Left Side of the Aisle #150

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of March 13-19, 2014

This week: Good News: Vermont towns support public bank
http://thecontributor.com/15-towns-vote-start-public-bank-works-people-vermont-not-wall-street
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/03/how-nation%E2%80%99s-only-state-owned-bank-became-envy-wall-street Good

News: MDonald's bending on raising wages
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63908/000006390814000019/mcd-12312013x10k.htm#s4116CE5D3FF6C9E484E70AB7A741CA5E
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/04/mcdonalds_to_sec_strikes_hurt_and_we_might_have_hike_pay/

Good News: BP shot down on attempt to weasel out of paying Deepwater Horizon damages
http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/03/01/mardi-gras-beads-bands-and-bp-oil
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/03/the_gulf_oil_cleanup_still_isnt_over_1200_tar_mat_washes_ashore_in_florida/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/16/gulf-oil-spill-cleanup_n_3451488.html
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/03/bp_wins_appeal_to_limit_gulf_spill_payouts/
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/04/bp_fails_to_get_out_of_compensating_oil_spill_victims/

Good News: NSA fails in attempt to block satire of its logo
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/20/1279015/-Artists-Stands-Up-to-the-NSA-and-Wins
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/02/19/minn-man-claims-win-over-national-security-agency/

Unintentional Humor: Military group celebrates 50th anniversary of Civil Rights Act - at Gitmo
http://www.dvidshub.net/news/121501/gtmo-celebrates-50-years-civil-rights-america#.UxdXfvldXy1
http://www.npr.org/tags/126922519/guantanamo-bay

Spying fan Dianne Feinstein objects to being spied on
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/feinstein-cia-searched-intelligence-committee-computers/2014/03/11/982cbc2c-a923-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html
http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/sen-feinstein-cia-hacked-congress-and-possibly-violated-constitution-20140311
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/dianne-feinstein-on-nsa-its-called-protecting-america-92340.html

Clown Award: Rep. Paul Ryan
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/06/1282611/-Paul-Ryan-Poor-kids-should-go-hungry-so-they-know-they-re-loved
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1033869/waronpoverty50.pdf
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/03/03/3353541/ryan-poverty-report/
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/05/paul_ryans_every_distortion_fact_checking_his_anti_poverty_plan/
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=4073
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/04/1281960/-Paul-Ryan-generates-report-to-disprove-effectiveness-of-Progressive-Poverty-Programs-and-FAILS

Some thoughts on Ukraine
https://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Ukraine&ict=clu_top
http://www.thenation.com/search/apachesolr_search/ukraine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/07/crimea-russians/6178603/
http://theweek.com/article/index/257330/a-majority-of-crimeans-are-against-union-with-russia