Your Money, Your Life, Your Happiness

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Voluntary Simplicity movement

VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture (24 min) from NO WAY Productions on Vimeo.

VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY: 'The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture documentary explores the philosophy behind Voluntary Simplicity, what potential or significance it has as a quietly emerging social movement and what its limitations might be. Presented by Samuel Alexander, a part-time lecturer and doctoral student at the University of Melbourne Law School, and the founder of the Life Poet’s Simplicity Collective (simplicitycollective.com ). Living simply and happily in a small hut that he built himself using mostly abandoned materials, he spends his time quietly planning, with youthful ambition, the non-violent erasure of consumer culture. “Live simply, so others may simply live.”(Gandhi) Directed & produced by Tanja Capic & Amir Dervic from NO WAY Productions (myspace.com/NoWayPro ). Original music score written, composed & produced by Samuel Alexander & Andy Gibson (see the soundtrack clip AFFLUENZA: vimeo.com/5360228 ).'

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Money-Driven Medicine: summary 



'Money-Driven Medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need if we are to address the unmet healthcare policy challenges of the next decade. Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and inspired by Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book, Money Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, it offers the only systemic look on film at the economics underlying – and often undermining -- our $2.6 trillion healthcare system.



The film interweaves the stories of patients and doctors ensnared in the system with insights by thought-leaders such as Dr. Donald Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. James Weinstein of Dartmouth and bio-ethicist Dr. Larry Churchill of Vanderbilt. Money-Driven Medicine goes beyond health insurance reform as it lays out the looming policy challenges for the next decade if we are to provide all Americans effective, high quality, patient-centered care while containing costs and reducing wasteful, even risky procedures.'

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Thievery 101

 

By Dr. Mark Sircus

' “Law-abiding middle-class citizens are deciding that playing by the rules is nothing but a sucker’s game. Just like the poker player who’s been fleeced by all the other players and gets one mean attitude once he finally wakes up to the con. I’m betting that more and more of the solid American middle-class will begin saying what Brian and Ilsa said: Fuckit. Fuck the rules. Fuck playing the game the banksters want you to play. Fuck being the good citizen. Fuck filling out every form, fuck paying every tax. Fuck the government, fuck the banks who own them. Fuck the free-loaders living rent-free while we pay. Fuck the legal process, a game that only works if you’ve got the money to pay for the parasite lawyers. Fuck being a chump. Fuck being a stooge. Fuck trying to do the right thing—what good does that get you? What good is coming your way? Fuckit. When the backbone of a country starts thinking that laws and rules are not worth following, it’s just a hop, skip, and a jump to anarchy.” '


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Full Report: The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America

It’s time for 99% of Americans to mobilize and aggressively move on common sense political reforms.

'It has now become evident to a critical mass that the Republican and Democratic parties, along with all three branches of our government, have been bought off by a well-organized Economic Elite who are tactically destroying our way of life. The harsh truth is that 99% of the US population no longer has political representation. The US economy, government and tax system is now blatantly rigged against us.

Current statistical societal indicators clearly demonstrate that a strategic attack has been launched and an analysis of current governmental policies prove that conditions for 99% of Americans will continue to deteriorate. The Economic Elite have engineered a financial coup and have brought war to our doorstep. . . and make no mistake, they have launched a war to eliminate the US middle class.'

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Your Money and Your Health: 2009 The Year of the Great Vampire Squid

The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

- Matt Tabbi, “Inside the Great American Bubble Machine”

The Great Vampire Squid

'For years, it was hard for many of us to fathom the psychopathic nature of our financial elites, or to expand the meaning of Matt Tabbi’s marvelous description of Goldman Sachs, the great vampire squid. Squid seems a fitting name for the financial cartel that drives what I have traditionally called the Tapeworm.

There were some who saw the danger immediately and tried to warn us, like Sir James Goldsmith. There were some, like myself, who tried to prevent the housing bubble and find alternatives to investing our life savings in it.

While those efforts did not stop the squid, they certainly made it clear that the squid take down of the planet was, indeed, part of a plan. That’s all documented now.'

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Key Points

"This market continues to be propped up by government intervention and manipulation."

"They're trying to prop this market up on a daily basis and they're doing a good job."

"Every single day we have some kind of backstop from the government."

"These markets are not free markets any more."

"We're at a point where no capital transactions are getting done without some intervention from Washington and I wonder how we ever get off these vitamin pills."

"It's not really healing if you're just passing liabilities from private debt to the public debt - from one balance sheet to the other."

How to get ready

People often ask me where the economy is headed.

Isn't it obvious?

Here's the scoop:

1. The world runs on credit - and not just credit cards and mortgage loans. Shippers, manufacturers, miners, retailers, farmers...they're all dependent on credit.

2. The credit markets are still in disarray and the structural problems are on an epic scale

3. The only reason the credit markets are functioning is because they're being propped up by non-stop government intervention.

So you tell me...

If you pay a visit on a friend and he has eighteen tubes in him and is on a ventilator, how healthy do you think he is? What do you think his prospects are?

My recommendations are simple:

1. Stop spending money on non-essentials

2. Don't make any purchases (real estate especially) that requires credit and don't take on new debt

3. Save every nickel you make

4. Make sure whatever cash assets you have are distributed among several financial institutions that have the highest possible rating

5. Learn to cook healthy food - grains and greens - and get acquainted with where your food comes from and other practicalities of survival

6. Remember that there's life beyond the consumerist frenzy that has characterized the last 30 years

If you think this is "alarmist" and "negative" do your own homework. The numbers don't lie.

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