Carbon Caps – Who Gets the Cash? provided by TheREalNews.com; James Boyce of PERI – The Political Economy Research Institute and professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, discusses the different models of carbon cap legislation and how they serve different interests. Feb. 8, 2010.
How to Create 18 Million Jobs Part 2 — provided by The Real News Network; Robert Pollin explains that reaching 4% unemployment by 2012 is possible but “normal” or “natural” pace might push that date to 2018.
How to Create 18 Million Jobs provided by The Real News Network; Robert Pollin explains that reaching 4% unemployment by 2012 is possible.
Ripping off the Public Provided by Brasscheck.tv; In his own words: in the first segment, Jim Kramer preaches free enterprise and paints a rosy picture of stock trading for amateurs. In the second, he instructs hedge funds on the fine points of how to sway the public by creating false signals in the market.
Spellcasters provided by the World Business Academy; A project of the EthicMark®, founded by Hazel Henderson, this video reveals how corporations and political candidates are using MRIs, EEGs, and other brain-scan technology to craft irresistible media messages designed to shift buying habits, political beliefs, and voting patterns. Individuals can sign the petion or companies take the pledge against neuromarketing at www.worldbusiness.org.
The Story of Cap and Trade provided by The Story of Stuff Project; Intended as a conversation starter, this video, in the style of The Story of Stuff, is a fast-paced, fact-filled, look at the most popular climate solution being discussed. Annie Leonard introduces the people at the heart of this scheme – energy traders and Wall Street financiers – and examines the “devils in the details”: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and, distractions from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis.
Explaining Simpol provided by www.Simpol.org; John Bunzl describes how a “Simultaneous Policy” toward a package of measures to be implemented by all governments simultaneously to address global problems is the best way to overcome the obstacles that the global competitive system impose on any government that acts alone to try and resolve such problems, effectively making its country uncompetitive.
The School Lunch Scam provided by the American News Project; Who determines what American kids eat each day? Congress and the Department of Agriculture approve what foods can (and can’t) be served through the National School Lunch Program. The competition for a piece of this $10 billion market is fierce, but espite the enormous nutritional and financial stakes at play, ANP was the only media to cover a recent panel set up to discuss the school menu. While nutritionists outnumbered the press, corporate lobbyists outnumbered everyone.
The Renegade Economist Talkshow – July 10th provided by renegadeeconomist.com/video; weekly updates from Fred Harrison, the renegade economist, interviewd by Ross Ashcroft.
Renegade Economist US Special with Dr. Michael Hudson provided by renegadeeconomist.com/video; The Renegade Economist goes to New York to hear Dr. Michael Hudson’s views on the state of the US Economy.
Michael Lewis: The End of Wall Street provided by Fora.tv; Michael Lewis, the author of Liar’s Poker and Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, speaks about the excess political influence of Wall Street before the Hudson Union Society.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on economists from YouTube; Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of New York Times best seller Black Swan, explains what of economists’ reasoning is mistaken and counter productive.
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Financial Crisis & Global Development provided by MaximsNews Network, Feb. 2009; Nobel Laureate Stiglitz, speaking at the U.N. Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium, characterizes the global crisis as having a “made in the USA label” and states that the US exported its deregulatory philosophy, its “toxic mortgages” and, now, the recession.
Common good banks™ are a democratic, community-based system that puts people and planet first by having depositors decide where in the community to invest profits while offering micro-loans, FDIC-secured banking and other community-centered services. For the past seven years, hundreds of people around the world have worked to design this new system to support and empower ordinary people everywhere to put an end to war, poverty, hunger, unemployment and global warming. This is not just another bank with a social mission, this is a social mission with a bank.
Cap-and-trade won’t cut it, pt. 2 provided by The Real News Network; The Waxman-Markey bill, the Democratic Party’s climate change legislation, promises to reduce US emissions by 17% by 2020, and 83% by 2050. These numbers however, do not account for a practice known as carbon offsetting. Payal Parekh from International Rivers believes that the practice is counterproductive at best, serving to delay necessary energy generation changes, or dangerous at worst, putting communities at risk from megaprojects. Furthermore, offsets are unknown as a financial entity, and have already shown themselves in Europe to be candidates for financial speculation.
Cap-and-trade won’t cut it provided by The Real News Network; With Obama support, the House Energy and Commerce Committee plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the US calls for the creation of a cap-and-trade market. James Handley from the Carbon Tax Center believes that cap-and-trade is a flawed system made worse by way of concessions to energy companies, big coal in particular. According to Handley, the bill is unlikely to achieve needed emission cuts, likely to create serious financial instability, and incapable of protecting the most vulnerable from its intended hike in energy prices.
Introducing Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins provided by Green for All; Phaedra comes to Green For All from San Jose, California, where she was the head of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council and Working Partnerships USA. She helped to expand health care access in San Jose and across California. She also helped to raise the minimum wage for low-income families in the South Bay – twice.
Selling-Out Debate at Investor’s Circle 2009 provided by Ethical Markets Media; Judy Wicks, Mark Albion and Pierre Ferrari tackle the big issues of scaling a mission-driven business at the Investor’s Circle Spring 2009 Conference in San Francisco.
Wall Street Green Trading Summit 2009 provided by Ethical Markets; our reporter catches up with investment leaders and our own advisory board members attending this pivotal summit.
US Dollar as World Reserve Currency in Jeopardy provided by Reuters; Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of a UN panel of experts, told the Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the panel may recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, adding to pressure on the dollar. The proposal is to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket.
James Robertson – It’s Our Money Anyway provided by The Renegade Economist; James Robertson talks frankly about democratising our money supply. Money as debt is not sustainable. www.renegadeeconomist.com
Michael Hudson with the Renegade Economist provided by The Renegade Economist; The Renegade Economist caught up with former Wall Street consultant Dr. Michael Hudson. He talks explicitly about the solutions, which would rescue the global economy and create a sustainable financial system. www.renegadeeconomist.com’
State of the Future - Reviews the 15 global challenges for humanity to make the 21st century more equitable and environmentally sustainable while incorporating women as equal partners for greater productivity. (27 minutes)
Reforming The World Bank – Examines the structure and workings of the World Bank and why it is under attack from all quarters. Reforms and proposed actions. (~ 27 minutes) . From Ethical Markets miniseries on International Financial Reform, featuring John Perkins, Kenneth Rogoff and Sakiko Fukudu-Parr.
Provided by www.MoneyAsDebt.net Money as Debt - This is a must see video that sparks great conversations in any group who views it.
Debt-gov’t, corporate, & household has reached astronomical proportions. Where does all this money come from? How could there BE that much money to lend? The answer is… there isn’t. Today, MONEY IS DEBT. If there were NO DEBT there would be NO MONEY! If this is puzzling to you, you are not alone. Very few people understand, even though all of us are effected. This fast-paced and highly entertaining animated feature explans today’s magical perverse DEBT-MONEY SYSTEM (~ 47 minutes)
Coming Home: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy” provided by Chris Bedford Films and the Schumacher Society; Sincere appreciation goes to Chris Bedford who made this film as a labor of love, telling the story of rebuilding a local economy using strategies from community land trusts to the nation’s most successful local currency – Berkshares. Copies of the film can be obtained at www.localharvest.org.
Moving the Economy Transportation Choices – given for MOVING THE ECONOMY: Economic Opportunities in Sustainable Transportation, An International Conference. July 9-12, 1998, Toronto, Canada.
Technology: Servant or Master? - Hazel Henderson in conversation with Oscar Motomura, president of Brasil’s premier management institute the Amana Key, along with Dee Hock, author of “The Birth of the Chaordic Age” and founder of VISA International.
Obama’s Challenge: Making Change without Money provided by Edgar Cahn and Chris Gray, Sally Goerner, Gwendolyn Hallsmith, and Bernard Lietaer; discusses local level change using complementary currencies to create and retain jobs, produce housing, provide health care and elder care, and reduce emissions driving climate change. “We don’t need lots of federal funding and major policy change – we just need to mobilize using old-fashioned community organizing skills.”
Dennis Kucinich on Monetary Policy provided by American Monetary Institute; Kucinich compliments Steve Zarlenga, author of the Lost Science of Money. November 2008 (3 min)
