Billionaire-backed Bill McKibben advocates for the group "21 Hours" and a 21 hour work week. Billionaire David Rockefeller is remaking the US without the mess of elections.
10/5/12, "Reason For Today's Unemployment Rate Plunge: Part-Time Jobs For Economic Reasons Surge Most Since QE1 Announcement," Zero Hedge
"We already noted the absolutely stunning surge in reported Household Survey jobs which "added" 873,000 jobs, or the most since 2003 and the second most in the past decade, which was just a little bit off the Household Survey used in the monthly NFP jobs changes, which came at 114,000, or about 8 times less. But what was the reason for this epic jump in Household survey jobs? Simple, and those who have read our series on America's transition to a part-time worker society know the answer. The reason is that the number of part-time people employed for economic reasons soared by 582,000 to 8,613,000, the most since October 2011, and the largest one month jump since February 2009, when "restoring" confidence in the economy was all the rage... and just before the Fed announced the full blown QE1 in March of 2009. Odd symmetry....
What does this mean for the true state of the US economy? Recall back in September one of our Charts of the Day was the number of Unemployed and Underemployed for the month of August, which was 25.8 million. Readers may be surprised to learn that when putting it all together, in September this number increased to 26.2 million."
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On June 8, 2012, Bill McKibben spoke at a conference put on by the New Economics Foundation. This Foundation seeks "to achieve social justice globally" (p. 6) by making a 21 hour work week standard. They say economic growth must be reduced to save the planet and increase equality:
"21 Hours," by the New Economics Foundation, "Why a shorter working week can help us all to flourish in the 21st century"
p. 2, "The vision"
"Moving towards much shorter hours of paid work (21 hrs. per wk.) offers a new route out of the multiple crises we face today. Many of us are consuming well beyond our economic means and well beyond the limits of the natural environment, yet in ways that fail to improve our well-being – and meanwhile many others suffer poverty and hunger. Continuing economic growth in high-income countries will make it impossible to achieve urgent carbon reduction targets. Widening inequalities, a failing global economy, critically depleted natural resources and accelerating climate change pose
A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems: overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to live sustainably, to care for each other, and simply to enjoy life."...
p. 4, "Ensuring a fair living income."
"Options for dealing with the impact on earnings of a much shorter working week include redistribution of income and wealth through more progressive taxation; an increased minimum wage; a radical restructuring of state benefits; carbon trading designed to redistribute income to poor households; more and better public services; and encouraging more uncommodified activity and consumption."...
p. 6, "Why Growth is not Sustainable"
"The growing consensus that a level of 350 parts per million (ppm) (of CO2), not 450 ppm, will be required to avoid dangerous climate change only worsens the arithmetic. And even if this were accomplished, it would allow for no greater catch-up by the developing world, leaving inequalities to widen. To achieve social justice globally alongside continuing growth in high-income countries, with the entire population enjoying an income comparable with European Union citizens today, the world economy would need to grow six times between now and 2050, implying a technical shift of still higher orders of magnitude to avoid climatic disaster. There is thus ‘no credible, socially-just,
- ecologically-sustainable scenario
- of continually growing incomes
- for a world of nine billion people’"....
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This year David Rockefeller financed a 'think tank' (per UK Guardian, "Bob Inglis, a former South Carolina congressman behind a new global warming thinktank") to convince people of a falsehood, ie that elected Republicans were promoting a 'carbon tax.' Among those Rockefeller scraped up to say they were behind a "carbon tax" are defeated, out of work ex-South Carolina congressman Bob Inglis and Art Laffer who voted for Bill Clinton twice and thinks Obama is a fine human being. Anyone who thinks Obama is a fine human being has a medical problem. Rockefeller faces personal and financial humiliation since US CO2 emissions have dropped steadily since at least 2006 and are going lower. Rockefeller is obsessed with preventing you from living the rich and influential life he continues to enjoy:
7/13/12, "George Shultz Endorses Carbon Tax – You Were Surprised?" GlobalWarming.org, Marlo Lewis
"As noted here, earlier this week, former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) launched a new institute with Rockefeller Family Fund backing [oil money] to promote carbon taxes as a ‘Republican idea.’."
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David Rockefeller financed opposition to Keystone Pipeline, notes from 2008 meeting:
2/20/2012, "Campaign against Canadian Keystone XL pipeline driven by US foundation millions," Daily Caller, Martosko
"A Powerpoint presentation obtained by The Daily Caller shows that during a July 2008 meeting, the $789 million Rockefeller Brothers Fund
proposed to coordinate and fund a dozen environmental and
anti-corporate activist groups’ efforts to scuttle pipelines carrying
tar sands oil from Canada to the United States.
The most recent incarnation of that pipeline plan, the Keystone XL project, was the subject of intense public controversy until the Obama administration rejected it in January.
The 2008 meeting consisted of presentations from Rockefeller Brothers Fund program officer Michael Northrop, Corporate Ethics International Executive Director Michael Marx, Natural Resources Defense Council attorney Susan Casey-Lefkowitz and the director of a Canadian activist group called the Pembina Institute."...
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David Rockefeller paid for mayors from all over the world to fly to NY for a strategy session to empower the catastrophic man-caused global warming industry:
11/20/2006, "David Rockefeller Pledges $225 Million to Family Fund," Bloomberg
"(David) Rockefeller said he will give additional money to some of the fund's coming projects. One of them is a global-warming summit in New York in spring of 2007 that will bring the mayors of cities around the world to New York to discuss ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Heintz said.
``To study what we can do about global warming and how we can control uses that are detrimental would be a helpful thing,'' Rockefeller said."...
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July 13, 2012, "Climate change campaigners cautioned over reaction to extreme weather," UK Guardian, Suzanne Goldenberg
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