A film by Franklin Lopez (available among other great stuff at subMedia.tv)
END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Frederick Douglass
This is perhaps the #1 point that every historian (economic especially) needs to convey. Education systems (broadly defined: religions, schools, media, etc) are of course concerned with teaching the opposite so that people will NOT demand and will wait meekly for their masters to through them some scraps and not beat them TOO hard.
Chris Garlock and Jay Gordon joined Jesse & i
Links:
Bitcoin (anonymous, peer-to-peer, electronic payments system)
The Reinhart-Rogoff fiasco in which the seminal paper behind austerity policies (tax cuts for rich + cost-cutting for everybody else) is exposed as shockingly sloppy.
With Jay Gordon. No we didn’t break out in song from The Wizard of Oz… but almost haha
Punkonomics (@DearBalak) 