Published on Jan 16, 2014
Thirty-four Air Force officers who conduct nuclear operations have thus far been implicated in a proficiency test cheating scandal. Gwen Ifill talks to Robert Burns of the Associated Press and Bruce Blair of Princeton University about the larger implications of the cheating revelations for the Air Force.
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Nuclear
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Published on Jan 15, 2014
Full video from Intelligence Squared available at:
No Fracking Way: The Natural Gas Boom Is Doing More Harm Than Good
http://fora.tv/2012/07/01/No_Fracking_Way_The_Natural_Gas_Boom_Is_Doing_Great_Harm/Does_Natural_Gas_Fracking_Improve_Americas_Security_
In her opening argument, Deborah Goldberg of Earth Justice asserts that fracking is an over hyped initiative that will continue to feed our addiction to fossil fuels and further deteriorate our environment.
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Forum: Should the president approve construction?
Opinion
Photograph by Ashley Cooper/Corbis Images Huge dump trucks lined up in 2012 to transport tar sand from a surface mine, Fort McMurray, Alberta
by Michael B. McElroy
November-December 2013
Few domestic policy issues have prompted more controversy recently than whether to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Proponents contend that it would enhance access to Canadian oil, significantly increasing U.S. and North American energy security. Opponents counter that the pipeline, by opening a long-term channel to market for abundant, carbon-rich, Canadian tar-sands oil, would sharply accelerate emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), with global climate consequences that would be simply unacceptable. As climate scientist James Hansen said of the company proposing to build the pipeline, “Once the spigot is open, Trans Canada will have every incentive to milk the massive tar-sands basin for all that it is worth.”
Because the pipeline will transit the Canada-U.S. border, construction requires an affirmative decision by the U.S. State Department—and ultimately by the president. In his June 25 speech on climate policy, President Barack Obama defined the ground rules he proposes to follow in reaching a decision: “allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in the nation’s interest. And our national interest will be served only if the project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.”
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See letters in response to this article: https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/letters-on-patience-and-learning-edward-everett-house-life-harvard-magazine-jan-feb-2014/
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Keystone Pipeline
Although Michael McElroy’s recent article, “Forum: The Keystone XL Pipeline” (November-December 2013, page 37) carefully addresses the pipeline issue, especially in terms of carbon dioxide and climate change, it neglects to adequately cover other issues related to the exploitation of this high-carbon, low net-energy resource.
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Gus Schumacher is Executive Vice President of Policy of Wholesome Wave and Co-Founder with Michel Nischan and the late Michael Batterberry. He served as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services at USDA from 1997 to 2001, where he oversaw the Farm Service Agency, the Foreign Agricultural Service, and the Risk Management Agency. He was also President of the Commodity Credit Corporation. Prior to his appointment as Undersecretary, Schumacher served as Administrator of USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service, worked as a senior agri-lender for the World Bank, and served as Commissioner of Food and Agriculture for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. After Harvard College, he studied at the London School of Economics and was a research associate in agribusiness at the Harvard Business School, working with Professor Ray A. Goldberg. Schumacher was a member of the 21st Century Sustainable Agricultural Task Force of the National Academy of Sciences.
In 2007, Schumacher, along with Cathy Bertini, former Director of the World Food Program and Professor Robert Thompson, Gardner Professor of Agricultural Economics at Illinois, oversaw the preparation of the Task Force Report of the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, titled “Modernizing America’s Food and Farm Policy: Vision for a New Direction”(2006). Work is underway by this team to update their Food and Farm Policy Report in light of the pending new 2012 Farm Bill deliberations. Schumacher serves as the Contributing Agricultural Editor of Food Arts magazine.
In addition to being the Executive Vice President of Policy at Wholesome Wave, he also serves on the Board of GrainPro, LLC of Concord, Massachusetts. On September 22, 2008, he was selected for the 20th Anniversary Food Arts award for outstanding service to the American food and farming system at a ceremony in New York City. In 2013, Schumacher was awarded a James Beard Leadership Foundation Award.
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Nourishing Neighborhoods Across America
Wholesome Wave fosters strong linkages between local agriculture and under-served communities. Our goal is a more vibrant and equitable food system for all people.
Wholesome Wave programs improve the accessibility and affordability of healthy, locally grown fruits and vegetables. We reach over 28 states, working with more than 60 community-based organizations who manage nearly 400 farm-to-retail venues, and impact more than 3,200 farmers.
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by Eyder Peralta January 14, 2014 4:58 PM
The mayor of Charleston, W.Va., says the company behind the chemical spill that essentially shut down his city for days was run by “a small of group of renegades,” who in his opinion knew there were problems with the tanks that leaked dangerous chemicals into the city’s water supply.
“I’m not even sure they cared what happened to the public,” Danny Jones told Melissa Block on Tuesday’s edition of All Things Considered.
Charleston mayor Danny Jones.
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Jones said he knows some of the people in charge of Freedom Industries and he considers them “to be a little edgy.”
, hundreds of thousands of West Virginians haven’t been able to use their tap water for drinking, washing or bathing since last week, when state inspectors found that a tank owned by Freedom Industries leaked a chemical used in a coal-washing process into the Elk River.
The president of Freedom Industries, Gary Southern, the “incident is extremely unfortunate, unanticipated and we are very, very sorry for the disruption to everybody’s daily life.”
Jones said that as the water has been deemed safe by authorities in some parts of the affected nine counties, his city finally felt a little normal this morning.
Melissa asked him how he would convince citizens of West Virginia that the water was safe. Jones said West Virginians are anxious for water and his state has a great health department.
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Part 2
Published on Jan 15, 2014
Ray Mcgovern is a 27 year veteran high level CIA Analyst turned political activist and found of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
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Published on Jan 16, 2014
US Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI) talks with Bill Press about income inequality and the TPP, and how the trade deal will perpetuate inequality.
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Transition Studies 