Here's How Darrell Issa Manufactured the IRS 'Scandal'

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/26/1219172/-Here-s-how-Darrell-Issa-manufactured-the-IRS-scandal

Another Republi-con crook.
You will enjoy reading about his past via the link "Mr. Grand Theft Auto"

Bank of America and the 13 (THIRTEEN!!) Year Jail Sentence... for a CHALK Protest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIcFiXAbB7g

A Chinese VENTURE CAPITALIST Discusses 2 Political Systems

When I lived in Texas I (unwittingly) came to believe that there is only ONE "Right" (Correct) way, the "American" way. That came to a (begrudging slow) correction when I lived in a 'foreign' country (Japan).

Our country is nearly broken due to MASSIVE corruption, fanaticism (both political and religious), laziness and willing ignorance.

Watch Mr. Li and you will 'enjoy' an interesting comparison of 2 political systems:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0YjL9rZyR0&feature=em-subs_digest&list=TLwcuS0UIAkDI

While Successfully Getting The 99% To Fight Among Themselves Over "God, Guns & Gays" ......

......here is what the 1% have been doing:

• Richest Global 1% Hide Trillions $ in Tax Havens http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2012/07/30/richest-global-1-hide-trillion-in-tax-havens/ (Follow the links for documentation.)
• Oil and Fraud: Why We Went to Iraq http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2012/11/25/oil-and-fraud-why-we-went-to-iraq/ (Again, follow the links)
• Or, put in another more '2013' way, here is a "Moment of Clarity" from Lee Camp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-RWwFSLx34&feature=em-subs_digest

Leapin’ lesbians! John Fugelsang on what the Bible REALLY Says About Gay Women

http://current.com/shows/viewpoint/videos/leapin-lesbians-john-fugelsang-on-what-the-bible-really-says-about-gay-women/

Social Security: Obama Joins the (Republi-con/Wall Street) Club

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15735-obama-joins-the-club

"The final attack on Social Security has begun, and it was a Democratic president who struck the blow."

Dick Cheney: What He ACTUALLY Said

Before we start believing the fairy-tale, revisionist, B.S. that ALL the Republi-cons have been saying about the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, here is what Dick Cheney ACTUALLY said regarding:

• Why: "We asked for a declaration of all of his WMD come clean. He refused to do that. He’s, again, continued to do everything he could to thwart the inspectors. I’m hard-put to specify what it is he could do with credibility at this stage that would alter the outcome."
  Iraqi peoples' response: "The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want to the get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that." https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/cheneymeetthepress.htm

Illegal Drugs in America ...

.... the MOST intelligent and coherent analysis of our "War on Drugs" .... made by a (retired) Police Chief: http://www.upworthy.com/every-war-on-drugs-myth-thoroughly-destroyed-by-a-retired-police-captain?c=upw1

America's Citizens are OVER-Taxed, Right?

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/04/08/1834981/the-us-collects-less-in-taxes-than-all-but-two-industrialized-countries/?upw

Some Bailouts Taxpayers Seldom Ever Notice

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15574-some-bailouts-taxpayers-seldom-ever-notice
Be sure to click on the comment Peter Drucker made in the article above. To repeat: “This is morally and socially,” he would write, “unforgivable.”

Republicans in North Carolina Say State Can Ignore the US Constitution

North Carolina's House Majority Leader and ten of his Republican colleagues have sponsored legislation which would establish a state religion:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15549-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-republicans-in-north-carolina-say-state-can-ignore-the-us-constitution-and-more

Republicans Come To Silicon Valley To Offer Corruption For Cash

"They were offering a flat-out quid pro quo: give us money and in exchange we will cut your taxes, block taxes on profits made from moving jobs out of the country, cut government oversight of various schemes you try, and let you import more lower-wage tech-workers from outside the country."
http://blog.ourfuture.org/20130403/republicans-come-to-silicon-valley-to-offer-corruption-for-cash

Shape Shifters in Lesterland & The Day That TV News Died

Bipartisan, equal opportunity, pathological …… democracy destroying……… corruption.
                                         THAT is today’s America.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug

We cannot ignore the corruption any more if we want to create a government that works for BOTH the ‘left’ and the ‘right’.
America was founded as a Representative Democracy “dependent upon the people alone”. (NOT 132 people alone. As you will see if you view the piece above.)
Many of us have simply given up. Thinking the job of repairing our country is simply too big or difficult or impossible.
But TRUE patriots will not roll over and quit … just as a parent who gets the diagnosis of terminal brain cancer in their 6 year old child would never give up in trying to save that child.
4/23/13: Here is what YOU can do: http://letsfreecongress.org/
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"Truth in a Time of B.S" and "The Day That TV News Died"
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15529-truth-in-a-time-of-bs
And, from the above: "What mattered then and what matters now is likability—known in television and advertising as the Q score—not honesty and truth. Television news celebrities are in the business of sales, not journalism. They peddle the ideology of the corporate state. And too many of us are buying."
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_day_that_tv_news_died_20130324/
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                      See the "Crucifixion of Thomas Young" below.

This Is What Happens When Congress Is for Sale

Monsanto wins with JUST a 4 year $65,000 'contribution' to Missouri Republi-con Roy Blunt:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15424-this-is-what-happens-when-congress-is-for-sale

What You Need to Know About the Terrifying Monsanto Protection Act:
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/what_you_need_to_know_about_the_terrifying_monsanto_protection_act_20130328/

An Intelligent Look at High Capacity Magazines & Sandy Hook

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/#51188139

(152 bullets..........  10-round magazines vs.  30-round magazines. ..... in 5 minutes)

FOX "News" Host: Iraq War "Smartest Thing George Bush Did"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UEQmB5n7JqE

The Crucifixion of Tomas Young

"Young will die for our sins. He will die for a war that should never have been fought. He will die for the lies of politicians. He will die for war profiteers. He will die for the careers of generals. He will die for a cheerleader press. He will die for a complacent public that made war possible. He bore all this upon his body. He was crucified. And there are hundreds of thousands of other crucified bodies like his in Baghdad and Kandahar and Peshawar and Walter Reed medical center. Mangled bodies and corpses, broken dreams, unending grief, betrayal, corporate profit, these are the true products of war. Tomas Young is the face of war they do not want you to see."
 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_crucifixion_of_tomas_young_20130310/

Thomas's Last Letter: http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_last_letter_20130318/

Richard Nixon Committed Treason in 1968 ....

.... "Prove it!" ....you might say? Or, "So What!" ... you might say.
Well, in the spirit of HBOs' "The Newsroom" and its admonition that TV news should consist of content that we would need in a voting booth, check this out: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/#51234332

The followup with Gen. Colin Powell's Chief of Staff, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/#51234358

The Deficit Is Actually Shrinking, Despite Beltway Propaganda

Know Any "Conservatives" FREAKING About U.S. Budget Deficits?

http://www.alternet.org/economy/everybody-listen-deficit-actually-shrinking-despite-beltway-propaganda?akid=10119.153143.M2dYcu&rd=1&src=newsletter802071&t=5&paging=off

Another Wall Street Whistleblower Gets Reamed

"The PBS piece certainly rattled some cages, particularly in Washington, in a way that few media efforts succeed in doing. (Scroll to the end of this post to watch the full documentary.)"

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/fallout-from-untouchables-documentary-another-wall-street-whistleblower-gets-reamed-20130304?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

The "New" America Coming to YOU

Texas City to Charge Car Accident Victims Up to $2,000 for the Cost of First Responders
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/texas-city-charge-car-accident-victims-2000-cost-first-responders?akid=10077.153143.yE32YH&rd=1&src=newsletter797084&t=8

Simpson and Bowles Unveil a New, Wealth-Friendly Austerity Plan

"And then they repeat their call for lowering tax rates for corporations and the highest-earning individuals. Their $1-trillion-plus target for “tax expenditure” elimination can only be reached by targeting employer health plans, home mortgage interest deductions, and other policies that would disproportionately hit the already-beleaguered middle class. That emphasis is in the best interests of Simpson and Bowles’ primary funders, including billionaire Pete Peterson and the large corporations behind an interlocking web of groups such as “Fix the Debt” and “The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.”
http://blog.ourfuture.org/20130219/simpson-and-bowles-unveil-a-new-wealth-friendly-austerity-plan

Jack Lew, One More "Anti-Business" Obama Appointee

"It makes you wonder how these pundits would react if the Obama White House really did ever get tough on corporate America."
http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/14/jack-lew-one-more-anti-business-obama-appointee/

Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail

Matt Taibbi: "At HSBC, the bank did more than avert its eyes to a few shady transactions. It repeatedly defied government orders as it made a conscious, years-long effort to completely stop discriminating between illegitimate and legitimate money. And when it somehow talked the U.S. government into crafting a settlement over these offenses with the lunatic aim of preserving the bank's license, it succeeded, finally, in making crime mainstream."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

The Wall Street Journal Thinks Losing 1 Million Jobs Is “Unscary”

http://blog.ourfuture.org/20130207/the-wall-street-journal-thinks-losing-1-million-jobs-is-unscary

U.S.: Bundled Internet, Phone, TV = $160/mo. France? $38/Mo.

Oh, and did I forget? The French system is 20 times FASTER than that found in the U.S.:
http://current.com/shows/the-war-room/videos/the-price-of-the-internet-and-why-the-us-is-going-reverse-on-the-information-superhighway

Ah, yes. We sure love 'privatization' here in the U.S.

How Can Real Human Beings Be Equated With REAL ESTATE?

In PRIVATE, FOR-PROFIT, PRISONS and in IRS tax law. THAT's how.
Don't believe it? Here's more: Did you know that SLAVES, in codified state law, were considered to be real estate?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14255-the-legacy-of-chattel-slavery-private-prisons-blur-the-line-between-real-people-and-real-estate-with-new-irs-property-gambit

Reporting Factory Farm Abuses to be Considered "Act of Terrorism" If New Laws Pass

"How do you keep consumers in the dark about the horrors of factory farms? By making it an “act of terrorism” for anyone to investigate animal cruelty, food safety or environmental violations on the corporate-controlled farms that produce the bulk of our meat, eggs and dairy products."
http://www.alternet.org/environment/shocking-reporting-factory-farm-abuses-be-considered-act-terrorism-if-new-laws-pass?akid=9993.153143.JNvq-i&rd=1&src=newsletter786843&t=8

12 Rational Responses to Irrational Arguments About Guns

"Which sport requires an assault weapon that fires 850 rounds per minute?"

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/12-rational-responses-irrational-arguments-about-guns?akid=9971.153143.6OCiw4&rd=1&src=newsletter782769&t=6&paging=off

Or, how about this: "The Ultimate Guide to the Gun Safety Debate"
http://thinkprogress.org/gun-debate-guide/#moreguns

Or, this: Chris Wallace of FOX "News" calls Wayne LaPierre "Rediculous"
http://2knownow-fox.blogspot.com/2013/02/chris-wallace-of-fox-news-calls-la.html

Hated WTO and NAFTA/CAFTA? Wait Till You See TPP!!!

"Foreign firms—or foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms—could extract unlimited amounts of taxpayer money as compensation when investors claim that U.S. government actions undermine a corporation’s expected future profits."
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/can-dracula-strategy-bring-trans-pacific-partnership-into-sunlight
The "highly secretive trade agreement aims to penalize countries that protect workers, consumers, and the environment. Luckily, the growing opposition goes beyond the usual trade justice suspects."

(Emphasis by me/Lance.)

Amazing SmartPhone 'Apps' for Monitoring Health

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/765017

The NRA Insists that Current Gun Laws Be Enforced....BUT

assists Republi-con Congressmen in making that IMPOSSIBLE. While this video is entertaining and enjoyable it is a PERFECT example of exactly the means by which these same Republi-cons hinder valid efforts by our government and then criticize the government for being inefficient or bumbling.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-16-2013/there-goes-the-boom
(watch BOTH clips!)

GLENN BECK, Of ALL People, Exposes FOX "News" And ALL Rest of the Propaganda Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26M0bJut-RI&feature=youtu.be
NOTE: Listen for Beck's description of WHO the 'mis-leaders' are!
(I wouldn't have believed the source of this TRUTH unless I had seen it myself!)

Conservatives Have Their Worst Week Ever

Matt Taibbi: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/conservatives-have-their-worst-week-ever-20130123?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
"The man was rushed by helicopter to a hospital in Cleveland. I sure hope that dude has private health insurance that he paid for. If it turns out that taxpayers had to foot the bill for a freaking helicopter flight to rescue the friend of some gun-toting conservative who decided to protest the socialist Obama administration by accidentally shooting a pal on Martin Luther King Day, that would be some kind of embarrassing, wouldn't it?"
There's LOT more.....
Speaking of Obama, the following is, in my opinion, the best summation of Obama's Inaugural Address:

"In Historic Inauguration Address, Obama Takes the Fight to the Right" http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/historic-inauguration-address-obama-takes-fight-right?akid=9948.153143.2M2hal&rd=1&src=newsletter780779&t=off

(Not all of which I agree with BTW.)

MoveOn Founder and Tea Party Leader...MEET..

What I have said all along, and what I experienced at my previous employer, is that “The Powers That Be” long ago determined that if they can get ‘us’ fighting amongst ourselves, ‘They’ will be able to abscond with our country (and company) … successfully. And they did.

Well, it looks like some of the leaders of the “citizen’s movements” from BOTH sides  of the ‘aisle’ are beginning to talk WITH each other and, guess what?

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/MoveOn-founder-Tea-Party-figure-meet-4204384.php

Zero Dark 30: Bin Laden's Last Victory?

Absolutely.
And my absolute favorite, most objective, most truth-seeing & telling investigative reporter, Matt Taibbi has a precise, inciteful review of this movie, Zero Dark 30:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/zero-dark-thirty-is-osama-bin-ladens-last-victory-over-america-20130116?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

"I mean, this is real Keystone Kops stuff, on a grand scale, only it had the minor side effect of destroying everything America purports to stand for, in addition to being comically stupid and ineffective." "Zero Dark Thirty is like a gorgeously-rendered monument to the fatal political miscalculation we made during the Bush years. It's a cliché but it's true: Bin Laden wanted us to make this mistake. He wanted America to respond to him by throwing off our carefully-crafted blanket of global respectability to reveal a brutal, repressive hypocrite underneath. He wanted us to stop pretending that we're the country that handcuffs you and reads you your rights instead of extralegally drone-bombing you from the stratosphere, or putting one in your brain in an Egyptian basement somewhere."

"The only way we were ever going to win the War on Terror was to win a long, slow, political battle, in which we proved bin Laden wrong, where we allowed people in the Middle East to assess us as a nation and decide we didn't deserve to be mass-murdered. To use another cliché, we needed to win hearts and minds. We had to make lunatics like bin Laden pariahs among their own people, which in turn would make genuine terrorists easier to catch with the aid of genuinely sympathetic local populations."
"Instead, we turned people like bin Laden into heroes. Just like Marlowe in The Long Goodbye, there were a lot of people in the Middle East who were on the knife-edge about America after 9/11. Yes, we were hated for supporting Israel, but the number of people willing to suicide-bomb us was still a tiny minority."
"The EIT program changed that. We tortured and humiliated thousands of people across the world. We did it on camera, in pictures that everyone in the Middle East can watch over and over again on the Internet. We became notorious for a vast kidnapping program we called by the harmless-sounding term "rendition," and more lately for an endless campaign of extralegal drone attacks, through which 800 innocent people have died in Afghanistan alone in the last four years (the Guardian claims we've killed 168 children in that country in the last seven years)."
"Now we have this movie out that seems to celebrate the use of torture against Arabs, and we're nominating it for Oscars. Bigelow can say that "depiction is not endorsement," but how does she think audiences will receive it in the Middle East? Are they going to sell lots of popcorn in Riyadh and Kabul during the waterboarding scenes?"

The above is not even the final conclusion./Lance

Obama: Continuing to PROVE That "Democrats" Are 70% As Corrupted As Are "Republi-cons"

Do you know who Jack Lew is? He has just been nominated by Obama as his new Treasury Secretary to replace (Wall Street’s toady) Timothy Geithner.
Former Banking Regulator, current white-collar criminologist and University Professor, William Black, and America’s #1 Investigative Reporter and true HERO, Matt Taibbi are interviewed here:”Failure of Epic Proportions” http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/11/failure_of_epic_proportions_treasury_nominee

(The entire interview is only 13 minutes long despite what you initially think.)

If you like the “Tea Party” and its recommendations for America you will love Jack Lew.

As long as this corruption is allowed by American citizens and blinded, lemming, “Democrats” our country really has no future. The middle class will disappear …. just more slowly than under Republi-con rule.

P.S. If you ‘like’ the above interview regarding Jack Lew you will “enjoy” Matt Taibbi and William Black’s interview regarding the new foreclosure “deal” and how it (again!!!) spares the banks: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/11/matt_taibbi_william_black_on_bailout?autostart=true&get_clicky_key=suggested_next_story

The Hoax of 'Entitlement' Reform

"Taming future deficits requires three steps having nothing to do with entitlements: Limiting the growth of overall healthcare costs, cutting our bloated military, and ending corporate welfare (tax breaks and subsidies targeted to particular firms and industries).Obsessing about “entitlement reform” only serves to distract us from these more important endeavors."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/07-3

Unhinged Tactical Response CEO Threatens to ‘Start Killing People’ Over "Obama’s" Gun Control

A video that is a 'Must See':
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/10/unhinged-tactical-response-ceo-threatens-to-start-killing-people-over-obamas-gun-control/

The Founding Fathers Versus The Gun Nuts

"Sorry, gun nuts, you’re on the wrong side of our Founding Fathers."
With supporting documentation:
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13786-the-founding-fathers-vs-the-gun-nuts

The Four Business Gangs That Run The US

"If you've ever suspected politics is increasingly being run in the interests of big business, ... Jeffrey Sachs, a highly respected economist from Columbia University, agrees with you - at least in respect of the United States. In his book, The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity, he says the US economy is caught in a feedback loop. ''Corporate wealth translates into political power through campaign financing, corporate lobbying and the revolving door of jobs between government and industry; and political power translates into further wealth through tax cuts, deregulation and sweetheart contracts between government and industry. Wealth begets power, and power begets wealth,'' he says. Sachs says four key sectors of US business exemplify this feedback loop and the takeover of political power in America by the ''corporatocracy''. First is the well-known military-industrial complex. Second is the Wall Street-Washington complex, which has steered the financial system towards control by a few politically powerful Wall Street firms, notably Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and a handful of other financial firms. Third is the Big Oil-transport-military complex, which has put the US on the trajectory of heavy oil-imports dependence and a deepening military trap in the Middle East, he says. Fourth is the healthcare industry, America's largest industry, absorbing no less than 17 per cent of US gross domestic product."
http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-four-business-gangs-that-run-the-us-20121230-2c1e2.html

Secrets and Lies of the Bailout

Matt Taibbi: "The federal rescue of Wall Street didn’t fix the economy – it created a permanent bailout state based on a Ponzi-like confidence scheme. And the worst may be yet to come."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

"It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen to the bankers and their allies in Washington tell it, you'd think the bailout was the best thing to hit the American economy since the invention of the assembly line. Not only did it prevent another Great Depression, we've been told, but the money has all been paid back, and the government even made a profit. No harm, no foul – right? Wrong.
It was all a lie – one of the biggest and most elaborate falsehoods ever sold to the American people." 

Republican Votes Against Hurricane Sandy Assistance 7 Years After Begging For Aid Post-Katrina

"Talking Points Memo highlights how Steven Palazzo, a Republican from Mississippi, voted against aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy after pleading for federal hurricane relief in 2005.:
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/republican-votes-against-hurricane-sandy-assistance-7-years-after-begging-aid-post?akid=9902.153143.7hHmrm&rd=1&src=newsletter772658&t=14

Want to know how your congress-person voted? Here you go: http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/house/1/7


Of particular interest is to learn the names, party, and STATES of the 67 NO votes on Sandy Relief.