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Wednesday, 04 July 2012 | |  News Analysis: "Relying on soy to feed farmed fish could also have devastating affects on consumer choice. In 2007, there were total of 279,110 soybean farms. A 2008 report indicated that only 1,336 soybean farms were certified organic, which do not allow the use of GE crops. This leaves a lot of room for non-organic soybean farms to produce crops from GE seeds. GE soy-fed fish would probably not need to be labeled, so consumers wouldn't know that they were eating fish fed with GE soy." | | |  Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: "You don't need a law degree to see that CEOs are presently flooding this year's presidential and congressional races with hundreds of millions of corporate campaign dollars, gleefully perverting the political process to buy government policy for their own gain. That not only gives the appearance of corruption, it is corrupt. And now the same five judicial extremists have added a third egregious wrong to their agenda of turning The People's rights over to soulless corporations." | | |  Robert Reich, Op-Ed: "True patriots don't hate the government of the United States. They're proud of it. Generations of Americans have risked their lives to preserve and protect it. They may not like everything it does, and they justifiably worry then special interests gain too much power over it. But true patriots work to improve the U.S. government, not destroy it. But these days some Americans loathe the government, and are doing everything they can to paralyze it, starve it, and make the public so cynical about it that it's no longer capable of doing much of anything." | | |  Dean Baker, Research: "Since workers in the United States put in the most hours, it has the greatest potential gains in the United States from shortening work years, but all countries can try to go this path. In the short-term this route keeps people employed and allows them more time to enjoy with their family and friends. Ideally most of the lost wages will be made up with subsidies from the government. (Remember, the problem is too little demand, not too much. We can afford this.)" | | |  Laura Tyson, Op-Ed: "Several independent economists concluded that Obama's plan would provide a significant lift to the job market in 2012-2013. Indeed, two of the nation's most respected forecasters predicted that the AJA would add 1.3-1.9 million jobs in 2012 and more than two million jobs by the end of 2013. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) also found that most of the AJA's policies ranked high in budgetary effectiveness, measured by the number of jobs created in 2012-2013 per dollar of budgetary cost." | | |  Amy Goodman, Video Report: "I don't know whether people's minds are going to change if there's this continual barrage of disinformation, but it's becoming a reality in everyday life, undeniably. And I think what it does is it calls to question the role of government. And the real difference between the Global South and the North in facing this problem is that, in the Global South, government—the public sector—has been systematically dismantled, on the orders of the IMF and the World Bank through structural adjustment programs, state assets and state—have been privatized, and state capacity has been diminished." | | |  Ben Sherman, News Report: "In the months preceding the passage of the ACA, the President's Council of Economic Advisors released a report on the impact of the bill on state budgets. Though the bill hadn't yet passed when the report was written, the Council studied the Medicaid expansion which has since become law. The Council looked at the uncompensated care spending of 16 states demographically and geographically representative of the country (AR, CA, FL, ID, IN, IA, ME, MI, MN, MO, NE, NC, OR, PA, VT, WY)." | | |  Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 290 of the Occupy movements the protests have spread not only across the country but all over the globe. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street these past weeks as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event." | | |  William Astore, Op-Ed: As we look upon those faces, let's reflect as well on their oath of service, an oath to support and defend our Constitution, the founding document that enshrines our freedoms. Let's reflect that the full exercise of those freedoms may discomfort us as often as it brings comfort, but that from discomfort comes passion, even provocation, qualities much to be preferred to apathy and complacency bred by conformity. | | |  News Report: "Community Advocacy was started in March as a way for organizations like the Indian Health Service and the Navajo Nation's Division of Health to get up close and personal with tribal members who don't understand the harm they are doing to themselves and their children by eating junk food. 'When you enter a convenience store, all you see at first is row after row of foods filled with sugar and empty calories,' said Lester." | | |  Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: "I really do want to sympathize with the sisters, including those like Slaughter with money and helpful husbands. It's probably true that women could accomplish more if they didn't have to work on someone else's schedule. But that would be the case for men, as well. Slaughter rightly complains that the culture of 'time macho' — putting in all-nighters and 60-hour weeks." | | | FROM AROUND THE WEB |
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