#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty The Future of Growth – Economic Values and the Media http://www.dw.de/the-future-of-growth-economic-values-and-the-media/a-16101948 “The Future of Growth – Economic Values and the Media” is the issue of the sixth Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum from 17-19 June 2013 at the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB). The world economy faces enormous challenges. Pressed to deal with climate change and scarce resources, it must also respond to growing social, political and cultural tensions. As billions of people vie for lives in dignity on a shared planet, the debate on global regulatory and structural policies is swelling. The recent financial crisis has brought transparency and stakeholder accountability into sharper public focus. The economic pro…http://www.twitpic.com/cqercr
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Students and Polar Bears Play Tug-of-War with Wall Street Bankers http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Students-and-Polar-Bears-Play-Tug-of-War-with-Wall-Street-Bankers On one side of the rope, students, workers, a polar bear, a walrus and Robin Hood stood. On the other side, a series of fancily dressed Wall Street executives. The tug-of-war was over a proposed half penny tax on Wall Street transactions designed to raise billions of dollars to pay for education, climate change mitigation and the improvement of public infrastructure. That was the scene Thursday when working family activists who are part of the U.S. Robin Hood Tax Campaign rallied at Hotel Palomar in Washington, D.C., where finance and environmental ministers of select developed countries m…http://www.twitpic.com/cjh48v
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [PETITION] WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE IN BUDGET 2013? http://realthings.ndp.ca/ REAL THINGS FOR REAL PEOPLE Tired of seeing federal budgets waste billions on Conservative insiders? We’ve got a better plan.http://www.twitpic.com/cd1jgv
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Lord Browne promises to invest 'whatever it takes' in UK fracking http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/12/lord-browne-uk-shale-gas?CMP=twt_gu Chairman of UK's only shale gas driller Cuadrilla says billions of pounds could be sunk into 'dash for gas' in defiance of critics Lord Browne, the former chief of BP and now the most senior business adviser to the coalition government, has vowed to defy environmentalists to invest “whatever it takes” – potentially running to billions of pounds – in the controversial UK “dash for gas”. In a rare interview Browne, chairman of Cuadrilla Resources, the UK's only shale gas driller, and managing partner at Riverstone Holdings, the venture capital firm that backs it, told the Guardian that despite so far …http://www.twitpic.com/cavsep
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot Dear America, Please Don't Fall for This Shit Again http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-mckay/romney-obama-election-2012_b_2080326.html This election season there's a billowing cloud of misinformation being sprayed into the American psyche like a burping tail pipe on a primered Vega. And its smoke is thicker and blacker than ever before thanks to the Citizen's United Supreme Court decision. Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W Bush did. It's really and truly that simple. Lower taxes for the rich, cutting regulations for Wall Street, hawkish foreign policy with in many cases the same neocon foreign policy advisers W. Bush use…http://www.twitpic.com/c38jg2