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Carey L. Biron, News Report: "Having been discussed for the past three years, though pushed primarily by the United States, the TPP is being discussed by the nine member states (in addition to three new entrants) during a secretive 13th round of negotiations held this week in San Diego, California. The talks will run through Jul. 10. With the TPP's ultimate size being left open, some observers are suggesting that the setup could bring about a new paradigm in the global economy." 
Beth Buczynski, Op-Ed: "Self-employment isn't completely fail-proof. Just like brick and mortar businesses, the self-employed depend on demand for their goods or services, and can be affected by economic downturns, though not as severely. Who empowers and supports the self-employed? The global coworking community, that's who. Freelancers and small business owners have been shown to thrive when exposed to the open sharing that occurs in coworking communities, and the coworking spaces themselves are small businesses that can act as lightning rods for innovation and economic growth." 
William Astore, Op-Ed: "Just as in Vietnam, in Afghanistan we are not winning the war, because these were and are not our wars to win. We were and are only preventing one side from losing, a side that is seemingly sympathetic to America precisely because it feeds off our largesse. The result? Afghanistan could destabilize and devolve into civil war." 
Judd Legum, News Report: "Google's Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe outlined the initiative at a Global LGBT Workplace Summit in London earlier today. We want our employees who are gay or lesbian or transgender to have the same experience outside the office as they do in the office. It is obviously a very ambitious piece of work.
Their strategy involves developing partnerships between companies and organizations to support grass-roots campaigns." 
News Report: The Justice Department has not prosecuted any Countrywide official, but the House committee's report said documents and testimony show that Mozilo and company lobbyists "may have skirted the federal bribery statute by keeping conversations about discounts and other forms of preferential treatment internal. Rather than making quid pro quo arrangements with lawmakers and staff, Countrywide used the VIP loan program to cast a wide net of influence." 
Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 294 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." 
Robert Reich, Op-Ed: "Suppose the bankers are manipulating the interest rate so they can place bets with the money you lend or repay them – bets that will pay off big for them because they have inside information on what the market is really predicting, which they're not sharing with you. That would be a mammoth violation of public trust. It would make the other abuses of trust we've witnessed look like child's play by comparison." 
Brian Dockstader, Op-Ed: "Back to fairness--does the coal industry think it is fair that those living around coal-fired power plants are forced to breathe in toxic air pollution? Does the coal industry think that 17,000 premature deaths, 11,000 heart attacks and over 12,000 hospital and emergency room visits, every single year, are fair? Apparently those costs of coal power are perfectly acceptable to the coal industry, so acceptable that they've created an ad campaign directed at fighting for the 'right' to continue making people sick and dead." You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Political_Views" group.
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