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SPECIAL EDITION E-BLAST FROM JIM HIGHTOWER
JIM HIGHTOWER
Last September, I wrote The Hightower Lowdown about how the Roberts' Court could throw out over 100 years of campaign finance law.
Remember their names: Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas.
Yesterday, from within the dark isolation of the Supreme Court, these five men pulled off a black-robed coup against the American people's democratic authority. In an unprecedented perversion of judicial power, this court cabal has decreed that corporations have a free-speech "right" to dip into their corporate coffers and spend unlimited sums of money to elect or defeat candidates of their choosing.
Disdain Versus Democracy
Joel S. Hirschhorn
That strange sound you hear if you listen closely is Senator Ted Kennedy spinning in his grave. Could he have possibly imagined a worse consequence of his departure from the Senate when health care reform was so close? Absolutely not. When he was alive he probably was not even aware of Massachusetts state senator Scott Brown. Though Kennedy deserved a better outcome, Democrats richly deserved the Republican win in Massachusetts.
The main reason is that Democrats in Congress and President Obama have shown nothing but disdain for the overwhelming national desire for an end to the self-serving corruption that is revealed through never-ending sweetheart deals for corporate interests, even as a large fraction of Americans suffer in this Great Recession caused by corporate greed, incompetence and criminality that go unpunnished.
My Country 'tis of thee-Corporatocracy! Of Thee I Sing
By Daniel Patrick Welch
I know, I know. I’ve seen the blogosphere screeching about the Death of Democracy now that the Supreme Court has rolled back restrictions on corporate donations to political campaigns. Whiners. Haven’t you all stopped for even a moment to think how this might benefit humanity? Sure, sure, we’re all aware of the downside, but would it kill us to think positive for a change?
I mean, let’s face it: corporations have controlled the agenda since the Mayflower Compact duped those non-puritan losers into thinking it didn’t matter where they ‘settled,’ as long as they made some money. Come on, people--it's not as if corporate whoredom hasn't been a Staple(tm) of our 'democracy' from the beginning. The latest victory for corporate personhood just kicks the can a little bit further down Wall Street. Corporations are people too, dammit!
Charles Darwin On The Ouija Channel
by Robert David Singer
Charles Darwin
[Note: If you are not up-to-date with the debate over Evolution, Creationism and Intelligent Design, you will want to read the Preface Notes first, identified by a [p] at the beginning of the sentence. Preface Notes will separate fact from fiction and rumor from humor in my prima facie case for Intelligent Design.]
[p1] Professor Richard Dawkins, one of the greatest living “experts” on blind Watchmakers and selfish gene-centric Evolution got out his Ouija Board to channel the spirit of Charles Darwin, author of The Origin of Species and the father of Naturalism and Atheism.
Just Say No... To Banks
Sancho Jones
Greetings fellow Slaves, and those who hide in Ignorance thinking otherwise!
No matter which side of the tracks, or which side of life most of us here are from; we all agree that things are really wrong with society, and the direction as a whole. We've bailed out the banks beginning with the Bush Regime, and continued on into the Obama Regime; now the truth that the banks who were in "dire straits" now are showing record profits never before seen. It is looking like the government, the banks, and the Securities, and Exchange have pulled off the grandest Ponzi scheme in the history of all mankind! So what are **YOU** going to do? Sit back until it's your house, and what's left of your pension stolen before wishing YOU *had* stood up? At that point YOU will have no choice, but to become an indigent person. Is the bank to blame at this point, the government, or their complete fraud protection agencies, or are YOU to blame? At that point, I have no pity for YOU, or anyone else; as you are to blame, because YOU didn't proactively stand up against these bastards; these Internationalists who cram National pride down all of our throats!
Mr. Obama, Do You Believe Us Now?
By Timothy V. Gatto
I read about how outraged President Obama was with the Supreme Court ruling that allowed corporate money into the election campaigns without limits. I too am outraged. This country, for decades has been run by special interests for special interests, the public be damned. That includes Barack Obama’s Administration and the current Congress.
TPLF Militias and Civilians Fought a Pitched Battle in Shiniile
Ogaden Online
Reports reaching the Ogaden Online service desk from the city of Diridhaba in the province of Shiniile confirm the existence of a recent pitched battle that took place between the Tigrian People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) militias stationed in the area and the local citizenry.
It is reported that towards the end of last week, the civilians held an area wide demonstration to protest the recent confiscation by the TPLF militias of a fertile agricultural land estimated at 60,000 hectares. There were rumors within the city and its surroundings that the confiscated land was being given to Ethiopians migrating from the highlands. However, reliable sources within the TPLF militias and in Addis Ababa intimated that the land was clandestinely sold to a Chinese consortium.
Manchurian Candidates: Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections
By Greg Palast
In today's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Court ruled that corporations should be treated the same as "natural persons", i.e. humans. Well, in that case, expect the Supreme Court to next rule that Wal-Mart can run for President.
The ruling, which junks federal laws that now bar corporations from stuffing campaign coffers, will not, as progressives fear, cause an avalanche of corporate cash into politics. Sadly, that's already happened: we have been snowed under by tens of millions of dollars given through corporate PACs and "bundling" of individual contributions from corporate pay-rollers.
The United States of Corporate America: From Democracy to Plutocracy
Rodrigue Tremblay
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato, ancient Greek philosopher
...“The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”
Alex Carey, Australian social scientist
“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.” - Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics
THE HORROR OF HAITI: WHAT THE PRESS COVERAGE TELLS US
John Chuckman
It is relentless, the pictures of terror-stricken people, broken limbs, and bloated dead, and many of us cannot stand to see or hear more.
One has to ask: what are we to do with such information?
Create pressure on governments to keep the assistance flowing? Perhaps, but there is no shortage of assistance being sent to Haiti. There is however a huge problem in Haiti’s limited ability to absorb the assistance.
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