Tracks the change in food stamp participation on a national map since January 2007, as a percentage of each state’s population, while Sinatra sings I’ve got the world on a string. [youtube]z87XBKNto4Q[/youtube] Runs 90 seconds. Source
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Unmanned U.S. drones in Pakistan have killed at least 45 suspected insurgents in several separate attacks in the last 24 hours – the second-highest daily death toll since the drone warfare campaign began in 2004. The drone strikes came just a day after the U.S. suspended $800 million of military […]
More and more people are becoming aware of the complete system failure we’re experiencing in the United States and around the globe. As the true nature of the control system is revealed, people tend to feel as Howard Beale did in Network when he said, “first, you’ve got to get […]
They have been trying to rescue Detroit for years, and for years Detroit has continued to be sucked back into the ground from which it was born. Just as in China you can hear the roar and thunder of growth and ambition and the shouts of greed and triumph, in […]
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]
It’s because Greece, although poor for a European country, is tied into those networks. Read the rest here
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]
Source: guardian.co.uk Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation Bolivia is set to pass the world’s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans. The Law of Mother Earth, now agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the country’s […]
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 […]