Olbermann: U.S. Government For Sale - Supreme Court OKs Unlimited Corporate Spending on Elections Conservatives On Fire Corporate Personhood Should Be Banned, Once and For All How Wall St Destroyed Private Medicine Obama Disconnected How to Squander the Presidency in One Year Obama at One: The Government is Desperate For Money One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show: Biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies UBS Client Wins Case on Transfer of Tax Data to U.S. : A UBS AG account holder won a Swiss court case preventing data from being disclosed in a ruling that may impede a U.S. crackdown on overseas tax evasion. Big Banks Have Already Figured Out The Loophole In Obama’s New Rules: Big banks have already begun poking the holes in Obama’s new rules—holes they expect their banks to pass through basically unchanged. Two Dozen States’ Unemployment Funds in the Red, Nine More Within Six Months: Some states have focused the pain, like Virginia, where unemployed seniors who also receive Social Security face steep benefit cuts. Other states, like Pennsylvania, have taken a broader approach: all unemployment beneficiaries will receive 2.4 percent smaller checks starting this month. Jobless rates rose in all 50 states for 2009: All 50 states ended 2009 with higher unemployment rates than a year earlier, according to a report issued Friday morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fitch: U.S. Retail Credit Card Defaults Hit Near-Record Levels with No Relief in Sight: U.S. consumers defaulted on store-branded credit cards at near-record levels during the holiday shopping season, with 2010 likely to bring more of the same trend, according to Fitch Ratings
Freedom of speech has been destroyed
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They can spend all the money they want. And if they can spend all the money they want — sooner, rather than later — they will implant the legislators of their choice in every office from President to head of the Visiting Nurse Service. Continue
By David G. Savage
Overturning a century-old restriction, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that corporations could spend as much as they wanted to sway voters in federal elections. Continue
Constitution in Flames
By Gordon Duff
Will our new debates in Congress be between members representing the opium warlords against the Columbian cartels? Their cash, which long ago has infiltrated one major corporation or bank after another is now heading for your local representative. Continue
By Ralph Nader
This corporatist, anti-voter decision is so extreme that it should galvanize a grassroots effort to enact a Constitutional Amendment to once and for all end corporate personhood and curtail the corrosive impact of big money on politics. Continue
By Paul Craig Roberts
The U.S. is creating a “health care” system that is more costly and less efficient than single-payer national health systems. But it will enrich corporations and provide play for Wall Street.Continue
A movement is a terrible thing to waste.
By Micah Sifry
Despite Obama’s explicit promises, the people who voted for him weren't organized in any kind of new or powerful way, and the special interests — banks, energy companies, health interests, carmakers, the military-industrial complex — sat first at the table and wrote the menu. Continue
By David Michael Green
There's only one political party in the entire world that is so inept, cowardly and bungling that it could manage to simultaneously lick the boots of Wall Street bankers and then get blamed by the voters for being flaming revolutionary socialists. Continue
Little Surprising in Absence of Progressive Social Movement
By Howard Zinn
I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president--which means, in our time, a dangerous president--unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction. Continue
Doug Casey on Unemployment
Interviewed by Louis James
It’s absolutely true that for an American, the safest wealth is the wealth that’s outside of the U.S. Your biggest risk is a political risk, from a completely bankrupt U.S. government. Continue
Saturday, 23 January 2010
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