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Free Morgan PSA! Please take action

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Free Morgan PSA! - YouTube I have been following the case of the young orca, Morgan, with particular interest. Morgan was captured on June 23, 2010 by the Dolphinarium Harderwijk off the north coast of the Netherlands—a rare event since no orcas have been sighted in the area since 1947. Morgan was severely underweight and in poor health. The Dutch government permitted her capture on the basis that she be rehabilitated and released promptly after her health returned. Using her vocalizations, it was determined that Morgan most likely belonged to a pod from the Norwegian herring-eating population. It was predicted that she would have to stay in captivity for 3-6 months to return to a healthy weight and finish antibiotics.  On December 10, 2010, the dolphinarium announced that she would not be returned to the wild. In November 2011, it was announced that Morgan would be moved to an amusement park called Loro Parque, in the Canary Islands, and the Dutch government issued a

Responsible capitalism should go further | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional

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Responsible capitalism should go further | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional With so much power held by companies, it's not enough to rely on self-discipline and voluntary initiatives, says John Elkington – and what of meso and meta-level challenges? Globalisation has concentrated economic power within a group of large companies who are now able to change the world at a scale historically reserved for nations. Just 1,000 businesses are responsible for half of the total market value of the world's more than 60,000 publicly traded companies.  'A group of large companies are now able to change the world at a scale historically reserved for nations,' say Eccles and Serafeim. Photograph: Johannes Mann/Corbis Well done, Sir Roger Carr – president of the CBI and chair

Bernie Sanders Calls Out CEO Tax Dodgers over Deficit, Hypocrisy | Common Dreams

Bernie Sanders Calls Out CEO Tax Dodgers over Deficit, Hypocrisy | Common Dreams

Who is Barack Obama Really? An Examination of Obama’s Domestic Policies

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Who is Barack Obama Really? An Examination of Obama’s Domestic Policies Who is Barack Obama Really? An Examination of Obama’s Domestic Policies Obama October 9, 2012 Dennis Loo They want you to think that you’re making the decisions along with your fellow citizens when we aren’t doing that at all... As Rebecca Solnit put it in admonishing the Left to support Obama’s re-election: Obama may be killing innocent children abroad, but that’s not new for American presidents (!!), and Obama at least is promoting health care in ways that Mitt Romney wouldn’t. In other words, even if the Democrats and the Republicans are not distinguishable in terms of foreign policy, at least with the Democrats you get more humane domestic policies. These supposed differences in domestic policies between the two parties are taken for granted as conventional wisdom, but upon closer examination a very different picture emerges. Before proceedin