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PBS- The Market Maker: Eleni Gabre Madhin Creates First Commodity Market in Ethiopia [Full Episode]
Trailer:
While in college future economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin watched the famine in her home country Ethiopia, where about a million people died of starvation. The most messed up part about it was that in the northern part of the country there was a surplus of food which was thrown away.
In the video we get to watch her as she goes back to Ethiopia to set up a commodity exchange so that Ethiopian farmers get access to the market all across Ethiopia- and with enough time, the world. This is an amazing documentary (and the only one I know of) showing a person developing a national commodities exchange from scratch.
If you want to see the whole video in full screen, go here:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/the-market-maker/full-episode/5293/
Oliver Stone’s South of the Border
via Street Knowledge
I’m always open to anything that sheds light on US media bias.
This flick specifically portrays U.S. media bias against Hugo Chavez, but in a broader way, any leader who happens to favor their people over U.S. corporate interests.
Maxed Out [Current TV]
This vividly portrays how all that crap about going to school and getting a good job and a successful career isn’t what it’s cracked up to be for some. I really feel for some of the people in this video-well actually only the married couple- the rest not so much.
I have a year left in college with $80,000 in loans (sigh) and I’m at the point where I’m wondering what to do with my life. I have an inkling feeling that blogging won’t be able to pay the bills next year.
Don’t get me wrong though, I’m happy that I did go to college. I’ve just come to realize that the reasons they sell you to go to college (education and/or degree) aren’t as valuable as the life lessons people can come outta college with.
Movie Review: The Taking of Pelham 123 [spill.com]
Another hilarious review; it sounded like these guys wanted their best to like it but couldn’t.
Japan: Robot Nation
Japan, the world’s second largest economy, is facing a demographic crisis that will shrink the population dramatically. The Japanese aren’t having babies, and the country won’t accept immigrants to help bolster the population. But Japan may have a unique solution — Robots!
Movie Review- Terminator Salvation [Spill.com]
These guys are friggin’ hilarious as always. I’m plannin’ on watching this cause I love robots, and futuristic movies, so a movie with both? C’mon, easy choice.
City On Steroids
China is building megacities like this at a pace and scale the world has never seen before. Chongqing has 12 million people and counting. It’s part of the central government’s plan to bring some of China’s economic boom to its impoverished interior province where three out of four Chinese live. Vanguard takes you on a whirlwind tour of the city—from inside a cramped boarding house where migrant workers to inside a starter apartment of China’s new class of yuppies; from inside ancient, crumbling teahouses to gleaming new car factories.
