Category Archives: Corporate Intrusion

Is corporate power being protected to avoid criminal prosecution? Are political campaign funds coming mostly from large corporations and very rich benefactors? Is the government awarding contracts to those corporations that helped during the campaign without using normal government contracting guidelines? Are most of the lobbyists at the seat of the government funded by the corporations and rich benefactors? Are the ears of government leaders going to the highest bidder? When will the Cabinet be expanded to include the Department of Business? Will the requirements for the Cabinet be expanded to include a masters in Business Administration? How far is too far?

Corporate intrusion is the erosion of representative governance through the massive funding from the ONE% (Citizens United) to elect their preferred representatives, vast numbers of corporate lobbyists to deliver daily corporate demands to their representatives, and predatory privatization of, among other public resources, our public education system.

Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.
Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

The “Twin Peaks” of Consumer Debt

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Andy Hailey

  HOUSEHOLD DEBT AS A PERCENTAGE OF GDP Household debt: Credit card debt, car loans, personal loans and home mortgages   According to NPR’s Morning Edition, Columbia professor David Beim said this about his chart: The problem is us. The … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.comstockfunds.com/files/NLPP00000%5C177.pdf" target="_blank" title="Data Subject To Revisions By The Federal Reserve Board">Household Debt as a % of GDP from Ned Davis Research, Inc.</a>
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Bad Deeds for 2-27-2009

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Jim Vogas

Big Banks Try to Stop Help for Struggling Homeowners – Big banks, scrambling to prevent the government from forcing them to rewrite mortgages for struggling homeowners, are using their lobbying clout to press the Obama administration and Congress to scale … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 2-25-2009

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Jim Vogas

Joe Barton Too Busy Tweeting to Pay Attention to President’s Speech; Blames It On a Staffer – During President Obama’s address to Congress, there was Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), in whose name this text message was sent at about the … Continue reading →

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Stop Trickling on My Boots and Telling Me It’s Raining

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Andy Shanks

“There’s class warfare, all right but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning,” Warren Buffet, CEO Berkshire Hathaway and third richest man in the United States.    In 2006 Mr. Buffet compiled a spreadsheet on … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 2-17-2009

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Jim Vogas

Conservative Columnist Makes Stuff Up About Global Warming – Syndicated columnist George Will presents only one piece of evidence in his Sunday piece denying global warming — and he gets it wrong. Will writes: As global levels of sea ice … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 2-12-2009

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Jim Vogas

  Creationists Besiege Texas State Board of Education with Calls to Dumb Down Science Education in Texas Public Schools – As we mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the religious right has launched a new and … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 2-11-2009

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Jim Vogas

Dirty Bomb Parts and Instructions for Assembly Found in U. S. – A man who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, allegedly had a cache of radioactive materials in his home suitable for building … Continue reading →

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“You’re On Your Own” with John and Sarah

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Andy Hailey

Senator Obama made the following during his acceptance speech on August 28, 2008: For over two decades, he’s [John McCain] subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy – give more and more to those with the most and hope that … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 8-29-2008

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Jim Vogas

McCain Decides to Continue the Bush Legacy of Destructive Environmental Policies – Senator John McCain just announced his choice for running mate: Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. The following is a statement by Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife … Continue reading →

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Retraction

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Andy Shanks

I’ve said that there isn’t anything we can do to bring gasoline prices down in the near future.  I was wrong.   According to the Washington Post a few oil traders controlled 81% of the oil futures market driving prices … Continue reading →

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