Created on Monday, 22 August 2011 18:54
‘An Inconvenient Death’ is a non-partisan, non-political film that investigates the complexities of the deteriorating American economy and presents the historical, governmental and political reasons for why the American middle class is slowly fading.
Created on Monday, 22 August 2011 19:16
First and foremost, this is not a documentary about communism. I do not like communism.
This documentary examines the ideological roots of the “austerity” agenda and proposes revolutionary paths out of the current crisis. It explains the nature of capitalist crises, visits the protests against austerity measures and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.
Special attention is devoted to the crisis in Greece, the 2010 G20 Summit protest in Toronto, Canada and the remarkable surge of solidarity in Madison, Wisconsin.
Created on Monday, 22 August 2011 19:49
The misrepresentation and misapplication of the United States federal income tax constitutes the largest acquisition of wealth by way of deception in history.
A handful of government lawyers fabricated an intricate maze of ‘legalese’ which created a perfectly Constitutional tax (a tax on income derived from certain types of international and foreign commerce), but which at the same time could easily be misread to give the impression that the income of all Americans is subject to the tax.
For decades, the American people have been conditioned to believe that the income tax applies to all income and trained to pay "their" taxes. All the while however, hidden in a previously nearly universally misunderstood (therefore misapplied) section of the law known as Subchapter N, Section 861 was the truth that the income tax is NOT a direct tax on incomes, but is an indirect tax imposed only on those individuals engaged in certain types of international commerce.
Most Americans are engaged in purely domestic commerce (commerce that occurs entirely within and between the 50 states). Subchapter N proves that domestic income received by residents of the United States (most incomes) is not taxed, due to Constitutional restrictions on Congress' power to tax.
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Created on Wednesday, 29 June 2011 09:49
In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, NOVA presents 'Mind Over Money' — a penetrating exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions.
The program reveals how our emotions interfere with our decision-making and explores controversial new arguments about the world of finance. In the face of the recent crash, can a new science that aims to incorporate human psychology into finance—behavioral economics—help us make better financial decisions?
(Source: PBS.org)