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joseph stiglitz: quotthe price of inequality: how today039s divided society endangers our futurequot
Bookmarked 705 weeks ago democracynoworg - several months before occupy wall street the nobel prize-winning economist joseph stiglitz wrote quotof the 1 by the 1 for the 1quot an article for vanity fair he returns to the subject in his new book looking at how inequality is now greater in the united states than any other industrialized nation he notes that the six heirs of the wal-mart fortune command wealth equivalent to the entire bottom 30 percent of american society quotit039s a comment both on how well off the top are and how poor the bottom arequot stiglitz says quotit039s really emblematic of the divide that has gotten much worse in our societyquot on tuesday bloomberg news reported that pay for the top ceos on wall street increased by more than 20 percent last year meanwhile census data shows nearly one in two americans or 150 million people have fallen into poverty or could be classified as low-income quotthe united states is the country in the world with the highest level of inequality of the advanced industrial countries and it039s getting worsequot stiglitz says quotwhat039s even more disturbing is we039ve also become the country with the least equality of opportunityquot to watch the complete weekday independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast search our vast archive or to find more information about democracy now and amy goodman visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-now daily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt |
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congratulations for china: nobel peace prize 2010
Bookmarked 783 weeks ago flowers for the chinese ambassador in the netherlands to congratulate him and the chinese people with the nobel peace prize 2010 bahram sadeghi ampamp dikla zeidler |
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immortal technique on obama 911 truth amp corporate america
Bookmarked 790 weeks ago the us government uses foreign wars to distract people039s attention from internal problems that039s according to rapper and political activist 039immortal technique039 in an exclusive interview with rt039s marina portnaya he says america039s bad decisions are covered up with lame excuses |
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paul krugman - new deal created the middle class
Bookmarked 705 weeks ago have you read the reviews on krugman039s new book yet http:wwwamazoncomgpproductb004j8hxgsref=as_li_ss_tlie=utf8ampamptag=thetimrea-20ampamplinkcode=as2ampampcamp=1789ampampcreative=390957ampampcreativeasin=b004j8hxgsthe middle class society did not evolve gradually that is not what the data tells us as far as we can tell the guilded age lasted through the 1920s it all happened between the late 30s through the 1940s taxes were raised on everyone social security taxes and medicare costs were placed on people and that all served as a great equalizer the income distribution that gave rise to the middle class came from the new deal in 1980 reagan came to the white house other countries do not see the income inequality that the united states is currently experiencing people have been leaving unions in canada they had roughly 30 union workers in the 1960s today it is still 30 so a deunionization did not happen there the reason that it happened here was because of ronald reagan he called open season on union busters anyone who voted for a union was fired the iconic corporation back then was gm now it is walmart and they should be unionized that has all kinds of ramifications for income distribution politics is the major reason for this if you look at the numbers it is not that college degrees are doing that much better than people without degrees hedger fund managers get paid more than teachers |
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2011 nobel prize: dark energy feat sean carroll
Bookmarked 740 weeks ago guest narrator sean carroll of caltech describes dark energy and the acceleration of the universe the discovery of which was awarded the 2011 nobel prize in physics on october 4thtweet it - http:bitlyocd2jo facebook it - http:onfbmeoagpm3 minutephysics is now on google - http:bitlyqzewc6 and facebook - http:facebookcomminutephysicsminute physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minutemusic by nathaniel schroederyoutube: http:bitlypakjlemyspace: http:myspacqtmzqjportuguese translation by igor zolnerkevic |
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marie curie: great minds
Bookmarked 713 weeks ago hank tells us the story of his favorite genius lady scientist and radioactive superhero marie curie like scishow on facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomscishowfollow scishow on twitter: http:wwwtwittercomscishowthis video uses sounds from freesoundorg a list of which can be found along with the references for this video in the google document here: http:dftba-2l-7this video contains music by kevin macleod from incompetechcomthe scishow theme was composed by tom milsomtags: marie curie marie sklodowska scishow science physics chemistry education great minds radioactivity radioactive radiation nobel prize superhero warsaw poland university pierre curie france uranium becquerel electricity polonium radium atom toxic cancer sorbonne leukemia pantheon |
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there is no pink light
Bookmarked 739 weeks ago pink doesn039t existtweet it - http:bitlypanyyg facebook it - http:onfbmenxhind minutephysics is now on google - http:bitlyqzewc6 and facebook - http:facebookcomminutephysicsminute physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minutemusic by nathaniel schroederyoutube: http:bitlypakjlemyspace: http:myspacqtmzqj |
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assange: hero in au terrorist in us
Bookmarked 761 weeks ago while wikileaks co-founder julian assange is currently fighting extradition from britain to sweden he was presented the sydney peace foundation039s gold medal award in london from sidney presented to assange for quotexceptional courage in pursuit of human rightsquot |
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bradley manning for nobel peace prize
Bookmarked 723 weeks ago the name of private bradley manning - a us soldier accused of passing classified material to the whistle blowing website wikileaks has consistently made it into the headlines mostly in connection with his trial but now his name is now on a different list - that of over 200 nominees for the nobel peace prize his nomination was put forward by the parliamentary group called quotthe movementquot in the icelandic parliament one of its members birgitta yonsdottir says manning deserves the nomination because it039s not a crime to blogger-whistle on war-crimes rt on twitter http:twittercomrt_com rt on facebook http:wwwfacebookcomrtnews |
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how to break the speed of light
Bookmarked 737 weeks ago you can break the speed of light in your back yard but don039t worry einstein is still righttweet it - http:bitlyrov00a facebook it - http:onfbmetozkum minutephysics is now on google - http:bitlyqzewc6 and facebook - http:facebookcomminutephysicsminute physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minutemusic by nathaniel schroederyoutube: http:bitlypakjlemyspace: http:myspacqtmzqj |
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einstein and the special theory of relativity
Bookmarked 717 weeks ago how einstein ampamp others discovered special relativitypi day 314 is albert einstein039s birthday to celebrate we039ll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905 when he was just 26 years oldminutephysics is now on google - http:bitlyqzewc6 and facebook - http:facebookcomminutephysicsand twitter - minutephysicsminute physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minutemusic by nathaniel schroedernew album -- http:juliansaporitibandcampcomalbumlusitaniayoutube: http:bitlypakjlethanks to nima doroud and alex yale for contributions and to perimeter institute for support |
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frost over the world - wikileaks and julian assange
Bookmarked 783 weeks ago following the arrest and imprisonment of wikileaks editor-in-chief julian assange his lawyer mark stephens discusses the case against him and the impact of the whistle-blowing website on world politics plus as the nobel peace prize is awarded to jailed dissident lui xiabo his friend and fellow activist yang jainli talks about the effect the award will have in china where the authorities have strongly opposed it - and on mr xiabo himself and harry shearer the actor comedian and voice of many of the characters in the simpsons talks about his new documentary 039the big unease039 which investigates the causes of the devastation of new orleans when hurricane katrina hit the city five years ago |
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the speed of light in glass
Bookmarked 738 weeks ago how does light speed up after leaving glass or water what do light and the president of the united states have in commontweet it - http:bitlypk7a3a facebook it - http:onfbmeq7bqbz minutephysics is now on google - http:bitlyqzewc6 and facebook - http:facebookcomminutephysicsminute physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minutemusic by nathaniel schroederyoutube: http:bitlypakjlemyspace: http:myspacqtmzqjand from http:musopenorg |
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when will time end
Bookmarked 767 weeks ago it now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time how long it can survive depends on whether stephen hawking039s theory checks out special thanks to ivan bridgewater for use of footagetime is flying by on this busy crowded planet as life changes and evolves from second to second and yet the arc of human lifespan is getting longer: 65 years is the global average way up from just 20 in the stone age modern science however provides a humbling perspective our lives indeed the life span of the human species is just a blip compared to the age of the universe at 137 billion years and counting it now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time and that even it may be just a blip within the grand sweep of deep time scholars debate whether time is a property of the universe or a human invention what039s certain is that we use the ticking of all kinds of clocks from the decay of radioactive elements to the oscillation of light beams to chart and measure a changing universe to understand how it works and what drives it our own major reference for the passage of time is the 24-hour day the time it takes the earth to rotate once well it039s actually 23 hours 56 minutes and 41 seconds approximately if you039re judging by the stars not the sun earth acquired its spin during its birth from the bombardment of rocks and dust that formed it but it039s gradually losing that rotation to drag from the moon039s gravitythat039s why in the time of the dinosaurs a year was 370 days and why we have to add a leap second to our clocks about every 18 months in a few hundred million years we039ll gain a whole hourthe day-night cycle is so reliable that it has come to regulate our internal chemistrythe fading rays of the sun picked up by the retinas in our eyes set our so-called quotcircadian rhythmsquot in motion that039s when our brains begin to secrete melatonin a hormone that tells our bodies to get ready for sleep long ago this may have been an adaptation to keep us quiet and clear of night-time predatorsfinally in the light of morning the flow of melatonin stops our blood pressure spikes body temperature and heart rate rise as we move out into the worldover the days and years we march to the beat of our biologybut with our minds we have learned to follow time039s trail out to longer and longer intervalsphilosophers have wondered does time move like an arrow with all the phenomena in nature pushing toward an inevitable endor perhaps it moves in cycles that endlessly repeat and even perhaps restore what is there we know from precise measurements that the earth goes around the sun once every 365256366 days as the earth orbits with each hemisphere tilting toward and away from its parent star the seasons bring on cycles of life birth and reproduction decay and death only about one billionth of the sun039s energy actually hits the earth and much of that gets absorbed by dust and water vapor in the upper atmosphere what does make it down to the surface sets many planetary processes in motion you can see it in the annual melting and refreezing of ice at the poles the ebb and flow of heat in the tropical oceansthe seasonal cycles of chlorophyll production in plants on land and at sea and in the biosphere at largethese cycles are embedded in still longer earth cycles ocean currents for example are thought to make complete cycles ranging from four to around sixteen centuriesmoving out in time as the earth rotates on its axis it completes a series of interlocking wobbles called milankovic cycles every 23 to 41000 years they have been blamed for the onset of ice ages about every one hundred thousand years then there039s the carbon cycle it begins with rainfall over the oceans and coastal waves that pull carbon dioxide into the sea |
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leymah gbowee - the daily show with jon stewart - 111411 - video clip comedy central
Bookmarked 735 weeks ago leymah gbowee discusses her work as a peace activist in liberia airdate - 111411 |