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America, the Fading Economic Giant?

2008-07-26T02:24:28Z

As the corporations have outsourced our jobs and globalized their business interests, they have also weakened our position in the world community.

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John McCain: Town Hall Meeting 02/29/08

2008-07-01T00:52:12Z

John McCain
Town Hall Meeting
Round Rock, TX 02/29/08

TRANSCRIPT:
AUDIENCE MEMBER: "...I understand globalization and I understand the benefit we get from it. But what would be wrong with giving the corporations here in the United States some good tax incentive so they can have the globalization without layoffs?"

JOHN MCCAIN: "I'm totally in favor of it, sir. I'm totally in favor of that. We have to, we are in global competition and we have to incentivize corporations not only to remain here in the United States but also hire, and train, and equip workers so that we are competitive throughout the world. It is not just an opinion of mine, but it's a fact, a scientific fact, that the most productive workers in the world reside in the United States of America. We should make sure that we maintain that..."

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America's "Brain-Dead" Politics - Fareed Zakaria

2008-07-22T18:28:21Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Author Fareed Zakaria criticizes American political culture for ignoring global issues, and for focusing on short-term political benefits at the expense of long-term prosperity.

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The rise of other nations need not mean a decline of the U.S., says Zakaria. He foresees a future where the U.S. no longer dominates the global economy, geopolitics and culture, and it needn't be seen as a negative development, he believes; our nation needs to learn to understand other nations and find a way to thrive in this rapidly shifting dynamic.

Join us as Newsweek International's editor shares his insights on how our nation can thrive in the coming millennium - The Commonwealth Club of California

Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International and author of The Post American World and The Future of Freedom.

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Fareed Zakaria on the Problem with Prosperity

2008-07-22T11:07:25Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Bestselling author Fareed Zakaria warns that as global prosperity levels continue to rise, competition over global resources will similarly increase.

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DJ Spooky on "Why Can't America Have Human Rights?"

2008-07-26T02:19:22Z

DJ Spooky spoke at Breakthrough's public forum, "Why Can't America Have Human Rights?" at The Riverside Church in New York City on September 14, 2006. The event, co-sponsored by 70 organizations, attracted 600 guests, including community members, students, and leaders. The speakers and performers were united in their platform— we must take a stand against abuses and create a much needed human rights movement in the United States.

Breakthrough

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Re: Is Globalization Good?

2008-07-26T02:19:08Z

a response to zzz33333s question...

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Uneating the apple - Part 1 (with homage to Judelicious)

2008-07-26T02:19:08Z

One man's paradise....is another man's hell...

This was a general response to the 'globalization/civilisation/religion' threads. Thanks for getting me to think about these things.

The song lyrics in the beginning are from Laurie Anderson's The Dream Before - off the Strange Angels CD. (Great)
The reference to the angel of history is taken from Walter Benjamin's Ninth Theses on the History of Philosophy.

Incidentally, though I haven't done it, I have considered three tattoos in my life, this entire song, the serpent and the tree of knowledge.

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Uneating the apple - Part 2

2008-07-26T02:19:08Z

a few thoughts behind the application of Benjamin's poetics of history....both personal and general.

With apologies to the majority of Mormons who no longer marry their neices.

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Uneating the apple - Part 3

2008-07-26T02:19:08Z

where I try to bring it on home...

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How Aging Boomers Will Change the Economy - Walter Shapiro

2008-07-03T18:34:40Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Economist Robert Shapiro projects how economies around the world may respond to the aging of the Baby Boom generation.

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Simon Rosenberg hosts a discussion of Robert Shapiro's new book, Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work.

Dr. Robert J. Shapiro is the director of NDN's Globalization Initiative, and has been involved in the project since its inception in early 2005. Dr. Shapiro has an extensive background examining the American and global economies.
From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Shapiro was U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs. In that position, he directed economic policy for the Commerce Department and oversaw the Nation's major statistical agencies, including the Census Bureau while it planned and carried out the 2000 decennial census.

Prior to his appointment as Under Secretary, he was co-founder and Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and the Progressive Foundation. He also was principal economic advisor in Governor Bill Clinton's 1991-1992 presidential campaign and senior economic advisor to Vice President Albert Gore and Senator John Kerry in their presidential campaigns. Dr. Shapiro also served as Legislative Director for Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, Associate Editor of U.S. News & World Report, and economic columnist for Slate.

He has been a Fellow of Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Shapiro holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an A.B. from the University of Chicago. He has lectured at many universities, including Harvard University and Stanford University, and is widely published in both scholarly and popular journals.

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China, India, and the Global Environment - Fred Krupp

2008-06-23T18:34:34Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp discusses how the U.S. and other developed nations can influence the environmental impacts of China and India's rapid growth.

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Fred Krupp discusses his new book Earth: The Sequel - The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming.

The Environmental Defense Fund helped reduce acid rain in the 1990s by using market forces, and last year it played a role in the buyout of Texas utility TXU that reduced the number of planned coal-fired power plants. The advocacy group's president, Fred Krupp, believes business-friendly approaches such as carbon cap-and-trade systems are the best way to fight global warning.

His new book, Earth: The Sequel, highlights the entrepreneurs, scientists, and even a former bus driver on the Trans-Alaska pipeline, who are betting on the free market to create new wealth and build a post-carbon economy - The Commonwealth Club of California

Fred Krupp is the Executive Director of Environmental Defense, a national environmental organization that links science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost effective solutions to the most critical environmental problems.

Krupp leads Environmental Defense’'s teams of scientists, attorneys, engineers, and economists in developing solution-oriented strategies to tackle a wide range of U.S. and international environmental problems including global warming; protection of endangered wildlife and ecosystems; restoration of inland, coastal and ocean habitats; elimination of environmental threats to human health; the protection of tropical rainforests.

Since Krupp joined Environmental Defense in 1984, its annual budget has increased from $3 million to more than $35 million, full-time staff has more than quadrupled from 50 to over 200, membership has expanded from 40,000 to more than 300,000, and new regional offices opened in North Carolina and Texas.

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Climate Change and the Global Economy

2008-06-12T12:43:01Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Kemal Derviş, Head of the United Nations Development Programme, discusses impacts of climate change on long-term economic planning.

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Prosperity and Inequality: Debates in India and China Keynote Address by Kemal Dervis

India and China are emerging as major players in the global political economy of this century, having enjoyed record growth rates for the past five years. Yet each faces major social and economic challenges. Both countries are dealing with growing social unrest, widespread poverty, and rising energy needs in a world market shaped by dwindling oil supplies.

China's growth is creating massive disparities between its urban and rural sectors, resulting in protests against state authority and restless migrant populations. Citizens face a steady degradation of public health due to runaway industrial growth, while capitalists chafe against the state's tight control of the market. In India, the epidemic of suicides among farmers and episodes of violence against minorities have cast doubts on the benefits of wholesale economic liberalization, unfettered foreign investment, and growth, which are also being challenged by the rise of judicial activism and of an active, vocal civil society.

The India China Institute at The New School, now in its third year of sponsoring fellowships, public debates, and research collaborations between experts in India, China, and the United States, is hosting "Prosperity and Inequality: Debates in India and China," a major conference exploring these issues. Participants in the conference, including our own fellows from all three countries as well as experts on urbanization, globalization, and growth in India and China, will discuss Chinese and Indian urbanization and wealth formation, the social and political risks associated with skyrocketing growth in two massive agrarian societies, alternative designs for development in each society, and the quest in both societies for a "third way" of development that combines the virtues of socialism and capitalism without sacrificing democracy and grassroots inclusion - The New School

Kemal Derviş started as the new head of the United Nations Development Program, the UN's global development network, on August 15, 2005. Currently he also serves as the Chair of the United Nations Development Group (UNDP), a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programs, and departments working on development issues.

Prior to his appointment with UNDP, Mr. Derviş was a member of the Turkish Parliament, representing Istanbul from November 2002 to June 2005. From March 2001 to August 2002, he was the Minister for Economic Affairs and the Treasury of the Republic of Turkey. In August of 2002, he resigned from his Ministerial post and was elected to Parliament.

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Episode 22: Son of a Ditch (3/20/08)

2008-07-26T02:33:51Z

Brother can you spare $30 billion?

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Gary Hart - Time for a New NATO?

2008-06-16T09:32:11Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Former U.S. Senator Gary Hart calls for a NATO-style international organization of liberal democracies to address global issues.

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Former U.S. Senator Gary Hart discusses his new book Under the Eagle's Wing: A National Security Strategy of the United States for 2009.

Gary Hart is currently Wirth Chair Professor at the University of Colorado, distinguished fellow at the New America Foundation, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

A thoughtful treatise, Under the Eagle's Wing makes a compelling plea for our upcoming leaders to embrace a new world order, one in which the U.S. and other nations draw strength from a united approach - Tattered Cover Book Store

Gary Hart is an author, lecturer, teacher, scholar, attorney, and former US Senator from Colorado. A candidate in 1984 for the Democratic Party's nomination for president, during 1970-1972 he managed Senator George McGovern's presidential campaign. He has also served as an appellate attorney in the Justice Department, a special assistant at the Department of the Interior, and senior counsel to the international law firm Coudert Brothers.

He co-chaired the US Commission on National Security/21st Century as well as the Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force on Homeland Security. In the Congress he founded the Military Reform Caucus, served on the Senate select committee to investigate the intelligence agencies, and introduced a collection of environmental measures for energy independence.

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Global Policy Innovations Video

2008-06-16T08:41:20Z

Learn more about Global Policy Innovations, a Carnegie Council program and online magazine (with blog) that features innovative ideas for a fairer globalization.

The magazine is updated weekly. Go to www.policyinnovations.org

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Ed Lincoln on Winners Without Losers: Sam Natapoff comments

2008-06-08T15:30:32Z

Sam Natapoff of World Policy Institute comments on Edward Lincoln's book Winners Without Losers.

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What a Wonderful World?

2008-07-26T02:29:30Z

Are you better off now than you were six years ago?

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Earning the Right to American Citizenship?

2008-03-13T09:36:26Z

Most people seem supportive of the concept of ‘earned citizenship' - meaning that we must fulfill a set amount of requirements to obtain a green card and an American passport.

The DREAM Act has several teleological components that we must meet in order to qualify for legal residence. These are:

we must have come here before we were 16 and are under 30,
we must have lived here continuously for five years,
we must graduate from a U.S. high school or obtained a GED
we must have good moral character with no criminal record and
we must attend college or enlist in the military for at least two years.

Only if we meet all stipulations, do we get legal residency. And even then, processing citizenship would take anywhere from 3-5 years or more.

Do you think these stipulations are fair or restrictive? Should we be made to do more in order to prove our love and loyalty to this country and that we belong here and contribute to American society?

To become an U.S. Citizen, immigrants have to sit a ‘citizenship test,' a test that I have seen many fellow American students fail in class. Should their birthright citizenship be taken away from them?

What about DREAMers that do not necessarily identify as American and do not believe in ‘loyalty' to the nation? In an ever globalizing world of McDonalds, international holidays, languages, Facebook/Myspace, the bond of nationality is eroding. And I do not see that as a tragedy.

Today, we self-identify in so many ways-I am a homosexual, a woman, a student, an Indian, a tech-geek, a daughter, an atheist, a civil rights activist, an aspiring lawyer, and so much more than an undocumented immigrant or ‘illegal alien.' If society can accept so many identities without placing teleological components to citizenship, why are the undocumented and documented migrants put to the test? After all, we do not need to be alike in order to co-exist.

What do you think about the concept of earned citizenship?

Globalization Linked to 'Illegal Immigration'

2008-03-11T22:10:25Z

The Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona has just published a report on the main causes of illegal immigration. Global economic change tops the list, followed by an inadequacy of proper legal for migration and lack of employer sanctions for hiring 'illegal aliens.' (See the report here).

When we speak of global economic change, we are referring to the current era of global integration and economic realignment, of neo-liberal trade policies that have contributed to the creation of a vast pool of low-skilled workers in developing countries. As these countries move from manufacturing to knowledge-based economies, low-skilled workers find themselves out of jobs and migrating to better their lives. Moreover, due to the ease and fluency of transportation, labor is more fluid and free to move around than ever before.

Martin Sheen: The news isn't news anymore

2008-07-26T02:21:25Z

Clip from the movie Bordertown starring Jennifer Lopez and Martin Sheen

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Iraq President Talabani Speaks on Growth and Fairness

2008-07-26T02:29:58Z

We live within the most rapid and transformative economic revolution in history, characterized not only by unprecedented growth, but also by complex hazards and historic challenges. Watch Iraq President Jalal Talabani, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, South Africa Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, and International President of the Service Employees International Union Andy Stern discuss the benefits and risks of globalization, and the need for both to be fairly distributed.

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Rape Without Penetration - Abu Ghraib of Police Brutality

2008-07-26T02:25:18Z

WKYC VIDEO LINK: Part 1
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82447&provider=top

WKYC VIDEO LINK: Part 2
http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?sid=82866&aid=54225

Originally Added: February 06, 2008
The "New World Order" promises More of these incidents:

Stark County, OH: Oct 21, 2006:

The VICTIM in a 911 call to Stark County, OH Sherrif's office turns into an Abu Ghraib incident where enforcement by humiliation has become common practice against women taken into custody by corrupted enforcement agencies.

Unbelivably, the Sheriff defends the officers as doing eveything "by the book."

Militarization of America's police is vital to the New World Order and Globalization of poverty. These brutal police acts are "practice" for America's future need for Martial Law, when citizens discover - too late - their Bill of Rights has become nothing more than a quaint museum piece.

This video is the tip of an iceberg in Human Rights violations. There arn't enough video cameras to expose them all.

Here's his web site: www.sheriff.co.stark.oh.us

Call your Congressional Rep. and Senator. (less)
Added: February 06, 2008

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Authors@Google: Garrett Graff

2008-06-09T09:36:38Z

Author Garrett Graff visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House." This event took place on February 8, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series.

How the "flattening of the world" has transformed politics--and what it means for the 2008 election. The 2008 presidential campaign will be like none in recent memory: the first campaign in fifty years in which both the Democrats and the Republicans must nominate a new candidate, and the first ever in which the issues of globalization and technology will decide the outcome.

Garrett M. Graff represents the people that all the candidates want to engage: young, technologically savvy, concerned about the future. In this far-reaching book, he asks: Will the two major parties seize the moment and run the first campaign of the new era, or will they run the last campaign all over again? Globalization, Graff argues, has made technology both the medium and the message of 2008. The usual domestic issues (the economy, health care, job safety) are now global issues.

Meanwhile, the emergence of the Web as a political tool has shaken up the campaign process, leaving front-runners vulnerable right up until Election Day. Which candidate will dare to run a new kind of race? Combining vivid campaign-trail reporting with a provocative argument about the state of American politics, Graff makes clear that whichever party best meets the challenges of globalization will win the election—and put America back on course. The First Campaign is required reading for the presidential candidates—and for the rest of us, too.

For more information, please visit: www.garrettgraff.com

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Notes from Underground 1.2 – ‘International’ Student: Nine Years and Counting

2008-02-26T15:50:36Z

The California Non-Resident Tuition Exemption, AB-540, applies to students of non-immigrant status who have attended a California high school for three or more years and obtained a diploma or passed the GED. Unfortunately, even while I have lived in California continuously for nine years with a non-immigrant status, I fall short of the three year requirement by a couple months. What this means in terms of a University of California Graduate program is that instead of paying $9000 per semester, I would pay around $25000 and also be ineligible for financial aid. Furthermore, teaching assistantships that are usually paid positions are also unavailable to me since I cannot legally work in the United States. Faced with no other option, my family exhausted personal savings, loans and credit card limits to get me through as much of my higher education as possible. I did get paid teaching assistant positions but received no monetary or credit compensation for them, choosing to accept them for the experience.

America is my home. And yet, I am considered an outsider, an ‘International’ Student, by higher education institutions. It only gets funnier when the International Student Office at any given university, refuses to acknowledge me as an ‘International’ Student because they view me as an immigrant, as someone who is not just here temporarily. Caught between two warring worlds, I retreat back underground where no one questions my sense of belonging. Let us admit what this is really about. In an increasingly globalized world where borders are getting more indistinct and blurry, our insecure reactions to these changes are to seek the familiar, nativism and homogeneity, and even impose difference with strong rigidity. Maybe it is time that we let go and define ourselves as ‘global students?’

“Lack of Accountability by the New Rulers of the World.”

2008-02-12T02:02:01Z

As a former Edward's supporter, I wasn't planning to vote in the primary since I could not get excited over a ‘yes we can' or ‘experience' ticket. On Feb 5^th, I decided at the last second to fly in from FL and vote in the NY primary. Since my mom wanted to vote for Hillary, I did the same so that I would not nullify her vote-I can hear the howls of disappointment from voices who tell me that Hillary is a corporatist, voted for the Iraqi war/occupation & continued funding of said occupation, etc., but ultimately I'll be reasonably content with either candidate as long as we get the Republicans out of power.