The Utopia of the EU /// Susan George, Yanis Varoufakis, Franco Berardi Bifo ||| 12.5.2013.
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12/05/2013, 19:00h, cinema Europa, 6th Subversive festival: "The Utopia of Democracy" The Utopia of the EU Moderator: Igor Štiks Croatia's accession coincides also with the deepest crisis in the EU's history. The Union that is about to radically redefine itself is, as the trends show, fragment internally into the core member states surrounded by the EU's internal periphery and, furthermore, by the EU's external periphery, most notably the rest of the 'Western Balkans' as the EU likes to call the Balkan ghetto it surrounds. Croatia's accession is the event that symbolically and technically signifies, what we call, the enlargement of post-democratic Europe: territorially, it enlarges towards another Balkan state and at the same time, structurally, it redefines itself as budgetary and managerial union of several levels of subordination with dubious democratic legitimacy, if any. What's the future of the postdemocratic Europe? And is a true democratic renewal possible? Yanis Varoufakis Political economist and a professor at the University of Texas, Austin. After training in mathematics and statistics, Varoufakis received his economics doctorate in 1987 at the University of Essex. Before that he has allready began teaching economics and econometrics at the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia. From 1989 until 2000 he taught as Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Sydney. In 2000 he moved to his native Greece where he was Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens. He is an active participant in the current debates on the global and European crisis and the author of The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy (2011). Susan George Well-known Franco-American political and social scientist, activist and writer on global social justice, Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt. She is a fellow and president of the board of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She is a fierce critic of the present policies of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and what she calls their "maldevelopment model". She similarly criticizes the structural reform policies of the Washington Consensus on Third World development. Franco Berardi Bifo Italian Marxist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism. Berardi has written over two dozen published books, as well as a more extensive number of essays and speeches. Some of these book are: The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy (2009), Precarious Rhapsody: Semio-capitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation (2009), Ethereal Shadows: Communications and Power in Contemporary Italy (2009). Igor Štiks His fiction, academic work, poetry and essays have appeared widely in journals and reviews of the former Yugoslavia and abroad. His novel A Castle in Romagna received the Award 'Slavic' for Best First Book in 2000. His second novel Elijah's Chair (2006) received both the Award "Gjalski" and the Award of 'Kiklop' for the Best Fiction Book of the Year and it has been translated into a dozen European languages. The theatre play based on this novel won the Grand Prix of the 2011 Belgrade International Theatre Festival. His first collection of poems History of a Flood was published in 2008. Recently in collaboration with Srećko Horvat he wrote a political essay The Right to Rebellion -- An Introduction to the Anatomy of Civic Resistance (2010). Igor Štiks is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh and the co-director of the Subversive Forum in Zagreb. http://www.subversivefestival.com/foruml/7/223/en/the-utopia-of-the-eu
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All the digital dollars, all digital money never leaves the banks does it? All the digital money is created as the result of a loan, and the digital money is extinguished back in to void it came from as the loan is repaid. On a 30 year home mortgage for instance, the bank applies the payments to the debt generated by the interest they charge first, and the principal is paid off last. The digital money created from interest payments has no value beyond the banks service as clerk or book keeper, but the digital interest money far exceeds the value of the service and the excess is represented by nothing. When loans are defaulted on, the the digital money generated by the loan should be extinguished along with the digital interest money. The banks aren't really lending the bank depositor's money to a significant degree if all the interest money generated from loans that created money out of thin air for both were excluded. The introduction of money that doesn't represent anything of value in to the market is a big problem. Banks referring the interest money owed to them as an asset, borrow more money from banks further up the food chain using their "assets" as colateral? Why shouldn't banks be nationalized? No incentives, no bonuses, and the only stock holders are the general public? Banks brought all these troubles they have pushed on to everyone, themselves. Banks created the enormous wealth that doesn't exist, and none of the few that have claim to it are willing to give it up, because the one value it has is control over the rest of us.
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THE UTIPIA OF U.S.A. / / / MLLE. DRA. SUSAN GEORGE, DR. YANIS VAROUFAKIS,
FRANCO BERARDI BIFO |||
Published on 1 Jul 2013
12/05/2013, 19:00h, cinema Europa, 6th Subversive festival: "The Utopia of Democracy"
The Utopia of the EU
Moderator: Igor Štiks
Croatia's accession coincides also with the deepest crisis in the EU's history. The Union that is about to radically redefine itself is, as the trends show, fragment internally into the core member states surrounded by the EU's internal periphery and, furthermore, by the EU's external periphery, most notably the rest of the 'Western Balkans' as the EU likes to call the Balkan ghetto it surrounds. Croatia's accession is the event that symbolically and technically signifies, what we call, the enlargement of post-democratic Europe: territorially, it enlarges towards another Balkan state and at the same time, structurally, it redefines itself as budgetary and managerial union of several levels of subordination with dubious democratic legitimacy, if any. What's the future of the postdemocratic Europe? And is a true democratic renewal possible?
Yanis Varoufakis
Political economist and a professor at the University of Texas, Austin. After training in mathematics and statistics, Varoufakis received his economics doctorate in 1987 at the University of Essex. Before that he has allready began teaching economics and econometrics at the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia. From 1989 until 2000 he taught as Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Sydney. In 2000 he moved to his native Greece where he was Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens. He is an active participant in the current debates on the global and European crisis and the author of The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy (2011).
Susan George
Well-known Franco-American political and social scientist, activist and writer on global social justice, Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt. She is a fellow and president of the board of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She is a fierce critic of the present policies of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and what she calls their "maldevelopment model". She similarly criticizes the structural reform policies of the Washington Consensus on Third World development.
Franco Berardi Bifo
Italian Marxist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism. Berardi has written over two dozen published books, as well as a more extensive number of essays and speeches. Some of these book are: The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy (2009), Precarious Rhapsody: Semio-capitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation (2009), Ethereal Shadows: Communications and Power in Contemporary Italy (2009).
Igor Štiks
His fiction, academic work, poetry and essays have appeared widely in journals and reviews of the former Yugoslavia and abroad. His novel A Castle in Romagna received the Award 'Slavic' for Best First Book in 2000. His second novel Elijah's Chair (2006) received both the Award "Gjalski" and the Award of 'Kiklop' for the Best Fiction Book of the Year and it has been translated into a dozen European languages. The theatre play based on this novel won the Grand Prix of the 2011 Belgrade International Theatre Festival. His first collection of poems History of a Flood was published in 2008. Recently in collaboration with Srećko Horvat he wrote a political essay The Right to Rebellion -- An Introduction to the Anatomy of Civic Resistance (2010). Igor Štiks is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh and the co-director of the Subversive Forum in Zagreb.
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MAR 27, 2016 -
I preferred Susan George in "Straw Dogs". She doesn't even get her baps out here. That's 80 minutes of my life totally down the drain.
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So who are the people living it up and enjoying life, from policy of Double Whammy ? 👄
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Former Defense Minister Panos Kammenos openly and directly accused former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis of deliberately trying to destroy Greek economy, cause a catastrophic Grexit, allow collaborating vulture funds to earn billions with inside information!
He worked for these funds as an economist.
After such criminal accusations he risks an International Interpol arrest warrant, trial in Greece for treason, and lifetime prison sentence.
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I´m so glad to hear this answers from tthis Thinkfull men and woman, that can clarify, how much we are having all these debt´s speaks, and a tendence to moralize it, as if all European´ workers were the cause of the banks´bailout.Where is the money to invest ?Why are we getting backwards, in education, health polcies, and so on.....?Why? It desperates instead of making people´knowledgement of all those facts repeated till you have a wash out inside your brain. This Europe has a terrible insanity, because theis leaders don´t want to stop and THINK, with all the countries, unless Brussells, want to speak alone. I think this is relly happening now.
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The EU was always designed to take the power away from the european people and hand it to the eurocrats in brussel's without the people knowing about it, just read jean monnet the father of the eu project he was very explicit about it.
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´ER hats IHNEN gegeben,ER hats IHNEN genommen.....meine MEINUNG.Die Entscheidungsfreiheit
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The Legends Of Greece Are Real
Go, Greece, go…
Don’t look back, go…
You just left behind Medusa’s head.
Now hurry up reach Prometheus’ fire,
He is still chained on Caucasus Mountains.
If you need wise words, go see Socrates,
You may find him on top of seven mountains in the island of Cyprus,
Out of where he still teaches the nations.
From there you are half way to meet Alexander,
He suggested - you should meet with Zeus, later.
Wait, I hear Aphrodite’s laughter,
She sings, “My Love for you Greece is on real fire”.
Whom are you kidding – Oracles of Apollo?
Look, they are melting down from the sky,
One after another finishing the dance of divine,
Whispering in a barely audible voice –
“From Greece will be seen the paradise”.
2/15/2015 -
This is so good, surely there is someone watching/listening to this who knows someone who could translate Croatian into English.
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Mighty are multplying their capital on other peoples backs, Greece has no choice European Union is project of Mighty just another exploitation organisation They are moving on Ukraina to suck it dry of all capital.
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government is a verb, not a noun
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Give billionaires more billions give nothing to those who have nothing so they have more nothing.
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This is a very intellectual discussion but the bottom line is the bankers and central banks took on aggressive RISK and now they have socialized the losses. You can write the debt off and allow capitalism to function as its intended to function. Or you rescue the predatory lender's and let them continue to spread debt. Its in the nature of money to survive by being continuously lent out and compounding.
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