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[neo-neocon] neo-neocon » Blog Archive » The willingness to believe that two ...: At this point a new group of mainly American conservatives, the so-called “neoconservatives,” arose to argue that the chief factors discouraging economic growth were high levels of taxation and the government’s intrusive regulation of private enterprise. Inspired by the work of free-market economists such as Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman, they generally accepted a minimal welfare state””something an older breed of conservative would never have done””and fought simply for reductions in social benefits and government spending (except spending on the military), lower taxes, and less government regulation of business.

[Latest News Feed - Senate of the Philippines] Press Release - Legarda delivers Philippines' position on current ...: Following the results of the global consultative meeting, convened by Legarda with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, held in the country last October and embodied in "The Manila Call for Action of Parliamentarians on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation," the senator resounded the parliamentarians' entreaty to the UN and the International Parliamentary Union to transform the Hyogo Framework for Action (the guide for effective disaster reduction at a national level) into an internationally binding legal instrument.

[Eric's blog] Food First Backgrounder: Biofuels--Myths of the Agro-fuels ...: Biofuels invoke an image of renewable abundance that allows industry, politicians, the World Bank, the UN, and even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to present fuel from corn, sugarcane, soy and other crops as a smooth transition from peak oil to a renewable fuel economy. Myths of abundance divert attention away from powerful economic interests that benefit from this transition, avoiding discussion of the growing price that citizens of the Global South are beginning to pay to maintain the consumptive, oil-based lifestyle of the North.

[GlobalResearch.ca] Biofuels: The Five Myths of the Agro-fuels Transition: Agro-fuel champions assure us that because fuel crops are renewable, they are environmentally–friendly, can reduce global warming, and will foster rural development. But the tremendous market power of agro-fuel corporations, coupled with the poor political will on the part of governments to regulate their activities, leads us to doubt these happy scenarios.

[Foreign Policy In Focus] Foreign Policy In Focus | Globalization in Retreat: In the 1990's there was a small boutique Malaysian bank called Phileo Allied Bank which set up and was among the first to introduce Internet banking, greatly improved customer service and so on, ahead of its more established Malaysian counterparts which had a bureaucratic civil service culture and customer service but this boutique bank did not survive and was swallowed up in the government mandated merge of banks into six large banks to prepare for full liberalisation of the financial sector in compliance with WTO dictates.

[Challies Dot Com] Book Review - "Red Letter Christians" by Tony Campolo :: books ...: I’m not so sure that Red Letter Christians are entirely fair to Evangelicals. At one point Campolo draws what is clearly a caricature of Evangelicals saying, “There are Evangelicals who argue against environmentalism, claiming that global warming is a myth (or at least grossly exaggerated), and that environmental concerns distract Christians from those matters that should fully occupy our moral and political attention: gay marriage and abortion.”

[Economic Growth] A New American Trade Consensus | The New America Foundation: America'spostwar pursuit of international market liberalization looked to maximize theinterests of consumers-lower prices, greater competition, choice, and quality-ratherthan those of producers, which, in the 1950s and 1960s, seemed quite capable ofeffectively competing without government help. At the same time, Washington's efforts todismantle non-tariff trade barriers and create mechanisms for internationaldispute settlement have effectively been an attempt to extend the reach oflong-held American values involving the transparency of government decisionmaking, due process, and the rule of law.

[Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments] Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: The Violent Hypocrisy of Some ...: As far as justice goes, it seems to me that our guiding paradigm should be the conception of justice unfolded in the Scripture, particularly in the Prophets, where justice is as much, if not more so, a positive thing, and not merely a negative- ie giving the evil-doer his "just deserts." God urges the action of justice, as for example in Isaiah: "Wash yourselves;

[ClimateChangeCorp - Main] Climate change from A to Z - ClimateChangeCorp.com: UNDP country director for Indonesia Hakan Bjorkman said the impact of climate change was discriminatory: ‘Farmers, fishermen and urban slum dwellers are living on the most marginal land, that is vulnerable to droughts, floods or landslides. When disaster strikes, poor communities have very few resources to fall back on.’ Speaking to the Lowy Institute in Sydney on 19 November 2007, Lord May of Oxford, Robert McCredie May, immediate past president of the Royal Society, said: ‘Tomorrow’s struggles among nations will be in a resource-limited world, where the real need is for cooperation to address global environmental challenges in ways that recognise present inequalities’.

[Fabius Maximus] A note on the green religion, one of the growth industries in ...: As a result of this drastic oversimplification, the two “sides” of the dialog we are expected to choose from are either, A) The earth is not warming and if it is warming it’s not due to man, or B) The earth is warming and it is due to man and it is 100% due to CO2 emissions.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » It's a Yes - and a big one: Most polls conducted within the UK in the last couple of years show a clear majority of people who wouold be desrcibed as broadly ‘Eurosceptic’ in that they believe at a minimum that the EU has too much power and that we need to ease back on our involvement in the EU.

[Brookings:] America Abroad - A Blog on Current Affairs - Brookings Institution: (The whole notion that we are in a "long war" against violent extremists suggests a growing appreciation within the administration, or at least within the Pentagon) that there's much more to this conflict that the force of arms””though whether the construct of a "long war" gets it right is a topic I'd like to debate here at America Abroad at another time.) But it's not enough. The real problem is that we're still too focused on terrorism and not enough on how to deal with all the challenges that confront us by the increasingly interconnected nature of our world (terrorism being just one these challenges).

[Snarkmarket Comments] Snarkmarket: A SNARKMARKET BOOK PROJECT: The New Liberal Arts: However, the proposed liberal art is about teaching people the world of secrets, the world that is kept from them, whether that world consists of government secrets (classified documents, encrypted communication), Ponzi schemes, autobiographies that turn out to be fiction, programmed misrepresentations of a Nietzschean sort (politicians might call one version of this spinning the news), the source code behind the web pages we read. Since the days of Plato's Seventh Letter, important people have known not to put the most important of their thoughts in plain form, and we do not yet have an advanced hermeneutics capable of dealing with acts of deception that make their appearance under the guise of empowering people, when in fact those acts work against people's own self-interests.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Fourth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest: Their missions are to populate each company's post-process rapid-chilling ice cream supplies with 1,500,000 Nanorobots the size of 2 Nanometers (0.08% the size of a red blood cell.) Upon awakening at body temperature, the Nanorobots will attach themselves to the intestinal and stomach linings of unsuspecting Americans then go dormant. At 12:01am, 9/11, the internal clock/calendar activates the Nanorobots to release deadly microorganisms into millions of Americans undetected until the post-mortem.

[God's Politics] Obama's Faith-Based Plan (by Jim Wallis) - God's Politics - Jim ...: To use your snide and condescending term, "has it occurred to you?" Well has it occurred to you that the Constitution and multi-faceted and may just prohibit what you're advocating regardless of your devotion and commitment to its truthfulness? Moreover has it occurred to you that there are other hardworking taxpayers who don't share your views and don't want their hard earned money spent in the way you are advocating?

[drive blog] drive blog: Is the new Falcon good enough to win back buyers?: Tell me since I pick the cars in my house, and plan to keep it for at least 8-10 years why would I choose a Bmw 320i with an asmatic engine, fugly looks, squashy interior over the new XR6 T with luxury pack and over a $6000 saving. I dont care what others think of MY car, I dont want to spend a minumum of $700 for an oil change every 10000km and dollar for dollar a depreciated BMW in 4-5 years is harder to sell than a XR6.

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