Tag Archive for 'economy'

Money as a debt

This incredible 50 minutes video goes in depth into the mechanisms of money creation, the role of debt, and, enventually, how and why each of us (and all our institutions!) are ultimately enslaved to banks.

A must-see!

Via le Blog à  Ollie

The Shift Movie

Just stumbled on this via http://www.wethechange.com/ while reading my daily feeds. Now… That really speaks to me: a film made by collective forces for the collectivity to make things actually change.

The idea is just so inspiring… It makes me feel everything is possible.

Please go and see the trailer and do what ever you can to support the project:

The film’s website: http://www.theshiftmovie.com/ (you can skip the e-mail bit if you wish)

The Shock Doctrine

Naomi KleinI’ve just finished reading the “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” by Naomi Klein… Wow!

It has been a continuous effort keeping the book open. Descriptions of torture procedures and other psychological shocks are simply unbearable, but it was definitely worth reading the entire book.

The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi KleinInstinctively, I had always felt that something had gone wrong at the end of the cold war. Today’s unbalanced capitalism has nothing to do with the keynesianist model we knew until then, but I did not have the intellectual and cultural tools to understand the whole phenomenon.

Naomi Klein’s demonstration of the ideological links behind Pinochet’s Chile, the war in Iraq, Israel, and even the hijacking of natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina in New-Orleans for instance) are stunning! The Shock Doctrine or how a few super-rich become even wealthier by pillaging public wealth and promoting destruction and fear.

What a wonderful world…