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[The Ruthless Truth blog] Connecting the Dots: A Pandemic Distracts as the World Government ...: Obama’s government is only business as usual in the American Empire - with its predatory capitalist system, its wars overseas and the ”˜war on terror’ mentality - even if it has been given a new name, face and some charisma.

[Environment » Eoin] Are we making too many Americans? | csmonitor.com: Writing in Mother Jones's environment blog, Julia Whitty points out that each one of those newborns arrives with a massive carbon price tag. (To reinforce her point that babies are climate-wrecking monsters, her post is accompanied by a photo of one .

[Kevin Drum - Mother Jones] Cap and Trade | Mother Jones: As a progressive, I fear that basing a sound energy policy on a theory of global warming that is vulnerable to disproof in the near term will sacrifice many laudable goals and useful policies on an altar (insert strange metaphor here). As most of the energy policies recommended by progressives are justifiable in their own right, I am afraid that we will lose good conservation practice and funding for innovation just because we are tied to global warming.

[Australian Review of Public Affairs] ARPA: A paean to the Keating legacy: Macquarie took up the money that the Keating-Kelty pension funds had garnered, and provided a return and financial rationale for those funds that was hard to fault for years. Macquarie put together packages of toll roads, power stations, and by-passes with assets that were semi-governmental in quality, and gave the nascent pension-fund managers the financial returns and peace of mind that were essential to allow this extraordinary Australian movement to get into its stride.

[AlterNet.org: Media and Technology] If We All Started Driving Priuses, We'd Consume More Energy Than ...: Obviously efficiency alone won't reduce consumption unless the number of people consuming is reduced, or the number of gadgets requiring energy is reduced. Obviously efficiency alone won't solve the problem unless alternative energy sources are explored and developed -- a feat which, in my view, could and should have happened years ago, except for the lack of political will and greed of the sources that be.

[Socialist Project - What's New] Socialist Project | The Bullet: Heavily influenced by the report Poverty by Postal Code commissioned by the United Way of Greater Toronto and the City of Toronto's community agency survey report Cracks in the Foundation, both of which identified the increasing concentration of poverty and the lack of community and social services in the inner suburbs of Toronto, the Task Force's own report Strong Neighbourhoods: A Call to Action identifies several worrying trends emerging in Toronto: more people now live in poverty than ever before, poverty is geographically concentrated, economic restructuring has broadened the income divide, income support programs have been reduced, social services have not kept pace with demographic changes and need, funding practices make it difficult to invest in neighbourhoods with significant needs, and neighbourhoods lack access to community and public space. But yet again, these trends are not discussed as a social justice issue but in terms of their adverse affects on the city region as a whole.

[Insidious Lassitude] oh rise up my darling and come with me « Insidious Lassitude: in capitalism’s signifiers wittering about their radical movement in the same way that the BBC pries through Amy Winehouse’s curtains and squeals about drugs, before scurrying away making a ”˜Wino’ pun and retiring of an evening to get smashed at a cocaine party round George Alagiah’s gaff.

[Dot Earth] Pop!Tech Boot Camp for Innovators - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com: Revkin tracks relevant news from suburbia to Siberia, and conducts an interactive exploration of trends and ideas with readers and experts.

[Old Life Theological Society] Old Life Theological Society » Blog Archive » Between a Millstone ...: It’s what causes Xian school principals to go foolishly easy on students who strike their teachers under the banner of “we’re all about forgiveness,” while the same kid would be roundly expelled by those dangerous Enlightenment secularists in the public schools (OK, that was a bit specific””I have good friend who is that teacher).

[Fool's Mountain: Blogging for China] China's Bold Visions for Universal Healthcare | Fool's Mountain ...: Sarah Barber, a World Health Organization official, said that the aim to improve equitable access to essential health care for all in China is “laudable.” However, she warned, the success of the reforms will depend on how effectively this plan is ....

[Comments for Open Source] Open Source » Blog Archive » The History of Utopia: Both visions came out of the 1970’s, a time when American consciousness was just awakening to environmentalism as a cultural concept, the era of the first Earth Day, Earth Shoes, Back-to-the-Landers, Organic food as an alternative to grocery store fare, ect. It was the era when I came of age, which is probably why it had such an impact on me.

[BBC Blog Network] BBC - Justin Webb's America: Brown's free trade message: Why should a Chinese or a Korean, who has worked like stink to succeed in school, and who works bloody hard at his job, who is honest, and who obeys the law, not expect to earns just as much and live just as well as an American (or a Canadian, for that matter) who plays video games all night, can't find Russia on the map, thinks 40 hours is a long week, and never reads a book from one year's end to the next? What makes us entitled to live like kings and consume a groosly disproportionate share of the world's resources, while the rest of the world struggles in poverty?

[The Real Revo] Coburn: “It makes me want to vomit.” | The Real Revo: Voting along party lines, the House and Senate approved budget blueprints that would trim Obama’s spending proposals for the fiscal year that begins in October and curtail his plans to cut taxes. The blueprints, however, would permit work to begin on the central goals of Obama’s presidency: an expansion of health-care coverage for the uninsured, more money for college loans and a cap-and-trade system to reduce gases that contribute to global warming.

[The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog] The Spectator: No, David, February 28th, 2009 6:05pm, Melanie Phillips will not apologise for her earlier writing on Durban II because, as Rick Moran over on American Thinker notes, "The UN Conference on racism is a thinly disguised conclave that will bash Israel and the US. That the Obama administration insisted on taking a part in planning this insult to both countries revealed either a naivete breathtaking in its scope or just plain idiocy."

[Open Source] Open Source » Blog Archive » Suggest a Show: February 2006: Re sidewalkerâ€â™s laudable suggestions: thereâ€â™s an atrocious number of child slaves in south Asia: boys consigned to ship-breaking hell in Gujarat, and girls hauling quarry rocks further inland, and worked under literal whips until their bodies break down under the weight of the stone. Iâ€â™m not making any of this up.

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