Money dominates the world and it controls human societies… It is therefore fundamental to know how the economy works and who controls money! How does high finance work? How can the globalized economy be sustainable and human? What is money? - Does money bring happiness? - How much has oil brought in? - The misconceptions about economy and wealth - Debt money
For more solidarity between capital and labor or how to move the lines in the company for more equity in remuneration? In his book “For more solidarity between capital and labor” (published by L'Harmattan 2004) Rémi Guillet emphasizes the importance of the challenge of the company in the equitable sharing of […]
Yesterday the Médecins du Monde association broadcast an "incisive" advertising campaign on the Internet about the excessive prices of certain drug treatments. The campaign was in fact refused to be broadcast by “classic” displays by the Professional Advertising Regulatory Authority (ARPP). JCDecaux, MediaTransport and L'Insert therefore refused to post this […]
Are the physical limits to growth [1] relevant? Since the famous sentence of KE Boulding [2] as well as the publication of the report of the Club of Rome, this physical limit has become a commonplace: all the more reason to be wary of it and to question the validity of the assertion , since with global warming, they are […]
El Khomri Labor Law: to oppose the reform of the Labor Law, the unions are now brandishing the weapon of massive economic destruction (hey yes…) by blocking refineries and petroleum fuel depots! And that could work to make bend a government which, on this blow, does as it pleases! Oil […]
Green nudges: new incentives for ecological behavior The adoption of ecological behavior comes up against many obstacles, whether of a material, financial or psychological nature. These constraints limit the effectiveness of traditional approaches which combine awareness campaigns, technological innovations and economic and normative instruments. Therefore, the contribution of new methods […]
How to manipulate public opinion in 10 simple rules? Do you know them ? Do you recognize them? Find out more, sources and debate: strategies for manipulating peoples 1 / The strategy of diversion A fundamental element of social control, the strategy of diversion consists in diverting the public's attention from important problems and changes […]
Union and social functioning and abuse in the French National Education, first or second item of the budget of France (alternating according to the years with the debt load) French national education is sick: the level of education of the pupils is in free fall but yet it costs more and more! Why? Or […]
Union and social functioning and abuse in French National Education Find out more: - Another very interesting video on the education system of our growing societies and the corresponding debate: education, why? .– See also this debate on gaps in national education programs Download the file (a newsletter subscription can […]
Argentina experienced bankruptcy in 2001 following a serious economic crisis between 1998 and 2002. The details of this crisis are explained on this wiki page. What interests us is the method used to manage the way out of the crisis, explained in the short video that follows, taken from a news report from France3. Currently […]
History of Planned Industrial Obsolescence Find out more: - Debate on Planned Obsolescence - Report on Industrial Obsolescence - Another report on the subject: Special Envoy: The Big Bluff
Did you think that income was proportionately linked to employee motivation and happiness? That is to say: the better we are paid, the more motivated and happy we are? Well no! This little video, presenting various very interesting studies on "the psychology of money", shows the reverse ... Just like the feeling of "happiness" which ceases to [...]
Basic Income, the 1h30 Documentary film presenting the operation, advantages and disadvantages of the basic income principle. “Income is like the air under the wings of a bird! ". This is how the film begins. Should this income be unconditional for everyone? Is it possible, a civic right […]
Basic Income, the 1h30 Documentary film presenting the operation, advantages and disadvantages of the basic income principle. "Income is like the air under the wings of a bird!" ". This is how the film begins. Should this income be unconditional for everyone? Is it possible, a right […]
Video taken as part of a conference on basic income or universal income explaining very interesting case studies in relation to our psychological relationship to money ... Find out more: - Other (positive) videos on society ( qui va mal) - Debate on this video or the universal or basic income - […]
Links and collusion between the WHO (World Health Organization) and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Source for further information: debate on victims of civilian nuclear energy
Review Panel on the Shale Gas Industry. Inquiry and public hearing report Quebec report by the BAPE (Bureau of public hearings on the environment) of 144 pages on the exploration and exploitation of shale gas and the potential environmental, health and social problems of its exploitation . Introduction Shale gas exploration and exploitation projects […]
Gasland report (full video) on shale gas in the USA and its devastating effects on the environment Documentary in 7 parts on Youtube or Dailymotion. Europe will not be spared, it also has “interesting” gas potential. José Bové seems to have become in a few weeks one of the leaders in raising awareness of the problems […]
Greenpeace campaign of January 2011 on the petro-dependence of our Western companies Petrol Addict: how did we get there? Find out more: - Debate on the dependence of our Western societies and economies on oil - Relations between the price of oil, GDP and growth in OECD countries Download […]
The decreases, consume less to live better? A report by Sophie Romillat and David Geoffrion for Special Envoy, 02/2009. Sociologists call them "decreasing", in France, more and more of them are refusing to consume more and more. They reject the spiral of the consumer society. When the rest of the […]
The Great Bluff of household appliances. Planned obsolescence and overconsumption practices highlighted in France. Special Envoy report broadcast on France 2 in February 2010 Obsolescence is the fact that a product becomes obsolete. Planned obsolescence is the act of voluntarily making a product obsolete at the end of a certain time "pre-programmed" in advance. This is […]
Planned obsolescence, symbol of the waste society: the case of electrical and electronic products September 2010. By Marine Fabre and Wiebke Winkler. Publication of Cniid and Friends of the Earth. Obsolescence is the fact that a product becomes obsolete. Planned obsolescence is the act of voluntarily making a product obsolete at the cost of a certain […]
How distribution and industrialists seek maximum profitability at the expense of consumers. The Great Bluff of household appliances! Extracts from special envoy of February 2010. Find out more: - Are we in a disposable society? - Industrial obsolescence, the story of a deception: facts and debate - Full report on the Great Bluff of household appliances […]
Philippe Séguin, then first President of the Court of Auditors, dares to speak freely about the public debt, one of the few (if not the only) politician to have dared to assert that 100% of income tax went into the interest on the public debt and not in investing for the good of the country! He […]
Energy and economic growth: A BRIEF SUMMARY! by Remi Guillet. 3rd and last part: taxes on energy. Read part 2. Taxes on fuels Traditionally, the fuels business has been a boon for governments, which find in it a significant budgetary revenue and a strategic lever enabling them to support or […]
Energy and economic growth: A BRIEF SUMMARY! by Remi Guillet. 2nd part: sources of energy, fossil or not. Read Part 1: Energy consumption and economic growth, Part 3: Taxes and the economic solution ?. The use of fossil fuels in the world… A closer examination teaches us that in reality about 95% […]