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Lawmakers Decide Murdoch is Not Fit to Run Companies

Murdoch has been very influential with both political parties and this has put him in a bad light above and beyond being ‘woefully blind’ towards his companies hacking scandal. Lawmakers feel this attitude came from the top down.

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The Man Who Hacked Hollywood

What would you do with access to the private email accounts of over 50 celebrities?

They’ve become a part of the pop-culture landscape: sexy, private shots of celebrities (your Scarletts, your Milas) stolen from their phones and e-mail accounts. They’re also the center of an entire stealth industry. For the man recently arrested in the biggest case yet, hacking also gave him access to a trove of Hollywood’s seamiest secrets—who was sleeping together, who was closeted, who liked to sext. What the snoop didn’t realize was that he was being watched, too

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“Sustainable Development”

Tag me as what ever you like, but i do think better stewardship is needed for the successful future of mankind.

Here is some info on the U.N.’s vision of the future…

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A Response to “If I Wanted America to Fail”

One response i found from my email chain:
If i wanted america to fail i’d give tax breaks to the wealthiest people.
The biggest companies i’d let pay no taxes at all, then i’d take that deficet and make the poor and middle class pay for it, and errode all safety nets.
If i wanted america to fail, i’d start wars for no reason, with borrowed money, then i’d give no bid contracts to my golf buddies so they could charge 10 times what it would cost the army to do.
i’d make sure the soldiers didn’t have the right equipment, and when my golf buddies electricute the soldiers in the showers they built, i’d make sure no one was held accountable, and renew their contract.
If i wanted america to fail i’d start torturing prisoners to make sure we had future enemies.
If i wanted america to fail i’d let big banks get even bigger, i’d give them free money, and encourage them to play roulette with it.
If i wanted america to fail i’d make sure that only the wealthiest people and companies got things done in congress,and that the people’s wishes were ignored.
If i wanted america to fail i’d convice people that the most abundent energy source (solar).. was impossible, and subsidise the most profitable companies in the history of mankind (big oil.)
i’d stick with old ideas, and push away the new.
After fukishima i’d advocate building more nuclear plants, and laugh at the idea of implementing any lessons learned, i’d keep the one’s on fault lines open and laugh and demonize people who wanted them closed.
i’d pollute the air and water more and more, and point to an owl story to justify it.
i’d devalue the environment,
i’d make sure the citizens could’nt afford health care,
i’d make sure they couldn’t collective bargain, i’d make sure their wages fell,
i’d take away their seeds for growing real food, and make sure to poison their children with more pestisides,
i’d turn their drinking water into undrinkable water… And i’d vote republican
 
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Occupy Movement Back? GE Meeting Interrupted

DETROIT (Reuters) – Nearly 100 protesters affiliated with the “99 Percent” populist movement disrupted General Electric Co’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Wednesday in an attack on the largest U.S. conglomerate’s low tax rate.

The demonstrators, who began chanting “Pay Your Fair Share” when the meeting began, were quickly ushered out of the meeting — held in the Detroit building that houses General Motors Co’s headquarters — but could still be heard chanting protests as the meeting got underway.

After their exit, Chief Financial Officer Keith Sherin stepped up to defend GE’s tax practices, and noted that the company’s low tax rates in 2008 and 2009 were the result of heavy losses at GE Capital.

“Over the 2008 through 2010 time period we lost over $30 billion in credit losses at GE Capital and that reduced our pre-tax income and also our rate,” Sherin said. “Our U.S. tax expense last year was $2.6 billion. We are a large taxpayer, we pay our taxes and we very much support tax reform.”

As they were ushered outside, protesters rejoined a large crowd of hundreds of other demonstrators with signs that read “Tax Dodgers at Work” and “This is What Democracy Looks Like.” Police herded them away from the riverfront building.

The protesters were part of the “99 Percent” movement, an offshoot of last year’s Occupy Wall Street protests. Both are loosely organized around the idea that the U.S. economy no longer serves the needs of most Americans. The “99 Percent” moniker contrasts the average citizen to the nation’s wealthiest.

None of the demonstrators were arrested, unlike the scene at Wells Fargo & Co’s shareholder meeting in San Francisco a day earlier, where about a dozen were arrested.

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Obama Administration Proposes Child Labor Laws Down on the Farm

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“A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.

The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.

Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.”

“Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read, “would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”

The new regulations, first proposed August 31 by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, would also revoke the government’s approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA, replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course.

Rossie Blinson, a 21-year-old college student from Buis Creek, N.C., told The Daily Caller that the federal government’s plan will do far more harm than good.

“The main concern I have is that it would prevent kids from doing 4-H and FFA projects if they’re not at their parents’ house,” said Blinson.”

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Jon Lovitz on Obama: ‘What a Fucking Asshole’

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“Jon Lovitz, an early “Saturday Night Live” cast member, had some harsh words for President Barack Obama over the weekend.

In an interview with “Clerks” director Kevin Smith, Lovitz, a registered Democrat who voted for Obama in 2008, bashed the president for his class warfare rhetoric and the notion that the wealthy don’t pay their fair share in taxes.

“This whole thing with Obama saying the rich don’t pay their taxes is fucking bullshit, and I voted for the guy and I’m a Democrat. What a fucking asshole,” Lovitz said.

“First they say … ‘You can do anything you want. Go for it.’ So then you go for it, and then you make it, and everyone’s like, ‘Fuck you,’” Lovitz said. “[Obama] is the perfect example. He’s amazing. He had nothing … and the guy ends up being at Harvard. He’s the president of the United States. And now he’s like,  ‘Fuck me and everybody who made it like me.’”

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