The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
De Blasio Hires Goldman Sachs Exec To Make City More Affordable For all his campaign bluster against the two cities New York has become, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio isn’t exactly shying away from some of the people who helped make it that way. This morning, the mayor-elect announced that Alicia Glen will serve as Deputy …
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Great news! Congessman Keith Ellison, who represents Minneapolis/St Paul in the U.S. House of Representatives, introduced a resolution in effect endorsing the NSP version of a Global Marshall Plan into the House of Representatives as H Res 439. It was referred to the Republican controlled Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives. Please read …
Is government aid a giant money laundering scheme? Remember something called the War on Poverty? The Great Society? President Lyndon Johnson declared it and announced it in 1965. Since then, the federal government and state governments have poured staggering amounts of dollars into the program. How many dollars? Does anyone know? In his 1992 book, …
4 in 5 in US Face Near-Poverty, No Work Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream. Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, …
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The Poverty of our Political Theater of the Absurd The public sphere has been effectively stripped of everything but corny, irritatingly hammy political theater. All we have left in the U.S. is a deeply impoverishing Political Theater of the Absurd. Policy, theory and governance have all been reduced to competing stage performances in the Theater …
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Put another way, the 1% have so thoroughly screwed the system that one adults working full time (or two adults working part-time four times) cannot support their children at the same time that social and other state services are collapsing. Alan Milburn says child poverty ‘no longer problem of the workless and work-shy’ Working parents …
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What kind of country lets its grandmothers sink into despair and poverty — living on less than $5,500? It embarrasses me that my country has come to this; I take it personally. Perhaps you do too. This is the result of policies dictated by the Theocratic Right, through its possession of the Republican Party. Soaring …
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