Thursday, October 31, 2013

Thomas Friedman On A Carbon Tax


A carbon tax, on gas, oil, coal would balance our books, rebuild the country, bring America back, and save the climate, the planet. Thomas Friedman is a columnist for the New York Times and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Read his article It’s Lose-Lose vs. Win-Win-Win-Win-Win about a carbon tax. He talks to Tom Ashbrook.
Source: On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Tom Friedman On Carbon Tax

Thomas Friedman
Tom Ashbrook

Next week President Jimmy Carter who is founder of The Carter Center and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Prison Industrial Complex


Michelle Alexander explains how the get-tough-on-crime policies were enacted in the 1970's were an effort to push back the gains of the Civil Rights Movement.

From Publishers Weekly "Contrary to the rosy picture of race embodied in Barack Obama's political success and Oprah Winfrey's financial success, legal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control (More African Americans are under correctional control today... than were enslaved in 1850). Alexander reviews American racial history from the colonies to the Clinton administration, delineating its transformation into the war on drugs. She offers an acute analysis of the effect of this mass incarceration upon former inmates who will be discriminated against, legally, for the rest of their lives, denied employment, housing, education, and public benefits. Most provocatively, she reveals how both the move toward colorblindness and affirmative action may blur our vision of injustice: most Americans know and don't know the truth about mass incarceration—but her carefully researched, deeply engaging, and thoroughly readable book should change that." Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Michelle Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University.
Source: BookTV: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness



Next week Tom Friedman lays out why a carbon tax could save America.

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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Big Changes Are Coming


Vice President Al Gore talked about his book, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, in which he outlines the six major factors impelling progress around the world. He is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Al Gore identifies six factors that are emerging as the major drivers of change. These factors are
1) Work: the movement of labor from West to East (outsourcing); and, at the same time, a shift towards much more automation (robosourcing);
2) Communications: the rise of the internet that has led to a wild proliferation of information, and the ability of the world's population to instantly connect with one another for a host of purposes. Including the increasing reach of the internet from the developed to the developing world;
3) Power: the shifting of power from West to East; and, at the same time, the shifting of power from national governments to smaller players, such as businesses and corporations, but also rogue players, such as guerrilla and terror organizations;
4) Demographics: the enormous increase in the world's population, and the movement of peoples both within and across national borders;
5) Biotechnology: the increasing manipulation of DNA to produce not only new organisms with novel features, but new materials and fuels as well, and
6) Climate Change: the increase in world temperatures caused by the continuing build-up of CO2, as well as the numerous other climate effects that this entails.
Source: C-SPAN: Book Discussion on The Future

Next week Michelle Alexander explains how the get-tough-on-crime policies were enacted in the 1970's were an effort to push back the gains of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Crony Capitalism Exposed by David Stockman

David Stockman

David Stockman claims that crony capitalism has transformed Republican treasury secretaries into big-government interventionists and populist Democratic presidents into industry-wrecking internationalists. He questions the assumptions of Keynesians and monetarists alike, arguing that both "liberal" and "neo-conservative" interference in the economy can be damaging and dangerous. Stockman was elected as a Michigan congressman in 1976 and joined the Reagan White House as Director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1981.
Source: Commonwealth Club Radio Program: David Stockman: The Great Deformation (4/11/13)

Next week Vice President Al Gore talks about progress around the world.



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Great Speeches and Interviews' Past Programs

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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Steven Pinker talks about The Decline of Violence


Steven Pinker is professor of psychology at Harvard University. He is the author of eight books, including The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined. He is a two-time Pulitzer-prize finalist, one of Time's 100 Most Influential People and one of Foreign Policy's top 100 Global Thinkers.
Source: Point of Inquiry Live: Steven Pinker - The Decline of Violence

Polar Bears

Polar bears have long been the poster species for the problem of climate change. But a new paper argues that supplemental feeding may be necessary to prevent polar bear populations from going extinct. A polar bear expert, Andrew Derocher joins Steve Curwood to discuss how we can save the largest bear on the planet.
Source: Living On Earth: Starving Polar Bears

Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson introduces The Great Society

LBJ was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He is one of only four people who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President. The goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
Source: Free Info Society: Lyndon Johnson: The Great Society

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