Inside Job Documentary

‘Inside Job’ is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.

This film won an Oscar for best documentary of 2011.

Link to documentary: http://documentaryheaven.com/inside-job/#

#Zuckup Response

Topic: http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/facebooks-final-zuckup.html

Facebook's Final Zuckup

This adbusters article goes over the many things that Facebook has done  to make its users mad. They call them Zuckups, changes that Mark Zuckerberg is bringing to Facebook that makes people want to delete their accounts, if they could.

The main thing that Facebook has done to enrage people so much was shutting down the organizing page for the Third Intifada, a group made for a popular Palestinian uprising to shake off Isreal's brutal occupation that had over 200,000 supporters.

This "silencing of the people" triggered outrage throughout Palestinian Facebook users, and now Adbusters is saying this the last straw, and calling for people all over the world to deactivate their accounts.

Discussion Question: What would it take to make you deactivate your Facebook account?

The Canadian Election

This picture sums up the Canadian election to me.

I will not be voting in the 2011 Canadian Federal Election, I feel I do not have enough of the necessary information about the candidates. This election was kind of a surprise for most people I have spoken to, not many people were ready to vote for someone. I know the basics, there are five parties running, and the most recent polls say the conservatives at leading, followed by the liberals.

One of the main issues I am concerned with is the privatization of the TTC. I believe if the TTC was made private, the fare costs would need to have restrictions to stop the price from constantly rising. I believe the TTC is fine the way it is, most cities other than Toronto have much worse public transit than our city, so suck it up.