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The Audacity of Nope

Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 8:48 AM EST (AL JAZEERA)

No one is willing to sign a serious climate agreement. The Americans can't even given an indication of how much they'll cut. When asked, they say nope – because Congress still has to debate the issue.

politics, climate-change, usa, africa, america, barcelona, copenhagen, reducing-carbon-emmission

Legislation To Provide Bailouts In Secret for Selected Big Banks and Financial Institutions: TARP on Steroids

Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:02 AM EDT (North America Inter Press Service)

Big banks will not be forced to downsize and the public will be the last to know when they fail, a controversial bill unveiled by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Congressman Barney Frank proposes.

politics, bailout, federal-reserve, secret, obama-administration, alan-greenspan, robert-reich, big-banks, congressman-barney-frank, behind-closed-doors

Hidden Trades by Goldman Sachs & Others Account for 10%-15% of Volumes: SEC Considers Limiting

Seeded on Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:08 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Dark pools, private venues used to match large trades, have triggered concerns that stock pricing may not be transparent and that a privileged few are benefiting. There are more than 40 U.S.

business, goldman-sachs, 10-15-of-volumes, hidden-trades, profits-to-elite-few

Barack Obama Bush: Change We Can't Believe In

Seeded on Sun Oct 11, 2009 4:51 AM EDT (New Statesman Contents)

Barack Obama promised a sharp break from the Bush era, yet he seems to have stepped into the shoes of his disgraced predecessor. But why? How?

politics, barack-obama, george-w-bush, change, wars, policies, change-we-can-believe-in

The Demise of the Dollar and The Invasion of Iran

Seeded on Tue Oct 6, 2009 6:37 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

This article is about the demise of the dollar, a move that's been in the works for years and was propelled forward by the collapse and printing of money on the watch of "Hank" Paulson, the 74th United States Treasury Secretary, during the waning days of the Bush administration.

politics, bush, china, russia, currency, paulson, printing-money, oil-currency, basket-of-currencies-for-oil, bush-money-men

The Artic Sea is Turning into a Corrosive Acid

Seeded on Sun Oct 4, 2009 5:04 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Cold water absorbs more carbon than warm water. As a result, the Arctic Ocean is turning into a corrosive acid eating away the shells of mollusks and other animals supporting the food chain (including salmon).

science, co2, carbon, industry, coal, artic-sea, acidic-oceans, collapsing-food-chain

Illegal GM "Triffid" flax shows up in 16 countries

Seeded on Sat Oct 3, 2009 8:04 PM EDT (GMWatch)

Seeded by Pamela Drew (Clipped by truthlover)

The UK became the 16th country to report contamination of its food chain on Monday, when the UK Food Standards Agency reported the illegal GMO in cereals and bakery products on the European Food Safety Authority's Rapid Alert System web site

world-news, monsanto, roundup-ready-nation, biotech-brigade, food-contamination, gmo-contamination, gmwatch, eu-gmo-free, genetically-engineered-flax-triffid-flax, gmo-free-ireland

Progressives Prepare to Pressure Reid to Include Public Option in Senate Health Care Bill

Seeded on Thu Oct 1, 2009 6:51 PM EDT (Common Dreams)

Progressives will pressure Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Public Option.

politics, senate, public-option, progressives, health-care-bill, senate-majority-leader-harry-reid

Jim Hightower Exposes the Next Derivative-styly Bonazza for Banks: Bundled Life Insurance Policies Sold as Investments to the Super Rich by Corporations like Goldman Sachs

Seeded on Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:26 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

Bundling life-insurance policies will make billions for Goldman Sachs and other corporations and wealthy investors but will raise the price of life-insurance for the person buying life-insurance.

politics, goldman-sachs, super-rich, life-insurance-policies, life-insurance-will-cost-more

Ex-Bush officials face lawsuits over their actions

Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:08 PM EDT

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer (Clipped by truthlover)

High-ranking government officials are usually protected from claims that they violated a person's civil rights. In lawsuits stemming from law enforcement and intelligence efforts after the Sept. 11 attacks, three federal courts have left open the possibility that former Attorney General John Ashcroft and a lieutenant may be held personally liable.

Continue reading this entry ...

politics, us, lawsuit, john-ashcroft, ashcroft

The Politics of Lying and Deceit

Seeded on Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:17 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

A thoughtful essay on how telling lies is part of the public expectation and what the public actually gets. Lying is easier, since the liar knows ahead of time what people want to hear... and then gives it to them.

politics, obama, bush, afghanistan, budget, lies, telling-the-truth, support-the-rich

Supreme Court Looks At Corporate Personhood

Seeded on Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:17 PM EDT (The New York Times)

The question at the heart of one of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year is simple: What constitutional rights should corporations have? The Supreme Court seems poised to give corporations even more rights.

politics, supreme-court, founding-fathers, corporate-personhood, corporate-rights, corproations, rights-of-persons

Captialism's Nemesis Michael Moore

Seeded on Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:11 PM EDT (The New York Times)

The Nemesis of the right, of capitalism, and the Champion of Working Men and Women, Michael Moore: criticized by liberals for being impolite, avoided by those who shun exposure, and now the new movie!

entertainment, liberal, guns, workers, progressive, automobiles, roman-catholic, michael-moore, worker-rights, captialism

Iraqi Man Who Threw His Shoes at Bush Explains What Motivated Him

Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:52 PM EDT ()

The Iraqi man who threw his shoe at then-President Bush explains why he did it. He was moved by the destruction and the hatred of the American occupation across Iraq.

politics, iraq, bush, occupation, iraqi-journalist, zaidi, invastion, american-occupation

New bin Laden Tape Warns on US Support of Isreali Settlements on Palestinian Land and Continuing Afghan War

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:11 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

In his new tape bin Laden warns that unless the US changes its support of Israel occupying Palestinian lands, and unless the war in Afghanistan ends, the war against America will continue.

world-news, bush, terrorism, al-qaeda, gates, bin-laden, american-support-of-israel, israeli-settlements-on-palestinian-land

Why Are We Citizens Paying Taxpayer Dollars to Support Outrageous CEO Salaries?

Seeded on Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:30 PM EDT ()

In 2008, the 20 financial chief executives whose firms have received the most bailout money received average pay packages worth 34 times the president's $400,000 annual salary--319 times more than average American workers.

politics, wasted-taxpayer-dollars, ceo-salaries-of-taxpayer-supported-corporations, obamas-salary, outrageous-salaries, system-needs-fixing

Cyber Generation Using Meditation to Counter Stress

Seeded on Tue Sep 8, 2009 7:05 PM EDT (The Boston Globe)

Young folks in college are using meditation as a way of countering the stress of daily life. The article tells the story of one meditation center in Massachusetts having retreats restricted to young adults.

health, people, life, of, to, stress, meditation, buddhism, daily, cyber

Swedish Article Presents Evidence on Alleged Israeli Harvesting Organs from Palestinian Boys and Men

Seeded on Sun Sep 6, 2009 12:58 PM EDT ()

This shocking story presents evidence that Israeli forces capture Palestinians allegedly to take out their organs and sell them and also take Palestinians they just killed and helicopter the body into Israel.

world-news, israel, palestinians, war-crime, medical-ethics, organ-theft, israeli-troops, organ-trade, organ-selling, killing-for-organs

The Tsunami Coming from the Greenland Ice Melt

Seeded on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:08 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Greenland's ice is melting more rapidly than anyone predicted. f the Greenland ice sheet disappeared sea levels around the world would rise by seven metres, as 10% of the world's fresh water is currently frozen here.

science, global-warming, change, greenland-ice, water-temperatures, artic-ice-free, metling-faster-than-expected

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Robber Baron Bankers: How Banks Take Money from Taxpayers with Full Government Complicity

Seeded on Wed Sep 2, 2009 7:59 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

The basic story of the banking industry is that these folks have the system set up so that they should make money pretty much regardless of interest rates or bad speculative bets because all the risk falls on the taxpayers.

business, banks, tarp, bailouts, taxpayer-money, taxpayer-burdens, bank-benefits, ceos-iof-banks

Trillions to Bail out Banks, We have No Reform AND FEDs Approve New AIG CEO 10 million a year

Seeded on Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:21 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

The new CEO of AIG has $10 million in remuneration for the job of running a company the Feds gave $180 Billion of taxpayer dollars to support. There has been no reform in the financial industry which was the promise explicit in the bailout.

business, wall-street, bailout, reform, timothy-geithner, business-news, derivatives, executive-compensation, wall-street-bailout, larry-summers

This Isn't Health Care Reform, It's Robbery

Seeded on Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:28 AM EDT (Truthdig)

Seeded by Gulliver's Island (Clipped by truthlover)

Capitalists, as my friend Father Michael Doyle says, should never be allowed near a health care system. They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves in the desperate scramble to pay for medical care. The sick do not have a choice.

politics, obama, democrats, congress, republicans, money, government, health-care, senate, law

Scary Alice in Wonderland Hearing on Bush Wiretappying and Obama's Wanting the Case Dismissed

Seeded on Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:56 PM EDT (Wired News)

Obama wants the case dismissed and one judge says he feels like Alice in Wonderland. This case illustrates even the present administration's desire to keep the American public in the dark about the degree to which we have been illegally spied upon...

politics, bush-administration, spying, at-t, obama-administration, illegal-spying-on-citizens, wiretappying

Robert Wright on a One Week Insight (Vipassana) Meditation Course

Seeded on Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:21 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Robert Wright, whose most recent book is "The Evolution of God," sings the praises of doing meditation for a week in Western Massachusetts and describes some of the attitudinal changes he experienced.

religion, meditation, buddhism, walking, retreat, weeds, lizard, vipassana, robert-wright, vegetarian-food

The Public Option Is Essential To Any Legitimate Health Care Reform

Seeded on Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:13 PM EDT (Common Dreams)

David Swanson points out in this short video that the public option is essential to an Obama Health Care Reform bill.

politics, obama, health-care, public-option, campaign-contributions, obama-contributions-from-health-care-interests, time-to-draw-the-line

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Recent Votes

Geithner Singled Out In TARP Watchdog Neil Barofsky's Scathing Report On AIG Bailout
Source: The Huffington Post
A brutal report issued Monday by a government watchdog holds Timothy Geithner -- then the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and now the nation's Treasury Secretary -- responsible for overpayments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Stree …
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The Audacity of Nope
Source: AL JAZEERA
No one is willing to sign a serious climate agreement. The Americans can't even given an indication of how much they'll cut. When asked, they say nope – because Congress still has to debate the issue.
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A Free Credit Score Followed by a Monthly Bill
Source: The New York Times
A Free Credit Report that is not free.
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Clinton: We're not getting through to Pakistanis
Source: MiamiHerald.com
" After three days of encounters with America-bashing Pakistanis - who rejected her contention that the U.S. and Pakistan face a common enemy - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that "we're not getting through."
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Legislation To Provide Bailouts In Secret for Selected Big Banks and Financial Institutions: TARP on Steroids
Source: North America Inter Press Service
Big banks will not be forced to downsize and the public will be the last to know when they fail, a controversial bill unveiled by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Congressman Barney Frank proposes.
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