Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, "Federal Reserve" is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates.

Dedicated to Murray N. Rothbard, steeped in American history and Austrian economics, and featuring Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell, this extraordinary documentary is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority.

Alan Greenspan was not, we're told, happy about this 1996 blockbuster. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating. This movie is changing America.




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Πειραματικό πρόγραμμα ανταλλαγής υπηρεσιών

Ενα πρόγραμμα ανταλλαγής υπηρεσιών μεταξύ των κατοίκων μιας πόλης. Μια εξαιρετική ιδέα καθώς οι καιροί είναι αρκετά περίεργοι και το χρήμα έχει πάψει σε μεγάλο βαθμό να αποτελεί μέσο ανταλλαγής πραγματικών, αληθινών προιόντων και υπηρεσιών. Ενα πείραμα που αξίζει να δείτε.

Watch Swapping Ditch-digging for Legal Services on PBS. See more from NOW on PBS.

Why Proven Ideas Make You Successful

George was tired of being broke. Every day was a struggle. "How will I pay my bills? I'm going deeper into debt. I can't afford to buy anything." So George constantly worked on new ways to make money. "If I could invent a new can opener, all my money problems would be over." "Maybe I could sell funny hats on the internet." "If I found some investors, I could open a new underwater restaurant." George had tried manufacturing a razor blade that never got dull, building the world's largest tree swing and selling lamps made of salt. All his new ventures failed. To survive, he worked at McDonald's as an assistant manager. George felt he should solve his money problems with new untried ideas. Unfortunately, unproven ideas are often wrong. Affluence "Affluence* Attainment, consists of . . . Doing the things that won, not new things untried as yet." -- L. Ron Hubbard (Affluence: abundance; wealth)

Who Are You.... Really

Cover via Amazon

The original is here: http://youtu.be/kUtH0DDJorM The voice is from Gangaji, reading her book "The Diamond in Your Pocket" (audio book from Soundstrue).

The music is by Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy: Elegy, from the album Immortal Memory.

The images are from the BBC series Planet Earth, Mountains episode. Links to sites of the creator of the video, Kosi Freedom: http://www.kosi.co and kosifreedom.ning.com

Instant Happiness

You can feel happier in just one minute by first understanding a few important facts. "Happiness could be defined as the emotion of progress toward desirable goals. There is an instant of contemplation* of the last goal in which one is content. But contentment becomes boredom immediately that new goals do not come to view. There is no more unhappy thing than a man who has accomplished all his ends in life." -- L. Ron Hubbard (*contemplation = thoughtful observation; meditation) Let's examine three parts of this definition.

"Validation"

Ενα έξοχο φιλμ για τις ανθρώπινες σχέσεις και το μηχανισμό που μπορεί να τις βελτιώσει θεαματικά.



"Validation" is a fable about the magic of free parking.

Starring TJ Thyne & Vicki Davis
Writer/Director/Composer - Kurt Kuenne
A Theatre Junkies Production

Winner - Best Narrative Short, Cleveland Int'l Film Festival; Winner - Jury Award, Gen Art Chicago Film Festival; Winner - Audience Award, Hawaii Int'l Film Festival; Winner - Best Short Comedy, Breckenridge Festival of Film; Winner - Crystal Heart Award, Best Short Film & Audience Award, Heartland Film Festival; Winner - Christopher & Dana Reeve Audience Award, Williamstown Film Festival; Winner - Best Comedy, Dam Short Film Festival; Winner - Best Short Film, So Cal Independent Film Festival; Winner - Best Short Film, Idyllwild Film Festival; Winner - Best Short Film, Sedona International Film Festival;

Present! - Edition #1 Rethinking Presentation Design

How do I start when creating a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation? What are the things to focus on? How should I approach the design? These slides try to answer these questions.

Present! - Edition #1 Rethinking Presentation Design from Oliver Adria

The great eye learns to see

A fable about using design to help your audience see your message clearly. And what to avoid. For directors, designers, instructional designers, and presenters.

Design for Presentation: The great eye learns to see from Francis Glebas

How Can Data Mining & Analytics Enhance Education?

Please include attribution to CollegeStats.org with this graphic.

Who Do You Want to Be?

Question: What is the best personality or the best identity for you to assume? Answer: Anything you want! A cheerful friend, a businesslike executive, a caring listener. Whatever is best at the time. Different circumstances require different attitudes. For example, to be a bossy manager at work might be appropriate, but you might drive your spouse crazy if that identity comes home with you. To be a rowdy sports fan at a game is great, but not who you should be when asking for a raise. The reason people have trouble determining who or what they should BE is because . . . they don't start with HAVE. "Children in the West are commonly asked `What are you going to BE when you grow up?' It is a silly question and can drive any child up the wall. Because it's the wrong question -- it hits the wrong end of the cycle." "The child is also asked, `What are you going to DO in life?' That's just as bad. It is quite difficult to answer." "If we asked children, `What do you want to PRODUCE in life?' we could probably get a workable answer. From that they could figure out what they'd have to do to produce. And from that, they could know what they had to BE. Then, with a little cooperation they would be able to lead a happy and valuable life." "A lot of people and businesses fail because they don't do this." -- L. Ron Hubbard

Seth Godin: The tribes we lead

Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.

Seth Godin is an entrepreneur and blogger who thinks about the marketing of ideas in the digital age. His newest interest: the tribes we lead.

Awakening your inner genius

If you’d like to know what some of history’s greatest thinkers and achievers can teach you about awakening your inner genius, and how to find, follow, and fulfill your journey to greatness, then you want to read this book today.

See, you can score in the highest ranges of IQ…and fail to succeed in life. You can work incredibly hard…and never realize your dreams. You can stumble across beautiful opportunities…only to watch them wither and die.

There’s something else—something considered unfathomable by many—that lies behind greatness. And in Awakening Your Inner Genius, you’re going to be taken on an adventure to discover what that is, and how you can use it to transform your life.

You see, genius is a path, not a gift. Studies of history’s greatest geniuses have shown that there is a “genius code,” if you will. A combination of very specific traits that we can develop in ourselves, and thus, operate at a genius level.

In this book, you’re going to learn things like…

HOW TO GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT IN 2013

by Grant Cardone

Everyone wants to achieve GOALS throughout the year but very few people actually do.

I want to help you achieve your GOALS this year - YOU of all people deserve to get what you WANT. It has come to my attention that a lot of people have trouble with the topic of goal setting - how to set goals, how to understand if they are realistic, how to persist on goals and then make them a reality.

So I create a video for you on how I set goals and clarify what it is I want, how to ensure I get them and then how do I use the goals to cause me to passionately persist toward them throughout the year. What you give attention to is what you will have attention on. Give your goals attention, give them a lot of attention, persistent attention and then clarify what it is you want.



Here are the steps and I will go into them in detail in the video.

[Slides] Facebook for Higher Education

The presentation gives us a quick overview of the importance of Facebook in students'  lives, as well as ideas for social engagement within university communities in the social media site. Engagement opportunities such as alumni relations, promoting sports programs, and emergency communications are highlighted to show the growing variance Facebook can be used for Higher ed. officials to interact with students.

Facebook For Higher Education from Susan Beebe

Flipped Classroom Higher Education

Presentation for integrating the flipped classroom in higher education with a focus on experiential learning with videos and other content supporting not driving the instruction.

Flipped Classroom Higher Education from Jackie Gerstein