Tag: economy
group name: change-the-world
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March 08, 2008 03:54 PM EST --
Hillary Clinton -- First Communitarian President/VP of the United States?
http://nord.twu.net/acl/hilary.html
My take on it is that libertarians, frustrated that libertarianism was being mocked . . . more
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October 07, 2007 08:28 PM EDT --
Regardless of your feelings about Wal-Mart as a corporation, it is no small matter when the corporate giant begins installing energy saving solar systems on its supercenters. This past week, Wal-Mart and . . . more
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April 16, 2008 08:32 PM EDT --
(Caution, one word near the end could be considered naughty)
Many people can relate to too much overtime at work. The hours and days go by and there is no time to get anything else done. It was at . . . more
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April 28, 2008 03:10 PM EDT --
In 1956, a geophysicist name M. Hubert King predicted that the rate of fossil fuel production in the United States would peak in 1970. Everyone laughed. But in the course of time, he was proven right. . . . more
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October 16, 2007 05:10 PM EDT --
Nuclear proponents often proclaim that nuclear energy is safe, and that worries about its safety are irrational and emotionally laden. When challenged, they will quickly assert that nuclear energy has . . . more
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April 23, 2008 11:59 AM EDT --
I just watched a video on CNN about truck drivers going to Mexico to buy diesel fuel. They were bringing in 500 gallons at a time, but now the border patrol says they can only bring in 199 gallons at . . . more
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April 28, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
According to a poll quoted in the May 2008 Redbook magazine, which surveyed 177 countries, 169 of them gave women paid maternity leave, 145 provided paid sick days, 137 required businesses to give paid . . . more
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March 12, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
Both parties began purging moderates in the mid-seventies.
Richard Nixon was a moderate, but also a war hawk, much like John McCain is today. Ronald Reagan led the charge to change that reality in . . . more
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April 28, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
Most non-third-world countries in the world offer some form of guaranteed family leave, allowing employees to received part of their salaries when they take time off to take care of family matters or . . . more
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September 29, 2007 05:24 PM EDT --
I first learned of Saipan yesterday when I listened to a radio show about a new book called, Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy by John Bowe. Even worse . . . more
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September 26, 2007 06:44 PM EDT --
I continue to be surprised by the solar energy activity in Canada. Listening to some skeptics, you would think that solar energy won't work outside southern or southwestern U.S. In a previous article, . . . more
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January 19, 2008 08:57 PM EST --
Justin Fox, the "Curious Capitalist" Blogger at Time magazine, asks a question about the nature of recessions as an ecoomic event in his January 18 postings. He asks: "Do we need a recession . . . more
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June 20, 2008 12:33 AM EDT --
Years ago no one seemed to complain about their jobs. Raises were expected annually and promotions were the reward for those who excelled, and we all expected to work, save and retire some day. . . . more
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October 31, 2007 06:48 PM EDT --
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is nearing completion of a solar-hydrogen fueling station that will fuel 14 hydrogen, fuel-cell cars. The demonstration project will be completed at the end of . . . more
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November 11, 2007 09:44 PM EST --
The Rocky Mountain Institute and the U.S. Green Building Council have teamed up to produce a program (approx. 30 minutes), which features the economic sense of building green. In this program, several . . . more
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January 06, 2008 11:29 AM EST --
This fact sometimes gets forgotten with the passionate and intense interest in the early stages of the 2008 presidential campaign. The guy's name is George W. Bush. He has had his problems, and to . . . more
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January 25, 2008 12:20 PM EST --
Here's something government officials (both federal and state) can do to get the economy chugging stronger again:
Loosen things up on the struggling classes, again.
It is well documented that . . . more
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May 22, 2008 04:28 PM EDT --
Haider Rizvi
OneWorld US
Wed., May. 21, 2008
NEW YORK, May 21 (OneWorld) - Former presidential hopeful John Edwards has helped launch a campaign aiming to cut poverty in half in . . . more
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January 27, 2008 12:21 AM EST --
Say you owned the cornerstore and needed to hire one employee. Say further that there was a federal lawproviding that if you hired an American citizen for that position, you would besubject to a fine . . . more
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October 01, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
Critics of hydrogen will often write that hydrogen is not an energy source, but an energy carrier. This is true, but deceptive. The issue has to do with efficiency, which I addressed here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977120951 . . . more
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