The End of growth-Richard Heinberg

TransitionTownTotnes

Richard Heinberg, author of "The Party's Over" and leading peak oil educator, talk about the future of our 'growth' society.

Naomi Klein - The Paradox of Crisis

http://www.transitiontowntotnes.org/

Looking at the various crises going on around the world, what are the challenges ahead and the opportunities for us as a community? Can we meet these challenges skillfully? World-renowned activist Naomi Klein, author of 'No Logo' and 'The Shock Doctrine', on a rare visit to Totnes, hosts an evening of discussion and participation.

Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans

http://www.ted.com

With never-before-seen video, primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing -- solo, with friends, even as a prelude to sex. Indeed, play appears to be the bonobos' key to problem-solving and avoiding conflict. If it works for our close cousins, why not for us?

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 6 (part 1 of 3) - Brightening the Future

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 6 (part 2 of 3) - Brightening the Future


Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 6 (part 3 of 3) - Brightening the Future


Lesson 6 - Introduces the concept of the monetary vortex, how it's driven by debt, how it controls everything in our system, including inflation and deflation. It also covers the role derivatives play and addresses how sovereign money breaks the power of the vortex.

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 5 (part 1 of 2) - The Emerging Global Empire

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 5 (part 2 of 2) - The Emerging Global Empire


Lesson 5 explains the strategic global transition we're currently living through. It provides the correct strategic perspective, thereby replacing false ones like the left vs. right paradigm, to help interpret the overwhelming flow of information we get from the media.

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 4 (part 4 of 4) - The Culture of Empire

(link to Lesson 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCxjqPgHgpA)

Lesson 4 (part 4) - Part 4 focuses on the rise of narcissism, increasing pathology and oppression, and how the financial empire eventually replaces government

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 4 (part 3 of 4) - The Culture of Empire

(link to part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irmcAecUJLM&NR=1)

Lesson 4 (part 3) - Part 3 focuses on the issue of velocity. The velocity of money is a standard economic concept, but economists ignore the issue of human velocity caused by the system, which results in the loss of rest, joy, delight, and deeper issues

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 4 (part 2 of 4) - The Culture of Empire

(link to part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHF5BX0sv_4)

Lesson 4 (part 2) - Part 2 focuses exclusively on the issue of scale. As the debt-based empire grows, the scale of our system grows causing all sorts of problems related to the loss of meaning, community, freedom, and agency.

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 4 (part 1 of 4) - The Culture of Empire

(link to lesson 4 part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ixuhwwsFc)

Lesson 4 (part 1) - The Culture of Empire moves into a deeper dialogue about the empire system we're caught in. Part 1 addresses our wealth illusion, freedom illusion, exponential growth, inflation/deflation, and bankruptcies

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 3 - Revisiting Civics 101 - Ownership

(link to Lesson 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIsheDSCBK0)

Lesson 3 - Revisiting Civics 101 describes how the media projects a false picture in terms of who controls the US. This lesson illustrates the real power structure, which is modeled after the corporate governance system. It typically uses Ivy Leaguers to fill its ranks and it exercises ownership rights over the country to some degree.

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 2 - Revisiting Economics 101 - Debt

(link to lesson 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2VDC8UQ3c8)

Lesson 2 - Revisiting Economics 101 - Debt: Imperial Power and Control discusses the power of debt-based money, emboded in the bond market, and its ability to exert total top-down power and control over the empire. You will learn how our system is not a free market and how neoclassical economics misses so many key points.

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 1 - Revisiting American History - Financial Empire

(link to lesson 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGTBkNJ8ZWI)

Lesson 1 - Revisiting American History, documents the conversion of the US into a monolithic financial empire as the Federal Reserve Act created a monopolized cartel of private interests, "Wall Street," that controls all money in the system. This killed Jeffersonian ideals and allowed vertical Hamiltonian forces to have free reign to consolidate power and wealth. It explains how this is an empire system where the top Wall Street banks are analogous to feudal lords and multi-national corporations are their feudal knights out conquering territories. It rewrites American History books.

Keiser Report: Mad Mob vs Midwest Mubaraks (E130)

http://maxkeiser.com/

This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on the rathole to the Walker palace and a secret silver investor. In the second half of the show, Max talks to media historian and critical theorist, Michael Betancourt, about agnotologic capitalism and the aura of the digital.

Decentralized global rebellion against neoliberal economic policies

Decentralized global rebellion against neoliberal economic policies - Part 2

http://www.presstv.com/Program/169496.html

In this edition of Press TV's on the edge with Max Keiser, Max discusses the link between the worker's struggle in Wisconsin and the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia with the journalist and blogger, David DeGraw. DeGraw believes what we are seeing in Wisconsin, Egypt, Tunisia and all over the world is a decentralized global rebellion against neo-liberal global economic policies. He believes the Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, the IMF and the World Bank are the constituents of this destructive force.

The End of growth - Richard Heinberg

TransitionTownTotnes

Richard Heinberg, author of "The Party's Over" and leading peak oil educator, talk about the future of our 'growth' society.

Monkey cooperation and fairness

A pair of capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) show very compelling signs of cooperation and a sense of fairness, by working together to solve a problem using tools, and then sharing the reward.

They also seem to understand fairness: when unequal rewards are given to one monkey and not another, the monkey receiving the lesser treat would rather go hungry than accept anything less than an equal reward.

The token exchange from the latter half of the video is interesting in and of itself; I'm sure it took a lot of training. There is another example of its usage by the same experimenter here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=aAFQ5kUHPkY

From the BBC documentary "Capuchins: The Monkey Puzzle", narrated by the ever brilliant Sir David Attenborough.

More Information:
http://www.bucknell.edu/x30370.xml
http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/articles.html

Paul Ariès: Quelle Société voulons-nous?

Dimension anthropologique de l'objection de croissance, capitalisme et socialisme existentiel ;
Partage, don et gratuité.

1. Le travail écart irréductible entre le prescrit et le réel

Christophe Dejours psychodynamicien du travail (Souffrance en France)

Paul Ariès - Mal au travail

RoroLeVagabond

Los ojos cerrados de América Latina

Lista de Reprodução - 8 Vídeos 
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8C7678D2054D1E71

Realizado por Miguel Mirra con la colaboración de realizadores de todo el continente, LOS OJOS CERRADOS DE AMERICA LATINA aborda la cuestión de la minería a cielo abierto, de la soja, los monocultivos y la depredación de suelos y bosques, de las represas, la devastación ictícola y la producción de pasta de celulosa poniendo en evidencia la estrecha relación entre el saqueo de los recursos naturales, la contaminación del ambiente y el modelo de explotación que las multinacionales aplican en América Latina.

Pero LOS OJOS CERRADOS DE AMERICA LATINA es también, frente a la complicidad o la inacción de los gobiernos nacionales, un muestrario de las luchas populares de resistencia frente a ese saqueo, frente a la contaminación, el desplazamiento forzado de las poblaciones, la destrucción de las producciones regionales y de las fuentes de trabajo de millones de latinoamericanos.

Con entrevistas a Jorge Rulli, Pablo Begel, Ana Esther Ceceña, Fernando Buen Abad, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel y asambleístas y referentes de los movimientos sociales de América Latina contra el saqueo y la contaminación.

Fue realizada con el aporte de documentalistas de casi todo el continente, entre otros:

Jill Irena Freiberg y Salvador Díaz, en México
Natalia Zuloaga Ospina, en Guatemala
Ainoa Rodríguez, en Colombia
Ernesto Cabellos, en Perú
Farmín Aio, en Paraguay
Silvana Jarmoluk, Patricio Schwanek, Alejandro Fernández Moujan y Claudio Lanús, en Argentina

Vandana Shiva: Earth Democracy at PCC

A talk by Dr. Vandana Shiva at Portland Community College in Portland, Oregon, USA on February 24th, 2011.

http://www.pcc.edu/library/news/vandana_shiva.html
http://www.pcc.edu/resources/academic/internationalization/

Occupation 101 | Full Documentary

http://www.occupation101.com/

A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.

The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets.

The film covers a wide range of topics -- which include -- the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy.

Featured Interviews
Occupation 101 features a leading list of some of the most credible Middle East scholars, historians, peace activists, journalists, and humanitarian workers.

Dr. Albert Aghazarian
Director of Public Relations at Bier Ziet University. He is the most prominent Palestinian Armenian figure -- Headed press centre during Madrid conference.

Ambassador James Akins
Former (1963-1965) Attache at the US Embassy in Baghdad; Former (1973-1975) US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Rabbi Arik Ascherman
Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights - an organization of Israeli rabbis committed to defending the human rights of all people in Israel and in the territories under Israeli control.

Dr. William Baker
Former Professor of Ancient History and Biblical studies. Founder of Christians and Muslims for Peace.

Bishop Allen Bartlett, Jr.
Assisting Bishop (2001-2004) of the Diocese of Washington. The Episcopal Diocese of Washington comprises 93 Episcopal congregations in the District of Columbia and the Maryland counties of Montgomery, Prince George's, Charles and Saint Mary's.

Phyllis Bennis
Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. An author, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues. Helped found and co-chairs the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation.

Peter Boukaert
Director of Emergencies at Human Rights Watch -- the largest human rights organization based in the United States. He has conducted extensive fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in the West Bank (Israeli Occupied Territory).

Sharon Burke
Former Advocacy Director with Amnesty International -- a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over 1.8 million members worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave human rights abuses worldwide.

Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An Author and Analyst of Global Affairs including, US foreign Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Author of "The fateful triangle: the United States, Israel, and the Palestinians."

Human Resources - Social Engineering in the 20th Century - FULL

http://metanoia-films.org/humanresources.php

Mind blowing documentary about the History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation made by corporations and government institutions such as CIA and the military using behaviorism theories, mind control techniques, dumbing down strategies and ideological propaganda to find ways of controlling people throughout the 20th century. Human Resources explores the rise of mechanistic philosophy and the exploitation of human beings under modern hierarchical systems.

Topics Include; behaviorism, scientific management, work-place democracy, schooling, frustration-aggression hypothesis and human experimentation.

Featuring interviews with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Rebecca Lemov, Christopher Simpson, George Ritzer, Morris Berman, John Taylor Gatto, Alfie Kohn and others.

Goldberg Variations - Aria, v 1 to 4 - Keith Jarrett/Monet

High resolution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGpN4FxIk_M&fmt=18
Goldberg Variations
J S Bach
- Aria , Variation 1 to 4 -
Keith Jarrrett - harpsichord
Claude Monet ( 1840-1926 )- pictures

Keith Jarrett is known as a jazz musician. But he has recorded several J S Bach´s keyboard works, including the French Suites, the Goldberg Variations, Das wohltemperirte Clavier ( vol 1 and 2 ).

Psywar - The Real Battlefield is in the mind

http://metanoia-films.org/psywar.php
http://metanoia-films.org/humanresources.php

"A deep, richly illustrated study of the nature and history of propaganda, featuring some of the world's most insightful critics".
- Mark Achbar; Film director; 'Manufacturing Consent', 'The Corporation'

"Psywar exposes the propaganda system, providing crucial background and insight into the control of information and thought."
- Kim Petersen, Dissident Voice

"An Important work"

- Russ Baker, Journalist, Author "Family of Secrets"

"Must See"

- Tom Feeley, Information Clearing House

"Encyclopedic and riveting"
- Stephen Marshall, Guerrilla News Network

"Truly excellent"
- William Blum, journalist, Author 'Killing Hope'

"A Lucid and insightful study of the manipulation of public consciousness...Take heed."

- Michael Yates, Associate Editor, Monthly Review
"If it is your desire to understand how we are manipulated into believing the things we do -- watch this film. Every American should see it...for the sake of our future."
- Timothy Gatto, fmr Chairman, Liberal Party of America

Sources:

Beder, Sharon -- Consumerism: an Historical Perspective
Chomsky, Noam -- What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Darwinia -- WWI Propaganda
Ewen, Stuart -- Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
Lazere, Donald -- American media and mass culture
Lutins, Allen -- An Eclectic list of Events in US Labor History
Millies, Stephen -- The Ludlow Massacre and the Birth of Company Unions
Parenti, Michael -- Super-Patriotism
Simpson, Christopher -- The Science of Coercion
Smith, Sharon -- Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
Snow, Nancy -- Propagnda, Inc., Selling America's Culture to the World
Stauber, John and Rampton, Sheldon -- Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq ; Toxic Sludge is Good For You
Tye, Larry -- The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of PR

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis by Bill Moyers

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3505348655137118430

This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive Branch of the United States Government to carry out operations which are clearly contrary to the wishes and values of the American people. The ability to exercise this power with impunity is facilitated by the National Security Act of 1947. The thrust of the exposé is the Iran-Contra arms and drug-running operations which flooded the streets of our nation with crack cocaine. The significance of the documentary is probably greater today in 2007 than it was when it was made. We now have a situation in which these same forces have committed the most egregious terrorist attack on US soil and have declared a fraudulent so-called "War on Terror". The ruling regime in the US who have conducted the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, are now banging the war drum against Iran. We have the PATRIOT act which has stripped us of many of our basic civil rights justified by the terror of 9/11 which is their own doing.

Year of Water Speaker - Peter Gleick

Title: Year of Water Speaker
Speaker: Peter Gleick
Date: 2/6/11
Location: Strosacker Auditorium, Case Western Reserve University Campus, Cleveland, Ohio

Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate?

http://fora.tv/partner/California_Academy_of_Sciences

Dr. Robert Sapolsky discusses his work as professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and as a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research at the National Museum of Kenya. His enviable gift for storytelling led the New York Times to print, "If you crossed Jane Goodall with a borscht-belt comedian, she might have written a book like A Primate's Memoir." Dr. Sapolsky's account of his early years as a field biologist. He is sure to dazzle and delight with tales of what it means to be human.

Godless Tribe De-converts Christian (interview)

Videos in this playlist (4) http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=633610402D2FE463

Daniel Everett on radio. Author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realization that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers startlingly original perceptions of the world.

I went to the Pirahãs when I was twenty- six years old. Now I am old enough to receive senior discounts. I gave them my youth. I have contracted malaria many times. I remember several occasions on which the Pirahãs or others threatened my life. I have carried more heavy boxes, bags, and barrels on my back through the jungle than I care to remember. But my grandchildren all know the Pirahãs. My children are who they are in part because of the Pirahãs. And I can look at some of those old men (old like me) who once threatened to kill me and recognize some of the dearest friends I have ever had—men who would now risk their lives for me.

A fantastic 90 Minute talk on FORA TV:
http://fora.tv/2009/03/20/Daniel_Everett_Endangered_Languages_and_Lost_Knowledge

The Pirahã Indians of the Amazon are a very peculiar people. They number fewer than 400 and have no myths, rituals or history. Their language is unrelated to any other living tongue. It can be whistled, sung, hummed or spoken. It has no words for numbers, colours, left or right, brother or sister.

The Pirahã never sleep for more than a couple of hours and talk through much of the night. They live as hunter-gatherers in villages along 50 miles of the Maici River deep in the Amazon forest. They have plenty of contact with river traders and other outsiders but display no inclination to change their ways.

"Pirahãs laugh about everything. They laugh at their own misfortune: when someone's hut blows over in a rainstorm, the occupants laugh more loudly than anyone. They laugh when they catch a lot of fish. They laugh when they catch no fish. They laugh when they're full and they laugh when they're hungry... This pervasive happiness is hard to explain, though I believe that the Pirahãs are so confident and secure in their ability to handle anything that their environment throws at them that they can enjoy whatever comes their way. This is not at all because their lives are easy, but because they are good at what they do."

The Pirahã have no word meaning "Thank you." They show gratitude by returning the favor or giving a gift. They do not say "I'm sorry" or "you're welcome" or "hello." Instead of bidding someone goodnight, they say, "Don't sleep, there are snakes" — a gentle reminder that wild beasts lurk in the nearby jungle ready to slither, scurry or pounce at the first hint of an unsuspecting, defenseless snore. "Goodnight," is an empty phrase, argues Everett. At least the Pirahã saying serves a purpose.

Daniel Everett - Don't sleep, there are snakes

Daniel Everett, author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, ex missionary, tells of how he lost his faith due to his interaction with the Pirahãs tribe in the Amazon.

"The Pirahãs have shown me that there is dignity and deep satisfaction in facing life and death without the comforts of heaven or the fear of hell, and of sailing towards the great abyss with a smile.

And they have shown me that for years I held many of my beliefs without warrant. I have learned these things from the Pirahãs, and I will be grateful to them for as long as I live."

Les paradis fiscaux

http://surfacelibre.blogspot.com/

The Facts on Fracking by Dr. Anthony Ingraffea

http://www.gdacoalition.org

Presented by Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, hosted by the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition at Luzerne County Community College in Nanticoke, PA.

Fracking Hell: The Untold Story

Watch more Earth Focus at http://www.linktv.org/earthfocus

An original investigative report by Earth Focus and UK's Ecologist Film Unit looks at the risks of natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. From toxic chemicals in drinking water to unregulated interstate dumping of potentially radioactive waste that experts fear can contaminate water supplies in major population centers including New York City, are the health consequences worth the economic gains?

Marcellus Shale contains enough natural gas to supply all US gas needs for 14 years. But as gas drilling takes place, using a process called hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," toxic chemicals and methane gas seep into drinking water. Now experts fear that unacceptable levels of radioactive Radium 226 in gas development waste.

Fracking chemicals are linked to bone, liver and breast cancers, gastrointestinal, circulatory, respiratory, developmental as well as brain and nervous system disorders. Such chemicals are present in frack waste and may find their way into drinking water and air.

Waste from Pennsylvania gas wells -- waste that may also contain unacceptable levels of radium -- is routinely dumped across state lines into landfills in New York, Ohio and West Virginia. New York does not require testing waste for radioactivity prior to dumping or treatment. So drill cuttings from Pennsylvania have been dumped in New York's Chemung and other counties and liquid waste is shipped to treatment plants in Auburn and Watertown New York. How radioactive is this waste? Experts are calling are for testing to find out.
New York State may have been the first state in the nation to put a temporary hold on fracking pending a safety review, but it allows other states to dump toxic frack waste within its boundaries.

With a gas production boom underway in the Marcellus Shale and plans for some 400,000 wells in the coming decades, the cumulative impact of dumping potential lethal waste without adequate oversight is a catastrophe waiting to happen. And now U.S. companies are exporting fracking to Europe.

GasLand 6

1ère partie : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgm3pb_gasland-1_lifestyle

http://surfacelibre.blogspot.com/

GasLand 5

Suite : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgm432_gasland-6_lifestyle

http://surfacelibre.blogspot.com/

GasLand 4

Suite : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgm42w_gasland-5_lifestyle

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GasLand 3

Suite : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgnsj9_gasland-4_lifestyle

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Tzigane by Maurice Ravel / Klavier Trio Amsterdam

On May 1, 2009, I had the privilege of intimately filming a concert of the Klavier Trio Amsterdam during their tour of Washington, D.C. The concert was a production of The Southwest Chamber Players and David Ehrlich/artistic director. The performance was at Saint Augustine's Episcopal Church in southwest Washington.

I filmed the performance using two HD cameras, however the B-roll was poorly placed and thus those cutaway shots contain poor lighting conditions/high grain. Overall the lighting was unconventional but rather atmospheric all the same. Audio came through two cardioid condenser boom microphones direct into the camera.

This virtuosic performance of Tzigane by Maurice Ravel was one among the five works on the program ranging from Bach to Beethoven to Dvorak to Brahms.