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David Corking

SOCIALIST UNITY » DEREK DRAPER - YESTERDAY'S MAN DAMAGES LABOUR | April 2009 - 0 views

www.socialistunity.com/?p=3893

Culture Blogging

shared by David Corking on 16 Apr 09 - Cached
  • I actually do have some sympathy with Derek Draper’s argument that this was a private e-mail conversation, but the mistake Draper made was seeking to get down in the gutter and slug it out with the likes of Paul Staines.
  • The electorate respects conviction politicians, and the labour movement project to build a secure and just, better world is a principled and enduring platform that needs to be restored to the heart of left and centre-left politics.
  • Obscene, libellous smears are not the same as political tittle tattle.
  • David Corking on 16 Apr 09
     
    Sums things up. Sad really.
David Corking

Op-Ed Columnist - The End of Philosophy - NYTimes.com | April 2009 - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...07Brooks.html

Culture

shared by David Corking on 08 Apr 09 - Cached
  • It challenges the new atheists, who see themselves involved in a war of reason against faith and who have an unwarranted faith in the power of pure reason and in the purity of their own reasoning.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 08 Apr 09
       
      This makes no sense - perhaps Herbert doesn't want us to reason about it!
  • hard for them to appreciate that most people struggle toward goodness, not as a means, but as an end in itself.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 08 Apr 09
       
      This is certainly a vital question, but I don't think that link is hard, but instead obvious.
  • David Corking on 08 Apr 09
     
    A little pompous, but provoking and informative all the same.
David Corking

Credit Unions Sleepy? Unexciting? Two Young Execs Beg to Differ - 0 views

www.cutimes.com/...Young-Execs-Beg-to-Differ.aspx

Finance Culture cooperatives Marketing

shared by David Corking on 22 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Davis said he’s seen credit unions as very open to new ideas. Although some may be stuck in the past, he cited online banking and bill pay as two specific examples where credit unions have led the way. Shell added that while credit unions may be somewhat conservative, considering the current economy and the troubles facing many banks, that conservatism has “probably been a really good thing.”
  • David Corking on 22 Apr 09
     
    Short profile of young marketing execs
David Corking

The Health Protection Agency is making a right pig's ear of this swine flu "pandemic" - Telegraph Blogs - 0 views

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/...ear-of-this-swine-flu-pandemic

Health Life science Culture Politics

shared by David Corking on 16 Jul 09 - Cached
  • you’re right. I shouldn’t be thinking about eating the clinically obese.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 16 Jul 09
       
      I can't begin to express how angry this journalist James Delingpole has made me. For a start, he has conspiracy theories oozing from his pores.
  • [You've got chronic asthma, if you keep out of fumes and carry an inhaler you'll live another 5 years, if you get H1N1/A you're a goner!]
  • I thought (as directed by medical authorities) you weren’t suppose to take Tamiflu unless doctors were certain you had H1N1. That is because it isn’t effective until you have it. Isn’t that true?
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Truthdig - Truthdig Podcast - You Have No Rights - 0 views

www.truthdig.com/...20070814_you_have_no_rights

civil liberties new world order politics neofascism abuse of power

shared by The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 28 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 28 Mar 09
     
    What was becoming of civil liberties during the recently departed Bush administration. Doesn't address the uncomfortable question of whether this is a continuation of trends seen during the Clinton administration.
David Corking

Pascal's Wager and Climate Change - O'Reilly Radar - Tim O'Reilly Jan 2009 - 0 views

radar.oreilly.com/...-wager-and-climate-change.html

Environment Culture

shared by David Corking on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • I have yet to see a convincing case made that the costs of dealing with climate change aren't principally the costs of protecting old industries.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 25 Mar 09
       
      interesting
  • David Corking on 25 Mar 09
     
    Brief case against climate change denial : it is a bet we cannot lose.
Bakari Chavanu

Socialism Today - Capitalism: costing the earth - 0 views

www.socialismtoday.org/...carbon.html

politics capitalism

shared by Bakari Chavanu on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • THE 2007 STATEMENT from the United Nation’s climate panel, the IPCC, that the average temperature on earth must not rise more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels or an incalculable disaster will take place, was a powerful reminder of the nature of the problem.
  • The main reason is that as the oceans warm up they lose the ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Another horrific truth is that there is more carbon beneath the permafrost of the polar regions than in the entire atmosphere. Experts say that if the emissions of carbon dioxide, sulphate and nitrogen dioxide continue as they are today, this bomb will explode within the next 100 years.
  • Does this mean that emissions are dropping? Not at all. So what does this trade mean in practice? An Oxford academic who studied the scheme, Adam Bumpus, concluded that "this regulation is ultimately there to facilitate the markets – it’s not about making cheap reductions, it’s about making a lot of money"
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  • Therefore, so the theory goes, the buyer pays to emit greenhouse gases while the seller is rewarded for having reduced emissions by more than their quota. There is only one problem. It does not work like that.
  • The market always chooses the easiest means to save a given quantity of carbon in the short term, regardless of what action is needed for long-term reduction. The result is that the system reinforces technological lock-in. For instance, small cuts may often be achieved cheaply through making a technology a little bit more efficient, whereas larger cuts would require massive investments in new technology.
  • The problem with most of the established green organisations is that they seek mechanisms, such as emissions markets, green taxes, green laws or other technical fixes to the problem of polluting fat cats.
  • The carbon trade system is bad in itself. But the fact that governments or other capitalist controlled bodies allocated the emissions permits in the first place, the logic of the market meant that they handed out too many permits out of fear of being in a disadvantage with competing capitalist powers. Today, there are more permits in circulation than there is capacity to pump out greenhouse gases!
  • MANY CDMS ARE about dams. The push for mega-dams has been justified by both development banks and multinationals as being necessary for the development of Africa and to combat carbon emissions. While governments, such as the US, Britain and China, announce mighty plans to electrify Africa, and other ‘aid’ schemes, the companies set in action the Boot model – Build, Own, Operate and Transfer – emptying the rivers of Africa to feed the growing energy needs of Europe, etc. And it is a very lucrative business when they can earn more carbon emission credits in the process. Large dams provide electricity for multinational companies, water for mining, and irrigation for large-scale foreign-owned farms.
  • In a study of 50 dams in Africa, professor Thayer Scudder, formerly the leading resettlement consultant for the World Bank, found that landlessness affected 86% and joblessness 80% of the displaced people. Lack of food security impacted on 79% of the people displaced by these ‘green dams’.
David Corking

Royal Mail - Service Summary for all customers - Saturday 24th October Communication Workers Union national industrial action - 1 views

www.royalmail.com/...content1

Culture Politics

shared by David Corking on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • We are really sorry for the significant disruption and inconvenience national industrial action being taken by the CWU is having on customers and for the uncertainty further announcements of industrial action will cause.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 26 Oct 09
       
      If they are really sorry, or in any way regret the disruption to customers, then they would enter into unconditional mediation. Perhaps Royal Mail managers think it will be better for their careers to win a fight rather than save the postal service.
Frank Schreiber

Engage and criticize: Obama's split media strategy - Yahoo! News - 1 views

news.yahoo.com/...us_obama_and_the_media

Obama politics news

shared by Frank Schreiber on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • President Barack Obama's critique is biting: The media prefer conflict over cooperation, encourage bad behavior and weaken the ability of leaders to help the nation. The White House's attempt to discredit Fox News as an arm of the Republican Party may have been getting the headlines, but it is only one recent window into Obama's already complex and crafty relationship with those who cover him.
    • Frank Schreiber
      Frank Schreiber on 26 Oct 09
       
      I think this is a real plus for the benefit of all of us.
Sarah Usher

PoliceRecruitmentUK Helped Me Pass the Police Application Sift - 1 views

Becoming a police officer is my dream job. Since grade school I can only picture out myself as a police officer and so upon the first opportunity I applied at Wales in hopes to become a police offi...

become a police officer

started by Sarah Usher on 06 Apr 11 no follow-up yet
thinkahol *

Obama Is Missing - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...11krugman.html

Obama Is Missing - NYTimes.com

shared by thinkahol * on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • More broadly, Mr. Obama is conspicuously failing to mount any kind of challenge to the philosophy now dominating Washington discussion — a philosophy that says the poor must accept big cuts in Medicaid and food stamps; the middle class must accept big cuts in Medicare (actually a dismantling of the whole program); and corporations and the rich must accept big cuts in the taxes they have to pay. Shared sacrifice!
Chiki Smith

Effectively Seize Cheating Partner - 1 views

I am in a relationship for two years. My husband and I were okay until such time that he turned out cold to me and I could not point out the reason why he acted that way. He came home late at night...

cheating partners

started by Chiki Smith on 14 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
Syntacticsinc SEO

Effective Search Engine Optimization - 1 views

I own an online bakery business that specializes in delicious customised cakes. I have this very well made website for my business and anyone visiting the online bakery will truly, well, salivate. ...

search engine optimization

started by Syntacticsinc SEO on 19 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
Ako Z°om

the 99% out of ideal US society ... - 6 views

wearethe99percent.tumblr.com

Politics manifestation anonymous

shared by Ako Z°om on 31 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Ako Z°om on 31 Oct 11
     
    those photos show people who have joined the big manifestation on wall street .. and far on other places around the world .. !! :)) The big problem of banks (and their trading-banksters...) is now world crash economy ! ... just some basis reasons ... but JOIN too ! :)
counterpointing

Two sides to every story - 0 views

Hello, I have started a new project designed to engage critical thinking and to be the antidote to one sided media, whichever side you are on. The project is called Counterpointing, and consists o...

politics bipartisan election Trump Clinton GOP critical thinking news

started by counterpointing on 28 Jan 16 no follow-up yet
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