The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hope you saw author Michael Lewis’s article in The New Republic on how great wealth encourages bad behavior among the rich Extreme Wealth Is Bad for Everyone—Especially the Wealthy. He writes that “a body of quirky but persuasive research has sought to understand the effects of wealth and privilege on human behavior … one study …
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A democracy cannot long survive when its citizens perceive the government to be against their best interests Government = Protection Racket for the 1 Percent BILL MOYERS and MICHAEL WINSHIP – Bill Moyers.com EXTRACT PewOur now infamous one percent own more than 35 percent of the nation’s wealth. Meanwhile, the bottom 40 percent of the …
There is now a petition for a Wall Street Sales Tax online at: http://wh.gov/ARGi The petition was initiated by the United Front Against Austerity. It has started off strong, and we want to keep the momentum building, so the more it’s shared, the better. Thank you! We’ve got until April 10 to get 100,000 signatures. Twitter …
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The Defining Issue: Not Government’s Size, But Who It’s For Robert Reich Huffington Post, 19 December 2011 The defining political issue of 2012 won’t be the government’s size. It will be who government is for. Americans have never much liked government. After all, the nation was conceived in a revolution against government. But the surge …
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A New Declaration of Independence Bob Burnett Berkeley writer, retired Silicon Valley executive The preamble of the United States Declaration of Independence declares: “…whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter and abolish it, and to institute new Government.” Occupy Wall Street is an …
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Ron Suskind From Product Description: The new president surrounded himself with a team of seasoned players—like Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Tim Geithner—who had served a different president in a different time. As the nation’s crises deepened, Obama’s deputies often ignored the president’s decisions—“to protect him from himself”—while they fought to seize control of a …
Patrick McConnell: Government of Deceit–A sobering analysis… • The “entitlement programs” have an unfunded liability of greater than $104 trillion. Your share is $367,000. (Every man, woman and child owes the same.) • At the end of 2009, $3.2 trillion of the $12.9 trillion National Debt was spent, but never on the government’s general budget. …
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