The REAL partisanship controlling the country - The elite vs the rest of us

Dems vs Reps - BAH - just the elite's divide and conquer tool.

http://davidsirota.com/index.php/2006/11/23/bipartisanship-hides-the-real-power-equation-that-no-one-talks-about

Health Insurance Corporations Don't Even Try To Mask Their Greed

Hear about 12.2 Billion reasons to support a public option for health care coverage.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/35375385#35375385

A sequence of events describing our involvement in the Middle East

"It is the Oil, Stupid!" by Joseph Clifford


http://www.mediamonitors.net/josephclifford2.html

A Bank for the PEOPLE

A PEOPLE's bank working well.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/16/bank-of-north-dakotasocia_n_463522.html

Evangelical Extremists - Bad for Nation, Bad for Christianity

A former insider's view of the Evangelical sub-culture:

Rachel Maddow speaks with Frank Schaeffer

OpenSecrets | Supreme Court Poised to Overhaul Parts of Campaign Finance System - Capital Eye

Can it be true that these justices deem corporations as worthy of election influence as PEOPLE? Oh, please! If their expert advice is needed on an issue they can be heard by Congress AFTER the election.

OpenSecrets | Supreme Court Poised to Overhaul Parts of Campaign Finance System - Capital Eye

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Another Bob Adams' Fake Grassroots League of American Voters missive

This from Bob Adams, League of American Voters:
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Dear Friend:

Late last week I was simply shocked by a letter I received. I was sitting in my Washington, D.C. office when an office assistant said an urgent letter had been delivered to our office. I opened the letter – from the League of Women Voters – demanding that the organization I run – the League of American Voters – cease to exist!

Incredibly, the letter was signed by Mary Wilson, the president of the League of Women Voters. Wilson makes no bones about it – she wants me and the League of American Voters to shut down because she doesn’t like our views opposing Barack Obama’s radical health care plan.

Dick Cheney Started Out Scary and Got Worse

Talk about a movement toward fascism? Bush/Cheney tried really hard.

Click here for the full story.

Superb economic theories article

Paul Krugman does a superb job of economic theory summation in this article:

Click here for full article.

Health Revolution Website and Petition

An alternative health care system proposal:
http://www.healthrevolutionpetition.org/CitizensInCharge.html

and their petition page:
Sign the Health Revolution Petition now!

Cola Industry Using Fake Grassroots Tactics

The front operation for the cola, sweet drink, convenience store and fast food industries is called Americans Against Food Taxes.  Tactics similar to those of the tobacco industry are employed by them.

Click below for the full article
http://www.prwatch.org/node/8524

A website by and for those industries is here:
http://nofoodtaxes.com/join/

Tell your congresspeople you support tax on unhealthy food choices.

More Fact Checking on League of American Voters' Fear-Mongering TV Ad

The title of one blog post about the LAV's ad is:  Get Seniors Opposing Obamacare and it’s Toast
http://axisofright.com/2009/08/05/get-seniors-opposing-obamacare-and-its-toast/


Click below for the ad and more fact-checking on the ad:
http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200908120008

Dick Morris At It Again

League of American Voters, brought to you by the Swiftboat folks (think Dick Morris), recently sent an email plea for contributions.

Private Health Insurance's Influence In Health Care Reform Debate

Private health care insurance companies are fighting to weaken reform.

Click here for Chris Hedges' article on the topic.

League of American Voters - Fake "Grassroots" Group

Anti-Health Care Reform group League of American Voters is at the same address as other pro-business, conservative "grassroots citizen groups", such as Americans for Tax Reform, the American Family Business Institute and the Property Rights Alliance.



Click here for the full article.

and click here for known League of American Voters information. Searching the web, very little is published about them.

Bush Cabinet Pressured Ridge for Political Terror Alert Elevation

Fear-mongering Bush cabinet pressed Tom Ridge to raise the terror alert pre-election.

Click here for the AP video

Follow the Money - Elections and Industry Influence

This is a GREAT tool for learning about the influence of special interests on our elections and politicians.

Click here for the tool

Privatization of the Military and Contractor Waste

Troops outnumbered by Contractors and military is unable to vet contractors' operations successfully.

For full Wall Street Journal article click here.

Economic Royalists

The American government -- which we once called our government -- has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "economic royalists," who choose our elected officials -- indeed, our very form of government. Both Democrats and Republicans dance to the tune of their corporate masters. In America, corporations do not control the government. In America, corporations are the government. Larry Flynt.

Larry has a clear view of our current politics.

For the full story click here

Astroturf built on Corporate, Political Parties, and Industry Trade Association Funding

Astroturf describes fake grassroots groups that are created and funded by corporations, political parties or industry trade associations to advance a political agenda.

Astroturf groups fighting media reform manufacture the impression of public opposition to issues like Net
Neutrality to sway policy makers and the media. What these groups won't tell you is that they're bought and paid for by the phone and cable industry. FreePress.net