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Ron Paul on Foreign Policy and Federal Powers

2008-10-01T12:50:00Z

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Republican Congressman Ron Paul argues that U.S. government overemphasizes foreign threats at the expense of dealing with domestic issues, and criticizes Congress and the Presidency for overstepping their respective Constitutionally granted authorities. This program was recorded as a part of Ron Paul's Campaign For Liberty: Rally for the Republic event, in Minneapolis, MN, on September 2, 2008.

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The Rally for the Republic is our premier event and the official kickoff to the Campaign for Liberty. Ron Paul will be headlining the event with a speech that will define our place in history. Musicians and speakers will fill the line-up for this all day event at the Target Center - Campaign for Liberty: Rally for the Republic

Ronald Ernest Paul is a Republican United States Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a physician, a bestselling author, and a former 2008 U.S. presidential candidate.

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Robby Roadsteamer and Aaron talk sense to the band

2008-07-05T21:40:50Z

Robby Roadsteamer is worried about his band. They need more personality... So they create the Sexinator

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The Precautionary Principle

2008-09-28T16:37:30Z

A clip from Adam Curtis' BBC documentary, "The Power of Nightmares".

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Robert Greenwald fights for the dream with Maria Bartiromo

2008-06-05T20:38:43Z

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There's something about Maria... and Robert. Sparks fly as they close the bell on greed, greed, greed.

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Who in the GOP Understands the US Constitution: Ron Paul Beats Out Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani on War Leadership?

2008-06-15T21:30:21Z

Chris Matthew's question this week about the US President's power to go to war led to revealing responses from GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Rudy Giuliani . To support the analysis in my video, I include clips of the October 9, 2007, Republican presidential candidate debate, the full transcript of which is available at: www.nytimes.com I took a short clip from an October 11 segment on "The Colbert Report" that is available on the comedy central website at: www.comedycentral.com You can get more information about Rudy Giuliani's bad decisionmaking leading to picking the world trade center as his emergency command center at: www.youtube.com You can get first hand information about JFK's good decisionmaking during the Cuban Missile Crisis at: www.hpol.org And, you can get more information about the phenomenon of "groupthink, among other places, at: www.psysr.org

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Dialogue & Differences

2008-10-12T12:31:03Z

I believe in dialogue between cultures.

I believe the more sincerely proud each culture is of its own real wealth, the more understanding there will be.

I believe those who want wars are the same showing us a world where no dialogue is possible.

I believe differences are to be accepted, and that this world is designed for a wide spectrum of cultures to exist.

I believe no one has the right to force or impose cultural changes on other nations.

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People & Power - Monks of War - 29 Aug 07 - Part 2

2008-06-17T09:36:23Z

People & Power meets the Buddhist monks pushing for war in Sri Lanka.

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People & Power - Monks of War - 29 Aug 07 - Part 1

2008-06-17T09:36:32Z

People & Power meets the Buddhist monks pushing for war in Sri Lanka.

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Peter Schwartz - The Threat of "Abrupt Climate Change"

2008-06-07T09:34:55Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Futurist author and Global Business Network co-founder Peter Schwartz discusses global warming, arguing that the most likely scenario is also the most dangerous - an abrupt climate change over a period of a few decades.

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The Long Now Foundation presents a discussion between Peter Schwartz and Ralph Cavanagh: Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years

It is the threat of "abrupt climate change" that converted him to support new emphasis on nuclear power, Schwartz said. Gradual global warming is clearly now under way, and there is increasing reason to believe that human activity is driving it, mostly through the burning of coal and oil. If warming is all that happens, it will be an enormous problem, but some regions of the Earth would gain (Russia, Canada) while many others would lose.

In the event of abrupt climate change, though, everyone loses. The most likely change would be a sudden (in one decade) shift to a much colder, drier, and windier world. The world's carrying capacity for humans would plummet, driving human population from the current 6.5 billion to as low as 2 billion, with most of the losses from war. It would be a civilization-threatening catastrophe. From research Schwartz has led for the Pentagon as well as from his own training in fluid dynamics, he thinks that continuation of the current warming is very likely to trigger the kind of radical climate instability that has been the norm in Earth's past, except for the last 10,000 years of uncharacteristically stable climate. Therefore everything must be done to head off the shift to climate instability.

Meanwhile, Schwartz said, world demand for energy will continue to grow for decades, as two billion more people climb out of poverty and developing nations become fully developed economies. China and India alone will double or quadruple their energy use over the next 50 years. We will run out of oil in that period. That leaves coal or nuclear for electricity. Conservation is crucial, but it doesn't generate power. Renewables must grow fast, but they cannot hope to fill the whole need. Nuclear technology has improved its efficiency and safety and can improve a lot more. Reprocessing fuel will add further efficiency - Stewart Brand, The Long Now Foundation

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Abuse of Power Trailer

2008-06-12T09:30:08Z

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