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- Lawmakers Consider Digital Download Tax
- Goldman Op-Ed Shows Need for Volcker Rule, Democrats Say
- The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
- Bob Barr Files Lawsuit Against TSA Over ‘Drudge’ Controversy
- White rice link seen with Type 2 diabetes, says study
- California could decide the GOP nominee
- Bryant Declared Tea Party Governor
| Lawmakers Consider Digital Download Tax Posted: 16 Mar 2012 12:56 PM PDT
Downloading music, movies, e-books and Apps could soon cost Connecticut residents more as lawmakers consider a tax on digital downloads. The bill, proposed by the General Assembly’s Finance, Review and Bonding Committee, would have consumers pay the 6.35% sales tax on any electronic transfer. Supporters say the bill would level the playing field for brick-and-mortar retailers in the state who are already required to charge Connecticut sales tax to consumers who purchase these products in their stores. About 25 states around the country have already begun taxing digital downloads. To read more, visit: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/Lawmakes-Consider-Digital-Download-Tax–142901075.html |
| Goldman Op-Ed Shows Need for Volcker Rule, Democrats Say Posted: 16 Mar 2012 12:54 PM PDT
The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) employee who criticized the company's culture in a newspaper column bolsters the case for Wall Street restrictions like the Volcker rule, congressional Democrats said. While the March 14 New York Times (NYT) opinion piece by former executive director Greg Smith drew no requests for hearings or investigations, lawmakers including Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Jeff Merkley said the article showed why the U.S. needs tighter restrictions on Wall Street practices. The two Democrats authored the Volcker rule's ban on proprietary trading and conflicts of interest in the Dodd-Frank Act. Former Goldman Sachs executive director Greg Smith's New York Times opinion column published March 14 drew no requests for hearings or deeper investigations. Lawmakers including Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, the Democrats who authored the Volcker rule's ban on proprietary trading and conflicts of interest in the Dodd-Frank Act said the piece strengthened the case for restrictions on Wall Street trading. Congress can't "legislate the culture but I think the heart of this goes to why we needed the Merkley-Levin amendment," Merkley, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said in an interview. To read more, visit: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-16/goldman-employee-reinforces-need-for-volcker-rule-democrats-say.html |
| The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) Posted: 16 Mar 2012 12:53 PM PDT By James Bamford, Wired.com The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah's Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It's the heart of Mormon country, where religious pioneers first arrived more than 160 years ago. They came to escape the rest of the world, to understand the mysterious words sent down from their god as revealed on buried golden plates, and to practice what has become known as "the principle," marriage to multiple wives. Today Bluffdale is home to one of the nation's largest sects of polygamists, the Apostolic United Brethren, with upwards of 9,000 members. The brethren's complex includes a chapel, a school, a sports field, and an archive. Membership has doubled since 1978—and the number of plural marriages has tripled—so the sect has recently been looking for ways to purchase more land and expand throughout the town. But new pioneers have quietly begun moving into the area, secretive outsiders who say little and keep to themselves. Like the pious polygamists, they are focused on deciphering cryptic messages that only they have the power to understand. Just off Beef Hollow Road, less than a mile from brethren headquarters, thousands of hard-hatted construction workers in sweat-soaked T-shirts are laying the groundwork for the newcomers' own temple and archive, a massive complex so large that it necessitated expanding the town's boundaries. Once built, it will be more than five times the size of the US Capitol. Rather than Bibles, prophets, and worshippers, this temple will be filled with servers, computer intelligence experts, and armed guards. And instead of listening for words flowing down from heaven, these newcomers will be secretly capturing, storing, and analyzing vast quantities of words and images hurtling through the world's telecommunications networks. In the little town of Bluffdale, Big Love and Big Brother have become uneasy neighbors. To read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ |
| Bob Barr Files Lawsuit Against TSA Over ‘Drudge’ Controversy Posted: 16 Mar 2012 12:51 PM PDT By Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com Former Congressman Bob Barr's Liberty Guard organization has filed a lawsuit against the TSA after the federal agency refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request that sought to discover whether or not the TSA temporarily amended its security policies for political reasons during the height of the national opt out day protest in late 2010. The lawsuit seeks to discover if there was internal TSA discussion of individuals and websites that promoted the national opt out day, including prominent critics of the TSA like Matt Drudge and Alex Jones. Liberty Guard's original FOIA request sought to obtain all internal TSA material that mentions the terms "Matt Drudge", "Drudgereport.com", "Alex Jones", "PrisonPlanet.com", "John Tyner", "national opt-out day", "Opt-Out Alliance" and "domestic extremists." The lawsuit, to be heard in the Eastern District Court of Virginia, seeks to secure the release of 9 pages of material the TSA admits it has which include some or all of the terms listed above, but has refused to disclose. To read more, visit: http://www.infowars.com/bob-barr-files-lawsuit-against-tsa-over-drudge-controversy/ |
| White rice link seen with Type 2 diabetes, says study Posted: 16 Mar 2012 12:48 PM PDT
Health researchers said on Thursday they had found a troubling link between higher consumption of rice and Type 2 diabetes, a disease that in some countries is becoming an epidemic. Further work is need to probe the apparent association and diets that are notoriously high in sugar and fats should remain on the no-go list, they cautioned. “What we’ve found is white rice is likely to increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes, especially at high consumption levels such as in Asian populations,” Qi Sun of the Harvard School of Public Health told AFP. “But at the same time people should pay close attention to the other things they eat. “It’s very important to address not just a single food but the whole pattern of consumption.” To read more, visit: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/white-rice-seen-type-2-diabetes-says-study-233837784.html |
| California could decide the GOP nominee Posted: 16 Mar 2012 12:46 PM PDT By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post California is not exactly the GOP's idea of home turf. But in the 2012 Republican presidential primary, it's the most important state on the calendar. Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at William Jewell College on Tuesday, in Liberty, Mo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) California's June 5 primary, despite being the second-to-last contest, is looking more and more like it may determine whether Mitt Romney can win the Republican nomination or whether the party goes to its August convention without a nominee. "If Gingrich drops out and Santorum can go at Romney one on one, it could be competitive all the way to California, in which case California would pretty much decide the nomination," said John Ryder, a Republican National Committeeman from Tennessee who is an expert on the delegate process. Part of the reason is the state's sheer size. Because states are given three delegates to the Republican National Convention for every congressional district they have, California has a whopping 172 delegates. That's more than 15 percent of the delegates needed to win the nomination. California is technically a winner-take-all state, but because basically all of its delegates are awarded by congressional district, there is the possibility that they get sliced up any number of ways. To read more, visit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/california-could-decide-the-gop-nominee/2012/03/15/gIQAu8nCES_print.html |
| Bryant Declared Tea Party Governor Posted: 16 Mar 2012 12:44 PM PDT By Maggie Wade, WLBT3 NBC He has been proclaimed the First Tea Party Governor. Thursday night Phil Bryant addressed Tea Party members at the Farmer’s Market on High Street in Jackson. Tea Party leaders say Bryant enjoyed their support during his campaign and they backed his platform. The event was a follow up to a meeting for the Mississippi Federation of Republican Women who met at the state capitol Thursday. The Governor was asked if he felt being so closely tied to the Tea Party would alienate Mississippians who don’t agree with their views on issues such as patriotism, immigration and abortion. “I don’t think so, I mean I’m a Republican, I’m a Methodist, I’m a dad, I was a Big Brother for many years, I’ve been on mission trips, I’ve been supporting the Tea Party. All of us have lots of things that we do in life, I can’t imagine that it would,” said Governor Bryant. To read more, visit: http://www.wlbt.com/story/17171948/bryant-declared-tea-party-governor |
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