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20:01:50 01/30/12
Sorie Kondi - "Thogolobea": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Sorie Kondi - "Thogolobea": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Sorie Kondi was born in the village of Mangiloko, near the city of Makeni in Sierra Leone, West Africa around the year 1968. His actual birthdate is not certain because there is no official record of his birth. His country ranks as one of the three poorest countries in the world in terms of infant mortality, life expectancy, per capita income, health care, and infrastructure. He never went to school but began to play the kondi, a traditional instrument of Sierra Leone as a teenager. It was apparent early on that he had a special talent for music, and by 1984 he started earning some small money by playing at ceremonies and travelling to nearby villages. Being born blind in such a poor country and never receiving any formal education would seem like enough hardship by itself. But then his life was uprooted in 1996 when civil war forced him to leave his home and seek refuge in Freetown. Despite the ongoing war, he began recording his first album there in 1998, and finished it after 4 months. But on January 6, 1999, the rebels staged a brutal assault on Freetown called Operation No Living Thing. Almost all the city's residents fled to the bush. Sorie was abandoned, forced to hide inside his house for 5 days while much of the city was looted and burned down. When the dust settled, the master tapes had been lost and his career plans derailed. He decided to remain in the capital city, in a neighborhood called Fourah Bay, renting a one-room shack perched on a dangerously steep ... From: sxsw Views: 72 5 ratings Time: 03:41 More in Entertainment
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20:01:50 01/30/12
Sorie Kondi - "Thogolobea": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Sorie Kondi - "Thogolobea": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Sorie Kondi was born in the village of Mangiloko, near the city of Makeni in Sierra Leone, West Africa around the year 1968. His actual birthdate is not certain because there is no official record of his birth. His country ranks as one of the three poorest countries in the world in terms of infant mortality, life expectancy, per capita income, health care, and infrastructure. He never went to school but began to play the kondi, a traditional instrument of Sierra Leone as a teenager. It was apparent early on that he had a special talent for music, and by 1984 he started earning some small money by playing at ceremonies and travelling to nearby villages. Being born blind in such a poor country and never receiving any formal education would seem like enough hardship by itself. But then his life was uprooted in 1996 when civil war forced him to leave his home and seek refuge in Freetown. Despite the ongoing war, he began recording his first album there in 1998, and finished it after 4 months. But on January 6, 1999, the rebels staged a brutal assault on Freetown called Operation No Living Thing. Almost all the city's residents fled to the bush. Sorie was abandoned, forced to hide inside his house for 5 days while much of the city was looted and burned down. When the dust settled, the master tapes had been lost and his career plans derailed. He decided to remain in the capital city, in a neighborhood called Fourah Bay, renting a one-room shack perched on a dangerously steep ... From: sxsw Views: 72 5 ratings Time: 03:41 More in Entertainment
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01:51:37 01/29/12
Thousands Turn Out To Race For A Cure
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Thousands Turn Out To Race For A Cure
Downtown West Palm Beach was flooded with a sea of pink Saturday morning for the annual Race For A Cure, including Team Kristin, which walked in honor of our late friend and co-worker Kristin Hoke, who lost her battle to breast cancer in June 2010. From: WPBF Views: 6 0 ratings Time: 02:01 More in News & Politics
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21:45:13 01/01/12
Hodgson gutted by Everton defeat
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West Brom manager Roy Hodgson was hugely disappointed after his side lost at home to Everton, but refused to blame the congested fixture list.
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Tags: defeat Review Football West Bromwich Albion UK Football gutted English Everton Premier League Hodgson
Posted: 01 January 2012
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20:00:00 12/19/11
Havel the Dissident: A Legacy Worth Claiming
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Former President Havel addresses a European cultural congress on the economics of culture
On a warm evening in 1991, a colleague and I found an out-of-the-way café in the old part of Prague. Two men with blank expressions stood outside. The interior was dim and close, with room for only eight or nine tables. The place was almost empty. Just a sleepy waitress, a bartender polishing glasses, and a single patron who sat alone drinking wine and chain-smoking cigarettes.
The President of Czechoslovakia wasn't reviewing official papers. He was reading a book, a startlingly un-Presidential act to our American eyes. My companion, a neoconservative State Department official, already admired him for defying and defeating a Communist state. He'd impressed me by bringing a writer's sensibility and an affinity for true underground culture to his role as head of state.
Václav Havel even tried to appoint Frank Zappa as his Minister of Culture. "We're not rock musicians," Zappa told a reporter back in the sixties. "We're electronic social workers." The State Department wouldn't let Zappa assume the post, but Havel had made his point to the Czech public by offering this apparatchik's position to the composer of songs like "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" ("Some say your nose, some say your toes, but I think it's your mind .")
We never spoke to Havel that night. It didn't seem polite to offer anything more than the curt nod of acknowledgement any café patron gives another at that hour. But Havel spoke to us, to all of us. And on the occasion of his death, the real lessons of his life's work are in danger of being lost.
Today we're told that the Occupy movement is too idealistic, too naïve. Naïve? Try Havel's words if you want naïve: "May truth and love triumph over lies and hatred."
Think of that as the Velvet Revolution's "one demand."
Portrait of the President as a Young Freak
As millions of people know, the underground playwright Havel first made his political mark in Charter 77. That group was formed to defend the Plastic People of the Universe, a banned and imprisoned rock band working in the Zappa mold of musical dissonance and cultural dissidence.
The Occupy movement is not on the cultural fringe, despite what its detractors say. But Havel's movement began as a Yippie-like creature of the underworld. Charter 77 rarely had more than a thousand members. It was a strange blend of political idealism and the hippie subculture where people proudly labeled themselves "freaks" to the conventional world. Despite its later alignment with economically conservative forces, it was more Allen Ginsburg than Alan Greenspan.
And it was created to defend the Plastic People of the Universe, whose grating music makes Occupy's drum circles seem like a children's choir serenading the bored residents of a home for aging veterans.
Words
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité - what wonderful words! And how terrifying their meaning can be! Freedom in the shirt unbuttoned before execution. Equality in the constant speed of the guillotine's fall on different necks. Fraternity in some dubious paradise ...
Havel addressed the liberal democratic West on words in the 1970s, noting that the suppression of speech can give language enormous power: >
I ... live in a country where a writers' congress speech is capable of shaking the system ... a manifesto served as one of the pretexts for the invasion of our country one night by five foreign armies ... a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
When a system has become inflexible and is in danger of collapsing, what it fears most is words. Think about that the next time you see a phalanx of cops tear down a tent city on television.
Havel had been burned by language, too: >
The same word can at one moment radiate great hope, at another it can emit lethal rays ... true at one moment and false the next, at one moment illuminating, at another, deceptive. On one occasion it can open up glorious horizons, on another, it can lay down the tracks to an entire archipelago of concentration camps.
And as we approach an election year that will be filled with the rhetoric of freedom, this observation still resonates: >
The same word can at one time be the cornerstone of peace, while at another time machine-gun fire resounds in its every syllable.
Control
In 1975 Havel had the presumption to write directly to Czechoslovakian head of state Gustáv Husák with a few suggestions. There's more than a passing resemblance between the fear-driven Communist society Havel condemned in that letter and the financial anxiety many Americans endure today: >
The technique of existential pressure is ... universal. There is no one in our country who is not, in a broad sense, existentially vulnerable. Everyone has something to lose and so everyone has reason to be afraid. The range of things one can lose is broad, extending from the manifold privileges of the ruling caste... down to the mere possibility of living in that limited degree of legal certainty available to other citizens.
Today, one out of two Americans lives in financial insecurity. Even many upper-middle-class citizens live from month to month, just one layoff notice away from medical bankruptcy or home foreclosure.
"Everyone has something to lose," observed Havel.
Havel's description of his 20th Century Communist society echoes our own: >
The more completely one abandons any hope of general reform, any interest in suprapersonal goals and values, or any chance of exercising influence in an 'outward' direction, the more one's energy is diverted in the direction of least resistance, that is, 'inwards.'"
People today are preoccupied far more with themselves ... They fill their homes with all kinds of appliances and pretty things, they try to improve their accommodations, they try to make life pleasant for themselves, building cottages, looking after their cars, taking more interest in food and clothing and domestic comfort ...They turn their main attention to the material aspects of their private lives.
Havel concluded that "Despair leads to apathy, apathy to conformity, and conformity to routine (political) performance - which is then quoted as evidence of 'mass political involvement.'"
Ambition
Havel understood the psychology of greed and power, too. From his letter to Husák: >
If it is fear which lies behind people's defensive attempts to preserve what they have, it becomes increasingly apparent that the chief impulses for their aggressive efforts to win what they do not yet possess are selfishness and careerism.
It is not surprising that so many public and influential positions are occupied more than ever before by notorious careerists, opportunists, charlatans, and men of dubious record.
From Prague to Washington, from Moscow to lower Manhattan, the opportunities change. But human nature never does: >
Seldom in recent times has a social system offered scope so openly and so brazenly to people willing to support anything as long as it brings them some advantage; to unprincipled and spineless men, prepared to do anything in their craving for power and personal gain; to born lackeys, ready for any humiliation and willing at all times to sacrifice their neighbors' and their own honor for a chance to ingratiate themselves with those in power.
Technocracy
It's a historical irony that those who claim they'll govern with the most efficiency usually wind up governing with the least effectiveness. Today corporate-funded politicians from both parties argue that the country should be led by "technocrats' who'll govern without messy "ideologies."
That's a false premise Havel knew well. He called it the "process by which power becomes anonymous and depersonalized, reduced to a mere technology of rule and manipulation."
Washington's technocratic "bipartisans" dream of a world where, in Havel's words, the "professional ruler is (seen as) the 'innocent' tool of an 'innocent' anonymous power ... legitimized by science, cybernetics, ideology, law, abstraction, and objectivity - that is, by everything except personal responsibility to human beings as persons and neighbors." Havel's Prague is our Beltway: >
States grow ever more machinelike; people are transformed into statistical choruses of voters, producers, consumers, patients, tourists, or soldiers, (where) in politics good and evil, categories of the natural world and therefore obsolete remnants of the past, lose all absolute meaning (and where) the sole method of politics is quantifiable success.
Havel condemned a system of state-orchestrated political theater, and the self-perpetuating failures of imagination which mistook the indifferent and pro forma participation of its citizens for genuine democracy. And he saw its universal nature: >
(It) has a thousand masks, variants, and expressions. Essentially, though, it is the same universal trend ... the essential trait of all modern civilization, growing directly from its spiritual structure, rooted in it by a thousand tangled tendrils and inseparable even in thought from its technological nature, its mass characteristics, and its consumer orientation.
"The contemporary concept of 'normal' behavior is," Havel wrote, "deeply pessimistic."
Responsibility
"I favor 'antipolitical politics,'" said Havel, "politics not as the technology of power and manipulation, of cybernetic rule over humans or as the art of the utilitarian, but politics as one of the ways of seeking and achieving meaningful lives, of protecting them and serving them." >
I favor politics as practical morality, as service to the truth, as essentially human and humanly measured care for our fellow humans.
None of us--as an individual--can save the world as a whole, but . . . each of us must behave as though it were in his power to do so.
Decades later he said this to the leaders of Western countries: >
Today, more than ever before in the history of mankind, everything is interrelated ... Because of this, the future of the United States or the European Union is being decided in suffering Sarajevo or Mostar, in the plundered Brazilian rain forests, in the wretched poverty of Bangladesh or Somalia.
Havel had glaring faults. American neocons offered him small favors during his final rise to power. He reciprocated, consciously or unconsciously, by aiding their destructive military ventures and adopting their foolish economic policies. He succumbed to the politics of personality, both his own and those of the leaders who courted him. But it would be a shame if that's all the world remembered.
Havel seemed unhappy in the role of leader. It's possible than he lost sight of his deepest insights, his truest gifts. It was the outsider Havel, the dreamer of the impossible, the surrealist and absurdist, we should remember. That's the Havel who can and should inspire dissidents everywhere.
"Is the human word truly powerful enough to change the world and influence history?" he once asked. With his life and his words, Václav Havel gave us his answer. He showed us the power in each individual and the responsibility that accompanies that power.
At his best, and above all else, Havel was a dissident outsider who realized his power and used it. Now it's our turn.
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02:03:22 12/11/11
Mike starts a Union and gets fired - Portland Rally planned for 12-15-11
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Mike starts a Union and gets fired - Portland Rally planned for 12-15-11 Mike tells the Individuals For Justice about the west coast port strike and also about how he has lost his job due to organizing a Union at his work. He tells us about the solidarity upcoming rally for another worker who was fired as well. This rally is on December 15th. Information is in the video From: zebra334 Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:05 More in Nonprofits & Activism
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12:29:30 11/13/11
Auto Theft Suspect Leads Police On Pursuit, Crashes Into The River
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A suspect who stole a vehicle out of Ceres leads Modesto Police on a pursuit in West Modesto, eventually leading down to the SOS Club golf course, then on to river bottom property at the Tuolumne River. The suspect, with Police hot on his trail, lost control of his vehicle and rolled into the water. Shots may have been fired by police, but the suspect was un-injured and taken into custody. He was checked by paramedics and taken to the hospital for medical clearance.
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21:02:24 11/10/11
Victoria's Secret Angel Fashion Show
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Victoria's Secret Angel Fashion Show
PHOTOS: Miranda Kerr, Alessandra Ambrosio and more supermodels show off the new line. Plus, Adam Levine, Kanye and Jay-Z perform! Christmas decorations are going up...holiday lights are turning on - it's almost time for the holidays! But it wouldn't really feel like Christmas with out an Angels spotting! Check out the Sexy Supermodels of this year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Let's begin with the finale. Last year she had to sit out the show cause she was 7 months pregnant with baby Flynn. But we think it's safe to say Miranda Kerr has lost the baby weight and then some.- wowing the crowd in this 2.5 million dollar bra and peacock costume! Woah mamma! Also rockin' the peacock? Alessandra Ambrosio! Birds of a sexy feather- flock -- down the runway! And we love the neon wings on Chanel Iman! How cute is Adam Levine- who was on hand to perform with Maroon 5- and his Angel? His Russian model girlfriend strutted her Jagger-like moves while getting love from her honey. Kayne West and Jay Z also gave surprise performances. Hey- not a bad gig right!? And while Adriana Lima always looks amazing with her clothes off...we loved her preshow- pink carpet dress too! Talk about bringing sexy BACK. From: CelebTV Views: 2965 11 ratings Time: 01:13 More in Entertainment
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21:02:24 11/10/11
Victoria's Secret Angel Fashion Show
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Victoria's Secret Angel Fashion Show
PHOTOS: Miranda Kerr, Alessandra Ambrosio and more supermodels show off the new line. Plus, Adam Levine, Kanye and Jay-Z perform! Christmas decorations are going up...holiday lights are turning on - it's almost time for the holidays! But it wouldn't really feel like Christmas with out an Angels spotting! Check out the Sexy Supermodels of this year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Let's begin with the finale. Last year she had to sit out the show cause she was 7 months pregnant with baby Flynn. But we think it's safe to say Miranda Kerr has lost the baby weight and then some.- wowing the crowd in this 2.5 million dollar bra and peacock costume! Woah mamma! Also rockin' the peacock? Alessandra Ambrosio! Birds of a sexy feather- flock -- down the runway! And we love the neon wings on Chanel Iman! How cute is Adam Levine- who was on hand to perform with Maroon 5- and his Angel? His Russian model girlfriend strutted her Jagger-like moves while getting love from her honey. Kayne West and Jay Z also gave surprise performances. Hey- not a bad gig right!? And while Adriana Lima always looks amazing with her clothes off...we loved her preshow- pink carpet dress too! Talk about bringing sexy BACK. From: CelebTV Views: 2965 11 ratings Time: 01:13 More in Entertainment
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17:34:29 10/06/11
How to reconstruct a Bronze Age City - City Beneath the Waves: Pavlopetri - BBC Two
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How to reconstruct a Bronze Age City - City Beneath the Waves: Pavlopetri - BBC Two
More about this programme: www.bbc.co.uk Pavlopetri was an advanced city whose origins are thought to have contributed to the 'dawning of the west'. More than 3500 years ago it functioned as an active harbour town with trading links around the Mediterranean, but was lost for centuries, under the waves. In this clip, the graphics team are able to build up a stunning portrait of how the city would have worked, following Dr. Jon Henderson's excavation of the site. Through CGI we are able to rebuild and reimagine their large domestic dwellings, reconstruct many types of ornate vessels and containers, and revisit their forward thinking death rituals. The variety of discoveries reveal Pavlopetri to once have functioned as an impressive gateway to mainland Greece. From: BBC Views: 217 5 ratings Time: 05:36 More in Science & Technology
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03:16:07 09/16/11
Shotgun Slade Crossed Guns Starring Scott Brady
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Created by Frank Gruber, this lost TV gem was directed by Dann Cahn and starred the likes of Scott Brady, Kermit Maynard, Monica Lewis and Jeanne Cooper. This is not your run of the mill TV western, as the very cool Brady road roughshod over hardheaded cowpokes to the tune of the best jazzy music ever used in the old west genre.
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21:00:00 09/02/11
Canadian-Made Virus May Be Able to Kill Cancer, Save Healthy Tissue; Insomnia Significantly Affecting Productivity in the US; Walnuts May Lower Breast Cancer Risk (Video)
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(September 2, 2011 - Insidermedicine)
From Ottawa - A genetically engineered virus made in Canada has shown promise in killing cancer, according to a study published in Nature . Scientists administered the virus, known as JX-594, in 23 cancer patients. Results showed that healthy tissue was unaffected in all patients, and that 6 out of 8 of those given the highest dosage had significant tumour shrinkage.
From Boston - Insomnia affects over 1/5 of US workers and significantly reduces national productivity, according to a report published in Sleep. Researchers studied a national sample of over 7400 individuals, finding that insomnia was prevalent in 23% of workers, costing the nation approximately $63 billion and 252 days annually in lost productivity.
And finally, from West Virginia - Walnuts may reduce risk of breast cancer, according to a report published in Nutrition and Cancer. Studying mice, researchers found that a walnut enriched diet altered the activity of several genes known to be involved in breast cancer.
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15:29:05 07/20/11
Living in Las Vegas #116v2: Drinks the Size of Your Torso
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This should have been episode #117, but an evil force (Windows XP) and Scott’s careless use of the delete key killed last week’s episode. Which was really a fun show. Ask the live chat folks. Anywho, today’s Living in Las Vegas features a special twist with our hosts, proves Nevada really is the wild west, [...]
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22:18:58 03/25/11
Capri , Sorrento
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"Capri (ancient Capreae), island, south central Italy, at the entrance of the Bay of Naples. Limestone cliffs, rise from the sea in the east; Monte Solaro, in the west, the highest point on the island, is 586 m (1,923 ft) above sea level. The town of Capri, 136 m (450 ft) high. Sorrento, resort town on the southern shore of the Bay of Naples, in the Campania region of southern Italy. Spread out on terraces rising to 60 m (200 ft) above the sea, lies on the coast road between Naples and Amalfi. Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, its sister city, Pompeii was destroyed, and completely buried, during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in 79 AD. The volcano collapsed higher roof-lines and buried Pompeii under 60 feet of ash and pumice, and it was lost for nearly 1,700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1748. Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Today, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, The music ""The Way We Were"" seems to be the most appropriate as its lilting melody fitted the picturesque views. Also I took the liberty of extrapolating the ""the way we were"" as Pompeii was preserved so well it brings you back in time to how people lived all those years ago"
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18:59:06 03/04/11
Dambisa Moyo: How the West Was Lost
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Acclaimed international economist Dambisa Moyo discusses her latest work, How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly -- and the Stark Choices Ahead. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California, on February 17, 2011.
Dambisa Moyo daringly claims that the West can no longer afford to simply regard global up-and-comers as menacing gatecrashers. In a world where Western economies hover on the brink of recession while emerging economies post double-digit growth rates, Moyo calls out the economic myopia of the West and the radical solutions that it needs to adopt to salvage its global economic power.
A former consultant for the World Bank and former emerging markets investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Moyo was named by Time Magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World," and was nominated to the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders Forum. - The Commonwealth Club of California
Dambisa Moyo is an international economist who comments on the macroeconomy and global affairs.
She is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How there is a Better Way for Africa. Her latest book is entitled How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead.
She completed a PhD in Economics at Oxford University and holds a Masters degree from Harvard University. She completed an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and an MBA in Finance at the American University in Washington D.C.
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01:43:59 03/04/11
Should the U.S. Default on Its Debt?
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International economist Dambisa Moyo examines the notion that the United States should deal with its rapidly escalating debt by simply refusing to pay it off. Although Moyo regards default as an option of last resort, she notes that it wouldn't be one without precedent: "The idea that big countries never default... is something that is not true."
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/02/17/Dambisa_Moyo_How_the_West_Was_Lost
Dambisa Moyo daringly claims that the West can no longer afford to simply regard global up-and-comers as menacing gatecrashers. In a world where Western economies hover on the brink of recession while emerging economies post double-digit growth rates, Moyo calls out the economic myopia of the West and the radical solutions that it needs to adopt to salvage its global economic power.
A former consultant for the World Bank and former emerging markets investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Moyo was named by Time Magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World," and was nominated to the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders Forum. - The Commonwealth Club of California
Dambisa Moyo is an international economist who comments on the macroeconomy and global affairs.
She is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How there is a Better Way for Africa. Her latest book is entitled How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead.
She completed a PhD in Economics at Oxford University and holds a Masters degree from Harvard University. She completed an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and an MBA in Finance at the American University in Washington D.C.








