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ALEC Anti-Union Push Includes Key Players From Michigan, Arizona Think Tanks | NationofChange
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 10:37 AM EDT ()
The American Legislative Exchange Council, which backs free-market legislation in the states, has been controversial in part because its membership includes major corporations as well as state legislators. Largely unnoticed has been the influence wielded by a third group of ALE …
New York and Los Angeles City Councils Approve Responsible Banking Ordinances
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 10:26 AM EDT ()
City councils in the nation’s two largest cities have approved laws aimed at forcing banks to invest more in their local communities. The Los Angeles city council unanimously passed its “responsible banking” ordinance yesterday afternoon; the New Yor …
Inequality or Sustainability? Why Madison Needs Marx | NationofChange
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 10:14 AM EDT ()
Marx famously said that the bourgeoisie unwittingly produces its own gravediggers. Marx was convinced that capitalism inexorably gives rise to an elite social class whose members create an economy that contains the seeds of its own destruction. The prime movers in Marx's theory …
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Summoned Before Senate Committee
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 8:47 AM EDT (McClatchy)
The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday summoned JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to testify under oath about the huge losses his company suffered on an investment strategy that sank JPMorgan’s share price, heightened concerns about the efficacy of new regulations and tarnis …
BREAKING: Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Frigging Fecking Fracking Gag Rule on Toxic Chemicals Used in Fracking
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 5:04 AM EDT (NPR)
Fracking exposes citizens to a wild mix of highly toxic chemicals and carcinogens. So when patients show up at their doctors' offices, the doctors need to figure out which chemicals are the likely culprits. The doctors of sick patients can, with great effort, access the names of …
Little Green Footballs - Breitbart Editor John Nolte Calls for Right Wing 'Twitter War'
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 3:04 PM EDT (Little Green Footballs)
There is no such thing as right-wing violence. Not at all. Teachers who take kids to protests without parents’ permission should be murdered. — John Nolte(@NolteNC) November 5, 2011
Ordinary citizens protest fracking because it contaminates drinking water and spews carcinogens while President Obama cheers the frackers on
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 1:52 PM EDT ()
Fracking can provide massive amounts of methane gas to be used domestically and millions of gallons of wastewater containing carcinogens. There are roughly 400,000 of these wells across America and they have created a lot of committed opponents. During Obama's State of the Un …
Daily Kos: Mitt Romney tries to erase his Jeremiah Wright attack
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 12:53 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they've described. [...] I think what we've seen so far from the Obama campaign is a campaign of character assassination. [...] I hope that isn't the course of this campaign. So in regards to that PAC, I …
Paul Krugman: Why We Regulate
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 12:14 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Why, exactly, are banks special? Because history tells us that banking is and always has been subject to occasional destructive “panics,” which can wreak havoc with the economy as a whole. Current right-wing mythology has it that bad banking is always the result of …
How the Christian Right's Homophobia Scares Away Religious Young People | Belief | AlterNet
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 11:07 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
In response to the latest gay-bashing vote in North Carolina, evangelical writer and speaker Rachel Held Evans wrote an impassioned plea to her fellow Christians to just cut it out. She points to statistics showing how much damage the church has sustained because of i …
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