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Reward
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Good Old Capitalism…
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Cattle Boom in Brazil’s Acre Spells Doom for Amazon Rainforest, Activists Warn
Sarah Brown | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – With about 80% of its forests still untouched, Acre is one of Brazil’s least-deforested Amazonian states. But in the past three decades, the thriving cattle industry has become a major threat to Acre’s forests, with livestock now outnumbering the state’s human population by a factor of four.
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The Real Antidote to Inflation: Stoking the Fire without Burning Down the Barn
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
24 Dec 2021 The Fed has options for countering the record inflation the U.S. is facing that are more productive and less risky than raising interest rates.
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Patterns
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Paradigm Change
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Necessary Struggle
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Indeed
→ read full articleThe Case for a Central Bank Digital Currency
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – Whether the U.S. should have its own Central Bank Digital Currency is hotly debated. Several countries, including China, already have CBDCs in operation. Prof. Saule Omarova, President Biden’s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency, is in favor and has made a strong case for it.
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Appearances
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
Deceitful
→ read full articleConservation or Land Grab? The Financialization of Nature
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
5 Nov 2021 – Just in time for the UN’s policy push for “30 x 30” – 30% of the earth to be “conserved” by 2030 – a new Wall Street asset class puts up for sale the processes underpinning all life.
→ read full articleA New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
1 Oct 2021 – Oceans of water are beneath our feet, and new technologies are extracting it economically without ecological damage.
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The Meaning of the FDA Resignations
Jeffrey A. Tucker | Brownstone Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
14 Sep 2021 – How significant is it that the two top US Food and Drug Administration officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in The Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters? This is a remarkable sign that the project of government-managed virus mitigation is in the final stages before falling apart.
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Costs of War Project – Sep 2021
Watson Institute | Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
• Over 929,000 people died from violence in post-9/11 wars; several times as many from effects of war
• Over 387,000 civilians killed
• 38 million refugees and displaced persons
• US price tag over $8 trillion
• US government leads counterterror in 85 countries
• Wars caused violations of human rights and civil liberties in U.S. and abroad
Quick Quiz
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Find the ass.
→ read full articleNature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us from the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – On July 14, the EU unveiled sweeping climate change and emissions targets that would mean “the end of the internal combustion engine.” Hemp fuel and other biofuels could quickly reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they’re often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech climate solutions.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Somewhere on Earth
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Trade Mark
→ read full articleHow America Went from Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and what can be done?
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The Costs of War to U.S. Allies since 9/11
Jason W. Davidson | Watson Institute/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – The US allies in the post-9/11 wars have borne significant human and budgetary costs. They were the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that have grown from the “Global War on Terror.” While the Afghan and Iraqi governments incurred the highest human costs, this research paper focuses on the human and financial contributions of European and other allies of the U.S.
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Ramsey Clark, Attorney General Who Became a Critic of U.S. Policies, Dies at 93
Emma Brown | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Ramsey Clark, the U.S. attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson who redefined himself as a relentless critic of American foreign policy and as a courtroom defender of figures such as former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, died April 9 at his home in New York City. He was 93.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Perhaps…
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When War Becomes Major Business
Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
That Which Unites ‘the Good Guys’ under God and the Dollar
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Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
Working
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Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
Or did you?
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United States Counterterrorism Operations, 2018-2020
Watson Institute/Brown University | Costs of War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Feb 2021 – From 2018 to 2020, the United States government undertook what it labeled “counterterrorism” activities in 85 countries. The map illustrates countries in which the U.S. government conducted operations it explicitly described as counterterrorism, in an outgrowth of President George W. Bush’s “Global War on Terror.”
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Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
4 Mar 2021 – Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. Sixteen new bills to form publicly-owned banks or facilitate their formation were introduced in eight U.S. states just in Jan and Feb. Faced with the dire Covid-19 crisis, some lawmakers are starting to see publicly-owned banks as the key to ensuring an equitable economic recovery.
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Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
No comment…
→ read full articleThe Gamers’ Uprising against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
11 Feb 2021 – A short squeeze frenzy driven by a new generation of gamers captured financial headlines in recent weeks, centered on a struggling strip mall video game store called GameStop. Wall Street may own the country, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is fighting back.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
Following orders… Right!
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Upcoming Ruling in Assange Trial Threatens More Than Just Freedom of the Press
Steve Brown | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
2 Jan 2021 – His two children could lose their father for the rest of their lives. Although important legal principles are at stake in the extradition trial of Julian Assange, for which a ruling will be handed down on January 4, it should not be forgotten that there are important human issues at stake as well. One such issue is Assange’s health.
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Fools’ Crusade: Why United States Provocations towards China Will Lead to Disaster
Jeff J. Brown and Jeremy Kuzmarov | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020 – On July 21st, The New York Times ran a front-page article highlighting the revival of the Committee on the Present Danger, a Cold War organization that called for greater military spending to meet the Soviet threat, but whose focus is now on China. Joe Biden told Foreign Affairs that the U.S. needed to get tough with China calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “thug” who “doesn’t have a democratic bone in his body.” A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that 73 per cent of Americans had an unfavourable view of China.
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Tackling the Infrastructure and Unemployment Crises: The “American System” Solution
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest problems.
→ read full articleWhy the Fed Needs Public Banks
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – The Fed’s policy tools – interest rate manipulation, quantitative easing, and “Special Purpose Vehicles” – have all failed to revive local economies suffering from government-mandated shutdowns. The Fed must rely on private banks to inject credit into Main Street, and private banks are currently unable or unwilling to do it. The tools the Fed actually needs are public banks, which could and would do the job.
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(Français) Stefania Maurizi: « C’est un incroyable échec du journalisme »
Stefania Maurizi interviewée par Nadja Vancauwenberghe et John Brown | Le Grand Soir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
18 oct 2020 – La journaliste italienne Stefania Maurizi a travaillé pour certaines des plus grandes publications du pays, dont la Repubblica, l’Espresso et, maintenant, Il Fatto Quotidiano. En 2009, elle a commencé à travailler avec Julian Assange et WikiLeaks sur des dossiers secrets concernant la guerre en Afghanistan, les câbles de la diplomatie américaine et les détenus de Guantanamo.
→ read full articleFools’ Crusade: Why United States Provocations towards China Will Lead to Disaster
Jeff J. Brown and Jeremy Kuzmarov | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
25 Oct 2020 – On July 4, 2020, the U.S. Navy dispatched an unprecedented two aircraft carriers and four other warships to the South China Sea for naval maneuvers in waters claimed by China. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo subsequently broke with the official U.S. policy of neutrality in territorial conflicts in the South China Sea and declared that China’s claims to most of the Sea were “completely unlawful,” though most of the disputed territories had been part of China prior to being taken over by Japan in the 1895 Sino-Japanese War.
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How We Can Fix This Pandemic in a Month
Damien Downing, MBBS, MRSB | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – The Orthomolecular Medicine News Service has been publicizing the importance of vitamins D and C, and the minerals zinc and magnesium, in this pandemic since January. I have been writing about vitamin D and sunlight for over 30 years, and it has never been more relevant.
→ read full articleFrom Lockdown to Police State: The “Great Reset” Rolls Out
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – Questioning the unreliability of the tests in a Wired interview, even Bill Gates acknowledged that most US test results are “garbage.” The Polymerase Chain Reaction technology used in the nasal swab test for COVID-19 detection was regarded by its own inventor, Nobel prize winner Kary Mullis, as inappropriate to detect viral infection. “Excess mortality rates are caused by therapy and lockdown while death statistics include diseases redefined as COVID-19 only because of a “positive” test result whose value could not be more doubtful.”
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Formerly Incarcerated Women Launch Chicago Worker Cooperative
Karen Kahn | Employee Ownership News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
6 Jul 2020 – It’s not often that a business launches weeks before its planned opening. But in the case of ChiFresh Kitchen, a worker cooperative owned and operated by four formerly incarcerated women and one man, the COVID-19 pandemic turned out to be a blessing. ChiFresh Kitchen prepares meals to help address food insecurity during the pandemic.
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Déjà vu All Over Again?
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Or still the same scene? Define progress…
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Did you hear about the monkeys who shared an Amazon account?
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Kim Jong-un announced in a news conference that North Korea would be sending a man to the sun within ten years!
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How We Can Fix This Pandemic in a Month
Damien Downing, MBBS, MRSB | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
22 Jun 2020 – If we act on the data showing that it is highly probable that vitamin D can save lives, we could fix this pandemic in a month, for perhaps $2 per person. There would be no significant adverse effects.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
An old grandma brings a bus driver a bag of peanuts every day.
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Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020 – BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars from the Federal Reserve. The fate of a large portion of the country’s corporations has been put in the hands of a megalithic private entity with the private capitalist mandate to make as much money as possible for its owners and investors; and that is what it has proceeded to do.
→ read full articleWhen Profits and Politics Drive Science: The Hazards of Rushing a Vaccine at “Warp Speed”
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
4 Jun 2020 – More than 100 companies are competing to be first in the race to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. It’s a race against time, not because the death rate is climbing but because it is falling – to the point where there could soon be too few subjects to prove the effectiveness of the drug.
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Animal Rights Activists Uncover the Locations of Thousands of Factory Farms
Alleen Brown | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
31 May 2020 – Animal rights activists published an interactive map today revealing the locations of more than 27,500 farms and animal agriculture facilities, including 5,812 identified using satellite imagery, many of which do not appear in public records. Users will be able to pin new locations to the map and attach photos and videos documenting animal cruelty and health violations. The animal agriculture industry has spent decades fighting to avoid the disclosure of such information.
→ read full articleAnother Bank Bailout under Cover of a Virus
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
18 May 2020 – Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities.
→ read full articleInstant Feedback
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
One shop owner asks another,
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
My old aunts would come and tease me at weddings,
→ read full articleCrushing the States, Saving the Banks: The Fed’s Generous New Rules
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
2 May 2020 – The banks are making extremely well in this crisis. The Federal Reserve has dropped interest rates to 0.25%, eliminated reserve requirements, and relaxed capital requirements. Banks can now borrow effectively for free. Following the playbook of the 2008-09 bailout, they can make the funds available to their Wall Street cronies to buy up distressed Main Street assets at fire sale prices, while continuing to lend to credit cardholders at 21%.
→ read full articleAre We Having Fun Yet?
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Dog life…
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Doctor: “I’m sorry but you suffer from a terminal illness and have only 10 to live.”
→ read full articleA Universal Basic Income Is Essential and Will Work
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 – A central bank-financed UBI can fill the debt gap, providing a vital safety net while preventing cyclical recessions. Spain is slated to become the first country in Europe to introduce a universal basic income (UBI) on a long-term basis. Its Minister for Economic Affairs has announced plans to roll out a UBI “as soon as possible,” with the goal of providing a nationwide basic wage that supports citizens “forever.”
→ read full articleWas the Fed Just Nationalized?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
3 Apr 2020 – Did Congress just nationalize the Fed? No. But the door to that result has been cracked open.
→ read full articleSocialism at Its Finest after Fed’s Bazooka Fails
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
21 Mar 2020 – In what is being called the worst financial crisis since 1929, the US stock market has lost a third of its value in the space of a month, wiping out all of its gains of the last three years. When the Federal Reserve tried to ride to the rescue, it only succeeded in making matters worse. The government then pulled out all the stops. To our staunchly capitalist leaders, socialism is suddenly looking good.
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Rondo Alla Turca (Music Video of the Week)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
The 5 Browns playing an arrangement and rift of Mozart’s Alla Turca by Greg Anderson. The video was made at the International Street Pianos Art Installment, “Play Me, I’m Yours.”
→ read full articleThe Fed’s Baffling Response to the Coronavirus Explained
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Mar 2020 – The next time the country’s largest banks become insolvent, rather than bailing them out it should nationalize them. The banks could then be used to fund infrastructure and other government projects to stimulate the economy, following the model of China.
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Eating Meat: Links to Chronic Disease Might Be Related to Amino Acids–New Findings
Laura Brown and Kelly Rose – The Conversation,
9 Mar 2020
17 Feb 2020 – Eating plant-based proteins is linked with lower risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
A man goes to his doctor and says, “Please help me, doctor. I think my eyesight is really worsening.”
→ read full articleMexico’s President AMLO Shows How It’s Done
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
8 Feb 2020 – While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in the country. At a press conference on Jan. 6, he said the neoliberal model had failed; private banks were not serving the poor and people outside the cities, so the government had to step in.
→ read full articleThe Fed Protects Gamblers at the Expense of the Economy
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – This does not serve the real economy, in which products, services and jobs are created. However, the Fed is trapped into this speculative monetary expansion to avoid a cascade of defaults of the sort it was facing with the long-term capital management crisis in 1998 and the Lehman crisis in 2008. The repo market is a fragile house of cards waiting for a strong wind to blow it down, propped up by misguided monetary policies that have forced central banks to underwrite its highly risky ventures.
→ read full articleRing any Bells?
David G. Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Right!
→ read full articleThe Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 – The problem may be that a transition to 100% renewables is the wrong target. Reversing climate change need not mean emptying our pockets and tightening our belts. It is possible to sequester carbon and restore our collapsing ecosystem using the financial resources we already have, and it can be done while at the same time improving the quality of our food, water, air and general health.
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Oh Holy Night
HomeTown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Our Rendition for the Christmas Season
→ read full articlePaul Volcker’s Long Shadow
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called Paul Volcker “the most effective chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.” But while Volcker, who passed away Dec. 8 at age 92, probably did have the greatest historical impact of any Fed chairman, his legacy is, at best, controversial.
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A Game-Changer in the Fight against Ebola
Sarah Baldwin | Watson Institute, Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
27 Nov 2019 -In modern medicine, physicians and health care practitioners tend to talk about treatments rather than cure. It’s a spectrum. For a disease that had 66 percent mortality that can now be decreased to as low as 10 or 15 percent if you get this treatment early, I have no problem calling that a cure.
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Turner Prize Awarded Four Ways after Artists’ Plea to Judges
Mark Brown – The Guardian,
9 Dec 2019
3 Dec 2019 – All four artists shortlisted for the 2019 Turner prize have been named winners after they came together and made a plea for judges to recognise the causes of “commonality, multiplicity and solidarity”.
→ read full articlePublic Banks: Good Solution or Dangerous Gamble?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
5 Dec 2019 – What is a public bank and how does it differ from private banks? I just finished a run of 11 presentations and in-person interviews. Here’s a video from one, a debate with a county official sponsored by the League of Women Voters, and two power points from another, the Soil and Nutrition Conference.
→ read full articleIs the Run on the Dollar Due to Panic or Greed?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
7 Nov 2019 – Why are banks no longer lending to each other? Are they afraid that collapse is imminent somewhere in the system, as with the Lehman collapse in 2008? Perhaps, and if so the likely suspect is Deutsche Bank. But it looks to be just another case of Wall Street fattening itself at the public trough.
→ read full articleStreet Pianos – Rondo Alla Turca (Music Video of the Week)
the5brownsmusic's channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
The 5 Browns playing an arrangement and rift of Mozart’s Alla Turca by Greg Anderson. The video was filmed while playing the international street pianos art called “Play Me, I’m Yours.”
→ read full articleRestoring the Korean Economic Miracle
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
This paper was written for the Economics of Happiness Conference co-sponsored by Local Futures, held in Jeonju, Korea, on October 16-17, where I was the keynote speaker — a wonderful city and great experience!
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Not Convinced on the Need for Urgent Climate Action? Here’s What Happens to Our Planet between 1.5°C and 2°C of Global Warming
Rachel Warren and Sally Brown – The Conversation,
30 Sep 2019
24 Sep 2019 – Nations are signed up to limit global heating to well below 2°C, and to aim for 1.5°C. Limiting warming to the latter matters – the future of humanity and the living world is at stake. Climate breakdown is already harming livelihoods, cities and ecosystems. From heatwaves and droughts to cyclones and floods, devastating extreme weather events are more frequent, more intense and more unpredictable than they would be in the absence of global heating.
→ read full articleThe Disaster of Negative Interest Rates
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
29 Sep 2019 – President Trump wants negative interest rates, but they would be disastrous for the U.S. economy; his objectives can be better achieved by other means.
→ read full articleDesperate Central Bankers Grab for More Power
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
18 Sep 2019 – Conceding that their grip on the economy is slipping, central bankers are proposing a radical economic reset that would shift yet more power from government to themselves.
→ read full articleThe Key to a Sustainable Economy Is 5,000 Years Old
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
30 Aug 2019 – We are again reaching the point known as “peak debt,” when debts have compounded to the point that their cumulative total cannot be paid. Student debt, credit card debt, auto loans, business debt and sovereign debt are all higher than they have ever been. As economist Michael Hudson writes, “Debts that can’t be paid won’t be paid.” The question, he says, is ‘how’ they won’t be paid.
→ read full articlePerspective
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
Drawing
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What Is Empathy?
Dr Brené Brown | RSA Short – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
What is the best way to ease someone’s pain and suffering? We can only create a genuine empathic connection if we get in touch with our own fragility. Dr Brené Brown is a researcher, professor and author who has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame.
→ read full articleNeoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – America’s chief competitor in the trade war is obviously China, which subsidizes not just worker costs but the costs of its businesses. The government owns 80% of the banks. Typically, if the businesses cannot repay the loans, neither the banks nor the businesses are put into bankruptcy. The non-performing loans are just carried on the books or written off. No private creditors are hurt, since the creditor is the government, and the loans were created on the banks’ books in the first place (following standard banking practice globally).
→ read full articleHave a Nice Day!
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Ipsis Literis
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Remote Control
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Wouldn’t Get Fooled Again (Music Video of the Week)
Pete Townshend | The Who – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
A Classic from 1971 whose lyrics are even truer today.
→ read full articleThe Cheapest Way to Save the Planet Grows Like a Weed
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019 – Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. For skeptics who reject the global warming thesis, reforestation also addresses the critical problems of mass species extinction and environmental pollution, which are well documented. Rather than engaging in endless debates over carbon taxes and Silicon Valley-style technological fixes, we need to be regenerating our soils, our forests and our oceans with nature’s own plant solutions.
→ read full articleA Compliment
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Really!?
→ read full articleAstronaut
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
One of those…
→ read full articleDam!
Anonymous/Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
A boy is selling fish on a corner. To get his customers’ attention, he is yelling, “Dam fish for sale! Get your dam fish here!”
→ read full articleLibra: Facebook’s Audacious Bid for Global Monetary Control
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2019
On June 18, Facebook unveiled a white paper outlining ambitious plans to create a new global cryptocurrency called Libra, to be launched in 2020. It has high hopes that Libra will become the foundation for a new financial system free of control by Wall Street and central banks. But it will not be competing with Visa or Mastercard, which are among its 28 soon-to-be co-founding members, including Paypal, Stripe, Uber, Lyft and eBay.
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Costs of War
Watson Institute | Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
June 2019 – The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria. There are many hidden or unacknowledged costs of the United States’ decision to respond to the 9/11 attacks with military force. We aim to foster democratic discussion of these wars by providing the fullest possible account of their human, economic, and political costs, and to foster better informed public policies.
→ read full articleThe American Dream Is Alive and Well—in China
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
14 Jun 2019 – Unlike the U.S. government, the Chinese government supports its workers and its industries. Rather than penalizing China for that “unfair” trade practice, perhaps the U.S. government should try doing the same. China’s legacy is socialist, and after opening to international trade it has continued to serve the collective good, particularly of its workers. Meanwhile, the U.S. model has been regressing into feudalism, with workers driven into slave-like conditions through debt.
→ read full articleThe Bankers’ “Power Revolution”: How the Government Got Shackled by Debt
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
31 May 2019 – The debt-growth model has reached its limits, as even the Bank for International Settlements, the “central bankers’ bank” in Switzerland, acknowledges. The BIS said that debt levels were too high, productivity growth was too low, and the room for policy maneuver was too narrow. “The global economy cannot afford to rely any longer on the debt-fueled growth model that has brought it to the current juncture,” the BIS warned. But the solutions it proposed would continue the austerity policies long imposed on countries that cannot pay their debts.
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Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
25 May 2019 – Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age, by Ellen Brown, Democracy Collaborative (June 1, 2019). Today most of our money is created, not by governments, but by banks when they make loans. This book takes the reader step by step through the sausage factory of modern money creation, explores improvements made possible by advances in digital technology, and proposes upgrades that could transform our outmoded nineteenth century system into one that is democratic, sustainable, and serves the needs of the twenty-first century.
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Testing the Line: As Animal Rights Activists Push Legal Boundaries, Canada Considers What Makes a Terrorist
Alleen Brown – The Intercept,
20 May 2019
12 May 2019 – Industry representatives in Canada have pointed to special penalties in the U.S. for those who trespass or capture footage on animal agriculture properties.
→ read full articleThe Public Banking Revolution Is Upon Us
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – As public banking gains momentum across the country, policymakers in California and Washington State are vying to form the nation’s second state-owned bank, following in the footsteps of the highly successful Bank of North Dakota, founded in 1919.
→ read full articleWhy Is the Fed Paying So Much Interest to Banks?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
3 Apr 2019 – Combining postal banks with a network of local public banks having affordable access to the Fed’s deep pocket could provide a safe and efficient public banking option for individuals, businesses and local governments.
→ read full articleMonetary Policy Takes Center Stage: MMT, QE or Public Banks?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
21 Mar 2019 – As alarm bells sound over the advancing destruction of the environment, a variety of Green New Deal proposals have appeared in the U.S. and Europe, along with some interesting academic debates about how to fund them. Monetary policy, normally relegated to obscure academic tomes and bureaucratic meetings behind closed doors, has suddenly taken center stage.
→ read full articleQE Forever: The Fed’s Dramatic About-face
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
21 Feb 2019 – Loans create deposits, and deposits make up the bulk of the money supply. Money today is created by banks as a debt on their balance sheets, and more is always owed back than was created, since the interest claimed by the banks is not created in the original loan. Debt thus grows faster than the money supply. When overextended borrowers quit taking out the new loans needed to repay old loans, the gap widens even further.
→ read full articleThe Venezuela Myth Keeping Us from Transforming Our Economy
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
9 Feb 2019 – Venezuela’s problems are not the result of the government issuing money and using it to hire people to build infrastructure, provide essential services and expand economic development. If it were, unemployment would not be at 33 percent and climbing. Venezuela has a problem the U.S. does not, and will never have: It owes massive debts in a currency it cannot print itself, namely, U.S. dollars. When oil (its principal resource) was booming, Venezuela was able to meet its repayment schedule.
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Recrafting International Relations through Relationality
Tamara Trownsell, Amaya Querejazu Escobari, et al. | E-IR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
How we relate to others should be a central concern of the field of International Relations. However, independent political communities—states—and their interrelations have historically been the ‘focus’ of the discipline of IR, thus limiting the forms of interaction that potentially constitute the ‘field.’ We would like to extend an invitation to bring relations back into IR. That is, besides knowing how to study and apply predetermined notions of what constitutes the “international”, it is also critical to know how to start from/with “relations.”
→ read full articleWhy Germany Leads in Renewables: It Has Its Own Green Bank
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
26 Jan 2019 – The leader in renewable energy is Germany, called “the world’s first major renewable energy economy.” Germany has a public sector development bank called KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau or “Reconstruction Credit Institute”), which is even larger than the World Bank. Unlike private commercial banks, KfW does not have to focus on maximizing short-term profits for its shareholders while turning a blind eye to external costs, including those imposed on the environment.
→ read full articleUniversal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
28 Dec 2018 – The pros and cons of a UBI are hotly debated and have been discussed elsewhere. The point here is to show that it could actually be funded year after year without driving up taxes or prices. New money is continually being added to the money supply, but it is added as debt created privately by banks.
→ read full articleThis Radical Plan to Fund the ‘Green New Deal’ Just Might Work
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
17 Dec 2018 – With what Naomi Klein calls “galloping momentum,” the “Green New Deal” promoted by newly-elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appears to be forging a political pathway for solving all of the ills of society and the planet in one fell swoop.
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Costs of Post-9/11 U.S. Wars to 2019: $5.9 Trillion
Neta C. Crawford | Watson Institute, Brown University - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 -The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $5.9 trillion on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post-9/11 war veterans.
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A Nobel Prize-Winning Cancer Therapy Will Be Unaffordable for Most. Public Pharmaceuticals Can Help Change That.
Dana Brown | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
9 Oct 2018 – Cuba has, perhaps, the most developed public pharmaceutical sector in the world and is actually known for its achievements in biologics. It nationalized the pharmaceutical sector in 1960 and consolidated a number of pharmaceutical manufacturing companies under the auspices of the Ministry of Health. By 2013, the Cuban biotechnology industry held around 1,200 international patents and was marketing pharmaceutical products and vaccines in more than 50 countries.
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The Suffocation of Democracy
Christopher R. Browning | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
25 Oct 2018 – As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe. I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference.
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