According to this image, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela were the only countries without a central bank controlled by the family's [Rothschild ] well-known financial and banking groups that year.
but it is a false rumor: https://factcheck.afp.com/doc....
President Donald Trump today signed an executive order creating the U.S. Space Academy, an institution of higher learning that will train students for a career studying, exploring, exploiting or helping to protect the final frontier.
"It'll serve both the United States Space Force as well as NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry, and it'll attract, train and graduate the very very best of our nation," Trump said today during a ceremony at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, at which he awarded the Artemis II moon astronauts the nation's highest space honor.
Within the next 120 days, the commission will submit a report "with recommendations on governance framework, service obligations for graduates, physical location of the academy, legislative requirements and more," NASA officials wrote in today's statement.
It's a shame the name Starfleet Academy is sullied.
The Myth of Free Markets: Blakeley argues that neoliberalism did not create free markets; instead, it established an economy dominated by large monopolies and reinforced by state intervention to protect corporate interests (13:52 - 14:30). Moral Hazard: The discussion highlights how governments and central banks frequently bail out large financial institutions and corporations (like Boeing), shielding them from the consequences of their own risky behavior (18:28, 23:28 - 25:35). Primitive Accumulation & Enclosure: The video traces the roots of capitalism back to the historical enclosure of common resources, which forced a landless class to sell their labor power to survive (31:19 - 33:13). Imperialism & Global Extraction: Blakeley explains how capitalist expansion relies on the appropriation of resources from the Global South, often enforced through mechanisms like investor-state dispute settlements that prioritize profits over human rights and environmental safety (37:09 - 43:35). Solutions & Collective Power: To counteract this, the discussion emphasizes that workers' organizing and forming unions is essential to build collective power (59:08 - 1:00:26). The path forward, according to Blakeley, is embedding democracy into the economy—not just in politics—to ensure institutions are held accountable to the collective rather than a small group of elites
This video features a conversation with Jason Hickel, a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and author of The Divide and Less is More. The discussion explores the intersection of political economy, inequality, and ecological economics. Key themes discussed: Critique of Capitalism: Hickel argues that a growth-based capitalist economy is fundamentally incompatible with a habitable planet (0:00-0:30). He suggests that capitalism is inherently anti-democratic because decisions about production, resource allocation, and labor are controlled by a small elite rather than the public (7:05-10:00). Economic Democracy: The alternative proposed is a democratic ecosocialist transition. This involves establishing a decommodified social foundation for essential services like healthcare and housing, and implementing public finance mechanisms to ensure production serves the public good rather than profit (10:04-11:04). The Role of the State: A central pillar of this transition is the public job guarantee, which would provide socially meaningful work while addressing community needs (25:04-29:45). Hickel emphasizes that the state has the unique capacity to finance these initiatives through public money creation (30:42-31:00). Imperialism and Geopolitics: The conversation highlights how capitalist growth in the Global North relies on the appropriation of cheap labor and nature from the Global South. Imperialist wars are framed as a tool to prevent these nations from achieving sovereign development (43:42-49:40). AI and Technology: Addressing the current tech landscape, Hickel argues that AI is not inherently destructive, but its current use is dictated by the profit motive. He advocates for democratic control over technology to ensure it benefits society at large (16:12-18:00). Historical Context: The discussion touches on the importance of past revolutionaries, such as Thomas Sankara and Mohammad Mosaddegh, as well as the concept of cultural hegemony coined by Antonio Gramsci, which explains how ruling class values are instilled as common sense
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