9
Things The Rich Don't
Want You To Know About Taxes
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Two-Thirds
of U.S. Companies and
68% of foreign Corporations
Do Not
Pay federal income Taxes,
according
to a congressional report
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https://itep.org/55-profitable-corporations
-zero-corporate-tax/
30
companies paid 'less than zero'
taxes in recent years
General Electric made big waves earlier
in the year when The
New York Times reported
that the company paid no taxes in the
U.S. in 2010,
and in fact claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.
How
could a company that made $14.2 billion in profits worldwide
avoid paying taxes? G.E. wasn’t the only one,
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Chart:
Who's Bearing the Tax Burden?
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The
Nobel Prize-winning economist
Joseph E. Stiglitz on why America’s
future prosperity depends on tax reform today.
Watch this Video,
Part
One below:
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Watch this Video,
Part
Two below:
In
part two of his interview, economist Joseph E. Stiglitz says corporate
tax abuse has helped make America unequal and undemocratic. But the
Nobel Prize-winner has a plan to change that.
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Reforming
Taxation to Promote Growth and Equity
(his white paper (a .pdf form) outlines concrete policy measures that can restore
equitable and sustainable ...)
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Published: May 28, 2014. Download the PDF. This white paper outlines
concrete policy measures that can restore equitable and sustainable
...
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The
corporations
that occupy Congress
You’re
paying taxes, so why
aren’t energy companies?
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The
Job Killers
Why are Republicans determined
to snuff the recovery?
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/01/07/
137866/obama-more-jobs-bush/?mobile=nc
Paul Krugman on
Why Jobs Come First
http://vimeo.com/57192276
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Paul Krugman on
Recession & Recovery
http://vimeo.com/57196229
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times
columnist Paul Krugman explains
why our top priority should be getting
America back to work
– if only Congress and the President would stop
throwing distractions in the way.
He also details the catastrophic impact the
economic downturn continues to have on
average Americans, as well as avenues
of hope and recovery.
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Why German
Labor Policies
are Better than America's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c48X8rDfqbw
Growth
through Innovation
Lessons for the United States
from the German Labor Market Miracle
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Are
Small Businesses
Really Big Job Creators?
http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/220616
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The
president needs to come up with real job-creation proposals.
And if
Republicans block those proposals,
he needs to make a Harry Truman-style campaign against the do-nothing
G.O.P. ... and
the millions of
Americans who should have jobs,
but don’t.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/
opinion/ the-wrong-worries.html?
_r=2&src=me&ref=general
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As
the Wall Street Journal noted in the
last
month of Bush’s term, the former president
had the “worst track record for job creation since the government
began keeping records.”
And job creation under Bush was anemic long
before the recession began. Bush’s
supply-side economics “fostered the
weakest jobs and income growth in more than
six decades,” along with “sluggish business
investment and weak gross domestic product
growth,” the Center for American
Progress’ Joshua Picker explained.
“On every major measurement” of
income and employment, “the country
lost ground during Bush’s two terms,”
the National Journal’s Ron Brownstein
observed, parsing Census data.
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My main idea is to Largely to put
People back to work so they pay taxes
before they lose their job skills.
Works
Progress Administration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Works_Progress_Administration
& Import Tariffs and
a minimum tax on Corporations.
Largely to put People back to work so they pay taxes before
they loose there job skills.
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Will
Dropouts Save America?
By MICHAEL ELLSBERG
Published: October 22, 2011
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Malik
is part of a generation of
20-somethings that’s experiencing
what it’s like to graduate from college,
move back in with your parents, and then
get stuck there. Though estimates vary, a
recent study by Twentysomething Inc., a consulting firm specializing
in marketing to young adults, predicted that of the 2 million graduates
in the class of 2011,
85 percent will return home because they can’t secure jobs
that
might give them more choices and more control over their lives.
Half
a century ago,
77 percent of women
and 65 percent of
men had
attained
traditional markers of
maturity by their 30th
birthday:
They had left
home, finished school,
gotten a job, married, and
started a family. According
to the U.S. Census Bureau,
by 2000, less than half of
30-year-old women and
just one-third of 30-year-old
men had attained similar
markers of adulthood.
Infrastructure projects to create jobs and create Energy not import it.
Along with Wind and Solar
to double Our Energy out put in 5 Years;
1) With the New reactors many
http://www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/
power plants
http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Generation_III_reactor,
2) reprocessing,
3) and Yucca Mountain;
for once we would have a complete solution;
for
the America People to consider; and easier to accept.
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I do not think any one have tried to sell America
that we need jobs even in the short term,
that we could build 25 to 50 Nuclear plants
along with Wind and Solar
to double Our Energy out put in 5 Years;
and on the Nuclear front
the Nuclear Energy
Industry has had 30 years
to build reactors safer and simpler to build.
that France is using 17% of Nuclear fuel
that is reprocessed,
Nuclear Power in France | French Nuclear Energy
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/
Country-Profiles/Countries-A-F/France/
France chose the closed fuel cycle at the
very beginning of its nuclear program,
involving reprocessing used fuel so as
to recover uranium and plutonium for ...
ordered Yucca Mountain open and used?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB100014240529702047953
04577221094233504880.html?mod=e2fb
According to
the Center
for
Budget and Policy Priorities
Where
Would We Be Without
the Bush Tax Cuts?
According to the Center
for
Budget and Policy Priorities,
with a significantly smaller deficit.
Fully 42% of the 2009 federal
budget deficit is due to the Bush
tax cuts.
Another 40% is derived from
defense and national security increases.
Only 6% is derived from
increases
in discretionary domestic
spending.
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October 4, 2008--Comparing Debt
Update
This chart, from Pat
Garofalo, shows the
federal debt as a percentage
of the GDP:
September 22, 2008--Comparing Debt
When Bill Clinton became president, the
total federal debt, including
both public debt
and intra governmental holdings, was
$4.188 Trillion
. When he left office, the debt was $5.728
Trillion. In other words,
the federal debt, in nominal terms, climbed 26.88547%.
Thus far (with about four months to go), the federal debt
under
George W Bush has grown from
$5.728 Trillion to $9.727 Trillion
or
$3.999 Trillion. That's a 69.814944%
increase, more than twice
the percentage
increase
under Clinton.
Source: Treasury Direct.
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National Commission of Fiscal Responsibility
and Reform
http://justthefacts.jottit.com/federal_budget
America's
$3.7 trillion wars: By the numbers
http://www.warresisters.org/pages/
piechart.htm
Total Outlays (Federal Funds): $2,650 billion
MILITARY: 54% and $1,449 billion
NON-MILITARY: 46% and $1,210 billion
Current Military
$965 billion:
• Military Personnel $129 billion
• Operation & Maint. $241 billion
• Procurement $143 billion
• Research & Dev. $79 billion
• Construction $15 billion
• Family Housing $3 billion
• DoD misc. $4 billion
• Retired Pay $70 billion
• DoE nuclear weapons $17 billion
• NASA (50%) $9 billion
• International Security $9 billion
• Homeland Secur. (military) $35 billion
• State Dept. (partial) $6 billion
• other military (non-DoD) $5 billion
• “Global War on Terror” $200 billion
[We added $162 billion to the
last item to supplement the Budget’s grossly
underestimated
$38
billion in “allowances” to be spent
in 2009 for the “War on Terror,”
which
includes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan]
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Past Military,
$484 billion:
• Veterans’ Benefits $94 billion
• Interest on national debt (80%) created by military spending, $390
billion
Human Resources
$789 billion:
• Health/Human Services
• Soc. Sec. Administration
• Education Dept.
• Food/Nutrition programs
• Housing & Urban Dev.
• Labor Dept.
• other human resources.
General Government
$304 billion:
• Interest on debt (20%)
• Treasury
• Government personnel
• Justice Dept.
• State Dept.
• Homeland Security (15%)
• International Affairs
• NASA (50%)
• Judicial
• Legislative
• other general govt.
Physical Resources
$117 billion:
• Agriculture
• Interior
• Transportation
• Homeland Security (15%)
• HUD
• Commerce
• Energy (non-military)
• Environmental Protection
• Nat. Science Fdtn.
• Army Corps Engineers
• Fed. Comm. Commission
• other physical resources
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HOW THESE FIGURES WERE DETERMINED
current military” includes Dept. of Defense ($653 billion), the
military portion from other departments ($150 billion), and an additional
$162 billion to supplement the Budget’s misleading and vast underestimate
of only $38 billion for the “war on terror.” “Past military” represents
veterans’ benefits plus 80% of the interest on the debt.*
The Government Deception
The pie chart below is the government view of the budget.
This is
a distortion of how our income tax dollars are spent because it
includes Trust Funds (e.g., Social Security), and the expenses of
past military
spending are not distinguished from nonmilitary spending. For a
more accurate representation of how your Federal income tax dollar
is
really spent, see the large chart (top).
Source: Congressional Budget Office for FY2008
These figures are from an analysis of detailed tables in the “Analytical
Perspectives” book of the Budget of the United States Government,
Fiscal Year 2009. The figures are federal funds, which do not include
trust funds — such as Social Security — that are raised and spent
separately from income taxes. What you pay
(or don’t pay) by April
15, 2008, goes to the federal funds portion of the budget. The
government practice of combining trust and federal funds began
during the Vietnam War, thus making the human needs portion of
the budget seem larger and the military portion smaller.
*Analysts differ on how much of the debt
stems from the military;
other groups estimate 50% to 60%. We use 80% because we believe
if
there had been no military spending most (if not all) of the national
debt would have been eliminated. For further explanation, please
see box at bottom of page*.
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*Why Do the Percentages Vary from Group to Group?
The U.S. Government says that military spending amounts to 20% of
the budget, the Center for Defense
Information (CDI) reports 51%, the Friends
Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) reports 43%,
and the War Resisters League claims 54%. Why the variation?
Different groups have different purposes in how they present the
budget figures. WRL’s goal has been to show the percentage of money
that goes to the military (current and past) so that people paying
— or not paying — their federal taxes would know what portion of
their payments are military-oriented. Also, some of the numbers are
for different fiscal years.
There are at least five different factors to consider when analyzing
the U.S. budget:
discretionary spending vs. total spending
budget authority vs. outlays
function vs. agency/department
federal funds vs. unified budget
time period
Discretionary Spending. The Center for Defense Information (CDI)
has used "discretionary" spending — budget items that Congress
is allowed to tinker with — which excludes so-called "mandatory" spending
items (such as interest on the national debt and retirement pay).
WRL does not make such distinctions and lumps them together.
Past Military Spending. If the government does not have enough money
to finance a war (or spending for its hefty military budgets), they
borrow through loans, savings bonds, and so forth. This borrowing
(done heavily during World War II and the Vietnam War) comes back
in later years as "hidden" military spending through interest
payments on the national debt.
How much of the debt is considered “military” varies from group. As mentioned
above, WRL uses 80% whereas FCNL uses 48%. Consequently, FCNL reports that
43% of the FY2007 budget is military (29% current military and 14% past military).
WRL's figures are 54% of the FY2009 budget (36% current — which includes 7%
for Iraq & Afghanistan wars — and 18% past).
Outlays vs. Budget Authority. WRL uses "outlays" rather
than "budget authority," which is often preferred by the
government, news media, and groups such as CDI. Outlays refer to
spending done in a particular fiscal year, whereas budget authority
refers to new spending authorized over a period of several future
years. Consequently, CDI reported $421 billion in FY2005 budget authority
for the military and $2,200 billion "over the next five years." While
WRL reports outlays of $803 billion, plus an anticipated $162 billion
in supplemental spending requests for Iraq and Afghanistan wars,
plus $484 billion in past military spending — totaling $1,449 billion
— just for FY2009.
Function vs. Agency/Department. Not all military spending is done
by the Department of Defense. For example, the Department of Energy
is responsible for nuclear weapons. Consequently, calculations of
military spending should consider the function of the budget item
regardless of the department or agency in charge of it. However,
not everyone agrees what constitutes a military function. For example,
WRL includes the 70% of Homeland Security (which includes the Coast
Guard), and half of NASA in military spending, while other groups
do not.
Federal Funds vs. Unified Budget. WRL uses "federal funds" rather
than the "unified budget" figures that the government prefers.
Federal funds exclude trust fund money (e.g., social security), which
is raised separately (e.g., the FICA and Medicare deductions in paychecks)
and is specifically ear-marked for particular programs. By combining
trust funds with federal funds, the percentage of spending on the
military appears smaller, a deceptive practice first used by the
government in the late 1960s as the Vietnam War became more and more
unpopular.
What period are we talking about? Finally, there is some variation
in figures because different fiscal years are used. WRL’s figures
(above) are for FY2009 (Oct. 1, 2008 to Sept. 30, 2009) as are the
most recent U.S. government figures. FCNL sometimes does their analysis
for the most recent completed year or FY2007 (Oct. 1, 2006 to Sept.
30, 2007).
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America's $3.7 trillion wars: By the numbers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
Indirect and delayed costs
According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO)report published
in October 2007,
the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total
of $2.4trillion dollars by 2017
when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed
with borrowed money.
The CBO estimated that of the $2.4 trillion long-term price tag
for the war, about $1.9 trillion of that would be spent on Iraq.[9]
Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and winner of
the Nobel Prize in Economics, has stated the total costs of the
Iraq War on the US economy
will be three trillion dollars in a moderate scenario,
and possibly more in the most recent published study, published
in March 2008.[10] Stiglitz has stated:
"The figure we arrive at is more than $3 trillion. Our calculations
are based on conservative assumptions.
They are conceptually simple, even if occasionally technically complicated.
A $3 trillion figure for the
total cost strikes us as judicious, and probably errors on the low
side. Needless to say, this number represents the cost only to the
United States. It does not reflect
the enormous cost to the rest of the world, or to Iraq."[10]
The CRS estimated in September 2006 that total expenditures had topped
half a trillion dollars.[2] Additionally, the extended combat and
equipment
loss have placed a severe financial strain on the
U.S. Army, causing the elimination of non-essential expenses such
as travel and civilian hiring.[11][12] As the total passed US$450
billion, the cost for the
Iraq war reached approximately $1500 per person in
the United States.[13] If the Iraq war were to windup costing 1.9
trillion dollars, the cost would be
over 4.2 times higher ($6,300 per United States citizen.)
This would put the expense at $25,000 for an average
family of four, or $32,000 per family if Afghanistan is included.
As a comparison, with this money he estimates[13] that one could
have
built 8 million houses,
paid 15 million teachers,
paid for the child care of 530 million kids,
paid for the scholarship of 43 million students,
offered social safety net during 50 year to Americans.
Stigltz also said that United States help for Africa is only $5
billion, soon to be superseded by China. $5 billions correspond to
only the spending of 10 days for the war by the United States.
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Genetic Modified Orgasms
Supreme Court Rules: Monsanto's GMO Alfalfa
Will Remain Illegal
Your Food seed patented and own by One corporation; Genetic Modified
Orgasms
Monsanto: THE BAD SEED
Monsanto From Wikipedia
Posilac was banned from use in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and
most of Europe, by 2000 or earlier.
European Union Scientific Committee Says Monsanto's Posilac (rBGH
...
Bovine somatotropin, or artificial growth hormone in your milk.
Safeway in the northwestern United States stopped buying from dairy
farmers that use rBST in January 2007.[30] The two Safeway plants
produce milk for all of Oregon, Southwest Washington, and parts of
northern California. Safeway's plant in San Leandro, CA had already
been rBST-free for two years.[31]
Kroger has banned rBST-derived milk from all its stores (including
its subsidiaries such as Ralph's) as of February 2008,[32]
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There's
only one way to counter the power of organized money, and that's
with the power of organized people.
That
Government Of the People, By the People, For the People, shall
not perish from the earth."
The
Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863, is a speech by Abraham Lincoln:
"It
is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before us -- that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the
last full measure of devotion -- that
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died
in vain -- that
this nation, under God, shall
have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
January
15, 2010
On
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL, Frank looks into the not-so-distant past to
describe what America looked like before the time of President
Obama, focusing on the last ten years
Will Rogers once said, "The short memories of American voters
is what keeps our politicians in office."
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BILL MOYERS: But
you called it demented. I mean, you know, demented means crazy,
mad. Mad and crazy enough to cause us to forget the world before
Obama?
THOMAS FRANK: I'll give you an example what I mean. So, I was on
a radio show the other day with a tea party leader, you know, one
of these protest leaders. And he seemed like a good guy. But what
he did say that struck me was he said he was really against monopoly,
you know? And we're laboring under all these monopolies, all these
concentrated powers here in America. And what
we need to do is get back to free markets. And then we can do away
with that. And it was mind-blowing.
Because
if you look back any further than the Obama Administration,
since, I mean, 1980 in this country, we have been in the grip
of, you know, of this pursuit of ever-purer free markets. That's
what American politics has been about. That's what has delivered
this, you know, the awful circumstances that we find ourselves
in today. And to think that that's what's
missing, that's what we need to get back to, is--
BILL MOYERS: That's more than nostalgia. What is that?
THOMAS FRANK: Well, that's the disease of our time. You know, that
sort of instant forgetting.
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On BILL MOYERS JOURNAL, Frank looks into the not-so-distant past
to describe what
America looked like before the time of President Obama, focusing
on the last ten years, which he's called "A
Low, Dishonest Decade" in a recent column for the WALL STREET
JOURNAL.
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Frank
believes that many of the crises that afflicted America during
the oughts should be laid at the feet of the conservative movement.
Frank's list is long: the inadequate response to Katrina; the
Enron, Abramoff and Madoff scandals; the mismanaged Iraqi reconstruction;
two mismanaged and unpopular wars; and the 2008 financial disaster.
Frank argues that it can all be traced back to an intentional
dismantling of the government's oversight infrastructure, driven
by a belief that government is always bad: "This
is why the wreckage that I've described can't be separated
from the conservative ideology and the conservative movement,
generally: Because of their hatred of big government and their
disdain and contempt for the federal workforce."
But according to Frank, the financial disaster has wiped clean Americans'
memories. They are mad at the bankers and mad about the economy,
and conservatives may ride a wave of populist outrage back into power.
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December
11, 2009
BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal.
There's
only one way to counter the power of organized money, and that's
with the power of organized people.
This is the theme of our
broadcast this week.
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Americans for Financial
Reform
National People's Action
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December
11, 2009
Pushing a People's Agenda
This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke
with
several figures who give voice to ordinary Americans and are
calling for a new people’s movement to bring progressive
change to Washington and the nation.
George Goehl, executive director of National People’s Action, said:
“I think more and more people are making connections around their
own economic insecurity to what's happening with the banks and on
Wall Street. So, suddenly we've got a growing movement of people
who want to get out on the streets, put pressure on the banks, [and]
they recognize it's a David and Goliath fight. And it's only through
their action that we're gonna make things happen.”
Renowned historian Howard Zinn, author of A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF
THE UNITED STATES and co-editor of the new film THE PEOPLE SPEAK,
said:
“Don't depend
on our leaders to do what needs to be done. Because whenever
the government has done anything to bring about change, it's
done so only because it's been pushed and prodded by social
movements, by ordinary people organizing. You know, Lincoln
pushed by the anti-slavery movement. You
know, Johnson and Kennedy pushed by the southern black movement.
And maybe hopefully
Obama today, maybe he will be pushed by people today who have
such high hopes in him, and who want to see him fulfill those
hopes.”
A central task in forming a people’s agenda in a diverse country
like America is determining what it is that the people want. Some
recent polling from Gallup suggests that progressives may face a
steep challenge in mobilizing a populist grassroots movement. |
The 5% reported Unemployment rate
is
ONLY
Recently Unemployed
REAL
UNEMPLOYMENT 22.7%
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Remember in the 1950 & 1960 women were not working in chart above
The
Labor Participation Rate:
The
Employment-to-Population Ratio:
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000
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Revolutions
are all about jobs bad link
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The Works Progress Administration (renamed
in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA)
was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing
millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects,
including the construction of public buildings and roads.
Works
Progress Administration
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Paul Krugman on
Why Jobs Come First
http://vimeo.com/57192276
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Paul Krugman on
Recession & Recovery
http://vimeo.com/57196229
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York
Times
columnist Paul Krugman explains
why our top priority should be getting
America back to work
– if only Congress and the President would stop
throwing distractions in the way.
He also details the catastrophic impact the
economic downturn continues to have on
average Americans, as well as avenues
of hope and recovery.
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Why German
Labor Policies
are Better than America's
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=c48X8rDfqbw
Growth
through Innovation
Lessons for the United States
from the German Labor
Market Miracle (.pdf)
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America's
disappearing jobs
Disabled
Americans Shrink
Size of U.S. Labor Force
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America's
wealth gap
'unsustainable,
' may worsen:
Harvard study
5
reasons why we're losing
the war on poverty
The
Housing Chart
That's Worth 1000 Words
The
Housing Chart
That's Worth 1000 Words
The
U.S. Housing Crisis:
Where are home loans underwater?
interactive graph
copy and paste the following below into a browser:
bad link
http://www.zillow.com/visuals/negative-equity/#4/39.98/-106.88
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America's
$3.7 trillion wars:
By the numbers
One-in-three vets say Iraq, Afghan wars were not worth
it ;
...
after 10 years of combat America should be focusing
less on
foreign affairs and more on its own problems ...
The
faces of the Men and Women fighting Our Wars
msnbc.com
a slide show
Hiring Our Heroes' spouses
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Tell Congress to End the Bias
Toward Corporations and Special Interests
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Civilization:
The West and the Rest,
By Niall Ferguson; Reviewed by Piers Brendon
Civilization:
The West and the Rest
with Niall Ferguson DVD
Too
control the price of gasoline over night,
completely stop the export of gasoline from the U.S.
In a first, gas and other fuels
are top U.S. export
Gasoline: The new big U.S. export
Drilling The Big GOP Lie:
The US Exports More Gasoline Than It Imports
Since
the Oil company would not allow that,
just put an Export Tariff on gasoline of: $1, or $2, or $3 dollars per gallon.
And berate the Oil companies for selling to other Countries at the pain of the
U.S. persons.
http://cdn.front.moveon.org/
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/bigoil500.jpg
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(Reuters)
- The pursuit of austerity measures and deficit
cuts is pushing the world economy
towards disaster
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A
big majority of Americans want taxes raised on millionaires who
pay a lower rate than their secretaries . ... three-quarters
of the public favored the so-called Buffett rule.
If Congress were representative of the public, you’d see
some of that will of the people in the vote.
Mann
and Ornstein write in “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks,” their
new book on our dyspeptic politics. “Today, however, we have
no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies
with the Republican Party.”
They
describe the G.O.P. as “an insurgent outlier,” and cite studies
that Republicans are now more (Elitists, plutocracy) conservative they
have been since, well, the era when women could not vote, blacks
could not share the same public space as whites and the income
tax was a distant dream of a forward-thinking Republican reformer,
Theodore Roosevelt.
Do
Nothings and
Know Nothings
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Solar
15% Returns Lure Investments
From Google to Buffet
First
Solar Latest Casualty in Renewable Energy Shakeout
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9th
Circuit says Congress and president
failed
to help veterans Gasoline prices can be curbed: Here’s how
Senate beats back filibuster limits Democrats
Step Up Moves to Limit Senate Filibusters
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Ethics, Politics and the Law
Shuttle
Cost: More Than
AIG Bailout, Less
Than War
Bill
Clinton Says U.S. Lacks Planning
Needed for Global Success
How
China Can Defeat America
Global
economic outlook grim,
China tells U.S. trade talks
The Affordable Care Act, One Year Later
www.healthcare.gov
But
you can run on a promise to "replace and repeal"
for
years, so long as you do neither. In 2012, the
GOP can simply say, "We
couldn't get it done because
the Democrats blocked us. Vote for more
Republicans to get our real policy!" That's "the danger of
politics
— if an issue makes for a good political football,
don't expect
it to get fixed or changed."
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In
Sick Around the World,
FRONTLINE
teams
up with veteran Washington Post
foreign correspondent T.R. Reid
to
find out how
five other capitalist democracies
-- the United
Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland
--
deliver health care,
and what the United States
might learn from
their successes
and their failures.
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The
Lost War on Drugs?
Just
like alcohol probation did not work; neither did /or will it ever succeed;
the War on drugs.
New
Video: Global Commission
on Drug Policy
War on Drugs
From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
Global
war on drugs a failure,
high-level panel says - Reuters
'Global
war on drugs has failed,'
key panel says
Commission
criticizes US approach and
argues that governments should end
the
criminalization of drug use -msnbc
Panel Calls War on Drugs a Failure - WSJ
Report:
The Global War on Drugs Has Failed.
Is It
Time to Legalize?
'Global War On Drugs Has Failed,' Former World Leaders
Say
The War On Drugs Has Failed - It's Time For A New Approach.
Our Educational failings.
Waiting
for "Superman"
Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 documentary
film from director Davis Guggenheim and producer Lesley Chilcott.[2]
The film analyzes the
failures of the American public education system by following several
students as they strive to be accepted into a charter school.
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The lives of five Harlem and Bronx families in the high stakes lottery
for access to New York City's best charter schools.
Starring: Geoffrey Canada, Michelle Rhee
Directed by: Davis Guggenheim
Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
Release year: 2010
Studio: Paramount
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Cal State has also announced
an ambitious initiative to
increase
the percentage of students
who graduate in six years,
from 46 percent to 54 percent by 2016.
http://www.cbs8.com/
Global/story.asp?S=11895301
State
universities want more students to graduate
Posted: Jan 28, 2010 9:07 AM PST Updated: Jan 28, 2010 9:08 AM PST
SAN
FRANCISCO (AP) — American colleges and universities are shifting
their focus from attracting more students to making sure the ones they have
get a diploma.
...
California
State University, the nation's largest four-year system,
is one of 24 state university systems that have pledged to close
that gap. Together those systems contain about 20 percent of the country's
undergraduates.
Cal State has also announced an ambitious initiative
to
increase
the percentage of students who graduate in six years,
from 46 percent to 54 percent by 2016.
Really?
In
Six years ONLY 46 % of Four year college student graduate?
Are
the Colleges making money or educating people?
I
suggest that Public State Colleges
take tuition payment for four years
of education and a degree up front
on acceptance and
let a student attend for this payment,
and not charge per class,
until the student graduates,
therefore, the school has
an incentive to graduate
the student on time.
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Half-Billion
High: America's 5 Most Expensive Public Schools
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Plan
Would Let Students Start College After 10th Grade
A
Diploma in 10th Grade?
Solutions:
Roland
Fryer Identifies Five Habits of Successful Charter Schools
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/12/06/
roland-fryer-identifies-five-habits-of-successful-charter-schools/
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Harvard economist
(and Freakonomics friend)
Roland Fryer has
a new paper out (full
version here)
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/
faculty/fryer/files/effective_schools.pdf
that takes a look at the specific successful habits of charter schools.
Along with co-author Will Dobbie, Fryer collected “unparalleled data” on 35
elementary and middle charter schools in New York City by conducting extensive
interviews and videotaping classrooms.
Their results are fairly counter-intuitive.
They showed that traditional solutions like
class size, per-pupil expenditure,
and the number of teachers with advanced degrees are not correlated
with effectiveness, and in fact, “resource-based solutions” actually lowered
school effectiveness.
Instead, they found five qualities
that made up about 50 percent of a charter school’s effectiveness.
These are:
1. Frequent teacher feedback
2. Data driven instruction
3. High-dosage tutoring
4. Increased instructional time
5. Relentless focus on academic
achievement.
For example, a high-achieving
charter middle-school teacher gets feedback 13.42 times per semester,
versus 6.35 times at other charter schools. Similarly, high achieving
middle-schools test their students
4 times per semester, compared to 2.4 at other schools. Perhaps even
more interesting, these qualities remained paramount to a successful charter
school
despite
different styles of environment,
such as “Whole Child,” “No Excuses” (like KIPP), and teacher-retention.
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(C-span Video)
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/
program/Fryer
Harvard University Economics Professor Roland Fryer talked about his work at
the EdLab at Harvard, which conducts research into closing the achievement
gap
between minority and white students.
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Troubled
Schools Try Mimicking the Charters
http://www.nytimes.com/
2011/09/06/education/
06houston.html?pagewanted=all
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That bundle of joy
will cost you $234,900
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GE
bets $600 million on solar, sees plant up by 2013
Special Report: Is America the sick man of the globe?
During
the last period of economic expansion,
2002 to 2007, the top
1 percent
enjoyed 10.1 percent annual income growth,
adjusted
for inflation.
For the other 99 percent, the growth rate
was just 1.3 percent, Saez
found. That meant
the
top 1 percent received 65 cents of
every dollar in income growth.
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In
2007, when the world was on the brink of financial crisis, U.S.
income inequality hit its highest mark since 1928, just before
the Great Depression.
Coincidence?
Maybe not.
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Senate
Republicans Block Tax Incentives to Move Foreign-Based Jobs to
U.S.
Obama
Says Tax Breaks Shouldn't Reward Companies for Creating Jobs
Abroad
Wealthy
benefit most from tax subsidies: study
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Progress Administration
Will
healthcare reform lead to higher premiums?
Both
Parties Head Toward Elections With Dueling Stories on the Economy
War
Coming Over Defense Spending
Unemployed
find old jobs now require more skills
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How
Not to Get Sick
Mall
walking;
the gift of health for an aging body
Obama
urges AIDS hecklers to protest Republicans
Alarming new
data on HIV rates
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Special
report: Singapore swing: Playing for wealth crown
A
newly built supercomputer in China appears poised to take the
world performance lead, another sign of the country's growing
technological prowess that is likely to set off alarms about
U.S. competitiveness and national security.
Union
Accuses China of Illegal Clean Energy Subsidies
China
Aid to Clean-Energy Industry Brings U.S. Probe After Union
Complaint
U.S.
House Unites to Push China on Yuan as Frustration Mounts
China
Currency Bill Will Win Bipartisan Support in House, Backers
Predict
House
panel approves China currency bill
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Don't
throw your money down the drain, calculate the opportunity
cost
French
Senate Approves Ban on Burqas
U.S.
charges Florida pair with selling counterfeit computer chips
from China to the U.S. Navy and military
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Chevron
gets OK for world’s biggest solar power project
Gamesa
Forecasts Wind-Turbine Sales Rising to 4 Gigawatts in Three
Years
Google,
Marubeni to Lay Cables for U.S. Wind Farm Plan
Eurostar
to Buy Siemens Trains in Bid to Counter Deutsche Bahn
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U.S.
News and World Report: Albuquerque is among 10 cities listed
by as places where you can buy a house for an $800 monthly
payment.
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On
the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking
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TerreStar
Genus is a dual-mode smart phone that uses AT&T's cellular
service by default but kicks in with satellite reception as
a backup
Backed
by a half-billion dollars worth of startup capital, three years
of development is complete. Starting this winter, for $37,000,
you can buy and drive the CODA, a fully electric car that
the company says you can depend on.
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Dodd-Frank
Ban on Ratings Delays .S. Implementing Basel Rule
Basel
III Accord Reached: Capital Requirements Set at Minimum 7%
Basel
Regulators to Bolster Bank Capital Requirements
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What
Your Cell Phone Could Be Telling the Government
The
Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves
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Code
Blue
Saving Our Oceans
One woman's dream to create national parks in the sea
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President
Obama on Citizens United: "Imagine the Power This
Will Give Special Interests Over Politicians"More on Citizens United
under the "Supreme Court" section
Health
Care Recent
Alliance
for Health Reform Discussion on Implementing Health Reform
at Federal Level Friday, July 9, 2010
HealthCare
Hub
Is
Portugal's Liberal Drug Policy a Model for US?
F.D.A.
Approves 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive
This needs to be updated or removed????
open with Internet Explorer:
A
quick general Essay on Politics
It takes time to update web pages
The top 1/3 is up-to-date,
I get to the rest at a later date, sorry.
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Children
of Illegal Immigrants Spark Clash on U.S. Citizenship
Report:
5% of kids in U.S. born to illegal immigrants
Study
Looks at Babies Born to Illegal Immigrants
Illegal
immigrants drawn to 3 states for driver's licenses
"Corporate Personhood," which we
define simply as the illegitimate notion that a corporation can
claim political and civil rights to overturn democratically enacted
laws.
Author of "Not One Drop"
Riki Ott
The Campaign to Legalize Democracy
Join the Movement to Abolish Corporate Personhood
We are calling to amend the U.S. Constitution to
abolish the legal doctrine of "Corporate Personhood," which
we define simply as the illegitimate notion that a corporation can
claim political and civil rights to overturn democratically enacted
laws. We are building a broad-based, multi-partisan democracy movement
in the United States to address the reality that the federal courts
have made democracy impossible. It's time to change the rules!
Learn more at MoveToAmend.org
Move to Amend Petition
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Past
confirmation votes
Our "Supreme" Court
Ethics, Politics and the Law
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Justices,
5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit
3 pages
Supreme
Court Reverses Limits on campaign Spending
What
Is the First Amendment For?
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The
text of: CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION
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Senator
Russ Feingold, said:
"... this decision was a terrible mistake. Presented
with a relatively narrow legal issue, the Supreme Court chose to
roll back laws that have limited the role of corporate money in federal
elections since Teddy Roosevelt was president.
Ignoring important principles of judicial restraint
and respect for precedent, the Court has given corporate money a
breathtaking new role in federal campaigns. Just six years ago, the
Court said that the prohibition on corporations and unions dipping
into their treasuries to influence campaigns was ‘firmly
embedded in our law.’ Yet this Court has just upended
that prohibition, and a century’s worth of campaign finance law designed
to stem corruption in government. ..."
On the dissenting opinion:
Justice Stevens' Dissenting Opinion in Citizens United
v. Federal Election Commission
1 Cite as: 558 U. S. ____ (2010) Opinion of STEVENS,
J.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 08–205
CITIZENS UNITED, APPELLANT v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
[January 21, 2010]
JUSTICE
STEVENS, with whom JUSTICE GINSBURG, JUSTICE REYER, and JUSTICE
SOTOMAYOR join, concurring in part and dissenting
in part.
The
real issue in this case concerns how, not if, the appellant
may finance its electioneering. Citizens
United is a wealthy nonprofit corporation that runs a political
action committee (PAC) with millions of dollars in assets.
... Neither
Citizens United’s nor any other corporation’s speech has been "banned," ante,
at 1. All that the parties dispute is whether Citizens United
had a right to use the funds in its general treasury to pay
for broadcasts during the 30-day period. The notion that the
First Amendment dictates an affirmative answer to that question
is, in my judgment, profoundly misguided. Even
more misguided is the notion that the Court must rewrite the
law relating to campaign expenditures by for profit corporations
and unions to decide this case.
The
basic premise underlying the Court’s ruling is its iteration,
and constant reiteration, of the proposition that the First
Amendment bars regulatory distinctions based on a speaker’s
identity, including its "identity" as a corporation.
While that glittering generality has rhetorical appeal, it
is not a correct statement of the law. Nor
does it tell us when a corporation may engage in electioneering
that some of its shareholders oppose.
...
p. 89
The
conceit that corporations must be treated identically to natural
persons in the political sphere is not only inaccurate but also
inadequate to justify the Court’s disposition of this case.
In
the context of election to public office, the distinction between
corporate and human speakers is significant. Although they
make enormous contributions to our society, corporations are
not actually members of it. They cannot vote or run for office.
Because they may be managed and controlled by nonresidents,
their interests may conflict in fundamental respects with the
interests of eligible voters.
The Court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity
of elected institutions across the Nation.
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Health
Care
As passed March 2010
Summary
of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act
Detailed
Summary of Health Care and Revenue Provisions
in the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act and
the Health Care and
Education Reconciliation Act
The
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Full
Text of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (P.L.
111-152)
Affordable
Health Care for America: Reconciliation Bill | EdLabor ...
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The
President proposal on health care
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Is
the President's Health Bill Worth Supporting?
March
5, 2010
BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal. Is the President's Health Bill Worth
Supporting?...
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Universal
Health Care is great, but it will not start until 2014, and
the taxes will start in 2011.
Starting in 2011, drug makers would pay $2.3
billion a year. Manufacturers of medical devices would pay $2 billion
in 2011
The
present Health Care bill simply will not work, and the only
thing that will work in the long run is Single payer.
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Senator
Bernie Sanders offered a single-payer amendment
Watch
the Senate Speech
Single
payer Health Care wiki
Senate
Speech Heralds a New Social Movement
by Margaret Flowers and Andy Coates
GOP
Rep. Mike Coffman Says Single-Payer Government Health Care "Works"
The
text of the bill
A
single payer system, Medicare for all, would allow
us to
stop paying Health Insurance companies all together,
and
having the system negotiate the prescription drug costs;
would save us an enormous about of money in the delivery
of the same health care we have now. Of course the Insurance
and Pharmacy company lobbyist are not in favor of these ideas.
FaceBook
on S 703
A
plan to limit the cost of medications to what other counties
pay did not pass the Senate:
Leading
Dem Plans To Blow Up Deal With Big Pharma
Drug
makers fight plan to allow drug re importation
The Congressional Budget Office estimated the
proposal would save the government $19 billion over the next 10 years,
and Dorgan estimated that consumers would save $80 billion more. He
pointed to vast price differences in drugs made in the same factories;
an equivalent amount of the heartburn medication Nexium,
for example, costs $36 in Spain and $424 in the United States,
he said.
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Comparing
the House and the Senate Health Care Proposals
You are
required to buy Health Insurance, if you can not afford
it they
only give you a tax credit, but you have to owe enough
taxes for that to help. Are they going to fine you for not having
insurance and then leave you uninsured?
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10 CHANGES TO HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM BILL
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Deluded
Individualism
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How
Do Conservatives and
Liberals See the World?
...
social psychologist ...
the moral
underpinnings
of our contentious culture.
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Mind
Over Money
Can markets be rational
when humans aren't?
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MONEY,
POWER&
WALL STREET
FRONTLINE
tells the inside
story of the global financial crisis.
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805 15th Street, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
202.833.1200
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Cause
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Moyers > Take
Action
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During
the 1907 State of the Union Address, President Theodore Roosevelt
stated “The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish
if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate
expenses of each of the great national parties.” Public financing
of elections, he believed, would ensure that no particular donor has
an outsized influence on the outcome of any election, and would “work
a substantial improvement in our system of conducting a campaign.”
Take back
OUR Country:
Proposal
Congress
should enact a
federal public financing system that encourages
small contributions.
This approach should be used to revitalize
the
dormant presidential public
financing system. And it could be
extended
to Congress as well.
The Brennan Center supports
the Empowering Citizens Act,
introduced
by
Reps. David Price (D-N.C.)
and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.),
which would
amplify the voices
of small donors by matching contributions
up to
$250 with public funds at a 6-1 ratio.
"The
MacArthur Foundation wants to give you $100 million. All you need
to do is come up with a great way to spend it to address one of
the world’s most pressing problems.
Harvard
Law’s
Lessig Says
Smash Washington’s
Culture of Money
Those that fund candidates through
small-dollar contributions only,
and which have seen their elections
become much more competitive.
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Oligarchy,
American Style
The
Great Divorce
(of American Society)
His story starts in 1963. There was a gap between rich
and poor then, but it
wasn’t that big. A house in an
upper-crust suburb cost only twice as much
as the
average new American home.
The
Materialist Fallacy
The
147 Companies
That Control Everything
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8 Ways to Fix Our Politics
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Nickel
and Dimed from
The American Ruling Class!
Rising
Inequality in
America - Part 1
Rising
Inequality in
America - Part 2
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-to-afford-a-2-bdrm-apartment-in-yo
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Nothing has changed, yet, omg;
SEC & CFTC
Heads Testify
on Derivatives Reform
Senate Banking Comte. Hearing
Campaign
for America's Future
Progressive
Democrats of America
MoveOn.org
OB
Rag
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Pay
for America's highest-paid CEO tops $131 million
Goldman
Sachs Employees
ONLY Getting Average
of $385,000 this year DOWN
from $ 431,000 Last Year
1%
Occupying Streets
With Luxury Conversion Vans
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We Are the 99 Percent
somosel99por-ciento.tumblr.com http://Occupytogether.org
We
are the 1 percent
that stand with the 99 percent
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http://OccupyWallSt.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
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and paste the following below into a browser:
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We May Be Witnessing the First Large Global Conflict
Where People Are Aligned by Consciousness and Not Nation State or Religion
3 Things That Must Happen for Us To Rise Up and Defeat
the Corporatocracy
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http://www.occupysandiego.org/
copy and
paste into a browser:
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The
occupation is viewed as a “protest of the global financial corruption
currently invading politics, media and corporations”. They call
themselves “the 99%”
Tim Geithner: 14th Amendment Says Debt 'Shall Not Be
Questioned'
Is the debt ceiling unconstitutional?
Glut of Vacant Homes Complicates Recovery
107
Months to Clear Banks’ Housing Backlog
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Re:
Fixing Freddie and Fannie, the Dutch say U.S. Socialist in
Mortgages.
Deficit
panel leaders propose curbs on Social Security, major cuts
in spending, tax breaks
A Half-Empty Government Can't Govern: Why Everyone
Wants to Fix the Appointments Process, Why It Never Happens, and
How We Can Get It Done
Babysitting: An effective birth-control method?
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View points
Letter: Understand the difference
between cherished beliefs and reality
Posted: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:00 am | 1 Comment
For thousands of years philosophers and theologians have been trying
to explain "reality." More recently, scientists have been
exploring the same questions. So when I read in Sunday's G-T opinion
page about the Tea Party movement and how certain right-leaning talk-show
hosts are the real world, I have to chortle (a term that was coined
by Lewis Carroll in "Through the Looking Glass." Talk about
an alternative reality).
It would seem to me that people, of every
persuasion, need to know that there is a difference between one's
cherished beliefs/perspectives (religious, political or whatever)
and reality. The inability to understand this is what is causing
the polarization of peoples not only in this country but around
the world. It is easy to demonize the "other." Polarization
does not make for healthy communication, nor does it make a healthy
community or nation (look at the Sunni/ Shiites in Iraq
).
I understand anger. I taught anger management skills
to court-mandated individuals and their families for years in Benton
and Linn counties. Anger is a primary emotion. The reason
people get angry is they feel threatened; the reason they yell is
that they don't feel they are being heard. However, getting angry
and yelling don't solve the problem, they escalate it, which
too often ends in physical confrontation.
So if you want to be heard, tone it down and listen. There
are others who have just as valid "realities" as you,
and for that matter as me.
Roger Paul
Corvallis
http://www.gazettetimes.com/
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Energy
Self Sufficiency
Federal
plan
designed
to create
large
solar energy plants
Is there a way to get
solar energy
at night?
America's Solar Energy Potential
With an average efficiency of 15 percent, a square
yard of solar photovoltaic cells (PV) would produce (5 kilowatt-hours
of solar energy multiplied by 15% =) .75 kilowatt-hours of electric
energy per day. Solar panels (PV) covering an area ten yards by ten
yards (100 square yards or 900 square feet) would produce 100 x .75
= 75 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day.
Seventy-five kilowatt-hours per day is
a lot of electricity for a single-family home. If part of the electricity
is stored in a home
battery, or is used to electrolyze water for producing hydrogen gas,
and the gas is stored for use by a fuel cell when needed, then 100
square yards covered with solar panels would provide an average family
with energy independence. Most detached family homes have more than
100 square yards (900 square feet) of roof,
Solar
shingles
A Solar Grand Plan
2022 Scientific American,
.jpg)
Fair Use Rules:
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text-presidents-speech-copper-mountain-solar-1/
Copper Mountain Solar Project not far from Las Vegas
provided an impressive backdrop for the president.
Built on public land, the facility is the largest of its kind in
the United States. Its 1 million solar panels provide enough energy
to power 17,000 homes. And it employs just 10 people.
NanoMarkets Report Projects Rapid Rise in Demand
for Flexible Substrates in the Coming Decade
Buffet Buys Second Solar Project, San Diego Gets
New Solar Manufacturing Plant
Buffett Buys 49% Stake in $1.8 Billion NRG Solar
Power Plant
Google, KKR Invest in California Solar Project
Welcome To Build-It-Solar
U.S. Closes $4.75 Billion in Solar Power Loans on
Final Day
First Solar Gets Loan Guarantees, Sells Two California
Projects
July
22, 2010 9:31 AM PDT
Massive Calif. wind farm gets $1.2 billion in financing
December
10, 2009 8:27 AM PST
GE wins $1.4 billion wind farm contract
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Renewable
energy
10
Largest Renewable Energy Projects
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Wired
for Progress 2.0
Buzz
grows for modernizing energy grid
Smart
Grid Investment Grant awards
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I thought of this 20 years ago, wonder if it will
work?
Exclusive: Orbital solar power plants touted for
energy needs
Unique
Solar Energy Project
Solaren
preposed a contract to
power
to PG&E's customers from solar panels mounted
on satellites placed in Earth's orbit. The satellite would convert
this energy into radio waves and send it to a receiving station in
Fresno County, California. The plan is to provide 200 megawatts of
continuous power, estimated as the average usage of 150,000 homes.
Nevada
Solar One 64 MW project
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Stirling
Energy Sets for 2010 Mass Production, $2.2B Solar Thermal Project
4,500-acre
solar generating station
World’s
largest solar facility proposed - 20,000-dish array, 4,500-acre
and 850 MW
Plans
for World's Largest Solar-Energy
Facility Announced
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Inconvenient Truth
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Israel becomes lab for electric car
network
$750 million venture
includes battery swaps
at special stations
NPR
(ap) - Electric Car Network
Gets First Test
In Israel
Yahoo
(ap) Electric car network
gets first test
in Israel
Replaceable batteries in electric cars
Better
Place is a venture-backed
American-Israeli company based
in Palo
Alto, California to develop
and sell transportation
infrastructure
that supports electric vehicles
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Who Killed
the Electric Car?
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Panasonic
Pays $30 Million for Stake in Electric Vehicle Maker Tesla Motor
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Volt
uses about 2500 kWh annually6,
which is an extremely affordable way to power a car as the average American
pays less than 12 cents per kilowatt hour.
In other words, if you drive 40 miles or
less that could work out to be about a
dollar a day. And that can add up to big savings.
cost per day (averaged)
The
sustainer motor will never charge the battery. The pack can only
be recharged by grid-supplied power.
the (Volt's)actual economy is 50 mpg, according to GM.
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14.5 miles, as an electric vehicle on a single charge before a
regular gas-electric hybrid system kicks in. It gets an
overall mileage of 57 kilometers a liter, or 134
miles per gallon — exceeding the Prius’s 38 kilometers
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and halve the running cost of traveling 30 kilometers in comparison
with a regular Prius if recharged at night, when electricity costs
are often lower, Toyota said.
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Letter: Understand the difference
between cherished beliefs and reality
Posted: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:00 am | 1 Comment
For thousands of years philosophers and theologians have been trying to explain "reality." More
recently, scientists have been exploring the same questions. So when I read
in Sunday's G-T opinion page about the Tea Party movement and how certain right-leaning
talk-show hosts are the real world, I have to chortle (a term that was coined
by Lewis Carroll in "Through the Looking Glass." Talk about an alternative
reality).
It would seem to me that people, of every
persuasion, need to know that there is a difference between one's
cherished beliefs/perspectives (religious, political or whatever)
and reality. The inability to understand this is what is causing
the polarization of peoples not only in this country but around
the world. It is easy to demonize the "other." Polarization
does not make for healthy communication, nor does it make a healthy
community or nation (look at the Sunni/ Shiites in Iraq
).
I understand anger. I taught anger management skills
to court-mandated individuals and their families for years in Benton
and Linn counties. Anger is a primary emotion. The reason
people get angry is they feel threatened; the reason they yell is
that they don't feel they are being heard. However, getting angry
and yelling don't solve the problem, they escalate it, which
too often ends in physical confrontation.
So if you want to be heard, tone it down and listen. There
are others who have just as valid "realities" as you,
and for that matter as me.
Roger Paul
Corvallis
http://www.gazettetimes.com/
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