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Money as a debt
Paul Grignon’s 47-minute animated presentation of “Money as Debt” tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. A painless but hard-hitting educational tool for those concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system inCanada, theUnited Statesand most of the global economy.
Is GDP An Obsolete Measure of Progress? Time Online
August 25, 2011
An article by Judith D. Schwartz Since last summer the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has gone up — indeed, it grew at a surprising 5.7% rate in the 4th quarter — seeming to confirm what we’ve been hearing: the recession is officially over. But wait — foreclosure and unemployment rates remain high, and food […]
The Consumption paradigm
August 21, 2011
For the last four centuries, the world has been dominated by the belief that everything that exists is material and that consciousness and inner states of being, things like happiness, love, well being and self esteem, are the result of physical/bio chemical processes taking place inside the body/brain complex. Consciousness is defined as a by-product of […]
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The Spirit of the 21st Century 
August 25, 2011
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