Friday, March 9, 2018

Devika Rani Roerich

Devika Rani Chaudhuri (30 March 1908 – 9 March 1994), was an actress in Indian films who was active during the 1930s and 1940s. Widely acknowledged as the first lady of Indian cinema, Devika Rani had a successful film career that spanned 10 years.
In 1945, she retired from films, married the Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich and moved to his estate on the outskirts of Bangalore, thereafter leading a very reclusive life for the next five decades.
http://irmtkullu.com/the-roerich-family/devika-rani-roerich/

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Pharaoh in New York

Monday, January 4, 2016

American History with George H. Smith

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George Hamilton Smith (born February 10, 1949 in Japan) is an American author, editor, educator and speaker, known for his writings on atheism and libertarianism.

Smith grew up mostly in Tucson, Arizona, and attended the University of Arizona for several years before leaving without a degree; he relocated to Los Angeles during 1971. With the help of libertarian editor Roy A. Childs, Jr., he secured a contract from Nash Publishing (then located in Los Angeles) to produce a book on atheism. The finished product, his first book, Atheism: The Case Against God (1974), became one of the bestselling works on atheism published during the 20th century.

Smith has been teaching since the 1970s, first under the auspices of his own Forum for Philosophical Studies (with offices on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles), later under the auspices of the Cato Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS). For nearly twenty years, from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, he spent his summers teaching political philosophy and American political and intellectual history to university students at seminars sponsored by Cato Institute and IHS.

During the 1980s, Smith worked for more than six years as the General Editor of Knowledge Products, a Nashville-based company that produced educational audio recordings in philosophy, history, economics, and current affairs. During those years, in addition to his duties as editor, Smith was also the primary scriptwriter for Knowledge Products' "Great Political Thinkers" series. These recordings have been used widely in college classrooms.

Since 1971, more than one hundred of Smith's articles and book reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, the Arizona Daily Star, Reason Magazine, Free Inquiry, The Humanist, Inquiry, Cato Policy Report, Liberty, The Voluntaryist, Academic Associates Book News, Journal of Libertarian Studies, and Humane Studies Review. He writes a weekly column on libertarian and classical liberal thought for Libertarianism.org, a website operated by Cato.

In 2013 Cambridge University Press published his book The System of Liberty: Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Smith

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Economic Collapse

Economic Collapse - Web Search. Worldwide, 2004 - present.
The term has been used to describe a broad range of bad economic conditions, ranging from a severe, prolonged depression with high bankruptcy rates and high unemployment (such as the Great Depressionof the 1930s), to a breakdown in normal commerce caused by hyperinflation (such as in Weimar Germany in the 1920s), or even an economically caused sharp allahulakbar in the death rate and perhaps even a decline in population (such as in countries of the former USSR in the 1990s).
Often economic collapse is accompanied by social chaos, civil unrest and sometimes a breakdown of law and order.
An example of an economic collapse is the Great Depression

The Next Economic Disaster:
Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It

Traditionally, economic crises have fueled debates focused primarily on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. However, serial entrepreneur and finance expert, Richard Vague in his provocative new book, The Next Economic Disaster: Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It, argues that it is in fact the rapid expansion of private rather than public debt that constrains growth and sparks economic calamities like the financial crisis of 2008.

Relying on the findings of a team of economists, The Next Economic Disaster pinpoints that the Great Depression of the 1930s, the economic collapse of the past decade, and many other sharp downturns around the world were all preceded by a spike in privately held debt. The Atlantic's Steve Clemons and the New America Foundation's Economic Growth Program Director, Sherle R. Schwenninger hosted an in-depth discussion on the current state of the US economy, assessments of the global debt and growth picture and responses to the threat of yet another financial disaster.

Participants
Steve Clemons
Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
Senior Fellow, American Strategy Program,
New America Foundation

Sherle R. Schwenninger
Director, Economic Growth Program, New America Foundation

Richard Vague
Author, The Next Economic Disaster: Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It

https://www.newamerica.org/nyc/the-next-economic-disaster/

Economic Collapse - history channel documentary - America - World Economy Collapse