Colonisation and resistance

Part 1



The true cause of this global environmental threat is not man made technology, but rather, it is the process of Man relinquishing our responsible stewardship over our technologies, to allowing our technology to control us through the application of the global economic system of Democrapitalism (the process of capitalism consuming and depleting our Mother Earths non-renewable resources, protected by Democracy).
Stuart Myiow Jr.


Part 2




Part 3

Democracy is...

Winner from the Central and South Asian Region of the inaugural edition of the Democracy Video Challenge (2008)...

Tsering Choden's entry from Kathmandu, Nepal for the Democracy Video Challenge - http://www.videochallenge.america.gov/index.html.

Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor

Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.

Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to some banks on the brink of collapse last year. He said that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into the economic system as a result.

This will raise questions about crime's influence on the economic system at times of crisis. It will also prompt further examination of the banking sector as world leaders, including Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, call for new International Monetary Fund regulations. Speaking from his office in Vienna, Costa said evidence that illegal money was being absorbed into the financial system was first drawn to his attention by intelligence agencies and prosecutors around 18 months ago. "In many instances, the money from drugs was the only liquid investment capital. In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor," he said.

Some of the evidence put before his office indicated that gang money was used to save some banks from collapse when lending seized up, he said.

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