Climate Marches May Well Promote, Not Prevent, Climate Collapse. .System Change Not Climate Change. banner - United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP15 - Copenhagen, Denmark(image by Kris Krug) click here The largest environmental protest march in history, demanding action against climate change, took place in New York on September 21st.
Some 400,000 people marched from Columbus Circle, through Manhattan's West Side, along a route ending on 11th Avenue.
Voter Turnout. Why do our leaders hate us, we wonder: Hume. As the pendulum swings ever further to the right; the politics of spite are the new normal not just in Toronto, but across Canada.
In this city, Mayor Rob Ford now feels free to be up front about his homophobia. Though that was something he and brother Doug were always at pains to deny, these days they barely bother. In an apparent retreat from policy and substantive issues — even the gravy train seems to have been dropped — Ford no longer pretends to offer anything more as mayor than what he is, an acknowledged drunk with a small mind and a big sense of entitlement. George Lakoff: 'Conservatives don't follow the polls, they want to change them … Liberals do everything wrong' "The progressive mindset is screwing up the world.
The progressive mindset is guaranteeing no progress on global warming. The progressive mindset is saying, 'Yes, fracking is fine.' The progressive mindset is saying, 'Yes, genetically modified organisms are OK', when, in fact, they're horrible, and the progressive mindset doesn't know how to describe how horrible they are. National Security: Going “Up” or “Down?” National Security: Going "Up" or "Down?
" Earth From Space: Just a sample of what .they. can see and target? Alan Tonkin - Different Values: Different Democracy. Differing Values Systems require Differing Types of Democracy byAlan Tonkin29 June 2005.
A World in Which Borders Are Irrelevant. Can you imagine that?
Does this truly represent the highest vision for humanity? Recently, we highlighted the Global Heart Vision of the United Centers for Spiritual Living which stated in part “we see a world in which borders are irrelevant.” What exactly does that mean? How you feel about it? The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright. Laramie Board Learning Project: Get over it: A few things nonprofit boards must accept so we can move on and govern. (Purchased from Bigstock Photo) If you've read more than one post here, you know that my agenda - for this blog and for boards everywhere - is to present a more fulfilling, expansive, effective vision (and practice) for nonprofit governance.
Guess which country does the most good for the planet? The top ten countries in the Good Country Index.
(Click to view at larger size.) Irish people, rejoice! It turns out, your green land is the “goodest” country in the world. That’s right. Ideas with Paul Kennedy. Spur is a talk series held across Canada organized by the Literary Review of Canada.
It features speakers who try to envision what the world will look like in seven years. “One day, son, our votes may count” (You can also read this post at the permanent home of my blog, One of the things that distracts me from what I might otherwise be writing is the political situation in Canada.
I have always been a politically engaged sort of person. In recent years, however, even I have started to tune out from Federal and, to a lesser extent, Provincial politics. Merger of the Century by Diane Francis: Review. Zoom If the creation of the European Union is evidence, trade agreements, common markets and economic unions can lead to political unions.
So it’s not so preposterous that 20 years after the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, someone has finally crafted a serious proposal for the political integration of Canada and the United States. Best-selling author, writer and pundit (and dual citizen of both countries) Diane Francis argues that the United States and Canada should unite ASAP. She sets out the economic benefits of joining forces, how the deal could be fairly structured, and the political hurdles to overcome. Once an unrivalled economic superpower, today America is ailing. In building the economic case for unification, Francis says Canada’s biggest strength is our “mind-boggling” natural resources. As for the U.S., Francis says its greatest competitive advantage is its culture of risk-taking and entrepreneurship. Francis is typically blunt. JEP (27,3) p. 103 - Why Hasn't Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality? Article Citation Bonica, Adam, Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. 2013.
"Why Hasn't Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality? " Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3): 103-24. DOI: 10.1257/jep.27.3.103. How Egypt Killed Political Islam. A supporter of ousted President Mohammed Morsi prays near the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in the Nasr City neighborhood in Cairo, July 12, 2013. (Photo: Narciso Contreras / The New York Times)The rebirth of the Egyptian revolution ushered in the death of the first Muslim Brotherhood government.
But some near-sighted analysts limit the events of Egypt to a military coup. When the rich are born to rule, the results can be fatal. Those whom the gods love die young: are they trying to tell me something? Due to an inexplicable discontinuity in space-time, on Sunday I turned 50. Inverted totalitarianism. Inverted totalitarianism is a term coined by political philosopher Sheldon Wolin in 2003 to describe the emerging form of government of the United States. Wolin analysed the United States as increasingly turning into a managed democracy (a concept which has similarities to illiberal democracy). Wolin uses the term "inverted totalitarianism" to draw attention to the totalitarian aspects of the United States governmental system while emphasizing differences between it and proper totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union.
Inverted totalitarianism and managed democracy[edit] Wolin argues that the United States has increasingly adopted totalitarian tendencies as a result of transformations undergone during the military mobilization required to fight the Axis powers in the 1940s, and the subsequent campaign to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and more recently, after 9/11, the war on terror campaign.[2]
Left vs Right (World) Twitter pundit Haque's Starting Point? SimPol - Simultaneous Politics. Of course compulsory voting is a good thing. The Political Thought of Etienne de la Boetie. The Political Thought of Étienne de la Boétie. Restoring the Commons. Big hope/commonopoly. The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin - The Garrett Hardin Society - Articles. Updated 13 March, 2005. With New Constitution, Post-Collapse Iceland Inches Toward Direct Democracy. Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of the Icelandic parliament, at the Open Government Camp 2011. Democracy's Arc. Governing the Web (and everything else) Representatives of more than 190 governments begin a profoundly important 12-day closed-door meeting in Dubai on Monday to hammer out how the Internet should be run and who should pay for its operation. The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back. Government and industry have betrayed the internet, and us.
By subverting the internet at every level to make it a vast, multi-layered and robust surveillance platform, the NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. The companies that build and manage our internet infrastructure, the companies that create and sell us our hardware and software, or the companies that host our data: we can no longer trust them to be ethical internet stewards. Across the Universe: The Power of Disillusionment and the Politics of Despair. Eight Perspectives On Integral Trans-Partisan Politics. Beams and Struts employs commenting guidelines that we expect all readers to bear in mind when commenting at the site. Please take a moment to read them before posting - if you already have one.
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