Interesting websites
Esoteric Tube - A place where one can go to check out alternative media in a well organized fashion.Freecycle TO - The Freecycle Network is open to all who want to "recycle" that special something rather than throw it away.
Life and Debt
In 1962, Jamaica won its independence from the United Kingdom, and the island nation, which had long struggled with poverty, attempted to use its agricultural resources in order to create a sound economic base. As Jamaica’s financial problems grew more severe with time, prime minister Michael Manley struck a deal in 1977 with a consortium of economic institutions through the International Monetary Fund, who would loan money to the nation in exchange for removal of trade restrictions and subsidized exports.
Twenty-five years later, most Jamaicans would agree that the deal drove a stake through the island’s agricultural and industrial economy; imports from America have ruined the island’s dairy industry, interference from growers and merchants in the United States and Latin America have effectively ended the growing of onions, bananas, carrots, and potatoes as cash crops, the value of the Jamaican dollar has plummeted, and the island is now seven billion dollars in debt to the IMF, with interest driving that figure higher each day. Filmmaker Stephanie Black examines the sad state of Jamaica’s economy in the face of “free trade” in the global economy in this documentary.
Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text “A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.
The Obama Deception disassembles the carefully crafted myth that Barack Obama is man of the people working in their best interest. In now legendary and hard-hitting Jones fashion, The Obama Deception reveals the sinister forces behind Obama — the international bankers who are determined to impose a dictatorial world government.
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THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again.
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Ten ways you know the US economy is getting tough.....
10. You can now buy a corporate jet on Craigs list.
9. The IRS starts offering airmiles rewards for tax payments.
8. You get a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
7. People in Beverly Hills fire their nannies and learn their children's names.
6. Hotwheels and Matchbox cars are worth more than U.S. car company stocks.
5. The most highly-paid job is jury duty.
4. Mothers in Africa tell their kids, "finish your plate; kids are starving in America."
3. The Mafia starts laying off judges.
2. You buy a toaster oven, they give you a bank.
And number one way you know the US economy is getting tough….
1. When your check is returned for "insufficient funds" you need to call your bank to ask if they meant you or them.
Rasta Divorce Hearing
A Jamaican Rasta man and his wife are in court getting a divorce. The problem was who should get custody of the child. The wife jumped up and said, “Your Honor. I brought the child into this world with pain and labor. She should be in my custody.” The judge turns to t he husband and says, “What do you have to say in the matter?”
The Rasta man sat for a while contemplating, then slowly rose. Your Honor, if I man put a dollar in a vending machine and a Pepsi comes out, whose Pepsi is it, ‘I and I’ or the machine’s?
Canadian stand-up comedian talks about Jamaicans, Trinis, Guyanese ... and also about his extreme dislike for soca/calypso music.
As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hope-ful, we are halfway to where we want to go, hope-less, we are lost forever. - Leo Buscaglia