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The European Project: Can Europe Survive the Euro?

participant list: http://watsoninstitute.org/euro/?page_id=159

[final segment Q: "Will Europe survive?"]

Kathleen McNamara: "...Yes...but it won't be pretty, and we should not be surprised."

Vivien Ann Schmidt: "...Yes, but not happily...It's conservative politics...We're still without leadership...There's just a bad discourse...This is codependency..."

Wade Jacoby: "...I have the irrepressible impression that we're going to run Goodhart's Law on a massive scale. Every indicator that you can think of to select as a proxy for some kind of good performance, when it becomes public that that's what the commission and the council are counting, will immediately be gamed by a variety of market actors, and those indicators will lose whatever information value they might have once had...Can it all survive the strain? Not in its current form and probably not in the form now envisioned for the future by the council and the commission, and not for lack of trying..."

Jonathan Hopkin of LSE: "...how do we turn voters into constituencies...People go out and vote and they think they're having some impact. Of course they're not, but if they go out and vote they have to think they have some kind of influence."

Peter Hall: "[Yes...there's a resilience in the EU that no one should discount. In minimalist terms, the EU will survive. But can we imagine a feasible path in which the EU is once again prosperous over the next 10-20 years? A weak path, yes. The EU at the moment has no growth strategy. Structural reform is not a growth strategy. Why is the EU clinging to it? Because there is no alternative currently. An alternative will require intense intergovernmental cooperation. Is this politically feasible? What does that mean? Someone else will cover the adjustment costs. We have to look at national electorates. The direction of politicization is toward radicalism. This is very worrisome. What will the EU look like going forward? I think we have to be hopeful, but I think we ought to be very, very worried.]"

Mark Blyth: ends with a 3-minute wrap-up of all the panels, if the Euro can survive all that, it can survive anything, but the EU and the Euro are at odds, fundamentally, and when you destroy trust between people, you destroy everything (implication: requires cultural and social approaches, not just technocratic and political ones; the burden is on people to discard their old ways of looking at themselves)

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4 weeks ago by Taryn

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PCL: Campaign 2012

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february 2012 by Taryn

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Rachel Maddow: Entire neighborhood a victim of gun violence
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may 2011 by Taryn

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YouTube - The Hazards of Sugar (Part 1 of 9)

Dr. Robert Lustig UCSF series; by the end of the story, I hope I will have debunked the last 30 years of nutrition information in America [...] part III: fructose/sucrose=poison [...] part IV: desired high HDL:trigylcerides, carbs raise LDL [...] part V: the biochem [...] part VI: alcohol/fructose [...] part VII: sugar sports drinks-> ^uric acid, ie: gout, high BP ... a high sugar diet IS a high fat diet ... HUGE increases in triglycerides, lipogenesis, free fatty acids, insulin resistance (then leptin doesn't work...nucleus accumbens, reward circuit) after 6 days of fructose diet...different curves for Caucasians and African Americans ie: Metabolic Syndrome - @9:20 list of symptoms associated w/ chronic alcohol exposure compared to fructose (8/12) --- fructose and alcohol are metabolized the same way, do the same thing, come from the same place [...] part VIII: lifestyle intervention @2:10 why is exercise important @3:30 why fiber is important @6:00 paleolithic diet, ie: if you ate everything as it came out of the ground, you'd cure type II diabetes...takes about a week...[children's diets] [...] part IX: the earlier you expose kids to sweets the more they'll crave it later; the more sugar a pregnant woman eats, the more it affects development [...] @3:15 what can we do about it and a comparison of FDA's regulation of tobacco; FDA doesn't regulate chronic toxins, only acute ones [...] what can we sell overseas: weapons, entertainment, food @6:50 a calorie is NOT a calorie, dietitians are wrong ie: eat less, exercise more does NOT work...FDA can't and won't regulate fructose: it's up to us.