Fred Harrison Press Conference at the Foreign Press Association, London

As sharemarkets crash around the world, the wrong people are being bailed out. Lower interest rates, infrastructure projects and money for the AIG’s of the world will only prop up land prices. Infact, policy makers couldn’t do any worse …

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Summary

The Earth Belongs to Everyone - that’s the title of the new book by last week’s guest, UN rep Alanna Hartzok. She discusses why wage/ rent slavery is no different, if not worse than outright slavery. US dramas and a touch of Garnaut fill the show. Below are the notes host Karl Fitzgerald scurries through as he/I traverse through the gammut of issues that economics effects.

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The Earth Belongs to Everyone - Book details

Order Alanna Hartzok’s excellent new book to get to the bottom of the drive to war and insights to the subliminal chains we wear each and every day with every tax dollar we pay.

A Collection of Articles and Essays by Alanna Hartzok. Themes include: Democracy, Earth Rights and the Next Economy; Sharing Our Common Heritage; Land for People, Not for Profit; Financing Local to Global Public Goods; Women, Earth and Economic Power; From Warfare to Earthshare.

Alanna Hartzok - Earth Rights International website
Alanna 2006 tour details, multimedia

Other articles covered:
If you’re going to bailout anybody Money to the People!

Once again, the real estate interests and their financial symbiants will get rescued from the folly of ignoring the inevitable real estate cycle. The real estate cycle is caused by government and gets rescued by government. This indicates the real purpose of government: to protect and subsidize the landed interests, including lenders who use land as collateral. Since land values periodically crash, the real interests need to be bailed out if they are to keep being protected. Meanwhile, worker-tenants pay not only taxes but higher rents to the landed royalty.

The brand new 10 min film from the 2007 Earthsharing Challenge. A dozen high school students interviewed local experts on the pressures of housing affordability. Questions are asked about whether holiday home owners, locals or speculators own Anglesea? …

Busting the myths of housing affordability

We’ve set up a competition to inspire film makers to look into the eyes of the housing and land affordability quagmire. There’s a $3000 cash first prize and more to come. We rarely hear …