Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationWith the House having voted 406-17 to “close” portions of the meetings and avoid public scrutiny, members from both chambers and both parties are meeting in a secretive conference committee to work on reconciling the differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill. On the military detention provision, their main task is going…
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Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Just what Americans yearn for: A high-tech presidential ticket funded by secret Wall Street money… This is a brilliant play by the 1% to deflect political changed. If you want a cool organization to check out see http://unitedrepublic.orgVia www.salon.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Philip Glass and Lou Reed occupied Lincoln Center last week, after a performance of Glass’ opera, “Satyagraha,” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. “When righteousness withers away, and evil rules the land, we come into being, age after age, and take visible shape, and move, a man among men, for the protection…
Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future China’s booming economy and growing technological infrastructure may thrust it to the forefront of the next generation of computing, many American experts say. China is now the world’s second-largest venture capital market, growing to $7.6 billion from just $2.2 billion in 2005, while the American venture capital market has remained largely stagnantVia www.nytimes.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationNano-sized flakes of graphene oxide can be spun into graphene fibres several metres long, researchers in China have shown.Via www.nature.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationLast month, Rep.Ted Deutch (D-FL) stood up for the 99 Percent by introducing the Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy (OCCUPIED) Amendment, which would overturn the Citizens United decision, re-establishing the right of Congress and the states to regulate campaign finance laws… Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced a…