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Wendy Brown
"Birkbeck Critical Theory Summer School 2012 Debate"
Backdoor Broadcasting Company
“My real enemy does not have a name or a face or a party, he’ll never run as president, he’ll never be elected although he does govern. My enemy is the world of Finance”
In this 10 minute talk, Professor Wendy Brown of Londen’s Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities uses this quote from France’s Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault of the French Socialist Party. In a clear and cutting style, she identifies “The Beast” that Ayrault is referring to, and poses three questions about the current climate of Austerity protest. The questions are incisive and perspective changing. Their message is worth so much more than the ten minutes of your time they require.
This is an excerpt from Birkbeck’s Critical Theory “Summer School” Debate 2012, recorded by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.
@dgardner @kady A new twist on a classic sign http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MD2kTsplr6c/TzQOji0d4vI/AAAAAAAABVg/tkLvoHYQnUs/s1600/Poster1.jpg”
I don’t think I’ve ever love scientists this much, and I’ve had my fair share of proto-geologists.
* 500 enironmental groups shut down websites for a day in protest
Canada sells out to oil industry. Environmentalists are livid. New regulations will be approved to loosen Canadian environmental laws to assist oil companies to drill oil and build thousands of miles of new pipelines.
Btw, this type of malfeasance is called regulatory capture.
Hundreds of environmental and activist groups in Canada shut down their websites for a day on Monday to protest Canadian government policies that will make it easier to build pipelines to transport oil from Alberta’s vast tar sands.
The groups - joined by U.S.-based groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council - say the Conservative government is also trying to silence opponents of the pipelines from the tar sands, the world’s third-biggest oil reserve and the subject of much environmental concern.
The Conservatives, determined to make Canada what they call an energy superpower, want to speed up reviews of resource development projects, cut back laws that protect fish habitats, strip key veto powers from the federal energy regulator, and give the government the final say on approving major pipelines.
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