Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD is an internationally known evolution biologist, futurist, author, professor and business consultant, a member of the World Wisdom Council and a fellow of the World Business Academy. After a post-doctoral NIH fellowship at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, she taught at UMass and MIT, worked on the NOVA/Horizon TV series and was a UN consultant on indigenous peoples. Born in the US, she lived extensively in Canada, Greece and the Peruvian Andes, discovering solutions to social and economic problems in Earth’s ecosystems and indigenous sciences, and now resides in Spain. Her venues have included The World Bank, EPA, Boeing, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Tokyo Dome Stadium, Australian and Netherlands National Govts, Sao Paulo’s leading business schools, University of Malaya, State of the World Forums (NY, San Francisco and Brasil) and World Parliaments of Religion. Her books include EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution; A Walk Through Time: from Stardust to Us and Biology Revisioned (with Willis Harman). See www.sahtouris.com
Gerald Celente is one of today’s pioneers in trend strategy. He founded the Trends Research Institute and its Trends Journal in 1980 and has since been one of the nation’s most sought after diagnosticians and forecasters. His work covers over 300 fields including business and finance, politics, the environment, society and technology.
Gerald’s insights have been sought for by major networks, PBS and BBC, Russian TV, and publications such as the Economist and major newspapers.
October 26, 2011, Berkeley, CA: My book talk at the Berkeley Arts and Letters series. Of all the talks I've given, I was happiest about this. If there's one you listen to in this series, this should be the one.
In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission-trust in our government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress, and that business interests wield control over our legislature.
With heartfelt urgency and a keen desire for righting wrongs, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed look at how we arrived at this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good intentions, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests, and how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system. Rejecting simple labels and reductive logic-and instead using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left-Lessig seeks out the root causes of our situation. He plumbs the issues of campaign financing and corporate lobbying, revealing the human faces and follies that have allowed corruption to take such a foothold in our system. He puts the issues in terms that nonwonks can understand, using real-world analogies and real human stories. And ultimately he calls for widespread mobilization and a new Constitutional Convention, presenting achievable solutions for regaining control of our corrupted-but redeemable-representational system. In this way, Lessig plots a roadmap for returning our republic to its intended greatness.
While America may be divided, Lessig vividly champions the idea that we can succeed if we accept that corruption is our common enemy and that we must find a way to fight against it. In Republic, Lost, he not only makes this need palpable and clear-he gives us the practical and intellectual tools to do something about it.
The gap between rich and poor in OECD countries has reached its highest level for over 30 years, and governments must act quickly to tackle inequality, according to a new OECD report, "Divided We Stand".
In the teeth of the worst financial crisis in living memory, BBC business editor Robert Peston examines how the world got to this point and how the collossal imbalances in the global economy have left the UK in need of a radical economic overhaul.
In this first of two programmes Peston examines how, thirty years ago, momentous decisions were taken which shaped the world we live in today. In China, Deng Xiao Ping opened up the country to foreign capitalists; in Britain and America, the free market revolution was unleashed by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. The Party's Over compares the lives of workers in a Chinese company with their co-workers in Britain.
Robert Peston interviews bankers, politicians and economists, and concludes that the boom we enjoyed before the crash was based on an illusion, and that the world's economy is now so unbalanced that in the West we face a sobering wake-up call.
Customers want to feel what they buy is authentic, but "Mass Customization" author Joseph Pine says selling authenticity is tough because, well, there's no such thing. He talks about a few experiences that may be artificial but make millions anyway.
Vast cities are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost uninhabited ghost towns. It's estimated there are 64 million empty apartments.
For more on Adrian Brown's report, go to the SBS Dateline website... http://bit.ly/fJur4O
As the UN climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa draw to a close carbon emission credit prices have fallen to record lows and carbon market forecasts predict further carnage. “Carbon Markets, Trading with our Future” – a new film released in Durban offers a rare glimpse into the collapsing markets from the vantage of some of the leading architects and designers of climate finance.
Psychologist Tim Kasser discusses how America's culture of consumerism undermines our well-being. When people buy into the ever-present marketing messages that "the good life" is "the goods life," they not only use up Earth's limited resources, but they are less happy and less inclined toward helping others. The animation both lays out the problems of excess materialism and points toward solutions that promise a healthier, more just, and more sustainable life.
Tim Kasser, Professor and Chair of Psychology at Knox College and author of The High Price of Materialism and other works related to consumerism and well being.
Despite some important successes, the efforts of the environmental movement have thus far failed to activate the kinds of personal and social changes necessary to meet the many ecological challenges we face. A growing body of psychological research suggests that if these efforts incorporated more knowledge about human identity (including our values, our sense of social identity, and the ways we cope when threatened), greater progress towards a more sustainable (and socially just) world might be forthcoming.
In this video Chris Martenson, economic analyst at http://chrismartenson.com and author of 'The Crash Course', explains why he thinks that the coming 20 years are going to look completely unlike the last 20 years. In his presentation he focuses on the so-called three "Es": Economy, Energy and Environment. He argues that at this point in time it is no longer possible to view either one of those topics separately from one another.
Since all our money is loaned onto existence, our economy has to grow exponentially. Martenson proves this point empirically by showing a 99.9% fit of the actual growth curve of the last 40 years to an exponential curve. If we wanted to continue on this path, our debt load would have to double again over the next 10 years. By continually increasing our debt relative to GDP we are making the assumption that our future will always be wealthier than our past. He believes that this assumption is flawed and that the debt loads are already unmanageable.
Martenson explains how exponential growth works and why it is so scary that our economy is based on it. In an example he illustrates how unimaginably fast things speed up towards the end of an exponential curve. He shows that an exponential chart can be found in every one of the three "E's" for instance in GDP growth, oil production, water use or species extinction. Due to the natural limitations on resources, Martenson comes to the conclusion that we are facing a serious energy crisis.
This energy predicament is namely that the quantity of oil as well as the quality of oil are in decline. He shows that oil discoveries peaked in 1964 and oil production peaked 40 years later. Martenson also shows how our return on invested energy is rapidly declining -- the "cheap and easy" oil fields have already been exploited. In 1930 the energy return for oil was 100:1 or greater. Today it is already down to 3:1 and newer technologies such as corn-based ethanol only provide a 1.5:1 return. Martenson predicts that the time in between oil shocks will get shorter and shorter and that oil prices will go much higher.
Not only oil but also other natural resources are being rapidly used up as well. At the current projected pace of use, known reserves for many metals and minerals will be gone within the next 10 to 20 years. The energy needed to get these non-renewable resources out of the ground is growing exponentially. So we live in a world that must grow, but can't grow and is subject to depletion. The conclusion out of all this is that our money system is poorly designed and that we need to rethink how we do things as quickly as possible.
After finishing his presentation Chris Martenson answers questions regarding a rise in efficiency, alternative technologies and oil prices. He also responds to questions regarding electricity, shale gas, gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and uranium and the race for global resources.
This video was recorded on November 16 at the Gold & Silver Meeting 2011 in Madrid.
ON DEC 1, Naomi Klein joined "Occupy Condos: Take the Pantages!" to show support for affordable housing in the DTES.
After the march, members of Occupy Vancouver media team were able to sit down with Naomi and capture her thoughts on the Occupy Movement, the tar sands pipeline, and how to prepare for the largest economic shock yet.
"There are no real solutions, there are only responses." So say the expert contributors in The Post Carbon Reader, pointing to society's complex, interdependent systems squeezed by growing demand and declining resources. Co-editor Daniel Lerch tells us renewable energy will never be able to replace fossil fuels. Thus resilience - the capacity of a system to withstand disturbance while retaining its fundamental integrity - needs to replace "sustainability" as a guide to action. [http://www.postcarbon.org/reader]
Today's world has troubles unique to its time in history, from the global financial crisis to technological meltdowns to full scale, computerized global war. Observing the convergence of such events, contemporary prophets have begun to emerge from obscurity to suggest that these conditions might be signs of the demise of the modern world. These men are historians as well, using all manner of information and patterns from the past to provide context for where we are going. Their predictions interpret the current state of affairs in our world as evidence that the America we know may come to an end. The men proposing these ideas are not crackpots living on the streets of New York; they are intelligent, learned men who come armed with the evidence to back up their claims.
US congress today approved an extension of the payroll tax cut for two months...putting off a tax increase for millions of workers. So, after much partisan politicking, they did it -- saving face for the moment, but could it hurt their stock price headed into the 2012 elections? You heard me right. We'll talk about the political derivatives market a Chicago exchange is betting on. Would it be a continuation of a climate on wall street that encourages special treatment that our guest, fiancial journalist and inventor of the virtual specialist technology, Max Keiser, calls "the special olympics for financial fraud." And speaking of derivatives, those bets added fuel to the fire that engulfed the financial markets in 2008...most famously seen in the explosion and bailout of AGI (backdoor bailout of the big banks like goldman sachs, jp morgan, bank of america, etc.). More recently, MF Global customer money used to trade on these exchanges went missing. So where do futures exchanges come from and where have they gone wrong? From Ancient Greece to MF Global we'll break it down. And, heading into 2012 -- will it be a happy new year for the US economy? Maybe not. Economists predict sluggish 2 percent growth, an economy held down by housing troubles, government budget cuts, and a lousy job market. That didn't stop hoards of people from lining up at malls and waiting all night for a chance to buy the 175 dollar "IT" Air Jordans. We'll show you what happened.
RAP NEWS episode 10: The year we've all been waiting for - 2012AD (or 13.0.0.0.0, if you ask a Mayan) - is finally here. What will happen? Will we see the poles shift or a paradigm shift? Will a rogue Sumerian planet smash into our solar system, plunging us into serfdom under the iron fist of a race of gold-hungry aliens? Or are the aliens already here? Or are all these merely humanity's collective projections of itself as it careens towards an ever-accelerating super-connected cyber-reality - whatever that means... One thing's sure, if 2011 was a prelude of things to come, 2012 is going to be one hell of a year. Now that it has arrived, are we ready? Join your host Robert Foster and his guests, Terrence Moonseed and General Baxter, as they conduct an in-depth rap analysis into the future, and humanity's place in it. Happy New YERA!
Enseña la forma de vida de esta tribu amazónica, que incluye un sistema económico colectivista y respetuoso con el medio ambiente. Documental de la serie "Amazonia, última llamada", emitida por Canal +.
Political economist, professor and author, Gar Alperovitz joins Thom for the first half hour for Conversations with Great Minds. They discuss his new book, "America Beyond Capitalism" and how it relates to the current state of America's fragile economy.
Here’s the video of a conversation I had with David Schweickart, author of After Capitalism, at this year’s ICAPE conference.
It was a great discussion; David’s work on economic democracy is one of the most fully-fleshed out alternative economic models we have, and I greatly appreciated this chance to really explore some of the deep issues that arise when we try to imagine life after capitalism.
In his books, Robert Fuller exposed rankism - the abuse of the power inherent in rank to exploit or humiliate someone of lower rank. UCSB Professor Thomas Scheff and his students explore these themes of dignity and humilation with the author.
Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness -- that is a marvelous fact -- but what exactly is it that we regain? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio (http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/bci/) uses this simple question to give us a glimpse into how our brains create our sense of self.
Toronto. July 2, 2010. Economic growth is the over-arching policy objective of governments worldwide. Yet its long-term viability is increasingly questioned because of environmental impacts and impending and actual shortages of energy and material resources. Furthermore, rising incomes in rich countries bear little relation to gains in happiness and well-being . Growth has not eliminated poverty, brought full employment or protected the environment. Results from a simulation model of the Canadian economy suggest that it is possible to have full employment, eradicate poverty, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and maintain fiscal balance without economic growth. It's time to turn our attention away from pursuing growth and towards specific objectives more directly relating to our well-being and that of the planet.
Dr. Peter Victor , author of Managing without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster, is a professor in environmental studies at York University. He has worked for nearly 40 years in Canada and abroad on economy and environment as an academic, consultant and public servant. Dr. Victor was the founding president of the Canadian Society of Ecological Economics and a past-president of the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science. Currently he is a member of the Board of the David Suzuki Foundation and several advisory boards in the public and private sectors.
"Michael Parenti's The Face of Imperialism is a powerful, frightening, and honest book. It will be hated by those who run the Empire, and it will be loved by people who are searching for truth amidst the piles of garbage of Western propaganda. Above all, this book will be like a bright spark of hope for billions of men, women, and children who are fighting this very moment for survival, defending themselves against the Empire and against all monstrous faces and masks of imperialism."
- Andre Vltchek, author of Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad
Michael Mann is a professor in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, a climatologist, and the director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. Michael is best known for his extensive background and research in the field of paleoclimatology. This work led to Michael's graph of temperature trends over the last thousand years, popularly coined as the "hockey stick graph" because of its resemblance to the sporting equipment. The graph has received acclaim and criticism since its publishing. He has received many awards and honors including, but not limited to, the Outstanding Scientific Paper Award by NOAA in 2002 and also was named one of the 50 Leading Visionaries in Science and Technology by Scientific American. Michael is also one of the founders of RealClimate.org, a highly acclaimed climate science website that was chosen in 2005 as one of the top 25 "Science and Technology" websites by Scientific American and as one of the top 15 "green" websites by Time Magazine in 2008. Michael's educational background includes an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale, and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale.
"Hay quienes dicen que una salida del Euro de España en el actual contexto de crisis sería un verdadero desastre, sin embargo, los que así se manifiestan, no suelen de calificar de desastre lo que ya está ocurriendo como consecuencia de seguir aferrados a toda costa al Euro y a sus reglas".
Gregorio López Sanz analiza un escenario de salida del Euro.
Press Conference from 2011 AGU Fall Meeting - Tue. 11 a.m. PST
Even if we are able to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, Earth could likely see drastic and rapid climate change this century, new research by NASA's Jim Hansen suggests. Paleoclimate data paints a different picture than models about the sensitivity of the climate system. Detailed analysis of the Earth's paleoclimate history of recent interglacial periods reveals we are less than a degree Celsius away from equaling a time when sea level was several meters higher than it is today.
Participants:
James Hansen
Director, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA;
Ken Caldeira
Senior Scientist, Department of Global Ecology Carnegie Institute of Washington, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA;
Eelco Rohling
Professor of Ocean and Climate Change, Southampton University, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Reportagem produzida pelo Núcleo Amigos da Terra Brasil mostra casos de destruição social e ambiental que empresas transacionais provocam nos Estados do Pará e Maranhão, onde está concentrada mais de 80% da bauxita explorada no Brasil. O alumínio é uma das principais commodities brasileiras e o país é o 6º produtor mundial do metal, atrás da China, Rússia, Canadá, Austrália e EUA. O Brasil possui a terceira maior jazida de bauxita do mundo e é o quarto maior produtor mundial de alumina.
The Friends of The Earth Brazil nucleus, in contact with organizations and local movements, set to record these conflicts with ribeirinho communities to evaluate the social and environmental impacts that the aluminium industry provokes since the 1980s in Brazil.
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
Dr. Heiner Flassbeck (Director, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD): German policy of low wages and beggar thy neighbor is root of euro crisis
The Purpose Of Nonviolent Communication & Expressing Observations and Feelings. Expressing Needs and Requests. Emphatically Hearing Others. Questions & Expressing & Receiving Gratitude.
NVC offers practical, concrete skills for manifesting the purpose of creating connections of compassionate giving and receiving based in a consciousness of interdependence and power with others. These skills include:
Differentiating observation from evaluation, being able to carefully observe what is happening free of evaluation, and to specify behaviors and conditions that are affecting us;
Differentiating feeling from thinking, being able to identify and express internal feeling states in a way that does not imply judgment, criticism, or blame/punishment;
Connecting with the universal human needs/values (e.g. sustenance, trust, understanding) in us that are being met or not met in relation to what is happening and how we are feeling; and
Requesting what we would like in a way that clearly and specifically states what we do want (rather than what we don’t want), and that is truly a request and not a demand (i.e. attempting to motivate, however subtly, out of fear, guilt, shame, obligation, etc. rather than out of willingness and compassionate giving).
Dr. Rosenberg talks about how society has suffered under political 'domination structures' that emerged about 8,000 years ago. He reflects on the origins of Nonviolent Communication and describes how the process can be used pragmatically to resolve religious conflict. To illustrate its effectiveness as a diplomatic tool, he describes how he helped restore peace between two warring tribes in Nigeria.
Critical thinking should be at the core of pedagogy, we are victims of all sorts of cognitive flaws generated by fallacious reasoning that makes us so easily manipulable.
Um documentário imperdível sobre o badalado assunto da pirataria nas águas internacionais da Somália (leste da África). Como sempre, a imprensa internacional oculta as motivações e a realidade dos fatos noticiados. Antes disso, trata de criar versões mentirosas e distorcidas sobre um país que vive há anos em pleno "estado de natureza", numa insólita situação hobbesiana, sem governo estabelecido, em guerra civil permanente, fome generalizada, centenas de milhares de refugiados, guerra de raças, etc.
Como se isso não bastasse, a Somália ainda é vítima da pesca ilegal de grandes companhias, mas sobretudo, mais recentemente, serve de depósito de lixo tóxico e nuclear de empresas europeias e asiáticas. Veja tudo isso em 23 minutos deste importante documentário. Ao final, você verá que o alcance geopolítico e econômico do caso somali alcança muitos e importantes interesses das esgotadas economias centrais.
Documentário muito divertido que explora a história da banca, a venda da prosperidade do Canadá, a liquidação total das empresas canadianas e a venda das infra-estruturas públicas por parte dos políticos às empresas multinacionais da oligarquia. Este filme apresenta estes assuntos que afectam todos os Canadianos a partir da perspectiva de jovens preocupados e de uma forma astuta e animada.
Trata-se de uma peça de jornalismo de qualidade que coloca as perguntas difíceis directamente aos principais políticos da actualidade.
O conteúdo informativo presente no documentário torna-se ainda mais importante se considerarmos que o sistema político e económico que vigora no Canadá está hoje disseminado e instituído em praticamente todos os países desenvolvidos do globo. É, por isso, um caso que se pode aplicar em qualquer continente ou nação onde impere o controlo dos bancos e a emissão de dinheiro como dívida.
Andrew Jackson was the last US president to pay off the national debt. He fought the elite bankers and shut down the national bank which resembles our current federal reserve.
"Porque é que a construção da barragem de Foz Tua em Trás-os-Montes deve interessar a um lisboeta ou um algarvio? Porque esta, mais as outras barragens e os parques eólicos vão levar Portugal a ter a eletricidade mais cara do mundo em poucos anos. Uma plataforma de ONGA fez as contas e o Plano Nacional de Barragens vai custar ao Estado 16 mil milhões de euros, entre juros bancários, subsídios e pagamento de obras. Também são números, os de um crescimento insustentável, que justificam a destruição da Linha do Tua"
O mesmo se poderá dizer em relação à Barragem do Baixo Sabor?...
How do we move away from a fossil-fuel based society? David Holmgren, ecological design engineer and co-originator of the term “Permaculture” joins me today to discuss this very question. For all you suburbia nay-sayers out there, this discussion will be especially interesting to you.
Psychologist Tim Kasser discusses how America's culture of consumerism undermines our well-being. When people buy into the ever-present marketing messages that "the good life" is "the goods life," they not only use up Earth's limited resources, but they are less happy and less inclined toward helping others. The animation both lays out the problems of excess materialism and points toward solutions that promise a healthier, more just, and more sustainable life.
"Um documentário que todos os professores do mundo deveriam ver. "Grain of sand" fala sobre a luta dos professores de Oaxaca no México, país governado há mais de 70 anos pelo PRI, famoso pela corrupção e alinhamento aos interesses dos EUA . O filme trata de como a destruição da educação é um projeto articulado a partir de diretrizes internacionais. Há poucos anos, alunos, pais e professores fizeram passeatas contra a privatização das escolas técnicas, exigência do Banco Mundial e FMI. O Governo respondeu fechando-as de imediato. Quando os professores e alunos ocuparam estas escolas, foram presos e torturados em prisões de segurança máxima. Centenas de professores estão mortos ou desaparecidos no país. As políticas implementadas na educação mexicana são as mesmas que muitas vezes vemos travestidas de "modernas" em muitos Estados do Brasil. O filme proporciona excelentes discussões sobre o que representa a educação na sociedade capitalista neoliberal. O baixo nível das escolas para a população não é um produto da incompetência, mas sim da conivência para formar um geração de semi-escravos, de mão-de-obra barata. Nas palavras de Eduardo Galeano, "Este é um sistema que arrebenta tudo o que toca: destrói em pedaços; e que nos ensina que se vive para TER e que se vive para trabalhar, em vez de viver para SER"
(Comentários originais: docverdade)"
UPLOAD PATROCIONADO POR:
www.MDDVTM.org - MOVIMENTO DE DEMOCRACIA DIRECTA VTM
www.NOVACOMUNIDADE.org - O MODELO COOPERATIVO FAMILIAR
"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)
O Projecto Nova Comunidade tem como objectivo implantar numa Comunidade o seguinte conceito:
UMA SOCIEDADE QUE CONSIDERE TODOS OS SERES HUMANOS COMO IGUAIS, QUE FUNCIONE COMO UMA FAMILIA GLOBAL, UTILIZANDO UM MODELO ECONÓMICO COOPERATIVO EM SUBSTITUIÇÃO DO ACTUAL MODELO NOCIVAMENTE COMPETITIVO.
Nesta Apresentação Vídeo está uma explicação sucinta, mas completa, sobre como funciona um Modelo Cooperativo/Familiar, porque ele é absolutamente necessário para evitar a morte prematura de biliões de seres humanos e o que nós podemos fazer na nossa vida para o instituir.
A short clip from our 2005 interview with Richard Manning, author of "Grassland" (1997), "Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization" (2004), and "Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape" (2009).
This is raw footage from the feature length documentary, What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, produced by Sally Erickson and Timothy Scott Bennett. Please visit http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/ to purchase a copy and support the filmmakers. And visit http://bluehagbooks.com/ to learn about Bennett's new novel, All of the Above. Thanks!
The gap between rich and poor in OECD countries has reached its highest level for over 30 years, and governments must act quickly to tackle inequality, according to a new OECD report, "Divided We Stand".
Um documentário sobre publicidade, consumo e infância.
Produtora: Maria Farinha Produções
Direção: Estela Renner
Produção Executiva: Marcos Nisti
Sinopse:
"Por que meu filho sempre me pede um brinquedo novo?
Por que minha filha quer mais uma boneca se ela já tem uma caixa cheia de bonecas?
Por que meu filho acha que precisa de mais um tênis?
Por que eu comprei maquiagem para minha filha se ela só tem cinco anos?
Por que meu filho sofre tanto se ele não tem o último modelo de um celular?
Por que eu não consigo dizer não?
Ele pede, eu compro e mesmo assim meu filho sempre quer mais.
De onde vem este desejo constante de consumo?"
Este documentário reflete sobre estas questões e mostra como no Brasil a criança se tornou a alma do negócio para a publicidade.
A indústria descobriu que é mais fácil convencer uma criança do que um adulto, então, as crianças são bombardeadas por propagandas que estimulam o consumo e que falam diretamente com elas.
O resultado disso é devastador: crianças que, aos cinco anos, já vão à escola totalmente maquiadas e deixaram de brincar de correr por causa de seus saltos altos; que sabem as marcas de todos os celulares mas não sabem o que é uma minhoca; que reconhecem as marcas de todos os salgadinhos mas não sabem os nomes de frutas e legumes.
Num jogo desigual e desumano, os anunciantes ficam com o lucro enquanto as crianças arcam com o prejuízo de sua infância encurtada.
Contundente, ousado e real, este documentário escancara a perplexidade deste cenário, convidando você a refletir sobre seu papel dentro dele e sobre o futuro da infância.
Sinopse
O Brasil é o país do mundo que mais consome agrotóxicos: 5,2 litros/ano por habitante. Muitos desses herbicidas, fungicidas e pesticidas que consumimos estão proibidos em quase todo mundo pelo risco que representam à saúde pública.
O perigo é tanto para os trabalhadores, que manipulam os venenos, quanto para os cidadãos, que consumem os produtos agrícolas. Só quem lucra são as transnacionais que fabricam os agrotóxicos. A idéia do filme é mostrar à população como estamos nos alimentando mal e perigosamente, por conta de um modelo agrário perverso, baseado no agronegócio.
Around the world, citizens have been mobilizing to defend their environment and economic sovereignty from transnational corporations, but there is another threat lurking in the shadows that can ride roughshod over our rights. This is a video of the Network for Justice in Global Investment www.justinvestment.org
"Na realidade, se nos dermos ao trabalho de olhar, vemos que estão a aparecer luzes vermelhas em todo o nosso painel de instrumentos colectivo, que vão desde a extinção de espécies, ao esgotamento dos oceanos, ao esgotamento dos aquíferos, á perda de solo arável, ao esgotamento da energia e por aí adiante. Quando se acende uma luz vermelha no meu painel de instrumentos, paro imediatamente para verificar o que se passa, mas em vez disso, e até aqui, sinto que o mundo está a carregar no acelerador. E na origem destas luzes vermelhas está isto: chegam todos os anos 70 milhões de novas pessoas ao planeta. Isto significa um impressionante aumento de 50% no número de humanos a clamarem por recursos naturais que terão de ser discutidos nos próximos 40 anos. Se formos espertos em relação a isso, sinto que iremos ficar bem, mas se optarmos pelo crescimento, porque é isso que o nosso sistema monetário requer, e porque é essa a posição tradicional dos nossos políticos, então parece-me provável que venhamos a acelerar cada vez mais até embatermos numa parede. A escolha parece ser clara:
ou assumimos mudanças voluntárias já, ou iremos enfrentar mudanças involuntárias mais tarde."
Minutos 168 a 178 do Video "Crash Course" "Curso do Crash".
O primeiro programa questiona se existe realmente uma crise de extinção enfrentada por certas espécies. Alastair Fothergill, o produtor da série documental "Planeta Terra" admite que teve uma experiência agridoce ao fazer a série, pois algumas criaturas foram filmadas sabendo-se à partida que sua existência encontra-se ameaçada. David Attenborough acredita que a conservação do mundo natural é algo que pode unir a Humanidade se as pessoas souberem o suficiente sobre o assunto. O operador de câmara, Martyn Colbeck, conta-nos que todos os dias, durante a sua visita de seis semanas a África, para filmar "Selvas", ele e a sua equipa foram acordados pelo som de disparos. A caça furtiva pode dizimar rapidamente uma população, e David Greer da WWF explica que em 2005, a sua equipa consfiscou 70 armas nesta área, um aumento de 700% desde 1999. Outros animais em risco incluem o ibex-walia, o leopardo-das-neves, o boto e o antílope-saiga. O ataque de um urso polar a uma colónia de morsas em terra em "Mundos de Gelo", foi uma acontecimento raro. São ainda exibidas imagens de um especial da vida selvagem da BBC obtidas há 10 anos que mostram ursos a caçar presas mais pequenas sobre o gelo. Sempre houve extinção de espécies, mas agora, o telespectador é informado de que o ritmo de extinção está a acelerar e irá "atingir proporções bíblicas dentro de algumas décadas". A Humanidade é encorajada a respeitar a biodiversidade: estima-se que se fosse atribuído um valor monetário a tudo aquilo que os ecossistemas do mundo fazem pela Humanidade, o valor ascenderia a cerca de 30 biliões de dólares.
Esta série de três episódios apresenta especialistas a discutir as questões ambientais e de conservação em causa, e questiona quanto do mundo revelado em "Planeta Terra" voltará a ser visto.
Com contribuições de eminentes cientistas, teólogos e conservacionistas, incluindo Jonathan Porritt, E.O. Wilson, Tony Juniper, Sir David Attenborough e o Arcebispo da Cantuária, a série analisa a crise ambiental do planeta e examina quais poderão ser as soluções, caso existam.
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"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)
(Uma reportagem sobre um Banco Cooperativa que não cobra juros nos empréstimos! Gravada na Suécia e na Alemanha em Agosto de 2007.)
Na Suécia existe uma cooperativa com 36 500 membros com um crescimento associativo anual de 5%, onde os seus membros membros emprestam dinheiro uns aos outros sem cobrar quaisquer taxa de juro e que acabou por se tornar num banco, propriedade dos seus associados, um banco que não cobra taxas de juro.
Não se trata de um conto de fadas, esse banco existe, situa-se na Suécia e chama-se JAK Medlemsbank.
Além de ser uma instituição bancária, esta associação é sobretudo um movimento social criado em 1965 e reconhecido oficialmente como banco em 1997. Este sistema financeiro inovador está assim muito próximo da economia real, não necessita de ir buscar dinheiro aos mercados financeiros especulativos, prova que é possível emprestar dinheiro sem juros e que existem soluções para uma sociedade mais justa.
O sistema é relativamente simples, um associado que necessita de um empréstimo, terá, ao mesmo tempo o que o reembolsa mensalmente, de criar uma conta paralela de poupança de igual montante durante o mesmo período do empréstimo. No fim, quando acabar de pagar o empréstimo, poderá levantar a totalidade dessa sua conta paralela de poupança. Durante esse período, o banco vai utilizar essa conta poupança para financiar outros associados. No final o empréstimo não terá sido sujeito a qualquer taxa de juros.
Um exemplo prático:
Um dos sócios, com um depósito nulo no banco, necessita de 14 000 euros para um período de 11 anos. Vai ter de pagar:
15 euros por mês de despesas de funcionamento
106 euro por mês de reembolso do empréstimo
106 euros por mês numa conta poupança obrigatória
No total deverá pagar por mês 15 + 106 + 106 = 227 euros por mês
Ao fim de 11 anos, o empréstimo estará pago e simultâneamente, a sua conta poupança terá 14 000 euros, que poderá levantar ou deixar para a eventualidade de ter de vir a pedir outro empréstimo e nesse caso terá que criar uma conta poupança obrigatória de um montante inferior.
Numa economia como a nossa, baseada nas taxas de juros, o dinheiro é transferido dos mais pobres para os mais ricos, até se concentrar nas mãos de uma minoria. Actualmente a massa total do dinheiro que circula no mundo, é constituída, quase exclusivamente, pelo dinheiro proveniente das dividas e das suas taxas de juros. Este dinheiro especulativo não assenta em qualquer valor real, isto é em bens e serviços.
É o crescimento exponencial dessa massa monetária especulativa que irá acabar por atingir um ponte de rotura e provocará o desmoronamento da economia mundial tal como a conhecemos actualmente.
Esta iniciativa bancária prova que é possível construir uma economia sustentável e mais equitativa.
A Native Spirit Production / 36mins / Mapuche People / Chile/UK
In the Cordillera of the Andes, amidst a chain of volcanic peaks, Mapuche communities are standing up to defend their river - a source of life and spirituality – from yet another crime against nature. Norwegian company SN Power plans to build a hydroelectric power station, taking the water of 9 main rivers, right in the middle of the Williche-Mapuche region, threatening the future of local indigenous communities. The film follows the community of Rupumeika as they struggle to stop this multinational, ultimately trying to annihilate them from their territory in the name of "renewable energy" and “progress”.
This short film is the first part in a series which will follow the situation of communities in the Williche region. This film is a Native Spirit Foundation project, facilitating equipment and audio-visual training to indigenous communities.
“For a long time it hasn’t been us who have spoken about ourselves. So now from our point of view we tell our history, our cosmology; indigenous film and video presents a different perspective one removed from consumerism and the canon of Hollywood cinema” says Freddy Treuquil, indigenous Mapuche and founder of Native Spirit.
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Native Spirit Festival 2010 (UK)
Jornadas Espiritualidad y Sostenibilidad 2010 (GALICIA, SPAIN)
Human Rights International Film Festival 2011 (BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA)
Sami Film Festival 2011 (Norway)
Montreal First Peoples Festival Présence Autochtone 2011
Green Unplugged Festival 2011 (India | USA | Indonesia | New Zealand)
Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2011 (Wairoa, NEW ZEALAND)
Portobello Film Festival 2011 (LONDON, UK)
Como reverso dunha economía sustentada no individualismo e no consumo atolondrado que nos está levando á destrucción do mundo rural, as iniciativas sustentadas na cooperación e na axuda mutua son unha estimulante alternativa.
Fonte: attac.tv/altermedia/2011/12/2468
At the very successful American Awakening event, sponsored by MoveOn.org, in Sequim, WA on 9/27 of this year, Dr. David Korten gave a rousing keynote address. David is the Board Chair of Yes! Magazine and the author of several books, including "Agenda for a New Economy" and "The Post-Corporate World.
Hedges urges the poor to deal effectively with the right wing's grip on power, counter their fascistic racial targeting of Islam and other scapegoats like immigrants, gays, feminists, and lefties, by getting the public to see it's a deliberate distraction to prevent our realizing the need to replace obsolete economic institutions, a corrupt media, and a criminal government lacking in legitimacy. Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary brought Chris Hedges to their Poverty Scholars Strategic Dialogues on Media and Religion and he delivered a monumental address. Poverty Initiative convened 90 Poverty Scholars--low-income organizers, faith leaders and media makers from over 41 organizations. Check out http://www.povertyinitiative.org/ and help make change happen!
NYC, April 10, 2010. Camera and audio by Joe Friendly
Film by Eugene Taylor and Abraham Krikorian (Conscience Films - non-profit) of Chris Hedges' talk at Hofstra University on October 3, 2011 - International Day Day of Non-Violence. Sponsored by Hofstra University's Departments of Economics, History and Sociology and The Center for Civic Engagement and the Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives.
Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity examines the ideological roots of the "austerity" agenda and proposes revolutionary paths out of the current crisis. The film features original interviews with Chris Hedges, Derrick Jensen, Michael Hardt, Peter Gelderloos, Leo Panitch, David McNally, Richard J.F. Day, Imre Szeman, Wayne Price, and many more!
The 2008 "financial crisis" in the United States was a systemic fraud in which the wealthy finance capitalists stole trillions of public dollars. No one was jailed for this crime, the largest theft of public money in history.
Instead, the rich forced working people across the globe to pay for their "crisis" through punitive "austerity" programs that gutted public services and repealed workers' rights.
Austerity was named "Word of the Year" for 2010.
This documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.
Special attention is devoted to the crisis in Greece, the 2010 G20 Summit protest in Toronto, Canada, and the remarkable surge of solidarity in Madison, Wisconsin.
Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems -- and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start making better mistakes.
Surviving Progress presents the story of human advancement as awe-inspiring and double-edged. It reveals the grave risk of running the 21st century's software — our knowhow — on the ancient hardware of our primate brain which hasn't been upgraded in 50,000 years. With rich imagery and an immersive soundtrack, filmmakers Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks launch us on journey to contemplate our evolution from cave-dwellers to space explorers.
Français:
Inspiré du best-seller A Short History of Progress de Ronald Wright, ce documentaire cinématographique pose un diagnostic subversif sur le progrès de l'humanité et les pièges qu'il apporte. Le réalisateur Mathieu Roy et co-réalisateur Harold Crooks, par le biais de scènes mémorables et le regard lucide de grandes personnalités tels que David Suzuki, Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood et Stephen Hawking, sondent la nature fondamentale et dérangeante de ce qui est qualifié de progrès.
Umair Haque is a London-based consultant, economist, and author of The New Capitalist Manifesto. He is also a contributor (columnist and blogger) to Harvard Business Review, where he focuses on capitalism and creating prosperity in the 21st century. In this talk prepared for TEDxOxbridge 2011, Umair discusses the "meaningful" economy from the end of the economic paradigm of opulence.
1. Occupy movement under attack
2. Waking up to the role of the police
3. Bloomberg's real message
4. Anonymous strikes at the 1%
5. McGill students fight back
6. George Wright still free
7. Mc Sole
8. Occupy the Machine
Does the ailing world economy get you down? ContagionEx might be for you! Take a look at economic austerity and saving the world in a whole new light. A Mark Fiore political animation.
www.tackletaxhavens.com is a global campaign designed to raise public awareness of tax havens: what they are, the damage they do and how we can tackle them together.
Taxes are the most efficient and sustainable means of supporting vital public services like education, healthcare, a legal framework, police force, public transport networks, welfare and much, much more.
But the wealthy can escape their responsibilities to the societies on which they and their wealth depend - by hiding their money in tax havens.
O economista João Pedro Martins publicou recentemente o livro “Suite 605: A história secreta de centenas de empresas que cabem numa sala de 100 m2”, que está relacionado com o paraíso fiscal da Madeira.
Nesta entrevista conduzida pelo jornalista Ricardo Alexandre, João Pedro Martins explica que em causa estão empresas fictícias que só estão na Madeira para que as multinacionais e alguns empresários portugueses fujam aos impostos de forma legal.
“O que está a acontecer em toda a Zona Franca da Madeira é uma autêntica batota fiscal para que quem tem dinheiro não pague impostos em Portugal”, sublinha João Pedro Martins na sequência da investigação que desenvolveu ao longo do último ano. O economista assegura que há “um ninho de corrupção na Madeira” e um “viveiro do crime organizado”, defendendo que é preciso uma investigação judicial à situação.
A história secreta de centenas de empresas que cabem numa sala de 100 m2
SUITE 605 é a maior investigação realizada sobre a Zona Franca da Madeira. O autor de Revelações regressa para nos oferecer um cocktail explosivo que conta a história secreta de centenas de empresas que cabem numa sala de 100m2.
TV Senado (05/09/2011) - O mundo precisa reduzir as taxas de crescimento para proteger o Meio Ambiente. Essa é a opinião de especialistas em uma audiência pública da Subcomissão Permanente de Acompanhamento da Rio+20
Portugal prepara-se para perder o último troço de vida selvagem. Depois de milhões de anos a traçar o percurso até ao Douro, o rio Sabor, em Trás-os-Montes, fica refém da estratégia energética do pais. A construção da Barragem do Baixo Sabor (em alternativa ao Baixo Côa) vai inundar milhares de espécies, muitas delas protegidas. A albufeira vai atingir quatro municípios e guardar água suficiente para encher mais de 600 estádios de futebol. Em 2013 nada será como antes e os 40 kms da albufeira a ser criada, e amparada por um muro com mais de 120 metros, apaga as memórias de uma região ligada à terra que a sustentou durante muitas décadas. A nível natural há espécies endémicas que não poderão ser recuperadas e tudo aponta para que o espelho de água que aí vem não poderá ter aproveitamento turístico. A nível energético passa a ser possível retirar água do Rio Douro e guardá-la a montante no Sabor para ser usada sempre que a pressão na rede eléctrica justificar. O rio vai muitas vezes correr ao contrario, mas à mercê do que a EDP entende ser um armazenamento estratégico de água. Durante mais de um ano todos os passos deste processo foram registados.
Professor John Cacioppo, author of the bestselling book Loneliness and co-founder of the study of 'social neuroscience' outlines the vital importance of altruistic behaviour, social connection, and inclusive communities.
John Cacioppo, one of the founders of social neuroscience, presented his pioneering research on the ways in which isolation or a sense of rejection deeply impacts both mental and physical wellbeing.
Loneliness disrupts not only thinking ability, will power and perseverance but also key cellular processes within the human body, potentially leading to high blood pressure, decline in immune response, and dramatic increase in the corrosive effects of stress. Using sophisticated tools, including fMRI, Cacioppo has documented how social isolation, distinguished from physical isolation, profoundly affects our body and behavior, suggesting that chronic loneliness could be considered as dangerous to health as risk factors such as smoking.
Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago, the director of the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, and the director of the Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago.
Este es el segundo encuentro de mujeres llevado en Cali este 7 de agosto de 2011, este encuentro de mujeres se realizo con comunidades indígenas, campesinas y rurales de todo el suroccidente. Video de DHNomadesc1 colgado el 11/11/2011 en youtube
Si quieres conocer videos similares puedes acceder al canal de Defensa de Territorios de Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/162059) o a la página web del proyecto: defensaterritorios.org, dónde en el menú multimedia puedes acceder a documentales, entrevistas, filmación de conferencias.
La página web de Defensa de territorios forma parte del trabajo que lleva adelante la Asociación Entrepueblos (web: epueblos.pangea.org/)
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Summary: Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? If civilization is destroying us and the earth, do we need to bring down civilization?
Recorded by: Maria Gilardin TUC Radio
Derrick Jensen wrote in his early book: "Listening to the Land": "We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity."
And he follows that with a question: "Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? What will it take for us to stop the horrors that characterize our way of being? My work and life revolve around these questions."
When I recorded him in the Oakland, California warehouse of AK Press, he asked that question in a much more pointed way: If civilization is destroying us and the earth, do we need to bring down civilization?
Les Mutins de Pangée filment le direct de l’émission de radio "Là-bas si j’y suis" sur le stand de France Inter. Daniel Mermet invite l’économiste Frédéric Lordon.
Final Project of my Masters´s Degree in Wildlife Documentary Production from the University of Salford.
Film marked with a distinction. Filmed in Portugal during May/June 2011. A voyage by the Mondego river´s wildlife from the mountains to the sea.
Synopsis
A river acclaimed by poets and songwriters, closely entwined in the History of Portugal. As its waters merge with the sea, a small stream, hidden in the high mountains of Serra da Estrela, continues to ensure the Mondego breathes life into its great variety of habitats and wildlife.
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Asch, S.E. (1951). Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgment. In H. Guetzkow (ed.) Groups, leadership and men. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Press.
Asch, S.E. (1955). Opinions and social pressure. Scientific American, 193(5), pp.31-35.
Berns, G.S., Chappelow, J., Zink, C.F., Pagnoni, G., Martin-Skurski, M.E., and Richards, J. (2005) 'Neurobiological Correlates of Social Conformity and Independence During Mental Rotation' Biological Psychiatry, 58(3), pp.245-253.
Weaver, K., Garcia, S.M., Schwarz, N., & Miller, D.T. (2007) Inferring the popularity of an opinion from its familiarity: A repetitive voice can sound like a chorus. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(5), 821-833.
Grahame Russell of Rights Action joins us for a 30 minute interview about the health, environmental and other heinous human rights violations caused by Canadian mining companies in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador -- and about the impunity with which they operate.
While our lying politicians and media tell us we are fighting for democracy in Libya and Afghanistan,
we find out that really, Canadian Corporations are terrorists.
This program is a shocking eye-opener.
Entitled "The Brain on Trial: Neuroscience and the Law," the symposium discussed how advances in neuroscience pose serious challenges for the judicial system. Judges are being asked to admit as evidence the results of neuroimaging as a basis for everything from assessing the competency of a defendant to stand trial, to determine whether someone is being truthful, to judging criminal responsibility. The reliability of eyewitness testimony, the most common cause of erroneous convictions, is being questioned. Even the Supreme Court has cited research on the brain in decisions on the death penalty for the mentally retarded and persons under 18.
"Make You remember", performed by Gabrielle Louise (www.gabriellelouise.com) in concert at the Institute of Musical Traditions (www.imtfolk.org), Airshow Mastering, Takoma Park, MD, USA on August 14, 2011.
Gabrielle Louise is a nationally touring troubadour noted for her poignant lyrics (a two-time John Lennon Songwriting Contest finalist, winner of the Jack Maher Songwriting Award) and lush voice. Gabrielle Louise's music is anchored deeply in folk, but undeniably drawn to rich harmonies and melodic adventurism. Her sound has the earthy feel of early Joni Mitchell while also veering into the spirited delivery of fellow genre-hopping artist Martin Sexton. Unafraid to take a random musical escapade in the name of inspiration, Gabrielle is at one moment folkie and ethereal, the next moment a smoky jazz chanteuse. Recently, she's fallen very much in love with Argentine Tango, and is committing time to studying to play and sing tango standards.
Resumen de la ideología y propuestas del movimiento por el decrecimiento de la mano de Paul Ariès, entrevistado en un acto de apoyo a una candidatura en marzo de 2011.
David Eagleman: Will We Ever Understand the Brain?swissnex San Francisco - California Academy of SciencesAs neuroscientists are learning more and more about our body's hidden frontier, we have gained fleeting insights into our own intuition, habits and seemingly unexplainable preferences. Can we solve those mysteries by creating a complete computer model of our brain? Or, is the brain an unsolvable puzzle? Two leading neuroscientists discuss these question and more as we look into the neurology of the brain.
Technocrats have been installed to lead Rome and Athens, but what do markets think? Italian bond yields are on the rise again, Spanish bond yields are on the rise. So who really rules: Politicians or markets? As billionaire investor Warren Buffet says, "markets are stronger than anything." We also hear from economist Nouriel Roubini on a possible eurozone breakup. Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama pushes for a trade deal with nine Asia Pacific nations at the APEC summit in Honolulu. But wasn't it just a month ago the US and China were on the brink of a trade war? We ask, with the global economy or at least Western economies possibly headed towards a lost decade, are we going to see not more trade deals, but trade wars? Plus, Obama and other world leaders get a protester serenade inside APEC.
It's Arundhati Roy's first and so far only book of fiction and it took the literary world by storm, winning the Booker Prize in 1997.
It's a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who must be loved, and how, and how much". The book is a description of how the small things in life affect people's behaviour and their lives, and with a love affair between characters of different backgrounds, shows how cruel the caste system could be.
Arundhati Roy talks about why she's never written fiction since, and how she's not ruling out a return to the genre. She describes how her training as an architect was useful in the planning of this multi-layered story, with its complex time frames which owe a debt to James Joyce's Ulysses.
Economist Richard Douthwaite explains that our current economic system relies on debt for money supply. This means that our economic model requires constant economic growth. He goes on to imagine what happen in a sustainable economic system.
Eduardo Galeano: "El mundo se divide en indignos e indignados"
The Crime of Ecocide
http://www.pollyhiggins.com/
"... move away from property laws to trusteeship laws, so rather than I own, to I owe. I owe a duty of care to this planet."
12-year old Victoria Grant explains why Canada (her homeland) and most of the world, is in debt.
"How the Media Frames Political Issues" by Scott London
In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]
McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15] http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html
