WE ~ Arundhati Roy – pt.1/7
Each day next week we will be featuring an additional part of this terrific and important 7 part documentary.
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THE CRIME OF THE CANADIAN BANKING SYSTEM: Bill Abram (part 1
Over the past 4 years, the Canadian people have paid $137.4 billion in interest on money borrowed from private banks whereas the Bank of Canada could legally print the public’s money into existence rather than borrowing it at interest. “They’ve paid out this huge sum because our government has failed to abide by the law.” Abram, a retired high school teacher and activist on Vancouver Island, B.C., explicates the trick of fractional reserve banking (part 1 of a series; snowshoefilms yoryevrah
Duration : 0:10:37
Categories: Banking Tags: Abram, Bank, Banking, Bill, canada, commentar, debt, Federal, fractional, money, Reserve, snowshoefilms, Vancouver, yoryevrah
Hubert Humphrey 1948 Civil Rights Speech
Number 66 on the Top 100 Greatest Speeches of the 20th Century List – http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html
Hubert Humphrey gave this speech supporting civil rights, causing 35 delegates from Mississippi and Alabama to walk out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention. Humphrey urged the Democratic Party to “get out of the shadow of states’ rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights”. When President Truman endorsed this civil rights plank, governor of South Carolina Strom Thurmond helped organize the walkout of delegates into a separate party. The party Thurmond formed was called the “Dixiecrats” and it’s racist slogan was “Segregation Forever!”.
Duration : 0:9:52
Categories: Civil Rights Tags: American Rhetoric, Civil Rights, Dewey defeats Truman, Dixiecrat, Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, Human Rights, segregation, Strom Thurmond, Top 100 Speeches
Barack Obama on Energy and the Environment
Barack Obama discusses his plan for a clean energy future.
Duration : 0:6:6
Categories: Environment Tags: barack, Environment, Obama
Global Warming Affects Crops, Food Supply
An international conference on world food security and climate change took place recently in Rome. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was there, along with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Experts say global warming is having an impact on the world’s food supply and may impact it even more in the future. VOA’s Carolyn Presutti explains.
Duration : 0:3:53
Categories: Food Supply Tags: Agriculture, atmosphere, change, climate, disease, ecology, gas, greenhouse, news, presutti, temperature, voa, weed
