Every bite of food that you feed your family is a vote, either for Monsanto and their GMOs, or against them. This means that every single one of us can effect the necessary change by voting with our forks and wallets. … Read More
Yahoo reportedly offers up to $800 million to acquire Hulu
Yahoo seems to have some surprisingly deep pockets ready for making acquisitions, as the company reportedly offered anywhere from $600 to $800 million to purchase online streaming platform Hulu. The report comes from All Things D, after revealing Yahoo's intentions to purchase the site earlier in May. … Read More
How US spied on Occupy movement to crush it (20May13)
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Powerball officials still seeking missing $1 million prize winner
Organizers of the Powerball lottery on appealed Friday for the owner of a winning ticket to come forward and collect a $1 million prize that has been unclaimed for nearly a year. “Check your wallet, clean out the drawers and dig in your pants pockets because a New Jersey Lottery player,…
Entrepreneurs crowdsource traffic tips to help drivers out of jams in newly car-dense cities
If you own a mobile phone and spend sunup to sundown watching the traffic pass in Ghana’s capital, then Iddrisu Mohammed wants you to be his spy. With an iPad in his hands and two phones in his pants pockets, Mohammed crisscrosses Accra on foot, looking for people to become informants for…
Senate passes Democrat budget in all-night ‘vote-a-rama’
Bringing together a mix of tax increases and spending cuts, themuch-anticipated budget squeaked out the doors of theDemocrat-controlled upper house by a margin of 50-49.The new budget, however, could barely be labeled a success forthe Democrats: no Republicans voted for the Senate plan, while fourDemocrats, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Kay Hagan of North Carolina,Mark Begich of Alaska and Max Baucus of Montana all voted againstit, saying the legislation does not go far enough towards taming USspending.The resolution anticipates a deficit of $566 billion in2023.The so-called Murray budget, named after Senate BudgetChairwoman Patty Murray, calls for an immediate supply-sideinjection of $100 billion dollars to jump-start the US economy, aswell as a halt to $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts, knownas sequestration.The plan also proposes to raise nearly $1 trillion in new taxrevenue over the next 10 years by closing tax loopholes on wealthyAmericans.Naturally, such proposed measures have attracted the wrath ofRepublicans and their wealthy constituents, which include manyinfluential corporations with deep pockets.Passage of the Democratic plan sets up a political showdown withthe Republican-dominated House of Representatives, which passed itsown budget plan on Thursday.The so-called Ryan plan, named after Senator Paul Ryan, callsfor deep cuts to government spending without the prospect ofraising taxes, as well as axing ‘Obamacare’, the cornerstone of theDemocratic leader’s presidency.”The House budget changes our debt course, while the Senatebudget does not,” said Senator Jeff Sessions, the topRepublican on the Senate Budget Committee.In an effort to appease their right-wing opponents, theDemocrats’ budget proposes to limit spending cuts on the Pentagon,the one government institution that the Republican Party does notmind inflating.The Senate Budget Chairwoman kept the focus on job growth andassisting those members of American society suffering most from theeconomic downturn.“The first priority of the Senate budget is creating jobs andeconomic growth from the middle out, not the top down,” Murraytold lawmakers in defending her budget plan. “With anunemployment rate than remains stubbornly high, and a middle classthat has seen their wages stagnate for far too long, we simplycannot afford any threats to our fragile recovery.”Although neither the Democrat nor Republican plan will likelybecome law, the dual proposals will lead to another round ofcongressional debates that could eventually lead to a budget billacceptable to both parties before heading to the desk of the USpresident.Passage of the Murray budget came after an all-night marathonvote that saw Senators debate some 562 filed amendments that theyhope to see attached to the new budget. … Read More
All-night ‘vote-a-rama’: Senate passes its first federal budget in four years
Bringing together a mix of tax increases and spending cuts, themuch-anticipated budget squeaked out the doors of theDemocrat-controlled upper house by a margin of 50-49.The new budget, however, could barely be labeled a success forthe Democrats: no Republicans voted for the Senate plan, while fourDemocrats, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Kay Hagan of North Carolina,Mark Begich of Alaska and Max Baucus of Montana all voted againstit, saying the legislation does not go far enough towards taming USspending.The resolution anticipates a deficit of $566 billion in2023.The so-called Murray budget, named after Senate BudgetChairwoman Patty Murray, calls for an immediate supply-sideinjection of $100 billion dollars to jump-start the US economy, aswell as a halt to $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts, knownas sequestration.The plan also proposes to raise nearly $1 trillion in new taxrevenue over the next 10 years by closing tax loopholes on wealthyAmericans.Naturally, such proposed measures have attracted the wrath ofRepublicans and their wealthy constituents, which include manyinfluential corporations with deep pockets.Passage of the Democratic plan sets up a political showdown withthe Republican-dominated House of Representatives, which passed itsown budget plan on Thursday.The so-called Ryan plan, named after Senator Paul Ryan, callsfor deep cuts to government spending without the prospect ofraising taxes, as well as axing ‘Obamacare’, the cornerstone of theDemocratic leader’s presidency.”The House budget changes our debt course, while the Senatebudget does not,” said Senator Jeff Sessions, the topRepublican on the Senate Budget Committee.In an effort to appease their right-wing opponents, theDemocrats’ budget proposes to limit spending cuts on the Pentagon,the one government institution that the Republican Party does notmind inflating.The Senate Budget Chairwoman kept the focus on job growth andassisting those members of American society suffering most from theeconomic downturn.“The first priority of the Senate budget is creating jobs andeconomic growth from the middle out, not the top down,” Murraytold lawmakers in defending her budget plan. “With anunemployment rate than remains stubbornly high, and a middle classthat has seen their wages stagnate for far too long, we simplycannot afford any threats to our fragile recovery.”Although neither the Democrat nor Republican plan will likelybecome law, the dual proposals will lead to another round ofcongressional debates that could eventually lead to a budget billacceptable to both parties before heading to the desk of the USpresident.Passage of the Murray budget came after an all-night marathonvote that saw Senators debate some 562 filed amendments that theyhope to see attached to the new budget. … Read More
