Showing posts with label political corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political corruption. Show all posts
Saturday, September 1, 2012
All European Politicians are Puppets of the Banks
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Friday, August 31, 2012
RNC Destroys Democracy Because of Their Fear of Ron Paul
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Despite Political Theater US Gov't is "Too Big to Fail"
Paul Craig Roberts
Lew Rockwell
Although the financial press speculates about a downgrade of the US government's credit rating and default if political impasse prevents the debt ceiling from being raised in time, I doubt anyone really believes that the debt ceiling will not be raised. It is just all a part of the political theater of the next couple of months.
Republicans will blame the budget deficit and accumulated national debt on Medicare and Social Security. Wall Street sees billions of profits in privatizing either, and debt rating agencies will oblige their Wall Street paymasters by opining from time to time that US Treasury bonds might be downgraded unless "entitlements can be addressed and the deficit brought under control."
Democrats will say that the budget deficit cannot be addressed without an increase in tax revenues, especially from the rich whose incomes have exploded upward while their tax rates have declined.
Lew Rockwell
Although the financial press speculates about a downgrade of the US government's credit rating and default if political impasse prevents the debt ceiling from being raised in time, I doubt anyone really believes that the debt ceiling will not be raised. It is just all a part of the political theater of the next couple of months.
Republicans will blame the budget deficit and accumulated national debt on Medicare and Social Security. Wall Street sees billions of profits in privatizing either, and debt rating agencies will oblige their Wall Street paymasters by opining from time to time that US Treasury bonds might be downgraded unless "entitlements can be addressed and the deficit brought under control."
Democrats will say that the budget deficit cannot be addressed without an increase in tax revenues, especially from the rich whose incomes have exploded upward while their tax rates have declined.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The Heavy Cost of the Bush-Obama Murder Rampage
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Lew Rockwell
In every election cycle, the politicians love to pretend there is a difference among them on the foreign policy questions. Yet on these issues of unsurpassed importance, we see the Democrats and Republicans are all part of the same bloodthirsty gang.
On the superficial level of presidential politics, Obama and Bush appeared light-years apart. They play opposites in the DC-approved official culture war between those who pretend to be genuine red-blooded Americans of the heartland and those who feign an understanding of the beleaguered urban minorities and oppressed underclass, when in truth both perfectly embody the same Wall Street-Pentagon-friendly power elite. This is most clearly seen in their virtually identical approach toward empire.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Thanks to “Dirty Harry” Reid: An overt act of betrayal by both Houses of Congress
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Activist Post
Well! Just in time for the rigged “vote” on the fake food safety bills in the House and Senate, CBS news claimed that terrorists…..in a place far, far away….were planning to poison food in hotels and restaurants in the United States.
(CBS) In this exclusive story, CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyianreports the latest terror attack to America involves the possible use of poisons – simultaneous attacks targeting hotels and restaurants at many locations over a single weekend.
A key Intelligence source has confirmed the threat as “credible.” Department of Homeland Security officials, along with members of the Department of Agriculture and the FDA, have briefed a small group of corporate security officers from the hotel and restaurant industries about it.
Most likely if any terrorists had been planning on poisoning the food in hotels and restaurants, their rooms would be paid for by Homeland Security or FDA/USDA. Its highly unlikely and very improbable that any such threat ever existed.
A key Intelligence source has confirmed the threat as “credible.” Department of Homeland Security officials, along with members of the Department of Agriculture and the FDA, have briefed a small group of corporate security officers from the hotel and restaurant industries about it.
Most likely if any terrorists had been planning on poisoning the food in hotels and restaurants, their rooms would be paid for by Homeland Security or FDA/USDA. Its highly unlikely and very improbable that any such threat ever existed.
A key intelligence source was most likely the agent who called CBS news to get their co-operation in planting this story just prior to the last ditch effort to pass the unconstitutional assault on food production and supply, S.510. Leave it to Lame Stream Media to do their part in “crisis creation”.
Works every time. Just prior to every rights robbing assault on America, the media joins with “intelligence sources” to float some bogus report meant to scare us into compliance. The FDA and USDA jumped into the fray to flex their newly empowered over-reaching, unlawful authority.
And here’s how “Dirty Harry” pulled off the hostile takeover of agriculture: Works every time. Just prior to every rights robbing assault on America, the media joins with “intelligence sources” to float some bogus report meant to scare us into compliance. The FDA and USDA jumped into the fray to flex their newly empowered over-reaching, unlawful authority.
Then, on the floor of the Senate in the late afternoon, early evening of Sunday, December 19, Senator Reid called the Recycling bill for a vote and there was no objection from the two other Senators who were on the floor. So by unanimous consent HR 2751 was passed. Then Senator Reid moved for reconsideration with the vote to be tabled. This was granted by the same unanimous consent because there was no other Senator on the floor. Then Senator Reid offered without objection amendment number 4890 which substituted S. 510 the Food Safety Bill for the Recycling Bill. Without objection, then the amendment was passed and the Food Safety Bill had been substituted for the Recycling Bill. Reid moved that the bill be read for the third time and asked for the question. Without objection, the bill passed, and the Food Safety Bill was on the way back to the House.
As if it isn’t bad enough that we cannot trust either the government nor the media to relay anything remotely resembling the truth about anything whatsoever, the national groups and organizations who claim to be defending and looking out for consumers, farmers and ranchers…many times the same groups who take grant money (contracts) and avail themselves of numerous cash sources from the government in addition to their pay pal buttons, have bounded onto the net assuring everyone that the passage of S.510 is somehow now…kind of a good deal. Multiple emails from individuals who have made a living off the misery and fear of those already being targeted in advance by the FDA agricultural Gestapo are landing on the net faster than you can say…”I worked for the government all along!”
The last two weeks have seen some of the most unethical, deceptive, manipulative and outright traitorous actions by both the House and the Senate. With “Dirty Harry” Reid (D) NV leading the traitors charge, every rule was broken, every trick was used, every deception was employed to force the passage of S.510 against the will of the people, most of whom recognized this hostile takeover of agriculture for what it was.
Coming on the heels of S.510 the hostile takeover of Agriculture, is the “America’s Great Outdoors bill of 2010”…..the hostile takeover of land, water, mineral, mining, timber and whatever other resources that belong to the states, now to be owned and operated by the federal government and any number of its privately owned sub-corporations that masquerade as “public service” agencies.
Just in time to squelch the outrage over these acts of aggression against the people, comes also the new rulings form the FCC which will end net neutrality. The days of the free internet and the free flow of information are about to come to a halt.
In just two years they have taken over healthcare, food production and distribution, trampled on free speech, spied on us relentlessly and unlawfully. They read our emails, our snail mail, listen into our phone calls, and keep records of virtually and absolutely every single thing they can find out about each and every one of us.
The raid on Rawsome Foods in California saw Canadian agents accompanying California agents in this raid. Excuse me: But wouldn’t this qualify as a act of terrorism by a foreign agent?
While an estimated 22 million middle class workers could find no work our government allowed 2 million to be held for ransom until tax cuts for the upper 3% were extended. Claiming these are the people who create jobs, no one in either house mentioned the loss of 600,000 manufacturing jobs since 2002 when the rich got the first round of undeserved cuts. No one argued on the floor of either house that the cuts had precipitated the largest wholesale flight out of the country by corporations and investors and into slave labor markets. Never was it mentioned that businesses had routinely closed up overnight and moved offshore….along with wealth accounts stashed in offshore tax-free havens.
Mums the word on that.
We saw Obama agree to a treaty with South Korea which will cause the loss of 179,000 jobs over five years according the US International Trade Commission, and this treaty will again hold the rights of the corporation or investor above those of the individual, community or state, just as NAFTA/CAFTA does.
We have seen the Supreme Court give corporations the right to influence elections to such an extent that they virtually do buy politicians. We have also seen this same court rule repeatedly in favor of corporations and against the rights of the people in regards to land, property ownership, and the intentional contamination of land and crops by gmo bio-pirates.
We have had to fight repeatedly to keep “Dirty Harry” from passing amnesty for illegal immigrants and from providing special educational funds for the children of illegal immigrants while many of our own children were denied advanced education or were faced with tens of thousands of dollars in costs associated with trying to obtain a college degree. This special provision for the children of illegal’s would have resulted in a backdoor amnesty not only for the student but also for the entire family.
Our border remains wide open and the drug wars grow with each passing day. The “America’s Great Outdoors Act” will seize thousands of acres of land along that border which will then make it off limits for the border patrol and turn these areas into busy drug routes and illegal immigration will kick into high gear.
We have been attacked from every angle by our own government. Our elected representatives and senators do not listen to us, do not care what we think or what we do or do not want. We are ignored as both state and federal governments move repeatedly against the people. This isn’t a case of the right vs left, the Democrats vs. Republicans or liberal vs conservative. It is a matter of them against us.
Every Republican jumped right in with the Democrats and voted against the country and in favor of their corporate donors in every instance, and so did those Tea Party’ers who were going to shake things up!
We are under siege, only it isn’t coming from someone “over there” in some country far away. It isn’t coming from foreign terrorists who hate us for our freedoms. Its coming from the District of Criminals. It is those in this district that hate us and who see our freedom as a threat to their existence.
How much more do we have to forfeit, how many more of our rights will be taken away before we stand up and say “enough”! We are under attack and it isn’t some nameless unidentifiable, unknown source that is wanting to harm us: its our own government.
Recently by Marti Oakley:
Revisiting Conflicts of Interest: Revoking the Corporate Charters of State Agencies
The last two weeks have seen some of the most unethical, deceptive, manipulative and outright traitorous actions by both the House and the Senate. With “Dirty Harry” Reid (D) NV leading the traitors charge, every rule was broken, every trick was used, every deception was employed to force the passage of S.510 against the will of the people, most of whom recognized this hostile takeover of agriculture for what it was.
Coming on the heels of S.510 the hostile takeover of Agriculture, is the “America’s Great Outdoors bill of 2010”…..the hostile takeover of land, water, mineral, mining, timber and whatever other resources that belong to the states, now to be owned and operated by the federal government and any number of its privately owned sub-corporations that masquerade as “public service” agencies.
Just in time to squelch the outrage over these acts of aggression against the people, comes also the new rulings form the FCC which will end net neutrality. The days of the free internet and the free flow of information are about to come to a halt.
In just two years they have taken over healthcare, food production and distribution, trampled on free speech, spied on us relentlessly and unlawfully. They read our emails, our snail mail, listen into our phone calls, and keep records of virtually and absolutely every single thing they can find out about each and every one of us.
The raid on Rawsome Foods in California saw Canadian agents accompanying California agents in this raid. Excuse me: But wouldn’t this qualify as a act of terrorism by a foreign agent?
While an estimated 22 million middle class workers could find no work our government allowed 2 million to be held for ransom until tax cuts for the upper 3% were extended. Claiming these are the people who create jobs, no one in either house mentioned the loss of 600,000 manufacturing jobs since 2002 when the rich got the first round of undeserved cuts. No one argued on the floor of either house that the cuts had precipitated the largest wholesale flight out of the country by corporations and investors and into slave labor markets. Never was it mentioned that businesses had routinely closed up overnight and moved offshore….along with wealth accounts stashed in offshore tax-free havens.
Mums the word on that.
We saw Obama agree to a treaty with South Korea which will cause the loss of 179,000 jobs over five years according the US International Trade Commission, and this treaty will again hold the rights of the corporation or investor above those of the individual, community or state, just as NAFTA/CAFTA does.
We have seen the Supreme Court give corporations the right to influence elections to such an extent that they virtually do buy politicians. We have also seen this same court rule repeatedly in favor of corporations and against the rights of the people in regards to land, property ownership, and the intentional contamination of land and crops by gmo bio-pirates.
We have had to fight repeatedly to keep “Dirty Harry” from passing amnesty for illegal immigrants and from providing special educational funds for the children of illegal immigrants while many of our own children were denied advanced education or were faced with tens of thousands of dollars in costs associated with trying to obtain a college degree. This special provision for the children of illegal’s would have resulted in a backdoor amnesty not only for the student but also for the entire family.
Our border remains wide open and the drug wars grow with each passing day. The “America’s Great Outdoors Act” will seize thousands of acres of land along that border which will then make it off limits for the border patrol and turn these areas into busy drug routes and illegal immigration will kick into high gear.
We have been attacked from every angle by our own government. Our elected representatives and senators do not listen to us, do not care what we think or what we do or do not want. We are ignored as both state and federal governments move repeatedly against the people. This isn’t a case of the right vs left, the Democrats vs. Republicans or liberal vs conservative. It is a matter of them against us.
Every Republican jumped right in with the Democrats and voted against the country and in favor of their corporate donors in every instance, and so did those Tea Party’ers who were going to shake things up!
We are under siege, only it isn’t coming from someone “over there” in some country far away. It isn’t coming from foreign terrorists who hate us for our freedoms. Its coming from the District of Criminals. It is those in this district that hate us and who see our freedom as a threat to their existence.
How much more do we have to forfeit, how many more of our rights will be taken away before we stand up and say “enough”! We are under attack and it isn’t some nameless unidentifiable, unknown source that is wanting to harm us: its our own government.
Marti Oakley is a political activist and former op-ed columnist for the St Cloud Times in Minnesota. She was a member of the Times Writer’s Group until she resigned in September of 07. She is neither Democrat nor Republican, since neither party is representative of the American people. She says what she thinks, means what she says, and is known for being outspoken. She is hopeful that the American public will wake up to what is happening to our beloved country . . . little of it is left. Her website is The PPJ Gazette
Recently by Marti Oakley:
Revisiting Conflicts of Interest: Revoking the Corporate Charters of State Agencies
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
During Food Safety Vote: Hot mic catches senator saying agenda is "all rigged"
Chris Moody
The Daily Caller
A hot mic left on during a Senate vote Tuesday morning on the Food Safety Act caught a senator complaining that process of setting the agenda during the lame-duck session is “rigged.”
“It’s all rigged. The whole conversation is rigged,” said Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. “The fact that we don’t get to a discussion before the break about what we’re going to do in the lame duck. It’s just rigged.”
The remark was picked up live on C-SPAN 2, although microphones are usually turned down during voting times. An aide quickly realized the mistake, jumped up and had the sound cut off.
Bennet Chief of Staff Guy Cecil stood by the senator’s comments.
“It’s something he’s been talking about from day one,” Cecil told The Daily Caller in an interview outside the Senate chamber. “The whole process being rigged against having a real conversation about tax cuts, the estate tax and the defense authorization. We’re not having a lot of those conversations. It’s just a symptom of Washington being broken.”
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The Daily Caller
A hot mic left on during a Senate vote Tuesday morning on the Food Safety Act caught a senator complaining that process of setting the agenda during the lame-duck session is “rigged.”
“It’s all rigged. The whole conversation is rigged,” said Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. “The fact that we don’t get to a discussion before the break about what we’re going to do in the lame duck. It’s just rigged.”
The remark was picked up live on C-SPAN 2, although microphones are usually turned down during voting times. An aide quickly realized the mistake, jumped up and had the sound cut off.
Bennet Chief of Staff Guy Cecil stood by the senator’s comments.
“It’s something he’s been talking about from day one,” Cecil told The Daily Caller in an interview outside the Senate chamber. “The whole process being rigged against having a real conversation about tax cuts, the estate tax and the defense authorization. We’re not having a lot of those conversations. It’s just a symptom of Washington being broken.”
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Monday, November 1, 2010
Politics of the Fed's easy money
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Reuters
While voters cast ballots on Tuesday in an election expected to shift Congress to the right, the Federal Reserve convenes what could be its most pivotal meeting since the height of the financial crisis.
The central bank was designed to be above political influence. But its policy decisions are not completely immune to the political environment.
A more conservative Congress would reduce the already slim chance that more fiscal support will come, putting the burden squarely on the Fed's shoulders to shore up a limp economy.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist who advised John McCain during his unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign, said normally the Fed keeps quiet around elections to avoid any semblance of political involvement.
This time, the central bank sent a clear signal that it intended to take action, and investors are convinced the move will come this week in the form of relaunching asset purchases. This week's policy-setting meeting lasts two days, so the Fed's announcement will come on Wednesday, just after the election.
"It looks to me a bit desperate," Holtz-Eakin said, adding that he was not convinced another round of money printing would do much to stimulate the economy.
"I would have liked to see them hold on to their ammunition in case we really need it."
President Barack Obama's Democratic party is expected to lose its majority in the House of Representatives, while the Democrat-controlled Senate may move closer to a 50-50 split.
Republicans have made opposition to last year's $814 billion stimulus package a central plank of their election campaign, tapping into voter dissatisfaction with the slow pace of recovery and weak job market.
The White House, recognizing there is probably not enough political backing, has said little about additional stimulus. However, two former Obama administration officials -- ex-Budget Director Peter Orszag and former Economic Adviser Christina Romer -- have pressed hard for more help.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Nevada voting machines check Harry Reid’s name; voting machine techs SEIU members
Mark Hemingway
Washington Examiner
October 27, 2010
Washington Examiner
October 27, 2010
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Clark County is where three quarters of Nevada’s residents and live and where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s son Rory is a county commissioner. Rory is also a Democratic candidate for governor.
Since early voting started, there have been credible reports that voting machines in Clark County, Nevada are automatically checking Harry Reid’s name on the ballot:
Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid’s name was already checked.Ferrara said she wasn’t alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.“Something’s not right,” Ferrara said. “One person that’s a fluke. Two, that’s strange. But several within a five minute period of time — that’s wrong.”Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said there is no voter fraud, although the issues do come up because the touch-screens are sensitive. For that reason, a person may not want to have their fingers linger too long on the screen after they make a selection at any time.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
A Citizens United Conspiracy – Were Supreme Court Justices Involved?
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It’s time to demand answers to the most troubling questions since the Nixon Era.
The New York Times is reporting that the billionaire Koch Brothers (pronounced like the soft drink) regularly convene secret conclaves of industrialists aiming to prevent government from regulating business. That wouldn’t be unusual, or even unexpected. But the attendees also include two Supreme Court justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, and three news agencies which never report on the meetings.
In 2009, the Supreme Court found that a video demonizing candidate Hillary Clinton was protected speech – and also ruled that corporate political donations were protected, private, and unlimited. The court – by a vote of five to four – gutted the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law. Justices Scalia and Thomas voted with the bare majority. Thomas even wrote that the ruling didn’t go far enough. Arguably, no decision in modern times has given such a big political advantage to the rich. Now that we know Supreme Court justices attended Koch’s political planning meetings, it is time to ask some important questions…
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