THE RICH? THEY GET ELECTED

www.truthdig.com
Posted on Nov 7, 2009
A day after it was announced that the U.S. unemployment rate had hit the double-digit mark, a report was released showing that nearly half of the members of Congress are millionaires, seriously questioning the notion that our lawmakers identify with “we the people.”
Hilariously enough, four of the top five richest lawmakers in Congress [...]

The United States of Plutocracy

Posted on Sep 8, 2009
By William Pfaff

The United States has for practical purposes been a plutocracy for some years now. American national elections usually function more or less correctly, except that they have become all but completely dominated by money.
The contributors of money to Senate and House campaigns are dominated by the source of that money, and the [...]

The New American Plutocracy

by Paul Kurtz
The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 20, Number 4.
Plutocracy: (1) government by the wealthy, (2) a controlling class of the wealthy. From the Greek ploutokratia, from ploutos, wealth, and kratia, advocate of a form of government.
I am deeply troubled by the fact that in the upcoming presidential and congressional elections there [...]

Whats Really in Obama’s Healthcare Bill??

H. R. 3200- To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce
the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.
• Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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,” [...]