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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Reflections on Bernard-Henri Lévy
I have been reading all that has been written recently about Bernard-Henri Lévy. I’ve been observing the incredible campaign of which he has been the object, impugned for an obscure story of a pseudonymous author who supposedly tricked him. And it seems to me the intellectual discourse in this case has descended to zero. (Wasn’t the daily, Libération, forced to close the discussion section that usually accompanies articles about and by Bernard-Henri Lévy, due to an invasion of anti-Semitic comments?)
As I write these lines, I am absorbed by Pièces d’Identité, the most voluminous of his two books published just days ago. There I have found the voice and the passion of someone who supported me to the very end and beyond, never doubting or tiring. I found his texts concerning the Left, its future, its values, and its necessary reconstruction theoretical, often controversial, sometimes unjust, but always stimulating.
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President Obama:Nuclear Power is neither “safe” nor “clean
During President Obama’s recent State of the Union speech, Congress applauded as the President announced his intention to expand “safe and clean” nuclear power. The following week the President proposed an additional $54 billion in loan guarantees to the already heavily subsidized nuclear industry.
It seems that the Obama Administration and Congress have miraculously discovered the cure for radiation induced cancer, the solution for long term safe storage of nuclear waste and the secure containment of nuclear materials from theft or terrorist attack at nuclear power plants. It’s more likely that the President and Congress are poised to dangerously repeat the same costly mistakes of the past at the expense of public health and safety and national security.
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Tagged administration, Congress, containment, costly mistakes, industry, intention, loan, loan guarantees, nuclear industry, nuclear materials, nuclear power plants, Obama, power, President Obama, public health and safety, speech, state, storage of nuclear waste, Union, union speech, week
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Move More, Rest More
We don’t rest enough. We don’t move enough.
Those are the paradoxical conclusions from a series of studies that got a lot of media attention last week.
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Robert Greenwald On Why TV Series Smearing Kennedys Should Be Stopped (VIDEO)
On Sunday, filmmaker Robert Greenwald appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” to discuss his campaign against a proposed TV miniseries about the Kennedys, slated to appear on the History Channel.
The series is being produced by Joel Surnow, the creator of “24″ and a supporter of George Bush, who Greenwald says “deliberately distorts historical fact” in order to smear the Kennedy family. “I don’t care what your politics are,” Greenwald says. “This is a below-the-belt trashing of a president of the United States — not on policy, but character assassination.”
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The Enthusiasm Gap
I had dinner the other night with a Democratic pollster who told me Democrats are heading toward next fall’s mid-term elections with a serious enthusiasm gap: The Republican base is fired up. The Democratic base is packing up.
The Democratic base is lethargic because congressional Democrats continue to compromise on everything the base cares about. For a year now it’s been nothing but compromises, watered-down ideas, weakened provisions, wider loopholes, softened regulations. Health care went from what the Democratic base wanted — single payer — to a public option, to no public option, to a bunch of ideas that the president tried to explain last week, and it now hangs by a string as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid try to round up conservative Democrats and a 51-vote reconciliation package in the Senate.
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Consumer Groups Rip Chris Dodd Over Financial Protection Agency Compromise
Consumer advocates are reacting harshly to a compromise Consumer Financial Protection Agency being proposed by Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.).
HuffPost and other media outlets have obtained a copy of a memo outlining the proposal that Dodd sent to committee members this weekend. Read the memo here.
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Google, China, and 1984
The Google v. China controversy has missed the point. It should be about The Cloud, and how China’s attack on The Cloud brought us closer to the future presaged in George Orwell’s 1984.
“The Cloud” is where Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other web service companies host, store, and analyze the behavioral, or psychographic, data of their users. It is the new ideal for online businesses, offering cost efficiencies and scalable services for the enormous audiences that Cloud-based businesses have begun to attract.
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Vancouver Olympics 2010: Spectacular Moments From February 27 (PHOTOS)
The Vancouver Olympics have entered their final day, but Saturday was filled with lots of action and a range of medal events. With a stunning 36 medals and at least one more guaranteed, the U.S. set a Winter Olympics medal record, while Canada tied the mark for most golds.
The main competition on Sunday is the gold-medal hockey game between Canada and the United States. The U.S. beat the host nation a week ago in a game that drew huge ratings on both sides of the border — but the stakes tonight will be even higher. Scroll down for photos from Saturday’s Olympic events.
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