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There are several sides to every story, and this discussion covers some very uncomfortable points about the urge to degrade democracy for vendetta. These are complex issues, but agree or disagree, adults must always be open to consider how our choices may play a leading role in creating our own adversity.

Lawyer, political journalist and essayist, Glenn Greenwald talks about the Boston bombings and government secrecy, and two political scholars explain who’s to blame in Congressional dysfunction.”  Here is a direct link.

Here is a direct link.

“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.