Archive for September 2011

Overtime Threatens Families and Happiness

Watch more videos at http://www.empowerme.tv  On this week’s episode of Countermeasures, host Rebecca Costa notes that overtime and productivity are not intrinsically linked, and that other quality of life factors like children, spouses, and friends are more essential to human happiness. According to the U.S Department of Labor, working parents spend on average a mere…

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NY Times and 9/11: No conspiracy just asleep at the wheel

Mr. John Fisher Burns, London Bureau Chief for the New York Times, and a journalist that has been on the forefront of covering terrorism in the Middle East – including filing a story with the New York Times just two days before 9/11 about the dangers of an AL Qaeda attack on U.S. soil. Follow…

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Can Democracy fix the Middle East?

Watch the full episode here! http://bit.ly/pkVrrk Rebecca Costa takes a look at the mis-diagnosis that often accompanies idealogical posturing.  While we want to blame political failures for the unrest in the middle east, Costa correctly points out that science, not politics, offers the proper diagnosis . . . although the cures are truly explosive!!! Follow…

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Bill Bradley’s Economic Policies Insight

Rebecca Costa comments on Bill Bradley’s policies to fix the economy and add jobs on the pilot episode of Countermeasures with Rebecca Costa. Rebecca talks about her initial wariness of the policy and her current thoughts. She also shares why we should not be so afraid of the words “government subsidy”. Rebecca Costa is a…

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9/11 Remembered with John Fisher Burns

This week on Countermeasures with Rebecca Costa we honor the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with global insight from our guest and three time Pulitzer prize winner John Fisher Burns, current London Bureau Chief of the New York Times and one of the most knowledgeable journalists about terrorism in the middle east, including filing a story…

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