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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Ron Paul Is Being Cheated Out of the Republican Nomination
Post Date: 2012-02-22 19:47:50 by Capitalist Eric
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Despite his runaway success in terms of straw poll victories, campaign contributions and grass roots energy, a plethora of evidence strongly indicates that Ron Paul is being cheated out of winning any of the Republican caucuses, with the GOP establishment desperate to prevent the Texan Congressman from building any kind of momentum that the likes of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have been afforded. Even the establishment media is now being forced to report that “Ron Paul Might Have Won Maine,” with evidence of potential vote fraud targeted against Ron Paul prompting the state’s GOP chairman Charles Webster to ask for a recount. With just 84 per cent of the votes being ...
Obama's Dividend Assault~A plan to triple the tax rate would hurt all shareholders.
Post Date: 2012-02-22 11:37:48 by Happy Quanzaa
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President Obama's 2013 budget is the gift that keeps on giving—to government. One buried surprise is his proposal to triple the tax rate on corporate dividends, which believe it or not is higher than in his previous budgets. Mr. Obama is proposing to raise the dividend tax rate to the higher personal income tax rate of 39.6% that will kick in next year. Add in the planned phase-out of deductions and exemptions, and the rate hits 41%. Then add the 3.8% investment tax surcharge in ObamaCare, and the new dividend tax rate in 2013 would be 44.8%—nearly three times today's 15% rate. Keep in mind that dividends are paid to shareholders only after the corporation pays taxes on ...
Senator Lindsey Graham: Interventionist, Warmonger, Man of Empire [insane, Lying POS]
Post Date: 2012-02-21 14:15:02 by Capitalist Eric
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enator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a leader of the pack against Iran, as depicted in this AP news article. At this historical juncture in which aggression against Iran on the part of Israel and/or the U.S. is openly discussed, Graham is an influential congressional interventionist and warmonger. What is he thinking and saying? What are his arguments, and what are the real reasons for attacking Iran that he is not expressing? Graham conveyed his willingness to attack Iran in his AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) speech in 2010. This was a natural forum for Graham, who is a staunch supporter of Israel and its policies, and for Israel, which would like nothing better than to tip ...
Obama Forcing Private Companies to Have Board Votes on Illegal Policy
Post Date: 2012-02-20 18:14:50 by Hondo68
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Another day, another Barack Obama Administration totalitarian diktat. In other words, whatever Obama wants – by any means necessary. Behold Obama’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Which last week handed down from on-high a mandate that telecommunications companies AT&T, Verizon and Sprint MUST have Board votes on Network Neutrality. SEC to Telcos: Yes, Net Neutrality is a Significant Policy Issue The problem for Obama’s SEC is – Net Neutrality isn’t even a LEGAL policy issue. Because Congress has never passed a law making Net Neutrality actual policy. The federal government – via the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) – first tried to ...
The Debt Crisis and Hamburgers
Post Date: 2012-02-17 16:23:18 by Capitalist Eric
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Let us imagine for a moment that you go to a restaurant, and you place an order for a hamburger. The proprietor of the restaurant tells you the cost is $10 for the hamburger, and you pay $10 for the hamburger. You get your food. It is well worth the money you paid for it, and you have no complaints. Then when you are done eating, the owner of the restaurant shows up at your table, apologizes profusely, explains that he underestimated the real cost of providing you with the hamburger he agreed to serve you and hands you a bill for an additional sum he had to borrow in order to provide the meal plus interest since the start of your meal. Do you pay it? Of course not. You, the customer, ...
Democratic National Cronyism~Dem convention co-chair’s company received $230.4M in stimulus money, hired Podesta Group to lobby
Post Date: 2012-02-17 14:22:24 by Happy Quanzaa
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Jim Rogers, the co-chairman and lead fundraiser for the Democratic National Convention host-committee, is well versed in the art of political cronyism. Rogers, the CEO of Duke Energy Corp., one of the largest utility corporations in the country, has given generously to Democratic politicians over the years. Along with his wife, Mary Anne, he has contributed more than $210,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2008, more than double what the couple has given to Republicans. Of that figure, more than $150,000 went to the Democratic National Committee (DNC); $19,200 went to President Obama. Rogers is co-chairing the host committee with Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx (D), who was ...
Impeach Them All
Post Date: 2012-02-16 02:24:11 by Murron
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Impeach Them All The US Government continues actions that will result in its own demise. That might seem fitting, except that its failure will seriously harm the citizenry. Government decisions and actions have assured an economic collapse that will result in another depression. Federal debts and promises are too large to be honored, a conclusion based not on economics but on simple arithmetic. The government collapse will likely trigger the economic collapse, although the order could be reversed. Arguably, we are already in a depression which has been disguised by juicing GDP via excessive government spending. This spending has been funded increased government debt in magnitudes never ...
Obama Signs the National Defense Authorization Act, a Bad Week For Freedom
Post Date: 2012-02-15 23:01:24 by Capitalist Eric
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“We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.” -- Henry Miller With each passing week it seems this country spirals further into the depths of a frightening dystopian fantasy reminiscent of Huxley and Orwell’s dark world of isolation, fear and government brutality portrayed in their masterpieces Brave New World and 1984. I keep speculating whether it’s me that’s crazy and not the things I’m witnessing on a daily basis. The President signs the National Defense Authorization Act, passed by an overwhelming majority of ...
FBI: 9/11 Truthers Should Be Treated As Possible Terrorists
Post Date: 2012-02-15 22:33:38 by Capitalist Eric
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In the last few weeks the FBI, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, have sent out 25 flyers that label normal everyday activities as possible terrorist indicators. These flyers also specifically target political speech and the belief that the CIA and others had a part in 9/11 in order to justify, among other things, multiple foreign wars. That’s right, our government is teaching state and local law enforcement nationwide that 9/11 truthers should be immediately looked at as possible terrorists. In an FBI, Bureau of Justice document on spotting potential sleeper cells within the United States it specifically states that someone may be ...
Obama Says “Everybody Underestimated It” [The Economic Collapse]
Post Date: 2012-02-15 22:26:52 by Capitalist Eric
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President Obama defends his deficit spending and handling of the economic crisis in an interview with WAGA-TV, arguing that everybody – experts, economists, analysts and advisers – all underestimated the severity of the downturn: “Well we’re not there because this recession turned out to be a lot deeper than any of us realized.” “Everybody who is out there back in 2009, if you look back what their estimates were in terms of how many jobs had been lost, how bad the economy had contracted when I took office, everybody underestimated it. People thought that the economy contracted 3%. It turns it retracted close to 9%. We lost 8 million jobs just in a year’s ...
Obama’s Chief of Staff Lies, Lies, Lies about the Budget
Post Date: 2012-02-15 07:17:49 by CZ82
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Obama’s Chief of Staff Lies, Lies, Lies about the Budget Jack Lew is President Obama’s Chief of Staff. He made the talk-show circuit on Sunday and lied, lied, and lied about who’s to blame on the budget impasse. If he’s not lying, then he doesn’t know how our government operates and this would make him incompetent. Lew is trying to blame the GOP on the budget stalemate claiming that they are holding up the process because all the Democrats have voted for the budget and not enough Republicans have in order to reach the needed 60 votes. If just a few Republicans crossed the aisle and voted for the budget, Democrats bray, the Republic would be saved. There are 100 ...
Issa Takes Step Toward Holding Holder In Contempt of Congress
Post Date: 2012-02-14 20:57:11 by Murron
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Issa Takes Step Toward Holding Holder In Contempt of Congress On Tuesday Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House committee on Oversight and Government Reform, took a major step toward holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to provide subpoenaed documents and other information about Operation Fast and Furious. In a Jan. 31 letter, Issa had threatened Holder with such a move if he failed to provide all the subpoenaed documents relating to the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal by Feb. 9. That deadline has come and gone, and Holder’s Department of Justice still hasn’t provided most of those documents. Issa’s subpoena dates back to ...
Ron Paul, We've Been Neo-Conned! [Detailed Analysis]
Post Date: 2012-02-14 15:54:15 by Capitalist Eric
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The modern-day, limited-government movement has been co-opted. The conservatives have failed in their effort to shrink the size of government. There has not been, nor will there soon be, a conservative revolution in Washington. Political party control of the federal government has changed, but the inexorable growth in the size and scope of government has continued unabated. The liberal arguments for limited government in personal affairs and foreign military adventurism were never seriously considered as part of this revolution. Since the change of the political party in charge has not made a difference, who's really in charge? If the particular party in power makes little ...
Barry Obama increasing handouts to evil rich 7%er Govt Motors Volt buyers to $10K
Post Date: 2012-02-14 11:07:52 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama hikes subsidy to wealthy electric car buyers The White House intends to boost government subsidies for wealthy buyers of the Chevy Volt and other new-technology vehicles — to $10,000 per buyer. That mammoth subsidy would cost taxpayers $100 million each year if it is approved by Congress, presuming only 10,000 new-technology autos are sold each year. But the administration wants to get 1 million new-tech autos on the road by 2015. The subsidy cost of that goal could reach $10 billion. The planned giveaway will likely prompt populist protests from GOP legislators, but it will likely also will be welcomed by auto-industry workers in the critical swing state of Michigan. That ...
Republican Lawmaker Who Bet Against Markets Faces Insider Trading Probe
Post Date: 2012-02-13 23:11:23 by Brian S
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A powerful member of Congress is under investigation for possible insider-trading violations, following a series of reports detailing how lawmakers benefit from high-level information they receive during the course of their jobs. Rep. Spencer Bachus, an Alabama Republican, faces an inquiry by the Office of Congressional Ethics over his trading activity, including bets he made against the financial markets at the height of the 2008 banking crisis, when he was receiving closed-door briefings from top officials describing the severity of the situation. Bachus, who is now chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, denies any improper activity, but the inquiry, first reported by The ...
Congress To Holder: Quit (Fast & Furious resignation demands)
Post Date: 2012-02-13 22:31:13 by Hondo68
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Republican lawmakers on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee called on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign even as the country’s top lawyer dodged questions about his involvement in what many are calling a criminal scheme by the U.S. government to traffic weapons to Mexican drug gangs.During his testimony, Holder ranted angrily about the alleged “unfairness” of him having to answer questions about why he used bogus documents to conceal the fact that weapons sold in the government gunrunning operation were used to murder U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.“Nobody’s been disciplined. Nobody’s been fired,” Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) ...
A Tale of Two Settlements
Post Date: 2012-02-13 14:30:25 by Capitalist Eric
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So yesterday, there were two big settlements: Greece, and the Mortgage Mess. Completely independent of each other, both settlements not only happened on the same day, they happen to highlight two issues which ought to be bugging us all like cockroaches crawling through our underwear. Issue One is how in both cases, the Too Big To Fail banksters won—and they won big. Again. Insofar as the mortgage settlement goes, they got what amounted to a speeding ticket, while getting a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card on the worst of the robo-signing and illegal foreclosures scandal. And insofar as the Greek situation goes, the banksters have gotten the IMF, the ECB and the EC to essentially put the ...
DOJ Failed To Issue Key Wiretap Reports During Bush’s Second Term
Post Date: 2012-02-13 12:50:26 by Brian S
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For the Bush administration’s entire second term, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) failed to tell Congress how many intrusive wiretaps were carried out by law enforcement, despite a legal requirement that it produce an annual report detailing the practice, a security researcher has learned. At the same time, Congress shirked its duties as a watchdog and apparently didn’t even ask for the report, Wired reporter David Kravets noted Monday morning. The reports, detailing the use of pen registers and trap and trace devices — wiretap methods that reveal a subject’s communications, and who a subject is communicating with, all in real time — were obtained by privacy ...
Obamanomic Report: Barry's budget predicts $1.3 trillion deficit for 2012
Post Date: 2012-02-13 08:06:47 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama budget predicts $1.3 trillion deficit for 2012 The federal deficit was lower through the first four months of the budget year than the same period last year. Still, the deficit is expected to top $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row, putting more pressure on Congress and President Barack Obama in an election year. The deficit totaled $349 billion through January, the Treasury Department said Friday. That's $70 billion less than at the same point last year. January's monthly deficit was $27 billion, roughly half of the deficit in January 2011. The White House later confirmed a report that President Obama's new budget predicts a $1.3 trillion deficit for the full ...
Buffett Stands to Profit Handsomely From Mortgage Abuse Settlement
Post Date: 2012-02-13 07:56:17 by CZ82
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Buffett Stands to Profit Handsomely From Mortgage Abuse Settlement Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:58pm by Becket Adams It appears that billionaire Warren Buffett will again profit from a major decision made by the White House. “Warren Buffett’s stake in Bank of America Corp. increased in value by $154 million after President Obama and the U.S. Justice Department announced a $25 billion foreclosure abuse settlement with the five largest U.S. banks Thursday,” Patrick Howley of The Washington Free Beacon writes. How did Buffet manage that? Well, as it turns out, the man who has both publicly and repeatedly begged to have his taxes raised invested $5 billion in Bank of ...
Assassinated Arizona Judge Ruled Against the Obama Admintstration in 3 cases
Post Date: 2012-02-12 14:51:11 by Murron
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Assassinated Arizona Judge Ruled Against the Obama Admintstration in 3 cases Murdered Judge Defended Sheriff Mack "11 Jan 2011 ... Mack was challenging the act as unconstitutional and in violation of the Tenth and Thirteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. Judge Roll ..." http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/5855-murdered-judge-defended-sheriff-mack Alex Jones interviews Sheriff Richard Mack about Arizona Shooting www.youtube.com/watch?v=yng4hJU5HRY Media Blackout. Why no mention of Judge Roll? | Ron Paul 2012 ... "11 Jan 2011 ... Judge John Roll was the leading judicial voice supporting Sheriff Richard Mack's Tenth Amendment lawsuit against ...
Brass Shell Casings
Post Date: 2012-02-11 10:49:52 by CZ82
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Brass Shell Casings Georgia Arms is the 5th largest retailer of .223 Ammo in America. They sell 9mm, .45, .223 ammunition. They normally buy spent brass from the US Department of Defense. Spent brass is "one time used" shell cases used by our Military for training purposes. They buy the brass, recondition it, and then reload the brass for resale to Law Enforcement, Gun Clubs, Gun Shops, and stores like Wal-Mart. They normally buy 30,000 lbs of spent brass at a time. This week the DoD wrote a letter to the owner of Georgia Arms and informed him that from now on the DoD will be destroying the spent brass, shredding it. It will no longer be available to the ammo makers, unless ...
Obamanomic Update: $1.3T deficit for 2012
Post Date: 2012-02-10 18:34:02 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama budget predicts $1.3T deficit for 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's new budget predicts a $1.3 trillion deficit for the ongoing fiscal year but that would drop to $575 billion in 2018 if the president gets his wish to raise taxes and if policymakers can live within tight restraints on the Pentagon and other Cabinet agency budgets, the White House said Friday. After four consecutive years of trillion dollar-plus deficits, next year's budget shortfall would drop to $901 billion under the administration's tax and spending policies. In his budget submission on Monday, the president will also call for a "Buffett Rule"—that would guarantee that ...
Mark Levin Talks About Obama Cooking The Books On The Unemployment Rate
Post Date: 2012-02-09 11:34:18 by Happy Quanzaa
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Solargate Update: Clean green fraud-Government’s ethanol mandate invites corruption
Post Date: 2012-02-09 11:13:42 by Happy Quanzaa
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The spectacular failure of Solyndra opened a lot of eyes. Yet the bankrupt solar panel manufacturer is far from the only fly-by-night outfit to take advantage of the current “green energy” fad. No program is more ripe for abuse than the renewable fuel standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Last week, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, Michigan Republican, and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield, Kentucky Republican, opened their own investigation into the fraudulent outfits that sell tradeable biodiesel fuel credits to legitimate companies that need to meet the arbitrary mandates established by the EPA and Congress. In ...
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