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Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire | Rolling Stone - 0 views

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pjt111 taylor on 27 Sep 14

"n "the science of success," Charles Koch highlights the problems created when property owners "don't benefit from all the value they create and don't bear the full cost from whatever value they destroy." He is particularly concerned about the "tragedy of the commons," in which shared resources are abused because there's no individual accountability. "The biggest problems in society," he writes, "have occurred in those areas thought to be best controlled in common: the atmosphere, bodies of water, air. . . ." But in the real world, Koch Industries has used its political might to beat back the very market-based mechanisms - including a cap-and-trade market for carbon pollution - needed to create the ownership rights for pollution that Charles says would improve the functioning of capitalism. In fact, it appears the very essence of the Koch business model is to exploit breakdowns in the free market. Koch has profited precisely by dumping billions of pounds of pollutants into our waters and skies - essentially for free. It racks up enormous profits from speculative trades lacking economic value that drive up costs for consumers and create risks for our economy."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"n "the science of success," Charles Koch highlights the problems created when property owners "don't benefit from all the value they create and don't bear the full cost from whatever value they destroy." He is particularly concerned about the "tragedy of the commons," in which shared resources are abused because there's no individual accountability. "The biggest problems in society," he writes, "have occurred in those areas thought to be best controlled in common: the atmosphere, bodies of water, air. . . ." But in the real world, Koch Industries has used its political might to beat back the very market-based mechanisms - including a cap-and-trade market for carbon pollution - needed to create the ownership rights for pollution that Charles says would improve the functioning of capitalism. In fact, it appears the very essence of the Koch business model is to exploit breakdowns in the free market. Koch has profited precisely by dumping billions of pounds of pollutants into our waters and skies - essentially for free. It racks up enormous profits from speculative trades lacking economic value that drive up costs for consumers and create risks for our economy."</div>

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The Politics of Securitizing Disaster Risk Reduction - 0 views

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Environment disasters insurance

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"The Politics of Securitizing Disaster Risk Reduction"

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On environment, Obama and scientists take hit in poll - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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obama environment

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A little old (December 2009) but looks at public opinion on global environmental polarization. You can further break down the poll by political party.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A little old (December 2009) but looks at public opinion on global environmental polarization. You can further break down the poll by political party.</div>

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the political economy of food - 0 views

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food politics production

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syllabus with many many live links

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U.S.-China Media Brief - 0 views

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Empress of China sets sail for Canton with a shipment of ginseng
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Earliest record of Chinese in the continental U.S. shows that three seamen on the ship Pallas arrived in Baltimore.
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A key player in shaping early Sino-American relation
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Gold is discovered in California, sparking a gold rush by Americans, immigrant Chinese and others. Americans establish a foreign concession in Shanghai.
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Thousands of Chinese workers recruited to build the western section of the Trans-continental Railroad, which was completed in 1869, a year ahead of schedule. Anti-Chinese riots start to occur throughout the West until the turn of the century
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Burlingame Treaty
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Saint John’s University
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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killing at least 28 Chinese miners and burning 75 Chinese homes
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white,
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Chinese Exclusion Act is extended indefinitel
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The Chinese Exclusion Act is extended indefinitel
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U.S. declares war against Japan.
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Chinese Exclusion Act repealed for military, political, and economic reasons, but quotas remain.
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The U.S. recognizes only the Republic of China
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1965 Immigration Act, allowing large-scale “family reunification” immigration of Chinese to the U.S. for the first time
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The Chinese Exclusion Act is extended indefinit
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Chinese American Vincent Chin is killed in Detroit by two white men who mistook him for Japanese and blamed him for the competition that that had taken their auto-industry jobs
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The first American fast food company (Kentucky Fried Chicken) opens in China
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The American-led NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
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Wang Zhizhi becomes the first Chinese basketball player to be drafted by an NBA team
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Congress grants China permanent Most Favored Nation
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China gains entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), and is awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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wo Chinese Americans are appointed to the Obama cabinet: Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, and Gary Locke, Secretary of Commerce. Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. is appointed as ambassador to China
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nghrdak on 25 Nov 10

US_China relations throughout two centuries

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The Chinese Revolution of 1949 - Part One - 0 views

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The bourgeois nationalist Chiang Kai-shek, who seized power in 1927 over the mangled bodies of the workers of Shanghai, had two decades to show what he could do.
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The Chinese bourgeoisie, together with all the other propertied classes, was entangled with imperialism, forming a reactionary bloc opposed to change.
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The alliance of CPC and KMT was a united front in name only.
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Under the terms of the Japanese unconditional surrender dictated by the United States, Japanese troops were ordered to surrender to Chiang’s troops and not to the Communists in the occupied areas of Chin
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The Americans had the ambition of making China a US sphere of influence (in effect a semi-colony) after the War
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But after all the sufferings of the Second World War, the American people would not have been prepared to support a new war to subjugate China
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More importantly, the American soldiers would not have been prepared to fight such a war. The inability of US imperialism to intervene against the Chinese Revolution was therefore an important element in the equation.
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This manoeuvre did not fool Mao for an instant. He agreed to participate in the negotiations, but continued to prepare for a renewal of hostilities
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civil war of 1946-9
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The United States assisted the KMT with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of new surplus military supplies
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However, any of the arms sent by Washington were later used by the Vietnamese against the US army, since, almost all this military hardware was captured by Mao’s forces.
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US imperialism supplied the Kuomintang with bombers, fighter planes, guns, tanks, rocket-launchers, automatic rifles, gasoline bombs, gas projectiles and other weapons for this purpose. In return, the Kuomintang handed over to US imperialism China's sovereign rights over her own territory, waters and air space, allowed it to seize inland navigation rights and special commercial privileges, and seize special privileges in China's domestic and foreign affairs. The US forces were guilty of many atrocities against Chinese people: killing people, beating them up, driving cars over them and raping women, all with impunity.
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Clausewitz made the celebrated remark that war is the continuation of politics by other means
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Although the Americans (as always) maintained the fiction that this was a war between “communism and democracy”, in fact, their Chinese puppet Chiang Kai-shek was a brutal dictator.
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There were mass nationwide student protests against US imperialism.
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Nationalists still had a big advantage over the PLA
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The demoralized and undisciplined Nationalist troops were melting away in the face of the irresistible forward march of the People's Liberation Arm
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The transformation of the military situation was really incredible. The PLA, which for years had been outnumbered, by July-December 1948 finally gained numerical superiority over the Kuomintang forces. These are the figures given by Mao at the time:
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There is no reason not to believe that this estimate is substantially accurate. All the bourgeois historians accept that by this stage, Chiang’s forces were retreating in disarray and that the PLA was rapidly gaining in strength
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