Energy Positive House Gives Back More Power Than It Uses

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Published on Jan 17, 2016

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NASA satellite launched to monitor global warming

Al Jazeera English

Published on Jan 17, 2016

A new satellite has been launched on board a SpaceX rocket. The satellite will measure sea levels and ocean currents in unprecedented detail. However, the re-useable part of the rocket came back to Earth with a bump, and broke one of its landing legs. Al Jazeera’s Tarek Bazley reports. Read more: http://aje.io/5krb

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Empire Serves No One But Itself: It’s Time To Wake Up, By Gary Stamper

By carolyn, on June 28th, 2013

Reposted from Collapsing Into Consciousness

Humanity has come to a defining moment in its 200,000+ year evolution: we are at a place where we either have to give up or we have to stand up. Last night, amidst a backdrop of fear-creation by the security state, where you either shut up or face the consequences, my wife and I were talking about standing up to empire and what it might mean.

The slap-in-the-face awareness of the consequences-we-can-no-longer-ignore that people face for standing up to empire are finally and blatantly right in front of us. The evidence, which has been mounting since Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex in his farewell address in 1960, has been building, slowly, through Vietnam, Nixon’s resignation, the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy, the Reagan economic policies, Bush 1 & 2, the Clinton years of globalization that destroyed manufacturing in America, false flag wars, supporting dictators as long as they are our dictators, the hopium of a young Barack Obama and the incredible disappointment and betrayal as the security state moves into its fullness.

That awareness has been fully awakened by the recent charges filed against Edward Snowden.

We are no longer a nation, in the farewell words of Eisenhower, whose basic purposes have been “to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations.” He went on to say, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

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Counting the Cost – Oil economics: Behind the Saudi Aramco IPO

Al Jazeera English

Published on Jan 17, 2016

Amid low oil prices and burgeoning budget deficits, Saudi Arabia annonced it was considering listing the state-owned oil giant Aramco on the Saudi stock exchange.Aramco is the world’s largest company in the oil business and the backbone of the Saudi economy.But the oil business is not creating enough cash these days. Even with the low oil price, the numbers associated with Aramco highlight why this could be such a significant initial public offer.Saudi Aramco has crude reserves of about 260bn barrels of oil, which is more than 15 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves.

If it went public, it could become the first listed company valued at $1 trillion or more, analysts estimate.Saudi Arabia’s $98 billion budget deficit is seen by many analysts as the main reason for the listing, but Saudi officials inists it is part of an attempt to diversify the economy beyond oil and have the private sector play a biger role.So, will auctioning off a slice of Aramco give Saudi Arabia more time to weather the oil price storm? And how can the Saudi economy deal with the low oil price?

We speak to Fahad Alturki, the chief economist of Jadwa Investment, about oil, Aramco and a trillion-dollar IPO we thought would never happen.Also on this episode of Counting the Cost: We take a look at South Africa’s weakening rand and why the jittery currency is posing huge questions about the government’s economic direction and putting financial pressure on everyday South Africans.

We also look at Wanda, a group that has just bought a major stake in the Hollywood studio behind Batman and Godzilla. It is owned by China’s richest person, Wang Jianlin, and is fast becoming a media powerhouse. So what will be China’s role in the global entertainment industry?

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Finding Emotional Resilience in These Times

peakmoment

Published on Jan 17, 2016

How do you grapple with bigger, deeper issues like catastrophic climate change? Author Carolyn Baker and video producer Ivey Cone join Janaia in a wide-ranging conversation about keeping our hearts open while witnessing the crumbling of industrial civilization. We discuss tools for holding our center, supporting each other, gratitude, and witnessing the powers of the universe at work. For Carolyn, grieving is the most important work now. She sees grieving as the other side of gratitude and love. Ivey constantly asks herself, “what is relevant?” to be doing or being. Janaia ponders what the legacy of the human experiment might be, in the vast story of Earth. Episode 300.

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Anastacia Marx de Salcedo, “Combat Ready Kitchen”

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Published on Jan 17, 2016

Anastacia Marx de Salcedo talks about the food products created by the military that have made their way onto our grocery store shelves and into our restaurants.

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After Words with Mei Fong, “One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment”

BookTV

Published on Jan 17, 2016

Journalist Mei Fong discusses China’s recently discontinued one-child policy & its impact on the country in her book, “One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment.” She is interviewed by Evan Osnos, author of “Age of Ambition.”

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These Three Ideas Dominate the World: Peace, Democracy & Free Markets (2002)

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Published on Jan 17, 2016

Mandelbaum was named one of the top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine “for teaching America how to be a hegemon on the cheap.”[7] He is on the Board of Directors of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.[8]

Mandelbaum worked on security issues at the US Department of State from 1982 to 1983 on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in the office of Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.[9] He later served as an adviser to Bill Clinton.[10]

Speaking on behalf of the United States Information Agency for more than two decades, Mandelbaum has explained American foreign policy to groups throughout Europe, East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Middle East.[11]

From 1986 To 2003, he was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where he was also the director of its Project on East-West Relations.[12] Mandelbaum was then a Carnegie Scholar (in 2004-2005) of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.[13] From 1984 to 2005 he was the associate director of the Aspen Institute’s Congressional Program on Relations With the Former Communist World.[14]

He has taught at Harvard University, Columbia University and the US Naval Academy.[15] He also taught business executives at the Wharton Advanced Management Program in the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.[16]

Mandelbaum is a frequent commentator on American foreign policy. From 1985 to 2005, he wrote a regular foreign affairs analysis column for Newsday.[17] His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time and the Los Angeles Times.[18] He has appeared as a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[19] Charlie Rose (talk show),[20] Nightline,[21] and PBS NewsHour.[22]

His first book The Nuclear Question: The United States and Nuclear Weapons, was published in 1979.[23] The Economist called it “an excellent history of American nuclear policy…a clear, readable book.”[24]

He wrote The Dawn of Peace in Europe in 1996.[25] Walter Russell Mead in The New York Times Book Review called it a “brilliant book that combines the most lucid exposition yet of the post-cold-war order in Europe with a devastating critique of the Clinton Administration’s foreign policy.”[26]

In 1988, he published The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Publishers Weekly said, “Mandelbaum’s book is brilliant and enjoyable…[he] charts how nations find ways of acting together in diplomatically organized groups for defensive purposes, and he analyses certain countries’ specific roles and histories. His knowledge of philosophy, politics, history and economics results in a stunning delineation of centuries of military actions, political maneuverings and cultural uprisings.” In 1996, he wrote The Dawn of Peace in Europe.[27] Walter Russell Mead in The New York Times Book Review called it a “brilliant book that combines the most lucid exposition yet of the post-cold-war order in Europe with a devastating critique of the Clinton Administration’s foreign policy.”[28]

In 2002, he published The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century.[29] The New York Times Book Review said it was “A formidable and thought-provoking tour d’horizon. Best of all, it gives readers something to argue about.”[30] In 2006, he wrote The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World’s Government in the Twenty-first Century,[31] in which he argues that United States dominance in global affairs is better than the alternatives.

In 2010, he wrote The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era.,[32] in which he argued the 2008 economic crisis and United States economic obligations will redraw the boundaries of American foreign policy. Published in 2011, That Used To Be Us addresses the 4 major problems America faces today and their solution. In his view, these problems are: globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation’s chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption.

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Distrify Media – Welcome To Green Space – Video On Demand (VOD)

The changes to our environment are happening fast, predictions aren’t looking much gentler. Natural resources are dwindling, weather is wilder, screens are disconnecting our children, and the bees are still disappearing. Here’s our top list of award winning environmental documentaries you can stream now on Greenspace VOD powered by Distrify Media. See 12 nonfiction features by great filmmakers .

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The first Ecocide case to be prosecuted in Guatemala’s new Environmental Crimes Court has just had its interim ruling upheld by their Court of Appeal.

The major African palm oil corporation Empresa Reforestadora de Palma de Petén SA (REPSA), has been charged with criminal ecocide that has resulted in significant die-offs of fish and other wildlife in and around the La Pasión River. As a consequence, the lives of tens of thousands of Guatemalans living in the region have beed severely diminished. Guatemalan U.N. coordinator Valerie Julliand, who gave evidence at the first hearing, cited U.N. statistics regarding how every ton of palm oil produces around 2.5 to 3.74 tons of industrial waste.

Guatemala’s first environmental judge, Karla Hernández of the Petén Environmental Crimes Court (pictured above), ordered the company to suspend operations for 6 months at the Sayaxché palm plantation in Petén pending the charges being investigated.

Guatemala’s National Council for Protected Areas (CONAP) allege 23 fish species have been adversely impacted along with 21 species of birds, reptiles and mammals. Estimates of dead fish run to millions, with polluted the water and land adversely impacting the way of life of many thousands of people.

According to Rosalito Barrios of the University of San Carlos de Guatemala, the die-off was likely caused by a 70 centimetre thick layer of chemical run-off washed into the river after heavy rains. The run-off is believed to have consisted mainly of the pesticide Malathion.

“We can call the case a crime against humanity, because not only were various species of the river dying, but the river is also part of our historical culture, or our territory,” said Saul Paau, a Maya Q’eqchi leader speaking to the Guatemala Indymedia Center about the cultural as well as ecological ecocide. “We get our food from it, and the contamination and the fish deaths today have violated the food security of all of us.”

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