Rupert Read
Working this term on my new book on green political philosophy!
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Rupert Read

Rupert Read

Think you know what Copenhagen is about? Think again...:
THE COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE ON FOOD SECURITY http://www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/plan_b_updates/2009/update84By Lester R. Brown For the 193 national delegations gathering in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in December, the reasons for concern about climate change vary widely...
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Rupert Read

Google SideWiki - now it's our turn...
See the MediaGuardian: http://bit.ly/3ZIj67 'Sidewiki changes everything'...
18 hours ago
Nick Clinch
Nick Clinch
Sidewiki strikes me as quite a negative tool. All it will end up being used for is a way for trolls to destroy the credibility of peoples websites, whether they deserve it or not. I wouldn't want someone to come to my house or to a building I ran my buisness from and scrawl graffiti all over the walls!
18 hours ago
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Rupert Read http://bit.ly/1CpCYM Promising stuff. But 'green development' / 'green growth' are still nonsense. Non-sequiturs. We don't _need_ more growth.

Can Greece Lead the Way? | openDemocracy
Source: bit.ly
As the left across Europe flounders in the wake of the economic crisis, the Greek socialist party under George Papandreou could prove the exception with its dramatic election victory. His aim is nothing ...
Rupert Read

Rupert Read

CRUSH your friends! RR stars in Cool-it video...
This is really kinda fun and clever... You can make one for your friends too...click the link!Crush Global Warming!
Rupert Read

Rupert Read

Copenhagen public meeting in Norwich!
These are brill speakers! Do come to this event...
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Rupert Read

NORWICH PUBLIC MEETING
Yesterday at 11:42
Lynda Edwards
Lynda Edwards
Sorry, I can't come as I have to be up early for a job interview the following day!
Yesterday at 10:47
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Rupert Read COPENHAGEN CLIMATE EMERGENCY - UPCOMING EVENTS: http://rupertsread.blogspot.com/2009/11/c-openhagen-climate-emergency-ahead-of.html

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Rupert Read

MPs' expenses scandal is a product of economic inequality
The MPs expenses scandal is all about economic inequality. It would never have happened if MPs hadn't been trying to 'earn' as much as others such as headmasters, managers, etc. For narrowly political reasons, MPs were reluctant to award themselves salary increases...
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Rupert Read

Former UKIP-MEP's confession of expenses fraud an insult to Eastern region voters, says Green former Euro elections candidate...
  Reacting to former UK Independence Party Eastern Region MEP Tom Wise's guilty plea today at his trial for false accounting and money laundering, Dr Rupert Read, Councillor for Norwich and former European election lead candidate, said:   "If only Tom Wise had had the basic decency to adm...
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Rupert Read Which was the only political Party to oppose going INTO the Afghanistan quagmire in the first place? The Greens, of course!

05 November at 12:01
Rayyan
Rayyan
The OMRLP and Animals Count also opposed the pointless war.
05 November at 12:10
Rupert Read

Rupert Read
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8344176.stm If only Wise had had the grace to admit that he is an expenses fraudster a few months back, I surely would have been elected Green MEP for Eastern England, in June. As it is, the b**tard's having held out for 4 years (4 years!) before admitting guilt has meant that once ag...ain UKIP have 2 MEPs in Eastern England, managing to hold onto a second MEP by narrowly defeating me. How shameful and how stupid, that a Party with a proven record of expenses fraud managed to get in on an 'expenses scandal' vote...Read more

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Ex-MEP admits to expenses racket
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Tom Wise, 61, from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, had previously denied charges of false accounting and money laundering.
05 November at 04:28
Gareth Simkins
Gareth Simkins
That's politics, Rupert. No-one ever said that it made any sense.
05 November at 15:33
Rayyan
Rayyan
Truly the blame lies with the voters. It was well known he was a fraudster, and UKIP kicked him out of their party. The people of Eastern Region still voted for that kind of scum over the Green Party.
06 November at 01:42
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Rupert Read Place your bets! How long before Hannan and Helmer defect to UKIP?

05 November at 01:03
Kristofer
Kristofer
Presumably taking all of Conservative Future with them with their idoltry of Hannan... :p
05 November at 01:35
Rayyan
Rayyan
One can only hope. Although it will cause a leadership fracas within UKIP, as I suspect Hannan will want to be a big fish in a small pond.
05 November at 03:53
Rupert Read

Rupert Read

A shared progressive agenda?
There is a real threat of Britain taking a hugely regressive step next year, and electing a Tory government at a time when our country and world desperately need something better, more suited to the times...
04 November at 03:50
Rupert Read

Rupert Read

Green beliefs win legal protection
Important news from the Soil Association, that I blog here because of how unprecedented it is. The only thing somewhat unsatisfactory is of course the use of the term 'belief' in this context...
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Rupert Read

The new green economics!
Industrial-growth-economics has hit the buffers. The new economics is green; its official title within the discipline is 'ecological economics'.Obviously, don't just take my word for it. See e.g...
03 November at 07:39
Rayyan
Rayyan
It's a great list, but there isn't a coherent, simple ideology or framework that incorporates all of these different ideas. People won't believe there is an alternative to capitalist economics until we can show them a viable set of models that all fit together and answer all of the questions they might have about "how do we get there?" and "what about this or that". The main thing is, how do we lift people out of poverty? Good work, Dr Read!
03 November at 07:52
Rayyan
Rayyan
First link is broken btw
03 November at 07:56
Rupert Read
Rupert Read
There is a coherent ideology for all this. It's called ecologism. See Dobson's book, GREEN POLITICAL THOUGHT.
04 November at 03:59