The numbers continue to astound. The GOP House plan to slash over $900 million from three federal nutrition programs could deprive up to 500,000 women, infants and children - and they threw in some seniors for good measure - of the food they need. Most of that - $833 million - is equivalent to one week’s worth of Bush tax cuts for the rich. It would reduce the federal deficit by less than one-tenth of a percent. They call this "righting the ship." Positively Orwellian.
Harvard and other major American universities are working through British hedge funds and European financial speculators to buy or lease vast areas of African farmland in deals, some of which may force many thousands of people off their land, according to a new study.
Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out. These universities are reportedly using endowment funds to make deals that 'drive up food prices and increase the risks of climate change' and may force thousands from their land in Africa. (Photograph: Boston Globe via Getty Images) Researchers say foreign investors are profiting from "land grabs" that often fail to deliver the promised benefits of jobs and economic development, and can lead to environmental and social problems in the poorest countries in the world.
Committee on Election and Campaign Reform.The committee will hold a public hearing on the following items at the time specified below:
Thursday, June 9, 2011. 10:15 AM - Begin at 10:15 AM or upon conclusion of the Executive Session. 225 Northwest, State Capitol
LRB 11-2195/1 and LRB 11-2196/1 will be concluding co-sponsorship June 7 and will be issued an AB number, and a revised notice will be posted shortly afterwards. Assembly Bill 28. Relating to: reporting of information by nonresident registrants under the campaign finance law. By Representatives Spanbauer, Bernard Schaber, Bernier, Hintz, Hulsey, Mason, Pope-Roberts, Rivard and Steineke; cosponsored by Senators Harsdorf, Cowles, T. Cullen and Holperin.
LRB 11-2195/1. Relating to: residency of election officials. LRB 11-2196/1
Relating to: creation of a task force on the elections process and election technology.
Representative Gary Tauchen. Chair
Bryan Bliss The hearing will be about election equipment, election security , procedures for voting and procedures for reporting out of state registrants and campaign donors. this meeting is all about ELECTION INTEGRITY ( or the lack thereof ).
"In just the last few weeks, Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, has signed legislation to require voters to show photo identification cards at the polls and to deregulate elements of the telecommunications industry. And the Republican-dominated Legislature is now in the midst of advancing provisions to expand school vouchers, to allow people to carry concealed weapons, to cut financing for Planned Parenthood and to bar illegal immigrants from paying in-state tuition at Wisconsin’s universities.
Why the urgency? Republicans, who suddenly swept into control of this Capitol in last fall’s elections, face a deadline of sorts. Though the lawmakers insist that their hurry-up offense is just living up to campaign promises, there is a threat looming: They are at risk of losing their newly won majority in the State Senate as early as next month."
Full Article Here - NYTimes.com
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