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Comment by Joan Denoo on February 27, 2013 at 12:10pm

SYLVIA EARLE'S TED PRIZE WISH TO PROTECT OUR OCEANS

Comment by Joan Denoo on February 26, 2013 at 5:40pm

Thanks Steph S. 

Comment by Joan Denoo on February 25, 2013 at 7:45pm

'Debt ceiling' and defaulting on US obligations: How catastrophic would it be in your opinion?"
Michael Hudson --
"It would be like stepping on a piece of gum and having to get it off your shoe. Adam Smith said in the Wealth of Nations that no government has ever paid its debt. Nothing has changed. It would be a zero problem. People who talk like that are trying to frighten you. When a politician tries to frighten you can think of what is it that he wants me to do? How am I being manipulated... This is pure ignorance."

Michael Hudson -- on fictitious debt and manipulation of people

Comment by Joan Denoo on February 24, 2013 at 2:04pm

Full Show: Taming Capitalism Run Wild

February 22, 2013

Comment by Joan Denoo on February 24, 2013 at 1:53pm

Taming Capitalism Run Wild » Richard Wolff on Fighting for Economic Justice and Fair Wages

You can watch the lecture here in its entirety until Friday, February 29, 2013.
MOYERS & COMPANY

‪’Capitalism Hits the Fan’: A Lecture by Richard Wolff on the Econo...

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on February 24, 2013 at 12:33pm

If the Russian meteor had hit the US. A humorous take by Joe Romm.
Open Thread Plus Cartoon Of The Week

Comment by Joan Denoo on February 17, 2013 at 7:33pm

jingoism exists when extreme patriotism, aggressive foreign policy, threats or force against other countries occur in order to safeguard what is perceived as its national interests. When excessive bias in judging one’s own country as superior to others exists, as it has in the USA. It is extreme nationalism.

 

Comment by Joan Denoo on February 17, 2013 at 1:24pm

Pope will have security, immunity by remaining in the Vatican

"if the pope did move permanently to another country, living in seclusion in a monastery in his native Germany, for example, the location might become a place of pilgrimage."

Comment by Tom Sarbeck on February 13, 2013 at 4:00am

Joan: "Profit does not provide an incentive to keep people out nor does it provide incentives for humane treatment."

True, but I have so often seen public employees who seem indifferent to their responsibilities. For instance, for about twenty years, the California Dept. of Corrections was in the courts for medical care so awful that inmates died.

There are stunning exceptions, illustrated by NASA's early successes. There are also unstunning exceptions, responsible public employees doing good work.

What I've heard of the private prisons in Arizona persuade me that the state's politicians reward their supporters with inmates. The taxpayers, of course, pay.

 

Comment by Joan Denoo on February 12, 2013 at 5:52pm

Private prisons provide the wrong incentives for being and doing their job. Profit does not provide an incentive to keep people out nor does it provide incentives for humane treatment. Racism plays a role in placing people of color into those conditions.

According to the "Arizona Republic, the reality is that private prisons in the Grand Canyon State so far cost more on a per-prisoner basis than do public institutions. Some experts contend that firms in the prison business reap profits by billing government for rather more than their initial lowball estimates while scrimping in ways that may make prisons less secure."
~ The perverse incentives of private prisons http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/08The perverse incentives of private prisons

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