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“A grassroots campaign pioneered by a loose coalition of shareholder activists, pension fund members and elected officials is calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to impose a new rule that would force publicly traded corporations to disclose all political spending to their shareholders.

The active petition — which you can find on the Public Citizen website — has already gathered nearly 500,000 public comments, far more than any petition or rule in the agency’s history, reports The New York Times. Although “relatively few petitions” have resulted in concrete action in the SEC’s 79-year history, the Times reports that the commission staff filed a notice indicating it would consider adding the rule later this month.

Over the past decade, a growing number of corporations have voluntarily agreed to report their political spending to shareholders. By 2011, nearly 60 percent of S&P 100 companies had adopted the practice, many in response to shareholder demands. As the Committee on Disclosure of Political Spending outlined in their rulemaking petition, shareholders need specific information about corporate political spending, because without it they are unable to hold accountable “company directors and executives who use corporate resources for political speech that is inconsistent with shareholder interests.”

If you support this new rule, sign the petition or send in your own comment to the SEC.”

Last summer my 14 year old daughter told me she wanted us to try yoga classes together. I have been a life long fitness buff, but I had not yet found my way to yoga. I now include yoga in my weekly fitness habits, and I will be a committed student for life.

Yesterday our neighbor came over to chat in the yard, and he was noticeably trimmer. He explained that he had watched the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead and had been juicing vegetables all winter moving to a largely vegetarian diet. He had lost 25 pounds in just 3 months and feels like a kid again.

Everywhere we look today people are struggling with the crippling effects of poor diet and dilapidated physical health. The only people who are benefiting from this are drug companies. Families, individuals, our national productivity and resilience–all are suffering the crippling costs of physical impairment and it is almost entirely preventable. Vegetable juicing and yoga: two simple, do it yourself ideas, that can change everything. Spread the word and share the below video clips. Yes we can.

Watch this incredibly inspirational transformation through Yoga.

The documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead is now also available for free here via Youtube. Well worth the watch.

Excellent piece on the global war on prudence and savers now in process, see: The monarchs of money and the war on savers.

The assertion that the Central Banks saved us all is a insipid euphemism designed to disguise the fact that we the taxpayers are the bank of last resort. It is ‘we the people’ who were co-signed, without consultation, to guarantee the staggering costs of bailing out investment bankers and reckless actors from their due demise. And now the latest revelation sweeping the world is that “austerity doesn’t work”. The fact is that paying trillions of dollars to prop up bad assets and bad businesses in order to preserve paper wealth in 1% of the population, and then expecting the remaining 99% of society to ‘suck it up’ and find a way to function on the remaining slim pickens, is what doesn’t work. Government downsizing and spending cuts are definitely part of the solution, we do all need to find ways to do more with less today; but the other necessary part of the cure it to finally admit the truth and fire bad managers, write off bad debts and let insolvent players fall with their own bad choices. And yes it is unpleasant, but some arrests still must be made…

The Current’s Anna Maria Tremonti also did a worthwhile segment on this topic this morning. You can listen to the audio clip here.