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n2doc's JournalEvery Single One of The Top 10 Corporate Tax Dodgers Are Donors To Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders is leveraging the increasing attention his campaign is getting to call out major corporations for shirking their tax responsibilities. In a press release issued Friday, Sanders “pledged to close tax loopholes like a law that lets profitable corporations exploit offshore tax havens to avoid paying U.S. income taxes.”
Some Paid Zero Federal Taxes Despite Huge Profits
Sanders published a list of the top ten “corporate tax dodgers,” among which are some, like General Electric, Boeing and Verizon, that paid no federal income taxes at all between 2008 and 2013, despite racking up huge corporate profits.
Sanders enumerates a tough five point platform to make corporations pay their fair share in federal taxes. These include shutting down corporate inversions, ending tax deferrals on profits of offshore subsidiaries, and making sure companies can’t just claim to be foreign by establishing a P.O. box in the Cayman Islands or other tax haven. (He also wants to end tax subsidies for fossil fuel companies.)
So that’s what a President Sanders would do, if given the chance. How about a President Hillary Clinton?
Well, not so much. It turns out that all top ten corporations on Sanders’ list also have strong ties to Hillary Clinton, often benefitting from her official positions while donating to her campaign or the Clinton Foundation or giving her huge speaking fees. Here’s the Sanders list of tax-dodging companies — and their connections to Hillary Clinton.
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http://www.francescarheannon.com/2016/01/every-single-one-of-top-10-corporate.html?m=1
UK Scientists get human embryo 'gene editing' go-ahead
UK scientists have been given the go-ahead by the fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos.
It is the first time a country has considered the DNA-altering technique in embryos and approved it.
The research will take place at the Francis Crick Institute in London and aims to provide a deeper understanding of the earliest moments of human life.
It will be illegal for the scientists to implant the modified embryos into a woman.
But the field is attracting controversy over concerns it is opening the door to designer - or GM - babies.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35459054
Stricken cargo ship Modern Express heading for French coast
Source: BBC
A stricken cargo ship is heading towards the French coast but there are hopes it can be towed to safety before it runs aground.
The Panamanian-registered Modern Express began listing last Tuesday and all 22 crew members were airlifted off the vessel after a distress call.
Efforts to tow it have failed, but another attempt will be made on Monday.
If it fails, the ship will strike France's south-west coast between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35456682
Why Do So Many Millennials #FeeltheBern?
College helps students begin to understand the world and kindle a passion for progress and reform. With the 2016 presidential elections approaching, you’ll find a heated political world. College campuses everywhere proudly display their support for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, even though former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, takes the lead in the Democratic Party. So why are so many college students and millennials “feeling the Bern?”
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Oberlin sophomore and political science major Thomas Cohn is the co-leader and organizing director of Oberlin Students for Bernie Sanders. He explained the issues that students see with the government, and why they see Bernie Sanders as the best candidate to address these problems.
“We currently have a Congress led by obstructionists who prevent anything being done to solve these important issues,” Cohn said. “Many representatives in the GOP are also warmongers who nearly started a war with Iran, misogynists who went on an expensive crusade against Planned Parenthood based on doctored footage, and supposedly fiscal conservatives who spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a partisan attack against Hillary Clinton,” Cohn said.
Cohn explained this cuts on programs like Social Security, nutritional programs and Pell Grants. Tax breaks for the wealthiest are also unpopular among millennials, especially since many of these policies are harmful to these young people’s futures.
“Many Democrats have either failed to stand up to Republican attacks or have moved to the center as an attempt to compromise,” Cohn said. “Consequently, the Democratic Party bears partial responsibility for the current state of the country.”
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http://www.collegemagazine.com/many-millennials-feelthebern/
Why People Around the World are Rooting for Bernie Sanders
The United States is as good a democracy as any other in formal terms but there has been a great amount of despair about the actual control its citizens exercise over the country’s political institutions and policies. Between them, two political parties divide up the US political spectrum, creating a narrow zone of elite consensus within which politics is allowed to play. The stranglehold of big business over election finance, aided by some significant court decisions, helps fix the boundaries of this elite consensus.
But then democracy has a way of throwing up surprises. The 2016 presidential election is different from earlier contests because of the way in which this widely resented elite consensus is being challenged from left and right. In this sense, both Donald Trump, the by-now famous Republican hate-monger, and Bernie Sanders, the challenger to Hillary Clinton’s bid for the Democratic Party’s nomination, represent a similar political impulse. A huge public sentiment, in its primordial form, is trying to defy the limits that the elite consensus affords people – turning the primaries into a battle between elitism and populism.
Populists appeal directly to strongly felt hopes and fears. And it is here that the resemblance between Trump and Sanders ends abruptly. Trump is seeking to make capital of people’s deep fears and anxieties. Sanders, on the other hand, is appealing to what remains of the American people’s hopes of getting a fair and just deal in society.
Sanders presents a simple pitch based on three clear socio-economic issues, and a political one. He promises free healthcare, free higher education (primary education being already free) and a decent minimum wage, for all. He is unhesitant in saying that for achieving these he will indeed raise taxes, though the bulk of the money will come from taxing the top fraction of a percent. And he provides figures to back his proposals. The core political element of his programme is that he promises to ‘really’ clamp down on corporate influence over politics and political funding. The fact that he takes no funds from the big corporates makes his claim credible among voters.
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http://thewire.in/2016/02/01/why-people-around-the-world-are-rooting-for-bernie-sanders-20545/
Jane Sanders Tells Iowans that Bernie Can Deliver Change
On Friday morning in the southeastern corner of Iowa, Jane Sanders spoke in Fort Madison to some two-dozen volunteers for her husband’s presidential campaign. They told her why they were supporting Bernie, and she put her hand to her chest in gratitude.
A railway engineer said that his three children owed nearly $200,000 in college student debt, with interest rates three times higher than the one he and his wife, a nurse and like him a veteran, had on their home. “Crazy,” Sanders gasped.
“I look at my family and who we are,” the engineer went on, “and if were to dream up a candidate tomorrow that would represent us, it would be him.”
“I don’t know where Bernie’s been hiding,” he said.
Sanders, whose style might be called Vermont casual—understated silver jewelry, a drapey blouse and slacks—made clear she knew the feeling.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-31/jane-sanders-tells-iowans-that-bernie-can-deliver-change
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