity to an experience he had as a child growing up in Poland. When Asch stayed up late to participate in his first Passover, he witnessed his grandmother setting out an extra glass of wine out on the table. When Asch asked who would be drinking that glass of wine, his uncle replied that it was for the prophet Elijah. Asch was “filled with the sense of suggestion and expectation” and believed he saw the level of wine in the glass decrease slightly.

At the beginning of World War II, Asch began to study the effects propaganda and indoctrination at Brooklyn College. Asch came to the conclusion that propaganda was most effective when fear and ignorance played a part on the intended targets.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
 

Obedience to authority experiments




"The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government." -Stanley Milgram

Shame and Guilt : The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly




June Tangney, professor of psychology at George Mason University, delves into shame and guilt by looking into various facets of our society such as the criminal justice system, children, families, incarcerated offenders, teachers and parents. Shame and guilt are often mentioned in the same breath as moral emotions that inhibit destructive, socially unacceptable behaviors, but how similar are these two emotions? Recent research indicates that guilt is the more adaptive emotion and can motivate people to behave in a moral, caring, socially responsible manner. In contrast, feelings of shame (about the self) can easily go awry. Discover more about this intriguing research, what it reveals and how it relates to our society.

Emotions, Decisions and Behavior Across the Life Span: Surprises from Social Psychology

http://www.uctv.tv/

Wendy Berry Mendes, UCSF Department of Psychiatry, explores how emotions, thoughts, and intentions are experienced in the body and how bodily responses shape and influence thoughts, behavior and emotions. Series: "UCSF Osher Mini Medical School for the Public"

sexta-feira, 20 de abril de 2012

"The Greatest Bank Robbery Ever" Bonnie Faulkner and William K. Black

"The Greatest Bank Robbery Ever" - Part 2
http://youtu.be/cJNexj3TAEo

"The Greatest Bank Robbery Ever" - Part 3
http://youtu.be/BANiIZ4AM4Q

"The Greatest Bank Robbery Ever" - Part 4
http://youtu.be/A80qZSbfwXE

Guns and Butter  "The Greatest Bank Robbery Ever" with William K. Black. Banks, intensifying financial crises; money manager capitalism; sovereign currency; crony capitalism; theoclassical economists; control fraud, Commodities Future Modernization Act of 2000; S&L Liars' Loan Crisis of 1990-91; Reinventing Government Movement; deregulation, desupervision and defacto decriminalization; fraud incentives; looting; subprime; Enron; Parmalat; BofA; Citigroup; Ameriquest; Washington Mutual; systemically dangerous institutions; Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB); faux stress tests; European austerity crisis; Mario Draghi, President of the ECB. Educate Yourself.

[2012.02.25] Summit MMT Italia @ Rimini 2/6 [Full-HD1080p]



 
Registrazione della seconda sessione del "Summit MMT Italia" tenuta la mattina di sabato 25 febbraio 2012 presso il PalaSport 105 Stadium di Rimini.

quinta-feira, 19 de abril de 2012

Gar Alperovitz at the Transition to a New Economy Conference



 
Gar Alperovitz is a professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland. A former Fellow of King's College, a founding Fellow of the Harvard IOP, a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, he has testified before numerous Congressional committees and lectures widely around the country. He is recognized as a key figure in the revival of political canvassing and a strong proponent of transforming ownership. He is a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative at UMD, on the board of Directors for the New Economics Institute, and the author of several critically acclaimed books and articles, including "Another World is Possible, America Beyond Capitalism", and work on atomic diplomacy.

Plantas que curan, plantas prohibidas (con Josep Pàmies)



Josep Pàmies es un agricultor conocido por su apoyo a la iniciativa legislativa popular contra los transgénicos en Catalunya, y por ser miembro de la asociación “La dulce revolución”, desde donde promueve el conocimiento y uso de las plantas medicinales.

Hoy conoceremos algo más sobre estas plantas que curan y sobre la particular cruzada de Josep contra ciertos intereses que, al parecer, pretenden controlarlas.

quarta-feira, 18 de abril de 2012

Stewart Wallis : The Great Transition




The Great Transition (part 2) with Stewart Wallis
http://youtu.be/4hzuihXdI60 

The Great Transition (part 3) with Stewart Wallis
http://youtu.be/0bny0o90W9E

The Great Transition (part 4) with Stewart Wallis
http://youtu.be/HolmuCItXfQ

World renowned economist Stewart Wallis of the New Economics Foundation speaking about retooling local and global economies that produce good jobs for everyone, improves human wellbeing, and decreases social inequality - all within our planetary limits.
Presented by www.HourExchangePortland.org at the Maine Irish Heritage Center on May 20th, 2011

Where does money come from?




What is money? How is it created? How does it enter into circulation? These are simple and vital questions it might seem, but the answers remain contested and often muddled.

nef's new book Where Does Money Come From? is a comprehensive guide to the modern UK monetary and banking system. It reviews theoretical and historical debates on the nature of money and explains how we arrived today with a system where the vast majority of new money is created by commercial banks.

In this video, authors Tony Greenham and Josh Ryan-Collins explain the thinking behind the book and summarise its main messages.

Buy the book at http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/where-does-money-come-from

TEDx - Simon Dixon - Changing The Rules of Banking



 
Simon Dixon (@SimonDixonTwitt) talks at TEDx on why changing the rules of banking is so important.

Simon Dixon shares with ted what the rules of banking mean, what will happen if we dont change the rules of banking and what we can do to change the rules of banking.

La Revolución Blanca



 
Para reservar tu copia puede escribirnos a: larevolucionblanca@hotmail.es
O seguirnos en el blog: http://larevolucionblanca.wordpress.com/about/

Un documental que transcurre entre Andalucía e Italia, que recoge los testimonios de personas que desde hace muchos años han elegido llevar una vida más sostenible.
Un documento donde la bio-construcción, los huertos bio-dinámicos y la vida en comunidad nos cuentan el nacimiento de una nueva clase social.

Time history of atmospheric CO2




Time history of atmospheric carbon dioxide from 800,000 years before present until January, 2009. Recommend full screen/HD to read titles. See http://carbontracker.noaa.gov for more information on the global carbon cycle.

terça-feira, 17 de abril de 2012

TEDxBelfast - Mark Dowds - 8 Reasons to Democratize the Workplace




If we are willing to bomb the world for democracy, and most people value being free citizens on the street, why are so many willing to be serfs at work? So argues Mark Dowds in this TEDxTalk from TEDxBelfast.

The average person spends one third of their life at work and the economy is sustained by their efforts, however many still permit a manager to do their thinking for them. This stems from a philosophy proposed by Frederick W. Taylor in the late 19th century which sought to carefully plan daily tasks for each worker, standardize tasks and tools, provide good pay for good work and poor pay for failure, and remove all "brainwork" from the shop floor and place it in the planning department. The intent of this aspect of effective management in an industrial world was held within the framework of the modern dream, where a future was being created where citizens would be freer to enjoy life eventually. This deferred hope never arrived and many hearts grew sick giving way to an unsettled craving for more of life today. It is time to take ownership of the remaining third of our day at work and make a difference in the world.

One hundred years ago, ship builders were putting the final touches to the RMS Titanic before the hull was launched in May 1911. You could have seen the ship from the Belfast Harbour Commissioners Offices. This historic building was the venue in March 2011 for the very first TEDxBelfast. We were sitting in an historical place, but we were considering the future and the place of creativity in this city.

segunda-feira, 16 de abril de 2012

Iain McGilchrist @ Schumacher College : Things Are Not What They Seem




Dr Iain McGilchrist, author of "The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and The Making of the Western World", puts our society on the couch. He suggests that the bipartite structure of the brain helps us to understand why the world so often seems paradoxical, and why we so often end up achieving the opposite of what we intend.

Recorded at Schumacher College
Schumacher College is part of The Dartington Hall Trust, a registered charity, which focuses on the arts, social justice and sustainability.
For more information about Schumacher College and Dartington visit:
http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/ and
http://www.dartington.org/

domingo, 15 de abril de 2012

Economy Sandwich




Explore the new economy with the Sustainable Economies Law Center! How are people putting the lively back in livelihood? Sharing, cooperation, DIY, and the local economy are all wonderful, but they operate in some interesting legal grey areas. Learn more: www.SustainableEconomiesLawCenter.org

Peak Moment 210 : Young Lawyers Lower the Bar to Sharing Economy




"Sharing really is going to save the world!" declares Janelle Orsi, author of The Sharing Solution, noting that it's fun, doesn't require special skills -- and we can start now. She and Jennifer Kassan co-founded the Sustainable Economies Law Center to help people formalize collaborative structures like producer cooperatives, cohousing developments and tool lending libraries. They're working to reduce the hurdles to investing in locally-owned and locally-controlled enterprises. No wonder law students are excited to intern with them!

Peter Victor : Managing the Global Commons 1/5




Peter Victor, Professor in Environmental Studies, York University at the panel entitled "Managing the Global Commons: Growth, Inequality, and New Thinking for Sustainable Economics" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 14, 2012.

Noam Chomsky - Propaganda & Control of the Public Mind




Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda is often biased, with facts selectively presented (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political, or other type of agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.

"There's no doubt that one of the major issues of twentieth century history, surely in the US, is corporate propaganda.... Its goal from the beginning, perfectly openly and consciously, was to 'control the public mind,' as they put it. The reason was that the public mind was seen as the greatest threat to the corporations."—Noam Chomsky

"The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability." - James Madison.

Statement (1787-06-26) as quoted in Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787

Joan Antoni Melé - Dinero y conciencia : Reflexiones sobre Eticonomía - ÍNTEGRO




IV Jornada de Finanzas: Banca Ética en la Universidad Europea de Madrid de la mano de Joan Antoni Melé (Subdirector general de Triodos Bank) escritor del libro Dinero y Conciencia. A quién sirve tu dinero.

The 'Class War' Speech by Prof. Noam Chomsky




Even though this was recorded over a decade ago, there is nothing in it that is dated. If anything, it accurately predicts the present!

This speech was recorded live at MIT back in 1996. These aren't sound bites, they are documented truths expressed in honest language. By the way, Chomsky isn't in any way calling for 'class war' here, he is just describing the reality what has been going on for several decades now.

There is truth here that you never hear anywhere else. Even wild-eyed radicals seldom deliver hard, unpleasant facts this well. Let's face it, human rights have always been subordinate to business rights in the USA. But things have gotten outrageously worse in modern times. The U.S. is advocating a corporate tyranny far surpassing any level of totalitarianism found in the rest of the developed world. And it really started with outright criminal behavior under the "great" Ronald Reagan. I know- I saw it happen..

Perhaps the most frightening thing about this speech is its talk of "anti-politics". Briefly, this is the organized campaign to blame everything on the government- even when big business is really in control. They want the people to hate and fear the government, because democratic government has a dangerous flaw- it actually has the slight chance of becoming truly democratic. You see, corporations are perfect- perfect tyrannies.

The average worker, the average citizen, is never going to be able to change or control them. The government is the only thing the average citizen has the potential to control. Therefore the average citizen must be taught to hate, fear, or simply dismiss organized political action. What you get is "anti-politics" where people are totally atomized, fearful and hateful of nearly everything- and totally blind to the real problems.

Encirclement – Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy (Part 1/2)


http://encirclement.info/synopsis.html

a documentary by Richard Brouillette
Québec (Canada), HDCam (shot in 16mm), B&W, 2008, 160 minutes

With: Noam Chomsky, Ignacio Ramonet, Normand Baillargeon, Susan George, Omar Aktouf, Oncle Bernard, Michel Chossudovsky, François Denord, François Brune, Martin Masse, Jean-Luc Migué, Filip Palda and Donald J. Boudreaux

Drawing upon the thinking and analyses of renowned intellectuals, this documentary sketches a portrait of neo-liberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world.

Neo-liberalism’s one-size-fits-all dogmas are well known: deregulation, reducing the role of the State, privatization, limiting inflation rather than unemployment, etc. In other words, depoliticizing the economy and putting it into the hands of the financial class. And these dogmas are gradually settling into our consciousness because they’re being broadcast across a vast and pervasive network of propaganda.

In fact, beginning with the founding in 1947 of the Mont Pèlerin Society, neo-liberal think tanks financed by multinational companies and big money have propagated neo-liberal ideas in universities, in the media, and in governments.

This ideology, convinced of its historical and scientific validity – as proven, in particular, by the fall of the Soviet Union – has intoxicated all governments, left and right alike. In fact, since the end of the Cold War, the rate of neo-liberal reforms has increased dramatically. Often imposed with force, either through the structural adjustment plans of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, under the pressure of financial markets and multinationals, or even by outright war, the neo-liberal doctrine has now reached every corner of the planet.

But behind the ideological smokescreen, behind the neat concepts of natural order and the harmony of interests in a free market, beyond the panacea of the "invisible hand," what is really going on?

Encirclement – Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy (Part 2/2)


L'ENCERCLEMENT : La démocratie dans les rets du néolibéralisme

un documentaire de Richard Brouillette
Québec (Canada), HDCam (tourné en 16mm), N&B, 2008, 160 minutes

Avec : Noam Chomsky, Ignacio Ramonet, Normand Baillargeon, Susan George, Omar Aktouf, Oncle Bernard, Michel Chossudovsky, François Denord, François Brune, Martin Masse, Jean-Luc Migué, Filip Palda and Donald J. Boudreaux

À travers les réflexions et les analyses de plusieurs intellectuels de renom, ce documentaire trace un portrait de l’idéologie néolibérale et examine les différents mécanismes mis à l’oeuvre pour en imposer mondialement les diktats.

Déréglementer, réduire la taille de l’État, privatiser, limiter l’inflation plutôt que le chômage, bref, financiariser et dépolitiser l’économie : les différents dogmes de cette pensée prêt-à-porter sont bien connus. Et s’ils s’immiscent lentement dans nos consciences c’est qu’ils sont diffusés à travers un vaste et inextricable réseau de propagande.

De fait, depuis la fondation de la Société du Mont Pèlerin, en 1947, les instituts de recherche néolibéraux, ces think tanks financés par des transnationales et des grandes fortunes, propagent inlassablement la pensée néolibérale au sein des universités, dans les médias, auprès des parlementaires, etc.

Cette idéologie qui s’affiche évidence, forte de la sanction historique et scientifique que semble lui avoir conférée la chute de l’URSS, a su intoxiquer tous les gouvernements, de gauche comme de droite. En effet, depuis la fin de la Guerre Froide, le rythme des réformes néolibérales est allé sans cesse s’accentuant. Souvent imposée par la force, que ce soit à travers les plans d’ajustements structurels du FMI et de la Banque Mondiale, sous la pression des marchés financiers et des transnationales ou même par la guerre, la doctrine néolibérale s’étend dorénavant à la planète entière.

Mais derrière l’écran de fumée idéologique, derrière ces beaux concepts d’ordre spontané et d’harmonie des intérêts dans un libre marché, par-delà la panacée de la «main invisible», que se cache-t-il réellement ?

Chris Martenson : O Curso Crash (Legendado PT/BR)



Este vídeo de 3h12 escrito e realizado por Chris Martenson, tem por objectivo explicar de forma clara e simples as linhas gerais da economia mundial, mostrando o caminho que percorremos para chegar até aqui, os riscos que a estrutura social como a conhecemos enfrenta e as mudanças que irão ocorrer no futuro. O autor optou por faze-lo abordando e interligando três áreas principais: Economia, Energia e Ambiente, baseado na principal premissa de que o planeta tem recursos limitados e que o sistema económico actual requer um crescimento ilimitado. Sem teses conspiracionistas e gritos de revolta, Chris Martenson explica-nos de forma séria e por vezes bem-humorada os problemas da economia, do financiamento bancário, do crédito, da dívida, do crescimento económico, da inflação exacerbados pela crise energética e ambiental. Aconselhamos todas as pessoas responsáveis e que se preocupam com o seu futuro e das gerações que nos irão suceder, a verem este vídeo. A equipa docsPT escolheu este vídeo por ver nele o potencial de consciencializar as pessoas para um assunto que na maior parte das vezes é incompreensível e inacessível. Achamos que todos têm o direito de avaliar as perspectivas de futuro e de se prepararem para as mudanças que se avizinham. Aconselhamos a que o façam por capítulos e que meditem sobre o que ouviram. No fim, divulguem a familiares, amigos e desconhecidos. Quem sabe a preparação para o futuro não começa aqui?

Para mais informação visite : http://www.chrismartenson.com/
Tradução e legendagem : http://www.docspt.com/

sábado, 14 de abril de 2012

Dr. Vandana Shiva on Just Food




Forbes Magazine called Vandana Shiva one of the seven most influential women in the world. A noted philosopher, scientist and author, Dr. Shiva addressed a full house at Coady International Institute at StFX University on the theme of food justice.

Documentário : "O dinheiro que cura" - "The Money Fix"


http://www.mddvtm.org/
http://www.novacomunidade.org/

"O dinheiro interage com quase todos os aspectos da vida moderna. A maioria de nós assume o sistema monetário imutável, mas ele tem uma influência profunda e amplamente mal compreendida em nossas vidas. O "The Money Fix" é um documentário que explora o relacionamento das nossas sociedades com o todo-poderoso Dinheiro. Examina os padrões económicos tanto no mundo dos humanos como no mundo natural, e através dessa análise aprendemos como podemos fortalecer-nos por redesenhar a força motriz da economia ao nivel das comunidades locais. O filme documenta três tipos de sistemas monetários alternativos, todos os quais ajudam a resolver problemas econômicos nas comunidades onde operam."

Joseph LeDoux, Our emotional brains (2011 Copernicus Center Lecture)




The third Copernicus Center Lecture - "Our Emotional Brains" - was delivered by Professor Joseph LeDoux, a famous neuroscientist. The 2011 Copernicus Center Lecture was part of the 15th Kraków Methodological Conference - "The Emotional Brain: From the Humanities to Neuroscience and Back Again", which was co-organized by the Copenicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Conference website: http://www.emotionalbrain.pl
Photos of the conference: http://adamwalanus.pl/2011/cc1519.html

The Neuroscience of Social Emotion & it's Importance to Learning




The Neuroscience of Social Emotion & it's Importance to Learning Part 2 of 7
http://youtu.be/JbGNS2ByXX4

The Neuroscience of Social Emotion & it's Importance to Learning Part 3 of 7
http://youtu.be/hHvvNX6es_Y

The Neuroscience of Social Emotion & it's Importance to Learning Part 4 of 7
http://youtu.be/2t5C8J_cTr4

The Neuroscience of Social Emotion & it's Importance to Learning Part 5 of 7
http://youtu.be/yxmNTi4ifzo

The Neuroscience of Social Emotion & it's Importance to Learning Part 6 of 7
http://youtu.be/W-Fw8j_Ou8Y

The Neuroscience of Social Emotion & it's Importance to Learning Part 7of 7
http://youtu.be/pSlp4TAPc2M

On the 10th of November 2011 the Hunter Institute of Mental Health (HIMH) hosted a workshop with special guest Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., a cognitive neuroscientist and educational psychologist who studies the brain bases of emotion, social interaction and culture and their implications for development and schools. This is a recording of the 3 hour workshop presentation titled Embodied Brains, Social Minds.

Michael Hudson - Debt : The Politics and Economics of Restructuring



 
Michael Hudson, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City at the panel entitled "The Challenge of DeLeveraging and Overhangs of Debt II: The Politics and Economics of Restructuring" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 13, 2012.

sexta-feira, 13 de abril de 2012

Transforming Cultures : From Consumerism to Sustainability




Erik Assadourian, senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., presents a free public lecture, Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability, on Thursday, April 22 at 6 p.m. in Quigley Hall auditorium on the Allegheny College campus. 
Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity:  

Point Loma Writers : A Conversation with Christopher Hedges

 


(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Author and journalist Christopher Hedges speaks of the despair, destruction, love and truth that he found during his long career of covering wars and social justice throughout the world. Hedges is interviewed by Dean Nelson as part of the 17th annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University.

Antonio Damasio : INET Keynote Address entitled Human Decisions



  
Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, University of Southern California delivers keynote entiteld Human Decisions at the INET's Paradigm Lost Conference at the Axica in Berlin April 2012. The human brain relies on three devices for its decisions: emotion controls; addictive learning; and intellectual processing. Understanding the conditions under which the three devices are engaged is essential for conscious decision-making.

Ann Pettifor @ Schumacher College




Ann Pettifor on the current European financial crisis and the new MA in Economics for Transition at Schumacher College.

Ann Pettifor is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, London, and author of books on government debt and international finance. In 2003 she correctly predicted the bursting of the credit bubble ("The Credit Crunch") in a book she edited for the New Economics Foundation The Real World Economic Outlook (Palgrave, 2003).

This video was recorded at Schumacher College.
Schumacher College is part of The Dartington Hall Trust, a registered charity, which focuses on the arts, social justice and sustainability.
For more information about Schumacher College and Dartington visit:
http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/ and
http://www.dartington.org/

Soil Association Annual Conference 2012 - Ann Pettifor




Ann Pettifor - author of The Real World Economic Outlook and a Fellow of the new economics foundation (nef) - speaking at today's Soil Association Annual Conference on the role of innovation in a resource-constrained future, and what business models and market structures might be needed for a lower-growth, sustainable economy.

97% Owned Documentary Trailer



 
97% Owned investigates behind the scenes of the ever changing financial system, to uncover how the monetary system provides the foundations for international dominance and national control. Fresh thinking, new ideas and answers to simple questions are squeezed into this 2hr 10minute expose.

Due for release May 1st it features frank interviews and comments from Positive Money, The New Economics Foundation, PRIME, Paul Moore HBOS Whistle Blower, Simon Dixon of Bank to the Future and Nick Dearden from Jubliee Debt Campaign.

97% owned is from the creative team behind Generation OS13: The New Culture of resistance, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY4VZr8Ox94) continuing the distinctive 'tour de force' style and artistic interpretation.

The Money Scam (as explained to Grandma)






The Greatest Scam on Earth - The Money Scam is hidden right out in the open, yet buried in complication and confusion. A retired banker describes simply, the world's Money Scam and the reason every country is now going bankrupt. Private bankers have stolen the money creation process, and whereas once our money was created by the governments, debt-free, it is now created out of thin air and issued as debt with interest charges. In today's banker controlled world, money = debt, debt = slavery and therefore money = slavery --- our monetary systems have become systems of enslavement. Money is created out of nothing, issued as debt, not enough money is created for the future interest payments and inflation steals our savings. The money creation process should be taken away from the banks and given to the governments who can create money debt-free, interest-free. This is how it used to be done and we needed no income taxes.Finally, it is explained what we should do to stop supporting the money scam.

Making Money - Consensus [HQ]




Track Artist - Consensus
Track Title - Making Money (Goldsmith's tale)
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Pictures taken from video 'Money as debt'

This is an interpretation of the monetary system, expressed in musical form, based on a bit of research done through the internet.

If you didnt have an idea of how the monetary process was done and you feel this helped your understanding, I'm guessing there are a few people you know who are the same. Send this to 3 or more friends you think don't know.

Meanwhile if you are worried about your finacial security TRY not to. Build on your assets. Learn a few useful trades and reduce your debt as much as possible.

Global North VS South Over Financialization of Food


http://therealnews.com/t2/
 
Vijay Prashad: US and West fighting BRICK and other southern countries that want limits on speculation on food.

quinta-feira, 12 de abril de 2012

How Did Mitt Romney Get So Obscenely Rich? Robert Reich Explains



 
How exactly did Mitt Romney Get So Obscenely Rich? Robert Reich explains The Magic of Private Equity in 8 Easy Steps

Poison Fire - oil and gas abuse in Nigeria


http://poisonfire.org/

The Niger Delta is an environmental disaster zone after fifty years of oil exploitation. One and a half million tons of crude oil has been spilled into the creeks, farms and forests, the equivalent to 50 Exxon Valdez disasters, one per year. Natural gas contained in the crude oil is not being collected, but burnt off in gas flares, burning day and night for decades. The flaring produces as much greenhouse gases as 18 million cars and emits toxic and carcinogenic substances in the midst of densely populated areas. Corruption is rampant, the security situation is dire, people are dying. But the oil keeps flowing.

Poison Fire follows a team of local activists as they gather “video testimonies” from communities on the impact of oils spills and gas flaring. We see creeks full of crude oil, devastated mangrove forests, wellheads that has been leaking gas and oil for months. We meet people whose survival is acutely threatened by the loss of farmland, fishing and drinking water and the health hazards of gas flaring.

We also meet meet with Jonah Gbemre, who took Shell to court over the gas flaring in his village and won a surprise victory in the court.

Ifie Lott travels to the Netherlands to attend Shell's Annual General Meeting. She wants to ask a simple question: Is Shell going to obey the court order and stop flaring? There is a demonstration outside the meeting hall. Shell’s CEO shows up for the photo op and shakes her hand, and she meets the MD of Shell-Nigeria, Basil Omiyi. She asks him about the spills and the flaring. He patiently explains Shell’s policies and efforts for social development, but what he says is at odds with reality on the ground.

Back in the Delta, Ifie returns to the communties and shows the taped interview with Omiyo to the victims of the oil industry...

Shell ignored the federal high court ruling. The oil companies continue the illegal gas flaring. Shell has set its own “flares out” deadline to end of 2009. But they have kept saying “next year” for a decade, and in the Delta nobody believes them.

Meanwhile, the oil keeps flowing.

CRY WOLF: An Unethical Oil Story


DesmogBlog

DeSmogBlog investigates the controversial decision by Alberta's government to ignore the threat of rapid industrial expansion in the Alberta Tar Sands region, and instead kill thousands of wolves to appear to be doing something to save dwindling woodland caribou populations. Through interviews with scientists, wildlife experts and a First Nations chief, the myth of Canada's "ethical oil" is further exposed as oil industry greenwashing. Learn more at http://www.DeSmogBlog.com/CryWolf

quarta-feira, 11 de abril de 2012

An Evening With Derrick Jensen. Endgame. 3-24-2012.




Given in Chesterton, Indiana. Sponsored by Purdue North Central Veterans and Veterans Unplugged.
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Mark Pagel : How language transformed humanity




http://www.ted.com Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of "social technology" that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool: cooperation.

Roman Krznaric : The Six Habits of Highly Empathic People


theRSAorg

Cultural historian and author of 'Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live' Roman Krznaric reveals how the art of empathy can not only enrich one's own life but also help to create social change.

Listen to the podcast of the full event including audience Q&A: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/the-six-habits-of-highly-empathic-people

Wired for Culture : The natural history of human cooperation




*Please be aware that there are some images used in this talk of a violent nature.

Mark Pagel, one of the world's leading experts on human evolution and development, visits the RSA to investigate our species' capacity for culture, cooperation and community.

Wired for Culture : The natural history of human cooperation

Listen to the podcast of the full event including audience Q&A: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/wired-for-culture

Van Jones and Eliot Spitzer : The Financial Sector is Sucking America Dry




Complete video (The Wall Street-Washington Connection) at : http://fora.tv/2012/03/27/Culture_Project_Blueprint_for_Accountability

Van Jones, acclaimed author and President of Rebuild the Dream, and Eliot Spitzer, former Governor of New York, discuss the actors who triggered the 2008 financial collapse and the ramifications of the regulatory failure on middle class America.

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Culture Project's acclaimed town hall series, is a bold hybrid of journalism, theatre and film that brings together leading experts in politics, journalism, academia, and social activism along with visionary artists, to create high-voltage, multimedia conversations designed to educate, entertain and mobilize citizens for vigorous engagement in restoring accountability into our civic society.

Accountability is critical to democracy. At a time when grave challenges threaten American democracy, Culture Project presents "Blueprint for Accountability," a series that asks "How can we empower ourselves to hold our leaders--in government, education and corporate institutions--accountable for the events of the past and the conditions of the future?"

Inside the Revolution : A Journey into Heart of Venezuela (Documentary)



February 2009 marked 10 years since Hugo Chavez took office, following a landslide election victory, and launched his revolution to bring radical change to Venezuela. While wildly popular with many in the country, Chavez's policies and his strongly-worded criticisms of the U.S. government have also made him powerful enemies, both at home and abroad, especially in the media.

Filmed in Caracas in November 2008, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of Chavez's controversial presidency, this feature-length documentary takes a journey into the heart of Venezuela's revolution to listen to the voices of the people driving the process forward.

The film traces the recent history of Venezuela, before and after the election of Hugo Chavez to the presidency, using archive material and interviews with Venezuelans living in the barrios of Caracas who are involved in community and social movements. The achievements and challenges facing the Bolivarian process are put into context by means of interviews with leading Venezuelan social scientists Edgardo Lander and Javier Biardeau, as well as the Canadian economist Michael Lebowitz, who currently lives in Venezuela.

"This is a rare film about Venezuela, a country in extraordinary transition. Watch this film because it is honest and fair and respectful of those who want to be told the truth about an epic attempt, flaws and all, to claim back the humanity of ordinary people."

- John Pilger (Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker)

"A lively, well-researched documentary which pulls off that most difficult of tasks - an honest account of the achievements and the weaknesses of the Chavez government."

- Sue Branford (Journalist, former Latin American analyst for the BBC World Service)

Source : http://www.alborada.net/itr.film

10 Years Since the Venezuelan Coup




An excerpt from the film "Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela" that tells the story of the 2002 coup against Hugo Chavez
For more Real News go to http://therealnews.com

terça-feira, 10 de abril de 2012

TEDxTC - Jonathan Foley : How Agriculture is Changing the Face of Our Planet



We typically think of climate change as the biggest environmental issue we face today. But maybe it's not? In this presentation, Jonathan Foley shows how agriculture and land use are maybe a bigger culprit in the global environment, and could grow even larger as we look to feed over 9 billion people in the future.

Frans de Waal : Moral behavior in animals




http://www.ted.com Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals, that show how many of these moral traits all of us share.

Kel Assouf




Best Nostalgique!!!

John Pilger : The New Rulers of the World



'The New Rulers Of The World (2001) analyses the new global economy and reveals that the divisions between the rich and poor have never been greater - two thirds of the world's children live in poverty - and the gulf is widening like never before.

The film turns the spotlight on the new rulers of the world - the great multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them such as the IMF, the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation under whose rules millions of people throughout the world lose their jobs and livelihood.

The West, explains Pilger, has increased its stranglehold on poor countries by using the might of these powerful financial institutions to control their economies. "A small group of powerful individuals are now richer than most of the population of Africa," he says, "just 200 giant corporations dominate a quarter of the world’s economic activity. General Motors is now bigger than Denmark. Ford is bigger than South Africa. Enormously rich men like Bill Gates, have a wealth greater than all of Africa. Golfer Tiger Woods was paid more to promote Nike than the entire workforce making the company’s products in Indonesia received."

To examine the true effects of globalisation, Pilger travels to Indonesia - a country described by the World Bank as a model pupil until its globalised economy collapsed in 1998 - where high-street brands such as Nike, Adidas, Gap and Reebok are mass produced by cheap labour in 'sweatshops' and sold for up to 250 times the amount received by workers.

He films secretly in one of the biggest sweatshops in the capital, Jakarta. Over footage of hundreds of mostly women and children in the camp, with its open sewers and unsafe water, Pilger reports that workers are paid the equivalent of 72p a day - about one American dollar - which is the legal minimum wage in Indonesia but acknowledged by that country’s own government as only just over half a living wage. Many children there were undernourished and prone to disease. While filming, Pilger himself caught dengue fever.

He also recounts the previously untold story of how globalisation in Asia had begun in Indonesia and how Western politicians and businessmen sponsored the dictator General Suharto, who brutally seized power in the mid-1960s. "The great sweatshops and banks and luxury hotels in Indonesia were built on the mass murder of as many as one million people, an episode the West would prefer to forget," he reveals. "Within a year of the bloodbath, Indonesia’s economy was effectively redesigned in America, giving the West access to vast mineral wealth, markets and cheap labour - what President Nixon called the greatest prize in Asia."

'The New Rulers Of The World' is a collision of two of Pilger’s continuing themes - imperialism and the injustice of poverty. It observes the parallel between modern-day globalisation and old-world imperialism. "There’s no difference between the quite ruthless intervention of international capital into foreign markets these days than there was in the old days, when they were backed up by gunboats," says Pilger. "Much of my global view has come over years of seeing how imperialism works and how the world is divided between the rich, who get richer, and the poor, who get poorer, and the rich get richer on the backs of the poor. That division hasn’t changed for about 500 years, but there are new, deceptive ways of shoring it up and ensuring that most of the world’s resources are concentrated in as few hands as possible. What is different today is there is a worldwide movement that understands this deception and is gaining strength, especially among the young, many of whom are far better educated about the chameleon nature of capitalism than those in the 1960s. Moreover, if the intensity of Establishment propaganda is a guide, at times bordering on institutional panic, then the new movement is already succeeding."

The New Rulers Of The World was a Carlton Television production for ITV first broadcast on ITV1, 18 July 2001. Director: Alan Lowery. Producer: John Pilger. Associate Producers: Chris Martin and Laurelle Keough.

Awards: Gran Prix Leonardo Award, 2003; Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Television Awards, 2003.