Our Hometowns
America Today: The Death of a Middle Class
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Your Hometown, My Hometown
Even the most liberal economists acknowledge that under globalization and free trade agreements there will be winners and losers. That's the reality of the "invisible hand" and it makes abundant sense.
Now guess who has not been a big winner over the past 35 years under this global economic policy initiative? And here are a few articles that support what is readily a self-evident truth to most, and particularly for the 99% who are suffering under its consequences.
Our Hometowns...
" they say these jobs are going boys, and they ain't coming back"
My Hometown
May, 1983
B. Springsteen
The Game-Changer: "More Electric Cars"
THE FUTURE IS NOW
As Oil-Age Comes to Close
Many of Dyson’s devices use small, light and efficient electric motors developed over 10 years by his company, which may find application in developing a new electric car. Dyson is a now worth several billion pounds and in 2014 pledged his company would spend £1.5bn on research and development to create future products, aiming to launch 100 new electrical products by 2018.
THE GUARDIAN
Dyson Developing an Electric Car
Rockefellers Dump Exxon Over Climate Deceptions
TELL GOP, "EVEN BIG OIL CONFIRMS CLIMATE CHANGE"
Exxon said it now believes the threat of climate change is clear and warrants action.
In response to the divestment movement, many oil industry leaders have said millions of people in the developing world would be condemned to darkness and poverty if society were to halt the burning of fossil fuels before there is ample supply of cleaner energy sources.
REUTERS
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64% of Americans Concerned About Climate - Hitting New Gallup Poll High
What Me Worry?
"Several years of unseasonably warm weather -- including the 2011-2012, 2012-2013 and 2015-2016 winters -- has potentially contributed to this shift in attitudes. If that's true, continuation of such weather patterns would likely do more than anything politicians and even climate-change scientists can to further raise public concern."
GALLUP
China's New "Solidarnosc" Hits Streets
China on Strike
China's workers have driven the explosive growth of its economy in recent decades. Now, with record numbers of strikes across the country, the government views them as an existential threat, and it may just be right.
CNN
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