On Thursday, 45 public interest groups sent a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee opposing two bills that would severely limit the Federal Communications Commission’s ability to promote competition, innovation and access to communications->
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/F650fzBwkCc/3095890 http://www.care2.com/news/member/451276626/3095890 Do you or anyone you know buy food at Wal-Mart? If you do, you could soon be eating Monsanto GMO corn — unmarked, unlabeled, and untested on humans — with toxins built right into the plant’s DNA.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/nI1O1hbU2Fo/3095354 http://www.care2.com/news/member/830372471/3095354 Arturo de los Santos and his family are taking on the big banks to save their home and stand up for the millions of Americans who are being victimized by corporate greed during tough economic times.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/Zx7UN_lGo1Y/3095305 http://www.care2.com/news/member/881216018/3095305 Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is destroying the rain forests of Sumatra to fuel the fastest-growing brand of toilet paper in the United States today, as well as its sister institutional brand found in hotels, restaurants, and schools. The brands are called Pase
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/ki5RC5FsLZU/3095139 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3095139 Vermont is seeking to become the first state to institute single-payer healthcare. That will never happen if the health insurance special interests have anything to say about it.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/Z5tkgFdVDmQ/3094660 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3094660 No doubt MTV and other corporatist American channels won't touch this video with a light-year long pole. Many people here in amayricka, particularly the middle-aged and elderly, have been made so comfortably numb, it may take a total collapse.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/h8FlbF5noh4/3093208 http://www.care2.com/news/member/406091837/3093208 OWS-Empire's-Territory is turning plowshares into (peaceful) spears. Then the Nations will have no choice but to turn spears into plowshares. A world at peace, will actively be solving Mankind's problems.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/QBn8vsVWY-I/3093205 http://www.care2.com/news/member/406091837/3093205 Citizens criticized by tightly wound media machinery are heroes. True heroes, sleeping in the park, taking on the dark, sleeping under plastic sheets, getting arrested in the streets, surrounding the houses of criminal elites - having the courage to Occup
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/y_GSwvJ-jog/3093171 http://www.care2.com/news/member/406091837/3093171 Joshua Gotbaum, director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, said he was hoping to get out in front of any such move by the airline. The agency is already operating with a $23 billion deficit and has said it would bear an additional $9 billion->
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/JVU4XorPAz4/3094058 http://www.care2.com/news/member/451276626/3094058 What do these big corporations—Amazon, CostCo, NIKE, Google, Occidental Petroleum, Qualcomm, Berkshire Hathaway, Devon Energy, Walgreen, Halliburton, Walmart, Caterpillar, Allstate, Bank of America, Lowe’s, Sunoco, Mastercard and CVS Caremark—all have-->
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/K8xeBcnYn0U/3094039 http://www.care2.com/news/member/451276626/3094039 So there was big news yesterday on the foreclosure settlement front. We still have to wait and see what the final deal looks like, but there are reports out that the long-awaited settlement is a far, far better deal for the public than expected.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/iuXw5PRn9Yw/3094052 http://www.care2.com/news/member/451276626/3094052 Right now, Congress is deciding whether to extend unemployment insurance benefits past their February 29th expiration date. If they don’t reach an agreement, five million workers risk losing their benefits.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/ta3y5zID4iw/3094336 http://www.care2.com/news/member/830372471/3094336 How long would it take the GOP candidate to earn what you make in a year?
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/bdbhyXm6zpY/3093440 http://www.care2.com/news/member/830372471/3093440 Apple continues to make its products in China, while many Americans are still out of work. CNN's Jim Clancy reports
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/wp9NMAXbNJs/3093925 http://www.care2.com/news/member/456974296/3093925 President Obama has appointed former Monsanto VP and lobbyist Michael Taylor to become senior advisor to the FDA's commissioner. This unthinkable linkage between food safety and corporate interests that have little regard for the public health must be sto
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/RXJO5oIEC74/3093281 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3093281 While many chocolate companies have committed to guaranteeing that their suppliers do not use child slave labor, Hershey’s refuses to release information about its supply chain or purchase cocoa only from ethical suppliers except in two product lines, Bli
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/P8N3Jv3UiHA/3093077 http://www.care2.com/news/member/168262169/3093077 While Indian retailers are losing sleep over the possible entrance of multinationals like Walmart into the dense South Asian consumer market, very little thought has been given to the Indian small farmer, who stands to lose even more at the hands of >>
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/T3OgUe26_ws/3089840 http://www.care2.com/news/member/100330942/3089840 Ultimately, the key to equal employment and fair wages may be as simple as taking control of our own economic realities, stepping up and sharing the responsibility for our future. The United Nations thinks you’d be a great boss — don’t you?
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/SfiVRUVMTss/3089573 http://www.care2.com/news/member/406091837/3089573 The former boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland Fred Goodwin has been stripped of his knighthood . . . given the honour by the Labour government back in 2004 but. . . he was criticised when the bank nearly collapsed in 2008.
And American banksters?

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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/kiXZYNVoZXg/3089444 http://www.care2.com/news/member/775377582/3089444 These companies hide their electioneering and don’t care. But here's how we can change that.
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In response to protests by foreign students exploited in a factory subcontracted by the Hershey Company and advocacy by the AFL-CIO and our allies, this week U.S. State Department announced that it will make major revisions to a guest-worker and cult
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/jijxdvlzrJk/3089038 http://www.care2.com/news/member/292366870/3089038 An organisation of restaurant workers is suing Darden Restaurants, the largest full-service restaurant group in the world, in U.S. federal court, alleging widespread racial discrimination and illegal labour practices.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/jCDNj8Kz2m0/3088260 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3088260 Canadian mining company Osisko has suspended a gold mining project in Argentina after protests by locals.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/_eWlshmh2Lg/3086641 http://www.care2.com/news/member/607330748/3086641 The next time you feel the need to reach out, touch base, shift a paradigm, leverage a best practice or join a tiger team, by all means do it. Just don’t say you’re doing it.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/vIHtr_ujuXk/3087211 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3087211 The legitimacy of rule by giant corporations and Wall Street banks is crumbling.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/2QFRWhHsl88/3086389 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3086389 Banks charge excessive fees to their account holders.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/F6IR-i4d-IY/3084157 http://www.care2.com/news/member/284672516/3084157 "You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories," he said, or you can "make it better and faster and cheaper, which requires factories that seem harsh by American standards. And right now, customers care more about a new iPhone...
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/jlCd3ehaXSE/3084109 http://www.care2.com/news/member/830372471/3084109 "The impending IPO - expected to raise $10 billion - is a prized trophy for investment banks, set up a fierce competition on Wall Street, particularly between front-runners Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs "
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/ydD4TQyQtIE/3082592 http://www.care2.com/news/member/228509130/3082592 We want to share updates about two heat illness cases we reported to you last summer. These are cases where Cal-OSHA cited and fined farm labor contractors for violating California’s heat regulation.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/cmDcvtM8qsk/3083267 http://www.care2.com/news/member/830372471/3083267 Paul Craig Roberts was an editor of the Wall Street Journal and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding contributions to the formulation of U. S. economic policy.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/wBOpsNjqdxQ/3083021 http://www.care2.com/news/member/406091837/3083021 Several famous films were denied permission to use the famous disclaimer after mistreating animals onset
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/agfLwhOc9Aw/3082196 http://www.care2.com/news/member/706186059/3082196 Some regions are recovering, while others across America remain in deep decline. How did this happen and what can we do?
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/-rLGMm7hOTo/3081936 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3081936 Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! --- but there is an even bigger threat out there. ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Negotiated in secret by a small number of rich countries and
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/NgV8Lc8CosU/3081603 http://www.care2.com/news/member/194727002/3081603 Robert Steele, former CIA explains war is eugenics, drug wars are fake and Cannabis should be legal. This CIA X Agent speaks truth of how the Drug War is a fake. That we must get out of the Fed to get sound money, by US printing our own debt free money.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/ymhK2UaCbcE/3081313 http://www.care2.com/news/member/406091837/3081313 Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is destroying the Sumatran tiger’s remaining habitat just to make disposable tissue and paper products.

National Canadian distributor White Paper Co. is fueling this destruction by sourcing paper from APP. Please take action.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/7oyTtrL3dC8/3081172 http://www.care2.com/news/member/568949920/3081172 Better technology is not sufficient to build a better society. To really change lives, corporations must use their work force to improve democracy and equality.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/lYNVUJnbm1A/3081076 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3081076 President Obama announced last night that our friend Eric Schneiderman, New York's progressive Attorney General, will lead a new Special Unit to prosecute Wall Street illegality.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/Yd-uY3K32_U/3080989 http://www.care2.com/news/member/830372471/3080989 The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is the nation's leading organization promoting alternatives to current drug policy that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights.
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