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Michael Bradburn-Ruster, Op-Ed: OIRA's vaunted "open-door" policy amounts to this: access is proportionate to the depth of the pockets involved. Exxon's profits in 2011 were $41 billion; the previous year, Sierra Club revenues were less than $52 million, while its expenses resulted in a $1 million deficit. It comes as no mystery that 95% of the lawyers, lobbyists and consultants who met with OIRA represented industry, while only 2.5% represented public interest groups. 
Robert Reich, Op-Ed: "Governor Romney: Your mathematics has been attacked by those who say it's impossible to provide the tax cut you propose; expand the military, as you want to do; preserve Medicare and Social Security, as you promise to do; and at the same time balance the federal budget, as you say you'll do. Can you take us through the math, please, with specific numbers?" 
Rebecca Leber, News Analysis: Blankfein didn't point to any specific areas of the law that could use strengthening, and noted that because of Dodd-Frank's "skeletal" framework, "I don't know if you can make a judgment yet whether it's too much or not enough because we don't really know what it is." Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs is working alongside other banks to fight for loopholes that could exempt half their trading business in derivatives from new regulation. 
News Report: "Such wells caused a number of earthquakes in Youngstown in 2011. Other collateral damage includes water contamination through surface spills and wastewater leaking into aquifers through porous rock; lost property value; ingestions of toxics by residents, wildlife and domesticated animals; drying up of mortgage loans for prospective home buyers, and threatened loss of organic certification for farmers in affected communities." 
Christopher Petrella, Op-Ed: According to data released last February by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), eight of the ten states in which transfer payments comprise the greatest percentage of personal income are those with a disproportionately large population of "non-Hispanic white" voters. And, in fact, the state whose residents most benefit from transfer payments—West Virginia—is 93 percent "non-Hispanic white." 
Dave Johnson, Op-Ed: Starting about the same time as Reagan cut taxes on the wealthy the wages of people who work for a living began to stagnate and the income and wealth inequality started to accelerate. In other words, almost all the benefits from gains in our economy started to go to a few at the top of the ladder. Some dramatic numbers illustrate this. For example, you may have read that in 2010 93% of the gains from the "recovery" went to the top 1%. Or you may have read recently that the wealth of the Forbes 400 went up by $200 billion last year. 
Dave Lindorff, News Analysis: The ruling was not a complete win. Judge Sullivan rejected the claim by plaintiffs in the false-arrest lawsuit that their First Amendment rights to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom to seek redress for grievances had been violated by the mass arrests, but lawyers for the plaintiffs said it was nonetheless a strong blow against the increasingly common police tactic of mass arrests of protesters in demonstrations. 
Amy Goodman, Video Report: Members of the Florida-based Coalition of Immokalee Workers are urging the fast-food giant Chipotle to sign on to a fair food program already agreed to by McDonalds and Burger King. This weekend, the Immokalee workers will target a festival in Denver that is promoted by Chipotle, that features music, food, chefs and local farmers -- but no farm workers. We're joined by Gerardo Reyes-Chavez, a farm worker and organizer with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. 
Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 382 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." 
Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: Now, the public is learning that Kashi organics, for example, is a subsidiary of Kellogg's, which is spending a ton to defeat Prop 37. Other megabuck donors to the anti-consumer campaign include General Mills (owner of Muir Glen and Cascadian Farm organic brands), Dean Foods (owner of Horizon organic milk and Silk organic soy milk) and such giant deceivers as Campbell Soup, Bimbo Bakeries, Coca-Cola, Del Monte, Nestle, PepsiCo and J.M. Smucker. 
Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: "Hating another's ideas is not a problem and may have a role in civic debate. Hating the holder of the ideas is a problem that boomerangs on the party encouraging such distemper. Witness the strange primary races in which partisans condemn certain contenders by showing pictures of them shaking hands with leaders from the other party. They don't get it that citizens outside their high walls might put such photos in frames." 
Stephen Leahy, News Analysis: "One third of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from using fossil fuels has been absorbed by the oceans. When CO2 dissolves in seawater, carbonic acid is formed. This phenomenon, known as ocean acidification, reduces the availability of calcium carbonate, which interferes with the formation of the skeletons and shells of many marine organisms. This is basic, undisputed ocean chemistry." --
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