By Leon Fisher
Elections are no longer effective as the promise of hope and change which in the last presidential election energized the electorate and won the White House for Barack Obama but as it turned out was nothing more than a slick and deceptive advertising campaign.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28731.htm
China Central Bank Chief Warns on U.S. Debt
The comments Wednesday by People s Bank of China Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan came as the country's state media continued to condemn Washington over its debt problems, and as one of China s smaller credit ratings companies downgraded its sovereign rating for the U.S.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903520204576485052384754400.html
Apple has more cash than US govt :
Keiser Report Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgCqSEpGBF4&feature=player_embedded
Has Americans for Prosperity election fraud been exposed in WI?
The billionaire Koch brothers have moved in and are attacking democracy in the state. With recall elections against Republican state senators just around the corner - the Koch-funded Astroturf group Americans for Prosperity is reaching into their bag of dirty tricks to keep their buddies in power at any cost.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA9y9hoaF3A
Tycoons laughing all the way to the bank
It shows how a band of far-right Republican Tea Party extremists - financed initially by the billionaire Koch brothers - have managed to effectively take control of the U.S. political system and block the will of the American people.
http://bit.ly/qI074L
US company profits surge, even as economy slows
Of the companies in the S&P 500 list of large-cap firms which have reported their quarterly earnings to date, 72 percent have beaten analysts' forecasts, according to Standard & Poor s analyst Howard Silverblatt.
http://bit.ly/o44k4J
Why do the people of the U.S. stand for this culture of exploitation
By Phil Rockstroh
Moving beyond the debt ceiling canard; much more is at stake.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28740.htm
8 Reasons Young Americans Don t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
By Bruce E. Levine
The ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28741.htm
Dancing on the Edge of Oblivion
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28750.htm
Barack Obama and the Debt Crisis: A Successful Con Game Explained
By Bruce A. Dixon
The object of the supposed 'crisis' was to short circuit public opinion, - in order to deal fatal blows to Medicaid, Medicare, social security, job growth and public expenditures for the common good. It worked. We have been conned.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28744.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Welcome to what recovery?
OpenMarket.org
by Jacqueline Otto
08/03/11
Today, August 3, 2011, marks the one year anniversary of Treasure Secretary Tim Geithner s op-ed in The New York Times, ostentatiously titled 'Welcome to the Recovery.' ... He might as well have printed that on a banner and hung it over a battle ship for how much he has likely grown to regret those words. 'We are on a path back to growth' Geithner declared, as he went to great lengths to justify and praise the stimulus package...
http://tinyurl.com/44nlt8s
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
The Koch Spider Web
Allison Kilkenny, Truthout: 'Rick Boucher, a then-28-year incumbent Democratic Congressman from the Ninth District - the longest-serving Congressman in that district since the Civil War - was surprisingly defeated by Republican Morgan Griffith. The upset came as a shock to many, since an early October poll showed Boucher ahead by double digits, including one measure earlier in the month that put him ahead by 10 percentage points. C'est la vie. Such is political life. The National Republican Congressional Committee spent around $600,000 in ads, and the media framed the defeat as a Blue Dog, Boucher losing due to his support for cap-and-trade policies. Except, there was more to the story.'
http://www.truth-out.org/koch-spider-web/1312231636
The Fight for a Progressive America Begins Today - and Does Not End in 2012
Amy Dean, Truthout: 'If only 500 people are showing up for a rally, it s because the public doesn t care. In this case, it doesn t care about politicians bickering over the debt ceiling. America has a different agenda and Washington is missing it entirely. As has been often noted, we are not facing a debt crisis in our country. We are facing a jobs crisis. Working people desperately need the economy to improve and to start generating well-paying jobs. Less often noted is the fact that taking on America s real problems will require the president to behave differently, and it will require us to behave differently.'
http://www.truth-out.org/fight-progressive-america-begins-today-and-does-not-end-2012/1312478387
Nuclear War or Real Security?
Joseph Gerson, Truthout: 'In the months leading up to the debt deal struck on August 2, we grew accustomed to news of our government on the verge of bankruptcy, and news that failing to lift the debt ceiling would trigger a second recession - or worse - and that the best we could hope for was the nightmare of $2.7 trillion in cuts to Social Security benefits, Medicare and essential social services. Talk about national decline! When I return to Hiroshima to mark the August 6 anniversary of the atomic bombing that destroyed that city in nine seconds, people will ask, 'How can the US plan to spend still more to prepare for nuclear war?' Here's what I will have to tell them: We can invest to intimidate the world, but not to create jobs, keep people in their homes, or to build the 21st century infrastructure our children deserve.'
http://www.truth-out.org/nuclear-war-or-real-security/1312465072
--------
Is the New 'Super Congress' Constitutional?
http://lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem50.1.html
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Geithner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Napolitano
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Koch+brothers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rightwing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ruling+elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=exploitation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=constitutional
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recovery
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recession
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=stimulus
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=job+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=collapse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bankruptcy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=social+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=medicare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=medicaid
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hiroshima
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=what+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leon+Fisher
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Phil+Rockstroh
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bruce+E.+Levine
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thom+Hartmann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Allison+Kilkenny
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Amy+Dean
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Joseph+Gerson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/eddlem
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Kirwin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bruce+A.+Dixon
-----
