Ignorance in America

Reposted from Puppetgov and Global Research
By Prof. John Kozy~Global Research
Ignorance is pervasive in America; it affects the rich as well as the poor, the powerful and the powerless, the famous as well as the obscure. It’s prevalent in the suites of our nation’s CEOs, the Congress, the military, and even our universities. It defines this [...]

FactsNews – Obama’s Healthcare Plan – A total sham!

It has been known for quite some time that Republicans are agaisnt pretty much anything a Democrat has to offer. This is bogus left-right bickering, however I agree with Republicans/Conservatives on this Healthcare Issue. The bill is another complete legislative disaster written by a few lobbyists that takes control away from the people and gives [...]

Real concentration camps USA: Our immigrant-detention system is spiraling out of control

By David Neiwert~Crooks and Liars
See Video Here (At Puppetgov)
Jackie Mahendra points out an Associated Press story describing some of the most recent information about how we’re detaining illegal immigrants — and it’s profoundly disturbing:

The U.S. detention system for immigrants has mushroomed in the past decade, creating a costly building boom in an effort to sweep up [...]

Delusions of a failed democracy

Posted from http://northcountrypublicradio.org/
One of the things I admire most about America’s conservative movement is its longstanding commitment to democratic action.
Many progressives complain about the last two decades of Republican dominance — in Washington, in many state capitals, and in the media.
But those center-right gains came in large part thanks to grassroots activism, relentless organizing, and [...]

Obama administration: Guantanamo detainees have ‘no constitutional rights’

FN- B-b-but, don’t we have to go after Bush for war crimes? Meanwhile, Obama is committing more atrocities than Bush/Cheney can even fantize about…

Joe Byrne
Published: Sunday March 15, 2009

Court documents filed Friday reveal that Obama’s lawyers are arguing that Ex-Guantanamo detainees have no constitutional rights.
The Center for Constitutional Rights(CCR), a non-profit legal advocacy group, is [...]

Letter Re: Wealth Destruction–Real Wealth or Just On-Paper Wealth?

Conversation Thread taken from my favorite site Survivalblog.com (Author of blog is JWR)

Sir:
I followed the link in Thursday’s blog to this I followed this news story: 45 percent of world’s wealth destroyed: Blackstone CEO. It stated: “Between 40 and 45 percent of the world’s wealth has been destroyed in little less than a year and a [...]

Switzerland: A parasite feeding on developing world?

June 16, 2009
By Lord Aikins Adusei (Modern Ghana)
For more than half a century the Alpine nation of Switzerland has built a reputation as the world´s centre for tax evasion, fraud accounting, money laundering, racketeering, and above all a staunch ally of corrupt third world leaders and a great beneficiary of third world corruption.
Various categories of [...]

Goldman Sachs – THE WORLD’S BIGGEST PONZI SCHEME

Taken from a comment by “Calltoaccount”, which was taken from Institutional Risk Analytics, blogged by www.cjr.org
Res Ipsa Loquitor: Here’s the real story that’s been conveniently swept under the rug.
From Reuters: QUESTION: Did Goldman do any due diligence on AIG before buying credit default swaps (CDS) from it?
ANSWER: “We do extensive due diligence on all our counterparties.” [...]

H.R. 1207>>AUDIT WILL EXPOSE FED

By Christopher J. Petherick
During a hearing on Capitol Hill in early July, a top official at the Federal Reserve warned Congress to stay out of the bankers’ business and not force the privately owned and operated central bank to submit to a public audit.
On July 9 The Financial Times reported on Texas Republican Rep. Ron [...]

Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
During his NAACP speech earlier this month, Sen. Obama repeated the term at least four times. “I’ve been working my entire adult life to help build an America where economic justice is being served,” he said at the group’s 99th annual convention in Cincinnati.
And as president, “we’ll ensure that economic justice is served,” [...]