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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 …

Subverting the Statehouse: Uncovering the Other ALECs

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  …

President Obama's Wealth Level Makes Him One of the Elite 1%

President Barack Obama has $500,001 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase private client asset management checking account.  "This is a checking account used by the president and the first lady," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage. The president's other principal assets …

How much freedom can you afford to buy? :truth

In America if you have money you can buy freedom  - or at least what those in power have defined as freedom. We all talk about jobs as if they are anything other than the servitude of one human to another in exchange for food and water. The prism of capitalism has dist …

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BREAKING: A Good Laugh for Us Fellow Viners (includes funny links to The Dictator)

Introducing The Dictator to the Vine--we need laughs in the midst of this Great Recession, our dueling candidates for president, death in Afghanistan, threats against Iran, and the plunging Euro. What is it with our obsession with satirising dictators? Thank the Lord we  …

Ibogaine...the one to two step CURE for heroin and methodone addiction! NOT satire!

  IBOGAINE Ibogaine Therapy for Drug Addiction The Ibogaine Dossier Ibogaine can end Drug Addiction in 24 hours IBOGAINE IN THE NEWS - YouTube Ibogaine Drug Addiction Treatment for Heroin | Ibogaine For Sale The Vaults of Erowid And WHY do the pharmaceutical manufactures of …

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DOJ launches probe into JP Morgan Chase’s $2 billion loss | The 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

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

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 …

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