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Climate-Change: Copenhagen and now?
So the vast “show and photo opportunity” meeting in Copenhagen is coming to an end now and could someone please tell what has actually been achieved in this huge media event.
A 3 page document with some teasers but now clear road-map on who-does-what-and-when. The talks on atomic weapons between the U.S. and Russia that happened at the same venue might prove to be more outcome oriented then that other show.
Will the bankster be allowed to expand their casino games with derivatives / virtual money creation for them to the so-called “Cap & Trade” certificates and thereby will most certainly create a world-wide crisis that will be bigger by orders of magnitude than the current financial crisis?
Will someone start to limit the global levels of pollution instead of fostering opaque trading schemes that are only good for story telling and profiteering - read: the industrialized nations reduced their pollutions - e.g. by 30% while at the same time the polluters have just shifted those factories somewhere else where these are then for whatever reason not counted into the scheme?
Will the whole thing like in other areas e.g. pandemics be handled by some kind of fund or financial instrument that in the past have regularly proven to be the most inefficient way, without any accountability or actual transparency, blowing money on themselves and their buddies, often institutionalized corruption and rates as bad as US$ 1000 put in and a mere US$10 arriving at the actual cause?
Well let’s see what the soon to happen next meeting in Berlin will bring…
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Music: Victor Jara Manifiesto
Not too long ago this voice was heard - but then silenced by murderers and thugs that have changed the face of this beautiful country for many years.
RIP - Victor - you will never be forgotten - but those who caused your death should be forgotten forever - their lives made never exist - but not their wrong doing and crimes.
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Financial Crisis: Max Keiser - “Goldman Sachs Are Scum”
“…They are literally stealing a hundred million dollars a day. Goldman Sachs is stealing every day on the floor of the exchange. They should be in the Hague, they should be taken on financial terrorism charges. They should all be thrown in jail…”
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Data-Visualization: The beats of the financial crisis
Another fine example of an outstanding data visualization from the WSJ. We call it the beats of the financial crisis.
These diagrams perfectly demonstrate how many people are having a bad time now because of the greed, ruthlessness and high criminal energy levels of a few.
And this just seems to be the beginning or better to say the end of the beginning.
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Video: FDR Inaugurated
A video interesting in a few ways.
First historically of course, then because we will almost certainly hear a more or less similar speech in about a week, and third as times of today might turn out to be rather similar too.
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How to pay for National Health Care - The Wall Street way
For those who still don’t believe that something is substantially wrong with the way Wall Street and so-called investment banks / Hedge funds around the world have siphoned astronomical amounts into their pockets, here’s another example how the pyramid scheme worked / is being used.
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Economy: The sad Car Maker joke
With the American car makers on the edge of the abyss and hoping for a bail-out by the government we thought it might be appropriate to remind you of this sad car maker joke…
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Film: Torturing Democracy
Torturing Democracy is the 2008 documentary film from awarding-winning producer Sherry Jones on the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques“ by the Bush administration in the so-called “War on Terror”. The 90 minutes documentary took more than 18 months to make and includes interview from high ranking U.S. military personnel and the State Department, including former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage…
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Data Visualization: The Three Trillion Dollar War
An outstanding infographic by the Good Magazine on the true cost of the war in Iraq.
The image is based on work by Nobel Prize laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes who have together published a book on this subject earlier this year (link below). There is also a video narrating the key parts of the graphics on the Good Magazine web site.
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Cartoon: Presidential Cheat Codes
Great idea from LukeSurl.com.
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