Truths behind global debt crisis with Steve Keen from Debtdeflation.com.

In this edition of the show Max interviews Steve Keen from Debtdeflation.com. It has been five years since global debt crisis began. The debt is now so great that it can no longer be hidden. Max discusses the issue with Steve to see what triggered the current debt crisis, what the response to it was and where we stand now. Steve also comments on the latest global debt crisis and banker's role in the current situation.Steve Keen is a professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney and the author of Debunking Economics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NLx0tT5AIs&feature=player_embedded#!

How about Quanitative Easening for the people?

The one economic benefit of QE has been to help governments finance the huge deficits caused by recession without having to raise taxes, slash public spending or face Greek-style bankruptcy. In this sense, QE has certainly prevented the U.S. and Britain from suffering worse outcomes, but it has failed to stimulate employment or economic growth. This is exactly what Japan has experienced for 20 years – and as in Japan, additional rounds of QE now will merely act as an anesthetic, perpetuating stagnation but discouraging more effective stimulus measures.

One such radical measure is too controversial for any policymaker to mention publicly, although some have discussed it in private: Instead of giving newly created money to bond traders, central banks could distribute it directly to the public. Technically such cash handouts could be described as tax rebates or citizens’ dividends, and they would contribute to government deficits in national accounting. But these accounting deficits would not increase national debt burdens, since they would be financed by issuing new money, at zero cost to government or to future generations, instead of selling interest-bearing government bonds.

Giving away free money may sound too good to be true or wildly irresponsible, but it is exactly what the Fed and the BoE have been doing for bond traders and bankers since 2009. Directing QE to the general public would not only be much fairer but also more effective.

Suppose the new money created since 2009, instead of propping up bond prices, had simply been added to the bank accounts of all U.S. and British households. In the U.S., $2 trillion of QE could have financed a cash windfall of $6,500 for every man, woman and child, or $26,000 for a family of four. Britain’s QE of £375 billion is worth £6,000 per head or £24,000 per family. Even if only half the new money created were distributed in this way, these sums would be easily large enough to transform economic conditions, whether the people receiving these windfalls decided to spend them on extra consumption or save them and reduce debts.
http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2012/08/01/how-about-quantitative-easing-for-the-people/

CSPAN Rep Paul Kanjorski Reviews the Bailout Situation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD8viQ_DhS4&feature=player_embedded

Bill Still - The Money Masters & The Secret of Oz

Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and publisher. He has written for USA Today, The Saturday Evening Post, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, OMNI magazine, and produced the syndicated radio program, Health News. He has written 22 books and two documentary videos, including: The Money Masters and The Secret of Oz, both of which critique the United States monetary system. In our current economic crisis, what can the government do? Bill says, under the current monetary system, nothing. It’s not going to get better until the root of the problem is understood and addressed. Bill will talk about the imploding Ponzi scheme that will be felt by all nations. We’ll discuss currency, gold backing and the lender/borrower relationship. In the second hour, Bill talks about the relationship between the news and bankers. He’ll also discuss reforming the monetary system, full reserve lending and debt free money.
http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2012/08/RIR-120823.php

Soros and Lord Rothschild

In a harbinger of what may be coming our way in the Fall of 2012, billionaire financier George Soros has sold all of his equity positions in major financial stocks according to a 13-F report filed with the SEC for the quarter ending June 30, 2012.

Soros, who manages funds through various accounts in the US and the Cayman Islands, has reportedly unloaded over one million shares of stock in financial companies and banks that include Citigroup (420,000 shares), JP Morgan (701,400 shares) and Goldman Sachs (120,000 shares). The total value of the stock sales amounts to nearly $50 million.

What’s equally as interesting as his sale of major financials is where Soros has shifted his money. At the same time he was selling bank stocks, he was acquiringsome 884,000 shares (approx. $130 million) of Gold via the SPDR Gold Trust.

http://preppercentral.com/?p=2509

Lord Rothschild takes £130m bet against the euro

Lord Rothschild has taken a near-£130m bet against the euro as fears continue to grow that the single currency will break up.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9484435/Lord-Rothschild-takes-130m-bet-against-the-euro.html

Bill Murphy- JP Morgan Is FINISHED!

Bill Murphy: There’s gonna be a Mega JP Morgan scandal which will rival the LIBOR scandal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuwkztXa8qQ&feature=player_embedded#!

Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion

27th Jan 2012 - Rupert Sheldrake stopped by at Dunderry Park to talk to Network Ireland, the country's longest running holistic magazine, about his new book The Science Delusion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn7zVlz1s7c

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows that science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. The 'scientific worldview' has become a belief system. All reality is material or physical. The world is a machine, made up of dead matter. Nature is purposeless. Consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain. Free will is an illusion. God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls. Sheldrake examines these dogmas scientifically, and shows persuasively that science would be better off without them: freer, more interesting, and more fun.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1444727931/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1444727931&linkCode=as2&tag=wicr-20\ target=

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Jan Irvin - Hour 1 & 2 - Gordon Wasson & The Secret History of Magic Mushrooms

http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2012/08/RIR-120809.php

Testers fear reality of genetically modified Olympians

Gene doping - in which DNA is introduced into the body using an inactivated virus or by other means - could alter a person's genetic make-up and improve athletic performance by increasing muscle growth, blood production, endurance, oxygen dispersal or pain perception.
Since it cannot be detected, no one really knows whether athletes are using it or not.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/07/us-oly-dop-gene-day-idUSBRE8760W620120807

Let’s emancipate ourselves from financial slavery

Ian Fraser’s introduction: Paul Moore, the ‘HBOS whistleblower’, has launched a new organisation, the New Wilberforce Alliance, which aims to free the world from the modern-day slavery caused by the financialisation of our culture that took root in the 1980s. Here, Moore explains how the recent revelations of rampant immorality and criminality in the banking and financial sector are galvanising change
http://www.ianfraser.org/emancipate-yourselves-from-financial-slavery-none-but-ourselves-can-free-our-minds/

Hitler would have loved The Singularity: Mind-blowing benefits of merging human brains and computers

No longer need strokes and neurodegenerative diseases rob people of speech because we can turn their brainwaves directly into words.
But this is only the beginning. Neuroscientists are going to make the mind meld look like child’s play. Mankind is merging with its machines.
The process began centuries ago with simple devices such as eyeglasses and ear trumpets that could dramatically improve human lives.
Then came better machines, such as hearing aids; and then machines that could save lives, including pacemakers and dialysis machines.
By the second decade of the 21st Century, we have become used to organs grown in laboratories, genetic surgery and designer babies.

In 2002, medical researchers used enzymes and DNA to build the first molecular computers, and in 2004 improved versions were being injected into people’s veins to fight cancer.
By 2020 we may be able to put even cleverer nanocomputers into our brains to speed up synaptic links, give ourselves perfect memory and perhaps cure dementia.
But inserting technology into human brains is not the only thing going on. Some scientists also want to insert human brains into technology.
Since the Sixties, computer chips have been doubling their speed and halving their cost every 18 months or so.
If the trend continues, the inventor and predictor Ray Kurzweil has pointed out that by 2029 we will have computers powerful enough to run programs reproducing the 10,000 trillion electrical signals that flash around your skull every second.
They will also have enough memory to store the ten trillion recollections that make you who you are.

And they will also be powerful enough to scan, neuron by neuron, every contour and wrinkle of your brain.
What this means is that if the trends of the past 50 years continue, in 17 years’ time we will be able to upload an electronic replica of your mind on to a machine.
There will be two of you – one a flesh-and-blood animal, the other inside a computer’s circuits.
And if the trends hold fast beyond that, Kurzweil adds, by 2045 we will have a computer that is powerful enough to host every one of the eight billion minds on Earth.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2096522/The-singularity-Mind-blowing-benefits-merging-human-brains-computers.html#ixzz238iW9G5r

Putin’s Geopolitical Chess Game with Washington in Syria and Eurasia

Syria's rebels claim the regime has moved its chemical arsenal to airports near the country's borders, in a move they say is to intimidate foreign powers. Sources in Damascus, though, claim the lion's share of the stockpiles are stored securely in Syria's less-turbulent south.

William F. Engdahl, the author of "Myths, Lies and Oil Wars" talks to RT. He says the hype over Syria's chemical weapons may be a part of America's plan to topple inconvenient dictators.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IRkjL7UT70A#!

For blocking a UN resolution that could have led to military intervention in Syria, Russia has been accused by the Orwellian West of putting its national interests ahead of the lives of millions of Syrians. By scrutinizing Vladimir Putin’s actions since his reelection, William Engdahl shows that Russia is indeed pursuing her national interests which are best served by fostering a just and peaceful world environment and by thwarting the US-Israeli agenda for a Greater Middle East.
http://www.voltairenet.org/Putin-s-Geopolitical-Chess-Game

Alex Abella: Inside The RAND Corporation (Full Length • HD) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrkLwLTrIg

Andrew W. Marshall (born 1921) is the director of the United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment. Appointed to the position in 1973 by United States President Richard Nixon, Marshall has been re-appointed by every president that followed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Marshall_(foreign_policy_strategist)

Jonathan Johansson - Redan glömda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awRAfWW44VQ

How about quantitative easing for the people?

The one economic benefit of QE has been to help governments finance the huge deficits caused by recession without having to raise taxes, slash public spending or face Greek-style bankruptcy. In this sense, QE has certainly prevented the U.S. and Britain from suffering worse outcomes, but it has failed to stimulate employment or economic growth. This is exactly what Japan has experienced for 20 years – and as in Japan, additional rounds of QE now will merely act as an anesthetic, perpetuating stagnation but discouraging more effective stimulus measures.

One such radical measure is too controversial for any policymaker to mention publicly, although some have discussed it in private: Instead of giving newly created money to bond traders, central banks could distribute it directly to the public. Technically such cash handouts could be described as tax rebates or citizens’ dividends, and they would contribute to government deficits in national accounting. But these accounting deficits would not increase national debt burdens, since they would be financed by issuing new money, at zero cost to government or to future generations, instead of selling interest-bearing government bonds.

Giving away free money may sound too good to be true or wildly irresponsible, but it is exactly what the Fed and the BoE have been doing for bond traders and bankers since 2009. Directing QE to the general public would not only be much fairer but also more effective.

Suppose the new money created since 2009, instead of propping up bond prices, had simply been added to the bank accounts of all U.S. and British households. In the U.S., $2 trillion of QE could have financed a cash windfall of $6,500 for every man, woman and child, or $26,000 for a family of four. Britain’s QE of £375 billion is worth £6,000 per head or £24,000 per family. Even if only half the new money created were distributed in this way, these sums would be easily large enough to transform economic conditions, whether the people receiving these windfalls decided to spend them on extra consumption or save them and reduce debts.
http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2012/08/01/how-about-quantitative-easing-for-the-people/

CSPAN Rep Paul Kanjorski Reviews the Bailout Situation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD8viQ_DhS4&feature=player_embedded

Fall, Mortality, and the Machine: Tolkien and Technology

Writing to a friend in 1951, when The Lord of the Rings was nearly completed, J. R. R. Tolkien commented that though his book seemed to be largely about power, and the corruption of power, there were other issues more strongly in his mind: "Anyway all this stuff is mainly concerned with Fall, Mortality, and the Machine," and with power only as it relates to those three large themes. What did he mean by "the Machine"?

By the last I intend all use of external plans or devices (apparatus) instead of development of the inherent inner powers or talents -- or even the use of these talents with the corrupted motive of dominating: bulldozing the real world, or coercing other wills. The Machine is our more obvious modern form though more closely related to Magic than is usually recognised. . . . The Enemy in successive forms is always 'naturally' concerned with sheer Domination, and so the Lord of magic and machines.

The idea that technology ("the Machine") is a kind of magic, or at least deeply related to magic, is one that Tolkien shared with his close friend C. S. Lewis, who argued that, in the early modern period, "The serious magical endeavour and the serious scientific endeavour are twins: one was sickly and died, the other strong and throve." Science, Lewis continued, "is no doubt contrasted in our minds with that of the magicians: but contrasted only in the light of the event, only because we know that science succeeded and magic failed. That event was then still uncertain. Stripping off our knowledge of it, we see at once that [Sir Francis Bacon, one of the founders of experimental science] and the magicians have the closest possible affinity. . . . Nor would Bacon himself deny the affinity: he thought the aim of the magicians was 'noble.'"

So it makes sense, then, that the chief exponents of technology in The Lord of the Rings are a demonic figure bent on world domination (Sauron) and a wizard (Saruman). Treebeard, the Ent or tree-shepherd, says of Saruman, "He is plotting to become a Power. He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for growing things, except as far as they serve him for the moment."
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/fall-mortality-and-the-machine-tolkien-and-technology/260412/#

Lidberg överlycklig efter bronset

Jimmy Lidberg grät glädjetårar efter att ha tagit brons i 96-kilosklassen. Han vann bronsmatchen mot vitryssen Tsimafei Dzeinitjenka med 3-1.

-Efter den säsongen som jag haft så är detta bronset tio gånger guld för mig, säger en överlycklig Lidberg.

-Jag visste inte ens om jag skulle kunna starta för en vecka sedan, fortsätter Lidberg, som troligen gjorde karriärens sista match.

Bronsmatchen blev dramatisk. I tredje ronden och vid ställningen 1-1 var Lidberg tvungen att ta poäng i sitt parterröverläge. Han lyckades med en rullning och avgjorde därefter definitivt genom att få Dzeinitjenka, som själv valt att gå ner i parterrunderläge, på rygg.

Dzeinitjenka vann första ronden sedan Lidberg misslyckats med ett omvänt livtag i slutskedet i sitt parterröverläge. Svensken vann andra ronden efter att ha försvarat sig mot vitryssen när denne haft ett parterröverläge.

Lidberg, som enligt expertisen blev bortdömd i kvartsfinalen mot ryssen Rustam Totrov, tog sig samman och vann återkvalet mot Shalva Gadabadze sedan han pressat ut Azerbajdzjan-brottaren från matten i tredje ronden.

Den nesliga förlusten i kvartsfinalen verkade vara glömd för Lidberg när medaljen var säkrad. Han skrek ut sin glädje, kramade om sina tränare och fick en svensk flagga. Det tog inte många sekunder innan glädjetårarna rann ner för den färske OS-treans kinder.

Den avgående förbundskaptenen Benni Ljungbäck var också mycket lycklig efter Lidbergs brons:

-Han gör sin sista match, och jag gör min sista man som förbundskapten. Kan det bli en bättre avslutning?

I finalen vann iraniern Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei mot ryssen Totrov med 3-0. Lidberg delade bronset med armeniern Artur Aleksanjan.

http://www.svt.se/os/#brottning/lidberg-klar-for-bronsmatch?&_suid=134437090530108986244638036605

The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance

The theoretical framework presented in this article explains expert performance as the end result of individuals' prolonged efforts to improve performance while negotiating motivational and external constraints. In most domains of expertise, individuals begin in their childhood a regimen of effortful activities (deliberate practice) designed to optimize improvement. Individual differences, even among elite performers, are closely related to assessed amounts of deliberate practice. Many characteristics once believed to reflect innate talent are actually the result of intense practice extended for a minimum of 10 years. Analysis of expert performance provides unique evidence on the potential and limits of extreme environmental adaptation and learning.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/pdf/DeliberatePractice(PsychologicalReview).pdf

UK and Japan in worse shape than the Eurozone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3PTjOdMKwY&feature=player_embedded#!