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The President calls out Republicans for blocking campaign finance reforms that would address last year’s Supreme Court decision opening the floodgates of corporate money into elections.

Normally, I would do some research on an issue and then give my two cents and move on. Living in MN we get a lot of the pro-ethanol propaganda and to be fair, I am not very knowledgeable on the subject.

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This is thoroughly disgusting. It was bad enough that we went to war with Iraq almost solely to spur the defense industry. It is bad enough that we had a vice-president who was head of this company.

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Since February 1, 2006, Ben Bernanke has been the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States of America. As you can see by the graph below, the US economy has not done well under Bernanke’s control.

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Campbell’s soups have been trusted basics of nutrition all of my life. I have always considered Campbell’s soups to be a safe, economical and nutritious choice for a quick meal. There is nothing more American than a meal of a grilled cheese sandwich and a hot bowl of soup. Recent news that I have been blithely consuming a hefty dose of bisphenol-A with my Campbell’s soups is shocking. Bisphenol-A, a coating the seals the inside of metal containers is implicated as having dire effects to humans on a molecular level.
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Drew Carey is trying to raise one million dollars to give to Lance Armstrong’s LiveStrong foundation and you can help. For every follower on Twitter, he will be donating one dollar to fight cancer.

So, if you are on Twitter follow him http://twitter.com/DrewFromTV. If you are not on Twitter yet, sign up and follow Drew Carey and donate $1 for cancer research, all for free!

I encourage you to tell your friends and help Drew Carey raise one million dollars. This might possibly be the easiest and cheapest way to help cancer research and there are no good excuses not to do this.

Dutch Trading Company, Trafigura, has agreed to pay $46m to the 30,000 people who were harmed because of their illegal dumping of toxic waste in the African state of Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast).  This is to be in addition to the $198 million that was paid by Trafigura directly to the government of Cote d’Ivoire.

This case caught my attention for a few reasons. First off, anytime a multi-national corporation is accused of harming 30,000 people in Africa I think it is important to say something.

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