The 5 Craziest Policies In Texas Republicans’ 2012 Platform

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/06/26/506357/the-5-craziest-policies-in-texas-republicans-2012-platform/?mobile=nc

David Koch Now Taking Aim at Hurricane Sandy Victims

No, Seriously.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/171906/david-koch-now-taking-aim-hurricane-sandy-victims#

Angelo Mozilo, Former Countrywide CEO, Claims He Doesn't Know What 'Verified Income' Is

From America's #1 Financial Crimes Investigator/Reporter, Matt Taibbi:

"Charged with mass fraud and headed for trial in October of 2010, Mozilo and the SEC ultimately settled four days before opening arguments were set to begin in Los Angeles. Ultimately, Mozilo got away with no jail time, paying a $67.5 million settlement, $20 million of which was covered by Countrywide, which by then had been acquired by Bank of America, a major bailout recipient. Just in the years between 2000 and 2008, Mozilo made over half a billion dollars – $521.5 million, according to one corporate research firm."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/angelo-mozilo-former-countrywide-ceo-claims-he-doesnt-know-what-verified-income-is-20121228?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
"Here's a guy who wrecked more lives than anyone else in America in the mortgage crisis, got to keep virtually all of his ill-gotten gains, didn't do a day in jail, and then, when sued, testifies that he doesn't remember anything. And that will probably turn out to be an effective strategy for him. Amazing stuff."


Please note: Taibbi is revealing crimes that benefited....Democrats.

Do Armed Civilians Stop Mass Shooters? Actually, No.

"As I reported recently in our in-depth investigation, not one of the 62 mass shootings in the United States over the last 30 years has been stopped this way. More broadly, attempts by armed civilians to intervene in shooting rampages are rare—and are successful even more rarely. (Two people who tried it in recent years were gravely wounded or killed.) And law enforcement overwhelmingly hates the idea."

"Those pesky facts haven't stopped the "arm America more!" crowd from pressing the argument with alleged examples of successful armed interventions. The problem is, the few examples they keep using—in which they depict plain old folks acting heroically and with definitive results—fall apart under scrutiny. Here are five of them and why they don't work:"

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/armed-civilians-do-not-stop-mass-shootings

Corporate Media Favorites Fall Out of Favor

Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein ..... "Cautious, middle-of-the-road, think-tank conservatives, they were popular on the insider talk-show circuit as reliable voices of conventional thinking. Until they went rogue."
"In assessing the 2012 election, Mann and Ornstein have charged that the elite media deliberately failed to cover the biggest story of all — namely that the Republican Party and its nominees were flagrantly running a campaign of lies." .. "It's the great unreported big story of American politics," said Ornstein.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/12-0

Robots and Robber Barons

Paul Krugman: "I don’t know how much of the devaluation of labor either technology or monopoly explains, in part because there has been so little discussion of what’s going on. I think it’s fair to say that the shift of income from labor to capital has not yet made it into our national discourse."


http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/10-1

The Memo That Started a Corporate Heist of Our Government

New documentary 'Heist' explains how the American Dream was stolen in broad daylight. ..........


'Heist' is a comprehensive dissection of the evolution of corporate control over the federal government.   http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/thom-hartmann-memo-started-corporate-heist-our-government?page=0%2C3&akid=9802.153143.-Wqd6c&rd=1&src=newsletter761066&t=20&paging=off   "If something isn't done to reign these people in, get ready for a real national and international disaster, most likely followed by a world war."

Sen. Bernie Sanders...A REAL Patriot

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/us/politics/bernard-sanders-a-voice-for-shielding-entitlements.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=sherylgaystolberg

Watch: Bill O'Reilly-Loving Climate-Denier Breaks Down After Watching Documentary 'Chasing Ice,' Vows to Stop Climate Change

http://www.alternet.org/environment/watch-bill-oreilly-loving-climate-denier-breaks-down-after-watching-documentary-chasing?akid=9731.153143.48bOmb&rd=1&src=newsletter751772&t=6

"Do we have time to change one Fox News viewer’s mind at a time? The international community has managed nothing meaningful in a decade and they’re stymied in part by our own country’s utter unwillingness to challenge the fossil fuel industry. Obama had done some, but not enough, and a verdict on the Keystone XL pipeline hangs in the balance -- and with it, potentially the fate of the planet. So in fact, right now, we need regular people — regardless of how they vote or from which station they get their news — to begin taking action and demanding political responsibility."

Science for Hire: Why Industry's Deep Pockets May Be Depleting the Last of Our Fisheries

http://www.alternet.org/environment/science-hire-why-industrys-deep-pockets-may-be-depleting-last-our-fisheries?akid=9708.153143.sRpkck&rd=1&src=newsletter748675&t=16

Less Than 5% of World's People But 23% of World's PRISONERS!

Take a guess at which country has those statistics?
Yep! The great ole USA!
This hasn't always been a problem. Guess when it started becoming a problem?
Yep! With Reagan!
http://www.upworthy.com/so-you-stole-a-vcr-from-sears-one-time-in-1990-should-you-really-still-be-in-jai?c=upw1

While we are at it, look at this in regard to our FOR-PROFIT Prison System is up to:
http://www.upworthy.com/when-capitalism-meets-prisons-people-end-up-dying

6 Restaurants You Should Avoid If You Don't Want Your Food Cooked By Sick People

Papa Johns
Applebees
Olive Garden
Red Lobster
(Some Denny's & Some Dairy Queens)
http://www.alternet.org/6-restaurants-you-should-avoid-if-you-dont-want-your-food-cooked-sick-people?akid=9698.153143.8nCS_F&rd=1&src=newsletter747195&t=6

Know Much About the KEYSTONE XL Pipeline?

"If completed, it will pump 1.1 million barrels a day of unrefined tar sand fluid from tar sand mine fields in Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. Tar sand oil is not conventional crude oil. It is a synthetic slurry that, because tar sand oil is solid in its natural state, must be laced with a deadly brew of toxic chemicals and gas condensates to get it to flow. Tar sands are boiled and diluted with these chemicals before being blasted down a pipeline at high pressure. Water sources would be instantly contaminated if there was a rupture. The pipeline would cross nearly 2,000 U.S. waterways, including the Ogallala Aquifer, source of one-third of the United States' farmland irrigation water. And it is not a matter of if, but when, it would spill. TransCanada's Keystone I pipeline, built in 2010, leaked 12 times in its first 12 months of operation."

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12112-join-the-blockade-of-the-keystone-pipeline

5 Founding Fathers Whose Skepticism About Christianity Would Make Them Unelectable Today

http://www.alternet.org/story/153727/5_founding_fathers_whose_skepticism_about_christianity_would_make_them_unelectable_today?akid=9406.153143.IdmX2k&rd=1&t=8

We're Already Topping Dust Bowl Temperatures -- Imagine What'll Happen if We Fail to Stop 10°F Warming

http://www.alternet.org/story/156218/we%27re_already_topping_dust_bowl_temperatures_--_imagine_what%27ll_happen_if_we_fail_to_stop_10%C2%B0f_warming?akid=9047.153143.C-2TtN&rd=1&t=2

OMFG!!! If You Think NAFTA, CAFTA & The WTO Were Bad For the U.S. Check This Out:

America the Beautiful: A Fire Sale for Foreign Corporations

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10195-america-the-beautiful-a-fire-sale-for-foreign-corporations
"...revealing the current US position and the reason for the secrecy. The contents are surreal, shocking and prima facia evidence for how corporations have become the master puppeteers of our government."
"Residents of the West should be particularly alarmed."
"It gets worse. Those tribunals would be staffed by private-sector lawyers that rotate between acting as "judges" and as advocates for the corporations suing the governments. American taxpayers could be forced to pay those corporations virtually unlimited compensation for trying to protect our air, land and water from much looser standards than current US law allows."

America Is NOT The Greatest Country In The World.... Any More

This 3 minute video says it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16K6m3Ua2nw&feature=youtu.be

The "Monsanto Rider": Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity from Federal Law?

"A so-called "Monsanto rider," quietly slipped into the multi-billion dollar FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill, would require – not just allow, but require - the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a temporary permit for the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop, even if a federal court has ordered the planting be halted"  ... "and the questionable crops could be released into the environment where they could potentially contaminate conventional or organic crops and, ultimately, the nation's food supply."

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10210-the-monsanto-rider-are-biotech-companies-about-to-gain-immunity-from-federal-law?
Folks, while I would VERY much like to blame this corruption on the Republi-con party and its corporate interests the FACTS are that Obama and 40-70% of the so-called "Democrats" are on board with these CRIMES as well. OUT-FRIGGIN-RAGEOUS!!!

GlaxoSmithKline Settles Largest Health Care Fraud Case In U.S. History

"Of the penalties, $1 billion covers criminal fines and forfeitures and $2 billion is for civil settlements with the federal government and the state governments of Massachusetts and Colorado."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/02/gsk-fraud_n_1643186.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D175052

Hmmmmm, a "Lesson From Crazy Horse"?

"ExxonMobil, BP and the coal and natural gas companies—like the colonial buffalo hunters who left thousands of carcasses rotting in the sun after stripping away the hides, and in some cases carrying away only the tongues—will never impose rational limits on themselves. They will exploit, like the hustlers before them who eliminated the animals that sustained the native peoples of the Great Plains, until there is nothing left to exploit. Collective suicide is never factored into quarterly profit reports. Forget all those virtuous words they taught you in school about our system of government. The real words to describe American power are "plunder," "fraud," "criminality," "deceit," "murder" and "repression."

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10107-chris-hedges-time-to-get-crazy

Monsanto and the "Revolving Door" of Government

In a world where Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, BP, and so many others still exist without punishment for their behavior MONSANTO deserves especially our condemnation for their crimes against humanity; all in the search for monoply and money.
Dr. Mercola explains it all so much better than I: New Evidence Against These Cancer-Causing Foods - And the Massive Cover-Up Effort
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/06/09/monsanto-roundup-found-to-be-carcinogenic.aspx?e_cid=20120609_DNL_art_1
But, note the incestuous Revolving Door between this evil corporation and our government:
http://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2012/january/study1-big.jpg (zoom in!)

How the Post Office Is Being Destroyed By a Phony Budget Crisis

Congress, not the post office itself, is the problem.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/26-1
"But before any of this will happen we need to fess up. The postal crisis is contrived. Let’s stop scaring ourselves silly with make believe deficit monsters and unshackle this national asset."

Citizens United Attacks From Justice Stevens Continue

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/30/citizens-united-justice-stevens_n_1557721.html?ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=053112&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief

Why the Occupy Movement Frightens the Corporate Elite

"We are controlled by tiny corporate entities that have no loyalty to the nation and indeed in the language of traditional patriotism are traitors. They strip us of our resources, keep us politically passive and enrich themselves at our expense."
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9112-why-the-occupy-movement-frightens-the-corporate-elite

Social Security Is Not Going Broke

"Which federal program took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans of all ages out of poverty?

Why, Social Security, of course, which ended 2011 with a $2.7 trillion surplus.
That surplus is almost twice the $1.4 trillion collected in personal and corporate income taxes last year. And it is projected to go on growing until 2021, the year the youngest Baby Boomers turn 67 and qualify for full old-age benefits.

So why all the talk about Social Security “going broke?”
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/05

Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying to Keep Marijuana Illegal

Police Unions ... Private Prison Corporations ... Alcohol & Beer Companies ... Pharmaceutical Corporations ... Prison Guard Unions ..... PROVING that human beings are simply RESOURCES:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8854-the-top-five-special-interest-groups-lobbying-to-keep-marijuana-illegal

Debtors PRISON

"Well the collection company files a small claims lawsuit. If you fail to appear, or file a responsive pleading, or make some other common legal mistake, or simply have the collection agency claim they served you by mail (allowed in many cases where the claims are not large) when they really didn't because you've moved, (were) in the hospital at the time, or they just flat out lied in their affidavit of service, the court can hold you in contempt of court. And that's when the sheriff deputies or state troopers may show up at your door to place those handcuffs on you, sick, disabled or whatever."

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/910820/get_sick._can%27t_pay_go_to_jail%21/#paragraph6

FORBES Magazine: The Great American Social Security Lie

I repeat....from FORBES Magazine no less: The Great American Social Security LIE:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/04/24/the-great-american-social-security-lie/
....."aging workforce"........... "while legitimately representing a small piece of the problem, fails to explain the lion’s share of the crisis" .... "It is a lie concocted by those seeking to fulfill Wall Street’s eternal quest to get its sweaty palms on trillions of dollars of our retirement cash, allowing them to expand their casino operations beyond their wildest imaginations—and Wall Street has a very healthy imagination." ...."I should point out that this result of crushing income inequality does not have the same effect on Medicare due to the fact that the tax we pay towards Medicare applies on all earnings with no caps. Thus, a dollar of income is being taxed for Medicare no matter whose pocket has possession of that dollar."

Conservative Nonprofit Acts as a Stealth Business Lobbyist

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/us/alec-a-tax-exempt-group-mixes-legislators-and-lobbyists.html?_r=1

A Republican Brain on Republican Thinking

"...I further argue, you realize that there are some psychological traits that tend to accompany conservatism - especially in its current form in the United States - that naturally conflict with the nuanced, uncertainty-laden thinking style of scientists and liberals alike (members of the "reality based community"). These traits include authoritarianism - seeing the world in black and white, intolerant of uncertainty - but also a lack of openness to experience (a personality trait), a higher need for closure and so on."


"The sad thing here is that the new research could lead to greater tolerance and understanding - and could even help us depolarize, but that won't happen unless we all bother to understand and talk about what it does - and doesn't - mean."

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8591-the-republican-brain-on-the-republican-brain

Meet the KOCH Brothers

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2011/10/2011102683719370179.html

Take note: you aren't learning of this through any American media outlet. There is a reason for THAT.

Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives

"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." -- Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994 ...... ""Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job." -- Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications, quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1998

"Monsanto recently threatened to sue the state of Vermont if legislators there pass a GMO labeling bill."

"If passed, the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act will require mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods and food ingredients, and outlaw the routine industry practice of labeling GMO-tainted foods as “natural.”
http://www.alternet.org/story/154951/millions_against_monsanto%3A_the_food_fight_of_our_lives?page=entire

Meet the ALEC Staffers Who Help Corporations Write Our Laws

American Legislative Exchange Council
These are the people who, with extremist and corporate money, are literally destroying America:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8390-meet-the-alec-staffers-who-help-corporations-write-our-laws

And, check out 'ALEC Exposed': http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

Rush and His Sandra Fluke "Story"

If one were to want to see ALL of Rush Limbaugh's outrageous attacks on Sandra Fluke one could simply click here: http://mediamatters.org/research/201203220016

GLOBAL WARMING: Real or Not?

If you choose to listen to the current crop of political shills for fossil fuels (100% of the Republi-cons + enough 'Democrats' to seal the deal) the answer is NO! It's just a left wing scam!!

But HOLD ON a minute! How about asking the INSURANCE companies who have PAY $$$$ if there is such a thing as global warming: Insurers See Growing Risks and Costs from Climate Change
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=AAD5C0B4-76ED-49B2-8FD7-614F2697E31C
"According to Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd., the average weather-related insurance industry loss in the U.S. was about $3 billion a year in the 1980s compared to approximately $20 billion annually by the end of the past decade."

Blue States Are the Providers, Red States Are the Parasites

Any Rand Worshipers, LISTEN UP!
http://www.alternet.org/story/154338/ayn_rand_worshippers_should_face_facts%3A_blue_states_are_the_providers%2C_red_state_are_the_parasites?akid=8320.153143.9fxehE&rd=1&t=2

The Occupy Movement, 2 Political Parties, Crashed Economy.....

...... All analyzed SO SUCCINCTLY by Alan Grayson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQnSu0DG3Oo

(A wonderful 'Smack Down' on PJ O'Rourke who ADMITS to Failing Economics 101 but STILL thinks he has a valid basis for proposing Economic Policy!)

The TOTALITY of References to God and Religion Found in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence

Whenever you want to know EXACTLY what our Founding Fathers REALLY said about God, religion and their place in the founding of America read this: http://www.alternet.org/story/154277/rick_santorum_on_religious_freedom%3A_what_he_has_forgotten_since_law_school?akid=8316.153143.ALAMp_&rd=1&t=3

Take note: whenever PROOF is needed for an assertion YOU have the ability to go and actually find it!

Oh, and whenever your 'Christian' friends INSIST that the U.S. is a "Christian" nation remember this from the above article (INCLUDING its source) "..the treaty America entered into with Tripoli in 1797, during Washington’s presidency, and approved by the U.S. Senate under the leadership of John Adams, declared that “the Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

Update: 5 Great Moments in History That Could Teach Christian Zealots Important Lessons

http://www.alternet.org/story/154330/5_great_moments_in_history_that_could_teach_christian_zealots_important_lessons?akid=8320.153143.9fxehE&rd=1&t=5

THIS is How Our Court System Has Been Purchased

"A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: THE BP OIL SPILL TRIAL":

http://www.truth-out.org/history-violence-bp-oil-spill-trial/1330267332

GAS and OTHER FUELS are the TOP U.S. EXPORT!!!!

Yes, that's right!!! Though you didn't hear in on any corporate media site and you CERTAINLY won't hear it on FOX!!!!
When gas hits $4/gal and $5/gal remember that the LYING oil companies and Republi-con stooges and shills for them keep talking about "U.S Oil Independence" and yet they produce so much gas and other fuels HERE IN THE U.S. that FUELS are now the U.S.'s BIGGEST ......... EXPORTED manufactured good!!!
And for those Republi-cons who are Economic-Principles "challenged", when you REDUCE 'Supply' what do prices do? RIGHT!!! They go UP!!! (Just like we are seeing again right now! 2/15/12). LYING, CROOKED SOBs! All of them! http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/story/2011-12-31/united-states-export/52298812/1

Update: The Keystone XL Flim-Flam
http://www.truthout.org/keystone-xl-flim-flam/1330539080
"...for congressional Republicans, GOP presidential wannabes and a chorus of right-wing mouthpieces to use gas price pain as a whip for lashing out at Obama's January decision to reject the infamous Keystone XL pipeline."


Update: Gas in the US Elections

http://www.truthout.org/gas-us-elections/1330365861
"The other problem with the Republican complaints is that production in the United States really does not matter much for the price of gas. Oil prices in the United States depend on the world market, not just supply and demand in the United States."

Update: Gas Prices Inspire War Of Words
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/gas-prices-oil-drilling-president-obama_n_1314896.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=030212&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FeatureTitle&utm_term=Daily%20Brief

Update: The extra dollars you're paying at the pump are going to Wall Street speculators
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-201202280930--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20120228feb28,0,2500569.column

Where the Right Went WRONG

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: "Among the people who saw this crisis coming was the conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, the supply-side champion who wrote the manifesto for the Reagan Revolution.... Yet for all those credentials, he is today an outcast from the very conservative ranks where he was once so influential. That's because Bruce Bartlett dared to write a book criticizing the second George Bush as a pretend conservative who slashed taxes but still spent with wild abandon."
http://vimeo.com/36529531
"IMPOSTER How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy" book by Bruce Bartlett.
"Bartlett argues that right-wing tax policies -- pushed in part by Grover Norquist and Tea Party activists -- are destroying the country's economic foundation."

The Afghanistan Report The Pentagon Doesn't Want You to Read

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/the-afghanistan-report-the-pentagon-doesnt-want-you-to-read-20120210

Written by Lt.Col Daniel Davis and reported in Rolling Stone magazine.

The FAA Bill: A DISGRACE for Democrats & Obama Who Voted For It Or LET It Happen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fNOQEO98mD8#!

The Truth About the Conservative Mind

Why Reactionaries from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Have Fought Real Liberty.
http://www.alternet.org/story/153919/the_truth_about_the_conservative_mind%3A_why_reactionaries_from_edmund_burke_to_sarah_palin_have_fought_real_liberty_?page=entire

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the 1%

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/26-3

David Stockman Discusses "Crony Capitalism"

David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's Director of the Office of Management & Budget from 1981-1985 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stockman) spoke on Jan. 20, 2012 with Bill Moyers. Understanding that Mr. Stockman is/was a (true!) Republican (as opposed to today's Republi-cons) it is my hope that EVERYONE watch the interview. ESPECIALLY those fiscally outside the top 1%!
Mr. Stockman woke up to the lies and deception of his party in the early 1980s. Me? It took me until the PATCO strike before I ... BEGAN ... to.

If you are outside the top 1% this is most likely the MOST IMPORTANT lesson about ECONOMICS & politics up to this point in your life:
http://billmoyers.com/episode/crony-capitalism/

Even worse than Citizens United

"Last week, the Republican National Committee filed a legal brief in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that the ban on corporations giving unlimited contributions directly to candidates is unconstitutional. If the RNC succeeds, it will become legal, for example, for Citibank to give Mitt Romney's campaign a check for five billion dollars. Read about it and share it with your friends: Republican National Committee decides to finish destroying democracy." ... from the Daily KOS

Santorum Becomes Millionaire in Six Years After U.S. Senate Loss

SANTORUM: BECOMES A MILLIONAIRE IN JUST 6 YEARS AFTER LEAVING U.S. SENATE! I wonder how that could be?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-05/santorum-becomes-millionaire-in-six-years-after-losing-u-s-senate-seat.html
"Since his 2006 re-election defeat, the former Pennsylvania lawmaker has gone from being one of the poorer members of the U.S. Senate to earning $1.3 million between January 2010 and August 2011. In 2007, he spent $2 million to buy a 5,000-square foot home in Great Falls, Virginia, according to property records."

The Big Lie: Wall Street has Destroyed the Wonder That Was America

"As 2011 slithers to its end, none of the major problems that led to the crisis point three years ago have really been solved. Bank balance sheets still reek. Europe day by day becomes a financial black hole, with matter from the periphery being sucked toward the center until the vortex itself collapses. The Street and its ministries of propaganda have fallen back on a Big Lie as old as capitalism itself: that all that has gone wrong has been government’s fault."

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/28-7

"But it won’t just end with taxes. When the great day comes, Wall Street will pray for another Pecora, because compared with the rough beast now beginning to strain at the leash, Pecora will look like Phil Gramm. Humiliation and ridicule, even financial penalties, will be the least of the Street’s tribulations. There will be prosecutions and show trials. There will be violence, mark my words. Houses burnt, property defaced. I just hope that this time the mob targets the right people in Wall Street and in Washington."