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- Blog Post: A new kind of time
- Added by Michael Grove at 10:25 on August 26, 2018
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- e people for the benefit of a few of the people. Having switched over to digital broadcasting, however, at least the TV Licence payer had the choice, in respect of the River Pageant, to turn to SKY NEWS' excellent coverage of the event from early morning onwards. Out of 562 comments to date - Ed Vaughan's comment sums up my feelings ABSOLUTELY -"Mark Thompson, you mark my word, is the cat's whiskers and anything and everything BUT running a media corporation. He was adamant that the BBC coverage was really superb. He's quite happy to receive in excess of £800k but would always draw a comparison with USA media corps. The reality IS - what does he actually do minute by minute during the day? Being human he has to visit the lavatory so that time would cost a few thousand pounds each year; washing his hands, combing his hair, blowing his nose and yes drinking his morning coffee. I bet he's never costed these things out. His predecessor gained fame when he arrived at the BBC (Greg Dyke) his first words to staff were - "we can cut the crap" so as I said the lavatory is an important feature." PLAN your work - WORK your plan - in terms of the BBC, increasingly appears to be based on - "HOW can we spend our share of the TV Licence levy with as little cost as possible - so that we the planners can continue to live in the manner to which we have become accustomed." CUT THE CRAP INDEED …
- Added by Michael Grove at 10:18 on June 20, 2012
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- rty values crashed; foreclosure and bankruptcy rates bled. For states, counties, cities, and towns; for manufacturers, retailers, and middle- and low-income families, the consequences were—and continue to be—catastrophic. Other nations were soon caught up in the undertow.In late 2009 and early 2010, the economy showed some signs of renewed vigor. Understandably, everyone wants it to get “back to normal.” But here’s a disturbing thought: What if that is not possible? What if the goalposts have been moved, the rules rewritten, the game changed? What if the decades-long era of economic growth based on ever-increasing rates of resource extraction, manufacturing, and consumption is over, finished, and done? What if the economic conditions that all of us grew up expecting to continue practically forever were merely a blip on history’s timeline?It’s an uncomfortable idea, but one that cannot be ignored: The “normal” late-20th century economy of seemingly endless growth actually emerged from an aberrant set of conditions that cannot be perpetuated.That “normal” is gone. One way or another, a “new normal” will emerge to replace it. Can we build a different, more sustainable economy to replace the one now in tatters?Let’s be clear: I believe we are in for some very hard times. The transitional period on our way toward a post-growth, equilibrium economy will prove to be the most challenging time any of us has ever lived through. Nevertheless, I am convinced that we can survive this collective journey, and that if we make sound choices as families and communities, life can actually be better for us in the decades ahead than it was during the heady days of seemingly endless economic expansion. Richard Heinberg…
- Added by Michael Grove at 11:01 on December 10, 2010
- Blog Post: Making Sure the Earth is our Business
- Added by Michael Grove at 7:18 on April 8, 2016
- Blog Post: IT WAS Julia Häusermann M.B.E.
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- Added by Michael Grove at 6:20 on January 18, 2015
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- at it had reached its $16.4 trillion (£10 trillion) borrowing limit. Disclosing the news with just hours of 2012 left was not the only devilry in the timing. While the American public cheered in the new year, the country's press was busy tracking whether politicians in Washington would prevent the economy falling off the so called "fiscal cliff" - at the stroke of midnight. Although they did not quite manage that, a deal was reached on New Year's Day that avoided the worst of the $600bn of tax increases and spending cuts that had been scheduled to take effect. Since the ceiling was reached 12 days ago, the US government has resorted to what it calls "extraordinary measures" to keep paying its bills without slapping any more on its credit card. This hotchpotch of measures includes the temporary suspension of interest payments owed to the Civil Service Retirement System. An analysis by the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington estimates these measures will be exhausted sometime during the last two weeks of February. If Congress has not agreed to raise the debt ceiling by then, the US government will have to decide which of its financial obligations to meet and which, well, not to. The choices will be invidious and legally questionable. Will teachers' salaries be paid or America's national parks maintained? Will interest payments to the holders of US government bonds be put above funding for the FBI? Neglect any of the first three and there will be a public outcry. Choose NOT to make coupon payments to the latter, and the US government will default on its debt for the first time. …
- Added by Michael Grove at 11:53 on January 12, 2013
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- ome. Imagine walking a road, and up ahead you see it, you see the crossroads. It’s just over the hill, around the bend, past the woods. Cresting the hill, you see you were mistaken, it was a mirage, it was farther away than you thought. You keep walking. Sometimes it comes into view, sometimes it disappears from sight and it seems like this road goes on forever. Maybe there isn’t a crossroads. No, there it is again! Always it is almost here. Never is it here. Now, all of a sudden, we go around a bend and here it is. We stop, hardly able to believe that now it is happening, hardly able to believe, after years of confinement to the road of our predecessors, that now we finally have a choice. We are right to stop, stunned at the newness of our situation. Because of the hundred paths that radiate out in front of us, some lead in the same direction we’ve already been headed. Some lead to hell on earth. And some lead to a world more healed and more beautiful than we ever dared believe to be possible. I write these words with the aim of standing here with you – bewildered, scared maybe, yet also with a sense of new possibility – at this point of diverging paths. Let us gaze down some of them and see where they lead. The Coronation – an essay by Charles Eisenstein …
- Added by Michael Grove at 17:26 on May 20, 2020
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- en though we may appear to be separate from each other in a physical sense, in ultimate reality everything in existence is made up of Source Energy that is in relationship to and interacts with all of life. We envision a world where we understand that we are all one in our collective consciousness as well. We see a world where we consciously co-create a new world model through this collective consciousness using the concept of Oneness as a critical component of our creative abilities as a global community. This Vision of Oneness is the catalyst for each of us to individually take responsibility for our own thoughts, words and actions and thereby everything that we create into our lives. As we envision the concept of being one with all things seen and unseen we revel in the idea that everything we do in life has an effect on all of life as a whole and we therefore happily create the highest good for ourselves and for all others. As a result we see a world where every person realises that the best way to serve themselves is to serve all others because in the biggest scheme of life we are all ONE. The Golden Rule pervades our relationships and life choices as we realise totally and completely that what we do for others we are actually doing for ourselves and what we do for ourselves affects all of existence. - The Intenders of the Highest Good; Vision Alignment Project by Richard Blackstone …
- Added by Michael Grove at 7:43 on November 9, 2013
- Blog Post: Alvar Aalto was one of the first...
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- Added by Michael Grove at 17:23 on April 1, 2019
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- nt. They would go on to corner the world's multitrillion-dollar oil market, reaping unimaginable riches while bringing the economy to its knees. Meet the self-anointed kings of the New York Mercantile Exchange. In some ways, they are everything you would expect them to be: a secretive, members-only club of men and women who live lavish lifestyles; cavort with politicians, strippers, and celebrities; and blissfully jacked up oil prices to nearly $150 a barrel while profiting off the misery of the working class. In other ways, they are nothing you can imagine: many come from working-class families themselves. The progeny of Jewish, Irish, and Italian immigrants who escaped war-torn Europe, they take pride in flagrantly spurning Wall Street. Under the thumb of an all-powerful international oil cartel, the energy market had long eluded the grasp of America's hungry capitalists. Neither the oil royalty of Houston nor the titans of Wall Street had ever succeeded in fully wresting away control. But facing extinction, the rough-and-tumble traders of Nymex led by the reluctant son of a produce merchant went after this Goliath and won, creating the world's first free oil market and minting billions in the process. Their stunning journey from poverty to prosperity belies the brutal and violent history that is their legacy. For the first time, The Asylum unmasks the oil market's self-described "inmates" in all their unscripted and dysfunctional glory: the happily married father from Long Island whose lust for money and power was exceeded only by his taste for cruel pranks; the Italian kung fu fighting gasoline trader whose ferocity in the trading pits earned him countless millions; the cheerful Nazi hunter who traded quietly by day and ambushed Nazi sympathizers by night; and the Irish-born femme fatale who outsmarted all but one of the exchange's chairmen the Hungarian emigre who, try as he might, could do nothing to rein in the oil market's unruly inhabitants. From the treacherous boardroom schemes to the hookers and blow of the trading pits; from the repeat terrorist attacks and FBI stings to the grand alliances and outrageous fortunes that brought the global economy to the brink, The Asylum ventures deep into the belly of the beast, revealing how raw ambition and the endless quest for wealth can change the very nature of both man and market. Showcasing seven years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews, Leah McGrath Goodman reveals what really happened behind the scenes as oil prices topped out and what choice the traders ultimately made when forced to choose between their longtime brotherhood and their precious oil monopoly.…
- Added by Michael Grove at 10:41 on November 2, 2011
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