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Article by John on May 16th, 2009 at 12:57 pm Money buys results in Congress. Return on investment is estimated at 22,000% on money given to Congress. Money is the Model. – Lessig Our Representative Baird voted for the Bankruptcy Bill in 2005. Change Congress. Support the Fair Elections Now Act. This is the real problem behind all the other ones… var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/summary.php?cid=N00007936&cycle=2008","http:\/\/change-congress.org\/","http:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=4773857#details"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnL2NvbmdyZXNzL3JlYWwtYmFua3J1cHRjeS1jb25ncmVzcy88d3B0Yj5UaGUgUmVhbCBCYW5rcnVwdGN5ICYjODIxMjsgQ29uZ3Jlc3M8d3B0Yj5odHRwOi8vd3d3LmRlbW9jcmFjeWZvcnZhbmNvdXZlci5vcmc8d3B0Yj5EZW1vY3JhY3kgZm9yIFZhbmNvdXZlcg%3D%3D”;
Article by John on April 20th, 2009 at 9:56 am Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, defending his pardon of former President Richard Nixon at a press conference. Image by Getty Images via Daylife Well it is official. America tortured people. And the people that committed these crimes and the people that devised these crimes are not going to be prosecuted or otherwise investigated. Rahm Emanuel said so yesterday on TV. [...]
Article by John on March 28th, 2009 at 7:08 am Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt2 Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt3 Stephen’s Angry Mob Will Crush AIG (click to show/hide Colbert video) The government can’t stop AIG but Stephen’s angry mob will crush these punks. He pulls out his pitchfork and gets the audience on his side. [...]
Article by John on March 27th, 2009 at 5:32 am Cenk Uygur over at Huffpo sent me this story link this morning. If you want to understand what is really going on re: the banking/wall street fiasco, read this article. Here is an excerpt: The latest bailout came as AIG admitted to having just posted the largest quarterly loss in American corporate history — some $61.7 billion. In the final three months of last year, the [...]
Article by missy on March 16th, 2009 at 3:24 pm and clawing back those they’d already paid out? From October 22, 2008: NY AG says targeting exec pay at AIG, elsewhere NEW YORK (Reuters) – Troubled insurer American International Group Inc will freeze payments to a former CEO and officers of the unit that was the main source of its financial problems, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday. “This is to confirm that AIG has [...]
Article by missy on March 11th, 2009 at 11:04 am There is no question that Barack Obama will be a better president for the state of education in this country than George “is our children learning” Bush could ever hope to be, and almost anything would be better than Bush’s odious, expensive, top-heavy and radically stupid No Child Left Behind. That being said, merit pay is just another Republican red herring and should be round-filed along [...]
Article by John on February 15th, 2009 at 8:37 pm This is the most succinct explanation I have come across of where we are at and of what to do with regard to the financial crisis affecting our country. I hope Obama and Congress are listening. From Bill Moyers Journal (you can watch the video here): February 13, 2009 BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal. The battle is joined as they say — and here’s the [...]
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