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The U.S. Department of Double Standards -- In These Times
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 12:00 PM EDT (Working In These Times)
On April 21, The New York Times reported that Wal-Mart de Mexico paid $24 million in bribes to local land use officials in exchange for allowing the company to build stores in virtually every corner of the country, and to make environmental objections vanish. Although its top exe …
Bush and Cheney convicted of war crimes by foreign tribunal... More to come? - Democratic Underground
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 11:52 AM EDT (Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News)
What's going on with America and the rest of the world?In a story that is suspiciously floating just below the general U.S. media radar, former President George W. Bush and his puppet-master/VP Dick Cheney were unanimously convicted of war crimes by a five panel tribunal in Malay …
Subverting the Statehouse: Uncovering the Other ALECs
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 11:31 AM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
Taxpayer-subsidized stealth lobbyists: Lobbyists who circumvent normal lobbying regulations and procedures to advance the corporate agenda in statehouses nationwide on the taxpayer dime. If Washington DC is the new Versailles, run by corporate overlords and their lobbyist-hired …
President Obama's Wealth Level Makes Him One of the Elite 1%
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 8:47 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
President Barack Obama has $500,001 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase private client asset management checking account. "This is a checking account used by the president and the first lady," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage. The president's other principal assets …
BREAKING: A Good Laugh for Us Fellow Viners (includes funny links to The Dictator)
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:35 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Introducing The Dictator to the Vine--we need laughs in the midst of this Great Recession, our dueling candidates for president, death in Afghanistan, threats against Iran, and the plunging Euro. What is it with our obsession with satirising dictators? Thank the Lord we …
Mickey Mouse hosts same sex weddings in Japan | The Raw Story
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 4:21 PM EDT (Raw Story)
Just days after US President Barack Obama came out in favour ofgay marriage, another supporter of homosexual unions emerged in Japan: Mickey Mouse. Despite their having no legal status, same sex couples are able to hold fairytale wedding ceremonies at hotels inside the popularTo …
DOJ launches probe into JP Morgan Chase’s $2 billion loss | The Raw Story
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 4:11 PM EDT (Raw Story)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday afternoon that it will launch an investigation into JP Morgan Chase’s $2 billion derivatives trading loss, according to a law enforcement official. The official, who according to Reuters spoke on the condition of anonymity …
Big Sky's the Limit
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:56 PM EDT (prospect.org)
Like many congressional races around the country, Montana’s Senate contest is being defined by previously unthinkable levels of outside spending. Montana knows all about buying elections. In 1899, just ten years after it became a state, William Andrews Clark, known as the …
Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase: Why It's the Scandal of Our Time
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:49 PM EDT (http://www.smirkingchimp.com/)
They're missing the point. When CEO Jamie Dimon announced that JPMorgan Chase had incurred at least $2 billion in losses from risky, unsecured, derivatives-types trading, it uncovered the scandal of our time once and for all. The Chase disaster gives us a much-needed a glimpse i …
OpEdNews - Article: The Choice: Socialism or Fascism
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:38 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
The means of production now evolving will inevitably outstrip our ability to sustain an environment that can support us. Economic collapse follows ecological collapse. At the same time, current means of production will also fail to provide sufficient work to sustain incomes and e …
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