http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/
- Josh Ryan-Collins of the New Economics Foundation explains how banks
create money, out of thin air, through the accounting process they use
when they make loans.
"Independent Commission on Banking told us
that there was a "disagreement" amongst the commissioners about whether
or not the banks created money! ...So, that's the situation we're
in. These are the people who are charged with recreating our banking
system! And they don't even understand that banks create credit when
they make loans"
Welsh Assembly Briefing Part 2: Josh-Ryan Collins (NEF) PositiveMoneyUK
http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/
On March 27th 2012 Ben Dyson of Positive Money and Josh Ryan-Collins
of the New Economics Foundation gave a briefing to the Welsh Assembly on
the problems with our current debt-based monetary system, and proposed
ideas for implementing complementary currencies in Wales without waiting
for action from Westminster. This is a recording of the first part of
the briefing, given by Ben.
Os Diabo a Sete são Celso Bento - Ponteira Eduardo Murta - Baixo eléctrico Hugo Natal da Luz - Percussão Julieta Silva - Voz e concertina Luisa Correia - Guitarra acústica Miguel Cardina - Bateria Pedro Damasceno - Bandolim
Participação especial Carlos Guerreiro - Voz
Tema "Paraíso Fiscal" Letra - Miguel Cardina / Música - Diabo a Sete
Produção Persona Non Grata Pictures
Conceito e Realização Leandro Silva
Fotografia Lee Fuzeta
Direção de Arte Luisa Bebiano
Técnicos iluminação Lee Fuzeta Tiago Cerveira
Montagem, VFX & Grading Lee Fuzeta
Equipamento de Câmara Sofá Filmes
Luz e Maquinaria Sofá Filmes
Pós-produção vídeo Sofá Filmes www.sofafilmes.pt
Apoio Produção Joaquim Costa e Filhos, Lda. Ricardo Veloso, Coimbra MMA
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.
Life and Debté umdocumentário longa-metragemque aborda oimpacto do FundoMonetário Internacional, do BancoMundial, do BancoInteramericano de Desenvolvimentoe das políticas de globalizaçãoem curso sobreum país em desenvolvimentocomo a Jamaica.
Life and Debt is a feature-length documentary which addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on a developing country such as Jamaica. More on Life and Debt...
David Graeber is an American
anthropologist, author, and activist who teaches at Goldsmiths,
University of London. His book, Debt: The First Five Thousand Years, is
the topic of our discussion. In it, Graeber shows how debt, and debt
forgiveness have been at the center of political debates across the
world and have given rise to innumerable uprisings. He explores the
history of money and credit, and how societies have been divided into
creditors and debtors.
Most Americans know too well the unjust
difference between how homeowners facing foreclosure have been treated,
versus how massive indebted banks culpable for the economic crisis have
been treated. That unequal application of justice has angered so many
Americans, that it gave rise to a nationwide, and to an extent,
worldwide movement under the banner of Occupy Wall Street. David Graeber
is considered one of the first activists credited with getting Occupy
Wall Street off the ground last year.
David Graeber's earlier
books include Towards and Anthropological Theory of Value, Lost People:
Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar, Fragments of an Anarchist
Anthropology, and more. He also writes for Harper's, the Nation, and
the New Left Review.
On February 2, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed David Graeber about his book and the Occupy movement.
Le revenu de base, aussi appelé revenu universel, revenu inconditionnel d'existence, revenu de vie, revenu minimum garanti (etc.) est une solution au chômage technologique lié au remplacement des hommes par les ordinateurs et les machines, ou par les l'alliance des deux : la cybernétique. En effet, nous avons besoin de moins en moins de salariés pour produire nos biens et services. Or, vendre sa force de travail pour un salaire est le seul moyen de survivre pour la majorité des humains.
Le revenu de base est un moyen de dissoudre le chômage, la crise sociale et la nature asservissante de nombreux métiers en remettant en cause la notion de salariat. Il permets d'imaginer un autre système socio-économique où l'asservissement à travers le salaire n'existe plus. Ce serait une bonne transition par exemple vers une Économie Basée sur les Ressources.
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.
