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Goldman, Merrill E-Mails Show Naked Shorting, Overstock Says

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 4:15 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co. employees discussed helping naked short-sales by market-maker clients in e-mails the banks sought to keep secret, including one in which a Merrill official told another to ignore compliance rules, Overst …

Pompous Prevaricators of Power | Common Dreams

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 4:11 PM EDT (Common Dreams)

Published on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 by Common Dreams Pompous Prevaricators of Power by Ralph Nader A friend who works in Congress and actually reads the Congressional Record suggested that a collection of excerpted falsehoods by Republicans on the floor of the House of Represe …

Schilling asks R.I. for aid after firm misses payment on state-backed loan - MLB - CBSSports.com News, Rumors, Scores, Stats, Fantasy Advice

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 10:02 AM EDT ()

Curt Schilling's video game company was induced to move to Rhode Island in 2010. (AP) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is asking Rhode Island for additional help to save his video game company, prompting state leaders to consider whether t …

'Corporate responsibility' firm lied about presence of indigenous Amazonian tribe while working for oil company in Peru | The Raw Story

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 10:50 PM EDT (Raw Story)

An environmental consultancy working for an oil company withheld evidence of an “uncontacted tribe” where the company is operating in Peru’s Amazon, a leaked report obtained by the Guardian reveals. The leak is acutely embarrassing for Perenco, based …

peru, amazon, perenco

Republicans block Rep. Norton from testifying on anti-abortion bill for her own district | The Raw Story

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 10:48 PM EDT (Raw Story)

Topics: The House Subcommittee on the Constitution will stage a hearing on Thursday for a bill that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in the District of Colombia. And much like the last major Republican hearing on female reproductive rights, women …

holmes, norton, franks, trent, eleanor

Multimillionaire sacked his driver for giving Labrador a bone - Telegraph

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 3:25 PM EDT (Telegraph)

The driver sacked by a multimillionaire racehorse owner for feeding a piece of leftover lamb to an ailing Labrador last night won his claim for unfair dismissal. Ivor James leaving the employment tribunal offices in Birmingham city centre Photo: PA 7:00AM BST 11 May 2012 …

Greece faces new elections as left refuses to join austerity coalition | The Raw Story

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 3:24 PM EDT (Raw Story)

Greece’s socialist leader admitted Friday he had failed in a last-ditch bid to form a government, taking the nation a step closer to repeat elections amid intense EU pressure over its finances. Pasok chief Evangelos Venizelos’s announcement came after the key radic …

Rock star Morrissey asks Philippine president to retire zoo elephant | The Raw Story

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 9:35 AM EDT (Raw Story)

MANILA, Philippines—Rock icon Morrissey called on Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Thursday, ahead of a Manila concert, to send what the star described as Manila Zoo’s long-suffering elephant into retirement. The British ex-singer of alternative rock group Th …

The Red Planet: 12 spectacular images of Mars | Tecca

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 9:30 AM EDT ()

This mosaic image is compiled from pictures captured by the Viking 1 Orbiter that use red and violet filters. This enhanced color view is centered at 20 degrees latitude and 60 degrees longitude; the north polar cap is visible near the top of the image, and Valles Mar …

How come more Christians get abortions than non-religious people? - Yahoo! Answers

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 5:45 PM EDT (Holy Grail Residuals, does it work? - Yahoo! Answers)

"Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identi …

Romney: 'I'll take a lot of credit' for saving the auto industry | The Raw Story

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 5:01 PM EDT (Raw Story)

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Monday gave himself kudos for the U.S. auto industry’s recovery because he had called to let car companies go bankrupt. “I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy,” the candidate told Cleveland’ …

Activists: Insurance industry's flight from Heartland a symptom of growing climate change acceptance | The Raw Story

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 4:59 PM EDT (Raw Story)

The recent flight of insurance companies from leading climate change denial group The Heartland Institute isn’t just due to the group’s offensive Chicago billboard comparing scientists to serial killer Charles Manson. Experts told Raw Story this week that the overt …

Enraged Ted Nugent threatens to 'f*ck' female CBS producer | The Raw Story

Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 1:55 PM EDT (Raw Story)

Ted Nugent recently said presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign “expressed support” after the musician made comments that caused the U.S. Secret Service to wonder if he had threatened the life of President Barack Obama. In a recent …

FCC urged to revoke Fox broadcast licenses | The Raw Story

Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 10:27 AM EDT (Raw Story)

A Washington-based ethics watchdog is calling on federal regulators to revoke News Corporation’s 27 Fox broadcast licences in the wake of the highly critical report on phone hacking from the UK parliament. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew) has w …

Corporate consolidation threatens small British organic beef farms | The Raw Story

Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 10:04 PM EDT (Raw Story)

Carl Gray, who raises beef cattle on around 340 hectares (830 acres) of rolling countryside near Tewkesbury, was surprised to get the letter. It came from Vion, the abattoir and cutting factory where he sends his organic cattle for processing for Tesco. Vion is a Dutch farmer-o …

Study: Atheists more driven by compassion than highly religious people | The Raw Story

Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 9:54 PM EDT (Raw Story)

Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than atheists, agnostics and less religious people, according to a new study. Research from University of California, Berkeley published in the most recent edition of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Scie …

Bottom Line - Chrysler sales jump; Ford and GM dip slightly

Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 4:14 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

By msnbc.com staff and news wires Updated 2:05 p.m. ET: General Motors and Ford reported slight dips in U.S. new vehicle sales for April, but GM lifted its outlook for U.S. sales this year based on encouraging signs that the broader economy will grow. Chrysler, controlled …

GM Bonuses Paid To White-collar, Blue-collar Workers Top $500 Million

Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 4:08 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

DETROIT -- General Motors is likely to spend more than $500 million on employee bonuses and profit-sharing based on the company's performance last year. GM, which made a record profit in 2011, will pay bonuses of at least $182 million to white-collar workers such as engineers, …

Oklahoma Supreme Court: 'Fetal personhood' initiative 'clearly unconstitutional' | The Raw Story

Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:26 PM EDT (Raw Story)

The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that a ballot measure to completely prohibit abortion was “clearly unconstitutional.” The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit against the ballot measure, which …

Texas judge foils Perry's plot to kill Planned Parenthood | The Raw Story

Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:23 PM EDT (Raw Story)

Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) was rebuked by a federal court on Monday for his decision to withdraw all Medicare funds from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), in a move that triggered a showdown with the federal government amid an election season already fraug …

Osama bin Laden complained of al Qaeda 'disaster' | The Raw Story

Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:20 PM EDT (Raw Story)

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden bemoaned “disaster after disaster” inflicted by US drone strikes on Al-Qaeda before he was killed and even mulled changing his terror group’s name, a top US official said Monday. President Barack Obama’s top counter-te …

Scientist Debunks

Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:55 PM EDT (Media Matters for America)

A recent study of satellite data found that nighttime land temperatures in the immediate vicinity of wind turbines in Texas have increased relative to nearby areas without turbines. Conservative media outlets, including Fox Nation, Rush Limbaugh and Jim Hoft, are distorting the …

GOP strategist: Women don't make less money than men | The Raw Story

Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:54 AM EDT (Raw Story)

Republican strategist Alex Castellanos denied Sunday morning the actual fact that women in America make less than men from work. In a roundtable discussion on NBC’s Meet The Press, Castellanos displayed signs of disagreement when MSNBC host Rachel Maddow mentioned the st …

Today in "Duh": Republicans didn't just want to beat Obama, they wanted to stonewall him | The Raw Story

Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:51 AM EDT (Raw Story)

For those people who somehow believed that the lack of progress on almost anything in Washington had something to do with legitimate policy disagreements on which there is legitimately no common ground, journalist Robert Draper has some surprising news: stonewalling President O …

FactCheck.org : Straining the Facts on Federal Spending

Seeded on Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:47 PM EDT ()

A TV ad by a conservative group gives some factually challenged answers to its own rhetorical question, “How exactly does President Obama spend your tax dollars?” It wrongly claims that the boss of the General Services Administration “couldn’t make it t …

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Bill Gates: 'Taxes are going to have to go up' on rich people | The Raw Story
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“Well, the United States has a huge budget deficit, so taxes are going to have to go up,” he said. “And I certainly agree that they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That’s just justice.”
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First patients shown to improve with embryonic stem cells
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart.
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