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The Climate-Industrial Complex
BJORN LOMBORG Some business leaders are cozying up with politicians and scientists to demand swift, drastic action on global warming. This is a new twist on a very old practice: companies using public policy to line their own pockets. The tight relationship between the groups echoes the ...
Eisenhower Farewell Address -- Military Industrial Complex (video)
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Eisenhower Farewell Address -- Military Industrial Complex (video)
youtube.com — BBC coverage of President Dwight Eisenhower's Farewell Address, in ehich he warns the United States of America... against the rise of the Military Industrial Co... (more) Eisenhower Farewell Address -- Military Industrial ...
What Industrial Policy Should Be
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com — America now has a full-blown industrial policy. But it's an odd one -- a combination of lemon... socialism and taxpayer-financed regulation. Consider GM and Chysler. To what purpose are our taxpayer dollars being put as we bail them out? Apparently only ... (more) What Industrial Policy Should Be
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Barcepundit (English edition) — ... BJORN LOMBORG writes on the climate-industrial complex: : Some business leaders are cozying up with politicians and scientists to demand swift, drastic action on global warming. This is a new twist on a very old practice: companies using public policy to line their own pockets. Don't miss the rest. > > ...

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Maggie's Farm — ... at Driscoll, who quotes: Which would you say was more responsible for the death of American newspapering? The “descent into tabloidization”? Or the dreary monarchical deference of American liberalism’s insipid J-school courtiers? The king rode in the park. He was riding his videographer in the shrubbery, but you don’t need to know that. I do not want Susan Gill protecting my home and family The climate-industrial complex. What it is. Related: Sociologists ask "Where's my ...

The Enviromoonbattery-Industrial Complex
Moonbattery — ... Bjorn Lomborg — an environmental writer who went off the reservation — shines some light on the climate-industrial complex, a corrupt alliance far more threatening than the military-industrial complex Eisenhower once warned about: ...

The Enviromoonbattery-Industrial Complex
Stop The ACLU — ... Posted on May 22, 2009 Bjorn Lomborg an environmental writer who went off the reservation shines some light on the climate-industrial complex, a corrupt alliance far more threatening than the military-industrial complex Eisenhower once warned about: The world’s largest wind-turbine manufacturer, Copenhagen Climate Council member Vestas, urges governments to invest heavily in the wind market. It sponsors CNN’s “Climate in Peril” segment, increasing support for policies that would increase Vestas’s earnings. A fellow council member, Mr. [Albert "The Goracle"] Gore’s green ...

The Enviromoonbattery-Industrial Complex
Right Wing News — Bjorn Lomborg an environmental writer who went off the reservation shines some light on the climate-industrial complex, a corrupt alliance far more threatening than the military-industrial complex Eisenhower once warned about: The world's largest wind-turbine manufacturer, Copenhagen Climate Council member Vestas, urges governments to invest heavily in the wind market. It sponsors CNN's "Climate in Peril" segment, increasing support for policies that would increase Vestas's earnings. A fellow council member, Mr. [Albert "The Goracle"] Gore's green investment firm Generation ...

Beware “Big Green”
Six Meat Buffet — The trope goes that Republicans are in bed with Big Business. This collusion is always at the expense of Joe Sixpack (or in liberal circles, Gavin Pelligrino). But along with the Gore-induced enviro-frenzy, other opportunists have arisen to get a piece of the pie. From the Wall Street Journal: ...

Rapid Right Innovation: Top 20
The Next Right — ... , the self-satisfaction that comes with being in control was a primary factor in the waning of GOP power after 2002. The Dems know political power is nothing if not entropic. That’s exactly why the leadership is rushing like hell to do what they can to entrench their power and fundamentally alter the economy (i.e. before things start to burn and the people turn). Having mastered both the ...

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More On The Religious-Industrial Complex
streetprophets.com 12/11/2008 — FIPL is in the forefront of those shaping the media narrative about the new religious landscape: religious voters are no longer shackled to a "narrow agenda" of abortion and gay marriage, and are voting on a "broader agenda," including poverty, the ...
One Man’s Military- Industrial-Media Complex
nytimes.com 11/30/2008 — Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired Army general, has flourished at an intersection of network news and wartime commerce. >
One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex
nytimes.com 11/30/2008 — Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general, has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce. >
Was Ike right about the "military-industrial complex?"
walt.foreignpolicy.com 1/6/2009 — Remember notorious pacifist...I mean, five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous warnings about a " military-industrial complex ?" Turns out Ike was pretty darn prescient. Here's why. If you'd just lost your job, or if you’d ...
The Think Tank Industrial Complex
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/6/2009 — Steven Walt says : Here’s why it won’t happen any time soon. As Cindy Williams , former director of the National Security division of the Congressional Budget Office and now a senior research scientist at MIT, points out in an as-yet ...
Our Bigoted Media-Industrial Complex
eschatonblog.com 12/18/2008 — Being anti-gay is perfectly acceptable, and nothing pleases The Villagers more than punching hippies in the face, so it's a two-fer. Greg Sargent: Such a decision would be met not just with screams from the right, but outrage from ...
Webb To Take On Prison Industrial Complex
openleft.com 12/30/2008 — Via TPM , apropos to Chris' agenda below, it looks like we can watch Jim Webb for some hopeful legislation on prison reform : This spring, Webb (D-Va.) plans to introduce legislation on a long-standing passion of his: reforming the U.S. prison ...