[Why now? Is the UK not allowed to use NASA anymore? What about the ESA? Or, is it just about the money they mention so much?]
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
3.25.2010
3.24.2010
(D') Evolution Summit
Del 29 al 31 de marzo en Barcelona. Cumbre ciudadana para abrir las mentes de los ministros de cultura de la Comunidad Europea, que se reunirán en Barcelona en el marco de la Presidencia Española de la Unión Europea.
Los días 30 y 31 de marzo, los ministros de cultura de los 27 países de la Unión Europea (UE) se reunirán en Barcelona con motivo del Congreso de la Industria Cultural que tiene el elocuente título "La economía de la cultura".
From march 29 to 31, 2010. A civil society meeting to open the minds of the European Community's Ministers of Culture gathered in Barcelona, as part of the program of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union.
On March 30 and 31 the Ministers of Culture of the 27 countries of the European Union (EU) will gather in Barcelona around the Forum of Cultural Industries eloquently entitled "The Economy of Culture".
3.04.2010
Debt Dynamite Dominoes: The Coming Financial Catastrophe
· Assessing the Illusion of Recovery.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17736
In October 2008, the mainstream media and politicians of the Western world were warning of an impending depression if actions were not taken to quickly prevent this. The problem was that this crisis had been a long-time coming, and what’s worse, is that the actions governments took did not address any of the core, systemic issues and problems with the global economy; they merely set out to save the banking industry from collapse. To do this, governments around the world implemented massive “stimulus” and “bailout” packages, plunging their countries deeper into debt to save the banks from themselves, while charging it to people of the world.
Then an uproar of stock market speculation followed, as money was pumped into the stocks, but not the real economy. This recovery has been nothing but a complete and utter illusion, and within the next two years, the illusion will likely come to a complete collapse.
The governments gave the banks a blank check, charged it to the public, and now it’s time to pay; through drastic tax increases, social spending cuts, privatization of state industries and services, dismantling of any protective tariffs and trade regulations, and raising interest rates. The effect that this will have is to rapidly accelerate, both in the speed and volume, the unemployment rate, globally. The stock market would crash to record lows, where governments would be forced to freeze them altogether.
When the crisis is over, the middle classes of the western world will have been liquidated of their economic, political and social status. The global economy will have gone through the greatest consolidation of industry and banking in world history leading to a system in which only a few corporations and banks control the global economy and its resources; governments will have lost that right. The people of the western world will be treated by the financial oligarchs as they have treated the ‘global South’ and in particular, Africa; they will remove our social structures and foundations so that we become entirely subservient to their dominance over the economic and political structures of our society.
This is where we stand today, and is the road on which we travel.
The western world has been plundered into poverty, a process long underway, but with the unfolding of the crisis, will be rapidly accelerated. As our societies collapse in on themselves, the governments will protect the banks and multinationals. When the people go out into the streets, as they invariably do and will, the government will not come to their aid, but will come with police and military forces to crush the protests and oppress the people. The social foundations will collapse with the economy, and the state will clamp down to prevent the people from constructing a new one.
The road to recovery is far from here. When the crisis has come to an end, the world we know will have changed dramatically. No one ever grows up in the world they were born into; everything is always changing. Now is no exception. The only difference is, that we are about to go through the most rapid changes the world has seen thus far.
[The article goes into...]
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17736
by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Understanding the Nature of the Global Economic CrisisThe people have been lulled into a false sense of safety under the ruse of a perceived “economic recovery.” Unfortunately, what the majority of people think does not make it so, especially when the people making the key decisions think and act to the contrary. The sovereign debt crises that have been unfolding in the past couple years and more recently in Greece, are canaries in the coal mine for the rest of Western “civilization.” The crisis threatens to spread to Spain, Portugal and Ireland; like dominoes, one country after another will collapse into a debt and currency crisis, all the way to America.
In October 2008, the mainstream media and politicians of the Western world were warning of an impending depression if actions were not taken to quickly prevent this. The problem was that this crisis had been a long-time coming, and what’s worse, is that the actions governments took did not address any of the core, systemic issues and problems with the global economy; they merely set out to save the banking industry from collapse. To do this, governments around the world implemented massive “stimulus” and “bailout” packages, plunging their countries deeper into debt to save the banks from themselves, while charging it to people of the world.
Then an uproar of stock market speculation followed, as money was pumped into the stocks, but not the real economy. This recovery has been nothing but a complete and utter illusion, and within the next two years, the illusion will likely come to a complete collapse.
The governments gave the banks a blank check, charged it to the public, and now it’s time to pay; through drastic tax increases, social spending cuts, privatization of state industries and services, dismantling of any protective tariffs and trade regulations, and raising interest rates. The effect that this will have is to rapidly accelerate, both in the speed and volume, the unemployment rate, globally. The stock market would crash to record lows, where governments would be forced to freeze them altogether.
When the crisis is over, the middle classes of the western world will have been liquidated of their economic, political and social status. The global economy will have gone through the greatest consolidation of industry and banking in world history leading to a system in which only a few corporations and banks control the global economy and its resources; governments will have lost that right. The people of the western world will be treated by the financial oligarchs as they have treated the ‘global South’ and in particular, Africa; they will remove our social structures and foundations so that we become entirely subservient to their dominance over the economic and political structures of our society.
This is where we stand today, and is the road on which we travel.
The western world has been plundered into poverty, a process long underway, but with the unfolding of the crisis, will be rapidly accelerated. As our societies collapse in on themselves, the governments will protect the banks and multinationals. When the people go out into the streets, as they invariably do and will, the government will not come to their aid, but will come with police and military forces to crush the protests and oppress the people. The social foundations will collapse with the economy, and the state will clamp down to prevent the people from constructing a new one.
The road to recovery is far from here. When the crisis has come to an end, the world we know will have changed dramatically. No one ever grows up in the world they were born into; everything is always changing. Now is no exception. The only difference is, that we are about to go through the most rapid changes the world has seen thus far.
[The article goes into...]
- Assessing the Illusion of Recovery
- Crying Wolf or Castigating Cassandra?
- Empire and Economics
- The Hegemony of Neoliberalism
- Building a ‘New’ Economy
- The 2007-2008 Financial Crisis
- The Bailout
- The Collapse of Iceland
- Dubai Hit By Financial Storm
- A Sovereign Debt Crisis Hits Greece
- A Global Debt Crisis
- China Begins to Dump US Treasuries
- Is a Debt Crisis Coming to America?
- Imperial Decline and the Rise of the New World Order
- ‘New Capitalism’
- Could Martial Law Come to America?
- In Conclusion
Gold Counterfeiting: German TV discovers 500g Tungsten bar from bank
[YouTube does not allow 'embeding' of this video, so just follow the link! Speaking of which, look for the number of 'views' this video has... odd, to say the least. YouTube must be "feeling the pressure" to keep its content 'NWO-Approved', or is this type of 'soft censorship' official YouTube policy? In any case, the info in this video has colossal consequences... We already know paper-debt-money is worthless, but now gold?!]
German TV station, ProSieben, finds what appears to be proof of gold counterfeiting, in the form of tungsten gold substitutes coming to the W.C. Heraeus foundry, which is the worlds largest privately-owned precious metals refiner and fabricator, located in Hanau, Germany.
The foundry has isolated at least one 500-gram tungsten bar due for melting, originating from a (so far) unnamed bank, which, as the head of the foundry stated, made the unpleasant discovery that not all that glitters is gold.
2.19.2010
2.17.2010
Has China begun economic warfare?
New evidence show that Japan has replaced China as the top holder of American debt. Chinas military has called for the government to punish the US because of a potential meeting with the Dalai Lama. China's holding of US Treasury bonds has tumbled, according to US Treasury data released Tuesday, after Beijing expressed concern over the swelling US deficit and amid new US-China tensions.
2.12.2010
Godfrey Bloom on Tax Harmonization - 02.12.2010
"Taxation as a concept hasn’t really changed very much in the last 3000 years. The rich and the powerful are stealing money from ordinary people to make their own lives more comfortable. Where there has been a change in modern times is that taxation is for the benefit of the taxed. That somehow we are being taxed “pro bono”. In order to perpetrate this myth, we invent periodic scares to frighten people into submission. The latest of these scares is of course that if we don't cough up green taxes we will all boil to death. Reminiscent of the medieval religions, which played the same game, pay up or burn in hell. Tax harmonization is a concept dreamed up by the modern political class to make sure that no government steals too little from it's people …it’s a thief’s cartel."
2.11.2010
"Salir de la sociedad de crecimiento es salir de las dinámicas de desigualdad"
· "La necesidad de romper con el crecimiento, la ideología del crecimiento y la sociedad del crecimiento" es la base de la teoría del decrecimiento, de la que Serge Latouche es uno de sus impulsores.
http://www.diagonalperiodico.net/Salir-de-la-sociedad-de.html
[Más info...]
- Teoría del decrecimiento. ¿Una alternativa al capitalismo?
- A Favor del Decrecimiento Económico - Raúl García Durán
- "Vamos a crear modelos de sociedad autogestionada"
- "Viviremos de acuerdo con las necesidades, no con los deseos"
http://www.diagonalperiodico.net/Salir-de-la-sociedad-de.html
Entrevista a Serge Latouche
Profesor de la Univerisdad de París XI
DIAGONAL: ¿Qué relación hay entre la idea de decrecimiento y la crítica del concepto de desarrollo?
SERGE LATOUCHE: ‘Desarrollo’ y ‘crecimiento’ son dos palabras que suelen utilizarse indistintamente, aunque existan matices. Generalmente, cuando hablamos de ‘desarrollo’ pensamos en los países del Sur, mientras que cuando hablamos de ’crecimiento’ nos referimos más bien a los países del Norte, pero en cualquier caso es siempre la misma lógica de la acumulación, de la utilidad.
[...]
D.: En un contexto de crisis, la palabra ‘decrecimiento’ puede estar asociada a la pérdida de empleos.
S.L.: Es cierto, pero es al contrario. El decrecimiento, a diferencia del crecimiento negativo o de la crisis, consiste precisamente en salir de esa lógica que condena, de forma obligatoria, a destruir el planeta para crear empleos. A través del decrecimiento, al contrario, crearíamos empleos salvando al planeta; no sólo porque lo reparamos, sino también porque al reducir nuestro consumo, tendremos que producir menos, y teniendo que producir menos, tendremos que trabajar menos. Así, trabajamos menos, pero trabajamos todos. Lo primero que tenemos que repartir es el trabajo, frente al sistema totalmente absurdo en el que hoy vivimos, en el que incluso en Francia hemos suprimido las 35 horas y los trabajadores hacen 40, 50 o incluso 60 horas, mientras que otras personas que querrían trabajar un poco, no pueden hacerlo. Por otra parte, otras propuestas del decrecimiento, como el regreso a una agricultura tradicional y ecológica conllevará la creación de millones de empleos en este sector. La utilización de energías renovables también los creará, al igual que el sector de la reparación y del reciclaje. Algunos incluso piensan que llegaremos a una situación invertida en la que existirán demasiados empleos y faltará mano de obra, porque evidentemente, al no utilizar más el extraordinario potencial energético del petróleo (no hay que olvidar que un bidón de 30 litros de petróleo es el equivalente del trabajo de un obrero durante cinco años), por lo tanto, si ya no nos queda petróleo habrá que trabajar más. Pero tampoco tendremos que trabajar mucho más, porque reduciremos nuestras necesidades, las cuales trataremos de satisfacer sin trabajar demasiado porque también es muy importante no trabajar demasiado. Trabajar demasiado es muy malo.
Leer más...SERGE LATOUCHE: ‘Desarrollo’ y ‘crecimiento’ son dos palabras que suelen utilizarse indistintamente, aunque existan matices. Generalmente, cuando hablamos de ‘desarrollo’ pensamos en los países del Sur, mientras que cuando hablamos de ’crecimiento’ nos referimos más bien a los países del Norte, pero en cualquier caso es siempre la misma lógica de la acumulación, de la utilidad.
[...]
D.: En un contexto de crisis, la palabra ‘decrecimiento’ puede estar asociada a la pérdida de empleos.
S.L.: Es cierto, pero es al contrario. El decrecimiento, a diferencia del crecimiento negativo o de la crisis, consiste precisamente en salir de esa lógica que condena, de forma obligatoria, a destruir el planeta para crear empleos. A través del decrecimiento, al contrario, crearíamos empleos salvando al planeta; no sólo porque lo reparamos, sino también porque al reducir nuestro consumo, tendremos que producir menos, y teniendo que producir menos, tendremos que trabajar menos. Así, trabajamos menos, pero trabajamos todos. Lo primero que tenemos que repartir es el trabajo, frente al sistema totalmente absurdo en el que hoy vivimos, en el que incluso en Francia hemos suprimido las 35 horas y los trabajadores hacen 40, 50 o incluso 60 horas, mientras que otras personas que querrían trabajar un poco, no pueden hacerlo. Por otra parte, otras propuestas del decrecimiento, como el regreso a una agricultura tradicional y ecológica conllevará la creación de millones de empleos en este sector. La utilización de energías renovables también los creará, al igual que el sector de la reparación y del reciclaje. Algunos incluso piensan que llegaremos a una situación invertida en la que existirán demasiados empleos y faltará mano de obra, porque evidentemente, al no utilizar más el extraordinario potencial energético del petróleo (no hay que olvidar que un bidón de 30 litros de petróleo es el equivalente del trabajo de un obrero durante cinco años), por lo tanto, si ya no nos queda petróleo habrá que trabajar más. Pero tampoco tendremos que trabajar mucho más, porque reduciremos nuestras necesidades, las cuales trataremos de satisfacer sin trabajar demasiado porque también es muy importante no trabajar demasiado. Trabajar demasiado es muy malo.
[Más info...]
- Teoría del decrecimiento. ¿Una alternativa al capitalismo?
- A Favor del Decrecimiento Económico - Raúl García Durán
- "Vamos a crear modelos de sociedad autogestionada"
- "Viviremos de acuerdo con las necesidades, no con los deseos"
2.03.2010
2.02.2010
1.31.2010
1.28.2010
1.19.2010
'Major crisis still ahead, past one was minor' - Immanuel Wallerstein
Senior Research Scholar at Yale University Immanuel Wallerstein believes that the real economic crisis is still up ahead. According to Wallerstein, last years collapse was its minor version.
1.18.2010
On Barter...
http://irta.com/
IRTA Purpose:
The International Reciprocal Trade Association, IRTA, is a non-profit organization committed to promoting just and equitable standards of practice and operation within the modern trade and barter and alternative capital systems Industry and raising the awareness and value of these processes to the entire Worldwide Community.
IRTA Mission:
The mission of IRTA is to provide to all Industry Members with an ethically based global organization dedicated to the advancement of Modern Trade and Barter and other alternative capital systems, through the use of education, self regulation, high standards and government relations.
Learn more...The International Reciprocal Trade Association, IRTA, is a non-profit organization committed to promoting just and equitable standards of practice and operation within the modern trade and barter and alternative capital systems Industry and raising the awareness and value of these processes to the entire Worldwide Community.
IRTA Mission:
The mission of IRTA is to provide to all Industry Members with an ethically based global organization dedicated to the advancement of Modern Trade and Barter and other alternative capital systems, through the use of education, self regulation, high standards and government relations.
Tom Greco & Daniel Pinchbeck On Money
Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is a community and monetary economist, educator, writer, and consultant. Tom is the author of; 'Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender' (Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2001); 'New Money for Healthy Communities' (1994); 'Money and Debt: A Solution to the Global Crisis' (1990). In his latest book 'The End of Money and the Future of Civilization' (Chelsea Green: 2009) Tom explains how conventional money malfunctions and how an ideal money would be structured.
For more info on Tom and his latest works visit reinventingmoney.com
Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of 'Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism', Broadway Books, 2002; '2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl', Tarcher, 2006; and Co-editor with Ken Jordan, of, 'Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age', Tarcher, 2009.
Daniel is the founder of RealitySandwich.com a website forum regarding experiences and initiatives surrounding the evolution of consciousness , Daniel is also co-founder of evolver.com a web community dedicated to organizing events and initiatives that inspire and educate towards the new paradigm.
For more info on Tom and his latest works visit reinventingmoney.com
Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of 'Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism', Broadway Books, 2002; '2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl', Tarcher, 2006; and Co-editor with Ken Jordan, of, 'Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age', Tarcher, 2009.
Daniel is the founder of RealitySandwich.com a website forum regarding experiences and initiatives surrounding the evolution of consciousness , Daniel is also co-founder of evolver.com a web community dedicated to organizing events and initiatives that inspire and educate towards the new paradigm.
1.15.2010
Living Without Money (Research Footage)
Heidemarie Schwermer (67) worked for many years as a psychotherapist and teacher in Dortmund, Germany. Like most people around her, she spent most of her time working and earning money in order to buy the things she needed - and things she didn’t really need. As a psychotherapist she met many who were depressed and frustrated, over-worked and with very little spare time. Among the unemployed and poor she found that they often considered themselves worthless.
Heidemarie got the idea to start an exchange circle, where people without money could trade objects and favors. Through the exchange circle people came in contact with each other in a new way. They felt useful and worthy, and also appreciated the social aspect. After a while, Heidemarie decided to do an experiment. She cancelled her flat, donated all her things to friends and started a new life based on exchanging favors – without the use of money. Her goal was to create a greater awareness of the relationship to money and consumption.
At first she stayed with friends and acquaintances, took care of their houses when they were away for holiday or journeys and in return she received food and a place to live. Over the years, she has inspired the start-up of exchange circles throughout Germany. She wrote a book about her way of life, and the word about her lifestyle has spread. Today, she has lived without money for 12 years, and claims she has never felt so free. In the film ”Living Without Money,” we follow Heidemarie in her daily-life and learn about her life story and philosophy.
Heidemarie got the idea to start an exchange circle, where people without money could trade objects and favors. Through the exchange circle people came in contact with each other in a new way. They felt useful and worthy, and also appreciated the social aspect. After a while, Heidemarie decided to do an experiment. She cancelled her flat, donated all her things to friends and started a new life based on exchanging favors – without the use of money. Her goal was to create a greater awareness of the relationship to money and consumption.
At first she stayed with friends and acquaintances, took care of their houses when they were away for holiday or journeys and in return she received food and a place to live. Over the years, she has inspired the start-up of exchange circles throughout Germany. She wrote a book about her way of life, and the word about her lifestyle has spread. Today, she has lived without money for 12 years, and claims she has never felt so free. In the film ”Living Without Money,” we follow Heidemarie in her daily-life and learn about her life story and philosophy.
[More info @ www.livingwithoutmoney.tv]
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