Why liberal blogs are hurting progress

Most liberal blogs have commenters who are extremely cynical, and they aren't shy about forecasting doom and failure.  Major media reads these blogs to gauge public opinion and fashion their news to incorporate fears put out by cynical commenters in blogs.  I don't blame these people, many suffering unemployment or worse in this terrible economy, but their fears may becoming reality as the cold and ruthless corporate media can use and exploit these worries to further the general corporate agenda dividing the very rich and the rest of us in the 99% who are not millionaires.  I don't comment on blogs much anymore, but I still read these type of comments and can't help but see how people who mean well, unwittingly give ideas to the filthy rich on how to keep these poor people down.  A little more optimism and less competition to see who can be most cynical would go a long way, in my opinion.

Make Poverty History: Make Clean Energy Cheap

The task is clear: to eliminate energy poverty and avoid climate catastrophe, we must unleash our forces of innovation - namely, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs - to develop a portfolio of truly scalable clean energy technologies, bring these technologies to market, and ensure they are affordable enough to deploy throughout the world.

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Is It Time To Replace The American Dream?

If we listen very closely, we can hear the whisper of a new dream in the making, one based on what youth around the world are beginning to call "quality of life". In this new world, the American Dream seems almost provincial, even quaint, and entirely unsuited for a generation that is beginning to extend its empathic sensibility beyond national identities, to include the whole of humanity and the entirety of the planet as their extended community. If the American Dream served as the gold standard for the era of national markets and nation-state governments, the dream of "quality of life" becomes the standard for the emerging biosphere era.

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Cut working week to 21 hours, urges think tank

Anna Coote, co-author of the 21 Hours report, said: "So many of us live to work, work to earn, and earn to consume, and our consumption habits are squandering the earth's natural resources.

"Spending less time in paid work could help us to break this pattern. We'd have more time to be better parents, better citizens, better carers and better neighbours.

"We could even become better employees - less stressed, more in control, happier in our jobs and more productive.

"It is time to break the power of the old industrial clock, take back our lives and work for a sustainable future."

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8513783.stm

Evolving the Democratic Party

It would be better if the Democratic party was the party of principled activists rather than a group of victimized, oppressed *by enter reason here* by rethugs, who are a minority themselves of mostly idiots. Are blacks, etc. voting Dem because they are victims of bigotry, or do they vote Dem for solid social/liberal principles. There's a big difference, I just hope we can evolve into Democratic Socialism, so the conservative minority will become history, along with racism, etc.

Ending the Narrative

Corporate media creates a narrative of conflict for the two parties. Why? Because it's good for ratings and therefore profits.  Having Dems rule for years is probably good for the country but the CM is greedy and puts it's profits over the good of the nation, thus the dreadful narrative of rw morons coming back to power.

It's up to people to wake up, tune out, and vote more practically, not according to some secret code fed to them by the corporate media Borg.

Michael Moore

"What I'm asking for is a new economic order," he says. "I don't know how to construct that. I'm not an economist. All I ask is that it have two organising principles. Number one, that the economy is run democratically. In other words, the people have a say in how its run, not just the 1%. And number two, that it has an ethical and moral core to it. That nothing is done without considering the ethical nature, no business decision is made without first asking the question, is this for the common good?"

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