A three part BBC documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Trap and The Power of Nightmares. It is an astounding series of films about how humans have been colonised by ( amongst other things ) the machines they have built. [youtube]Uz2j3BhL47c[/youtube] [youtube]Yq0xVuRG4ng[/youtube] [youtube]lXJYkkxh0rk[/youtube]
Economics
Police use tear gas on demonstrators in Malaysia as opposition leader is among those injured. [youtube]VTHnjIv36Eg[/youtube]
Without knowing how money is created and managed, all other topics concerning money are out of context. This is crucial : regarding trillions of dollars of economic power, you have no idea where money comes from. It’s time for you to learn. Read the rest here
[ If you haven’t seen this – then it’s two minutes of your life well spent ] An animated interview of John Perkins, author of ‘HoodWinked’ and ‘Confessions Of An Economic Hitman’ [youtube]n7Fzm1hEiDQ[/youtube]
[ Iceland Tells Europe to ‘ Go Pound Sand ‘ 🙂 ] Iceland is free. Read the rest here
Just moments after Greek politicians sold out the 80% majority opposed to the banker bailout and passed draconian austerity measures, rioters in Athens responded by turning Greece into a war zone, setting banks, cars, and the Finance Ministry on fire. As Tyler Durden reports, things are heating up in Greece, literally. […]
There’s quite a lot of fun to be had in mapping our current economic woes on to John Kenneth Galbraith’s interpretations and criticisms of capitalism, first published in 2004. One of the many “frauds” that he says capitalism foists on us is that of “accepted fraud”, whereby shareholders in a […]
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Icelanders should be proud of their success in taking their country back over the last few years and we should be proud of them. They serve as an example for us all. Axis of Logic commentary & photo essay
. The revolutionary movement that began in Tunisia at the end of last year has now sparked mass movements in Europe. Principally, to date, in Greece and Spain. On the surface, these movements have little in common. In Tunisia and Egypt, the people came out in vast numbers to overthrow […]