“While the gulf between the extremely wealthy and destitute remains deep in Mumbai, a burgeoning middle class is helping reshape the economy, Kotkin said, adding that ‘Small vehicle, motorcycle and modest-apartment sales are all on the rise.’ In less than a lifetime, we have seen the rapid rise of a host of dynamic new global cities — and the relative decline of many others. The world capitals of tomorrow may largely be not in the Western world, but in countries such as China, Russia and Australia,” the report said.”
Author: Kaitlin Hopkins
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Contributing Editor Richard Reep on Orlando Weekly
“A trio of classes based upon the study of architecture – an almost invisible art in this city –begin the week of Sept.14 at Maitland Art Center for an eight-week program. There’s only room for 15 students in each of the educational outreaches taught by Richard Reep, a local artist in the RS 21 collective as well as a career architect with LEED certification (which means he’s an expert on efficient construction and concerns regarding energy and environmental design). ”
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Executive Editor JOEL KOTKIN on Business Standard regarding Mumbai
“‘Mumbai’s prominence rests not just on an expanding industrial base, but also on the illustrious Bollywood, the world’s largest movie industry. The bust of Mumbai’s ridiculous housing-price boom has actually seemed to help the economy,’” the report by Forbes columnist and presidential fellow at Chapman University, Joel Kotkin said.”
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Contributing Editor MICHAEL LIND quoted on The Nation regarding Obama
“Over at Salon, Michael Lind offers a different view, pointing to some other animating issues, like resentment at the “Wall Street elites who wrecked the economy” while working-class people lost their jobs and houses.”
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Contributing Editor MICHAEL LIND quoted on Grant Lawrence regarding Obama
” The most dangerous deficit that the United States faces is not the budget deficit or the trade deficit. It is the Democrats’ demagogy deficit. Franklin Roosevelt, looking down from that Hyde Park in the sky, would not be surprised that conservatives are seeking to channel populist anger and anxiety, not against the Wall Street elites who wrecked the economy, but against reformers promoting healthcare reform and economic security for ordinary people. As he told his audience in 1936, “It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them.” But FDR would be shocked by the inability of his party to mobilize the public on behalf of reform.”
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Contributing Editor MICHAEL LIND is quoted on Just Above Sunset regarding the “demagogy gap”
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.”
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Contributing Editor MICHAEL LIND is quoted on Climate Progress regarding health care
“Michael Lind has a terrific Salon column today, with the subhead, ‘Why can’t Democrats mobilize the public for healthcare reform? Blame the demagogy gap.’”
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Contributing Editor JERRY SULLIVAN quoted on the Merced Sun-Star
Jerry Sullivan, the editor and publisher of the Los Angeles Garment & Citizen, was correct in assessing Bratton’s tenure when he wrote, “The guy works very hard at every aspect of his duties. It’s a habit that can touch other lives as a matter of course.”
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Contributing Editor MIKE HAIS interviews on The American Way of Strategy
“Michael Lind is a Senior Research Fellow and Policy Director of New America’s Economic Growth Program. Lind’s first three books of political journalism and history, The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution; Up From Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong for America; and Vietnam: The Necessary War were all selected as New York Times Notable Books.”
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Contributing Editor MIKE HAIS at Netroots Nation ’09
“On Friday afternoon at Netroots Nation ’09, Simon Rosenberg and NDN Fellow Mike Hais hosted the panel “America’s Millennial Makeover.” You can watch the entire 60 minute session in the video clip below. The video opens with a five minute intro from Simon, followed by Mike’s slides and expert analysis about the values, beliefs, culture and trends of the Millennial Generation.”