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02:01:26 05/25/12
Myth McConnell
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In the wake of the debt-ceiling crisis he helped manufacture last summer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell boasted it was "a hostage that's worth ransoming" which "also is a new template" for the future. As it turns out, those threats were among the few true words McConnell has uttered. Because while he's promising once again to blackmail the White House over the debt ceiling, the Kentucky Republican claimed it's because "we'd like to do something about the nation's biggest problem, spending and debt, which of course is the reason for this economic malaise." Of course, as the data show, it's the very austerity policies here and in Europe which are costing jobs and hurting growth.
But Mitch McConnell's myth-making hardly ends there. On the economy, taxes, deficits, health care and so much else, virtually all of McConnell's talking points are tried - and untrue.
( Click a link to jump to the details for each below ):
* "Obama Made the Economy Worse"
* "No Evidence Whatsoever That the Bush Tax Cuts Actually Diminished Revenue"
* "Punishing Job Creators"
* "We Look a Lot Like Greece Already"
* Public Sector Layoffs Are a "Local" Problem
* 47 Million Uninsured Americans "Don't Go Without Health Care"
* The Public Option "May Cost You Your Life"
* Democrats Are "Sticking It to Seniors with Cuts to Medicare"
"Obama Made the Economy Worse"
For months, Mitch McConnell (for example, here , here and here ) regurgitated the GOP talking point that President Obama " made the economy worse ." Sadly for the trickle-down mythmakers of the Republican Party , the facts and the overwhelming consensus of economists - including John McCain's 2008 brain trust - prove otherwise. President Obama not only did not make the American economy worse; no thanks to obstructionist Republicans in Congress he saved the United States from "Great Depression 2.0" and put the nation on the path to recovery.
Start, for example, with the conclusions of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Despite Republican mythmaking that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) "created zero jobs," in November the CBO reported that the stimulus added up to 2.4 million jobs and boosted GDP by as much as 1.9 points in the previous quarter. As The Hill explained, the CBO has found that "President Obama's 2009 stimulus package continues to benefit the struggling economy": >
The agency said the measure raised gross domestic product by between 0.3 and 1.9 percent in the third quarter of 2011, which ended Sept. 30. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that GDP in that quarter was only 2 percent total...
By CBO's numbers, the $800 billion stimulus added up to 0.9 million jobs in 2009, 3.3 million jobs in 2010 and 2.6 million jobs in 2011.
Mark Zandi , an adviser to John McCain in 2008, was adamant on positive role of the stimulus. Federal intervention, he and Princeton economist Alan Blinder argued in August 2010, literally saved the United States from a second Great Depression. In " How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End ," Blinder and Zandi's models confirmed the impact of the Obama recovery program and other federal interventions dating back to 2008, concluding that "laissez faire was not an option": >
We find that its effects on real GDP, jobs, and inflation are huge, and probably averted what could have been called Great Depression 2.0. For example, we estimate that, without the government's response, GDP in 2010 would be about 11.5% lower, payroll employment would be less by some 8½ million jobs, and the nation would now be experiencing deflation.
"No Evidence Whatsoever That the Bush Tax Cuts Actually Diminished Revenue"
In his version of the Republican myth that " tax cuts pay for themselves ," President Bush confidently proclaimed, "You cut taxes and the tax revenues increase." As it turned out, not so much.
After Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt with his supply-side tax cuts, George W. Bush doubled it again with his own. (Reagan's performance would have been much worse, had he not raised taxes 11 times to help make up the shocking shortfall.) As a share of American GDP, tax revenues peaked in 2000; that is, before the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concluded, the Bush tax cuts accounted for half of the deficits during his tenure, and if made permanent , over the next decade would cost the U.S. Treasury more than Iraq, Afghanistan, the recession, TARP and the stimulus - combined .
Nevertheless, as the Republican Party waged its all-out attack in 2010 to preserve the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy , the GOP's number two man in the Senate provided the talking point to help sell the $70 billion annual giveaway to America's rich. "You should never," Arizona's Jon Kyl declared, "have to offset the cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on Americans." For his part, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell rushed to defend Kyl's fuzzy math: >
"There's no evidence whatsoever that the Bush tax cuts actually diminished revenue. They increased revenue because of the vibrancy of these tax cuts in the economy. So I think what Senator Kyl was expressing was the view of virtually every Republican on that subject."
That may have been a view universally shared by virtually every Republican, but it happens to be wrong.
"Punishing Job Creators"
For years, Senator McConnell has been among the legions of Republicans wrongly arguing that even the slightest increase in taxes for the wealthiest Americans is tantamount to " punishing job creators ." As his colleague John Boehner put it: >
"The top one percent of wage earners in the United States...pay forty percent of the income taxes...The people he's [President Obama] is talking about taxing are the very people that we expect to reinvest in our economy."
If so, those expectations were sadly unmet under George W. Bush. After all, the last time the top tax rate was 39.6 percent during the Clinton administration , the United States enjoyed rising incomes, 23 million new jobs and budget surpluses. Under Bush? Not so much.
On January 9, 2009, the Republican-friendly Wall Street Journal summed it up with an article titled simply, " Bush on Jobs: the Worst Track Record on Record ." (The Journal's interactive table quantifies his staggering failure relative to every post-World War II president.) The meager one million jobs created under President Bush didn't merely pale in comparison to the 23 million produced during Bill Clinton's tenure. In September 2009, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee charted Bush's job creation disaster, the worst since Hoover.
That dismal performance prompted David Leonhardt of the New York Times to ask last fall, "Why should we believe that extending the Bush tax cuts will provide a big lift to growth?" His answer was unambiguous: >
Those tax cuts passed in 2001 amid big promises about what they would do for the economy. What followed? The decade with the slowest average annual growth since World War II. Amazingly, that statement is true even if you forget about the Great Recession and simply look at 2001-7... >
Is there good evidence the tax cuts persuaded more people to join the work force (because they would be able to keep more of their income)? Not really. The labor-force participation rate fell in the years after 2001 and has never again approached its record in the year 2000. >
Is there evidence that the tax cuts led to a lot of entrepreneurship and innovation? Again, no. The rate at which start-up businesses created jobs fell during the past decade.
The data are clear: lower taxes for America's so called job-creators don't mean either faster economic growth or more jobs for Americans .
As Jared Bernstein aptly put it earlier this month: >
"Tax cuts and job growth? They're just not that into each other."
"We Look a Lot Like Greece Already"
As their last round of hostage-taking of the debt heated up last summer, Republicans including Mitch McConnell warned, "We look a lot like Greece."
hile FactCheck.org was quick to conclude that "whatever it 'looks like' through Sen. McConnell's eyes -- the fact is that the U.S. is not yet a fiscal wreck of Greek proportions," its analysis hardly does justice to the scale of the Republican myth-making. The Washington Monthly's Steve Benen summed it up quite succinctly: >
New rule: every time a confused Republican lawmakers compare the United States' fiscal conditions to that of Greece, an angel loses its wings.
Look, the very idea is just crazy. The U.S. has extremely low interest rates and foreign investor are happy to loan us money; Greece has extremely high interest rates and no one is eager to loan the country money. The U.S. has our own currency; Greece has the Euro. We have a great credit rating (for now); Greece has an awful credit rating. We have a manageable debt; Greece has a debt crisis. We're a large country with an enormous economy; Greece is a small country with a small economy. We have one of the world's most stable systems of government (at least until six months ago); Greece's government structure is a little shaky.
For his part, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has been decrying the " Hellenization of economic discourse " for months. "Greece -- with a long history of fiscal irresponsibility, very high public debt, and a country without a currency -- doesn't bear much resemblance even to the other peripheral Europeans, let alone the United States."
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Here's debt levels (if you ask me the IMF projections for Greece are too optimistic). >
Plus there's the having your own currency thing, and the fact that the interest rate on US 10-year bonds is 3.11 percent, on Greek bonds 16.82 percent. >
Otherwise we're exactly the same.
Public Sector Layoffs a "Local" Problem
Last fall, Minority Leader McConnell led the GOP opposition to President Obama's proposed $400 billion American Jobs Act. The loss of hundreds of thousands of police, firefighter, teacher and other public sector jobs, he insisted, was a "local" problem.
As it turns out, the 600,000 state and local government jobs already lost since December 2008 is very much a national issue. That " anti-stimulus ," it turns out, has added a full point to America's unemployment rate .
Last month, the Economic Policy Institute noted that the private sector had gained 2.8 million jobs while federal, state and local governments shed 584,000 just since June 2009. EPI concluded that the public sector job losses constituted "an unprecedented drag on the recovery": >
"The current recovery is the only one that has seen public-sector losses over its first 31 months."
Back in March, Paul Krugman expressed the same point , but with some inconvenient historical context for the Party of Reagan. "In fact, if it weren't for this destructive fiscal austerity," Krugman explained, "Our unemployment rate would almost certainly be lower now than it was at a comparable stage of the 'Morning in America' recovery during the Reagan era." >
We're talking big numbers here. If government employment under Mr. Obama had grown at Reagan-era rates, 1.3 million more Americans would be working as schoolteachers, firefighters, police officers, etc., than are currently employed in such jobs. >
And once you take the effects of public spending on private employment into account, a rough estimate is that the unemployment rate would be 1.5 percentage points lower than it is, or below 7 percent -- significantly better than the Reagan economy at this stage.
47 Million Uninsured Americans "Don't Go Without Health Care"
McConnell the " strict obstructionist " was naturally in the forefront of the all-out Republican effort to block health care reform at any cost. As he repeatedly put it in June 2009 , "all of us want reform, but not reform that denies, delays, or rations health care." To prove his point, McConnell didn't merely trot out a Canadian patient who came to the U.S. for special treatment, but insisted to NBC's David Gregory that no American does without health care now. >
GREGORY: Do you think it's a moral issue that 47 million Americans go without health insurance? >
McCONNELL: Well, they don't go without health care. It's not the most efficient way to provide it. As we know, the doctors in the hospitals are sworn to provide health care. We all agree it is not the most efficient way to provide health care to find somebody only in the emergency room and then pass those costs on to those who are paying for insurance. So it is important, I think, to reduce the number of uninsured. The question is, what is the best way to do that?
That President George W. Bush, Tom Delay and Paul Broun among other Republicans also claimed "people have access to health care in America...after all, you just go to an emergency room" doesn't make it any more true. As the numbers show -- 50 million uninsured, another 25 million uninsured, 45,000 unnecessary deaths, one in five Americans "self-rationing" care and 62 percent of all personal bankruptcies being related to medical bills -- the crisis is far worse than the one Mitch McConnell pretends doesn't exist.
The Public Option "May Cost You Your Life"
While Mitch McConnell insisted that the lack of insurance doesn't prevent anyone from getting health care, in 2009 he suggested having coverage could prove fatal . Months before the passage of the Affordable Care Act without the so-called "public option," Minority Leader McConnell said it would be deadly.
That irresponsible fear-mongering came during an appearance on Dennis Miller's radio show in October 2009. Blasting the "opt-out" version of the public option then being considered in the Senate bill, the Senator from the state ranked 45th in health care performance insisted access to coverage could kill you : >
MCCONNELL: Well, it doesn't make any difference frankly whether you opt-in or you opt-out, it's still a government plan. You know, Medicaid, the program for the poor now, states can opt-out of that, but none of them have. I think if you have any kind of government insurance program, you're going to be stuck with it and it will lead us in the direction of the European style, you know, sort of British-style, single payer, government run system. And those systems are known for delays, denial of care and, you know, if your particular malady doesn't fit the government regulation, you don't get the medication. >
MILLER: Right. >
MCCONNELL: And it may cost you your life. I mean, we don't want to go down that path.
As a Harvard Medical School study found, each year the path of no health insurance leads 45,000 Americans to the grave.
Democrats Are "Sticking It to Seniors with Cuts to Medicare"
For two years running, Mitch McConnell has been among the 40 GOP Senator voting for Paul Ryan's House budget plan to privatize and inevitably ration Medicare now used by 46 million American seniors. In the late 1990's, McConnell joined in Newt Gingrich's effort to slash almost 15 percent from the Medicare budget so that the program would "wither on the vine." But when the Affordable Care Act called for savings from the private Medicare Advantage program used by only 15 percent of elderly beneficiaries, it was Mitch McConnell who warned seniors about the mythical danger.
In July 2009, McConnell tried to scare America's 46 million Medicare beneficiaries by declaring, "The administration plans to use Medicare cuts to fund yet another new government program." Hoping to build on the momentum of the GOP's disgusting and demonstrably false " euthanasia " talking point, McConnell cautioned: >
"Some in Congress seem to be in such a rush to pass just any reform, rather than the right reform, that they're looking everywhere for the money to pay for it -- even if it means sticking it to seniors with cuts to Medicare."
That salvo comes just two weeks after McConnell promised to defeat health care reform in the Senate, warning America's highest turnout voting block: >
"They are going to pay for this plan by cutting Medicare, that is cutting seniors."
Those claims, the New York Times pointed out the day after the Republicans' overwhelming triumph in the 2010 midterms elections were misleading at best and false at worst. But, sadly, they worked .
And so it goes.
As Joshua Green documented last year in the Atlantic , "Mitch McConnell is a master manipulator and strategist" whose "relentless tactics have made his party victorious." But that doesn't make him a truth-teller, except on those rare occasions when he reveals his true motivations. During the debt ceiling stand-off last summer , McConnell briefly got weak in the knees at the prospect of U.S. sovereign default not because it would be a disaster for the nation, but because it could damage his Republican Party : >
"I refuse to help Barack Obama get re-elected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy. ... If we go into default, he will say that Republicans are making the economy worse and try to convince the public -- maybe with some merit, if people stop getting their Social Security checks and military families start getting letters saying service people overseas don't get paid. It's an argument he could have a good chance of winning, and all of the sudden we have co-ownership of a bad economy," he said. "That is very bad positioning going into an election."
Especially an election which marks the culmination of Mitch McConnell's work over the past three and a half years: >
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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22:00:47 05/22/12
President Obama's Joplin, MO Commencement Speech: The Power of Community
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President Obama spoke at the high school commencement Monday night about the power of community, the "bigness of spirit," and the value of unity.
The gist of his message centered on how a community set aside its differences to come together and rebuild after the tornado that nearly wiped out the entire city. His themes touched on the "power of shared effort," and forging a new vision when everything seems hopeless. His primary themes of hope and community are woven throughout the entire twenty minutes. I thought it was an inspiring and touching speech. If it needs a summation, it is his statement that "we are better together than on our own."
At one point in the speech, he mentioned that right after the tornado, the community came together for a meeting and each person was given a Post-it note to write down what their vision was for the community. 1500 Post-its later, there is a wall with all of them on it, and architects are following the suggestions for the rebuilding process. The President quipped, "I'm thinking of trying it with Congress! Give them some Post-it notes."
In a climate where cynicism and negativity seems to rule the day, it's worth taking the twenty minutes to watch this and no matter what you think of the man, his message is true, and it does not depend on him. For me, it's worth remembering that I do this thing, writing, researching, sharing -- blogging -- because I want a record that says we truly are better together than we are alone, and working toward that goal every day is worth enduring the negative and the cynical.
I hope it inspires you today, at least a little bit.
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16:09:56 05/21/12
Driving Without Full UK Licence - Provisional Only
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There are many of you with only a provisional driving licence who are driving various cars unsupervised, many carrying children and babies, and despite the fact that you have a full comprehensive insurance policy are taking a very great risk which could prove very costly if you are unfortunate to be involved in a car accident.
If you are confident and skilled enough to drive a car unsupervised, then the question is why don't you apply for and take the DSA practical assessment? You can not use the excuse that the examiner keeps failing me, as with all tests, if you do what is required at the correct standard, you will pass.
It is important that as a driver, you obey the laws of the land such as driving with insurance. If you are a parent, then you should not be putting your children at risk by driving your car unsupervised if all you have is a provisional licence, because you are not insured even if you have a valid insurance policy with your name on it. While it might stop you from being pulled up by a police car with ANPR, if you are involved in an accident that is the time when you will find out that your insurance company will not honor any claims you might bring because you were not driving according to the terms of your insurance policy! Trust me, you do not want to find that out if an un-insured driver smashes into your £8000 new car. Not to think of you or your child being injured and you have no legal expenses cover to fight a compensation claim for injuries sustained!
You might think you are a safe driver, and nothing will happen to you, but I am on the road everyday where I see so many 'safe' drivers involved in various incidents ranging from minor shunts to major collisions requiring police and ambulance attendance. You need to think about the consequeces of your actions, for many of you, it is not even the cost of taking the driving lessons that is stopping you, but you think it is not important enough for you to make the time, and are willing to risk having points on your licence if caught, but that could be the least of your worries if you hit someone, cause serious injuries or death and are faced with a civil court case suing for £1,000,000 and your insurance company backs out on you due to your negligence.
If you take the time to learn what the examiners expect from you on the DSA car practical assessment, choose the right driving instructor to give you the training, and practise enough times, there is no reason why you can't pass at your next attempt, and then you can drive without having to look over your shoulder everytime you hear a siren or rest assured that you are insured no matter the incident your are involved in.
If you take a driving lesson with me today, I can point out all the weak areas you need to work on and get you ready for your next test in the shortest amount of time. Why not call or send me a text message on 07956233032 , and see how I can get you legal and covered.
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01:02:21 05/10/12
Which Came First: Language or Music?
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Anthropologist Dean Falk responds to an audience question about whether language or music evolved first, with the surprising answer that they may have evolved together.
Complete video available for purchase at http://fora.tv/2012/04/28/Paleoanthropology_Session_QA
A human female is born, lives her life, and dies within the span of a few decades, but the shape of her life has been strongly influenced by 50 million years of primate evolution.
Join leading scientists for a special symposium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco as they discuss the The Female in Evolution. This rich topic will be considered in the context of the three research areas funded by The Leakey Foundation; Paleoanthropology, Behavioral and Hunter-gatherers and will integrate life history, behavior, anatomy, development, and cultural identity of females.
Dean Falk is an evolutionary anthropologist who splits her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico where she is a Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), and Tallahassee, Florida where she is the Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University. Her work focuses on the evolution of the human brain and cognition. Recent projects include collaborative research on Homo floresiensis ("Hobbit") and an investigation of the brain of Albert Einstein.
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17:31:37 05/09/12
Which Came First: Language or Music?
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Which Came First: Language or Music?
Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv Anthropologist Dean Falk responds to an audience question about whether language or music evolved first, with the surprising answer that they may have evolved together. ---- A human female is born, lives her life, and dies within the span of a few decades, but the shape of her life has been strongly influenced by 50 million years of primate evolution. Join leading scientists for a special symposium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco as they discuss the The Female in Evolution. This rich topic will be considered in the context of the three research areas funded by The Leakey Foundation; Paleoanthropology, Behavioral and Hunter-gatherers and will integrate life history, behavior, anatomy, development, and cultural identity of females. Dean Falk is an evolutionary anthropologist who splits her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico where she is a Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), and Tallahassee, Florida where she is the Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University. Her work focuses on the evolution of the human brain and cognition. Recent projects include collaborative research on Homo floresiensis ("Hobbit") and an investigation of the brain of Albert Einstein. From: ForaTv Views: 1288 80 ratings Time: 02:11 More in Science & Technology
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21:53:39 05/03/12
Funding Education
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Funding Education
www.euronews.com Governments are constantly searching for cost-effective education policies, while the private sector and industry offer their own funding solutions. This week we look at initiatives in three countries, Germany Sweden and the US. *Career Concept* Cinto Gersie is always on the run. He has his own business which he started while he was studying for his MBA, analysing the German mineral water market. He said: "I wrote my thesis on the mineral water market in 2006 and I finished my studies in 2007. The final paper I wrote was in fact my business plan for the company." Cinto was the first student in his class to be helped by an investment fund, and today his company is flourishing. He sells flavoured water to lifestyle customers, a fast growing market in Germany. He pays eight percent of his income back into the education fund, and will go on paying for another four years. But only the best can hope for this type of investment. Benedikt is a first year student at the EBS Law School in Wiesbaden. He had to pass demanding exams to get funded and has to get good marks in order to retain his funding. In contrast to a bank loan, there is no fixed interest on funding. And repayments only start once the student begins earning. Then they pay a specified percentage of their income back into the education fund for a fixed period. It is a system that works for everyone involved. Graduates help new students, investors help them too and even earn money from it. For more ... From: Euronews Views: 75 1 ratings Time: 10:09 More in Shows
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21:53:39 05/03/12
Funding Education
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Funding Education
www.euronews.com Governments are constantly searching for cost-effective education policies, while the private sector and industry offer their own funding solutions. This week we look at initiatives in three countries, Germany Sweden and the US. *Career Concept* Cinto Gersie is always on the run. He has his own business which he started while he was studying for his MBA, analysing the German mineral water market. He said: "I wrote my thesis on the mineral water market in 2006 and I finished my studies in 2007. The final paper I wrote was in fact my business plan for the company." Cinto was the first student in his class to be helped by an investment fund, and today his company is flourishing. He sells flavoured water to lifestyle customers, a fast growing market in Germany. He pays eight percent of his income back into the education fund, and will go on paying for another four years. But only the best can hope for this type of investment. Benedikt is a first year student at the EBS Law School in Wiesbaden. He had to pass demanding exams to get funded and has to get good marks in order to retain his funding. In contrast to a bank loan, there is no fixed interest on funding. And repayments only start once the student begins earning. Then they pay a specified percentage of their income back into the education fund for a fixed period. It is a system that works for everyone involved. Graduates help new students, investors help them too and even earn money from it. For more ... From: Euronews Views: 56 1 ratings Time: 10:09 More in Shows
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14:32:22 05/01/12
Public Schools Use GPS Uniforms to Track Students! (Nanny of the Month, April 2012)
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Public Schools Use GPS Uniforms to Track Students! (Nanny of the Month, April 2012)
We've got Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal demanding clean urine in exchange for welfare benefits (a bad idea that also doesn't work as advertised, but hey, at least the boozers are safe!), North Carolina regulators busting a blogger for praising the paleo diet (an offense that can get you tossed in the clink!), but this month the freakiest controllers come to us from a Brazilian city where public schools have begun tracking thousands of 4-to-14-year-olds with GPS-embedded uniforms. (At least they're not tagging the kiddos' ears!) Presenting Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for April 2012: The City of Vitoria da Conquista! Approximately 80 seconds. "Nanny of the Month" is written and produced by Ted Balaker. Opening animation by Meredith Bragg. To watch previous "Nanny of the Month" episodes, go here: www.youtube.com Visit reason.tv for links and downloadable versions of this video and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notification when new content is posted. From: ReasonTV Views: 16076 221 ratings Time: 01:21 More in News & Politics
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05:08:20 04/29/12
Winston Lindsley: Unbelievable, Russian Economics 10 yr Anniversary
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On April 29, 2002 Winston Gave the following speech at
the World Russian Forum US-Russian Alliance, Washington DC. 6 hours
later he survived an aneurysm on the aorta and required emergency
surgery was brought on a stroke and subsequent Aphashia.
1950 Born WINSTON JEROME LINDSLEY
A direct descendant of Mayflower colonist John Alden
Great grandmother was first cousin to the mother of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Homeless at age 15
Quit high school during the 10th grade and enrolled in night school to study auto mechanics
1969 Drove his GTO to Woodstock at age 18
1978
Parlayed automotive training as a Journeyman Master Technician into a
successful global automotive business International Technological
Information Consultants (ITIC),
1980 Customized a large motor home to
include living quarters, and a workshop-on-wheels, Metro Mobile 1.
Stocked with 4,000 pounds of automotive equipment, 5,000 tools and a
complete diagnostic center and machine shop assisting newly established
GM dealers in Saudi Arabia build and operate their service departments
1990 expanded ITIC's interests to the Former Soviet Union
ITIC moves into the fields of telecommunications and information technology
1990-91 ITIC participated in Operation Desert Shield/Storm in Washington and Arabian Gulf
1981-91 GM Diplomatic Representative, started global shipping operations, sold Embassy of USSR GM fleet
Worked for U.S. Government FBI, soviet Counter Intelligence Group.
1992
-1999 Arranged and managed a $10 million, privately funded loan
agreement for the first General Motors franchised dealer in the former
Soviet Union.
http://www.wingoglobal.com/blog/
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23:07:39 04/26/12
Catholic School Teacher Fired For In Vetro Fertilization
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Catholic School Teacher Fired For In Vetro Fertilization
via CNN "A teacher at a Catholic school in Indiana is suing the diocese where she worked after being fired because the in vitro fertilization treatments she received were considered against church teachings. Emily Herx, a former English teacher at St. Vincent de Paul School in Fort Wayne, filed a federal lawsuit against the school and the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend." www.cnn.com Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Google+: www.gplus.to Pinterest: pinterest.com From: TheYoungTurks Views: 32325 886 ratings Time: 03:47 More in News & Politics
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17:10:16 04/26/12
Shigeto - "Huron River Drive": SXSW 2012 Music
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Shigeto - "Huron River Drive": SXSW 2012 Music
Artists take on pseudonyms for a multitude of reasons, but in Zach Saginaw's case, those reasons run deeper than most. Zach records under the name Shigeto. It's his middle name; it's also his grandfather's name, a tribute to the Japanese branch of Zach's family tree. Shigeto also means "to grow bigger"%mdashappropriate, given Zach's premature birth-weight of less than a pound. Today, Shigeto stands for Zach's vividly beautiful electronic music. Beat-driven but given to richly textured sound design, rhythmically fractured but melodically sumptuous, Shigeto's music is a bridge between the past and present, bringing the artist face to face with a creative legacy that spans decades. Zach was brought up on a steady diet of Michigan-bred music, as his father spoon-fed him old Motown and jazz records by the crateload. Zach picked up the drums at an early age, spending much of his childhood playing in the Detroit/Ann Arbor music scene. After nearly flunking out of high school%mdashsave for his music studies%mdashZach spent three years studying jazz at the New School in NYC and three more in London, where he began woodshedding, obsessed with learning electronic production. Soon enough, beats materialized, Zach moved to Brooklyn and took up the name Shigeto, and Zach's peers began to take notice. Zach's body of work has grown over the last few years to the tune of several EPs on Moodgadget as Shigeto and with A Setting Sun, a pair of EPs under the alias Frank Omura (another family-name reference ... From: sxsw Views: 524 11 ratings Time: 02:43 More in Film & Animation
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22:05:22 04/16/12
Menendez Stands with Families of VA Tech Shooting Victims, Introduces Campus Safety Bill
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Menendez Stands with Families of VA Tech Shooting Victims, Introduces Campus Safety Bill
5 years ago today, 32 members of the Hokie community -- 3 of whom were from New Jersey -- lost their lives in the Virginia Tech shootings. Today at Rutgers University, Senator Menendez stood with the families of New Jersey victims Michael Pohle Jr. and Julia Pryde. When you hear about Michael and Julia -- about their full lives and limitless potential -- it's natural for us to be tremendously sad and also angry about the events that took place that day. That's why Senator Menendez worked with Michael's dad, Michael Pohle Sr., to develop legislation to make campuses safer. It's their hope the Michael Pohle Jr Campus Emergency Alert Act will put more pressure on schools to comply with laws that are already in place to protect our students and campuses across the country. From: SenatorMenendezNJ Views: 103 0 ratings Time: 08:08 More in News & Politics
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13:26:31 04/16/12
Puerto Rico's Infrastructure Reniassance - David Álvarez on Public-Private Investment
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Puerto Rico's Infrastructure Reniassance - David %Aacutelvarez on Public-Private Investment
"People were thinking that we were just selling the schools," head of Puerto Rico's public-private partnership program David %Aacutelvarez admits, "we explained that the private sector was just building and doing infrastructure." "You've even run TV commercials," Reason's director of government reform Leonard Gilroy responds, "how many of you have seen TV commercials in your jurisdiction on some new innovative government program?" Through Puerto Rico's Public-Private Partnerships Authority and public communication, %Aacutelvarez works to modernize government programs and public infrastructure through the private sector investment. %Aacutelvarez spoke at Reason Weekend 2012, Reason Foundation's annual donor event, which took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Under Luis Fortu%ntildeo governorship, the PPPA has revitalized pubic schools, re-managed waste treatment facilities and toll roads, and continues to push to reform government's oversight of the Luis Mu%ntildeoz Marin International airport and juvenile correction centers. %Aacutelvarez takes Q%A from the audience 30 minutes in. About 43 minutes. Filmed by Joshua Swain and Anthony Fisher. Edited by Swain. Visit Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notifications when new material goes live. From: ReasonTV Views: 2643 57 ratings Time: 42:56 More in Nonprofits & Activism
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01:29:25 04/15/12
The Arab Upheaval: Gibert Ashcar & Samah Selim
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Discussion: The Arab Upheaval: What has it achieved? Where is it going? With Gilbert Achcar and Samah Selim
at Alwan for the Arts
Co-sponsored by CUNY Graduate Center's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, South Asia Solidarity Initiative, and Ad Hoc Coalition to Defend the Egyptian Revolution.
With Gilbert Achcar and Samah Selim
The Arab upheaval ignited in Tunisia in December 2010 is now well into its second year. It has overthrown three Arab rulers, in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, and forced another to hand over power in Yemen. However, uprisings in Bahrain and Syria have been violently repressed, the latter at the cost of ten thousand lives already. This is while the future of the revolutionary process is uncertain in the four countries where initial victories have been achieved, with electoral processes proving unable to quench the upheaval%rsquos fundamentally social dynamics.
About the Speakers
Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon, and is currently Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. His books include The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder , published in 13 languages, Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy , co-authored with Noam Chomsky, and most recently The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives .
Samah Selim was born in Egypt and has lived in the UK, Libya, France and Germany. She received her BA in English Literature from Barnard College in 1986 and her PhD from the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University in 1997. She has previously taught at Columbia University, Princeton University and the University of Aix-en-Provence, and she directs the literature module of the Berlin-based postdoctoral research program, Europe in the Middle East; the Middle East in Europe . Her book, The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, explores the relationship between the rise of the novel genre, the politics of nationalist representation and the peasant question over the course of the 20 th century in Egypt. Dr. Selim, who is also a practicing literary translator, is currently at work on a book about translation, modernity and popular fiction in early 20 th century Egypt.
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07:13:29 04/09/12
How Managing and Teaching Build Creative Career Skills
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In Chapter 12 of 17 in his 2012 interview, entrepreneur Doug Jaeger notes how he is empowering others both at work - where he is building film teams - and in the classroom - where he is challenging art students to be more independent. Doug Jaeger is the co-founder of JaegerSloan, a multimedia design services firm in New York City. His street front office doubles as the JS55 Gallery. Jaeger is also an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts (SVA). He graduated from Syracuse University.
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05:41:00 04/09/12
RnRTV #284: Limp Bizkit Over? Iggy Disses and Madonna Trickery!
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Rock n Roll TV gives you the rock news hosted by Share Ross! Limp Bizkit over? Iggy disses on modern music. Alice Cooper archives broken into. Ultravox have new album coming out and Madonna plans paparazzi decoys!
The Limp Bizkit comeback might be over before it starts. Turns out Fred Durst has a new vision for the band and it does not include original members, DJ Lethal and drummer John Otto. They have not been axed yet but rumor has it that things are tense in the Limp Bizkit camp.
Iggy Pop , the ambassador for Record Store Day 2012 recently made a video where he talked about the music of today and compared it to those cheap drinks you get in a bad supermarket where it says 'contains 10 percent juice.'
"There's a lot of stuff out there with a bit of music to it, and I think that's OK, but it reminds me of how bad it was to turn on American Bandstand in the 50's and see all the endless, gutless, dickies imitations of Elvis that the American industry decided to push on the kids."
Alice Cooper 's archives were broken into in a Los Angeles storage facility. Items missing include a whole lot of original vinyl records and the original sculpture for the Hey Stoopid album.
Jerry Lee Lewis at 76 years old has wed for the 7th time.
Sonisphere Knebworth 2012 has officially been cancelled. Headliners included Queen with Adam Lambert, KISS, Faith No More along with Marilyn Manson, Evanescence, Cypress Hill, and The Darkness just to name a few.
Ultravox are set to release their first studio album in 28 years! The classic Ultravox line-up has recorded a brand new 12 song album titled Brilliant to be released the end of May. They will follow it up with a full UK tour in the fall.
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98 Degrees are set to reunite.
Maroon 5 rocker Adam Levine has split from his model girlfriend.
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Madonna is always forging new way s to do things. This time she has found a new way to trick the paparazzi. She has hired 5 women who look like her and is having them made up to be dead ringers for her. Madonna herself is going to give them instruct them how to walk, talk and act like her. On the tour, the 'clone quintet' will be sent out ahead of her to act as diversions.
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