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		<title>ACTA of Desperation</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2012/03/acta-of-desperation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more memorable jokes in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was the one about the supercomputer which, on being asked the meaning of life, supplied the answer ‘42’. One of capitalism’s most profound illogicalities is its constant need to render unquantifiable things – like knowledge &#8211; in monetary terms so that its beancounters can do their sums properly. It’s the same joke, only accountants don’t get the laughs. NASA is pulling out of its agreement with the European Space Agency over the planned ExoMars Rover programme, citing lack of funds. It has already ceased supplying the International Space Station. Given that the ISS is the most expensive thing ever to have been built by human beings, this seems rather like spoiling the spaceship for a ha’porth of tar, but there’s a slump on and the purse-strings are being pulled tight. Science is worth the money, says Barack Obama’s budget, as long as it’s somebody else’s money. The price of knowledge is being addressed in a different way by the recent signing by 22 countries of ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which is the latest international attempt to establish base-line rules for protecting intellectual property rights (IPR). [...]


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		<title>Film Review. The Iron Lady</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The film The Iron Lady is a paean to a personality rather than a political documentary, and must be judged as such. The personal is political, however, and therefore anyone who lived through what happened in Britain in the 1980s will have some reaction to the politics of this film. Meryl Streep&#8217;s acting, as ever, is extraordinary and this is by far the most remarkable thing about this film. Most of the action effectively takes place inside Thatcher&#8217;s head, as her senile dementia filters a mish-mash of memories, regrets, resentments and pride over the course of her career. This allows the film some poetic license in its random and one-sided presentation of historical events. This device enables, as it were, a multitude of sins, as we are allowed only the most cursory of glances into the dogmatic arrogance of her rule or the huge suffering and destruction of life which her governments both oversaw and caused. We are invited to share in her principled stand that “we must never give in to terrorists” without even so much as a clue that she was simultaneously financing and sponsoring terror on a vast scale through her support of foreign dictatorships and the sales [...]


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		<title>Class Dismissed: How Television Frames the Working Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s almost taken for granted that television doesn’t accurately reflect how we live, but it’s not always easy to articulate how it distorts the real world. Class Dismissed: How TV Frames The Working Class is a useful examination of the ways the goggle-box deceives us. The film was made in 2005 by Pepi Leistyna of the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and is easy enough to find on the internet. It only discusses American television, but the trends are recogn


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		<title>Zeitgeist 3 Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“…I’m 94 years old now and I’m afraid my disposition is the same as it was 74 years ago, THIS SHIT’S GOT TO GO!” And so begins Zeitgeist: Moving Forward the third film in a series of independently produced and distributed films by Peter Joseph. For those unfamiliar with these films, which have enjoyed considerable success on the internet, perhaps a quick recap will be useful. In 2007, following on from a live music and visual production, the film Zeitgeist was released on the internet. The content of the film was concerned with religion, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and fractional reserve banking. After viewing this film ‘social designer’ and ex-Technocrat Jacques Fresco contacted Joseph with details of his techno-utopian life work known as The Venus Project. Peter Joseph was so impressed by this that he devoted a large part of his next film the Addendum, and his subsequent life, to expounding these ideas. In the closing lines of this second film, and as an apparent near afterthought, contained the words ‘Join the Zeitgeist Movement dot com’. On the back of this Joseph has been able to amass a large following on the web and through this fan base co-ordinate an international [...]


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		<title>Capitalism and Michael Moore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Michael Moore’s other films, &#8216;Capitalism: A Love Story&#8217;, is brilliant in its way, hard-hitting and funny. He strips away the lies and hypocrisy of “public relations” propaganda to expose the ruthless predators who dominate our society and profit from the misery of working people. And at the same time he makes us laugh. So far so good. It’s fairly clear what Michael Moore is against. But what he is for? He doesn’t seem to know himself, as he admits in a recent newspaper interview: “What I&#8217;m asking for is a new economic order. I don&#8217;t know how to construct that. I&#8217;m not an economist. All I ask is that it have two organising principles. Number one, that the economy is run democratically. In other words, the people have a say in how its run, not just the [wealthiest] 1 percent. And number two, that it has an ethical and moral core to it. That nothing is done without considering the ethical nature, no business decision is made without first asking the question, is this for the common good?” (Guardian, 30 January). We too want democracy to extend to all spheres of social life. For us that’s what socialism is [...]


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		<title>Future al Fresco, or the House of Cards that Jacque built</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone watching the online documentary film Zeitgeist (2007) would be advised to borrow Occam&#8217;s razor for some editorial cutting. A well-made and interesting film, Zeitgeist nonetheless makes history more mysterious than it needs to be. You can explain what goes on in capitalism quite easily without making a giant secret conspiracy of it. So, when the sequel, Zeitgeist Addendum, came out in October of this year, socialists were expecting more conspiracy stuff and dodgy bank-credit economics. Addendum turns out to be a surprise. To be sure, it does reiterate the dodgy economics, overlooking the fact that when banks do try to create money out of nothing, they crash and burn, as has been happening recently. But then the film gets really interesting, because it proposes, as an alternative to capitalism, a global resource-based society of common ownership, without governments, hierarchies, markets, trading or money. Were the makers explicitly to use the term &#8216;world socialism&#8217; most socialists would scarcely blink. Not that there&#8217;s any such reference, or indication of Marxian antecedents. Clearly the intention is to avoid triggering any knee-jerk reflexes from audiences schooled in the evils of soviet &#8216;socialism&#8217;. Instead, they&#8217;re offered the sci-fi version, with supersonic mag-lev trains, floating [...]


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		<title>Informal Unrehearsed Speech by a Fellow Citizen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Television &#8211; Drug of A Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Michael Franti and the Disposable Heroes: &#160; No related posts.


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		<title>Review of the film &#8220;The Yes Men&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review of the ﬁlm ‘The Yes Men.” Directed by Chris Smith, Sarah Price and Dan Ollman. United Artists, 2003. Starring Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. 83 min. Rated R. Avail. DVD. “The Yes Men,” is a brilliantly funny satire and pseudo mock documentary which chronicles the exploits a group of political activists, who use rogue media appearances, hoax lectures, and a prankster spoof of the World Trade Organization web site to criticize the social and environmental impacts of economic globalization. The ﬁlm follows Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum two super-activist-pranksters around the world from New York to Finland and on to Australia. Their daring mission is to pose as WTO representatives and get invited to business conferences and trade forums. There they make outrageous arguments on the WTO’s behalf, arguments that expose what they see as the WTO’s underlying cruelty and absurdity. And the irony is that they succeed and their ideas are accepted by their corporate audience. We are treated to a talk given in Finland, at a WTO meeting on textiles, to a bewilderingly funny lecture given by “Hank Hardy Unruh,” an impostor posing as a representative of the WTO. “Unruh” is a member of the Yes Men, [...]


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		<title>Capitalism Incorporated- Review of &#8220;The Corporation&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Corporation, a recently released ﬁlm directed by Mark Achban, Jennifer Abbot and Joel Bakan, begins with a little US political history, observing how, in the 19th century, a “corporation” was a “benevolent” association of people with a government charter to serve “the public good”. When, in the late 1860s, the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution recognised the slave as having human rights, the nascent corporate elite of the time had their lawyers stake a claim to the same rights with the Supreme Court. They fought and won, and the state henceforth recognised the corporation as a human being, a person in law, with the same right to life, liberty and property. This leads to one of the big questions of the ﬁlm: if corporations are legally deﬁned as people, then what kind of people are they? One way the ﬁlm addresses this question is to call in the FBI’s Consultant on Psychopaths, Dr Robert Hare. Hare proceeds to run through a check-list of the traits of your run-of-the-mill psychopath before concluding that the modern corporation, bearing no moral responsibility for its actions, is very much the prototypical psychopath. Much of the remainder of the ﬁlm is given over [...]


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