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Day 1 November, 2008

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Describing an alternative economy in 30 minutes

Nov 1, ’08 1:34 AM

This is video is of Michael Albert, an eco­nomic vis­ion­ary and one of my favour­ite people, attempt­ing to describe an altern­at­ive eco­nomy — Par­ti­cip­at­ory Eco­nom­ics — in 30 minutes. I think he does quite well.

There’s more here, includ­ing a Q & A ses­sion and a descrip­tion from Jes­sica Azu­lay on how she and oth­ers put one of the insti­tu­tions of pare­con — bal­anced job com­plexes — into prac­tice as part of their busi­ness (see part 8).

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The Daily Show: Speaking truth to power or setting the boundaries of acceptable debate?

Nov 1, ’08 12:15 AM

I enjoy watch­ing Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show but some­times the con­fines of his lib­eral naiv­ety drives me nuts.

Ian Sin­clair on the prob­lem with Jon Stew­art:

Stew­art is surely right to state the main­stream news media in the US is “hurt­ing Amer­ica”, as he did dur­ing a heated exchange on CNN’s now-defunct Cross­fire in 2004. How­ever, as a pro­gramme that is adversarial but always within very strict ideo­lo­gical bound­ar­ies, surely it is also true The Daily Show has its own role to play in what US dis­sid­ent Noam Chom­sky calls ‘the man­u­fac­ture of con­sent’: “Thus far and no further”.

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