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Watch the film: The Green Beautiful

admin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:14:04 +0000

Wonderful, Brilliant a Must See … few words to describe this funny, exciting, inspiring, beautiful film.

Listen now to Wizards of Money by Smithy

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:22:34 +0000

Chapter Source from the free audio series at http://www.wizardsofmoney.org/ (website no longer valid last I checked) | barrysclipart.com – artwork (website no longer valid last I checked)
Wizards of Money by Smithy (smithy at mindspring dot com)

Other Brilliant Stuff with money references:
Listen Now to Wizards of Money

A brilliant Audio series …
1 How Money is Created
2 Financial Risk Transfer
3 Banking on Poverty
4 Wizards and Warlords
5 Monetary Terrorism
6 Democratising the Monetary System
7 The Money Cycle versus The Water Cycle
8 Trading Nature and “Cooking the Books”
9 Jack and the Sweatshop
10 Back to the Twenties Through the Looking Glass – Steagall
11 House Lever-Edge at the Derivatives Casino
12 The Imperial Budget and the Mythical Lock Box
13 Bankruptcy Bill’s Shoot-Out at the Social Safety Net
14 The Trade Federation and the InterGalactic Banking Clan
15 Homeland Securitizations and Overseas Vacations
16 There’s a Generic in my Shark Fin Soup!
17 Caught Between and Dock and a Sweatshop
18 Where Wall Street Crosses Auburn Avenue
19 The Education Sweepstakes
20 The Battle of the Dragons – Oil vs Insurance
21 Playing Russian Roulette in the Carbon Markets
22 Ecotainment Gossip Status of Public Lands

Introductionshow

This is your Money and Financial Management Series…but with a twist. My name is Smithy, I’m from the land of Oz.

In response to the growth in business and personal finance shows at most media outlets, including so-called public media, such as NPR and PBS, we bring you this new series on money but “with a twist”. In this series we will look beyond the latest DOW and NASDAQ ups and downs, and past the hot stock tips, and see just how peculiar and undemocratic our monetary system really is. The Wizards of Money will take a critical look at the mechanics of the capital and debt markets, who makes the critical decisions that drive them, and how these markets then effect everybody’s lives.

Humans have inherited a monetary system that fueled the industrial revolution, lost its commodity backing during the Vietnam War and now travels by the trillions, over millions of miles in a matter of nano-seconds. Physical currency notes are almost irrelevant having been replaced by a system of bits and bytes accounting in complex networks. While money is just a highly abstract measure and a medium of exchange our lives revolve around it and its disappearance can bring trade to a grinding halt, collapsing whole communities. This ridiculous situation is akin to a carpenter stopping work because he has run out of inches! Or a musician calling it quits because she’s run out of decibels!

Today, in part one, we’ll examine that most peculiar activity known as “making money”; how money is made and who makes it. We’ll explore the mysterious money making process by first exploring the origin, and role of, one of the most secretive bodies in the world, the Federal Reserve System. We will also look at the role of the commercial banking system, and why it is that the money origination process is quite unfair and undemocratic.

In future editions of Wizards we will look further into the workings of the Federal Reserve, and its sole shareholders, the private banking industry. We will also investigate similarly secretive bodies such as the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Central Banks in other countries, and most importantly how these institutions interact with the stock markets.

Recent decades have brought with them a growing public awareness of the long-term costs of the short-term profiteering legacy of the industrial revolution. Global Warming, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain are now all household names. The current monetary system – the one inherited from this same industrial revolution and the one in which we always “discount the future” – has played a large role in such destruction of the environment. Many are asking the question – Can we design monetary and economic systems that encourage preservation of the environment and sustainable economies?

Along these lines, in later editions of Wizards we’ll examine some of the fundamental flaws of contemporary mainstream economic theory, that led to such environmental destruction. Then we’ll explore how emerging fields of economics, such as Ecological Economics, are addressing some of these flaws and challenging the underpinnings of traditional theory.

Listen to Wodehouse

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:37:40 +0000

Listen to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:01:55 +0000

Source: Sparks Notes Mr. Willy Wonka, the eccentric owner of the greatest chocolate factory in the world, has decided to open the doors of his factory to five lucky children and their parents. In order to choose who will enter the factory, Mr. Wonka devises a plan to hide five golden tickets beneath the wrappers of his famous chocolate bars. The search for the five golden tickets is fast and furious. Augustus Gloop, a corpulent child whose only hobby is eating, unwraps the first ticket, for which his town throws him a parade. Veruca Salt, an insufferable brat, receives the next ticket from her father, who had employed his entire factory of peanut shellers to unwrap chocolate bars until they found a ticket. Violet Beauregarde discovers the third ticket while taking a break from setting a world record in gum chewing. The fourth ticket goes to Mike Teavee, who, as his name implies, cares only about television.

LISTEN TO Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie Bucket, the unsuspecting hero of the book, defies all odds in claiming the fifth and final ticket. A poor but virtuous boy, Charlie lives in a tiny house with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bucket, and all four of his grandparents. His grandparents share the only bed in the house, located in the only bedroom, and Charlie and his parents sleep on mattresses on the floor. Charlie gets three sparse meals a day, which is hardly enough to nourish a growing boy, As a result, he is almost sickly thin. Once a year, on his birthday, Charlie gets one bar of Wonka chocolate, which he savors over many months. The Bucket family’s circumstances become all the more dire when Mr. Bucket loses his job. But a tremendous stroke of luck befalls Charlie when he spots a raggedy dollar bill buried in the snow. He decides to use a little of the money to buy himself some chocolate before turning the rest over to his mother. After inhaling the first bar of chocolate, Charlie decides to buy just one more and within the wrapping finds the fifth golden ticket. He is not a moment too soon: the next day is the date Mr. Wonka has set for his guests to enter the factory.

Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Bucket can accompany Charlie to the factory. Mr. Bucket must search for work to put food on the table and Mrs. Bucket must care for the invalided grandparents. Magically, Charlie’s oldest and most beloved grandparent, Grandpa Joe, springs out of bed for the first time in decades. Charlie’s lucky find has transformed him into an energetic and almost childlike being. Grandpa Joe and Charlie set out on their adventure.

In the factory, Charlie and Grandpa Joe marvel at the unbelievable sights, sounds, and especially smells of the factory. Whereas they are grateful toward and respectful of Mr. Wonka and his factory, the other four children succumb to their own character flaws. Accordingly, they are ejected from the factory in mysterious and painful fashions. Augustus Gloop falls into the hot chocolate river—while attempting to drink it—and is sucked up by one of the many pipes. Veruca Salt is determined to be a “bad nut” by nut-judging squirrels who throw her out with the trash. Violet Beauregarde impetuously grabs an experimental piece of gum and chews herself into a giant blueberry. She is consequently removed from the factory. With the hope of being on his beloved television, Mike Teavee shrinks himself, and his father has to carry him out in his breast pocket. During each child’s fiasco, Mr. Wonka alienates the parents with his nonchalant reaction to the child’s seeming demise. He remains steadfast in his belief that everything will work out in the end.

After each child’s trial, the Oompa-Loompas beat drums and sing a moralizing song about the downfalls of greedy, spoiled children. When only Charlie remains, Willy Wonka turns to him and congratulates him for winning. The entire day has been another contest, the prize for which is the entire chocolate factory, which Charlie has just won. Charlie, Grandpa Joe, and Mr. Wonka enter the great glass elevator, which explodes through the roof of the factory and crashes down through the roof of Charlie’s house, where they collect the rest of the Bucket family.

Listen to The Goon Show: 159 shows

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:20:51 +0000

Listen now to the goon shows
NEWS
Feb 21 Series 6 are ALL ready now.
Nov 25 Series 7 are ALL ready now.
Nov 23 Series 7 are being ready now.
Oct 2008 At last for all who have been waiting – the shows are slowly being uploaded – one at a time – enjoy!

SERIES 6 sample below

0601 The Man Who Won The War (Seagoon MCC).mp3
Bloodnok: Minnie, are you here as well? Let me help you up, my little flower.
Minnie: I can get up myself.
Bloodnok: My little self raising flower.
Ned Seagoon tries to get out of the Army.

0602 The Secret Escritoire.mp3
Griptype Thin & Moriarty want to shrink Ned to 4 inches so they can sell him lots of tiny suits show

0604 Napoleons Piano.mp3
Ned is convinced to bring a piano back from France for 5 pounds.

0605 The Case Of The Missing CD Plates A Strange Case
Ned Seagoon is struck by a steamroller with CD plates

0606 Rommel’s Treasure.mp3
Our cast is searching for treasure buried three feet above ground

0609 The Great International Christmas Pudding.mp3
Ned searches for the Great International Christmas Pud in darkest Africa

0610 The Pevensey Bay Disaster rec 55-11-20.mp3

0611 The Sale Of Manhattan (The Lost Colony).mp3
Ned tries to claim he is a native American Indian to get Manhattan

0614 The Greenslade Story.mp3
The story of announcer Wallace Greenslade

0619 The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI.mp3
Concerning a rocket powered Naffi.

0620 The House Of Teeth.mp3
Concerning someone who wants 50 pairs of castinets

0621 Tales Of Old Dartmoor.mp3
Ned is running a jail, but is out of convicts

0623 The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal.mp3
Concerning the theft of a salami

0624 The Treasure In The Lake (The Treasure Of Loch Lomond).mp3
Concerning the treasure in the loch and the people who want to get it

0626 Scradje.mp3
To stop peoples’ boots exploding, Ned goes to the North Pole to find fresh scradje

0627 The Man Who Never Was.mp3
Another WW II parody… from the film of the same legs