“Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at the Commission on Presidential Debates and why they are not allowing Gov. Gary Johnson or any other candidates take part in the 2012 Presidential debates.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDQsIKbQLFY
“Philips Electronics has dropped its sponsorship of the 2012 presidential debates, citing a desire not to associate itself with ‘partisan politics.’ Philips is the third and by far the largest of the original ten sponsors to pull its support, following similar decisions by British advertising firm BBH New York and the YWCA over the last week. Their decision to do so is seen as the result of intense lobbying efforts by advocacy organizations — primarily Libertarian supporters of former Gov. Gary Johnson — who oppose the exclusion of third-party candidates and who therefore believe the Commission on Presidential Debates is an anti-Democratic institution.”
“The Pueblo Chieftain has excluded independent candidate Tisha Casida from a Chieftain-sponsored debate Oct. 10 featuring 3rd congressional district candidates Scott Tipton, a Republican, and Democrat Sal Pace. ‘Voters want to hear from the candidates who do have a chance,’ the Chieftain’s Managing Editor Steve Henson wrote in an email to Casida.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-salzman/tisha-casida-pueblo-chieftain_b_1901659.html
“Nineteen out of 20 cabinet-level agencies under the Obama administration have failed to follow the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, thereby disobeying the law that demands disclosure of public information. White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew said in July that the Obama administration ‘has been the most transparent ever.’ But an analysis of government requests filed by Bloomberg News has found an alarming number of transparency violations, particularly when it comes to the taxpayer-funded cost of travel by top officials.”
http://rt.com/usa/news/administration-transparency-agencies-obama-255/
“In the United States now, the city with the highest per capita income in America is Washington, DC. They passed Silicon Valley last year. Seven of the ten wealthiest counties in America are counties that border Washington, DC, so government has become big business. There’s a lot of money to be made. And not only is that leading a lot of young and talented people into influence-peddling in industries where I’d rather have them doing something more productive, it’s also changing the entire incentive structure. We know for example that hedge funds that invest in lobbyists and make a lot of campaign contributions actually consistently outperform those hedge funds that don’t.”
http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/peter-schweizer-corrupting-influence-political-intelligence
“‘If the Obama administration simply appealed it, as we expected, it would have raised this red flag,’ [plaintiff and journalist Chris] Hedges wrote. ‘But since they were so aggressive it means that once Judge Forrest declared the law invalid, if they were using it, as we expect, they could be held in contempt of court. This was quite disturbing, for it means, I suspect, that U.S. citizens, probably dual nationals, are being held in military detention facilities almost certainly overseas and maybe at home.'”
http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-plaintiffs-answer-questions-on-reddit-2012-9
“Obama is not in charge. Romney would not be in charge. Politicians are the public face of corporate power. They are corporate employees. Their personal narratives, their promises, their rhetoric and their idiosyncrasies are meaningless. And that, perhaps, is why the cost of the two presidential campaigns is estimated to reach an obscene $2.5 billion. The corporate state does not produce a product that is different. It produces brands that are different. And brands cost a lot of money to sell.”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/how_do_you_take_your_poison_20120924/
“The auction house in Stamford, Connecticut, said the works trace the development of a ‘shy, romantic and easily-swayed college student with Marxist leanings’ into ‘a radical Nazi and rabid anti-Semite, a brilliant propagandist at the right hand of the man who would within a decade conquer — and destroy — most of Europe. It sums up the formative years of the number two man in the Third Reich, who was responsible for motivating the masses in Germany to back Hitler,’ said Bill Panagopulos, the auction house’s president. ‘In my opinion, it shows how this rather simple, shy and love-struck college student really just became radicalized.'”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/24/goebbels-love-letters-and-fiction-go-to-auction/
“David Twede, a fifth-generation Mormon, told The Daily Beast that on Sunday his bishop and three other church leaders in Orlando ordered him to ‘Cease and desist, Brother Twede’ after they found discussions about Romney at the blog MormonThink.com. Twede said that he felt ‘attacked, cornered, and very anxious’ as the church officials informed him that they had scheduled a Sept. 30 excommunication ‘for apostasy.’ ABC News reported on Thursday that the Mormon church was urging members in Nevada to speak ‘with one voice’ during the presidential election.”
“Coming in Fall 2012, The Bubble asks the experts who predicted the current recession, ‘What happened and why?’ Diving deep into the true causes of the financial crisis, renowned economists, investors and business leaders explain what America is facing if we don’t learn from our past mistakes. The film poses the question: ‘Is the economy really improving or are we just blowing up another Bubble?'”