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Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011 - New Scientist
AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies , mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy. The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable.(NaturalNews) Most people, even smart people, know surprisingly little about the way money really works in Big Government. With the debt ceiling fiasco suddenly raising awareness of the possibility of a total global financial blowout, now seems like a good time to remind people of seven disturbing facts about money that are almost never acknowledge in the old media. Fact #1 - There is no FDIC insurance fund. The money at your bank is insured against loss by the FDIC's insurance fund, right? Nope.
Seven startling things most people still don't know about the national debt, banking and the money supply
The essential point in the plans of the German National Socialist Workers’ party is the conquest of Lebensraum for the Germans, i.e., a territory so large and rich in natural resources that they could live in economic self-sufficiency at a standard not lower than that of any other nation. It is obvious that this program, which challenges and threatens all other nations, cannot be realized except through the establishment of German world hegemony. The distinctive mark of Nazism is not socialism or totalitarianism or nationalism. In all nations today the “progressives” are eager to substitute socialism for capitalism. While fighting the German aggressors Great Britain and the United States are, step by step, adopting the German pattern of socialism.
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
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From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green » Blog Archive » The world’s top 100 economies: 53 countries, 34 cities and 13 corporations
This is from the World Bank , which increasingly seems to be adopting the functions (or at least the methods) of campaigning NGOs and thinktanks. Data are for 2009, in purchasing power parity terms. Countries are in black, cities in green, companies in brown. Largest countries are the US and China (with India at number 4); biggest cities are Tokyo and New York, with notable presence of Latin American megacities (Mexico, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires); top companies are Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil (oil still trumps tech, sorry Google).Since 2005 Britain has dropped from fourth to seventh in the ranking of national economies. According to the Centre for Economics and Business Research, the country is set to drop out of the top ten by 2015 as Canada, India, Russia and China overtake. Much mournful commentary about the state of Britain, loss of prestige and influence is certain to follow. But the economic impact may be less significant than the psychological and diplomatic impact, warned Douglas McWilliams, Chief Executive of the CEBR. "Even after the end of Empire, the world's political agenda continued to be set by people with broadly the same cultural framework as the British. But some of those who are increasingly setting the world agenda have a degree of post colonial resentment against the British."
Brazil set to oust Britain from Top 10 economies | Business | The First Post
Last weekend, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C. hosted spontaneous " Hackathons " to brainstorm how to use various platforms to help Occupy Wall Street. One of the ideas hatched was Occupy Design , a new website that gives a "visual language" to protesters across the country. Jake Levitas, a designer from San Francisco who's heading up the project, says it's a chance to fight back at media who characterize the movement as directionless. "These are people who have valid concerns grounded in reality and grounded in data that can be communicated visually," Levitas says. "If we get these signs on CNN instead of the ones that say 'Screw capitalism' on a piece of cardboard," viewers don't see a generic grievance but "exactly how people are being screwed and by how much.
Occupy Design: Visual Tools for the 99 Percent - Design - GOOD
Europe's economies: Strong core, pain on the periphery | The Economist
THE interactive graphic above (updated January 13th 2011) illustrates the depth of the problems that the European economy faces. The euro-zone crisis reached a critical stage when Italy joined the seven per-cent club, the group of euro-zone countries whose borrowing costs (as measured by ten-year bond yields) have gone above 7% and stayed there. Its public debts are close to 120% of GDP. Only Greece has a greater burden. Ireland’s is lower but it has a large budget deficit so is adding to its debt at a rapid pace. So is Britain but it has benefited from being a non-euro haven and can still borrow very cheaply.
Steven D. Levitt is an economist. Stephen J. Dubner is a writer. They co-authored Freakonomics , a book about cheating teachers, bizarre baby names, self-dealing Realtors, and crack-selling mama’s boys.
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by Nikki While not an economist in the traditional sense, I am very interested in the study of economics. While not everyone shares this level of interest, I believe people should have an understanding of economics as the field is so important to understanding the world that we live in.
10 Lesser Known Economic Issues
Jetlag has me up and at the keyboard at 5.54am here in London, 43 minutes before sunrise, which today is at 6.37am. Only it’s not “sunrise”, is it? As we all know, it’s really “Earth Axial Rotate” at the point in its 24 hour axial rotation when the Sun—around which the Earth rotates once each year—becomes visible from London. Click here for this post in PDF We still call it “sunrise” because it’s a lot less awkward—and a lot more romantic—than saying “Earth Axial Rotate Earth-Sun Radial Alignment”, which is what it really is. We all know that it’s not really the Sun “rising” at all: that implies that the Earth is fixed while the Sun rotates around it, whereas ever since Copernicus we have known that, though it looks that way to a naïve observer on Earth, that’s not what really happens.
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