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• Anti-reform doctors seeking to rescind AMA endorsement are led by front group with insurer, GOP ties.

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  The House passed historic comprehensive health insurance reform on Saturday with the help of endorsements from hundreds of community organizations, including the American Medical Association. However, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that former AMA president Donald Palmisano is leading an effort to force the AMA ...
  16 hours ago

• Goldman Sachs CEO says he’s ‘doing God’s work,’ rejects the idea that Goldman profits from gov’t support.

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  Last quarter, Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs made a $3.19 billion profit , and according to some estimates, the firm will set aside $21.9 billion for compensation this year. In an interview with London’s Sunday Times, Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein said that the firm is serving an important “ social ...
  19 hours ago

• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 108
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• ‘Let’s Learn About Coal’: Industry Front Group Distributes Coloring Book On The ‘Advantages’ Of Coal

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  Friends of Coal (FOC) is a front group created by the West Virginia Coal Association. Its mission is to “ inform and educate West Virginia citizens about the coal industry ” and “provide a united voice” for the industry. To make dirty coal seem appealing, FOC has sponsored or initiated license plates , ...
  4 days ago

• The quiet revolution of cooperation

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 539
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/20237352@N00/4002179056 America is in the midst of a new revolution. But this revolution is quiet, incremental, nonviolent, and traveling beneath the mainstream media’s radar. The new American revolution challenges the current notions of dog-eat-dog capitalism—through the building ...
  6 days ago

• A Strange System: Food: Blue Baby Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 108
  Time to get back on the horse after a week of midterms. Nitrogen was the primary limiting nutrient in terrestrial ecosystems.  Nitrogen levels could be increased by using composted organic material, but that took a long period of time and was hard work.  Keep that in mind.  World War II is raging and ammonia is ...
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• University Of Kentucky Approves New $7 Million Industry-Funded Dorm Named After ‘Coal’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  A group led by Alliance Coal CEO Joseph Craft recently proposed donating $7 million to the University of Kentucky for a new dorm for the men’s basketball team. The catch, however, is that the dorm would have to be named after Craft’s true love: coal. The proposed change sparked intense protests from local ...
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• Insurance Stocks Plunged As Reid Announced Public Option, Spiked After Lieberman Vowed To Filibuster It

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that he would be including a version of the public option (with a state opt-out provision) in the Senate’s final health care bill. Although all of the details of the public plan are yet to be determined , progressives cheered the move. As Sen. Dick ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Too Corny

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 108
  Too Corny Corn is a wonderful vegetable.  Admittedly, the stuff we consider corn is actually maize, but I’m not here to argue semantics.  The kernel of maize is a mature ovary of fruit fused with a seed coat.  Corn can be eaten raw, cooked, or ground into flour for bread.  Good stuff this corn.  Perhaps ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wall Street Journal And CNBC Get Schumer’s ‘Shareholder’s Bill Of Rights’ All Wrong

  
  Wonk Room — Authority: 747
  Today, in the wake of special master for compensation Kenneth Feinberg’s decision to significantly restrict compensation at the seven companies under his office’s purview, the Wall Street Journal reported that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) “is mulling a law to apply the new rules to all public companies .” CNBC ...
  2 weeks ago

• Goldman Sachs Analyst: Income ‘Inequality’ Will Lead To ‘Prosperity And Opportunity For All’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wall Street banks are on pace to pay out a record $140 billion in compensation this year. “Workers at 23 top investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers and stock and commodities exchanges can expect to earn even more than they did the peak year of 2007,” the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Climate Spoof Forces Chamber To Decry ‘Public Relations Hoaxes’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  This morning, activists from the Yes Men troupe claiming to represent the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced the organization was reversing its years of opposition to any climate bill before Congress, saying in jest that the “ Kerry-Boxer Bill is a good start to a strong climate bill.” CNBC and the Fox Business ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama rips health insurance lobby as ‘deceptive,’ ‘dishonest,’ ‘bogus.’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  Earlier this week, the health insurance lobby AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) issued a false and dishonest report claiming that the Baucus health care bill would increase health care costs. Even the firm hired to do the analysis — PriceWaterhouseCoopers — backpedaled from the report’s conclusions. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Maddow Calls Out Americans for Prosperity President: ‘Parasite Who Gets Fat On Americans’ Fears’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  In May, the Wonk Room first reported on the sordid history of Republican operative Tim Phillips — who now heads the front group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) — with respect to his long history of orchestrating “ grassroots ” lobbying efforts for nefarious corporate and political clients. For example , ...
  3 weeks ago

• Insurance company executive refers to high-cost patients as ‘dogs.’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  In the state of New York, insurers are legally prohibited from discriminating against individuals who submit large claims. So when Guardian, a major insurance company, was faced with the high-cost claims of 37 year-old muscular dystrophy patient Ian Pearl, it decided to cancel its entire line of coverage in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chamber of Commerce goes from 3 million members to just 300,000 in one day.

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  As Mother Jones reported yesterday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce consistently says that its membership is 3 million, even though it’s actually closer to 200,000 . The reason for the artificial inflation is that the organization is counting the memberships of 2,800 state and local chambers around the country, even ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chamber of Commerce inflates its membership numbers from 200,000 to 3 million.

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  The Chamber of Commerce regularly brags that it has more than 3 million members . But as Mother Jones reports today, its actual number is closer to 200,000 . The 2.7 million jump occurred in February 1997, right around the time current president Tom Donohue came in. Basically, what the Chamber is doing is counting ...
  3 weeks ago

• Energy Secretary Chu: ‘I Think It’s Wonderful’ That Companies Are Leaving The Chamber Over Its Denialism

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  Recently, there has been a “ business backlash ” against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its extreme global-warming denier views. Businesses, fed up with the Chamber’s resistance to taking any sort of action to curb carbon emissions, have been leaving the business federation one after another. In the past ...
  4 weeks ago

• Aetna CEO: I’m Focusing On Getting Something Done That’s Good For Us…I Mean, ‘The American People’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  Health Care for America Now (HCAN), a pro-reform health care advocacy group, started a new advertising campaign on Tuesday that calls for a public option. “The commercial, entitled ‘How to Get Rich,’ says the insurance industry is motivated by greed .” It references Ronald Williams, chief executive of Aetna, ...
  7 weeks ago

• Former Health Insurance Executive Explains How Companies Pocket Billions Through ‘Rescission’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  NOTE: This is the first installment of our series — Meet Your Insurance Company Executive: An Interview with Wendell Potter. Yesterday, ThinkProgress talked with Wendell Potter, Cigna Health Care’s former Communication Director, about a common and widespread practice among insurance companies called ...
  8 weeks ago

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