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Costco's Profit Soars To $537 Million Just Days After CEO Endorses Minimum Wage Increase
Elizabeth Warren: Why Isn’t Min Wage Keeping Up With Productivity? Should Be $22 p/h (check out the video in this article)
Boehner Agrees With Obama: "We Do Not Have An Immediate Debt Crisis"
It’s time to tax financial transactions
...a light tax on all financial transactions — three pennies on every $100 traded.
The good news is that it’s a tax so small it could be mistaken for a rounding error. It’s so small, Wall Street could easily afford it and the average E-Trade investor would barely notice it. If this were a tax on coffee, it would cost you $1 for every 800 cups you bought at Starbucks.
But there’s even better news. This insignificant tax raises a significant amount of revenue — $352 billion over the next 10 years, or enough to refund about one-third of what the sequester will slash from the federal budget. It’s also enough to put many air traffic controllers back to work, Head Start teachers back in preschools, and crucial government programs back in business.
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
Bills Seek End To Farm Animal Abuse Videos
Neil Tyson Pounds The Table, Demanding A Future, Now!
The original Michelin Man
Politics and Business
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Elizabeth Warren Takes On Eric Holder's 'Too Big To Jail' Statement
How to Force Ethics on the Food Industry
Written by a former executive vice president of global corporate affairs for Kraft Foods.
The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'
Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls provide a fresh insight into his world. Among the revelations - he planned a dramatic entry into the 1968 Democratic Convention to re-join the presidential race. And he caught Richard Nixon sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks... but said nothing.
New evidence: CIA and MI6 were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD
How To Find A Food Desert Near You
Want to know where you can't buy fresh, healthful food? The USDA has the map for you.
Chinese Solar Company Shuts U.S. Factory
The industry has been sagging under a global over-supply problem, and a trade war has made matters worse. Last year, the U.S. International Trade Commission slapped a 36 percent tariff on Chinese solar cell manufacturers, for dumping cheap products on the U.S. market. That drove up the cost of components Suntech imported to Arizona. Meta says it's another reason manufacturing here became too expensive.
Want to know where you can't buy fresh, healthful food? The USDA has the map for you.
Chinese Solar Company Shuts U.S. Factory
The industry has been sagging under a global over-supply problem, and a trade war has made matters worse. Last year, the U.S. International Trade Commission slapped a 36 percent tariff on Chinese solar cell manufacturers, for dumping cheap products on the U.S. market. That drove up the cost of components Suntech imported to Arizona. Meta says it's another reason manufacturing here became too expensive.
From Grief Comes A Mission To Make Estate Planning Less Daunting
Her site — which is a NSFW riff on "get your stuff together" — features a checklist and templates for some key documents, including a will, living will and power of attorney. It also suggests compiling online account usernames and passwords and putting these key documents in a safe or scanning and uploading them to a password-protected site.
Bank of America cuts check for Estates couple in mistaken foreclosure case
When Bank of America tried to foreclose on Warren and Maureen Nyerges' fully-paid, Golden Gate Estates home last year, it was a mistake.
When the couple's attorney arrived at a Bank of America branch Friday morning with deputies, a moving company and a court writ permitting him to seize furniture and cash to recoup fees in the case, it was a last alternative.
The Surprising Reasons Why America Lost Its Ability To Compete
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Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own (good comic)
Graphene antenna could increase wireless speed 100 times (You may have to expand the story)
Labels That Translate Calories into Walking Distance Could Induce People to Eat Less
Scientists prove you really can tell what your dog is feeling by looking at its face
The birds truly do have an inner circadian rhythm that tells when when to crow.
Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant
Fun, Interesting, Disturbing and Offbeat
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Elephant Poaching Pushes Species To Brink Of Extinction
Man left in solitary confinement for 2 years gets $15.5 million settlement
Slevin's story of inhumane treatment in the Dona Ana County Jail, where he was incarcerated from 2005 to 2007 — which he said included his toenails growing so long that they curled around his foot, and fungus festering on his skin because he was deprived of showers...
Scots fought 'in bright yellow war shirts not Braveheart kilts'
Medieval Scottish soldiers fought wearing bright yellow war shirts dyed in horse urine rather than the tartan plaid depicted in the film Braveheart, according to new research.
Questions to a med students talking to 14 yr olds
Note to a patient who has short-term memory loss (Profanity. Also, different than the one posted on Epoch.)
Police: Oregon panhandlers raking in the green
Trinity students blag way around globe for ‘jailbreak’ charity stunt
The TCD Jailbreak encouraged students to try to get as far away from the college campus without paying a cent – and all within 36 hours. Participants happily rose to the challenge – managing to reach Sydney, Malaysia and Argentina.
The Great Wall of Vagina
Over the past 5 years, 400 women volunteered to have plaster casts made of their vulvae by UK artist Jamie McCartney to help alleviate women's anxiety about their genital appearance.
Police: Oregon panhandlers raking in the green
Trinity students blag way around globe for ‘jailbreak’ charity stunt
The TCD Jailbreak encouraged students to try to get as far away from the college campus without paying a cent – and all within 36 hours. Participants happily rose to the challenge – managing to reach Sydney, Malaysia and Argentina.
The Great Wall of Vagina
Over the past 5 years, 400 women volunteered to have plaster casts made of their vulvae by UK artist Jamie McCartney to help alleviate women's anxiety about their genital appearance.
Videos
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Crane Fail
Inflatable concrete tent
Pics
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The dog ate a bee
7ft tall hand-fed pet kangaroo
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