The Mortgage Meltdown, The Economy, and Public Policy (Part 3)

Posted on March 17th, 2010 by admin in policy | 1 Comment »

Stuart Gabriel, UCLA
Michael Schill, UCLA
John Quigley, UC Berkeley

Panel 1: The Crisis in Finance Markets
Karl E. Case, Wellesley College, Moderator
“Why are the Cycles in Homes and Consumer Durables So Similar?”
Edward Leamer, UCLA
“Policies To Deal With the Implosion in the Mortgage Market”
Robert Shiller, Yale University
Discussants:
Brad DeLong, UC Berkeley
Robert Hall, Stanford University
James Wilcox, UC Berkeley

http://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu/mortgagemeltdown.htm

Duration : 2:4:32

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9/11 and Wrong Policy, what the 9/11 Commission Report did to us. Tell politicians to stop making a mockery of 9/11 and putting our lives at risk.

Posted on March 14th, 2010 by admin in policy | 25 Comments »

Please discuss the fact that the 9/11 Commission did not do its job. This video shows exactly what I am talking about: 9/11 and Wrong Policy, what the 9/11 Commission Report did to us.
Pass this URL on to others:
http://tinyurl.com/911WrongPolicy
Please Digg this video:
http://tinyurl.com/DIGG911
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1bm2GPoFfg&feature=PlayList&p=F81BB573C9C0C7B2&index=0&playnext=1
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2008/09/bryan-you-have-repeated-usual.html
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2006/09/reviews-of-without-precedent-inside.html
SCANDAL: 9/11 Commissioners Bowed to Pressure to Suppress Main Motive for the 9/11 Attacks.
http://www.Tinyurl.com/o4j57
“Sit Down!” The Power to Silence the real truth about 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuTQ6ystWrw&feature=PlayList&p=7D2F342A1F2AEA82&index=0&playnext=1
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2008/09/911-and-wrong-policy-what-911.html
See link for info about the book “Without Precedent”
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2006/09/reviews-of-without-precedent-inside.html
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/10/194813/646/747/594208

The misleading story often told is that “Jews declared Israel and then they were attacked.” The fact is from November 1947 to May 1948 the Zionists were already on the offensive and had already attacked Arabs. In the months before Israel was declared, the Zionists had driven 300,000 non-Jews off their land. In the months before Israel was declared, the Zionists had seized land beyond the proposed Jewish State.”
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2008/09/bryan-you-have-repeated-usual.html

http://www.counterpunch.org/junaid03022005.html
Commenting on the founding of Israel, Senior Lecturer of Military History in the IDF Aryeh Yitzhaki says, “a generation has passed, and it is now possible to face the ocean of lies in which we were brought up. In almost every conquered village in the War of Independence, acts were committed, which are defined as war crimes, such as indiscriminate killings, massacres and rapes.” Yitzhaki is cited in the Israeli paper, Ha’ir, by Guy Erlich in his May 6, 1992 article, “Not Only Deir Yassin.” Deir Yassin was an Arab village whose inhabitants were massacred by Zionist militia in 1948.
http://www.counterpunch.org/junaid03022005.html

http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2006/07/killing-civilians.html

Duration : 0:5:54

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Conversations With History: American Foreign Policy

Posted on March 9th, 2010 by admin in policy | 25 Comments »

Host Harry Kreisler welcomes Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier for a discussion of U.S. foreign policy from the Fall of the Berlin Wall until the attack on 9/11. They discuss the search for a grand strategy during the Clinton administration and outline the debates among liberals and among conservatives about the U.S. role as the sole superpower, especially the relative importance of economic power versus military power in shaping world order. Chollet and Goldgeier also focus on the new security challenges facing the United States– global warming, terrorism, and the spread of infectious disease. Series: Conversations with History [12/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 15411]

Duration : 0:57:21

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Noam Chomsky: Is Capitalism Making Life Better?

Posted on March 6th, 2010 by admin in capitalism | 25 Comments »

Is Capitalism Justified? Are the Current Justifications for Capitalism Sufficient?

-Noam Chomsky Answers These Questions in this interview

Duration : 0:10:8

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Obama Marijuana Policy (MPP-TV)

Posted on March 6th, 2010 by admin in policy | 25 Comments »

Join MPP-TV as we review five of the 2008 presidential candidates’ positions on marijuana policy.

Duration : 0:6:32

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fiscal policy and the multiplier effect

Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by admin in policy | 22 Comments »

how does fiscal policy work for a government? Why does the multiplier effect make demand management so difficult?

Duration : 0:9:11

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Depeche Mode – Policy Of Truth (not live) [Violator]

Posted on February 24th, 2010 by admin in policy | 24 Comments »

aint live, Enjoy

Depeche Mode – Policy Of Truth

Duration : 0:4:56

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Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy – Yves Engler

Posted on February 6th, 2010 by admin in policy | No Comments »

Montreal-based activist and author Yves Engler launches his book The Black Book of Canadian Foriegn Policy in Edmonton on June 18, 2009. The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy sheds light on many dark corners of Canadian foreign policy: From troops that joined the British in Sudan in 1885 to gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean and aspirations of Central American empire, to participation in the UN mission that killed Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, to important support for apartheid South Africa, Zionism and the US war in Vietnam, to helping overthrow Salvador Allende and supporting the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, to Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan today. Engler’s work has been praised by Noam Chomsky.

http://blackbook.foreignpolicy.ca/

Duration : 1:13:51

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Pete Alcock – What is Social Policy?

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by admin in policy | 5 Comments »

Pete Alcock gives his answer to the question ‘What is Social Policy?’

Social Policy in Britain 2nd Ed.- 2003, Palgrave

Understanding Poverty 3rd Ed. — 2006, Palgrave

International Social Policy (Ed. with Gay Craig) — 2001, Palgrave

Student’s Companion to Social Policy 2nd Ed.(Ed. with Angus Erskine and Maggie May) — 2003, Blackwell

Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy (with Angus Erskine and Maggie May) — 2002, Blackwell

Welfare and Wellbeing — Richard Titmuss’s Contribution to Social Policy (Ed. with Howard Glennerster, Ann Oakley and Adrian Sinfield) — 2002, Policy Press

Work to Welfare: How Men become Detached from the Labour Market (with Tina Beatty, Steve Fothergill, Rob Macmillan and Sue Yeandle) – 2003, Cambridge UP

‘Close work’ Doing qualitative research in the voluntary sector,(Ed. with D. Scott) – 2005, Charities Aid Foundation/University of Birmingham/University of Manchester

Duration : 0:3:57

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Ellsberg Explains Reality of US Foreign Policy to Kristol p1

Posted on January 16th, 2010 by admin in policy | 25 Comments »

Daniel Ellsberg spent three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as rifle platoon leader, operations officer, and rifle company commander.
He worked as a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation and consultant to the Defense Department and the White House.
“His recent essay, “The Next War”, featured in the October 2006 issue of Harpers magazine, urges government officials to reveal truths about government secrecy and nuclear planning—with documents—to avert a possible attack on Iran.”

“A hidden crisis is under way. Many government insiders are aware of serious plans for war with Iran, but Congress and the public remain largely in the dark.” http://harpers.org/archive/2006/10/0081208

Duration : 0:2:31

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