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Why nations fail A new book highlights the role of politics in prosperity – a point that Europeans and Americans ignore at their peril.

April 19, 2012
Why nations fail   A new book highlights the role of politics in prosperity – a point that Europeans and Americans ignore at their peril.

Protests in Egypt last year toppled a regime which provided little for its people [Reuters] London, United Kingdom - In their recent book, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson set out to do away with some of the myths that still bedevil development economics. In a wide-ranging historical [...]

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Highway to Hell but US economic recovery ‘close to faltering’ Ben Bernanke, chairman of US Federal Reserve, urges congress against making quick spending cuts that could hurt growth

October 4, 2011
Highway to Hell but US economic recovery ‘close to faltering’ Ben Bernanke, chairman of US Federal Reserve, urges congress against making quick spending cuts that could hurt growth

Financial analysts increasingly have warned that US economic contraction is a considerable risk [Reuters]    US economic recovery ‘close to faltering’ Ben Bernanke, chairman of US Federal Reserve, urges congress against making quick spending cuts that could hurt growth. Last Modified: 04 Oct 2011 17:33 You may note that yet again the so called ‘strong economies‘ of the [...]

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Carbon problem

July 25, 2011
Carbon problem

Carbon dioxide produced from power generation, captured and stored, could help combat climate change. Photograph: Greenpeace Handout/EPA Passing carbon dioxide through slag left over from steel-making turns the waste product into a strong material that can be used for construction. Pumped into greenhouses, it provides a growing boost for crops. Put into tanks of algae, [...]

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Gillard, the ALP and the numbers game

July 17, 2011
Gillard, the ALP and the numbers game

Please do not think this means support for Abbott or any of the proven disastrous Liberal policies. Disastrous to the very many but a godsend the the very few both the ALP and the Liberals and whoever attaches themselves limpet like to either are simply factions of the one party system we have. In that system the only party is [...]

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All the talk about Carbon Tax

July 14, 2011
All the talk about Carbon Tax

Remember this was the tax renowned spiritual leader for the elite Julia Gillard was against before she became the unelected leader of the nation. With a clear majority there would be no carbon tax but a sliding preferential system of concessions to the elite in the mining industry so that her majesty not be dethroned. [...]

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When NO TAX becomes not only is it our idea but it is good for you. The politics of hypocrisy and treacHery with a happy ending

July 10, 2011
When NO TAX becomes not only is it our idea but it is good for you. The politics of hypocrisy and treacHery with a happy ending

  For those of you who have time for a little reflection there is an interesting fact that emerges from the Carbon Tax in Australia. Whether it works, is partially successful or leads to other means as a matter of absolute certainty it is at least a start. Despite the one party system we have, that is [...]

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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view

July 5, 2011
Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view

The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA   How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]

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How Asia copes with American zombie consumers

July 3, 2011
How Asia copes with American zombie consumers

Asian markets search for a new model consumer after the American economy tanked, which has yet to recover [Getty] Asia needs a new model consumer. A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come. And that means that export-led developing Asia now [...]

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Should Greece default? a Democracy Now! interview

July 3, 2011
Should Greece default? a Democracy Now! interview

Bio David Harvey, a leading theorist in the field of urban studies whom Library Journal called “one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century,” earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, was formerly professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics, and Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography [...]

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Everyone wants out. But for warmongers Gillard and Obama the beat must go on, reducing numbers makes it more profitable. Full steam ahead for war party Labor.

July 3, 2011
Everyone wants out. But for warmongers Gillard and Obama the beat must go on, reducing numbers makes it more profitable. Full steam ahead for war party Labor.

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) – Britain will announce this week that it is to withdraw up to 800 troops by the end of next year, according to a report in the Sunday Times newspaper. The move comes after last month’s announcement that thousands of U.S. troops would start being withdrawn later this year as part [...]

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Ceci n’est pas une guerre When is this not a war?

June 28, 2011
Ceci n’est pas une guerre When is this not a war?

Ceci n’est pas une guerre Chase Madar 24 June 2011 Tags: law | libya If anyone should have been able to put human rights at the centre of US foreign policy, it was Harold Hongju Koh. The dean of Yale Law School and a prominent critic of Bush-Cheney lawlessness, his reputation was clinched by a chorus of [...]

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Pollution in Europe. The use of permits. Means just that the holder is permitted to pollute.

June 28, 2011
Pollution in Europe. The use of permits. Means just that the holder is permitted to pollute.

Steel producer ArcelorMittal tops the list of firms with surplus of emissions trading permits, according to thinktank Sandbag. Photograph AP Some of Europe‘s largest industrial companies gained billions of euros from the carbon emission rules they lobbied fiercely against, new analysis reveals today. Ten steel and cement companies have amassed 240m carbon pollutionpermits from generous allocations, according [...]

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Fascist longevity will be the death of us all. A planetary guide to environmental madness and pollution.

June 26, 2011
Fascist longevity will be the death of us all. A planetary guide to environmental madness and pollution.

Why the Right Wing‘s Denial of Science May Screw All of Us It’s the science that right-wingers dismiss as “junk” that could help save us, not that they want to hear that. June 12, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines [...]

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The drawdown that really is no drawdown but just a re-election ploy by Obama.

June 23, 2011
The drawdown that really is no drawdown but just a re-election ploy by Obama.

All this may look good but think about the fact that they should not be there at all and that a mercenary army will have ti be there to protect their precious assets and it all comes to nought. Now how long ago was it that the great crawler Julia said we were there regardless? [...]

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The Blue Heart of the Planet

June 22, 2011
The Blue Heart of the Planet

A steward for our oceans If we are to save the seas, we must first reform 17th century ideas of marine exploitation A pair-trawled catch of cod and haddock being lowered into the hold of a Scottish ship. Photograph: Maurice Mcdonald/PA When you stand on a beach looking out across an ocean, the effect can [...]

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Are you willing or ready to die for your air quality

June 22, 2011
Are you willing or ready to die for your air quality

Are Londoners ready to die for their air quality? Poor air quality causes more than 4,000 deaths in London each year. Join our ‘die-in’ and get Boris Johnson‘s attention   London roads could be responsible for up to 30% of all new cases of asthma in children. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian On the [...]

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Monbiot on Peak Oil.

June 17, 2011
Monbiot on Peak Oil.

Has oil production already peaked? Photograph: Corbis/BarbaraDavidson In public, the last government shrugged off the prospect of peak oil. In private, we know now that it had a different view. A powerpoint presentation released at last by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, in response to freedom of information (FoI) requests by the indefatigable [...]

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Naomi Klein on climate change. A Democracy Now! interview with Amy Goodman

June 9, 2011
Naomi Klein on climate change. A Democracy Now! interview with Amy Goodman

AMY GOODMAN: In this exclusive broadcast, we are the only daily global news hour that is broadcasting on television, radio and the internet daily from the Bella Center, from inside the COP15, the climate change summit. But we’re going to go right now to the People’s Climate Summit, the Klimaforum, that’s taking place in the [...]

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Naomi Klein and how the countries that caused the global problems should pay

June 6, 2011
Naomi Klein and how the countries that caused the global problems should pay

AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. Yes, author and independent journalist Naomi Klein joins us from Toronto, Canada, to talk about the latest shocks to the economy and, with the climate summit in Copenhagen just two weeks away, the coming together of a global movement for climate justice. She [...]

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Naomi Klein interview on aid to countries as blackmail re climate

June 6, 2011
Naomi Klein interview on aid to countries as blackmail re climate

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to play a clip of Hillary Clinton’s news conference just a few minutes ago. She was just here in the room outside where we’re broadcasting from in the Bella Center, had just arrived. People were asking her, you know, is, in fact, President Obama coming? We’re hearing rumors that he isn’t. [...]

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Michael Klare on How to Wreck a Planet

June 6, 2011
Michael Klare on How to Wreck a Planet

Tomgram: Michael Klare, How to Wreck a Planet 101 Posted by Michael Klare at 4:04pm, June 5, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Here’s a first for this site: Adam Hochschild’s new book,To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, now a New York Times bestseller, is also hitting other bestseller lists and getting fabulous [...]

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Talking the talk, Climate denialese. A coal-ition of the arrogant

June 5, 2011
Talking the talk, Climate denialese. A coal-ition of the arrogant

Climate Denialese: A Phrasebook By Sarah Burnside   Tags: sarah burnside martin ferguson green religion george lakoff framing emissions trading climate scepticism Framing those who push for zero emissions as misanthropes addled by ‘green faith’ is a stock tactic of climate change deniers, writes Sarah Burnside During a recent Question Time session in the Federal [...]

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Wasteful spending creates nothing. Where should the ridiculous amounts spent on buying killing equipment go?

June 5, 2011
Wasteful spending creates nothing. Where should the ridiculous amounts spent on buying killing equipment go?

Military budget could pay for renewables Wednesday, November 4, 2009 – 11:00 By Renfrey Clarke Admit it: you’re just a little disturbed when industrialists, fossil-fuel lobbyists and the Liberal and National parties thunder that big, quick cuts to carbon emissions would bankrupt Australian business. Well, aren’t you? Rest easy. Australian capitalism has ample money — and [...]

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Obama and fossil fuel

June 2, 2011
Obama and fossil fuel

Three Strikes and You’re Hot Time for Obama to Say No to the Fossil Fuel Wish List By Bill McKibben In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades — those seem so nineteenth century. The earth is flat, or so I remember somebody saying. [...]

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Carbon levels hit new peak. US report

June 1, 2011
Carbon levels hit new peak. US report

Carbon levels hit new peak, research shows Preliminary data from the US government shows that carbon dioxide levels peaked last week at the highest levels on record John Vidal, environment editor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 31 May 2011 16.10 BST Article history   Carbon dioxide levels have reached a new peak. Photograph: John Giles/PA Carbon dioxide levels [...]

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Food prices to double and an increased risk of food and resource wars

May 31, 2011
Food prices to double and an increased risk of food and resource wars

Food prices to double by 2030, Oxfam warns Charity says era of permanent food crisis will hit poorest people hardest and spark social unrest Share649 Felicity Lawrence guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 31 May 2011 08.23 BST Article history   Staple crops such as maize could have risen in price by 180% by 2030, a new report by [...]

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What is a Carbon Tax? A price on Pollution?

May 30, 2011
What is a Carbon Tax? A price on Pollution?

Climate Change What does a price on pollution mean? Carbon price. Carbon tax. Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). Even “a great big new tax!” You’ve probably heard all these and more in relation to reducing pollution and tackling climate change. But what do they actually mean and why are they being [...]

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An Environmental Tax in the UK

May 30, 2011
An Environmental Tax in the UK

Environmental tax threatens green energy research in UK Carbon reduction commitment (CRC) scheme has ‘perverse effect’ of threatening zero-carbon energy research Share11 Comments (40) Ian Sample, science correspondent guardian.co.uk, Monday 30 May 2011 15.38 BST Article history   The Culham laboratory operates the Joint European Torus (JET) – the largest fusion device in the world. [...]

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