Zogby's Global Village

The First Globals views on the environment reflect the liberal propaganda that they have been subjected to all their short lives. Senior citizens have lived through many decades and know that the climate changes constantly without any input from mankind. The Sun powers the weather!
The Sun is clean without any sunspots. It is sending less energy to the earth. The oceans are cooling and so is the rest of our weather going to be cooler for the next 30 years. I pray that my grandchildren will not have to struggle to survive an iceage.

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Thanks so much for your time.

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Uhm, as a Philadelphia native I’ve got to tell you, we all call it the Philadelphia Museum of Art, not the Art Institute which sounds like something in Chicago or maybe Kansas City. So, it you want to be in with the locals, you need to talk like the locals. What’s with this Institute? I know you mean the museum, since you alluded to Rocky. Just an FYI…Thanks.

Thanks for reading, Kathryn, and thanks for catching the mistake!

The Italians can have our Obama. Although he looks good, sounds good and said all the right things to get elected, he is as impotent a leader as this world has ever seen. Americans do not want the Western Europe style of government that he stands for. Please come and take him.

The Italians have a vibrant form of democracy – one that may be closer to the Jeffersonian model than the USA’s – because they do have relatively frequent changes of government. Berlusconi’s lengthy tenure is an anomaly – and Italy will have a progressive movement that will demand social change.

I was born in Utica, NY and although I did not grow up there I was close and moved there from 68 to 77 when I worked for Sperry Univac. What have you done, other than keep your growing business there, to help Utica deal with the same problems that you saw in your home town?

When I was there for my nephew’s wedding a few years ago the OK was full of the big story about who, Zogby or an insurance company would be allowed to build on an empty lot next to the Sheridan where I was staying. I looked out of my window in the hotel and there had to be 200 hundred acres of empty lots and the city was obsessing over one.

Help them. It was a great city once.

Well said Dennis, however I’m concerned that he is not impotent. He has the potential to do great harm to our country. We absolutely must bring some balance back to our legislative structure in 2010. The idea of Checks and Balance is critical to offset the extremism now in charge.

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the comment by Wagner is somewhat confusing as I have never seen or heard of any research showing the sun is sending less energy to the earth. Anyways, I thought the report on First Globals (I have never seen that demographic term for that age group) was thought provoking and would like to see one done that is from a neutral point of view instead of leaning to the right. The way questions are formed, the specific words used, the ideas or viewpoints not asked about and the order in which they are asked can have a significant effect upon how the questions are answered. I would be interested in finding out if the person doing the First Global polling survey realized the bias the poll has to the right? Do they care? Why or Why not? Is it important to be neutral politically as a company who does surveys/polling or not?
Your statement that the age group you are calling First Globals are going to be making the decisions for the country and the world in the next 20-30 years is a fact in my humble opinion also.

Thanks for your post, Barry Benjamin, we appreciate your participation. The First Globals™ and the Environment PowerPoint is a compilation of data from a variety of sources. One source is a survey completed by Zogby International on behalf of the National Wildlife Federation, found here, and another a survey on behalf of The United States Conference of Mayors, found here.

Zogby International asks questions to accurately reflect public opinion on a wide variety of topics. We are an independent polling firm and although we have done work for groups on both ends of almost every spectrum, our only agenda is to find out and report what Americans are really thinking.

You can have him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a great idea and a great group! Thanks for sharing the team.

After 8 years of the total destruction of both our own country’s ideals and our image across the world not to mention the complete bankruptcy of our country to uber-rich individuals and corporations after an administration that had us well on the way to a balanced budget it seems pretty ignorant to complain about a charismatic president who has brought us into the sunlight in a few short months. I personally consider those who would rather our country fail than give a new president even a chance to succeed about the most unpatriotic sentiment I’ve heard in a long time. The one good thing I’ve seen in all this is the complete internal destructruction of the Republican Party by the far right wingnut fundamentalists who are driving the moderate honest Republicans to the Independant column.

Dear Mr. Zogby, I am so happy to learn that you and your wife enjoyed our beautiful and ancient city. We love it too! You are very perceptive in noting that “even the legislators are growing tired of the bickering and the tone of what they experience in their own capitals.” Our legislators are hopefully an accurate reflection of their constituencies, and experience tells me that the common folk are tired of the bickering, too, although it seems that none of us knows how to stop it. I sincerely hope that the public can indeed be an adult in the room, so that we end up with results that truly are greater than the sum of the parts. And Starbucks quotes notwithstanding, I hope you had a chance to have coffee from some of our local independents!

Thanks for your note. I think you have hit the nail on the head — the “public can indeed be the adult in the room”. Right now the system is overrun by lobbyists and legislators, well menaing though they may be, are on automatic pilot on the only system they know. But the special interests will eventually cannibalize each other because states are no longer flush with money and everyone’s needs cannot be satisfied.

Thanks to social networks and emails the public can become involved as never before.

Thanks agian for writing in — and I only drink coffee from independents (independent pollster!!!)

John

Nice area, Cle Elum. Thanks to the new economy the millionaires at Suncadia Resort should have sufficient hungry new negro class black, white and Hispanic serfs to serve them.

Just back from Italy where I heard the same sort of yearning for an Obamaesque leader of the opposition to Berlusconi, I have no doubt that the Italian people can be motivated to turn a page and open a new chapter of their own history. Berlusconi is bedeviled with dozens of criminal investigations now pursuing him – and his escapades with prostitutes are merely his media-saturated method for concealing the enormity of the scandals engulfing him.

Agreed. Luxury will simply redefine itself as sustainability to leap across the millenial abyss and transform our understanding as value. Brands will not dissolve, they will morph into icons of sustainability.

I always impressed if someone talking about family, because for me family is the only one i care about. I don’t care anything except my lovely family.
You have a great experience pal, please keep share.

I find this statement to be subjective in a time when there is answers out on the horizen but they are not being heard because of the insanity of the main stream news media there is answers to all of these problems . energy is one inwhich is a great player to many of the solutions of the day.What a prize just to sale this in its wright spin . Education is another we have been the constraights of the status Quo for so long that we nolonger think out of the box for as to offend the elit .

As a young soldier studying Vietnamese at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California back in 1970-71, I bought and read several Ralph Nader books about the environment. They had a big impact on my life.

Thanks for your review. It’s a reminder that I need to buy one more Ralph Nader book.

XG

Thank you for this review, i am interesting with Ralph Nader and saw his books is make me curious. Your review is enough and it much more than enough after read Xanthan Gum Comment.

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Thanks for your comment, it’s make me pretty sure to buy it soon.

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Thank you Xanthan and Voeding. Let me know what you think after reading it.

John

Being a simple-minded hawaiian the answer seems simple to me.
Since Hawaii was an independent country until the white men treacherously overthrew our queen and unlawfully annexed our islands I suggest that the white man rescind the unlawful overthrow, resurrect the sovereign hawaiian government, remove all of the foreigners who were imported into hawaii at the behest of the white man, and last, but not least, get every dam white person out of our country.

Ralph Nader gets a lot of flack for someone with such good intentions. Even though I’m far more conservative and market oriented the Mr.Nader; I still find him quite appealing. If I was ever President, there would be a spot for Mr.Nader somewhere in my administration. To me, his input at the cabinet level would lend credence and credibility to the fact the team was grounded to the basic human impact of it’s actions.(BTW, I’m no Saul Alinsky fan, and while I see the similarity, I think Mr.Nader transcends him in a number of ways.)

I’ve been to the big Island and visited friends living in the conditions described by Mr. Zogby. But the “Islanders” weren’t Hawaiians. They were from Micronesia, specifically the Marshall Islands and Federated States. They can come and stay as long as they want, by treaty – and they do come: many to Hawaii. Lots to Arkansas;and some more to SoCal. They live here, like they live at home. They come for jobs, like most immigrants. They are not Hawaiians.

The chickens come home to roost.

I have been to Hawaii a couple of times and Must say that the natives blame all whites for their problems.

You see it is easy for the mixed race polynesians to blame anyone but themselves for their own forgotten evils of their ancestors.

Hawaii today is nothing but a haiti in waiting.

Black majick and hatred of those not their skin color is the hawaiians downfall.

The Hawaiians have buyers remorse?

Oh well. Feed off each other and the haoles and blame white people. Worked for Katrina and Haiti. Like the Japanese treat the native Hawaiians better?lol.
Look up kapu and what the elder Hawaiians were up to before the whites landed…eye opening for sure.lol.

Yes, there are plenty of homeless in Hawaii, as there are in most states. I too, lived “homeless” in my VW bus several years on the Big Island. The author of this story lost credibility with me because Honolulu is on the island of Oahu, not the Big Island. If you have no choice to be homeless, this is the best place to be(my opinion). Public showers at many beachs, no worry about staying warm, and sufficient social serves to most. That may be why so many Micronisians like it here.

I actually lived on the beach in Hawaii for 6 months, during my 2 1/2 years living there. One thing I noticed was that rent is so expensive (kauai), and the cheapest rentals are usually illegal structures. Living on the beach is healthier and safer in many ways. If you are a resident you also get up to 3 months camping permits free, to many this means 3 months free of rent. There is also the flip side, Meth has rocked all the Islands. So you have a mix of travelers, locals, semi permanent residents and the riff raff all taking advantage year round warm weather all living on some of the most beautiful coastline in the world. There are many more homeless that live in jungle, away form eyesight.

The errors in the piece take away from the impact of the point which the author seems to try and make. The Big Island is NOT where Honolulu is, as stated in the first paragraph. The Big Island is called “Hawaii” and the island where Honolulu and Pearl Harbor are located is O’ahu. The “Western: side of the islands is called “Leeward” and not “western”. And the Leeward side of the Big Island, frequently called the Kona Coast, is predominantly Haole (White American), mostly replants from California.
The Leeward side of O’ahu is predominantly Native Hawaiian and is the lower socio-economic demographic. And while the division in the Native Hawaiian (must capitalize the word “Native”) community is accurate, the author doesn’t even mention the hottest topic, which is secession and independence.
Just another superficial judgment by someone who thinks they can understand local culture and customs with a quick trip to the islands.

Well the same author tries to convince us that climate change isn’t real.

So what?

There are homeless areas nearby Hilo, but not on the Kona Coast, yes passing some cars I would think people are living in there.

Firstly a few corrections, there is no indication the author was ever on the big Island of Hawaii, his experience is on Island of Oahu only. And the isolated Leeward portions of Oahu are far from the city of Honolulu, although technically the entire island is the city and County of Honolulu. The author’s perspective on Hawaiian culture is limited and naïve. Although sometimes it is claimed that 1/5 of the population is native Hawaiian, in actuality there are only 2000 pure blooded Hawaiians left out of a population of 1.3 million citizens in the state of Hawaii. Of the many part Hawaiians, or locals, it is estimated that 90% of this population has less than one quarter Hawaiian blood. There are also many other races of homeless people in Hawaiian Islands, but you will not find many of them camping out on the Leeward beaches because the locals consider that they own the beaches and threatened violence to any European camper. Although you may receive comments from locals babbling about the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, and calling for the reinstatement of the King , the sad truth is there are no Hawaiians left. If Hawaii ever regains its sovereignty, it will be as a republic that will include all the authenticity’s that make up Hawaii, and not a monarchy of a people that no longer exists.

Paradise, like Utopia, does not exist and never will exist.
As long as more than one human lives, conflict will happen.
Nevertheless, there is enormous opportunity for improvement.
In a less corrupt society, the economy of Hawaii, the United States and the World would be an engineering problem rather than a political problem.
During the 2003 California Governor Recall election I submitted a bold workable but admittedly very radical engineering proposal that if elected would have had California in the black leading the world with a strategy based on universal territorial accommodation of all humans in the new manufactured floating territories of New California.
Everyone on the planet would have greatly benefited, Hawaii included. Everyone included.
My campaign was greatly censored and suppressed.
I lost. Mediocrity won. IOUs, 20 billion dollar deficits, 20% unemployment, one in every seven homes in foreclosure, etc. are the ways that people perish because Schwarzenegger has no vision.
Even today, every Santa Barbara newspaper censors me.
The TRUTH I write is considered intolerable and must be suppressed by preexisting power.
Hawaii may one day be nearly pristine.
It will require the active work of scientific environmental remediation with a very long period of relief from almost all human habitation. It’s doable.
New Hawaii could be just as good an idea as New California.
Hawaii could lead the world instead of California that has fallen into wicked iniquity.

If the humans would leave, the planets climate would remain ideal and stable forever!

Hey, if we ended the wars, closed most of the foreign bases and shrunk the military budget we could pay for universal social benefits.

Oh, but that would be socialism!

Isn’t the military environment largely socialist/subsidized?

Just asking.

@kamana kapu

You are a f**king moron if you think thats gonna happen after a hundred years, maybe if your people had stood up for themselves when a few dozen marines waltzed into the palace and overthrew the hawaiian government you wouldent be in this position.

instead you all did nothing, be mad at your ancestors not mine.

maybe try doing a little research so you can actually understand the problems you face, blaming the “haoles” for all your problems make you look just as irrelevent and stupid as any white redneck who blames “n*ggers” for all his problems.

ive been around both racist hawaiians and racist white rednecks, and it boggles the mind how much alike you are.

Do you even know what your suggesting is called? its called genocide, the forced relocation of entire racial groups, your solution is to do something even worse to huge groups of people that had nothing to do with overthrowing the hawaiian government so you can what…..take all thier hard earned posetions and property?

and you wonder why no one cares what you think….

I do need to apologize to everyone for my mistake. It was my third working visit to Hawaii and I do know the difference between the Big Island and Oahu. I should have been more careful. But the observations — right or wrong — are genuine.

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The general comments reveal that the average John & Jane Doe CANNOT focus on the big picture issues. Do we acknowledge this kind of poverty in America? Are we actively doing something about it? (NO!) Should any American ethnic class be given special status? Should native American Indians be allowed to continue their special status? Hate, ridicule, and negative retorts are easy to spew. But they also clearly reveal that the only “morons” at this blog are the ones who openly expose that they don;t have the natural abilities to think or write anything that is a contribution to knowledge! And this is exactly why such blogs are a total waste of time – they generally twist sincere efforts at open communication into a dumping ground for ignorant rage.

I have voted for both Evan and his father Birch Bayh. I am a registered Republican and am fairly conservative in most viewpoints, so know that when considering my comments.

I think that Evan’s “spirit” has not been crushed or killed. It is more of a consideration of risk and reward – but other than money or power. Evan,like most of us, would like to leave a positive legacy. That is not happening now in Washington D.C.

You said, “He had pushed for a bipartisan commission to deal with runaway deficits only to see fellow sponsors back away so as not to give President Obama or Senate Democrats an advantage in November. The same with a new jobs stimulus bill, shredded to nothingness because it was laden with pork to win some Republican support.” He does want to be bipartisan because he wants to get some important things done. The “pork” so far has been to Democrats to buy their votes. President Obama was “Change you can believe in” – not. I did not vote for him but I was not disapointed to see him elected. Being a Purdue graduate living in Indianapolis meant I wanted Drew Breese to have a terrific Super Bowl game and lose to a last minute drive by Indianapolis. Since the Colts lost I still didn’t feel too bad – particularly when I saw Drew showing the aftergame things to his son. That is how I felt when Obama was elected President.

I was concerned when he named Rahm Emanuel as his mian advisor. Then President Obama showed little political leadership by allowing Reid and Pelosi total control over legislation. The Democrats excluded the Republicans like no other administration has. The Republicans responded with saying “No” to everything and found a positive response in the public.

Very little of major importance will or even can be done in tha atmosphere. Evan Bayh may do more and better things with his talents than sit in Washington while the politicos bite and snarl at each other.

It does make me wonder if the shadow cabinet system of Britain might be usefull here.

My wife and I took a cruise of most of the Islands in 2003. On more than one excursion I saw rural poverty on several isles that are similar to that seen in several continental states.

The legislation dealing with Native Americans actually did as much or more harm to individual Native Americans as it benefited. Native Americans have tribal governments that I am not aware of in Hawaii.

A local White guide on one island had his white children all marry Native Hawaiian women. He said if you raised a family on the Islands you could not be racist. That is his opinion. I don’t know.

I do know the dependency of the islands on inports of essential goods. If independent perhaps China or Japan would supplant the US, but it would be a desparate time for Native Hawaiians.

JerryHallet says “The Democrats excluded the Republicans like no other administration has. The Republicans reponded by saying “No” to everything….” It’s kind of hard to say “yes’ when, as Hallet so correctly observed, the Democrats had ALREADY excluded them for ANY part of the legislative process. But saying NOTHING is quite often observed by the media as saying ‘no’. As long as we have a media (and even polls like Zogby) where the Speaker of the House is given a 100% PASS on her ludicrous statement about the Health Care bill negotiations ‘being the most open, transparent and honest in the history of Congress’, gridlock will be the BEST the public can hope for. As a Hooiser, I too voted for Bayh. But to be 100% fair, he was a FAR better governor than he EVER was a senator. And I think the verbiage of his recent speech pointed to that very issue.

He was a very good Governor, as is our present Govenor, and ok as a Senator.