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By Joe Romm on Dec 15, 2011 at 12:36 pm
“After 20 months of mobilizing, agitating and negotiating to green Facebook, the Internet giant has today announced its goal to run on clean, renewable energy. The clear message to energy producers from Facebook is: invest now in renewable energy, and move away from coal power. That’s a status update we can all celebrate!”
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/climate/2011/Cool%20IT/Facebook/Facebook_Statement.pdf
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/15/390088/facebook-unfriends-coal-partners-greenpeace-clean-energy-future/
The Truth Hurts - And Heals
The Truth Hurts - And HealsSubmitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds
Nothing is fixed until the whole truth and nothing but the truth is revealed for all to see, in broad daylight.
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If we can finally be truthful with ourselves as a nation, then we must admit that our financial system is fundamentally based on lies, fraud, embezzlement, misinformation, perverse filters and incentives, shadow systems that mock transparency and regulation, class privilege and the systemic flouting of the rule of law.
This is the truth that hurts because it reveals the financial system as one stupendous exploitative fraud; but it also reveals the complicity and irrelevance of our judicial system and the complete capture of the legislative and Executive processes of governance.
There is a system of government in which rule of law is merely a propaganda screen, where financial and political Elites run the show and escape the consequences of their actions: it's called tyranny.
The truth is that we live in a financial tyranny.
If you want evidence, then ask yourself:
How many people have been indicted, convicted and served time for financial crimes during the current era of financial fraud and malfeasance, the most pervasive in U.S. history?
Much more, plus healing:
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec11/truth-hurts-heals12-11.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-truth-hurts-and-heals
'That a congressman would be tainted by accepting $$$ from private sources is a Socialist Argument'
Don't look to Newt Gingrich as a shining example of even his own proposed reforms. Not only did he receive $265,697 in PAC money for his 1988 re-election campaign, he's one of Congress's highest spenders on junk mail. Naturally, he also pocketed close to the limit, $26,800 of $26,850, allowed per year in honoraria. "The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument," explains Gingrich.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/12/your-daily-newt-politicians-cant-be-bought
Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs
Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs
It's time we stopped mouthing the fiction that "rich people create the jobs."
Rich people don't create the jobs.
Our economy creates jobs.
We're all in this together. And until we return to more reasonable tax policies that help the 99% instead of just the 1%, our economy is going to go nowhere.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-07/raise-taxes-on-rich-to-reward-true-job-creators-nick-hanauer.html
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The most important reason the theory that "rich people create the jobs" is absurd, argues Nick Hanauer, the founder of online advertising company aQuantive, which Microsoft bought for $6.4 billion, is that rich people do not create jobs, even if they found and build companies that eventually employ thousands of people.What creates the jobs, Hanauer astutely observes, is a healthy economic ecosystem surrounding the company, which starts with the company's customers.
The company's customers buy the company's products, which, in turn, creates the need for the employees to produce, sell, and service those products. If those customers go broke, the demand for the company's products will collapse. And the jobs will disappear, regardless of what the entrepreneur does.
Now, of course entrepreneurs are an important part of the company-creation process. And so are investors, who risk capital in the hope of earning returns. But, ultimately, whether a new company continues growing and creates self-sustaining jobs is a function of customers' ability and willingness to pay for the company's products, not the entrepreneur or the investor capital. Suggesting that "rich entrepreneurs and investors" create the jobs, therefore, Hanauer observes, is like suggesting that squirrels create evolution.
the rest:
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/finally-rich-american-destroys-fiction-rich-people-create-152949393.html
Lawrence Wilkerson: " my Republicans seem to be intent on suicide."
They want to defeat this man. They want to bring this man out of the White House. They want to embarrass this man. They want to put this man through every kind of turmoil they can possibly put him through politically.
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It's not America. It`s not the United States. It's not our best interests. It's certainly not our national security interests. It's getting rid of this president.
That is political opportunism and political blindness of the first order. And it may cause me to leave this party eventually, I must say that. [...]
Any issue you want to pick, my Republicans seem to be intent on suicide.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/15/9467822-my-republicans-seem-to-be-intent-on-suicide
America, failed state.
America, failed state.
Almost half in U.S. are poor or low-income
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-15/poor-census-low-income/51944034/1
A record number of Americans are living in poverty or near-poverty, according to the latest census data.
http://www.petroleumworld.com/sunopf11112001.htm
And:
Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30 % of Americans
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/12/14/six-waltons-have-more-wealth-than-the-bottom-30-of-americans/
National Review to Republicans: "Reject a hasty Marriage To Gingrich"
We fear that to nominate former Speaker Newt Gingrich, the frontrunner in the polls, would be to blow this opportunity. We say that mindful of his opponents’ imperfections — and of his own virtues, which have been on display during his amazing comeback. Very few people with a personal history like his — two divorces, two marriages to former mistresses — have ever tried running for president. Gingrich himself has never run for a statewide office, let alone a national one, and has not run for anything since 1998...
He says, and his defenders say, that time, reflection, and religious conversion have conquered his dark side. If he is the nominee, a campaign that should be about whether the country will continue on the path to social democracy would inevitably become to a large extent a referendum on Gingrich instead. And there is reason to doubt that he has changed. Each week we see the same traits that weakened Republicans from 1995 through 1998...Gingrich has always said he wants to transform the country. He appears unable to transform, or even govern, himself. He should be an adviser to the Republican party, but not again its head.
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We will render further judgments in the weeks to come as the candidates continue to make their cases and are, just perhaps, joined by new candidates. At the moment we think it important to urge Republicans to have the good sense to reject a hasty marriage to Gingrich, which would risk dissolving in acrimony.
more:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/285787/winnowing-field-editors?pg=2
the chart Democrats really, really, really don't want Republican primary voters to see...
After the jump, the chart Democrats really, really, really don’t want Republican primary voters to see …
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/12/the_scary_truth.php?ref=fpblg
Jailed Realtor had requested secret immunity in John Doe probe (of Scott Walker's staff)
Jailed Realtor had requested secret immunity in John Doe probe
By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel
Dec. 14, 2011 10:36 a.m. |(253) COMMENTS
Madison - The jailed Realtor in the ongoing investigation of current and former aides to Gov. Scott Walker is the same person who recently went to court to try to block having immunity granted to him in public.
Andrew P. Jensen Jr., a commercial real estate broker with Boerke Co. and a past chairman of the Commercial Association of Realtors-Wisconsin, was arrested Tuesday, though no charges had been filed as of Tuesday night.
About six weeks ago, authorities attempted to publicly grant immunity to Jensen, as is allowed in John Doe proceedings to compel testimony. Jensen went to the state Court of Appeals because he did not want the grant of immunity to be public.
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The arrest represents a new direction and development in the probe of Walker's staff while he was county executive and as governor.
more:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/jailed-realtor-had-requested-secret-immunity-in-john-doe-probe-qv3ek3o-135584043.html
Newt: Economic Liberty Means No Annual Vacations For American Workers
I opened the chapter on “Work” in my book A Nation Like No Other with this anecdote because I believe it cuts to the core of what makes America exceptional. While other countries have enshrined 35-hour work weeks and 60 days’ paid vacation in their laws, America remains one of the few developed nations that have declined to restrict these economic liberties. Here, we value hard work and free enterprise as the substance of opportunity.http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48134
via:
http://www.echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2011_12_11_archive.html#3574877136199263843
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