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U.S. Officially Honors Its Torturers and War Criminals, After Shielding Them

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“Obama’s immunizing Bush-era torturers converted torture from a global taboo and decades-old crime into a reasonable, debatable policy question, which is why so many GOP candidates are now openly suggesting its use. But now, the Obama administration has moved from legally protecting Bush-era war criminals to honoring and gushing over them in public. Yesterday, the House of Representatives unveiled a marble bust of former Vice President Cheney, which — until a person of conscience vandalizes or destroys it — will reside in Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol. Along with George W. Bush, one of the speakers in attendance was Vice President Joe Biden.”

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/04/u-s-first-shields-its-torturers-and-war-criminals-from-prosecution-now-officially-honors-them/

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Glenn Greenwald: What Foreign Policy “Debate” Means on “Face the Nation”

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“Aside from the glaring demographic homogeneity — all middle-aged-or-older white people who have spent their careers in corporatized Washington establishments — there is a suffocating ideological and viewpoint homogeneity on this panel as well, particularly when it comes to foreign policy. All of the panelists, for instance, were vocal, aggressive advocates of the invasion of Iraq (as were all three GOP presidential candidates featured on this morning’s show).”

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/29/what-debate-means-on-face-the-nation/

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Pew Poll: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Believe Government Is The Enemy

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“The findings suggests that 57 percent of voters feel frustrated with the government, while 22 percent feel angry and 18 percent feel ‘basically content.’  The majority of Americans feel the federal government has room for serious improvement, with 59 percent saying the government needs ‘very major reform.’ Only 37 percent of voters felt that way in 1997. Other findings include that few think the government is run for the benefit of all the people and that it is viewed as wasteful and inefficient. About 3 in 4 Americans say the federal government is ‘run by a few big interests’ and 57 percent say the ‘government is almost always wasteful and inefficient.'”

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/11/23/report-more-than-1-in-4-americans-believe-government-is-the-enemy/

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Biggest corporate political interests spend billions, get trillions [2014]

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“After examining 14 million records, including data on campaign contributions, lobbying expenditures, federal budget allocations and spending, we found that, on average, for every dollar spent on influencing politics, the nation’s most politically active corporations received $760 from the government. The $4.4 trillion total represents two-thirds of the $6.5 trillion that individual taxpayers paid into the federal treasury.  Welcome to the world of ‘Fixed Fortunes,’ a seemingly closed universe where the most persistent and savvy political players not so mysteriously have the ability to attract federal dollars regardless of who is running Washington.”

https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/11/17/fixed-fortunes-biggest-corporate-political-interests-spend-billions-get-trillions/

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Democrats Work To Block Regulations, After Flood Of Campaign Cash

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“The Obama administration’s efforts to rein in Wall Street face opposition from members of the president’s own party.  Since 2011, after Dodd-Frank became law, Democrats have raised over $330 million from the financial industry, and their party’s presumptive incoming Senate leader, New York’s Chuck Schumer, is considered a close ally of the financial sector.  As the year-end legislative wrangling intensifies, here are the other Democrats who have been Wall Street’s key allies in fighting the Obama administration. They have all raised big money from the financial industry.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/wall-street-democrats-work-block-new-regulations-after-flood-campaign-cash-2196874

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Oligarchies Masquerading as Democracies

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“The creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 was the re-establishment of the oligarchs’ lender of last resort. That meant that the federal debt would become the foundation of the entire economy: debt purchased by the central bank to balloon the monetary base. To pay off the debt would create mass deflation and depression. The oligarchs now have immunity. Congress will not order an independent audit of the FED.  The model is the Bank of England. It has been the chief insurance agency of the Anglo-American oligarchy ever since 1694. The ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688/89 was in fact the symbolic triumph of the oligarchs over the king.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/14465.cfm

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Federal Prosecution for Jesse Benton and a Free Pass for James Clapper

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“It’s okay for national-security state bureaucrats to lie to the elected representatives of the American people, even under oath. In the eyes of federal prosecutors, that’s just no big deal and certainly is not considered to be a criminal offense.  But when a private citizen supposedly lies to a federal bureaucrat who is investigating violations of ridiculous laws, rules, regulations, and edicts pertaining to ‘campaign finance laws’ — you know, the laws that keep Big Money out of presidential campaigns — well, then all hell breaks loose, with criminal indictments, prosecutions, and all sorts of pontifications about the importance of citizens telling the truth to federal bureaucrats.”

http://fff.org/2015/10/19/federal-prosecution-for-jesse-benton-and-a-free-pass-for-james-clapper/

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Jeffrey Tucker: Who Will Lose in the War on Contractors?

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“The haters of the sharing economy are rallying around a plan for destroying the most spectacular ad innovative sector of modern economic life.  The hint came from a speech by Hillary Clinton at the New School in which she suggested that current ‘contractors’ be redefined as ’employees.’ According to her, this means that the workers can then enjoy new human rights, as if by magic. Hillary’s comments amount to a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. She was speaking for the entire cabal of special interests who dream of crushing innovation.  Hillary poses as a spokesperson for the worker. What it actually means for employment is that many will be out of a job.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/whats-at-stake-in-the-war-on-contractors

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Former President Jimmy Carter Calls U.S. an Oligarchy

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“Almost 35 years later, Carter is now the longest surviving ex-president in U.S. history. That’s a long time to observe and reflect. He has little to lose by being honest, so his comments last week deserve some attention. Carter blasted both major parties and from state legislatures up to Congress. The U.S., he believes, is an oligarchy built on unlimited political bribery. Those are strong words. We see them on sites like The Daily Bell, but considerably less often from those inside the oligarchy.  We are approaching, and perhaps already are at, a point where oligarchy is seen as normal and natural. People don’t mind living under oligarchy as long as the ‘right’ people control it.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36455/Jimmy-Carter-Calls-US-an-Oligarchy/

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$147,000 in Speaking Fees from a Company He Gave Gov. Contracts

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“Among [former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley’s] most lucrative speeches was a $50,000 appearance at a conference in Baltimore sponsored by Center Maryland, an organization whose leaders include a former O’Malley communications director, the finance director of his presidential campaign and the director of a super PAC formed to support O’Malley’s presidential bid.  O’Malley also lists $147,812 for a series of speeches to Environmental Systems Research Institute, a company that makes mapping software that O’Malley heavily employed as governor as part of an initiative to use data and technology to guide policy decisions.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/martin-omalley-got-147000-in-speaking-fees-from-a-company-he-gave-lucrative-government-contracts

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