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    Only winners get to vote on campaign finance reform. The losers have gone back home. The winners are the ones who profited from the current system...
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    where’s horton when we need him

    Last November 4th, there was literally dancing in the streets. The era of torture and infinite detention without trial and corporate ownership of the government was over. It was our own velvet revolution, and the People had won.

    Granted, it was only a single election, and the President can’t change everything. But we did give ourselves majorities in both the House and Senate, too, [...]



    i shouldn’t be shocked, and yet…

    From today’s Cargo Business News:

    A supertanker cargo of Alaska North Slope crude ASW- is headed for the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, an unusual destination for crude from Alaska, a spokesman for Exxon Mobil’s (XOM.N) shipping affiliate confirmed Wednesday.

    The Alaska crude is similar in gravity and sulfur content to some Gulf Coast grades of oil, but there could be nonmarket reasons for the [...]



    tell congress to impeach jay bybee

    Sign the petition.

    Some of Bybee’s greatest hits:

    Sickening.



    what passed for justice in bush’s america

    Who could’ve known that privatizing prisons could lead to corruption?

    Pennsylvania’s highest court on Thursday overturned hundreds of juvenile convictions issued by a corrupt judge who took millions of dollars in kickbacks from youth detention centers.

    The state Supreme Court ruled that former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella violated the constitutional rights of youth offenders who appeared in his courtroom without lawyers between [...]



    We’re Stupid and We’re Fools

    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 [...]



    time to name names and put the blame where it belongs

    On Hank Paulson’s bald head.

    When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance than the former CEO, Paulson himself – and who else but the Treasury Secretary would be better positioned to make sure that at least his alma mater [...]



    absolute power

    fucks us up for all time:

    Within days of his inauguration, Mr. Obama thrilled civil liberties groups when he issued executive orders promising less secrecy, restricting C.I.A. interrogators to Army Field Manual techniques, shuttering the agency’s secret prisons, ordering the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, closed within a year and halting military commission trials.

    But in more recent weeks, things have become murkier.

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