Rupert and the Toymaker's Party Rupert and the Toymaker's Party Rupert and the Toymaker's Party is a video game developed by Martin Walker and published by Quicksilva in 1985. It was developed for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The game is based on Rupert Bear, the British cartoon and comics strip character created in 1920 by the British artist Mary Tourtel. In this platform arcade game the player takes the role of Rupert the Bear and the mission is to get to a party in the Toymaker's castle, to meet his friends. According to the story line of this adventure, Rupert has made himself
Debt: The First 5000 Years seignorage for U.S. government bonds. By comparing the evolution of debt in our times to other historical eras and different societies, the author suggests that modern debt crises are not the inevitable product of history and must be resolved in the near future in a way similar to the solutions, at least in principle, as applied during the last 5000 years. In "Debt: The First 5,000 Years", Graeber proposes a concept of "everyday communism" which he defines, when analysing peasant lives as "The peasants' visions of communistic brotherhood did not come out of nowhere. They were rooted in real daily