S.C. bill would require jobless to volunteer - SC Politics Today - TheState.com

Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:15 PM EST (TheState.com)

“The unemployed are just a slice of America. They’re you and I without a job,” he said. “To suggest that the unemployed are lazy drug abusers who are just sitting around feeds a false, ugly stereotype.

labor, unemployment, gop, volunteer, us-news, paul-campbell

Dangerous Minds | Andrew Dubber's 'Music Journalism Is The New Boring'

Seeded on Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:46 AM EST (DangerousMinds.net)

You can’t complain about a dull year in music if all you do is report on the pile of CDs that ended up on your desk as a result of public relations and major label marketing.

entertainment, music, journalism, pop, reviews, boredom, 2011

Danish company helped Iran identify journalist who was arrested and tortured - Boing Boing

Seeded on Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:16 AM EST (Boing Boing)

Ironically, the equipment originally comes from the Israeli manufacturer Allot Communications, which means that the Israelis through a Danish intermediary have helped their mortal enemies.

israel, denmark, spyware, torture, world-news, rantek

Will the Butterball raid yield any real results? | Grist

Seeded on Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:09 AM EST (Grist.org)

Butterball now faces a daunting moment in its history. If the fallout from this investigation receives enough media attention, the turkey giant may just have to reinvent itself as a company that takes animal welfare seriously.

business, turkey, animals, cruelty, factory-farming, butterball, inhumanity

Lawmakers call for repeal of ethanol subsidies - 2chambers - The Washington Post

Seeded on Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:00 PM EST (The Washington Post)

While the measure fell short of passage, the fact that nearly three-dozen Republicans voted in favor of it was considered a symbolic turning point in the broader debate over tax reform.

business, tax, ethanol, corn, subsidy, biofuel, tariff

JPMorgan may have missing MF Global funds - CBS News

Seeded on Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:49 AM EST (CBS News)

MF Global overdrew one of its proprietary trading accounts with JPMorgan in London. The banking giant asked for the money, and MF Global repaid the company using customer funds.

business, fraud, chase, london, jon-corzine, jpm, jp-morgan, mf-global

Fewer Mecklenburg poor to get heat aid

Seeded on Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:11 AM EST (CharlotteObserver.com)

Budget cuts and eligibility changes will slash the number of low-income Mecklenburg County households that get help paying their heating bills this winter.

poverty, leap, us-news, mecklenburg, heat-aid, low-income-energy-assistance-program

Second rabid coyote found in northeast Charlotte

Seeded on Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:06 AM EST (WCNC.com)

John Shaw of the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission said people should not be any more afraid of coyotes than many other animals that populate our area.

coyotes, animals, health, rabies, mecklenburg

Bank of America to pay $335M settlement

Seeded on Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:46 AM EST (The Charlotte Observer)

The agreement resolves a civil complaint that the mortgage lender charged black and Hispanic borrowers higher fees and steered them into costlier mortgages than other buyers from 2004 to 2008, a period when the company originated millions of home loans.

business, discrimination, bank-of-america, doj, bofa, countrywide

MS Tag Now Scans and Creates QR, NFC codes

Seeded on Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:01 PM EST (The Lunch Pail)

In one fell swoop, Microsoft’s Tag team has solved the biggest complaint/counter argument that most QR enthusiasts have had: “But it doesn’t scan QR codes.” So now what?

technology, nfc, phone, mobile-computing, 2d, bar-code, qr-code, ms-tag

The bugs that ate Monsanto | Grist

Seeded on Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:26 PM EST (Grist.org)

Monsanto's denial of reality in favor of its bottom line, while a practice now commonplace in corporate America, will have repercussions beyond industrial agriculture.

business, epa, monsanto, resistance, bt, insects, round-up, usda, gmo, superweeds

Anti-earmark Tea Party Caucus takes $1 billion in earmarks

Seeded on Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:13 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that, taken cumulatively, added more than $1 billion to the federal budget.

congress, conservatives, politics, gop, earmarks, hypocrites, tea-party

illicitizen - Helicopters (Live in Knoxville)

Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:51 AM EST

Continue reading this entry ...

entertainment, indie, electronic, r-b, alternative, soul, folk, knoxivi, gvoy

GOP aides head to K St. for tech war - Anna Palmer - POLITICO.com

Seeded on Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:17 AM EST (Politico)

A pair of senior Hill aides at the center of a brewing battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley are packing their bags for K Street, where they’ll work for two of the entertainment lobby shops trying to influence their former colleagues in Congress on the very same iss …

lobbyist, internet, us-news, mpaa, censorship, ifpi, k-street, sopa, allison-halataei, lauren-pastarnack

17-Year-Old Girl Creates Nanoparticle That Kills Cancer | Geekosystem

Seeded on Fri Dec 9, 2011 1:04 PM EST (http://www.geekosystem.com)

The nanoparticle Zhang created is already being referred to as something of a “swiss army knife” in the area of cancer treatment.

cancer, award, science, siemens, nano-particle

New Agtivist: Edith Floyd is making a Detroit urban farm, empty lot by empty lot | Grist

Seeded on Thu Dec 8, 2011 10:58 AM EST (Grist.org)

Edith Floyd is the real deal. With little in the way of funding or organizational infrastructure, she runs Growing Joy Community Garden on the northeast side of Detroit. Not many folks bother to venture out to her neighborhood, but Edith has been inspiring me for years.

community, environment, not-news, urban-farming, horticulture, vegetable, blotting, blotters

Copyrights vs. Human Rights

Seeded on Tue Dec 6, 2011 12:39 PM EST (Publisher's Weekly)

SOPA’s opponents, however, call the bill “the worst Internet law in American legislative history,” and it has drawn condemnation from human rights organizations across the U.S. and around the world.

business, human-rights, internet, copyright, web, sopa

Foreclosure fraud whistleblower found dead

Seeded on Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:33 PM EST (msnbc.com)

It could not immediately be determined whether Lawrence, who faced up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,000, died of suicide or of natural causes, KSNV reported. Detectives said they had ruled out homicide.

us-news, foreclosure, tracy-lawrence

What Vacancies? FDA Conflict Rules & Advisory Panels // Pharmalot

Seeded on Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:54 PM EST (Pharmalot.com)

The upshot is that the FDA does not appear to be having much difficulty finding experts without industry ties, despite the protestations from the pols who want the regs loosened - Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar, North Carolina Republican Richard Burr and Colorado Democrat Mic …

fda, drugs, health, medicine, rx, conflict-of-interest, big-pharma

Butter Beats Guns At Creating Jobs, Profs Say

Seeded on Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:49 PM EST (AOL)

"Our key finding is that spending on the military is a poor source of job creation relative to spending on the green economy, health care, education, or even personal household consumption," write Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier, professors of political economy at UMass …

business, jobs, budget, defense, military, employment

Six Banks that Benefited Most from Fed's Sweetheart Lending Were Big Political Players - Sunlight Foundation

Seeded on Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:40 PM EST (http://sunlightfoundation.com)

While it’s difficult to infer causality from these numbers, it is fair to say that these companies were no strangers to Washington.

bank-of-america, citigroup, banks, wells-fargo, goldman-sachs, morgan-stanley, world-news, jp-morgan, ows, occupy-wall-street

Levin and McCain Strike Deal Over Detainee Handling

Seeded on Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:33 AM EST (The New York Times)

The chairmen of the intelligence and judiciary committees as well as other Senate Democrats have asked for the mandatory military custody provision to be removed, and the Obama administration has strongly objected to it, saying that only civilian law enforcement agencies, not t …

us-news, martial-law, article-v, ows, ndaa, occupy-wall-street

RAN: Bank of America is risking public health and the environment | The CLog

Seeded on Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:51 PM EST (Creative Loafing Charlotte)

environmentalists of the world are tired of BofA's support of the coal industry, and they aim to make that complaint super clear at a protest today. They've already begun pushing BofA customers to cut and run, but today's protest is designed to step up their concerns.

bank-of-america, greenpeace, coal, us-news, occupy-charlotte

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Admits Cities Coordinated Crackdown on Occupy Movement | capitoilette

Seeded on Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:06 PM EST (Capitoilette)

Jean Quan, speaking in an interview with the BBC (excerpted on The Takeaway radio program–audio of Quan starts at the 5:30 mark), casually mentioned that she was on a conference call with leaders of 18 US cities shortly before a wave of raids broke up Occupy Wall Street e …

world-news, ows, jean-quan, occupy-wall-street, occupy-oakland

Occupy Charlotte protesters vow vigilance, despite challenges

Seeded on Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:13 AM EST (Charlotte Observer)

James Davis, originally from Brooklyn, N.Y., spent time at the Occupy Wall Street protest that spawned Occupy Charlotte and other movements. He said the protesters are sticking it out.

nyse, bank-of-america, federal-reserve, us-news, clt, ows, occupy-wall-street

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Comments & Feedback

Yeah, it's like we're locked in a room with Bush and Cheney who have crapped themselves and Leahy is just spraying Glade®.

miasma, Fri Jul 14, 2006 (referring to the offer by Sen. Patrick Leahy to write legislation legalizing certain administration programs)

Both witty and intelligent. Thanks for saying that, miasma.
— Brad Farris