Martha Nussbaum on 21st Century Enlightenment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY7TWiZlLt4&feature=uploademail

“I will say right away that we didn’t need this science to tell us that we are not totally dominated by self interest.“ Martha Nussbaum

Dude, Where's My Mortgage? How an Obscure Outfit Called MERS Is Subverting Our Entire System of Property Rights | Economy | AlterNet

Dude, Where's My Mortgage? How an Obscure Outfit Called MERS Is Subverting Our Entire System of Property Rights Economy AlterNet

BEFORE MERS: “America's long-standing real estate recording laws, which required lenders to file all mortgage transactions—the origination of a new loan, for instance, or the transfer or sale of a mortgage between banks—with the county in which the property is located”

AFTER MERS “Mortgages would be changing hands dozens of times, going from loan originators to banks to Wall Street investment houses, which would collect them by the thousands and package them into complex debt instruments that would be chopped up into shares and sold off to multiple investors all over the world.”

The Economics of Happiness

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_economics_of_happiness/

"...It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile." RFK on the GDP.

S 510 Food Safety bill is still alive and may unleash a new army of FDA agents

S 510 Food Safety bill is still alive and may unleash a new army of FDA agents

Once an FDA inspection occurs, if the government believes the food grower is producing anything that might pose a risk to the public (and note carefully that "belief" is the only thing required, not actual scientific evidence of harm), that food grower is then "suspended" from producing food.Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030672_Food_Safety_bill_FDA.html#ixzz17dcTkx5E

`The truth will always win’ - Julian Assange writes

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/australianmedia/comments/julian1/

In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said “only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government”. The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.

Sen Bernie Sanders: On the Middle Class and the Wealthy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OtB298fHY

Top ten lies about Senate Bill 510

http://www.naturalnews.com/030587_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html

(NaturalNews) The Food Safety Modernization Act looks like it's headed to become law. It's being hailed as a "breakthrough" achievement in food safety, and it would hand vast new powers and funding to the FDA so that it can clean up the food supply and protect all Americans from food-borne pathogens.