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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: December 20, 2014, 5:53 pm
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Wednesday, 17 December 2014 Citigroup Democracy By Mark Fiore
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Now that the secret back room dealings are done and the latest
budget bill passed Congress (of course, at the 11th hour), we
can see the thumbprints of Wall Street once again. Actually,
more than thumbprints, Citigroup actually wrote part of it. They
managed to gut “Section 716” of Dodd-Frank. Sounds obscure and
weird so who cares, right?
Wednesday, 10 December 2014 Cheney’s Torture Anthem By Mark
Fiore
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Even though Dick Cheney isn’t the only one responsible for the
stain of torture on the United States, he’s the most, shall we
say, colorful? If you think the awfulness of Bush-era torture is
behind us, think again. Thanks to the just-released Senate
torture report, we now know of all kinds of new and awful ways
the CIA and Bush Administration screwed up the hunt for Al Qaeda
and disgraced this nation
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: December 20, 2014, 7:47 pm
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Fascist Fun >:(
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: December 26, 2014, 6:35 pm
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Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the
Corporate State by RALPH NADER
By Stephen E. on April 15, 2014
Format: Hardcover
Polling data shows that Americans are disgusted with their
government. Some of us blame the Right. Others blame the Left.
Obviously, as one of American History's great progressives,
Nader is not neutral in the battle between Right and Left. Far
from it. I am not neutral either. I am a conservative, but I
cheer this new book by Ralph Nader!
His still-supple mind and pure heart give him the ability to see
what would be more obvious to the rest of us if it were not for
the partisan hate machines and self interests that maintain our
corrupted political system.
Whether on the Left or Right, we know that our government has
been captured by the self interested. Super-majorities of
Americans - comprised of citizens on the Right and Left - want
an end to the legalized bribery and extortion now a the heart of
our political system, the restoration of citizen government,
fair elections, fair trade, a reasonable and constitutional
foreign policy, and a break-up of the big banks. If we would
only compartmentalize the areas where our disagreements are
intractable, we could then turn and work together to solve many
of the nation's critical and massively debilitating problems. We
would be, as the title of Nader's book suggests, "Unstoppable."
Comment SNIPPET:
By Alan F. Sewell on April 29, 2014
The existing situation stifles all patriotic love of country,
and substitutes in its place selfish greed and grasping avarice.
Government, instead of being the embodiment of equality, is but
an instrumentality through which especial and individual
advantages are to be gained.
By Robert Krebsbach on May 17, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
A short way into this book, it became clear: Corporatism is the
enemy that lovers of democracy, freedom, and justice must unite
against. The right/left, conservative/liberal labels are petty
distractions that keep us from uniting to stop corporate
tyranny.
I thought I was progressive until reading this book, but I
resonated so completely with the thoughts of the Greats of
conservatism that Nader quotes, that I could just as easily
regard myself as conservative. That's how little it matters in
the face of corporate economic globalization.
Pat Choate on May 25, 2014
First, this is a very good book. It is also, I suspect, a
disturbing book for those who label themselves as either a
"Conservative" or as a "Liberal." As Ralph Nader effectively
demonstrates, repeatedly, these epigrams are tools that others
use to shape, if not control. the actions of large numbers of
such self-identified people. And a major way these actions are
shaped by such labels is to keep people from working together on
policies and actions where there is agreement.
And the quickest way to ensure discipline and prevent joint
action is to brand someone's actions as violating Liberal or
Conservative principles.
As Nader documents with numerous examples, Corporations exert a
powerful influence in shaping our national policies so that they
and their owners are exempt from laws and regulations that hold
them accountable. In recent years as these corporations have
extended their influence into other nations, they have devised
means and ways to use the U.S. Government to exert their
influence into those other countries as well. The International
Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization are examples that
immediately spring to mind.
Nader also subtly points out how defunct ideas and ideologies
are parsed by Think Tanks and indentured intellectuals to
protect Corporate interests and convey to voters a sense of
powerlessness by the electorate. Nader provides examples of why
that need not be so.
Ralph Nader has been a powerful influence in American public
life for more than a half century. Whether you believe that his
efforts are a force for a more democratic nation, or not, (I
do), what is obvious is that he understands the reality of why
and how the processes work, or increasingly do not work.
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: January 9, 2015, 1:25 am
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Interview of Chris Hedges: "America is a Tinderbox"
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: January 15, 2015, 6:20 pm
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The Thom Hartmann Program Thu 15 January 2015
Time To Lock Up The Lobbyists
There was a time when corporations didn't have anything close to
the power they do over politics in America.
From the time of the Progressive Revolution at the beginning of
the 20th century up until the mid-1950's, most states had laws
that explicitly barred corporations from buying off politicians
and spending millions to influence legislation. In fact, there
were laws on the books in virtually every state, often from the
mid-1800's to the mid-1900's, that made it a crime for
corporations to give money to lawmakers, political parties, or
political committees. Until 1953, Wisconsin had one of those
laws.
Wisconsin's law against political contributions by corporations
read in part, "No corporation doing business in this state shall
pay or contribute, or offer consent or agree to pay or
contribute, directly or indirectly, any money, property, free
service of its officers or employees or thing of value to any
political party, organization, committee or individual for any
political purpose whatsoever, or for the purpose of influencing
legislation of any kind, or to promote or defeat the candidacy
of any person for nomination, appointment or election to any
political office."
So, what were the punishments for a corporation or corporate
executive caught violating that law? If it was an in-state
corporation that violated the law, that corporation could be
dissolved - it would get the corporate death penalty. If it was
an out-of-state corporation, it could be barred from doing
business in the state. Meanwhile, people acting on behalf of a
corporation who were caught faced stiff fines, up to five years
of prison time, or both.
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On top of that, Teddy Roosevelt got the Tillman Act passed in
1907 that made it a federal crime for a corporation to give
money to any candidate for federal office. The Tillman Act, by
the way, was blown up by five right-wing justices on the Supreme
Court with the Citizens United decision. >:( Unfortunately,
over time, laws like the one in Wisconsin were wiped from the
books, and slowly but surely, corporate corruption and bribery
have found their way into our political landscape.
The fallout from Nixon's crimes - including him accepting
personal bribes while Vice President and President - brought
some new reforms in the mid-1970's, but most of those have been
rolled back by the Supreme Court as well. That brings us to
today, where corporations have unprecedented power, influence,
and control over our political landscape.
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: January 15, 2015, 7:09 pm
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The above Criminal Mens Rea Modus Operandi of our NON-Democratic
Fascist Government was laid out CLEARLY by George Carlin years
ago. We DO NOT have freedom of choice!
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We-the-people are NOT in the CLUB.
WTF is it going to take for everybody out there to stop with the
BALONEY that we "elect" the president and Congress? WTF is it
going to take for everybody out there to understand that
we-the-people DO NOT decide when this country goes to war or why
it goes to war?
This massive corruption and disdain for we-the-people IS NOT a
new development!
The following quote from a peer reviewed book is of extreme
importance to all Americans:
Dilworth (2010-03-12). Too Smart for our Own Good (pp. 399-400).
Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.
[quote]"As suggested earlier, war, for example, which represents
a cost for society, is a source of profit to capitalists. In
this way we can partly understand e.g. the American military
expenditures in the Persian Gulf area. Already before the first
Gulf War, i.e. in 1985, the United States spent $47 billion
projecting power into the region. If seen as being spent to
obtain Gulf oil, It AMOUNTED TO $468 PER BARREL, or 18 TIMES the
$27 or so that at that time was paid for the oil itself.
In fact, if Americans had spent as much to make buildings
heat-tight as they spent in ONE YEAR at the end of the 1980s on
the military forces meant to protect the Middle Eastern oil
fields, THEY COULD HAVE ELIMINATED THE NEED TO IMPORT OIL from
the Middle East.
So why have they not done so? Because, while the $468 per barrel
may be seen as being a cost the American taxpayers had to bear,
and a negative social effect those living in the Gulf area had
to bear, it meant only profits for American capitalists. "
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Note: I added the bold caps emphasis on the barrel of oil price,
money spent in one year and the need to import oil from the
Middle East.
This totally unjustified profit, never mind the needless lose of
lives, then increases the power of the fossil fuel corporations
to perpetuate a biosphere harming dirty fuel status quo. How? By
"funding" politicians with rather large "donations" to keep
renewable energy from competing with dirty energy.
If all this was just about power politics, I might not be that
concerned. Humans, particularly the overly ambitious and
aggressive ones, have always fought and schemed to control and
fleece the population at large.
But now we know the future of our biosphere is at stake. Now we
know the entire edifice of dirty energy is a knife in the back
of the biosphere that will destroy our species and many others.
TPTB are dooming mankind to extinction. STOP supporting them.
STOP believing their lies. STOP investing in dirty energy. STOP
using dirty energy as much as is possible.
IGNORE the lying fossil fueler propagandists that say if you do
not totally stop using fossil fuels right this minute, you have
no legitimate claim to criticizing wars for oil, fracking and so
on. BALONEY! Dilworth makes it crystal clear in the quote above
from his PEER REVIEWED book that it is BALONEY!
You HURT big oil by every gallon you do not buy. You HURT TPTB
that won't stop supporting dirty energy by reducing your carbon
footprint. You HURT fascism by removing credibility from the
mendacious government propaganda.
And you HELP future generations by doing all the above.
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: January 16, 2015, 6:42 pm
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Take a gander at this bit of CLEVER doubletalk from the media:
[quote]The consumer-price index dropped 0.4 percent, the biggest
decline since December 2008, after falling 0.3 percent in
November, a Labor Department report showed Friday in Washington.
The median forecast of 89 economists surveyed by Bloomberg
called for a 0.4 percent decline. Excluding volatile food and
fuel, the so-called
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core measure was
unchanged
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failing to
rise for only the second time since
2010.
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Consumer Prices in U.S. Drop Most in Six Years as Fuel Falls
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Remember when we were being raked over the coals with MASSIVE
INFLATION while the Fed ALWAYS IGNORED food and energy and
FOCUSED, along with all the media cheerleading reprobates, on
the CORE inflation as "PROOF" that inflation was "under
control"!!!? As anybody with a lick of sense knew then, it
wasn't! As the more stupid Homo SAPS among us know now, housing
bubbles and cheap money for Wall Street were/ARE eating main
street alive.
And now these lying presstitutes have the brass to use the
"so-called" (i.e. silly, unimportant, not credible, etc.
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) handle on CORE
inflation.
The hell of it is that now they are right! Core inflation is
only important for people that don't eat and use energy! It was
a PRETENSE that the BLS (Bureau of Lying Statistics
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CORE inflation don't mean nuttin' no more! Ah the smell of world
class PERFIDY in the air.
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The OWNERS want YOU to SPEND. DON'T DO IT! Don't get sucked in.
Be frugal. Be extremely frugal. It's the only non-violent tool
we have to bring down fascism in general and dirty energy in
particular.
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HOMO SAPS do not have a future if TPTB continue to do their
thing. YOUR lack of consumption will severely inhibit TPTB from
doing their civilizational suicide, get it?
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Use what you've GOT or enjoy your suicide!
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Firefighters for 911 Truth KNOW the Score
By: AGelbert Date: January 16, 2015, 7:28 pm
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Firefighters for 911 Truth KNOW the Score
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[quote]"NIST conducted a CRIMINAL investigation to cover up a
crime"[/quote]
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: January 31, 2015, 3:19 pm
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Eighty four percent of $5.3 trillion (ONE DAY :o in currency
markets) = $4.45 trillion. If you can rig that market, HOW MUCH
do you think you can skim off the top EVERY DAY? HUH?
Let's be conservative and say 12 banks can collude their way to
just one MILLIONTH of $4.45 trillion a day (I'm CERTAIN they do
a LOT better than that!). One millionth of $4.45 trillion =
$44.5 million (A DAY!). :o And the twelve banks caught with
their mens rea hands in the Currency cookie jar say: See ya in
court, CHUMPS!
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By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co, the largest U.S. bank,
agreed to pay $99.5 million to settle its portion of an
antitrust lawsuit in which investors accuse 12 major banks of
rigging prices in the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange
market.
Made public on Friday night, the settlement is the first in the
nationwide litigation and resolved claims over JPMorgan's role
in alleged collusion among banks since January 2003 to
manipulate the WM/Reuters Closing Spot Rates, known as the Fix.
It followed the New York-based bank's agreements last November
to pay roughly $1 billion in civil penalties to resolve related
claims by U.S. and European regulators.
Investors including hedge funds, pension funds and the city of
Philadelphia accused the 12 banks, which controlled 84 percent
of the global currency trading market, of having impeded
competition by conspiring to manipulate the Fix in chat rooms,
instant messages and emails.
The JPMorgan settlement could form a basis for other
settlements. It followed mediation with Kenneth Feinberg, a
lawyer who also oversees General Motors Co's program to
compensate drivers over faulty vehicle ignition switches.
In an affidavit, Feinberg called the JPMorgan settlement fair,
reasonable and adequate. ;)
"Although such analysis is preliminary, it does appear to be
consistent with Class Lead Counsel's evaluation of JPMorgan's
role in the FX market and JPMorgan's market share over the class
period (6%)," he said.
JPMorgan did not admit wrongdoing, and the settlement requires
;) court approval. The bank did not immediately respond on
Saturday to a request for comment.
The other bank defendants include Bank of America Corp, Barclays
Plc, BNP Paribas SA, Citigroup Inc, Credit Suisse Group AG,
Deutsche Bank AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, HSBC Holdings Plc,
Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and UBS AG.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield in Manhattan
refused to dismiss currency-rigging claims against them. Five of
those banks have also settled with regulators.
The $99.5 million payment includes $500,000 for notices and
administration. Lawyers for the plaintiffs, led by Hausfeld LLP
and Scott & Scott, plan to seek legal fees of up to 30 percent
of the settlement funds, court papers show.
The case is In re: Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust
Litigation, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York,
No. 13-07789.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Kevin
Drawbaugh and Stephen Powell)
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Agelbert NOTE: $99.5 million NOT called an AWARD or a FINE
because, SAINTLY J.P. Morgan DID NOT agree to having engaged in
"WRONG DOING". No mens rea here, folks! LOL!. Let's call it an
EX CURIA "settlement" or NO CURIA "settlement" or J.P. Morgan IS
the BIG DOG in the CURIA "settlement"!
Let's see how 99.5 million dollar "justice" was "done" here:
0.5025% = Notices an Administration (I.E. Paper pushers 'R' us)
= $500,000 ::)
30% = Lawyers for the Plaintiffs = $28,850.000 ;D
69.4975% = Plaintiffs (NOT we-the people who got shafted a LOT
MORE than some Investors including hedge funds, pension funds
and the city of Philadelphia) = $70, 150,000
0 % = WE-THE-PEOPLE
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A FASCIST government is one that operates under the COLOR OF
LAW. The actions of facsist governments are LEGAL but NOT
LAWFUL. WE ARE THERE.
What is UNLAWFUL?
That which is contrary to law. “Unlawful” and “illegal” are
frequently used as synonymous terms, but, in the proper sense of
the word, “unlawful,” as applied to promises, agreements,
considerations, and the like, denotes that they are ineffectual
in law because they involve acts which, although not illegal, i.
e., positively forbidden, [b]are disapproved of by the law[/b],
and are therefore not recognized as the ground of legal rights,
either because they are immoral or because they are against
public policy. It is on this ground that contracts in restraint
of marriage or of trade are generally void. Sweet. And see
Hagerman v. Buchanan, 45 N. J. Eq. 292, 17 Atl. 946, 14 Am. St
Rep. 732; Tatum v. State, 66 Ala. 467; Johnson v. State, 66 Ohio
St. 59. 63 N. E. 607. 61 L. R. A. 277, 90 Am. St. Rep. 564;
Pinder v. State, 27 Fla. 370, 8 South. 837, 26 Am. St. Rep. 75;
MacDaniel v. U. S
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So, when your read that J.P. Morgan believes Russia is DOOMED
(see link at Knarf's channel) you KNOW that J.P. Morgan and
friends in fascist forkdom will do everything in their power to
make it so and then blame Russia for it. Have a nice day.
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: February 2, 2015, 5:57 pm
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Every year, the NFL rakes in around $9.5 billion in revenue. Its
commissioner, Roger Goodell, meanwhile, has an annual salary of
$44 million. And while those numbers might make sense for any
big business, the NFL isn’t a business - not technically, at
least. According to the Public Law 89-800, it’s a 501(c)6
tax-exempt non-profit.
That’s right, a non-profit.
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In other words,
the NFL, one of the most lucrative organizations in all of
sports, is subsidized by you and me the taxpayers >:(.
If that sounds ridiculous and absurd, that’s because it is
ridiculous and absurd. There’s absolutely no reason why the NFL
needs taxpayer subsidies to stay in business.
Other sports leagues, like Major League Baseball, stopped taking
handouts from the government years ago, and are doing just fine
as far as making money is concerned. But juicing the public is
what the NFL is all about. And even though individual franchises
are taxable for-profit businesses, they all find ways to bleed
taxpayers dry. - See more at:
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