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| Joseph Stiglitz: Adam Smith's Invisible Hand a Myth? Pursuit of Greed by Bankers hasn't led to well being of all. | |
| Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/22/Joseph_Stig... Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz challenges the influential teachings of 18th-century economist Adam Smith, citing flaws with Smith\\\\\\\'s metaphor of an \\\\ | |
| Date: 31 December 2010 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 798 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 | |
| Noam Chomsky - Haiti, Honduras - History of US Rule in Latin America | |
| Professor Noam Chomsky Ph.D - Haiti, Honduras,- History of US Rule in Latin America. | |
| Date: 31 December 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 812 - Votes: 12 - Rating: 4.75 | |
| Ralph Nader: Corporate socialism runs US government | |
| RussiaToday | 02 November 2010 With midterm elections in the US about to begin, RT has spoken with 4-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader about the real powers that govern America. Ralph Nader does not belong to either of the two parties ruling Congress. Nader believes that Theodore Dreiser put it very well many years ago, when he said that \\\\ | |
| Date: 31 December 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 772 - Votes: 12 - Rating: 4.84 | |
| The Inspiring and Historic Bernie Sanders' Berniebuster Filibuster: A Bad Deal For The American People And We Can Do Better | |
| 10 December 2010 | |
| Date: 31 December 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 753 - Votes: 8 - Rating: 5 | |
| The impossible Hamster and economic growth | |
| What the impossible hamster has to teach us about economic growth. A new animation from nef (the new economics foundation), scripted by Andrew Simms, numbers crunched by Viki Johnson and pictures realised by Leo Murray. www.neweconomics.org www.onehundredmonths.org www.wakeupfreakout.org www.impossiblehamster.org We wanted to confront people with the meaning and logical conclusion of the promise of endless economic growth. We used a hamster to illustrate what would happen if there were no limits to growth because they double in size each week before reaching maturity at around 6 weeks. But if a hamster grew at the same rate until its first birthday, wed be looking at a nine billion tonne hamster, which ate more than a years worth of world maize production every day. There are reasons in nature, why things dont grow indefinitely. As things are in nature, sooner or later, so they must be in the economy. As economic growth rises, we are pushing the planet ever closer to, and beyond some very real environmental limits. With every doubling in the global economy we use the equivalent in resources of all of the previous doublings combined. Concept, script and narration: Andrew Simms Animation: Leo Murray & Thomas Bristow Sound: Louis Slipperz Scientific Adviser: Victoria Johnson | |
| Date: 31 December 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 814 - Votes: 8 - Rating: 4.5 | |
| 3 Reasons This Election Didn't Change A Thing | |
| ReasonTV | 02 November 2010 There\\\'s no question that the Republicans painted the map red during the 2010 midterm elections, picking up control of the House of Representatives, gaining share in the Senate, and picking up a good chunk of statehouses seemingly all over the place. The Republicans won big due to huge voter displeasure with the state of the economy, President Obama\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s policies of the past two years, and (especially) the Democrat-controlled Congress. But does the shift in power matter? Here\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s three Reasons the GOP wave won\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t change a goddamn thing: 1. We\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'re still on the fast track to the poor house. When the GOP ran the show with George W. Bush, they spent like drunken sailors (apologies to drunken sailors). Things have only gotten worse since 2008 but the GOP\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s much-ballyhooed (at least by themselves) Pledge to America only pledges to spend the least bit less than the Dems. The Pledge conspicuously exempted defense and entitlements from spending cuts, thereby taking more than 60 percent of outlays off the table and making it impossible to seriously cut spending. Triumphant GOP spokespeople sounded the same message on Election Day, generally refusing to offer up specifics about spending cuts. 2. Nobody\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s talking about foreign policy and ending the warfare state. In constant dollars, defense spending has basically doubled since 2000 and is projected to stay at levels hundreds of billions of dollars above what it was before the Cold War ended. Perhaps more important, neither President Obama nor his party\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s leadership has even begun a meaningful conversation about foreign policy. The same goes for the Republicans, who constantly exempt defense spending, one of the very largest annual items in the federal budget, from serious scrutiny, much less significant cuts. President Obama is following George W. Bush\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s painfully slow withdrawal plan from Iraq and has tripled down in Afghanistan without clarifying U.S. goals and leaving lots of wiggle room when it comes to supposed deadlines for leaving. The only folks more hellbent on maintaining an unexamined status quo than the president are the Republicans. 3. The only people worse than liberals on social issues are conservatives. President Obama and the Democrats spent more time hectoring Americans to eat our vegetables than they did repealing \\\\\\\\ | |
| Date: 31 December 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 790 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 | |
| The Family: 'Christian Mafia' rules US? | |
| A group known as the Christian mafia is the oldest and arguably the most powerful and influential religious rights organization in the United States, says American author Jeff Sharlet. | |
| Date: 31 December 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 769 - Votes: 8 - Rating: 4.63 | |
| This is What Global Warming looks like. | |
| From: NRDCflix | 20 September 2010 | 16,870 views Loading... We have to believe what we are witnessing with our own eyes -- floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat. From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Pakistan, to soaring temperatures in the US and a deteriorating landscape in the High Arctic, our planet seems to be having a breakdown. It\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s not just a portent of things to come but real signs of very troubling climate change already under way. Please join with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and take action to protect our planet -- it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s the only one we have. | |
| Date: 31 December 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 768 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Bill Moyers Journal: David Corn & Kevin Drum -How did the banks pick our pockets so effectively? | |
| Part 1 of 2. MOTHER JONES journalists David Corn and Kevin Drum offer a hard look at the obstacles to real reform of the financial industry | |
| Date: 31 December 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 786 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 5 | |
| Pt 2 Raj Patel: Mozambique's Food Riots Are the True Face of Global Warming | |
| Democracy Now! | |
| Date: 31 December 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 761 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |