http://www.ustvmedia.org Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:27:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Insightful and educational article by Ellen Brown on our banking system, and why North Dakota has a model well worth emulating in the rest of the country. Highly recommended for those interested in better understanding our current financial situation, and for some real-world, workable public interest solutions to effectively ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/banking-banksters-the-financial-crisis/2010/03/14/cut-wall-street-out-how-states-can-finance-their-own-economic-recovery/ Quoting from the dust cover on this book by Lee Siegal... "Lee Siegel argues that our ever-deepening immersion in life online doesn't just reshape the ordinary rhythms of our days; it also reshapes our minds and culture in ways with which we haven't yet reckoned. The Web and its cultural correlatives ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/media-and-democracy/2010/03/11/against-the-machine-being-human-in-the-age-of-the-electronic-mob/ Though this year's list of Academy Award-nominated documentaries is one of the strongest they've had in years, I'm hoping to see the award for feature-length documentary go to Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country (along with the short doc category award going to my good friends Steve Bognar and ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/media-and-democracy/2010/03/06/oscar-nominated-burma-vj-and-citizen-based-media-in-the-defense-of-human-rights/ Ever wonder how North Dakota seems to be surviving the recession (depression?) as well as it is? Perhaps it's their "socialist" banking system. It has no automatic tellers or drive-up windows, doesn't issue credit cards, and tends only a few thousand checking and savings accounts. Its only location is a glass, ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/banking-banksters-the-financial-crisis/2010/03/03/economy-prompts-fresh-look-at-us-socialist-bank-in-north-dakota/ Another commie liberal attacking America's true economic achievers... Warren Buffett's Statement to Congress on Estate Taxes Mr. Chairman, Senators, I appreciate the opportunity to express a few views on the estate tax. I will limit my remarks to three points. The first relates to the intellectual dishonesty employed by those who use the phrase ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/taxes-the-commons-and-the-social-contract/2010/02/28/debunking-myths-around-the-estate-tax/ This is rich. Cablevision Corporation has asked to review the constitutionality of the so called "must-carry" regulations, that call for your local cable provider to carry the local channels on the system. That's one thing, but their rationale for why they shouldn't be required to do this is because cable ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/media-and-democracy/2010/02/24/cable-corporations-let-a-hundred-flowers-blossom/ Dean Baker nails it again... It would difficult to imagine someone with a comparable record of disastrous failures being allowed to remain in most jobs. Would a nurse who routinely administers the wrong medicine and causes his patients to die be allowed to keep his job? Would a bank teller who ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/banking-banksters-the-financial-crisis/2010/02/20/false-profits/ Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance delivers what is one of the best articles written on what public access is, what it represents, what it does, why it is important, and why it should be thoroughly protected. And the CAP ACT is current federal legislation which will do just that. Read ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/media-and-democracy/2010/02/14/why-public-access-television-is-important-and-you-should-fight-for-the-cap-act/ Nice write up from Henry Giroux on Howard Zinn who, love him or hate him, was a man who lived up to his principles. He was one of those special people whom, through one's life and work, helped change the entire frame of how we approach history and how we ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/general-topics/2010/02/11/howard-zinn-a-public-intellectual-who-mattered/ This is one of the best, most concise, explanations I've ever read on how Wall Street banking firms are controlling the economy. Ellen Hodgson Brown describes an ongoing drama between Wall Street and Washington that gets next to zero coverage in the corporate press, and lays lie to the ongoing ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/banking-banksters-the-financial-crisis/2010/02/07/battle-between-jpmorgan-vs-goldman-sachs-and-the-mythology-of-the-free-market/