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Biggest corporate political interests spend billions, get trillions
sunlightfoundation.com |Bill Allison | older, 11/17/14

Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America's most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions. A year-long analysis by the Sunlight Foundation suggests, however, that what they gave pales compared to what those same corporations got: $4.4 trillion in federal business and support. ... Read more
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China now owns 1 in 4 pigs raised in the U.S. as food becomes "the oil of the 21st century".

The Hidden Money Buying Condos at the Time Warner Center
NYTimes | author | older, 02/07/15

For more than a year, The New York Times examined the influx of global cash fueling the city's high-end real estate boom. The investigation pierced the secrecy of more than 200 shell companies that have owned condominiums at one complex, the Time Warner Center:

  1. Nearly half of the most expensive residential properties in the United States are now purchased anonymously through shell companies.
  2. The real estate industry does little examination of buyers' identities or backgrounds, and there is no legal requirement for it to do so.
  3. At the Time Warner Center, 37 percent of the condominiums are owned by foreigners. At least 16 foreigners who have owned in the building have been the subject of government inquiries, either personally or as heads of companies.
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In Program to Spur Affordable Housing, $100 Million Penthouse Gets 95% Tax Cut
NYTimes | Charles V. Bagli | older, 02/01/15

The penthouse at One57, which offers panoramic views from 1,000 feet above 57th Street, recently sold for a record-setting $100.5 million.

But it is not the price that has grabbed the attention of housing advocates, policy analysts, developers and city officials. Rather, it is one of peculiarities of New York real estate: a billionaire's lair that comes with an incentive that cuts this year's property tax bill by 95 percent, or an estimated $360,000. ... Read more

Governments operate on the premise that propaganda and threats will always be enough to cow their populaces into compliance and bribes will induce complicity.When lies, bribes and threats no long work, the state unleashes its full pathological powers on dissent.

When It Becomes Serious, First They Lie - When That Fails, They Arrest You
ZeroHedge | author | 03/16/15

"When it becomes serious, you have to lie." Jean-Claude Juncker simply gave voice to what the world's leaders practice on a daily basis, because now it's always serious.

And why is it now serious? Persuading tax donkeys and debt serfs (middle class) that everything is going their way is now impossible without lies. Persuading the populace that the leadership is working on their behalf was jettisoned in the wake of the 2008 bailout of bankers and parasites.

Stripped of the artifice that they care about anything other than preserving the wealth of their cronies, global political leaders now rely on propaganda: narratives designed to manage expectations and perceptions, bolstered by carefully tailored official statistics.

When 20% of the populace no longer believe the lies and begins questioning the state's enforcement of the status quo, the government devotes its resources to punishing dissenters, resisters and whistleblowers ... Read more

The New GOP Senator Tom Cotton
AlterNet | Medea Benjamin | 03/12/15

Hailing from Arkansas, 37-year-old Senator Cotton boasts the title of being the youngest member of the Senate, but he spouts the old warmongering rhetoric of 78-year-old Senator John McCain. From Guantanamo to Iran, food stamps to women's rights, here are ten reasons why Tom Cotton is a dangerous dude.

  1. He penned an underhanded letter to the leaders of Iran that borders on traitorous.
  2. Senator Cotton said the only problem he has with Guantanamo Bay prison is that "there are too many empty beds."
  3. He has compared the negotiations of the UN Security Council (P5+1) with Iran to the "appeasement of Nazi Germany."
  4. He thinks the use of killer drones should be expanded. Note: only 2% of all people killed by drone strikes have been confirmed "high-value" targets.
  5. He claims that "bombing makes us safer." While in some masochistic, twisted logic that might make sense in the short term, historically speaking US military intervention has led to more extremism.
  6. He uses fear-mongering to call for a crackdown on immigrants and a clampdown on the Mexican border. Senator Cotton says drug cartels in Mexico are ready to expand into human trafficking and even terrorism, and could infiltrate our southern border and "attack it right here in places like Arkansas."
  7. He received $700,000 for his senate campaign from the Emergency Committee for Israel. During the 2014 Israeli invasion of Gaza, when over 500 Palestinian were killed, Cotton called the Israeli defense force "the most moral, humanitarian fighting force in the world."
  8. As an Army Lieutenant in 2006, Cotton called for the prosecution of two New York Times journalists for espionage. When the New York Times published an article about how the government was tracking terrorist financing, Cotton called for the journalists to be imprisoned.
  9. He thinks food-stamp recipients are "addicts."
  10. He has opposed legislation to expand women's rights. Senator Cotton voted against equal pay legislation and the Violence Against Women Act.
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, March 16 [13:30]
*DN | Johann Hari & Naomi Klein: Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction? (03/16/15) [53:22]
*DN | As U.N. Backs Fossil Fuel Divestment, Bill McKibben on Vanuatu, Oxford Vote, California Water Crisis (03/16/15) [11:29]
DN | After Swedish Prosecutors Back Down, Is WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Close to Freedom? (03/16/15) [10:39]
PBS NewsHour
PBS NewsHour | How did CIA money end up in al-Qaeda coffers? (03/15/15) [3"43]
Fukushima
More Contaminated water may have seeped into ground at Fukushima nuclear plant (03/13/15) [0:33]
Fox News - ISIS
Fox | Growing Expansion of ISIS Beyond the Boarders of Syria and Iraq (03/14/15) [5:53]
TRNN | Author Joshua Reubner: Iran Nuclear Program a Distraction from Israel's Nuclear Weapons (03/16/15) [5:31]
TRNN | TRNN reports from the Jewish Voice for Peace National Meeting: Israelis and Palestinians See Little Hope For Change In Upcoming Election (03/16/15) [6:25]
TRNN | Bill Black says: The Juncker Plan for Economic Recovery in Europe (03/16/15) [9:52]
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TYT | College Graduation Rates Indicate Growing Wealth Gap (03/15/15) [6:07]
*TYT | Iceland Does The Unimaginable To Its Criminal Bankers (03/15/15) [4:01]
TYT | What It's Like To Live As A Women Under ISIS Rule (03/15/15) [6:42]
TYT | Lesbian Couple Custody Battle With Sperm Donors (03/15/15) [4:35]
RT | CrossTalk: GOP's Act of Treason? (03/11/15) [23:49]
RT | Keiser Report: Destroying the Middle Class (E730) (03/12/15) [25:31]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
John Oliver
HBO | The NCAA doesn't pay athletes because they consider them amateurs. (03/15/16) [20:53]
Counter Intelligence, Shining a Light on Black Operations | Five Part Program
This 5-part documentary is a great expose on the national surveillance state that has arisen over the last 50-100 years. Manipulating elections, overthrowing foreign governments, and secret assassinations are just a few of the heinous acts committed in the name of national security. Now that Edward Snowden has blown the lid off of the NSA's Prism snooping program, this film series is even more important and relevant. "Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter accusations"-- that's plausible deniability and that's how govt runs our country!
Counter Intelligence | The Company, Part 1 () [1:18:34]
Part 1: The Company
This film takes a very informative and provocative look into the illegal and covert operations of the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.). It lays out the historical foundations of the modern surveillance state.
Counter Intelligence | The Deep State, Part 2 () [1:25:25]
Part 2: The Deep State
For the first time during the Iran-Contra scandal, Americans get a look at the secret programs and operations of their government. Other topics include Watergate and the War on Drugs. The War on Drugs is essentially a massive coverup that allows criminal syndicates to generate massive profits and commit acts of murder and bribery with impunity throughout the United States and South America.
Counter Intelligence | The Strategy of Tension, Part 3 () [55:09]
Part 3: The Strategy of Tension
The Strategy of Tension examines the history of false flag operations used for war, propaganda and psychological operations--or 'psy-ops.' Operation Northwoods and Operation Gladio are examples used to illustrate the nature of clandestine operation planning and execution; as well as shedding light on the intent and extent to which the National Security apparatus manipulates events and manufactures outcomes to suit its goals. This programme also looks at the issues that spin off from the history of false flag operations--such as how conspiracy theories are used to discredit inquiry and investigative journalism; and also how the cultural preconditions around dismissing false flag operations serve to protect their continuation and 'plausible deniability.'
Counter Intelligence | Necrophilous, Part 4 () [1:56:03]
Part 4: Necrophilous
An examination of torture, war crimes, and abuse of authority during protests and war. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay Cuba shed light on the US security state's attitudes towards those who resist (or are accused of resisting) the American Empire's attempt at global hegemony. Islamophobia -- largely a construct of media propaganda -- is the driving force behind American's lust for war in the middle east and Americans' tolerance for crimes against humanity and "collateral damage".
Counter Intelligence | Drone Nation, Part 5 () [50:04]
Part 5: Drone Nation
After President Obama signed the 2011 NDAA, the US government is allowed to kidnap and detain its own citizens without any warning or notification. A simple accusation of "terrorism" is all that is needed to murder innocents with drones from command centers thousands of miles away. Whatever your opinion of Anwar al Awlaki, his 2011 murder by drone strike, and subsequent lack of outrage, sets a dangerous precedent for Americans' liberty and security from its own government.
Dark Journalist
Dark Journalist | Defense Minister Paul Hellyer: Money Mafia And The UFO Cabal: Major Revelations! (11/05/14) [54:56]
Dark Journalist | Peter Dale Scott: American Deep State: Secret Government, CIA, FEMA (01/25/15) [2:04:17]

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