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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Pollster: Americans Are “Pre-Revolutionary” ("consent of the governed" now just 17%)
Post Date: 2011-08-08 10:58:12 by Hondo68
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Amidst riots in central Europe that have now spread to London and a debt downgrade that threatens to plunge the United States into a double-dip recession, Americans' lack of confidence in their leadership is so crippled that they are now "pre-revolutionary," according to pollster Pat Caddell. A new Rasmussen poll shows that just 17 per cent of Americans believe that the U.S. government has the consent of the governed, an all time low. This dovetails with a record low for Congress' approval rating, which stands at a paltry 6 per cent, while 46 per cent of Americans think most members of Congress are corrupt, with just 29% believing otherwise. "The number of voters who ...
No Chance of Default, US Can Print Money: Greenspan (falls victim to "irrational exuberance")
Post Date: 2011-08-07 19:48:33 by Hondo68
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Getty ImagesAlan Greenspan"The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default" said Greenspan on NBC's Meet the Press "What I think the S&P thing did was to hit a nerve that there's something basically bad going on, and it's hit the self-esteem of the United States, the psyche" said Greenspan Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of the White House's council of economic advisors, hit out at S&P on the same show, insisting the credit ratings agency had got its math wrong. "Well, the basic case is they made a $2 trillion math error and forgot to check their work," he ...
Government to Monitor Social Networks For “Extremist Propaganda”
Post Date: 2011-08-07 18:01:33 by CZ82
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Government to Monitor Social Networks For “Extremist Propaganda” New White House plan follows Pentagon advisory targeting protests against Federal Reserve Paul Joseph Watson A new strategy document released by the White House promises to “closely monitor…the Internet and social networking sites” in order to “counter online violent extremist propaganda” as the federal government attempts to embed itself further in local communities under the guise of preventing domestic extremism. The document, Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States (PDF), focuses on identifying Americans who have supposedly been radicalized or ...
10 of Today’s Hottest Jobs: Proof That America Is Doomed (Bogus "Free Trade", outsourcing)
Post Date: 2011-08-07 15:00:02 by Hondo68
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The largest number of jobs involve dealing with the failing health of old people. People who know about running spam email campaigns and financial scams are also in demand. Truck drivers, app designers for mobile phones, and TwitBook operators too.. There is nothing here about designing or manufacturing any physical goods at all! The U.S. is $15 trillion in the hole. Look at these in-demand jobs. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this is going to end very badly. Via: Yahoo / Kiplinger: Believe it or not, even with the unemployment rate stubbornly high and many industries reluctant to staff up, there are employers out there who still can't find enough qualified ...
Budget chairman dubious of ‘supercommittee’
Post Date: 2011-08-07 12:19:57 by We The People
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Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, expressed skepticism Sunday morning that the so-called “supercommittee” charged with finding trillions of dollars in debt reduction will accomplish its goal. “I wouldn’t call it ‘super,’” Mr. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I think people are overemphasizing what this committee is going to achieve,” he added. Rather than reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and tackling issues such as tax reform, Mr. Ryan said, it’s more likely the committee — formed as part of the debt-ceiling deal passed last week — will instead ...
I’m a Liberal, Obama is Done and it’s about time
Post Date: 2011-08-05 13:31:31 by smokestack
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Well, I don’t really get why people are surprised about this. Myself and a fellow political commentator Cenk Uygar are both not surprised. We’re not surprised by the fact that our government has decided to screw us, and what’s worse, the general public is going to completely ignore this. They will ignore the fact that something that should have been a non-issue turned into a major clusterfuck because of opportunistic and hostage negotiating Republicans and then we have a President who is the worst negotiator in the history of negotiations. It is a crime what has happened, and what’s more, the American people are going ...
Colbert Exposes Koch Brothers’ Voter Suppression In Wisconsin
Post Date: 2011-08-05 12:20:26 by Brian S
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Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert joked Thursday that if Wisconsin voters were going to follow the instructions from Koch brother-funded Americans for Prosperity then they might as well send their absentee ballots to Santa. “Americans for Prosperity has even sent out these actual helpful absentee ballot applications to Democratic districts,” Colbert explained. “Now, they had to rush these to print, so some people have complained about inaccuracies, but it’s minor stuff, like instead of instructing you to send your ballot to the local municipal clerk, where ballots are officially collected, the address on this ballot is ‘Absentee Ballot Application Processing ...
Deficit Super Committee: A Peek at the Short List
Post Date: 2011-08-05 11:50:31 by We The People
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Even before the ink on the debt ceiling deal has dried, speculation is mounting about who will serve on a new joint House-Senate committee to recommend $1.5 trillion of long term savings to Congress before the end of the year. Will this time be different? After more than a dozen previous commissions, panels, think tanks and individuals offered plans to end the debt ceiling crisis and reduce the deficit, will the “super committee” be able to forge a bipartisan agreement without the tantrums and petulance that characterized debt ceiling negotiations? While congressional leaders have two weeks to make their choices, here are some of the names being floated as likely choices: ...
All The Details: Inside President Obama's 50th Birthday Party At The White House~Hollyweirds, Hip-Hop, & much, much more!
Post Date: 2011-08-05 09:53:44 by Happy Quanzaa
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Yes, they did the Electric Slide: Stevie Wonder, Chris Rock, Jay Z, Charles Barkley, Tom Hanks, Emmitt Smith, Grant Hill, Whoopi Goldberg, and other celebs dine and dance with the President and First Lady......President Obama and his A-list pals danced barefoot in the dramatically lit Rose Garden to celebrate his milestone 50th birthday on Thursday night, Obama Foodorama was told by guests who attended the "fabulous" but "casual" five-hour barbecue for more than 200 people. Stevie Wonder gave a "surprise" performance during the celebration; his hit "You and I" was the President and First Lady Obama's wedding song. Revelers included Jay Z; Tom ...
Thomas Jefferson Warned Us
Post Date: 2011-08-05 08:00:16 by Happy Quanzaa
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"At some point, isn't it time to admit the system is broken?" So wrote Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein on Thursday. It was a phrase in widespread use for the past few weeks. The intro to CBS News' Face the Nation on Sunday asked, "As Americans watch a broken government, can Washington avoid economic catastrophe?" "Government is broken and it's not going to be repaired by next Tuesday," Bob Edgar, head of Common Cause, said last week. Something that is broken does not work as intended. It has been damaged by an outside force. The debt ceiling negotiations revealed many things, but never that the United States government is broken. On the ...
Pentagon chief warns he won’t accept spending cuts
Post Date: 2011-08-04 21:19:42 by Skip Intro
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Thursday he would not accept large military cutbacks under a debt deal, charging the move would weaken the United States faced with rising powers. Panetta, holding his first formal news conference since taking charge of the Pentagon a month ago, launched a pre-emptive strike as a special committee prepares to slash spending under a last-ditch deal to avert a US debt default. Panetta, a veteran Democratic Party dealmaker who was once in charge of budgets, said that "God willing" the process would not trigger sweeping cuts under which the Pentagon could lose another $600 billion. Such cuts "I believe would do real ...
Mayor of city being sued over $1m contracts admits he was DRUNK when he signed them
Post Date: 2011-08-04 18:54:00 by Sebastian
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The mayor of a Mexican border town being sued for $1million by a firm over non-payment has admitted to signing contracts in the deal when drunk.Martin Resendiz, the mayor of Sunland Park, a community of around 15,000 people near Las Cruces, New Mexico, said he only put pen to paper after drinking for several hours at a local restaurant. The nine contracts, with San Diego-based parking design firm Synthesis+, totalled more than $1million and now the company is suing the city for non-payment.Mayor Resendiz, a potential congressional candidate, says the contracts were never valid since the City Council did not approve them.'The day I signed, I had way too much to drink,' he admitted in ...
NUGENT: A titanic fiscal mistake
Post Date: 2011-08-04 14:37:33 by Capitalist Eric
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When the captain of the Titanic was warned repeatedly of icebergs ahead, he nonetheless made the decision not to slow down or stop the ship for the night. He was, after all, the captain of a ship that “God himself could not sink.” With the passage of the debt-raising agreement, it makes a guy wonder if the Fedzillacrats in Washington believe they are in charge of a country and an economy that even their boneheaded economic policies cannot sink. They are wrong. The dollars allocated toward reducing the debt are “a drop in the bucket, or even a spit in the ocean,” said Maya Mac-Guineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, in an interview with ...
Americans Overwhelmingly Opposed To Spiraling Debt Black Hole
Post Date: 2011-08-04 14:19:32 by Capitalist Eric
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New polls show majority against raising debt limit, believe economy is worse off Steve WatsonInfowars.com Aug 4, 2011 New polls from both Gallup and Rasmussen conclusively indicate that a majority of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum are steadfastly opposed to the actions taken by Congressional leaders this week in agreeing to raise the debt ceiling limit. In the Rasmussen survey, just 22% of likely voters say they approve of the debt ceiling agreement, while a majority of 53% disapprove. The same poll found that most voters, 58%, do not believe the deal will do anything to ensure a significant decrease in federal spending over the next few years. Just 35% of voters ...
Documents: Feds Allegedly Allowed Sinaloa Cartel To Move Cocaine Into U.S. For Information
Post Date: 2011-08-04 12:59:07 by Brian S
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U.S. federal agents allegedly allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic several tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to court documents filed in a U.S. federal court. The allegations are part of the defense of Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who was extradited to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges in Chicago. He is also a top lieutenant of drug kingpin Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman and the son of Ismael "Mayo" Zambada-Garcia, believed to be the brains behind the Sinaloa cartel. The case could prove to be a bombshell on par with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' ...
Taxpayers Will Pay for Obama Bus Tour of Battleground States, Says White House
Post Date: 2011-08-04 08:39:03 by Happy Quanzaa
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(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama’s upcoming bus tour through the Midwest states typically viewed as swing states during presidential election years will be paid for by the taxpayers, the White House says. Obama will start the tour on Aug. 15 and will talk about strengthening jobs and the economy, the White House announced on Tuesday. “He is very happily getting out into the country again after a very sustained period here in Washington and he looks forward to talking to folks about growing the economy, creating jobs," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. "We will have more details, as I said, about the specifics of the trip." Carney indicated he ...
Palin: If Tea Partiers Were Terrorists, Obama Would Pal Around With Us (video) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-08-04 00:58:33 by Murron
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Palin: If Tea Partiers Were Terrorists, Obama Would Pal Around With Us Fmr. Gov. Sarah Palin responds to a report that Vice President Joe Biden said Republicans were "terrorists" during a closed-door meeting with Congressional Democrats about the debt compromise. Palin says "enough is enough" and she's "not going to sit here and take it anymore" when it comes to the left accusing the Tea Party of racism. "It's all talk and no real action. Otherwise he'd be on Biden and tell Biden to tone it down a little bit. Yeah, right, independent patriotic Americans who desire fiscal sanity in our beloved nation being called terrorists. Heck, Sean, if ...
Debt Reduction Delusions and the Menace of Big Government
Post Date: 2011-08-03 17:18:27 by Capitalist Eric
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In spite of the rhetoric in the media about a national debt crisis having been averted through a rise in the government's debt limit on Tuesday, August 2nd, the fact is the United States remains very much in the midst of a fiscal disaster. The Congress has approved and the president has signed a bill raising the debt limit by an additional $2.4 trillion over the next year and a half. In other words, at the end of 2012, the government's debt will have reached a total of over $ 16.5 trillion from its current $14.3 trillion. When a Spending Reduction Still Equals More Government Debt The debt ceiling deal requires a matching $2.4 trillion to be cut from projected government spending ...
Five Things You Need to Know About the U.S. Economy [Let's Get Down to Brass Tacks]
Post Date: 2011-08-03 15:59:21 by Capitalist Eric
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David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research writes: At any point during the recent negotiations in Washington over the debt, did you seriously think for even a second that the U.S. was about to default? Of course, in time the U.S. government (along with many others) will default. However, they are highly unlikely to do so by decree or even through the sort of legislative inaction recently on display. Rather, it will come about through the time-honored tradition of screwing debtors via the slow-roasting method of monetary inflation. Yet most people still bought into the latest drama put on by the Congressional Players – a troupe of actors whose skills at pretense and artifice ...
The Debt Ceiling Deal From Hell
Post Date: 2011-08-03 13:56:55 by Capitalist Eric
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Is the debt ceiling deal supposed to be some sort of a cruel joke? Is this what the American people have been waiting months and months for? The "debt ceiling deal from hell" is a complete and total fraud. Barack Obama will not need to worry about the debt ceiling again until after the 2012 election, and no "real" spending cuts will happen until after the 2012 election. The way the political game in Washington D.C. is played today, if you don't get something right now, you probably will never end up getting it. The Republicans have traded a massive debt ceiling increase right now for the possibility of very skimpy budget cuts in the future. Meanwhile, this deal ...
RINObamanomic Debt Limit Market Crash: -12,000
Post Date: 2011-08-03 13:23:57 by Happy Quanzaa
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Debt-Limit Vote Breaks GOP Pledge to Post Bills Online for 3 Days Before Vote
Post Date: 2011-08-02 08:09:17 by Happy Quanzaa
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(CNSNews.com) - When the House of Representatives voted this evening on legislation to increase the limit on the federal debt by as much as $2.4 trillion, House Republicans broke a promise included in their 2010 Pledge to America to post the text of bills online “for at least three days” before bringing them up for a vote. “We will ensure that bills are debated and discussed in the public square by publishing the text online for at least three days before coming up for a vote in the House of Representatives,” said the Pledge to America. “No more hiding legislative language from the minority party, opponents, and the public. Legislation should be understood by all ...
$2.4 Trillion Would Be Largest Debt-Limit Increase in U.S. History (beats previous Obama record)
Post Date: 2011-08-01 13:27:58 by Hondo68
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). (AP photo/Charles Dharapak)(CNSNews.com) - The bill to increase the federal debt limit that has been put before Congress today would increase that limit by up to $2.4 trillion, which would be the largest increase in the debt limit in U.S. history by a margin of half a trillion dollars, according to records published by the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Research Service.In fact, according to records published by the Congressional Research Service, if the current bill is passed and the debt limit is increased by $2.4 trillion, the two largest debt-limit increases in U.S. history would ...
Biden charging Secret Service for cottage rental
Post Date: 2011-07-31 19:35:25 by Sebastian
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The U.S. Secret Service does more than protect Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — the agency also pays him rent. Since April, Mr. Biden has collected more than $13,000 from the agency charged with protecting him and his family, for use of a rental cottage adjacent to the waterfront home he owns in a Wilmington, Del., neighborhood. Mr. Biden, listed not as vice president in federal purchasing documents but as “vendor,” is eligible for up to $66,000 by the time the government contract expires in the fall of 2013, the records show. Officials say the arrangement came about when a previous tenant moved out of the cottage and the Secret Service moved in. Edwin M. Donovan, ...
100 Arrested in Northern California Pot Farm Raids (460,000 maryjane destroyed by O's econut JBT's)
Post Date: 2011-07-31 15:12:12 by Hondo68
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Bust: Police seized 1,500lbs of processed marijuana, 27 guns and 11 vehicles in the two-week operation to purge the Mendocino National Forest... and got a good buzz doing it Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020631/Police-bust-massive-pot-farm-tucked-away-national-forest-seizing-460-000-plants-arresting-100.html#ixzz1TiAlXvzC MENDOCINO NATIONAL FOREST (KTLA) -- More than 460,000 marijuana plants were destroyed and over 100 people were arrested during a series of raids in and around the Mendocino National Forest, officials said Friday. The raids have been conducted over the past several weeks and came in response to complaints that the farms were destroying ecosystems ...
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