Emerald Cities 'Goals' (CCX connections -- Beck is discussing)

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[SteamShovel]

Buildings are the largest national source of energy consumption.....

.....SUV's drive themselves and cause accidents

.....Guns load themselves and kill people

I'm sorry, but buildings don't use any energy. The EQUIPMENT inside them use energy when PEOPLE want them to use it. The building qualities can affect the rate of energy use, but it does not "use energy"!

I know it's nitpicking, but I can't stand that phrase. I hear it too much these days. Like "environmental stewardship" and "green", it drives me nuts.

[Wisconsinlady]

I hope you have watched or Tivo’d Glenn Beck’s 4 p.m. TV show today on FOX because he is talking about this Emerald Cities and the “wizard” is a professor-guess where- at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Joel Rogers. Yikes, this is bigger than I thought. See www.cows.org.

[combat_boots]

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[Wisconsinlady]

READ ABOUT JOEL ROGERS OF UW-MADISON-LEADER OF APOLLO ALLIANCE IN WISCONSIN-HE IS THE ONE THAT GLENN BECK WAS TALKING ABOUT TODAY

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Staff Details- Joel Rogers

Joel Rogers is a professor of law, political science, and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He directs COWS, the national think-and-do tank on high road development, and the new Center for State Innovation (CSI). Rogers has written widely on democratic theory and American politics and public policy. His most recent book (with Richard Freeman) is What Workers Want (2006). A longtime activist as well as academic, Newsweek identified him as one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape US politics and culture in the 21st century.

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Selected Articles
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•Build the High Road Here
•Joel Rogers on Hurricane Katrina
•Both an Imperative and an Opportunity
•Cities: The Vital Core
•Devolve This! (The Nation)
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Professor Rogers occasionally publishes guest editorials in newspapers throughout Wisconsin, as well as national publications. In addition, between February 2001 and August 2002, Joel Rogers wrote a regular column for The Capital Times, a Madison-based daily newspaper, as part of COWS’ Sustaining Wisconsin grassroots education campaign. To read the columns or commentaries, click on the links below.

•”Unfulfilled Promise,” The Nation Online 6/21/2004
•”Take a Higher Road to State Job Creation,” Wisconsin State Journal 2/29/2004
•”Progressives Should Vote for Edwards as Best on Issues,” Madison Capital Times 2/12/2004
•”Progressives Should Vote Edwards,” The Nation Online 2/8/2004
•”Little to Celebrate on Labor Day,” Wisconsin State Journal 9/1/2003
More columns & commentary by Joel Rogers.

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As an expert on a variety of subjects, including presidential elections, political democracy, and the future of the labor movement, Joel Rogers is often interviewed– and his work is often cited– by local, national, and even international media outlets. To read some of the coverage, click on the links below.

•”Metropolis now,” New Statesman 9/17/2009
•”Obama’s Labour Play,” The Financial Post (London) 4/6/2009
•”Union Bill’s Declining Chances Give Rise to Alternatives,” The Washington Post 3/29/2009
•”In Arkansas and elsewhere, economy stable,” USA Today 2/26/2009
•”Making Money a Renewable Resource,” Ode Magazine 12/3/2008
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[Wisconsinlady]

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[mentor2k]

Patriot Ping

[RobRoy]

>>Buildings are the largest national source of energy consumption,<<

I’m trying to get my company to let me telecommute. Maybe I should use the financial argument. ;)

[hosepipe]

The FBI is where?... doing what?.. complicit?..

[chichipow]

Are any of the harpies in the sock puppet news media that went head hunting with the ‘Halliburtion/Cheney connection’ doing anything on this?

This conspiracy compared to the Halliburtion no bid story is like comparing a golf ball to the moon. It’s that much bigger. It encompasses all the big unions that were paid off with health care, the stimulus and the bail outs. All the big companies that were paid off with the stimulus like Freddy/Fanny, Goldman, etc... It is astronomical the amount of people and money woven into this conspiracy to create a ruling class and a slave class.

I only hear crickets.

[chichipow]

Those who missed it watch this weeks shows on Monday and Thursday the 26th and 28th for it to be laid out by Glenn Beck. It is a conspiracy laid bare and the center of it is Obama. Not a nut case conspiracy theory like 9/11 - this one has teeth and is the death rattle of this country.

[onyx]

Like Glenn says, he’s one man with a small staff and the blessings of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes. The rest of the so called news media are literally silent and not interested, and we have to question “why?” Are they so in-the-tank to the point of wanting to see our country fail and fall into the hands of Marxists and Communists?

Glenn is right: Government is now a criminal enterprise. Nobody repsonsible for the finanacial collapse in in jail or even being investigated. Franklin Raines is a fillthy rich man and deeply involved with a new arm of this mega scheme, heading “Enterprise,” after securing the patent and raiding Fannie.

Yet, no charges, no congressional oversight, nothing. Government is a criminal enterprise.

[okie01]

Emerald Cities 'Goals'

Ah, Utopia.

And damn the cost.

[VOA]

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[combat_boots]

Bravo. Well said.

[caww]

....” Government is a criminal enterprise”......

Makes you wonder how far those threads go doesn’t it....and thus when we vote does it become entirely the lesser of the the evils. Because once they are in the thros of the Washington thugocracy how can the good guys not become tainted in order to just survive being there?

[VOA]

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[chichipow]

“Yet, no charges, no congressional oversight, nothing. Government is a criminal enterprise.”

I fear that even if the RATS are voted out in November there won’t be. It’s a very slim chance. It may be stopped and swept under the rug, but I would bet my left knut that no one of any stature is charged.

Most governments of the world are criminal enterprises. Too bad ours isn’t any different any more.

[onyx]

The democrats have to be voted out regardless. We knopw they’re criminals and we also have to vote out the Republican incumbents in the primaries! I’ve had it. New blood. CITIZEN legislators, preferably veterans who have served our country. To hell with “experience in government,” and “millionaires.”

[Excellence]

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