August 2, 2011
How the Billionaires Broke the System Posted: 01 Aug 2011 01:15 PM PDT The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 1st August 2011 There are two ways of cutting a deficit: raising taxes or reducing spending. [...]
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Americans for Prosperity, Barack Obama, George Monbiot, Rick Santelli, Tea Party movement, Tea Party protests, United States
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July 26, 2011
A no entry sign outside Heysham nuclear power station in Morecambe, Lancashire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/Christopher Thomond Why must the UK choose between nuclear and renewable energy? That was the question George Monbiot asked recently in a blog that challenged me to answer four questions. Here is a concise version of my answers: the full version of [...]
Tags: Committee on Climate Change, Economics of new nuclear power plants, George Monbiot, Government of the United Kingdom, Low-carbon economy, Mott MacDonald, nuclearpower, Renewable energy
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July 20, 2011
An Underground National Park Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:13 AM PDT To prevent climate breakdown, we need to declare most of the fossil fuels in the earth’s crust off-limits. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 19th July 2011 Rejoice, the boom is back! After a drought of investment, last week BP announced that it [...]
Tags: Carbon capture and storage, Charles Hendry, Chris Huhne, Earth, Fossil fuel, George Monbiot, International Energy Forum, Saudi Arabia
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July 15, 2011
If you have been watching the endless debate about nuclear power you may be interested in this video report about the possibility of contaminated beef after Fukushima in Japan. It is interesting because the numbers are, as far as disasters are concerned quite small. So why beat up this type of matter. Whether or not nuclear power [...]
Tags: Aela Callan, Al Jazeera, fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, George Monbiot, Japan, nuclearpower, Tokyo
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July 15, 2011
In Shadow of Death, Iraq and U.S. Tiptoe Around a Deadline Spencer Platt/Getty Images American soldiers stopped to talk with an Iraqi during a patrol this week in Babil Province. Lately, American combat deaths have been increasing in Iraq. By TIM ARANGO Published: July 14, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER COMMENTS SIGN IN TO E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SHARE [...]
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July 12, 2011
What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 12th July 2011 Is Murdoch now finished in the UK? As the pursuit of Gordon Brown by the Sunday Times and the Sun blows the ¬hacking scandal into new corners of the old [...]
Tags: BBC, Berlin Wall, George Monbiot, Gordon Brown, Janet Daley, National Union of Journalists, News of the World, Sunday Times, Tea Party movement, Today (BBC Radio 4), United States
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July 2, 2011
I sent the following email to George Monbiot and the Guardian. I will keep you posted if there is any response. George Ikners ikners.com Related articles Monbiot on Sydney (ikners.com) Monbiot on putting a price on nature and the environment (ikners.com) A Piece from ‘UK Government Watch’ (not me) about ‘The Hidden Economy’ (ukgovernmentwatch.wordpress.com) Monbiot [...]
Tags: Bahrain, David Cameron, George Monbiot, Helen Caldicott, Islamophobia, Journalists, Royal Wedding, The Guardian
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July 1, 2011
Atro-city Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:05 AM PDT As Sydney residents are being paid to leave the city, the case for compact, high-density settlement becomes clearer than ever. By George Monbiot. Published on the Guardian’s website, 30th June 2011 For at least a century, governments have tried to urbanise their nations. Communist states sought to [...]
Tags: Bahrain, Brazil, Brisbane, environment, George Monbiot, New South Wales government, Sydney, World Bank
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June 17, 2011
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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June 7, 2011
The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 7th June 2011 Love, economists have discovered, is depreciating rapidly. On current trends, it is expected to fall by £1.78 per passion-hour between now and 2030. The opportunity cost of a [...]
Tags: Cabinet Office, Decision making, George Monbiot, Kaldor-Hicks, Kaldor–Hicks efficiency, UK National Ecosystem Assessment, Value of time, Value system
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June 4, 2011
John Glaser, June 02, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Iraq has been perhaps the least covered country in the Middle East throughout the Arab Spring. Popular protests and demonstrations there have been discreet, but only relative to Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, etc. This comparative quiet is no excuse for the [...]
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May 24, 2011
Pass the Parcel Posted: 23 May 2011 12:44 PM PDT How will the UK achieve a 50% carbon cut by 2027? By getting someone else to make our stuff. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd May 2011 Not for the first time, the Prime Minister was happily promoting the irreconcilable. “By stepping up, [...]
Tags: Beijing, David Cameron, George Monbiot, Kyoto Protocol, Oliver Tickell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Guardian, United States
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May 21, 2011
A Real-Time Experiment With Human Lives Posted: 20 May 2011 01:40 AM PDT We can now see what the impact of has been of the police decision to turn off Oxfordshire’s speed cameras. By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website, 20th May 2011 The experiment is over and the results are in. In April, [...]
Tags: Department for Transport, George Monbiot, Jeremy Clarkson, Oxfordshire, Road traffic safety, Scottish borders, Thames Valley Police, Traffic enforcement camera
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May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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May 8, 2011
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
Tags: Australia, Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Economy of the United States, Federal Reserve System, God, International Monetary Fund, Julia Gillard, MarketWatch, Singapore Exchange, Standard & Poor's, United States, Wayne Swan
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May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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May 6, 2011
Our Crushing Dilemmas Posted: 05 May 2011 01:05 AM PDT How do environmentalists fight without losing what we’re fighting for? By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website, 5th May 2011 In my column earlier this week, I discussed the crisis the environment movement is now confronting. I’m using this essay to expand on the [...]
Tags: Centre for Alternative Technology, Fossil fuel, George Monbiot, Herman Daly, Low-carbon economy, Nuclear power, Paul Kingsnorth, Scottish Highlands
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May 3, 2011
The Lost World Posted: 02 May 2011 11:09 AM PDT Where is the environmental vision that can resist the planet-wrecking project? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 3rd May 2011 You think you’re discussing technologies, you quickly discover that you’re discussing belief systems. The battle among environmentalists over how or whether our future energy [...]
Tags: Centre for Alternative Technology, Fatih Birol, George Monbiot, International Energy Agency, Low-carbon economy, Nuclear power, Peak oil, Steady state economy
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April 28, 2011
This really speaks for itself. It shows the level of dedication required if you take a pro Palestinian and anti Zionist position like Gilad Atzmon.Try and keep this short piece together with some material from George Monbiot where he talks about the level of abuse he encounters as a result of opposing those who would [...]
Tags: Alan Hart, George Monbiot, Ghada Karmi, Gilad Atzmon, Israel, Jews, John Rose, Zionism
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April 20, 2011
Britain’s Private Militias Posted: 19 Apr 2011 08:54 AM PDT The Ratcliffe miscarriage of justice shows that we need a sweeping reform of the police. By George Monbiot. Published on the Guardian’s website, 19th April 2011. Here, so far, are the results of the undercover surveillance operation the police conducted against a group of climate [...]
Tags: Association of Chief Police Officers, George Monbiot, Mark Kennedy, National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit, National Public Order Intelligence Unit, Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, Rupert Murdoch, RWE
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April 14, 2011
Why This Matters Posted: 13 Apr 2011 02:47 PM PDT We have to be sure our facts about nuclear power are right, as the latest exchange with Helen Caldicott shows. By George Monbiot. Published on the Guardian’s website, 13th April 2011 My request to Helen Caldicott was a simple one: I asked her to give me [...]
Tags: Chernobyl disaster, Environmental health, George Monbiot, Helen Caldicott, International Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear power, United States National Academy of Sciences, World Health Organization
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April 13, 2011
Justice is impossible if we can’t trust the police to tell the truth. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 12th April 2011. “From the information I had, that is what I believed happened to me.”(1) So Simon Harwood, the police officer who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground at the G20 protests two [...]
Tags: Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Crown Prosecution Service, Death of Ian Tomlinson, Death of Jean Charles de Menezes, Hillingdon tube station, Ian Blair, Metropolitan Police Service, Roger Sylvester
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April 5, 2011
The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all I’ve discovered that when the facts don’t suit them, the movement resorts to the follies of cover-up they usually denounce Share74 Comments (130) George Monbiot The Guardian, Tuesday 5 April 2011 Article history Over the last fortnight I’ve made a deeply troubling discovery. The [...]
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April 1, 2011
Seven Double Standards Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:04 AM PDT Evacuees clean their quarters Why don’t we judge other forms of energy generation by the standards we apply to nuclear power? By George Monbiot. Published on the Guardian’s website, 31st March 2011 The accusations have been so lurid that I [...]
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March 29, 2011
Free to protest? I can still be arrested if my placard reads: ‘Nick Clegg, oh dear’ Even Tony Blair’s most illiberal measures have survived Clegg’s promise to repeal all the laws that inhibit our freedom Share591 Comments (218) George Monbiot guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 March 2011 21.00 BST Article history It could have been worse: at [...]
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March 27, 2011
Japan’s govt orders Fukushima plant operator to find cause of soaring radiation 27.03.2011 15:48 The Japanese government has ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant, to find the cause of soaring radioactivity at the nuke plant, top government spokesman Yukio Edano said on Sunday, RIA Novosti reported. Levels of radioactive [...]
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March 24, 2011
Here is an introduction to Chip Ward. You may remember him as the author of that extremely good article on wolves and the environment He is very active on the environment, unfortunately a topic sadly gone very astray here in Australia. One of the major problems in Australia is the fact that so many see the environment using the logic [...]
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March 23, 2011
Now how can that be right? Almost from birth we have been told that salvation comes from above and as a result many many substandard people have held sway over both our opinions and ideas. But why is this so? Mainly because our parents had been very actively taught (propagandi sed) to believe that the [...]
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March 21, 2011
Free schools will not teach creationism, says Department for Education Government spokesman says the education secretary is ‘crystal clear’ that teaching creationism is at odds with scientific fact Share154 Comments (124) Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent guardian.co.uk, Monday 21 March 2011 18.11 GMT Article history An anti-creationist group has written to education secretary Michael Gove [...]
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March 21, 2011
As usual George Monbiot gets to the heart of the problems in Japan in his own way with a clear and concise view of the position from an environmental point of view. From what is circulating at the moment there seem little doubt that the Japanese power company in charge of the reactors has a [...]
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March 19, 2011
Radioactive material found in Tokyo water Discovery comes after Japan banned sales of some food from the area of the Fukushima power plant and engineers battled to cool a overheated reactor. This is a valuable report at a time when information is at a premium as far as Japan and the rest of the planet [...]
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March 17, 2011
Atomised Posted: 16 Mar 2011 10:49 AM PDT The Fukushima crisis should not spell the end of nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published on the Guardian’s website, 16th March 2011 The nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan is bad enough; the nuclear disaster unfolding in China could be even worse. “What disaster?”, you ask. The decision today [...]
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Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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