"Skewed" exposes the effects of media violence on society and emphasizes the need for more positive and inspirational programming.
This film analyzes how negative and violent images disseminated by the mass media, entertainment and gaming industries affect society and consequently our perception of reality and it introduces us to a variety of studies that show how pro-social TV programming significantly enhances many positive qualities in children and for that matter, positively affects all viewing audiences.
In this episode of Days of Revolt, host Chris Hedges sits down with professor of Middle East studies Sabah Alnasseri to discuss how US foreign policy and class struggle created the conditions for the rise of ISIS. Hedges and his guest also draw comparisons between ISIS’s colonialist strategies and those of the Israeli independence movement in Palestine. teleSUR http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/v/day...
The 'gods' of Money ... and their Quest for Global Dominion
Filmed at The Financial Terrorism Exposed Event in London - June 1012
William Engdahl is an Economist who has spent the last decade probing the socio-psychopathic corporatist agenda. In 2007 he published 'Seeds of Destruction', a remarkable expose of the Bio-tech agenda (primarily Monsanto) to achieve control of the global food supply by introducing patented Genetically Modified crops, whilst polluting organic crops with their pernicious seeds. Subsequently, Engdahl turned his attention to the Banksters and published 'The gods of Money' in 2011.
In this presentation, William explains how western civilisation has 'sleepwalked' into 'Debt Slavery' and offers his own unique insight into the ultimate agenda of the socio-psychotic global corporatists.
"The Gods of Money" F. William Engdahl is an American German freelance journalist, historian and economic researcher. "The Gods of Money" lecture is based on Engdahls book "Gods of Money". The dollar financial system of Wall Street was born not at a conference in Bretton Woods New Hampshire in 1944. It was born in the first days of August, 1945 with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After that point the world was in no doubt who was the power to reckon with. This lecture traces the history of money as an instrument of power; it traces the evolution of that power in the hands of a tiny elite that regards themselves as, quite literally, gods-The Gods of Money. How these gods abused their power and how they systematically set out to control the entire world is the subject.
Ulf Dahlström who has lived for the past 30 years in the United States will hold a lecture on Zero Point Energy or Radiant Energy. He has worked with Stan Meyer on his water fuel cell technology and will talk about this and also about the historical perspective and development of devices that works on, or taps into this energy field.
After the historical review we will discuss some of the current inventions and developments that are starting to come out now and their potential impact on our society. Is there anything we can do to help bring this out and what practical applications exists?
If you are interested in solutions that will solve the "so called "global warming" and environmental problems that we are currently facing then this lecture is for you.
Chris Hedges speaking at the Brooklyn Society For Ethical Culture Charley Horwitz Platform. "The Global Culture of Violence: What Is The Path to Peace and Justice? Sept. 28, 2014.
What's the point of elections if the result is always a victory for the extreme centre?
Stan Grant (Chair)
Tariq Ali is a British-Pakistani political commentator and a prolific writer, journalist and filmmaker. He has been a leading figure of the international left since the 1960s. His books include The Duel: Pakistan on the Flightpath of American Power, The Obama Sydrome and The Extreme Centre: A Warning.
http://smellslikehumanspirit.com/edwa... Edward Bernays' 'Propaganda' Deconstructed - The following is a 10 hour audio series that I recorded between April 2013 and February 2014, all about the 'Father of PR', Edward Bernays. This series is probably the project that I'm most proud of since I began podcasting. In fact, on a near daily basis, I still receive e-mails about it! Over the course of 10 hours (!), I take you through Bernays' magnum opus, 'Propaganda', written in 1928. I take a critical look at just how influential his ideas were, and detail the resulting impact in relation to public relations, advertising, celebrity culture, and democracy itself. Along the way, you will hear from various guest speakers as well, including Edward Bernays' own daughter, Anne Bernays.
If you would like even more information on Edward Bernays and 'Propaganda', you can head over to http://smellslikehumanspirit.com/edwa...to access further resources, read the book transcript, and even download this series in an 13-part episode format.
With that all being said, I encourage you to listen, like, share and subscribe! I appreciate your support, so enjoy, and peace :)
- Guy Evans
Who is Edward Bernays?
Edward Bernays, born in Vienna in 1891 and famously the nephew of Sigmund Freud, was perhaps the pioneer in the field of Public Relations, and highly influential in providing the framework for modern advertising. His work aimed to convince people to want things that they didn’t need, and in the process, link their unconscious desires to the consumption of mass produced goods. This in turn, it was theorized, could be used to control the masses, as by keeping them distracted on frivolous happenings and relatively unimportant wants, they wouldn’t interfere with the activities of what he called ‘the important few’.
In case people are wondering: this is a radio broadcast of the 1988 Massey Lectures for the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation). Every year since 1961, The Massey Lectures has invited a noted scholar or writer to give a series of 5 lectures on an important topic of contemporary concern over the course of a week.
ANARCHY by by Errico Malatesta - FULL AudioBook | Greatest Audio Books
Errico Malatesta (December 14, 1853-- July 22, 1932) was an Italian anarchist. He spent much of his life exiled from his homeland of Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison. He wrote and edited a number of radical newspapers and was also a friend of Mikhail Bakunin. He was an enormously popular figure in his time. According to Brian Doherty, writer for Reason magazine, "Malatesta could get tens of thousands, sometimes more than 100,000, fans to show up whenever [he] arrived in town." (summary from Wikipedia.org)
A radical rethinking of our faulty assumptions about money and how to use it. David Korten is author of many books including: Change the Story: Change the Future (2015); The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (2006), Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (2010).
Chris Hedges speaks in London, Ontario at the FIMS Student Council Series at Western University on March 13, 2013 on the fate of journalism in an ever increasing fascist society, the deliberate and systematic destruction of our once trusted liberal instiutions, and the the steady erosion of our First Amendment rights to free speech, assembly rights
This is an original music video made by kilez, that has been subtitled in english. It provides a historical view of the battle for Hegemony and the chaos that it has been creating. Luke Rudkowski met Kevin during the monday demonstrations in Berlin and agreed to upload the music video on this channel.
Naomi Klein gave a speech during the presentation of This changes everything at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid in which explains that climate change is the best response facing the savage capitalism. http://www.circulobellasartes.com/
The activist against the climate change, Naomi Klein, visited the CBA in Madrid for presenting, nearby Yayo Herrero (FUHEM), her latest novel at that moment, "This changes everything", where she gave a convincing explanation on why should we turn around our system. After the publishing of "The shock doctrine", she focused her efforts to give a convincing answer to the reinforcement of the tesis against the capitalism, is not just the austerity but the damage to nature. This harm is contributing to the global warming that could change our physic map and kill thousands of people. The problem, on her own words, requires of a "radical response".
Naomi Klein ofreció en el Círculo de Bellas Artes una conferencia para presentar su última novela "Esto lo cambia todo". La presentación corrió a cargo de Yayo Herrero, directora de FUHEM, y en la conferencia, la activista canadiense expuso que el cambio climático es la mejor respuesta contra el capitalismo salvaje que está destruyendo nuestro planeta.
Una conferencia en la que no faltaron referencias a Grecia, a la austeridad y cómo no, a las agresiones de nuestro sistema neoliberal a la naturaleza, que nos lleva inexorablemente a un cambio climático y a la muerte de millones de personas. Algo que, según la autora, exige una respuesta radical.
Forget for one moment everything you've been told about September 11, 2001. 9/11 was a crime. And as with any crime, there is one overriding imperative that detectives must follow to identify the perpetrators: follow the money. This is an investigation of the 9/11 money trail.
Entrevista grabada en el tercer Foro de la Desobediencia de Grigny en Francia al politólogo Paul Aries, una de las referencias del decrecimiento en su vertiente política.
Interview filmée dans le 3ème Forum de la Désobéissance de Grigny à Paul Aries, une des références de la décroissance notamment dans sa dimension politique.
Afshin Rattansi goes underground with the world's most wanted publisher - the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. He has just co-authored a book - the WikiLeaks Files, and it paints a picture of systemic US torture and killing as well as the destruction of the lives and livelihoods of billions of people right around the world.
Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies (May 22, 2015) - Dr. Michael J. Parenti Interviewed by Professors Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips. Compiled by Xena Crystal Huang on June 4, 2015 33.5 minutes. ------------------- Brief: "From from welfare to wealth care, from pedophiles to popes, from plutocrats to environmental plunderers—these are just some of the indecencies of contemporary socio-economic life that Profit Pathology takes on. Dr. Michael Parenti investigates how class power is a central force in our political life yet subject to little critical discernment. He notes how big-moneyed interests shift the rules of the game in their favor while undoing the gains of social democracy, from the New Deal to the present. Dr. Parenti also traces the ruthless economic forces that have operated through much of American history, including the mass displacement and extermination of Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans. Dr. Parenti is a master at demonstrating the impact of monomaniacal profit accumulation on social services, including health care and utilities. In this book he shows how unrestrained capitalism becomes a "self-devouring beast" that endangers itself and all of us. Finally, Dr. Parenti calls for a solution based on democratic diversity and not-for-profit public ownership—'because it works.' "
Table of Contents of Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies: Part One: Class, Race, and Empire 1. The Great Class Divide 2. Ethnicity and Exploitation: A Quick History of the Boiling Pot 3. Empire in Extremis? Some Urgent Notations
Part 2: The Corporate Beast at Home 4. A Case of Death and Profits 5. Free Market Medicine: A Personal Account 6. Free Market Medicine: More True Stories
Part 3: Cultural Aberrations and Other Oppressions 7. Pedophiles, Popes, Priests, Preachers, and Papa 8. Inequality: 85 Billionaires and the Poorer Half
Naomi Klein, the award-winning journalist and author of global best-sellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo discusses her most provocative book yet, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. Subscribe here ► http://bit.ly/subgdnmembers Klein challenges the myths that cloud the climate debate, refutes the argument for dependence on fossil fuels and aims to show how our current economic model is waging and winning a war on earth.
In conversation with Guardian columnist and writer Owen Jones, Klein discusses why she believes climate change is a wake-up call for civilisation, why it's now about changing the world and not just lightbulbs and how tearing up the "free-market" playbook may be the answer.
The Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) is an annual event that brings leading thinkers and culture creators from around the world to the Sydney Opera House stages and online to discuss and debate the important ideas of our time.
Abby Martin speaks with NYU media studies professor, Mark Crispin Miller, about five historical books that have been actively suppressed and hidden from the American public.
Empire As A Way Of Life – Economic Exploitation/Expansion, Ecological Destruction, Oligarchic Governance, Built on Genocides With Impunity. The primary meme of US culture is: Profits for a few (mostly men/patriarchy) through expansion at ANY cost = empire.
Our national origins derive from forceful dispossession of others with total impunity (genocide #1) justified through a myth of exceptionalism, setting in motion a pattern of a Pretend society, built on lie after lie, from Manifest Destiny to Full Spectrum Dominance. The past is never in the past, as its features always remain present in the psyche.
Long patterns of plundering without accountability lead to delusions of grandeur and obsessive narcissism. As a species we are now on the eve of a very painful era of accountability (correction) after millenniums of grotesque entitlement. The question is whether we can access our deeper ancient archetypes of cooperation, mutual respect, local community, and fairness and experience an evolutionary, radical shift (healing) from an epistemology rooted in separation from and domination over nature, to one of integration with and embracing nature. Our survival is dependent upon practicing a turn toward a local, bioregional cooperative food and simple tool economy. Thus, we become part of our own and the earth’s healing even while the inevitable correction mechanisms of the Gaia become evermore apparent as inevitable collapse of industrial civilization speeds up.
S. Brian Willson is a Viet Nam veteran, trained lawyer and long time activist advocating for domestic and global justice. He has been a tax refuser since 1984. He is the author of “On Third World Legs” (Chicago: Charles Kerr, 1992); “Blood On The Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson” (Oakland: PM Press, 2011). His essays can be found at brianwillson.com
This talk was given at the Fellowship of Reconciliation annual conference at Seabeck, WA, July 3, 2015
Dr. David Korten, author of Change the Story, Change the Future, and When Corporations Rule the World, addresses how we must change the stories we tell, and how doing so can be instrumental in changing the future. While the still dominate story of the virtues of the market prevail, the new story must revolve around the Earth Community, of which we are a part but not dominating element. Our health is dependent on the Earth's health; there is no life without community; human nature calls us to serve all, not just our individual selves; and the only justification of any institute of government, business or civil society is the support it can give to a vibrate, productive and prosperous living Earth community.
It is well known in economics academia that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in 1900 is loaded with powerful symbols of monetary reform which were the core of the Populist movement and the 1896 and 1900 president bid of Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
The yellow brick road (gold standard), the emerald city of Oz (greenback money), even Dorothy's silver slippers (changed to ruby slippers for the movie version) were the symbol of Baum's and Bryan's belief that adding silver coinage to gold would provide much needed money to a depression-strapped, 1890s America.
We believe Baum's symbols represent the only solution to relieve the growing economic hardship here in America -- and the rest of the world. Practically speaking, 2009 marks the 70th anniversary of the 1939 MGM release of the The Wizard of Oz movie, so interest will be very high. Even Oz websites put up by kids get millions of hits.
Who's In It?
· Joseph Farah, Founder and CEO of WorldNetDaily.
· Peter Schiff, President of Euro-Pacific Capital, the leading "bear" on Wall Street, author.
· Byron Dale, author and monetary reform expert, author of many books.
· Ellen Brown, author Web of Debt, attorney, and monetary reform expert
· James Robertson, former official in a variety of slots in the UK government, and head of the Inter-Bank Research Organization, author of many books
· Prof. Nick Tideman, VA Tech University School of Economics
· Prof. Michael Hudson, President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1972 and 2003)
· John Keyworth, Curator, Bank of England Museum
· Prof. Quentin Taylor, professor of political science at Rogers State University
· Reed Simpson, banker, asset manager
Intro
"In 1996, in a documentary called "The MoneyMasters", we asked the question why is America going broke. It wasn't clear then that we were, but it is today. Now the question is how can we get out of this mess. Foreclosures are everywhere, unemployment is skyrocketing -- and this is only the beginning. America's economy is on a long, slippery slope from here on. The bubble ride of debt has come to an end.
"What can government do? The sad answer is -- under the current monetary system -- nothing. It's not going to get better until the root of the problem is understood and addressed. There isn't enough stimulus money in the entire world to get us out of this hole.
"Why? Debt. The national debt is just like our consumer debt -- it's the interest that's killing us.
"Though most people don't realize it the government can't just issue it's own money anymore. It used to be that way. The King could just issue stuff called money. Abraham Lincoln did it to win the Civil War.
"No, today, in our crazy money system, the government has to borrow our money into existence and then pay interest on it. That's why they call it the National Debt. All our money is created out of debt. Politicians who focus on reducing the National Debt as an answer probably don't know what the National Debt really is. To reduce the National Debt would be to reduce our money -- and there's already too little of that.
"No, you have to go deeper. You have to get at the root of this problem or we're never going to fix this. The solution isn't new or radical. America used to do it. Politicians used to fight with big bankers over it. It's all in our history -- now sadly -- in the distant past.
"But why can't we just do it again? Why can't we just issue our own money, debt free? That, my friends, is the answer. Talk about reform! That's the only reform that will make a huge difference to everyone's life -- even worldwide.
"The solution is the secret that's been hidden from us for just over 100 years -- ever since the time when author L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
Ben Dyson (Positive Money) will explore the mechanisms of fractional reserve banking, its failure in delivering economic stability via debt fueled growth, and possible ways of addressing such failures.
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
