By John Reimann  “Competition in a global economy is… not an option…. Rich people can always take their wealth elsewhere.” That was how one columnist in the Wall St. Journal (Bret Stephens, WSJ, 4/24/12) denounced the French voters for in effect rejecting the austerity measures of Sarkozy in their recent (Sunday, April 22) elections, and this has been the theme of the corporate propagandists for decades now ...

with video here. Credit and monetary reform is a transition phase between the rigged-casino economy of today and The Venus Project’s resource-based economy. The present and future of the US economy can be understood in three steps: A critical mass of the 99% recognize the credit and monetary system we have is a rigged casino; a conspiracy of a 1% and their purchased minions in banking, politics, and corpora ...

On January 23 the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU), the trade “ union” group for for-profit colleges in the United States, announced that former president George W. Bush would be the keynote speaker at the lobbying group’s annual conference on June 22, 2012 at Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.  It is telling that private for-profit, Wall street traded companies wou ...

ET3 develops leading-edge research for the public transportation that can be fully-funded with credit and monetary reform. This 43-second video shows their evacuated tube transport system with top speeds of 4,000 mph. Monetary reform creates money for direct payment of public goods and services; funding employment for infrastructure investment. This creates triple benefits of full-employment, optimal and ev ...

The first 51 minutes of this video (following discussion here) from Claremont Colleges’ Center for Process Studies’ conference, “Money-Creation in a Finite World,” is Professor Mark Anielski’s presentation to explain how economics can, and should, be designed to enlighten, inform, and empower accomplishment of human happiness. Note: the bottom-right of the video has screen options to switch screen-in-screen ...

 On April 18, 2012 US Senators Tom  Harkin and Kay Hagan introduced a bill to prohibit all colleges  from using money from federal student assistance programs, including Title IV student loans and grants, Veterans benefits and the GI Bill, to pay for marketing, advertising and recruiting (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-04/D9U7I8580.htm). The bill was precipitated by aggressive and misleading recruiting ...

I documented personal history how US political “leadership” and corporate media allow a million children to die from preventable poverty each month. For Wall Street’s role in this child-slaughtering, UK Independent’s Grace Livingstone deftly explains (my emphasis): "Speculation by large investment banks is driving up food prices for the world's poorest people, tipping millions into hunger and poverty. Inves ...

From Larry Miller's Blog: The following is from Larry Miller's blog out of Wisconsin. You can readmore about Howard Fuller and his insidious plans for Wisconsin schools in an article entitled:  "Welcome to Wisconsin: Taking away ‘public choice’ in education, abdicating reasoning and critical thinking as necessities for creating the new neo-feudal economic arrangement" at: Welcome to Wisconsin: Taking away ‘ ...

The first 32 minutes of this video from Claremont Colleges’ Center for Process Studies’ conference, “Money-Creation in a Finite World,” is Professor Timothy Canova’s presentation to explain how the Federal Reserve can be governed away from its captured status to redirect trillions of dollars in annual benefits for Americans (recent paper here). Note: the bottom-right of the video has screen options to switc ...

From: Larry Miller's blog Dateline: Wisconsin Again April 15, 2012 By Brendan Fischer – Originally posted on the Center for Media and Democracy’s PRwatch.org Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker asked members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) for “help” and “support” in his upcoming recall election in a speech at the organization’s annual meeting on April 13, where he received an award for signing into law ...