Countermeasures Highlights

How the Science of Genetics Helped Apple Sustain Innovation

Rebecca is joined by leading corporate consultant and author Andrea Kates who shares how Apple and Pandora and many others have applied the science of genetics to access innovation in a responsible manner. Andrea shares the elements and genomes of your business and how they can combine for growth and profitability in a down economy.…

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Extinction: Three Plants or Animals an Hour

Every hour that passes, three animals or plants are being permanently eradicated from the planet. This week CNN announced that the last remaining Javan rhinoceros has been killed. We don’t know if the animals horns are a cure for cancer is mythology or the reason they were hunted into extinction. But imagine if the legend…

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What Can You Do To Help Save Medicare and MediCade Today

While about 30% of your “health” is governed by genetics, 15% by social strata and 5% by environment, approximately 50% of your health is dictated by YOU through what you eat and how much exercise you get.  Healthier people means fewer patients which means a lower burden on the next generation. Follow our network on…

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Good Health Care: It’s Your Zip Code, Stupid

The Institute of Medicine evaluates health care services based upon six factors: safety, timeliness, efficiency, effectiveness, equitability and how patient-centered it is. We do poorly across all, except for efficiency . . . but when you look closely this is propped up by places like the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic. Ten miles –…

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Next Sub-Prime Fiasco is on Its Way

The big lending institutions are at it again, making high interest loans to people who have no ability to pay those loans back.   Only this time it isn’t home loans . . . it’s credit cards! The financial community made $50 billion last year in credit card fees. Citibank just announced it’s 7th straight…

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The New Model of Philanthropy: Think Big

Substantial prizes like the ten million dollars X Prize have been spurring progress since the 1920s when Charles Lindbergh stepped up to the twenty-five thousand dollar purse he went on to claim. Virtually any innovation that will benefit humanity is up for an X Prize – from sequencing the human genome, to skimming surface oil,…

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Love and Education: Building the Next Generation of Leaders

Author and “extreme leadership” expert Steve Farber explores how Love, Energy, Audacity and Proof have transformed under-performing schools. Follow our network on twitter @emPOWERmedottv http://twitter.com/emPOWERmedottv You can also like us on Facebook for show updates! http://www.facebook.com/emPOWERme.tv

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Pissed off People: The Mother of all Lobbyists

This week over twenty thousand people gathered in NYC, and many more in over 70 cities around the country, to protest economic inequality and the growing influence of wealthy corporations over our policies and our lives. Follow our network on twitter @emPOWERmedottv http://twitter.com/emPOWERmedottv You can also like us on Facebook for show updates! http://www.facebook.com/emPOWERme.tv

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NASA: The Answer to Energy Problems and Jobs

Nasa has the solar technology to save the American economy and the planet.  They can re-establish America as the world leader in technology and create more jobs than any industry since the automobile!  What’s stopping us?! Follow our network on twitter @emPOWERmedottv http://twitter.com/emPOWERmedottv You can also like us on Facebook for show updates! http://www.facebook.com/emPOWERme.tv

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New York Protests The Federal Reserve is a Private Cancer

G. Edward Griffin discusses how the private Federal Reserve is not capitalism but cronyism, supported by officials whose priority is to get elected not to do what’s best for the country. Follow our network on twitter @emPOWERmedottv http://twitter.com/emPOWERmedottv You can also like us on Facebook for show updates! http://www.facebook.com/emPOWERme.tv  

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MONEY AND POWER

G. Edward Griffin speaks with Rebecca Costa about the influence of money, the Federal Reserve and the international banking cartel in determining the occurrence and outcome of revolutions around the globe. Follow our network on twitter @emPOWERmedottv http://twitter.com/emPOWERmedottv You can also like us on Facebook for show updates! http://www.facebook.com/emPOWERme.tv

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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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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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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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