Light Bulb Conspiracy

Since the early age man have created products to satisfy everybody's needs. However, companies have also specialized in creating products with an stipulated life time. This first started in the 1930's with the Light bulb conspiracy. The light bulb conspiracy describes the plan of the light bulb makers and their companies to intentionally create a decrease in the light bulbs usage hours in order for people to invest more on light bulbs once the first ones were damaged. After using this system to create more income in their companies, many other companies followed. Light bulbs had a radical decrease of their hours of usage, from 25000 hours to a 1000. This is a clear evidence how planned obsolescence has been slowly introduced to the public to buy more products. Since the light bulb "cartel", production has increased due to planned obsolescence.

Today, planned obsolescence is seen as people always buying the newest version or trend. As this happens, companies get rid of their old products using third world countries as a dumpster. Specialist say that if consumerism meant happiness, that was not true, because in the time of Marx, people buyed 26 times less and people are not happier now, so that means happiness is subjective. Planned obsolescence had led to a consumerism culture were the economy and the jobs are based on how things damage and they have to be replaced by new ones.

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4 Horsemen

The US has been considered one of the greatest empires that has excisted theoughout the history of mankind. Howver this empire might not seem as solid and estable as it is shown. The filn of the 4 Horsemen estates the possible causes of the American empire's fall. According to the film, an empire has always 6 ages; of outburst, of conquest, of commerce, of affluence, of intellect, and of decadence. We are living in a time of decadence, this is clearly shown with the high levels of prostitution and corruption in our system. Our modern system only has the ability to favor little amount of people. Like Gandhi once said "there is enough for everybody's need, but not for everybody's greed", this explains how if the wealth is shared among all economical stratus there would be more prosperity among everyone.

The economy also takes part in this age of decadence we are living in. The banks creates the money out of nothing and they are under the FIAT system which increases the corruption because there is nothing to back up the money. In this system there is only "invented" money, the real value of the money can't be evaluated. Until the last century communism and capitalism were battling as the ruling phylosophies. When communism felt, capitalism arose, and therefore our actual system got stronger. Melton Freeman is the pioneer of the modern system. Another factor that has fortified our decadence is the the destitution of the glass-steigell act, which limited the speculation of banks with people's money. This helped with corruption because pf desmesurate risks the bank took with others money, which eventually led in the economical crisis.

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Banco de la republica

The colombian monetary system is based on the Banco de la republica, which is not constituted as part of the government but it has its own organization and has its own autonomy. It is directed by the delegated of the Banco de la republica and five other members that are elected by the president. Its main function is to reduce the inflation in the country. It was created in 1923 and was created in the past monetary system based on gold, 10 millions of that time. The colombian monetary system has abandoned that gold based system, and has replaced it in numbers in a computer and the faith and conviction that the people has in its own government.

This mean that in order for the value of the money to go up, the support of people to its own government has to increase. Some similarities between this system and the one implemented in the US are that they both used to have a representation in gold of the value of the money. They can also be compared in that now they are more based on money in computers that in actual paper. Some of its differences are that they do not base their value of their money in the same thing. The US dollar is based on loans and debts as well as the imagination of the Federal Reserve. The Banco de la republica bases its money on the trust people have on their own government.  

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Federal reserve banking system

Have you aver wondered how money its created? In the US the money is created by the national reserve, this money is the result of debt that the government acquire with the reserve. This is because the government needs cash so it asks it from the national reserve. The national reserve then creates this amount of money out of "thin air" it just invents this money. This money (that does not really exist) is then exchanged with the government by government bonds. Then the government puts this money into several banking account. That money that is stored in the bank then is loaned by other people or organizations. The money that they can loan out the original money is 90 percent of the amount which can be later stored into another account and be loaned again. This process can be repeated up to increase the initial amount of money by 9.

This means that our whole society and banking system is based on the loans. Loans also mean that after the money you have taken from the moneylender, you have to pay back that money plus the interest. There is only one problem with this system, how would be everyone to be able to pay the debt plus the interest if all the money that is created is only the loan? It is not possible for everyone to pay their interest to the loaners because there would have to be created more money to satisfy the interest rates, but that would only create more debt, returning to the original problem. 

The only way a person can satisfy the debt plus the interest would inevitably provoke someone's bankruptcy in the system. This system is designed to literally make bankruptcy to other people in order for everyone to maintain their payments. There have to be someone sacrificed in order for the rest to take his money and pay the interest. This system also creates a life of economical submission because people are obligated to work in order to pay their debts.

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NATO stops "all military relationships" with Russia.

NATO has announced that, in collaboration with the Ukrainian government, had ceased any collaboration with the military action taken place by Russia to annex the region of Crimea, previously Ukrainian territory. With this announcement, the NATO rejects and disapproves the illegal occupation of Russian forces in Crimea. The organization has stated that in order for Russia to be supported again by the NATO it would have to move out its troops of the occupied territory. Unfortunately, there has not been any confirmation from the Russian government to withdraw its troops.

This crisis, stated the organization, is one of the major ideological confrontations since the Cold War. The situation has also intensified with the confirmation from the Russian oil company Gazprom that the prices of gas exports to Ukraine would increase by 40 percent. One proposed measurement that has been analyzed by the media is that the NATO would send more troops into the Ukrainian territory to make a point on Russia. But that might be seen as a provocation to the government of Vladimir Putin which has consistently supported the occupation of Crimea and is known for his harshness in dialogue. However some countries as Poland have stated that they would welcome more presence of NATO forces in its country.

On the other part, the UE would be willing to support with financial aid the Ukrainian territory, expecting no sanctions from Russia to them. This would help Ukraine with its new oil prices. Both the UE and the NATO hopes for the conflict to be over and for stability to come back to the region.

Via: http://m.aljazeera.com/story/201441132730915798

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Food Inc.

During the last few weeks we have been exposed to a great quantity of information about how the world is shaped today. One of the most influential films was Food Inc. which reflected the truly industrial food conglomerate in which the american people are especially immersed in. In this alimentary system directed by enormous corporates is ruled by corruption and its a disgraceful truth that had been hidden to the consumers. This film relates to other previously reviewed films, such as Confessions of an Economic Hitman, in that they reflect the economical power that corporates maintain over the poor countries and the farmers to influence and shape the whole system into submission.

The corporates use the necessities of others to enforce abuse in which the country or producer do what the company says or they are just simply considered "non useful" for the company. This makes the company the "owner" of the farmers and the company decisions based on the debt that the company enforces they to acquire, either to maintain themselves with the "company's standards" or to invest it on their people. If either the farmer or the country omits the corporate orders, their rulers are assassinated or the farmer is finished his contract to the company.

The race issue is also involved in this cruel corporate system in which the poorest races such as latinos are hired to manage animals and vegetables. This is because they are illegal immigrants and they do not have to be paid the same amount as an average american worker would receive. Illegal immigrants can't protest the working conditions or form any type of syndicate because they can't have rights in america, which is beneficial for the company because it is less investment in their workers; less losses.

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