ON THIS DATE, IN 1978, SWEDEN BECAME THE FIRST NATION TO CURB AEROSOL SPRAYS TO HALT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EARTH'S OZONE LAYER.

This effort was joined by other nations and is considered to have successfully got us on the road to accomplishing the intended goal.  People who think humans are not capable of destroying our atmosphere, recognizing that destruction, and repairing that damage, should take note!  Global science deniers should take note!  Do they even remember Chlorofluorocarbons?

SHOULD WE CARE? Minnesotans are contemplating more, and more, of these pipelines to snake through our state. Who cleans this mess up when they fracture? Can they afford it? Can we afford it? Can we even do it? YOU BET WE SHOULD CARE!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pipeline-breach-spills-oil-into-yellowstone-river/ar-AA8ku4z

Drinking water trucked into Montana city after oil spill!

There needs to be some rules to the game to make sure that this doesn't happen! As it stands, those who are in power have decided to grant multinational corporations the same rights as individual people and their money the same as our speech. It doesn't work very well for the people when the people are not in control of the power!

HOW HAVE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS BEEN DOING IN RECENT YEARS? Here are some of the biggest job destroyers, biggest receivers of taxpayer money, most profitable, and most likely to store profits in oversea banks. in America! This is just the tip of the iceberg!

1).BANK OF AMERICA, and their CEO, Brian Moynihan
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $1.9 billion tax refund.
Taxpayer Bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department? Over $1.3 trillion.
Amount of federal income taxes Bank of America would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $2.6 billion.
2). GOLDMAN SACHS and their CEO, Lloyd Blankfein
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2008? Zero. $278 million tax refund.
Taxpayer Bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department? $824 billion.
Amount of federal income taxes Goldman Sachs would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $2.7 billion
3). JP MORGAN CHASE and their CEO, James Dimon
Taxpayer Bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department? $416 billion.
Amount of federal income taxes JP Morgan Chase would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $4.9 billion.
4). GENERAL ELECTRIC and their CEO, Jeffrey Immelt
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $3.3 billion tax refund.
Taxpayer Bailout from the Federal Reserve? $16 billion.
Jobs Shipped Overseas? At least 25,000 since 2001.
5). VERIZON and their CEO, Lowell McAdam
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $705 million tax refund.
American Jobs Cut in 2010? In 2010, Verizon announced 13,000 job cuts, the third highest corporate layoff total that year.
6). BOEING and their CEO, James McNerney, Jr.
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? None. $124 million tax refund.
American Jobs Shipped overseas? Over 57,000.
Amount of Corporate Welfare? At least $58 billion.
7). mICROSOFT and their CEO, Steve Ballmer
Amount of federal income taxes Microsoft would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $19.4 billion.
8). HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL and their CEO, David Cote
Amount of federal income taxes paid from 2008-2010? Zero. $34 million tax refund.
9). CORNING and their CEO, Wendell Weeks
Amount of federal income taxes paid from 2008-2010? Zero. $4 million tax refund.
10). TIME WARNER and their CEO, Glenn Britt
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2008? Zero. $74 million tax refund.
11). MERCK and their CEO, Kenneth Frazier
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2009? Zero. $55 million tax refund.
12). DEERE & COMPANY and their CEO, Samuel Allen
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2009? Zero. $1 million tax refund.
13). MARSH & McLENNAN COMPANIES and their CEO, Brian Duperreault
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $90 million refund.
14). QUALCOMM and their CEO, Paul Jacobs
Amount of federal income taxes Qualcomm would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $4.7 billion.
15). TENNECO and their CEO, Gregg Sherill
Amount of federal income taxes Tenneco would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $269 million.
16). EXPRESS SCRIPTS and their CEO, George Paz
Amount of federal income taxes Express Scripts would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $20 million.
17). CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT and their CEO, Gary Loveman
Amount of federal income taxes Caesars Entertainment would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $9 million.
18). R.R. DONNELLY & SONS and their CEO, Thomas Quinlan III
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2008? Zero. $49 million tax refund.
Eighteen of the 80 CEOs who signed a call for deficit action are actually some of the biggest outsourcers, and tax evaders, in America. First, they crashed the economy in 2008. They followed that up by taking billions in taxpayer bailout dollars. Their next step was to outsource jobs and evade taxes. Now they are calling for action on a deficit that they helped create over the past four years. Multinational corporations are not people and their money is not speech!