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The second book in the Easy Money trilogy discusses how the global financial system evolved in the aftermath of the First World War and how that finally led to the dot-com crash in the United States, in the early 2000s. It gives an overview of how in the aftermath of the First World War, Europe was in major trouble. The book also analyzes how the United Kingdom of Great Britain, which was once the premier nation of the world, lost out to its former colony, the United States of America.

«On dit toujours: “Tu vas finir en prison” ou “Lui, il mérite la prison”. Mais on ne sait pas ce que c'est.» Valentine, magistrate, janvier 2020.Milieu fermé par essence, la prison est un endroit dont seuls celles et ceux qui la côtoient peuvent raconter ce qu'il s'y passe réellement. Les rares témoignages filtrent peu, nourrissant fantasmes et idées reçues sur l'enfermement et les conditions de détention, souvent instrumentalisées politiquement.Dans le rapport «La réinsertion des personnes détenues: l'affaire de tous et toutes» paru en 2019, Antoine Dulin, vice ...

Religious Systems examines how religious institutions functioned as systems—how authority was established, decisions were made, and belief was organized at scale. Each episode documents the administrative, legal, and structural mechanisms that allowed religious organizations to endure, adapt, and govern communities over time. Rather than debating belief, this channel analyzes structure: councils, hierarchies, doctrine formation, enforcement mechanisms, and institutional continuity. This is a historical and analytical channel focused on process, not persuasion.

Confessions of a Gen-X Mind is a reflective mental health podcast about family systems, identity, and what happens when you finally see your life clearly.Told from a Gen-X perspective shaped by media, technology, and decades of lived experience, each episode explores the quieter side of mental health. Not crisis. Not quick fixes. But awareness, integration, and emotional adulthood.Through personal storytelling, cultural observation, and honest self-examination, the show looks at inherited roles, family dynamics, neurodivergence, boundaries, and the process of choosing healthier ground later in...

Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve...

The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. The consequences of these mounting and intertwined crises will shape our future. In this unique collection of over 50 essays, The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself, Richard D. Wolff argues clearly that "returning to normal" no longer responds adequately to the accumulated problems of US capitalism.

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Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivalled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone - it pairs this with surprising responsiveness to the public. The Party and the People explores how this paradox has helped the CCP endure for decades, and how this balance has shifted increasingly toward repression under the rule of President Xi Jinping.

From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up. In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small...

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era.

The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. ‘The NHS is an institution. But it’s also a political football, kicked back and forth between politicians for the past 75 years. It’s a burden to some and a potent vote-winner for others. It’s a...

Everyone knows that we live in a period of great transition. Familiar systems are crumbling all around us and the terrifying unknown lies ahead. But your hosts Brian and Nate are here to inject some optimism into your life. This podcast explores the forgotten histories of finance and faith that have carried us to the brink of the most exciting time in human history. www.systemfailure.org

“The system” is what our world works by. Whether it is how social norms work or how the government works, there are always people who are left off the system. In a country like India 150 million people out of its total population are aged above 60. They are the elderly of our nation and it is a part of our culture to respect them, yet, they are the ones easily forgotten about. Our elderly are off the system. Off the system being a class project, follow our class of 12 enthusiastic students as we spend time in an old age home, understanding and learning about our elderly.

A withering and witty examination of how the American legal system, burdened by complexity and untrammeled growth, fails Americans and threatens the rule of law itself, by the acclaimed author of A Generation of Sociopaths. Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems do...

Es ist einer der aufsehenerregendsten True-Crime-Stoffe der letzten Jahrzehnte: Am 30. März 1985 werden die Eltern der kanadischen Studentin Elizabeth Haysom in ihrem Haus in Virginia auf brutalste Weise ermordet. Sie hatten mit ihrem Mörder zuvor offenbar gegessen und getrunken. Haysoms Freund – der deutsche Diplomatensohn und Student Jens Söring – und sie selbst werden im April 1986 in London festgenommen. »Das System Söring« erzählt die Geschichte eines wegen zweifachen Mordes verurteilten Deutschen, der 2019 aus einem US-amerikanischen Gefängnis auf Bewährung entlassen und ...

When Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was appointed in 2006 to become the nation's next Secretary of the Treasury, he knew that his move from Wall Street to Washington would be daunting and challenging. But Paulson had no idea that a year later, he would find himself at the very...

Welcome to the Gamma System. Here you’ll find an explanation to the questions that for so long have either been avoided or even ridiculed. Lets expand our knowledge beyond the established linear concept of learning. Let it be the UFO paradigm, or New Technologies, or Uncharted Science

It is one of the most sensational true-crime stories in recent decades: on March 30, 1985, the parents of Canadian student Elizabeth Haysom were brutally murdered in their home in Lynchburg, Virginia. Both had their heads nearly severed from their torsos. They had apparently shared a meal with their killer. Elizabeth's boyfriend - the German son of a diplomat and student Jens Söring - and she were arrested in London in December 1986.THE SOERING SYSTEM tells the story of a German man convicted of double homicide who was released from a U.S. prison in 2019 but never actually acquitted. Since ...

""With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice."" –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel...

Se trata de una recopilación de 10 horas del programa The five greateast de Guy Williams centrada en la época helena. Conozca los cimientos griegos de nuestra civilización occidental mientras aprende inglés de forma sumamente amena y fácil.