David Graeber talks about the history of debt and its impact in the world over thousands of years. During this event from Melville House Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York, Professor Graeber is in discussion with Left Business Observer editor Doug Henwood, author of "Wall Street" and "After the New Economy"
David Graeber teaches anthropology at University of London's Goldsmiths College. He is the author of "Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value," "Lost People," and "Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire."
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Renaissance 2.0 assumes you have a basic understanding of the monetary system and the problem of exponential growth.
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.
Lesson 2 Revisiting Economics 101 - Debt: Discusses the power of debt-based money, embodied in the bond market, and its ability to exert total top-down power and control over the empire. Our system is not a free market.
Lesson 3 Revisiting Civics 101 - Ownership: 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.
Lesson 4.1 Part 1 - The Culture of Empire: Addresses our wealth illusion, freedom illusion, exponential growth, inflation/deflation, and bankruptcies.
Lesson 4.2 Part 2 - The Culture of Empire: Focuses 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.
Lesson 4.3 Part 3 - The Culture of Empire: 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
Lesson 4.4 Part 4 - The Culture of Empire: Focuses on the rise of narcissism, increasing pathology and oppression, and how the financial empire eventually replaces government
Lesson 5.1 Part 1 - The Emerging Global Empire: Explains the strategic global transition we're in as the financial institutions take us through a global restructuring, similar to how the individual states were restructured into the financial empire in lesson 1.
Lesson 5.2 Part 2 - The Emerging Global Empire: More on the restructuring process and the single, integrated, corporate government the elite is trying to create.
Lesson 6.1 Part 1 - Brightening the Future: Discusses the powerful monetary vortex that governs our lives day to day; explains the truth about inflation, leverage, and derivatives; and introduces the solution to the vortex.
Lesson 6.2 Part 2 - Brightening the Future: Discusses how the left vs. right political framework is not the place to find solutions to the vortex because it only fuels the vortex further. Explains what fascism really is.
Lesson 6.3 Part 3 - Brightening the Future: Discusses how to fix the problem and help launch the next Enlightenment to ensure humanity moves into Renaissance 2.0 vs. the next Dark Ages.
BERND MUSTARD, born in 1944, taught from 1973 to March 2009 in Berlin as a professor of economics at the University of Economics (FHW). Since April 2009 he is still working freelance - including lectures, seminars, workshops, publications and support pioneering projects. One focus of his work lies in the commonly understood mediation of economic and social contexts. His special interest is a deeper understanding of living processes and their relationship to mainstream science, economics, technology and ethics.
His cross-disciplinary events ("Ways out of the ecological crisis," "Introduction to the work of Wilhelm Reich", "life energy research", "revival of nature", "Principles of a natural economic order" and "Man - Nature - Company") are again a broad public interest. Between the flow of money in an economy and social order to the flow of vital energy in the body of a man looks amazing Bernd Senf functional identities: The blocking of the flow process makes the organism sick and destructive. http://www.berndsenf.de/
La gran recesión no ha sido culpa del libre mercado. Por contra, su causa debe buscarse en la profunda intervención del estado y los bancos centrales en la economía, provocando, de manera fraudulenta, ciclos recurrentes de expansión artificial, burbuja y recesión económica que terminan pagando todos los ciudadanos.
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synopsis:
Free markets are not to be blamed for the Great Recession. On the contrary, its origins rest upon the deep government and central bank intervention in the economy. Through fraudulent mechanisms, this causes recurrent boom and bust cycles: bad policies create phases of irrational exuberance, which are then followed by economic recessions, a result that every citizen ends up suffering from.
While the "national debt" has been the concern du jour of many economists, commentators and politicians, little attention is ever paid to the historical significance of debt.
For thousands of years, the struggle between rich and poor has largely taken the form of conflicts between creditors and debtors—of arguments about the rights and wrongs of interest payments, debt peonage, amnesty, repossession, restitution, the sequestering of sheep, the seizing of vineyards, and the selling of debtors' children into slavery. By the same token, for the past five thousand years, popular insurrections have begun the same way: with the ritual destruction of debt records—tablets, papyri, ledgers; whatever form they might have taken in any particular time and place.
Enter anthropologist David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years (July, ISBN 978-1-933633-86-2), which uses these struggles to show that the history of debt is also a history of morality and culture.
In the throes of the recent economic crisis, with the very defining institutions of capitalism crumbling, surveys showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans felt that the country's banks should not be rescued—whatever the economic consequences—but that ordinary citizens stuck with bad mortgages should be bailed out. The notion of morality as a matter of paying one's debts runs deeper in the United States than in almost any other country.
Beginning with a sharp critique of economics (which since Adam Smith has erroneously argued that all human economies evolved out of barter), Graeber carefully shows that everything from the ancient work of law and religion to human notions like "guilt," "sin," and "redemption," are deeply influenced by ancients debates about credit and debt.
It is no accident that debt continues to fuel political debate, from the crippling debt crises that have gripped Greece and Ireland, to our own debate over whether to raise the debt ceiling. Debt, an incredibly captivating narrative spanning 5,000 years, puts these crises into their full context and illuminates one of the thorniest subjects in all of history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Graeber teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value, Lost People, and Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire.
This talk was hosted by Boris Debic on behalf of the Authors@Google program.
Sie ist noch jung und hat bereits Geschichte geschrieben: Die weltweite Occupy-Bewegung. Mit dem Aufruf: »Occupy Wall Street!« besetzte im September 2011 eine Gruppe von Aktivisten den Zuccotti-Park im New Yorker Finanzdistrikt, um friedlich gegen soziale Ungleichheit, globale Spekulationsgeschäfte und den zunehmenden Einfluss der Wirtschaft auf die Politik zu demonstrieren. Binnen kürzester Zeit mobilisierte die Bewegung hunderttausende Menschen rund um den Globus, kreuz und quer durch alle Bevölkerungsschichten.
Der 1961 geborene amerikanische Anthropologe und bekennende Anarchist David Graeber bietet in seinem neuen Buch »Inside Occupy« einzigartige Einblicke in das Zentrum der derzeit größten Protestbewegung. Er berichtet, wie sie sich formierte und welche Ziele sie verfolgt. Gleichzeitig erscheint sein Buch »Schulden. Die ersten 5000 Jahre«. Ein radikales Buch im doppelten Wortsinn, denn Graeber packt das Problem der Schulden an der Wurzel, indem er bis zu ihren Anfängen in der Geschichte zurückgeht. Das führt ihn mitten hinein in die Krisenherde unserer Zeit: Von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart sind revolutionäre Bewegungen immer in Schuldenkrisen entstanden.
David Graeber war Professor an der Yale University und lehrt derzeit am Goldsmiths College der University of London. Er ist nun zu Gast im Schauspiel Frankfurt, wo er seine beiden deutschen Neuerscheinungen »Inside Occupy« (Campus Verlag) und »Schulden -- die ersten 5000 Jahre« (Verlag Klett-Cotta) vorstellen wird.
Moderation: Christian Felber
Universität Frankfurt Freitag, 18. Mai 2012 16 Uhr
Eine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit Occupy Frankfurt.
The award winning documentary 'Inside Job' [2011 | US] by the veteran crusader, Charles Ferguson is the most insightful and illuminating amongst a number of such attempts that deal with the global financial crisis, which is wrecking lives and economies across the world to this day.
The reason is that it successfully challenges the myths and lies surrounding the root causes of the crisis and tells us exactly how and why it happened, in a simple and straightforward way that anyone can understand.
IsuruFoundation® highly recommends this great film to anyone who wants to know why we the public are paying with our lives for the treacherous shenanigans of the filthy rich and the powerful.
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi joins us to discuss the pattern of systemic corruption by 16 banks accused of rigging a key global interest rate used in contracts worth trillions of dollars. The London Interbank Offered Rate -- known as LIBOR -- is the average interest rate at which banks can borrow from each other; some analysts say it defines the cost of money. Barclays was recently fined $453 million for rigging LIBOR, and a number of other banks are under investigation. "Ordinary people actually suffered when LIBOR was manipulated downward, mainly because local governments tended to lose money," Taibbi says. "Even the tiniest manipulation downward when you're talking about a thing of this scale would result in tens of trillions of dollars of losses. ... The banks weren't doing this just to make themselves look healthier, they were also doing this just to make money. They were trading against this information in what essentially was the biggest kind of insider trading you could possibly imagine." Taibbi is author of the book, "Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History."
La tragedia que nos tocó vivir con el derrumbe del gobierno liberal de De la Rúa, me impulsaron a volver a mis inicios en el cine, hace más de 40 años, cuando la búsqueda de una identidad política y cinematográfica y la resistencia ala dictadura, me llevaron a filmar “La Hora de los Hornos”. Las circunstancias han cambiado y para mal: ¿Cómo fue posible que en el “granero del mundo” se padeciera hambre? El país había sido devastado por un nuevo tipo de agresión, silenciosa y sistemática, que dejaba más muertos que los del terrorismo de Estado y la guerra de Malvinas. En nombre de la globalización y el libre comercio, las recetas económicas de los organismos internacionales terminaron en el genocidio social y el vaciamiento financiero del país. La responsabilidad de los gobiernos de Menem y De la Rúa no exime al FMI, al Banco Mundial ni a sus países mandantes. Buscando beneficios extraordinarios nos impusieron planes neoracistas que suprimían derechos sociales adquiridos y condenaron a muerte por desnutrición, vejez prematura o enfermedades curables, a millones de personas. Eran crímenes de lesa humanidad en tiempos de paz.
Una vez más, la realidad me impuso recontextualizar las imágenes y componer un fresco vivo de lo que habíamos soportado durante las tres décadas que van de la dictadura de Videla a la rebelión popular del 19 y 20 de diciembre de 2001, que terminó con el gobierno de la Alianza. “Memoria del Saqueo” es mi manera de contribuir al debate que en Argentina y el mundo se está desarrollando con la certeza que frente a la globalización deshumanizada, “otro mundo es posible”.
- Fernando E. Solanas
Fuente : http://www.pinosolanas.com/memoria_info.htm
Pour beaucoup d’acteurs de la société civile, « l’économie verte » promue par les institutions internationales, et qui sera à l’ordre du jour du prochain sommet Rio+20, étend les logiques de financiarisation et de marchandisation à la nature. Après avoir publié une vidéo intitulée Du développement durable à l’économie verte, quels enjeux ? Quelle alternative ?, Alter-Echos (alter-echos.org) poursuit son travail d’explicitation en prenant l’exemple du dispositif REDD (Réduction des émissions liées à la déforestation et la dégradation des forêts). Développés et mis en œuvre dans le cadre des négociations climatiques, les mécanismes de type REDD sont présentés comme permettant de lutter efficacement contre la déforestation tout en finançant les pays et populations du Sud. Pour Pablo Solon, interviewé dans la vidéo qui suit, les dispositifs REDD réduisent la forêt à un stock de carbone afin de l’insérer dans les marchés carbone. Spéculation financière, effet d’aubaine, remise en cause des droits de populations locales, perte de souveraineté et absence de réduction des émissions sont quelques-unes des conséquences.
Two years after directing the Academy Award-winning documentary, “Inside Job,” filmmaker Charles Ferguson returns with a new book, “Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America.” Ferguson explores why no top financial executives have been jailed for their role in the nation’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We also discuss Larry Summers and the revolving door between academia and Wall Street, as well as the key role Democrats have played in deregulating the financial industry. According to Ferguson, a "predatory elite" has "taken over significant portions of economic policy and of the political system, and also, unfortunately, major portions of the economics discipline."
A documentary on tax havens and Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer, a man who broke the Cayman bank secrecy law by publishing sensitive client data from Bank Julius Baer on WikiLeaks. Back in Switzerland he has been stalked by private investigators. He has lost his job three times and has no secure income. Since 19 January 2011 he is retained in custody by the Zurich prosecutor because he gave Julian Assange two CDs allegedly containing the offshore bank account details of "high net worth individuals". The prosecutor thinks there are data from Swiss banks on the CDs, but there is no evidence so far. A blatant attempt to bully Elmer and intimidate other would-be whistleblowers?
A film by David Leloup and Jean-Philippe Rouxel. Coming in 2012. http://www.aleakinparadise.com/
O novo documentário da equipa responsável por Dividocracia chama-se Castastroika e faz um relato avassalador sobre o impacte da privatização massiva de bens públicos e sobre toda a ideologia neoliberal que está por detrás. Catastroika denuncia exemplos concretos na Rússia, Chile, Inglaterra, França, Estados Unidos e, obviamente, na Grécia, em sectores como os transportes, a água ou a energia. Produzido através de contribuições do público, conta com o testemunho de nomes como Slavoj Žižek, Naomi Klein, Luis Sepúlveda, Ken Loach, Dean Baker e Aditya Chakrabortyy. De forma deliberada e com uma motivação ideológica clara, os governos daqueles países estrangulam ou estrangularam serviços públicos fundamentais, elegendo os funcionários públicos como bodes expiatórios, para apresentarem, em seguida, a privatização como solução óbvia e inevitável. Sacrifica-se a qualidade, a segurança e a sustentabilidade, provocando, invariavelmente, uma deterioração generalizada da qualidade de vida dos cidadãos. As consequências mais devastadores registam-se nos países obrigados, por credores e instituições internacionais (como a Troika), a proceder a privatizações massivas, como contrapartida dos planos de «resgate». Catastroika evidencia, por exemplo, que o endividamento consiste numa estratégia para suspender a democracia e implementar medidas que nunca nenhum regime democrático ousou sequer propor antes de serem testadas nas ditaduras do Chile e da Turquia. O objectivo é a transferência para mãos privadas da riqueza gerada, ao longo dos tempos, pelos cidadãos. Nada disto seria possível, num país democrático, sem a implementação de medidas de austeridade que deixem a economia refém dos mecanismos da especulação e da chantagem — o que implica, como se está a ver na Grécia, o total aniquilamento das estruturas basilares da sociedade, nomeadamente as que garantem a sustentabilidade, a coesão social e níveis de vida condignos. Se a Grécia é o melhor exemplo da relação entre a dividocracia e a catastroika, ela é também, nestes dias, a prova de que as pessoas não abdicaram da responsabilidade de exigir um futuro. Cá e lá, é importante saber o que está em jogo — e Catastroika rompe com o discurso hegemónico omnipresente nos media convencionais, tornando bem claro que o desafio que temos pela frente é optar entre a luta ou a barbárie.
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
I am just an anonymous citizen who firmly believes that we are the ones we are always waiting for. No saviors, heroes, leaders, gurus, or superior or inferior, we are all equals, and we need to think and behave as if it matters.
