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The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” that the Kremlin warns “will most certainly” lead to world war.
A SpunOut.ie interview with the late Aaron Swartz who co-founded of Reddit.com, RSS 1.0, Jottit.com and the Progressive Change Commitee. aaronsw.com (intro m...
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Independent political organizations, like Tea Party groups, are perfectly free to campaign however they like. They should be considered charitable organizations promoting the social welfare.
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Did Texas Governor Rick Perry's budget cuts and his idea of limited regulations play a factor in the West, Texas fertilizer explosion?
College students could end up paying a higher interest rate on their government subsidized loans unless Congress steps in. In a replay of last year's battle, Republicans, Democrats and the Obama administration all have competing proposals.
by Andy Kroll (Common Dreams) Billionaires with an axe to grind, now is your time. Not since the days before a bumbling crew of would-be break-in artists set into motion the fabled Watergate scandal, leading to the first far-reaching restrictions on money in American politics, have you been so free to meddle. There is no limit to the amount of money you can give to elect your friends and allies to political office, to defeat those with whom you disagree, to shape or stunt or kill policy, and above all to influence the tone and content of political discussion in this country. Today, politics is a rich man's game. Look no further than the 2012 elections and that season's biggest donor, 79-year-old casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. He and his wife, Miriam, shocked the political class by first giving $16.5 million in an effort to make Newt Gingrich the Republican presidential nominee. Once Gingrich exited the race, the Adelsons invested more than $30 million in electing Mitt Romney. They donated millions more to support GOP candidates running for the House and Senate, to block a pro-union measure in Michigan, and to bankroll the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other conservative stalwarts (which waged their own campaigns mostly to help Republican candidates for Congress). All told, the Adelsons donated $94 million during the 2012 cycle -- nearly four times the previous record set by liberal financier George Soros. And that's only the money we know about. When you add in so-called dark money, one estimate puts their total giving at closer to $150 million. MORE
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How can you tell that momentum is building for change? Well, one good sign is that the opposition starts getting nervous about your progress. That’s why we took it as a positive sign that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently stepped up attacks on shareholders who attempt to make companies disclose political spending. Earlier this month, I attended an almost comical presentation at the U.S. Chamber headquarters where speakers spent most of a four hour event attacking political spending disclosure resolutions as being bad for business.
It is expected that the ITU would begin a sort of taxation that international telecommunications corporations would be expected to pay for the ITU's handling of web traffic as it flows across the world.
Paul Ryan ignored the evidence, and wove a web of lies in an attempt to insinuate that President Obama was involved in the IRS scandal.
Senator Jon Tester is introducing a Farm Bill amendment next week that aims to reinvigorate classical plant breeding and public cultivar development. Call your senators today and ask them to support Senator Tester’s Farm Bill amendment to improve seed choices for American farmers and strengthen U.S. agriculture. What this means: Establishing classical plant breeding (or “conventional,” field-based selection) as a priority for public research is critical to the competitiveness and resiliency of U.S. agriculture. Farmers constantly face changing climate, insect, weed, and disease pressures that vary by region, and they lament reduced options in regionally appropriate seed cultivars held in the public domain.
The 'austerians' are the economists and politicians who believe austerity is the only answer to our financial troubles. (Site updates: The austerians are the economists and politicians who believe austerity is the only answer to ou...
Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.
Over the course of the past week, actions by offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement have brought attention to the issues of student tuition hikes and food sovereignty. (RT @jamiekilstein: In case you missed it @OccupyWallSt are still badasses.
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The problem is that the President does not have line item veto power; it’s all or nothing. This is called a poison pill. As part of the short term spending bill, President Obama had to sign the resolution in order to prevent the federal government from shutting down today, March 27, when the current funding was set to expire. He doesn’t get to cherry pick what parts he signs into law. He either lets the goverment shut down or he signs the poison pill.
The Monsanto Protection Act is outrageous to anyone who pays attention to our current food safety issues. It essentially temporary deregulates genetically modified organisms (GMOs). It grants the U.S. Department of Agriculture the authority to override a judicial ruling stopping the planting of a genetically modified crop, and thus grants temporary permits for farmers to plant and grow genetically modified crops.
Notice the difference?Private Enterprise Advisory Council for ALEC This is the new name for the "Private Enterprise" Board of DirectorsThis is part of the ALEC "re-organization" - the Edelman PR whitewashing of ALEC - happening at the secretive ALEC offices. Now it is thePrivate Enterprise Advisory Council for ALECand theNational Chairmanis alobbyist: Steve Seale of Mississippi The new Chairman of the Private Enterprise Advisory Council - has NEVER worked in the private sectorEXCEPT - as a lobbyist.
The Atlantic Death of the Salesmen: Technology's Threat to Retail Jobs The Atlantic James Cash Penney had a dubious name for a department-store entrepreneur, sounding more like a fictional character from a capitalist comic book.
Amnesty International says the world has become an increasingly dangerous place for refugees and migrants in its annual report.
In this week’s New Yorker, Jane Mayer, who has covered the industrialists Charles and David Koch extensively, chronicles the fate of two documentaries produced for PBS, Alex Gibney’s Park Avenue, which explored the lives of both wealthy residents ...
In historic breakthrough, Mass. Sen. Elizabeth Warren offers bill to force the Federal Reserve to finance student loans at 0.75% with no cost to taxpayers; measure embodies principles needed for...
The American Legislative Exchange Council, whose members include lawmakers and corporations, drafts legislation on which 1,000 bills introduced annually in state legislatures are based.
Republicans obstructionist stances have now reached the level of treason. Materially affecting the country from within is equivalent to war from without.
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Europe’s economic turmoil is dragging the world economy down. Despite this destructive display of unnecessary masochism, many Americans still demand the sequester be allowed to continue slashing public spending.
A GIFT FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA TO THE GOP By Reid Gelhaar The Republican Party has just been served a huge gift by the Obama Administration.
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