Carbon Emissions From Fossil Fuels Reach New Record High

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The International Energy Agency reported that carbon emissions from fossil fuels increased by a gigaton last year, a 3.2 percent increase that made last year’s carbon emissions from coal, oil, and natural gas the highest ever in human history.

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Postponing Transparency, Americans Elect Delays the Posting of Form 990 Disclosures (5/2012)

Finally, after two years of initiating contact with Americans Elect and asking for a response, the 501c4 corporation that wanted to elect its own President of the United States has written me a letter in response. That’s the good news. …

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Snooty Mitt Romney Parties At Chateau Carolands

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The Mitt Romney for President campaign is having its latest big campaign fundraiser, not at the average house on your corner, but at Chateau Carolands, a 65,000 square foot palace. The price to have dinner with Mitt Romney is 50,000 dollars. Those better be some really tasty chicken nuggets.

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Big Finance Democrats Willing to Throw Obama Under the Bus for irking their Masters

As you may know, the presidential re-election campaign of Barack Obama recently released a campaign advertisement that — correctly, according to PolitiFact — showed how Mitt Romney made himself rich as head of Bain Capital by gutting American industries, kicking …

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Paul Ryan Having Breakfast With Company That Ships Jobs Overseas

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Gap, Inc. is a company that specializes in making profits by taking jobs that could be held by American workers and sending those jobs to sweatshop factories in foreign countries. Paul Ryan happens to promote a legislative agenda that keeps the door open to corporations that set up shop overseas instead of creating jobs in the USA.

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Finding The Real Sporty Vehicle

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The experience of driving a Porsche Cayenne SUV is advertised to be something like this: They call it “sporty”, and for the amount of money that a person has to pay to drive a Porsche Cayenne – over $100,000 – …

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New Sanctions Against Iran Smelling Very Oily

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It’s not strictly true to say that the sanctions against Iran are not working. They’re working very well for the executives and wealthy investors whose fortunes are connected to the price of a barrel of oil.

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77 Democrats Sacrifice Medicare To Protect Military Spending

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The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 as passed by the House of Friday preserves spending on extravagant weapons program that the Pentagon says it doesn’t want. It keeps open redundant military bases that are not strategically necessary. The money to pay for this wasteful military spending is being taken from older Americans, by reducing their health care benefits.

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Hitting the Bottom Line: Where Activism has an Impact

Corporations are artificial entities that are constrained under law to prioritize the maximization of their stock value above all other values. This means that if people want to alter the behavior of corporations, they have to either force corporations’ behavior …

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Joe Wilson’s Odd Math On National Debt

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How could it be that dollar spent on schools for America’s kids increases the national debt, but a dollar spent on bombs and bullets used to kill people in America’s wars does not increase the national debt? Joe Wilson wasn’t able to explain how this freakish economic dynamic works.

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Say Yes to the Future, No to Bank-Run America: Protest in Times Square May 15

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I note in this morning’s Bangor Daily News that Governor Paul LePage and his Republican allies intend to cut funding for Head Start programs, despite solid empirical evidence that for every dollar invested in early childhood education, nearly nine dollars …

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Time For The USA To Pull Out From Europe

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If we could see more Republican legislation for cuts in military spending of the sort that Mike Coffman has offered, it would make the GOP claim of standing for fiscal responsibility a lot more believable.

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John Boehner Doesn’t Want Jobs For America If It Helps Gay People

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Speaker of the House John Boehner doesn’t understand that marriage equality is a jobs issue. Legalize same sex marriage, and you’ll create new wedding industry jobs in every community across the nation.

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How Many Americans Would Dye For A Job?

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Yesterday’s legislation would allow the importation of dyes like Reactive Red 264, Vat Black 25, and Yellow 175, without any import fees. So, these bills increase the budget deficit while sacrificing American jobs.

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Eating The Weed That Grows Around Me

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In common terms, it’s often called creeping charlie, gill over the-ground, haymaids, or ground ivy. More often than not, though, gardeners don’t even know its name. They simply call it that plant that won’t stop growing into my flower bed and taking over. They certainly don’t call it salad greens, but they could.

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Document: “Grassroots” Committee to Draft David Walker for President intends to take Big Money

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The Committee to Get Walker Running — a draft committee trying to get David Walker on the presidential ballot through Americans Elect — calls itself a “grassroots and youth-driven initiative” in public: Grassroots? In private, the committee informed the Federal …

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NC Coalition Calls Protest at Bank of America Shareholders Meeting in Charlotte May 9

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The North Carolina Coalition Against Corporate Power has put out the call for Americans upset at the practices of Bank of America to mount a protest during its annual shareholders meeting, culminating in Charlotte NC on May 9: Homeowners, students, …

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Romney At The Ritz In Pentagon City

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Mitt Romney has announced that no one will be allowed to participate in tonight’s “policy roundtable” without giving a minimum of $10,000 to his presidential campaign.

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