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Corporate Tax Rates: Fortune 500 Companies That Make Money From Taxes. Trickle Down Fail: Minnesota GOP Can’t Pay Rent. Teen Pregnancies Highest In States With Abstinence-Only Policies. The number of teen births in the U.S. dropped again in 2010, according to a government report, with nearly every state seeing a decrease.

Teen Pregnancies Highest In States With Abstinence-Only Policies

Nationally, the rate fell 9 percent to about 34 per 1,000 girls ages 15 through 19, and the drop was seen among all racial and ethnic groups. U.S. Has Highest % of Low Wage Workers – America #1! Obama needs more than symbolism of 'Buffett Rule' President Barack Obama touts the "Buffett Rule" in a speech Tuesday at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance.

This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.

Merrill, 39, who previously ran a New York-based Internet provider, told CNET that he's raising funds to launch a national "non-profit telecommunications provider dedicated to privacy, using ubiquitous encryption" that will sell mobile phone service and, for as little as $20 a month, Internet connectivity. The ISP would not merely employ every technological means at its disposal, including encryption and limited logging, to protect its customers.

It would also -- and in practice this is likely more important -- challenge government surveillance demands of dubious legality or constitutionality. A decade of revelations has underlined the intimate relationship between many telecommunications companies and Washington officialdom. Facebook. How Did Mitt Romney Get So Obscenely Rich? Robert Reich Explains. Robert Reich Explains How Mitt Romney Got Obscenely Rich. If Working Women Hate Themselves It’s Only Because They’re TOLD To Hate Themselves « Proud to be a Filthy Liberal Scum. Facebook. Facebook. Facebook. Support the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012. MoveOn.org Start a petition Manage Petitions Political Action Edition Petition statement to be delivered to Rep.

Support the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012

John Kline (MN-2), The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama Support the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012. The Difference Between Private and Public Morality) Republicans have morality upside down.

The Difference Between Private and Public Morality)

State Senate struggles to find enough members for Friday session : Bluegrass Politics. State Sen.

State Senate struggles to find enough members for Friday session : Bluegrass Politics

Jimmy Higdon, R-Lebanon By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT – The state Senate had a difficult time rounding up enough members Friday morning to conduct business on the same day the University of Kentucky basketball team played a tournament game in New Orleans. Liberty Lost: H.R. 347 Threatens First Amendment Freedoms. Last week the United States Congress passed dangerous legislation that would make free speech a felony and seriously restrict political protest.

Liberty Lost: H.R. 347 Threatens First Amendment Freedoms

The legislation will give federal agents sweeping powers to arrest and bring felony criminal charges against citizens engaged in political protests anywhere in the U.S. H.R. 347, The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, threatens the right to protest and assemble in government buildings or on public or private grounds where events of “national significance” are taking place. One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath, Say Researchers. An article that appeared on The Huffington Post on February 28, 2012, "One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath, Say Researchers," was incorrect and has been removed.

One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath, Say Researchers

Police to set aside space outside KFC Yum! arena for Occupy Louisville protest. Facebook. #Occupied: Reports from the Front Lines. Brian Piccolo Specialty School in Chicago: #Occupied. This week in Occupy, Chicago became a hotbed of direct action as Mayor Rahm Emanuel continued to militarize his police force ahead of the G8 and NATO summits, U.S. prisons and banks were #occupied, and the movement geared up for #F29 and the General Strike on May 1. #After 12-hour occupation at the former Republic Windows & Doors plant in Chicago on February 23, workers won an agreement that will save their jobs for at least three months, time they will use to explore other ways to keep their plant open and producing.

This is the same plant that union members occupied for a week in December 2008 after the previous owners and their financial backers, Bank of America, announced without warning that the factory was closing. (Get the full story from the Occupied Chicago Tribune.) Occupy the Future. To read more articles by Noam Chomsky and others in the Public Intellectual Project, click here.

Occupy the Future

Delivering a Howard Zinn lecture is a bittersweet experience for me. I regret that he's not here to take part in and invigorate a movement that would have been the dream of his life. Indeed, he laid a lot of the groundwork for it. WikiLeaks Uncovers Report Showing Homeland Security Monitored Occupy Movement. Screen shot of the Homeland Security report from October on Occupy (update below) The transparency organization WikiLeaks has published an assessment report from the Homeland Security Department (DHS) on the Occupy movement that was put together in October of last year.

WikiLeaks Uncovers Report Showing Homeland Security Monitored Occupy Movement

The assessment was attached to a Stratfor email, one of five million or so emails the organization obtained and has been releasing since February 27. The release of the report is timely, coming just as Occupy supporters are mobilizing for demonstrations against the suppression of the Occupy movement by law enforcement and political leaders in the United States. Unemployment Insurance And What Happens To People Who Run Out.

David Arrieta said he received his final $214 unemployment insurance check last week after losing his office manager job in August 2010.

Unemployment Insurance And What Happens To People Who Run Out

"Hopefully I'll get hired," Arrieta said. "Hopefully we can rebound. " In case that doesn't happen right away, Arrieta, who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., with his wife and three kids, said he cashed out his retirement account and is in the process of selling off personal possessions so his family can move into more affordable housing. The Party People of Wall Street. A week or so ago, we read in The New York Times about what in the Gilded Age of the Roman Empire was known as a bacchanal – a big blowout at which the imperial swells got together and whooped it up. This one occurred here in Manhattan at the annual black-tie dinner and induction ceremony for Kappa Beta Phi.

That’s the very exclusive Wall Street fraternity of billionaire bankers, and private equity and hedge fund predators. Optimal tax rates: Soak or swim. More Conflict Seen Between Rich and Poor, Survey Finds. What They Don’t Want to Talk About. The 15 Wars Started By The GOP Since Obama Took Office. Cleveland To Use National Mortgage Settlement Money To Demolish Homes, Sill Wants Banks To Pay. 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free. Occupy Louisville protesters target KFC Yum! Center. Arizona Birth Control Bill Penalizes Women For Using Contraception For Non-Medical Reasons. Arizona legislators have advanced an unprecedented bill that would require women who wish to have their contraception covered by their health insurance plans to prove to their employers that they are taking it to treat medical conditions.

The bill also makes it easier for Arizona employers to fire a woman for using birth control to prevent pregnancy despite the employer's moral objection. Under current law, health plans in Arizona that cover other prescription medications must also cover contraception. Texas Loses Entire Women's Health Program Over Planned Parenthood Law.

Arizona Law Would Allow Women To Be Fired Over Birth Control. Cash Hoard Grows by $187 Billion in Untaxed Overseas Profits. U.S. companies led by General Electric Co. Facebook. Food Stamp Cuts Approved By House Agricultural Committee. Ann Romney: ‘I know what it’s like to struggle’ By David EdwardsThursday, April 12, 2012 12:25 EDT. Pot Legalization Could Save U.S. $13.7 Billion Per Year, 300 Economists Say. Mitt Romney: Poor Stay-At-Home Moms Should Work (VIDEO) Bernie Sanders Opens up a Can of Whoop Ass on GOP Oligarchs. LIST: Obama’s Top 50 Accomplishments. Wisconsin Republican Claims Single Mothers Want Fatherless Children, Says Women Lie About Planned Pregnancies. Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion In Taxes While GE Paid Nothing.

Facebook. #Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines. Facebook. Facebook. Facebook. Louisville Metro Housing Authority: Unfair Policies? – FatLip. Facebook. 5 Ways Wall Street Is Putting the Squeeze on American Students. Mitt Romney: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" Occupy Wall Street Protests ALEC In What Activists Call Largest Coordinated Occupy Event This Year. The Bipartisan Force Behind the For-Profit College Scam: Big Money. Facebook. Robert Reich.

Occupylouisville.org. Deconstructing Empire: Occupy Wall Street with Starhawk and LIsa Fithian. Occupy Streams Map World. NYC Protest for World Revolution. Occupy Movement Regroups, Preparing for Its Next Phase. Constitutional Amendment Not Needed: Congress Already Has a Remedy. Occupy Louisville protest at KFC Yum! Center is peaceful. Inefficient Wall Street Wastes $280 Billion A Year: Study. Wisconsin Republican Senator Proposes Bill That Labels Single-Parenthood As Child Abuse.

OCCUPY CHASE BANK - PROTEST AND POLICE BRUTALITY IN LOUISVILLE, KY. Wall Photos. Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America. Occupy Chase Bank - the whole story. OCCUPY CHASE BANK - PROTEST AND POLICE BRUTALITY IN LOUISVILLE, KY. The Difference Between Private and Public Morality) Republican Congressman Screams At Mother With Two Children, Tells Her To Join The Military Instead Of Using Pell Grants. The 99% Declaration. Rich People Live Longer Than The Poor, Study Finds. California Considers Outlawing Discrimination Against Unemployed. The State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector, A Government Overwhelmed by Corporate Money. Demonstrators seek revision of terroist detention act. Riot police violently disperse Occupy DC with batons. GOP Senator Introduces Amendment To Allow Any Employer To Deny Any Medical Coverage.

Leave Health Care to Doctors, not Employers. Photos de Rick Williams. Photos du mur. Obama Vs. Bush On Job Growth: 3 Long Years, 1 Simple Graph. Wisconsin GOP Votes To Ban Private Insurance Abortion Coverage And Teaching Contraception In School. Facebook. Hauling The Koch Brothers Into Congress. New York sues banks over fraudulent foreclosures. Member Of 1% Reveals The Actual Truth About Job Creators. Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It. New Rules for Radicals: 10 Ways To Spark Change in a Post-Occupy World.