Added: Jul 7, 2008
From: dougtilton
Duration: 7:40
Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu speaks to the closing session of the Basic Income Earth Network's 11th International Congress in Cape Town, 4 November. The Nobel laureate, who chaired South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, applauds the work of the Basic Income campaign and makes an impassioned plea for social transfers to combat poverty and hunger. For more information on Basic Income, see the papers from the Congress, available at www.epri.org.za.
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bluensunshine Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Basic income deserves to be much wider known ~ the typical response when I've raised the subject is 'is this some kind of communism...?' So when I've mentioned the countries I know that have looked seriously at BI (Eire, New Zealand etc) the look is of bewilderment.
bluensunshine Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Wasn't it Jean Luc Picard (Star Trek) who said something like, 'in the 24th Century we've done away with money.' What is this fractional_ private_ capitalism? Please can you explain.
Lotusmita Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - The vision of Basic citizens income for all citizens is needed to address widespread poverty especially in developing countries and increasingly here, yet it does not address the issue of money as debt via fractional reserve system by centralized private commercial banks instead by people's governmnent. Federal reserve is private. Search for money masters video and 'deep conscious capitalism'