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The Chamber of Commerce's Dark Money Days May Be Over | Mother Jones
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:35 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
In the annals of loopholes, one that the Federal Election Commission, the nation's election watchdog, created in 2008 could rank as one of the most absurd. The FEC's Republican commissioners decided that shadowy nonprofits running political ads (think: the US Chamber of Commerce) …
The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See - Democratic Underground
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:28 PM EDT (Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News)
The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See It’s almost like George had a pair of magic, look-into-the-future glasses.Warning: A little bit NSFW.
The Real Fraud: Second 'Non-Citizen' In James O'Keefe Voter Fraud Video Naturalized In 2011
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:21 PM EDT (Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News)
In conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe’s latest video, he features two “non-citizens” who have supposedly committed voter fraud in North Carolina. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, one of the men, Zbigniew Gorzkowski, has actually been an American citi …
The U.S. Department of Double Standards -- In These Times
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 12:00 PM EDT (Working In These Times)
On April 21, The New York Times reported that Wal-Mart de Mexico paid $24 million in bribes to local land use officials in exchange for allowing the company to build stores in virtually every corner of the country, and to make environmental objections vanish. Although its top exe …
Bush and Cheney convicted of war crimes by foreign tribunal... More to come? - Democratic Underground
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 11:52 AM EDT (Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News)
What's going on with America and the rest of the world?In a story that is suspiciously floating just below the general U.S. media radar, former President George W. Bush and his puppet-master/VP Dick Cheney were unanimously convicted of war crimes by a five panel tribunal in Malay …
Subverting the Statehouse: Uncovering the Other ALECs
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 11:31 AM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
Taxpayer-subsidized stealth lobbyists: Lobbyists who circumvent normal lobbying regulations and procedures to advance the corporate agenda in statehouses nationwide on the taxpayer dime. If Washington DC is the new Versailles, run by corporate overlords and their lobbyist-hired …
Mickey Mouse hosts same sex weddings in Japan | The Raw Story
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 4:21 PM EDT (Raw Story)
Just days after US President Barack Obama came out in favour ofgay marriage, another supporter of homosexual unions emerged in Japan: Mickey Mouse. Despite their having no legal status, same sex couples are able to hold fairytale wedding ceremonies at hotels inside the popularTo …
DOJ launches probe into JP Morgan Chase’s $2 billion loss | The Raw Story
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 4:11 PM EDT (Raw Story)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday afternoon that it will launch an investigation into JP Morgan Chase’s $2 billion derivatives trading loss, according to a law enforcement official. The official, who according to Reuters spoke on the condition of anonymity …
Big Sky's the Limit
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:56 PM EDT (prospect.org)
Like many congressional races around the country, Montana’s Senate contest is being defined by previously unthinkable levels of outside spending. Montana knows all about buying elections. In 1899, just ten years after it became a state, William Andrews Clark, known as the …
Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase: Why It's the Scandal of Our Time
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:49 PM EDT (http://www.smirkingchimp.com/)
They're missing the point. When CEO Jamie Dimon announced that JPMorgan Chase had incurred at least $2 billion in losses from risky, unsecured, derivatives-types trading, it uncovered the scandal of our time once and for all. The Chase disaster gives us a much-needed a glimpse i …
OpEdNews - Article: The Choice: Socialism or Fascism
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:38 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
The means of production now evolving will inevitably outstrip our ability to sustain an environment that can support us. Economic collapse follows ecological collapse. At the same time, current means of production will also fail to provide sufficient work to sustain incomes and e …
Capital City | Mother Jones
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:28 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Three years after the biggest bailout in US history, Wall Street lobbyists don't just have influence in Washington. They own it lock, stock, and barrel. THIS STORY IS NOT ABOUT THE origins of 2008's financial meltdown. You've probably read more than enough of those alrea …
Bush's Faith-Based Initiative in the Age of Obama | BuzzFlash.org
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:15 PM EDT (BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash)
Less than ten days after taking office in January 2001, President George W. Bush gathered a host of religious folks at the White House and announced his faith-based initiative, the cornerstone of his compassionate conservative agenda. It became, as The Christian Science Monitor's …
Top aide to Florida governor resigns amid scrutiny - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 8:26 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - A top aide to Florida Governor Rick Scott has resigned after a recent flurry of media reports focused on his alleged steering of state government contracts to longtime acquaintances or friends. Steve MacNamara, Scott's chief of staff and a sea …
Florida says 180,000 non-citizens may be on voter rolls - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 7:57 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida election authorities are examining about 180,000 people who they say may not be U.S. citizens but are registered to vote in the state, an official said on Friday. State officials are updating Florida's voter rolls ahead of the U.S. presidential election …
American Front white supremacist bond jail: Why were American Front leaders' bails so low? - Orlando Sentinel
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 7:51 PM EDT (The Orlando Sentinel)
The accused leaders of a white supremacist group who authorities say were preparing for a race war were given low bails, while eight other accused members faced $500,000 apiece. Marcus Faella, named as the head of the American Front, posted $50,000 bail while his wife Patricia p …
Florida white supremacists trained for ‘race war’ near Disney World | The Raw Story
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 7:43 PM EDT (Raw Story)
A group of 10 white supremacists allegedly trained for a “race war” near Disney World in Orlando before being arrested by authorities this week, according to published reports. The arrests came after a confidential informant told authorities that the American Front, …
Daily Kos: House Republicans and mail-order bride company ally to weaken Violence Against Women Act
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 7:30 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
When you read that House Republicans not only oppose the Senate's bipartisan expansion of protections for undocumented immigrants in the Violence Against Women Act, but want to strip abused immigrant women of confidentiality protections, the easy joke is that Republicans want to …
The Austerity Theory is a Big Lie | BuzzFlash.org
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 7:22 PM EDT (BuzzFlash.org)
You know that something is seriously out of whack when those who made a bundle, and then some, with financial black magic, nearly bringing down the entire industrial world, insist they be allowed to not only keep their booty but that the 99% who ate it in the shorts thanks to the …
GM Food: Don' t Ask, Don' t Tell? - Environment - Utne Reader
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 4:37 PM EDT (Utne)
Just over half of Americans say they wouldn’t buy a food they knew was genetically modified. Another 87 percent say they want to see GM labels at the grocery store. That’s one reason why Connecticut’s recent failure to require labeling is so surprising, says Tre …
OpEdNews - Article: A "Treason" Trial for Barack Obama?
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 3:37 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
A woman's suggestion that President Barack Obama "should be tried for treason" for supposedly "operating outside the construction of our Constitution" has raised a stir because Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney initially chose not to challenge her. But the news media …
The "Suicidal State" and the War on Youth
Seeded on Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:15 PM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
In spite of being discredited by the economic recession of 2008, market fundamentalism has once again assumed primacy as a dominant force for producing unprecedented inequalities in wealth and income, runaway environmental devastation, egregious amounts of human suffering and wha …
Food Stamps Reduced The Poverty Rate By Nearly 8 Percent In 2009
Seeded on Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:08 PM EDT (Think Progress)
Congressional Republicans have targeted the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as food stamps, for budget cuts, and have attempted to paint it as a program rife with fraud and abuse that is on an unsustainable path. While their argument ignores a host …
OpEdNews - Article: U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border
Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 8:24 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention. With no oversight or legal framework whatsoever, the Department of Homeland Security routinely singles out individuals …
Daily Kos: Wisconsin state senator: Discrimination doesn't exist because women don't want equal pay
Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 8:18 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
What kind of mind pushes the repeal of Wisconsin's Equal Pay Enforcement Act? We know a fair amount about how Gov. Scott Walker, who signed the repeal into law as quietly as possible last week, thinks about workers' and women's rights. Then there's state Sen. Glenn Grothman, one …
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The Chamber of Commerce's Dark Money Days May Be Over | Mother JonesIn the annals of loopholes, one that the Federal Election Commission, the nation's election watchdog, created in 2008 could rank as one of the most absurd. The FEC's Republican commissioners decided that shadowy nonprofits running political ads (think: the US Chamber of Commerce) …
- The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See - Democratic Underground
The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See It’s almost like George had a pair of magic, look-into-the-future glasses.Warning: A little bit NSFW.
- The Real Fraud: Second 'Non-Citizen' In James O'Keefe Voter Fraud Video Naturalized In 2011
In conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe’s latest video, he features two “non-citizens” who have supposedly committed voter fraud in North Carolina. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, one of the men, Zbigniew Gorzkowski, has actually been an American citi …
- The U.S. Department of Double Standards -- In These Times
On April 21, The New York Times reported that Wal-Mart de Mexico paid $24 million in bribes to local land use officials in exchange for allowing the company to build stores in virtually every corner of the country, and to make environmental objections vanish. Although its top exe …
- Bush and Cheney convicted of war crimes by foreign tribunal... More to come? - Democratic Underground
What's going on with America and the rest of the world?In a story that is suspiciously floating just below the general U.S. media radar, former President George W. Bush and his puppet-master/VP Dick Cheney were unanimously convicted of war crimes by a five panel tribunal in Malay …
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The Chamber of Commerce's Dark Money Days May Be Over | Mother Jones
The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See - Democratic Underground
The Real Fraud: Second ‘Non-Citizen’ In James O’Keefe Voter Fraud Video Naturalized In 2011
The U.S. Department of Double Standards -- In These Times
Bush and Cheney convicted of war crimes by foreign tribunal... More to come? - Democratic Underground
Subverting the Statehouse: Uncovering the Other ALECs
Mickey Mouse hosts same sex weddings in Japan | The Raw Story
DOJ launches probe into JP Morgan Chase’s $2 billion loss | The Raw Story
Big Sky's the Limit
Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase: Why It's the Scandal of Our Time