Breaking: Vulture investor Paul Singer has forced Argentina into default.
Here's some background on the situation:
Paul Singer’s hedge fund, Elliott Management, is notorious for what the finance industry calls “vulture” attacks, in which speculators seize old debts of bankrupt corporations — and even nations — then demand payments of ten or a hundred times their investment, while making threats of economic ruin.
For more on Paul "The Vulture" Singer, read Chapter 7 of the New York Times' bestselling book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, which you can download here:
BACKBREAKING: Few of us can imagine bending over in a hot pesticide-ridden field for 11 hours a day picking crops for less than minimum wage, but that is what many of our farmworkers endure for us to enjoy our fruits and vegetables. That's why we're asking everyone to show some compassion and ask EPA for stronger laws protecting farmworkers from pesticides >> http://ejus.tc/1pINfUg
More than 1 BILLION pounds of pesticides are applied to our fields every year, and the men, women, and children who harvest our crops are on the front lines. They have one of the highest rates of chemical exposure out of any group in the U.S. It's not acceptable and it's time for us to speak up!
SHARE THIS POST & TAKE ACTION NOW >> http://ejus.tc/1pINfUg The EPA is proposing new safety rules for farmworkers, but the rules could be a lot stronger! Tell them not to cave into the chemical industry - farmworkers are depending on it!
The Week in Review:
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday called for millions of Americans to mobilize support for a constitutional amendment to undo the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United. That 2010 ruling already has opened the floodgates for millionaires and billionaires to spend unlimited, unregulated sums to sway elections. The Senate on Thursday approved and sent to President Barack Obama a bill by Sanders to improve access to health care for veterans and reform the Department of Veterans Affairs. And in testimony on Wednesday at the EPA and at a Capitol Hill news conference, Sanders strongly endorsed an Obama administration proposal to reduce carbon emissions at the nation’s power plants.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/the-week-in-review-080114
These people have serious serious issues....
Surprise: It's Congress' fault
Ten smart people -- including Dr. Jane Goodall -- shared their ideas for saving the planet with us. Here are 10 things they would have America do right now to combat climate change.
"humans have ignored our role as good stewards of the Creation.”
This is why it's so important for us to get big money out of politics
We definitely agree. Do you?
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Share this if you plan to teach Republican obstructionists a hard lesson this November.
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h/t Go Left
Share if you agree the Republicans would declare a national holiday in his honor.
The Labor Department announced today that U.S. payrolls surged in April, with the jobless rate hitting a 5-1/2 year low of 6.3% after 288,000 jobs were added. The DOW closed at an all-time high on Tuesday.
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