People living in Colorado Springs wondered why their rain water barrel was almost empty every day. They set up a couple of cameras and look what they caught on film.
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We need a jobs policy to get us out of the depression
Posted on January 31, 2012 by Ralph Metzner
In an article published in Vanity Fair (Dec 21, 2011), Joseph Stiglitz, professor of economics at Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, former Chief Economist of the World Bank and author of Globalization and its Discontents (2003) takes a different tack, arguing that monetary policy changes are not as important as [...]
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Monetarists call for return to the gold standard to stabilize world currencies
Posted on January 31, 2012 by Ralph Metzner
As the world’s, especially the West’s, economies careen wildly between inflationary and deflationary trends, conservative hard-money proponents are predicting or announcing the demise of the dollar as the de facto reserve currency and pushing for the return of some kind of modified gold standard, or gold-silver standard, to stabilize economic fluctuations. In a column for [...]
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Noam Chomsky on the American Policy of World Militarization
Posted on January 31, 2012 by Ralph Metzner
In an interview with The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers, published Dec 16, 2011 in the online journal Waging Nonviolence and republished in TRUTHOUT.ORG, Noam Chomsky returns to his familiar though no less valid critique of the long-standing U.S. agenda of world imperial domination. There is very little doubt that the U.S. government intends to maintain [...]
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Seven ways to rein in the Wall Street Plutocracy
Posted on January 24, 2012 by Ralph Metzner
In an article published on Alternet (Jan 4, 2012) Les Leopold wrote about the steps we (the people, the regulators, Congress) could and should take to get control of finance system back from the financial speculators and the predatory investment banks that support them. “These banks and those who run them are living off the [...]
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Michael Moore on next steps for the OWS movement
Posted on January 20, 2012 by Ralph Metzner
(These passages extracted from his newsletters) The national conversation has been irreversibly changed. Now everyone is talking about how the 1% are getting away with all the money while the 99% struggle to make ends meet. People are no longer paralyzed by despair or apathy. Most know that now is the time to reclaim our country [...]
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Dennis Kucinich calls on Congress to disempower the Federal Reserve
Posted on January 20, 2012 by Ralph Metzner
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime advocate for reform of the Federal Reserve (like fellow Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)), sharply criticized the Federal Reserve today after Bloomberg News reported that the Federal Reserve secretly committed nearly $8 trillion in support to American and International financial institutions during the 2008 bailout. Kucinich address: Before going to the [...]
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Brilliant short satirical video on the official conspiracy theory of 9/11
Posted on January 20, 2012 by Ralph Metzner
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Comic clip on the “stoned ape theory” of human evolution
Posted on January 10, 2012 by Ralph Metzner
My friend, the late evolutionary philosopher Terence McKenna, was celebrated for his elegantly humorous discourses on the consciousness-expanding virtues of psychedelic mushrooms. Audio and video recordings of his talks are pervasive on the internet. He also made a serious contribution to the theory of human evolution by postulating that the accidental ingestion of hallucinogenic, consciousness-expanding [...]
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