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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
FOIA Shows Bush Admin. Spied On AntiWar.com
Post Date: 2011-08-22 14:31:58 by Brian S
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During the Bush-era, a great many Americans were swept up in the spying dragnet laid after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 by federal officials hoping to prevent another major terrorist attack -- people like pacifist Christians, liberal activists, families with members overseas and even street-level falafel sellers. Now Americans can add another group to the list of those unjustly viewed as a potential threat: the staff of AntiWar.com. Documents produced by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by an obscure conspiracy blogger show that in 2004, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assigned an analyst to dig into the website's staff and financial contributors to ...
Jackson Hole Central Bankers Reflect on QE2 Amid Pressure for New Stimulus
Post Date: 2011-08-22 12:50:03 by Hondo68
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U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has big shoes to fill this week when he speaks at the Federal Reserve’s annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming: His own. Last year, Bernanke hinted that the Fed might embark on a second round of asset purchases to bolster the recovery, kicking off a 28 percent rally in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of stocks that ended in a three-year high on April 29. Now, any boost to the economy from the Fed’s $600 billion of bond buying is hard to detect, with growth slowing to a less- than-1-percent annual pace in the first half, the U.S. losing its top credit rating ...
Perry Made a Million on Land While in Office
Post Date: 2011-08-20 12:54:18 by Brian S
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Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has never been paid a government salary of more than $150,000, became a millionaire while in public office through well-timed sales in the Texas real estate market. The Republican presidential hopeful bought property from friends and political allies and sold to Texas businessmen, such as computer magnate Michael Dell, and in the process made more than $1 million. Perry’s income also was supplemented by stock sales, according to his tax returns and county land and tax records. The transactions have drawn criticism from Democrats and ethics experts because, at times, they involved people who would benefit from their ties to the governor and because ...
Obamanoids Praying Establishment Pick Rick Perry Wins GOP Nomination
Post Date: 2011-08-19 17:02:15 by Capitalist Eric
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Obama vs Paul would be a nightmare for Democrat strategists White House insiders and senior Democrats close to the Obama administration are desperately hoping that Texas Governor Rick Perry wins the GOP nomination, because Perry represents perhaps the only chance Obama has of staying in office. “I was praying Perry would get in the race,” Reuters quotes a former White House aide closely linked to Obama’s campaign. The article continues: …the harder a Republican candidate leans to the right the easier it will be for the Democratic president to beat him or her in a general election, several Obama campaigners said. The rabbit hole goes deeper than this, however. Back ...
Wall Street Firms Donated $11.2 Million To Members Of Debt ‘Super Committee’
Post Date: 2011-08-19 11:19:07 by Brian S
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The bipartisan "super committee" created by the debt ceiling deal is comprised of lawmakers who have received big bucks from special interest groups, according to a report by MapLight. The committee is tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over ten years. In total, the twelve members appointed to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction got nearly $64.5 million from special interests groups over the past decade, with legal firms donating about $31.5 million and Wall Street firms donating about $11.2 million. Of that $11.2 million, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase donated approximately $2 million combined. The members ...
Obama concedes health care law won't control costs
Post Date: 2011-08-18 16:30:51 by CZ82
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Obama concedes health care law won't control costs by Philip Klein With a little noted remark at an appearance in Cannon Falls, Minn., on Monday, President Obama tacitly acknowledged that his signature legislative achievement won't meet its stated goal. During a rant against Republican intransigence, Obama said that he could tackle the deficit tomorrow if his opponents would agree to raise taxes and "were willing to take on some of the long-term costs that we have on health care." Sound familiar? Back in February 2009, days after signing an economic stimulus package then valued at $787 billion, Obama convened a Fiscal Responsibility Summit at the White House. At the ...
Ominous Parallels [Walter Williams]
Post Date: 2011-08-18 13:40:19 by Capitalist Eric
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People are beginning to compare Barack Obama's administration to the failed administration of Jimmy Carter, but a better comparison is to the Roosevelt administration of the 1930s and '40s. Let's look at it with the help of a publication from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Foundation for Economic Education titled Great Myths of the Great Depression, by Dr. Lawrence Reed. During the first year of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, he called for increasing federal spending to $10 billion while revenues were only $3 billion. Between 1933 and 1936, government expenditures rose by more than 83 percent. Federal debt skyrocketed by 73 percent. Roosevelt ...
Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
Post Date: 2011-08-17 18:52:04 by Capitalist Eric
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A whistleblower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals. Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime channel specials where the murderer is unveiled after police stumble upon past intrigues in some old file – "Hey, chief, didja know this guy had two wives die falling down the stairs?" No more burglary sprees cracked when some sharp cop sees the same name pop up in one too many ...
Planet of the Taxpayers
Post Date: 2011-08-17 18:46:06 by Capitalist Eric
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The remake of The Planet of the Apes — the apes look real this time — purports to give the backstory of how it is that the world came to be governed by primates while the handful of humans are caged and abused. The story line is so conventional that you could make it up just sitting there. A private-sector biochemical corporation rushes to test a drug that is supposed to reverse Alzheimer's. It is tested on apes and the drug makes them strangely intelligent. But the same drug unleashes a killer virus among humans. The rest is science-fiction history. The anticapitalism is so familiar that it is not even as disturbing as it should be. The CEO struts around in super-fancy ...
Big Sis’ Latest Terrorists: More White Americans (New video from DHS terrorists)
Post Date: 2011-08-17 14:56:05 by Hondo68
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Despite causing controversy last month with a video that portrayed white middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists, the Department of Homeland Security has released yet another PSA that depicts an attempt to bomb a subway station not by Al-Qaeda Muslims, but well-dressed white people. A new Public Service Announcement entitled "The Drop Off -- If You See Something, Say Something" was unveiled by none other than Big Sis herself, Janet Napolitano, on the Homeland Security website today. The PSA, which will be played on television and radio stations, shows a well dressed attractive white woman exiting a taxi before walking into a subway station. The taxi driver -- a white ...
Ben Bernanke Pledges To Screw Your Grandmother For At Least Two More Years
Post Date: 2011-08-17 13:17:41 by Capitalist Eric
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“A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.” Ron Paul I wonder what goes through Ben Bernanke's mind as he sits in his gold plated boardroom in the majestic Marriner Eccles building in Washington DC and decides to screw grandmothers in order to further enrich Wall Street bankers. He just pledged to keep interest rates at zero percent for two more years. Ben is a supposedly book smart man. Does he have no guilt or shame for what he has wrought? How does he sleep at night knowing he has created bloody ...
WTF Iowa Straw Poll Mystery 218 Votes Are Missing!
Post Date: 2011-08-16 23:16:30 by A K A Stone
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Poster Comment:I think Ron Paul really won. The establishment media are the enemy.
ATF promotes supervisors in controversial gun operation [Operation Gunrunner]
Post Date: 2011-08-16 11:23:53 by Capitalist Eric
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The three, who have been criticized for pushing on with the border weapons sting even as it came apart, receive new management jobs in Washington. Reporting from Washington— The ATF has promoted three key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico. All three have been heavily criticized for pushing the program forward even as it became apparent that it was out of control. At least 2,000 guns were lost and many turned up at crime scenes in Mexico and two at the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona. The three supervisors have been given new management positions at the agency's ...
Talking Crap
Post Date: 2011-08-16 10:14:47 by Happy Quanzaa
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Gov't pays for empty flights to rural airports
Post Date: 2011-08-14 10:00:40 by We The People
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(AP) On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government pays them to do it. Federal statistics reviewed by The Associated Press show that in 2010, just 227 passengers flew out of Ely while the airline got $1.8 million in subsidies. The travelers paid $70 to $90 for a one-way ticket. The cost to taxpayers for each ticket: $4,107. Ely is one of 153 rural communities where airlines get subsidies through the $200 million Essential Air Service program, and one of 13 that critics say should be eliminated from it. Some call the spending a ...
Special interests gave millions to budget panel
Post Date: 2011-08-14 09:54:15 by We The People
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The 12 lawmakers appointed to a new congressional supercommittee charged with tackling the nation's fiscal problems have received millions in contributions from special interests with a direct stake in potential cuts to federal programs, an Associated Press review of federal campaign data has found. The newly appointed members — six Democrats and six Republicans — have received more than $3 million total during the past five years in donations from political committees with ties to defense contractors, health care providers and labor unions. That money went to their re-election campaigns, according to AP's review. Supporters say the lawmakers were picked for their ...
S.F. Subway Muzzles Cell Service During Protest
Post Date: 2011-08-13 05:00:53 by Murron
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S.F. Subway Muzzles Cell Service During Protest The operators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway system temporarily shut down cell service last night in four downtown San Francisco stations to interfere with a protest over a shooting by a BART police officer, a spokesman for the system said today. "BART staff or contractors shut down power to the nodes and alerted the cell carriers," James Allison, deputy chief communications officer for BART, told CNET. The move was "one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform," he said in an initial statement provided to CNET earlier this afternoon. Activists had planned to protest the fatal shooting of ...
Democratic Hill staffers head to Maui on taxpayers’ dime for Senate Indian Affairs Committee field hearing
Post Date: 2011-08-13 04:57:24 by Happy Quanzaa
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Senate Democrats are charging taxpayers for a trip to Hawaii, The Daily Caller has learned. The entire press staff of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee is in Maui, even though a field hearing there won’t happen until next Wednesday. The committee’s oversight field hearing, scheduled for August 17 at 9:00 a.m. at the Maui Beach Hotel, will focus on “Strengthening Self-Sufficiency: Overcoming Barriers to Economic Development in Native Communities.” Rick Manning from Americans for Limited Government, which first discovered the hearing, told TheDC it’s unbelievable that Hill staffers talking about fiscal responsibility would waste money on a trip to Maui. ...
Left's Agenda Inches Forward
Post Date: 2011-08-12 16:32:25 by CZ82
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Left's Agenda Inches Forward By Peter Hannaford on 8.12.11 @ 6:07AM While the massive union effort to overturn the Wisconsin state senate failed, in California the Left quietly moved its agenda forward this week when Governor Jerry Brown signed the "National Popular Vote" bill whose purpose is to award the state's 55 electoral votes to the presidential candidate with the most popular votes nationally. Why is this significant? California is the eighth state (along with the District of Columbia) to pass this legislation. It is written to take effect if and when states representing a majority of the 538 electoral votes have passed similar legislation. This means that if ...
MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Has a Meltdown (Repubs/Dems-"Reckless, Irresponsible and Stupid") Video [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-08-10 22:40:37 by Murron
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MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Has a Meltdown (Repubs/Dems-"Reckless, Irrisponsible and Stupid") Video
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MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan is mad as hell about the U.S. financial crisis--and he's not gonna take it anymore!
While convening a roundtable discussion on the market meltdown on his eponymous MSNBC show on Tuesday, Ratigan exploded.
"We've got a real problem!" an exasperated Ratigan shouted. "This is a mathematical fact! Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren't doing it, Republicans aren't doing it. An entire integrated system, financial system, trading system, ...
No Confidence in Geithner
Post Date: 2011-08-10 20:10:33 by We The People
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Senator Paul's latest press release announced his intention to seek a vote of no confidence in Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Rand Paul today announced his intention to introduce in the U.S. Senate a vote of no confidence in Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Following Sen. Paul’s call for Secretary Geithner to resign this weekend, his intention to introduce a resolution underlines Secretary Geithner’s gross mismanagement of the U.S. economy. “The stock market gave a vote of no confidence to Timothy Geithner yesterday and for the past 11 days. Geithner has shown no acumen in predicting, diagnosing, or treating America's economic ...
US debt reduction 'super-committee' takes shape
Post Date: 2011-08-10 19:57:34 by We The People
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A bipartisan "super-committee" of US congressmen tasked with devising a way out of America's debt crisis has begun taking shape. Nine of 12 members of the House and Senate have been now been chosen by Democratic and Republican leaders. They will have until 3 November to recommend a plan to trim $1.5tn (£930bn) from the deficit in 10 years. The bipartisan panel was created as part of a deficit reduction and debt limit law that passed last week. The US owes more than $14tn in debt and runs an annual budget deficit of more than $1.4tn. On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, picked Jeb Hensarling of Texas and Dave Camp and Fred Upton, both of Michigan, ...
U.S. Dollar Debt Crisis, Vested Interests Bad Mouth Gold [Leftist Liars Exposed]
Post Date: 2011-08-10 17:03:26 by Capitalist Eric
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“Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.” - Ron Paul As usual the MSM did its usual superficial dog and pony show for the American public on Saturday and Sunday. The overall tone on every show (not journalism) was to calm the audience. Every station had a ”downgrade special” to explain why you shouldn't panic over the downgrade of the United States. As we can see, it didn't work. Worldwide markets went berserk. The reactions of the various players in this saga have been very enlightening ...
Day of Reckoning
Post Date: 2011-08-10 12:58:06 by Capitalist Eric
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The trigger that apparently caused the market meltdown was the ever-so-slight suggestion from Standard & Poor's that the US government’s fiscal health might not be all that it is cracked up to be. This was not a case of the little boy noting the emperor has no clothes. It is more like the little boy suggested that the emperor's clothes, while beautiful, might have been more carefully tailored to suit the imperial dignity. Hysteria followed, and the entire Obama cult called for the kid to be stoned. Finally the emperor himself spoke in defense of his rainment. That’s when the market crashed. But the downgrading of a government’s debt from AAA to AA+ can only ...
Who's Really Downgrading America? [By Pat Buchanan] [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-08-10 11:01:37 by Capitalist Eric
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The decision by Standard & Poor's to strip the United States of its AAA credit rating, for the first time, has triggered a barrage of catcalls against the umpire from the press box and Obamaites. S&P, we are reminded, was giving A ratings to banks like Lehman Brothers, whose books were stuffed with suspect subprime paper, right up to the day Lehman Brothers fell over dead. Moreover, S&P made a $2 trillion error in its assessment of U.S. debt and used political criteria in making its downgrade. All of which may be true. But none of which is relevant. This downgrade is deeply deserved. For no one really believes the United States is going to pay its creditors back the $14 ...
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