DJ Spooky (Paul Miller) talks about the history of media and thoughts about media in culture. He discusses and demonstrates the unexpected side effects of free speech, law, and copyright while showing the power of remixed art. The future and meaning of remix culture is discussed.

Status Anxiety discusses the desire of people in many modern societies to "climb the social ladder" and the anxieties that result from a focus on how one is perceived by others. De Botton claims that chronic anxiety about status is an inevitable side effect of any democratic, ostensibly egalitarian society. De Botton lays out the causes of and solutions to status anxiety as follows:

Causes:

Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism. Sources define this term as follows:

affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. (de Graaf [1])

There was a lot of talk at the fest, and still is at the spores, about the dollar, money, alternate currency ideas and time shares, ect. A lot of us have great ideas and some have even put work into some alternate systems.

Wikipedia has this to say, "The Union: The Business Behind Getting High is a 2007 documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Brett Harvey. The film explores the illegal growth, sale and trafficking of marijuana in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its theatrical run was limited to film festivals.

This is one of my favorite video documentaries. It is done in a style very similar to the Zeitgeist films, though it does predate them.

Wikipedia has this to say about the film,

You'd think that things like disasters, or the purity of childhood, or even milk, let alone water or air, would be sacred. But no. Corporations have no built-in limits on what, who, or how much they can exploit for profit. In the fifteenth century, the enclosure movement began to put fences around public grazing lands so that they might be privately owned and exploited.

Professor Niall Ferguson, "We may think power resides with presidents and prime ministers in palaces and parliament. Not so, in today's world real power lies in the hands of an elite group of unassuming men in anonymous open planned offices. The men who control the world's bond market."

Professor Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the pillars of the world's financial system, and how behind every great historical phenomenon – empires and republics, wars and revolutions – there lies a financial secret.

Episode 1: Dreams of avarice

This lecture, titled Safely Navigate the Falling US Dollar - Powerful Strategies for the Ethical Investor in Uncertain Economic Times was presented by Catherine Austin Fitts in Mill Valley, CA, December 15, 2004 to an overflow audience. Building Wealth and Safety—the Solari Way We all need maps and tools for navigating these uncertain times.

On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that you won’t see on American television.

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS

Please reference Wikipedia for basic information on Codex Alimentarius.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_alimentarius

I also attached a pdf of the article, “NUTRICIDE: THE KILLING CAMPS OF CODEX ALIMENTARIUS” Or How the Nazis Took Over the World Food Supply. by Rima E. Laibow, MD Medical Director, Natural Solutions Foundation.

Codex Alimentarius:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634

http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hErvV5YEHkE

Corporations:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3203253804055041031&hl=en

1099 Capital ideas.

[12:43] Ryan: i had a pretty interesting insight last week
[12:43] Mojo: really ...tell me........

i am so aggrivatted there is just too much on the web and none of it really exites me anymore i remember how when i was younger like in middle school and high school back in the days before myspace and all that jazz how exited and inthralled i would get with each and every new toy i sortta wish i still had that same enthusiasim for the twitters facebooks and such of today truth is it all just bor