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• Seattle Chamber of Commerce: Unlike the U.S. Chamber, we’re ‘environmentally progressive.’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  It is becoming increasingly clear that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the right-wing lobbying giant, is not actually the “ voice of business ” when it opposes climate action. Yesterday, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce became the latest organization to distance itself from the national chamber’s ...
  3 days ago

• Former Insurance Company Executive: Health Insurers Stand Between Patients And Their Doctors

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  One of the most common right-wing memes used by opponents of health care reform is that progressive solutions to America’s health care problems place “Washington bureaucrats firmly between you and your doctor .” Again and again , conservatives have deployed this meme to demagogue the health care debate. ...
  4 days ago

• Coal-Fueled Chamber Of Commerce Demands Lawmakers Defeat Health Reform In Order To ‘Stop’ Clean Energy Bill

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  Corporate front groups and large business trade associations are funneling their resources into defeating health reform. Even though health reform will lower costs for small businesses and boost worker productivity economy-wide, it appears that corporate entities influenced by major polluters are hoping that the ...
  6 days ago

• Six-Year-Old Girl ‘On Verge Of Never Hearing Again’ Due To Insurance Company Denial

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  One of the worst abuses of the private health insurance industry is its practice of denying claims to pay for necessary care for patients. This practice has become so rampant in the industry that a recent study by the California Nurses Association found that a whopping 21 percent of all insurance claims filed in the ...
  1 week ago

• Exclusive: Attacks On Health Reform Orchestrated By Yet Another Shadowy Corporate Front Group — ‘CMPI’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  The resistance to reforming our nation’s healthcare system has been fueled by entrenched corporate interests. Their deep pockets are funneling money into generating attack ads, funding lawmakers’ campaigns, and hiring lobbyists. These corporate interests are also funding various front groups to make up their own ...
  1 week ago

• Ecotopia

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 539
  My good friend Andy Middleton is organising an event called Ecotopia – December 4th 2009 So if you want to follow the No Straight Line rule of doing something. Get over to and get stuck in with Ecotopia. Become the change you want to see in the world.
  1 week ago

• A Strange System: Food: What We Can Do

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 104
  I’m all ranted out for now, so I shall bring this series to a close.  I have hinted at a number of things we, the average consumer, can do to improve the system.  So, to finish off the series, I am posting a list created by a professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Richard Andrus, which I think is completely ...
  1 week ago

• Goldman Sachs report concludes insurers would profit from watered-down Senate health bill.

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein reports that Goldman Sachs (in the course of performing “ God’s work “) did a report analyzing the impact of health reform on Cigna, Aetna, WellPoint, UnitedHealth and Humana. While Stein concludes that insurers would profit from undermining health care reform, the report ...
  2 weeks ago

• The new rules of customer engagement

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 539
  I have been asked to make a presentation about the New Rules of Customer Engagement Monday 16th November organised by Canvas8 and takes place in the offices of the architects BDP. You can find out more information here. Also on the bench are Professor Michael Solomon : Michael will be flying in from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Business Groups ‘Worried’ About The Effects Of Banning The Importation Of Goods Made With Child Labor

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  One of the worst abuses in the international labor markets is the use of child labor. The most recent report on the issue by the International Labor Organization found that as of 2004 more than 218 million children were engaged in illegal work, as defined by international treaties. It’s estimated that 126 million ...
  2 weeks ago

• Former Bush officials ‘are leading a new business push into Iraq.’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  In 2008, Tim Shorrock reported for Salon that while “working inside America’s ’shadow’ spy industry, George Tenet, Richard Armitage, Cofer Black and others are cashing in big on Iraq and the war on terror.” Now, the Financial Times reports today that even more Bush administration officials are eyeing ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 104
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Let’s Learn About Coal’: Industry Front Group Distributes Coloring Book On The ‘Advantages’ Of Coal

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  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 , ...
  3 weeks 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Strange System: Food: Blue Baby Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 104
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• University Of Kentucky Approves New $7 Million Industry-Funded Dorm Named After ‘Coal’

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Insurance Stocks Plunged As Reid Announced Public Option, Spiked After Lieberman Vowed To Filibuster It

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Strange System: Food: Too Corny

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 104
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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