see the same tactics used by corporations and systems across the spectrum, in the words of our guest tonight, sucking America dry like vampires.
Dylan Ratigan, host of MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show joins the show to talk about his "hot of the press" new book "Greedy Bastards".
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prices is only $10 to $15.
We must still face the overwhelming fact that global energy supply is on a knife-edge regardless of events in the Gulf - with no relief in sight.
The IEA warned in its annual report that energy demand will rise 40pc by 2035.
The world must invest $1.5 trillion just to avoid a lethal crunch. Even then prices are likely to rise “viciously” unless nuclear power and the renewable family of hydro, wind, and solar can come to the rescue. Fukushima has killed nuclear expansion in Japan, Germany, and beyond. The green drive has faltered, oddly vilified in this country by conservatives who should be its natural defenders.…
re and coal from Australia.
No one is immune; the world is a system. And the system is undergoing a historic “correction.” Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid gave a bracing summary when he suggested the western financial world might be “totally unsustainable.”
If policy makers continue assuming that the ongoing global reset is merely another turning of the business cycle, then we lose whatever opportunity still remains to prevent financial crisis from becoming social crisis.
Unfortunately the idea that growth has limits is still a minority view. After all, in the “real” worlds of politics and economics, growth is essential to creating more jobs and increasing returns on investments. Questioning growth is like arguing against petrol at a Formula One race.
Richard Heinberg
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aradigm building currently hope that, with the start of the Barack Obama era on January 20, 2009, we may have entered a phase, not only of political change, but also of an (at least potentially) broader and ‘deeper’ cultural and paradigm transition. Indeed, if only part of what Obama promised as political, cultural, ecological and societal transformation117 becomes reality, such a paradigm transition could unleash broad effects in the West, and possibly also beyond. It could influence the cultural and social constellation not only of the USA and of its adjacent so-called first world, but of internationalized societies around the globe. And if nothing else, it could offer a noticeably improved cultural-psychological environment for attempts at integrative innovation.
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of the weather directly affects their livelihoods, from farmers to construction workers to airline pilots.
But there are times when weather affects us all, especially instances of severe weather like Hurricane Sandy. There, accurate forecasts can save lives, and those forecasts rely heavily on satellite data.
Unfortunately, in just a few years, part of our weather satellite system that is vital to forecasts will very likely go blind.
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Added by Michael Grove at 14:45 on November 16, 2013
JECTS. Indeed that is what has been so exciting
within Transition to see a host of new leaders and people in
communities creating ways forward.
IT IS about starting with the strengths and assets of communities -
then we are more likely to see how people can take control of their
future rather than relying on other people. Harnessing the skills and
experience of local people helps create sustainable change....
Comment from Philip Booth on the POWER of Not Doing Stuff…
by benign neglect, after the families that lived in Fresno moved away," he says.
6. Evolve consciously. Humanity must qualify to survive. For this to happen, the time will come when humans will have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from a class two (entropic or selfish) evolution into a class one (syntrophic or cooperative) species. Thereafter, we will begin to make all the right choices for all the right reasons. Stay tuned to your own stream of consciousness, so that you can continue to grow in your syntrophic capacities. Focus on your own conscious evolution, and on the evolution of your own consciousness, and you will be helping humanity evolve to a higher level.
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Added by Michael Grove at 11:37 on December 17, 2017
porate
control all threaten the web’s wide-open spaces. It’s up to users
to fight for the right to access and openness. The question is, What kind of Internet do we want?…