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CISPA - Corporations Buy Politicians and Your Privacy

http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76046

The 'mess' that oil made
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013/04/20134247553691966.html

America: The World’s Number One Sponsor Of Terrorism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34710.htm

Balancing the State and Federal Roles in Boston Bomber Case
http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2013/04/balancing-the-state-and-federal-roles-in-boston-bomber-case.html

Israel: The Politics Behind The Armenian Genocide
http://axisofjustice.net/israel-the-politics-behind-the-armenian-genocide/

Obama Poised to Deliver Another Blow to Whistleblower Protections
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/obama-whistleblower-case-national-security-sensitive

Report: Wealthy Thrive and Poorest Dive as Surge in US Inequality Continues
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/24-3

Confront Corporate Personhood: Take Back our Planet
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Confront-Corporate-Personh-by-Kaitlin-Sopoci-Bel-130424-769.html

The White House's Flawed Korea Policies
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-White-House-s-Flawed-K-by-Conn-Hallinan-130425-255.html

Time to Renounce the "War on Terror"
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Time-to-Renounce-the-War-by-Norman-Solomon-130424-739.html

Obama and the game of drones

http://socialistworker.org/2013/04/24/obama-and-the-game-of-drones

Wal-Mart workers won't rest
http://socialistworker.org/2013/04/24/walmart-workers-wont-rest

Why It's Literally Sickening to Ban Whistleblowers from Exposing Cruelty at Factory Farms
http://www.alternet.org/food/why-its-literally-sickening-ban-whistleblowers-exposing-cruelty-factory-farms

'Terrorism' and the Perpetual Emotion War Machine
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/24

Why hackers love Twitter
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14470131-why-hackers-love-twitter

America: #1 In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, Obesity, Anti-Depressants, Etc.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/america-1-in-fear-stress-anger-divorce-obesity-anti-depressants-etc_042013

Every Time a Bomb Goes Off, The Surveillance State Grows Stronger
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34725.htm

10 facts about enemy combatants
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/what-is-an-enemy-combatant-90436.html

When Israeli Denial of Palestinian Existence Becomes Genocidal
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34720.htm

IRS Says It Will Change Its Policy On Looking At Emails Without A Warrant... At Some Point
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130421/23062122797/irs-says-it-will-change-its-policy-looking-emails-without-warrant-some-point.shtml

Yet Another Study Shows Low IQ And Right-Wing Ideology Go Hand-In-Hand
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/24/yet-another-study-shows-low-iq-and-right-wing-ideology-go-hand-in-hand/

Why Brainwash Kids?
http://new.exchristian.net/2013/04/why-brainwash-kids.html

Godless Morality and Ethics: Being Good Without Gods or Religion is Possible
http://atheism.about.com/od/ethicsandculture/p/GodlessMorals.htm?nl=1

18.Feb.2013 - HEADLINES: Minimum Wage, Climate Change Ultimatum, Immigrant Rights, Drone Assassinations, Police State, Drone Test Sites, Mainstream media, Obama War Criminal, Student Loans, Inequality, more.

Why Was the Biggest Protest in World History Ignored?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/15-7

POTUS Proposes an Increase in the Minimum Wage

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/320-80/16004-potus-proposes-an-increase-in-the-minimum-wage

Obama Gives Congress a Climate Change Ultimatum

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/16003-obama-gives-congress-a-climate-change-ultimatum-

State of the Union 101: Nine Obama proposals that might create jobs
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0213/State-of-the-Union-101-Nine-Obama-proposals-that-might-create-jobs

'Stop the Deportations': Protesters Call for Immigrant Rights at Senate Hearing
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/13-8

Nearly 50 Climate Activists Arrested Outside Obama's White House
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/13

Obama Defends Drone Assassinations In State Of The Union Address

http://www.countercurrents.org/grey130213.htm

Are We Living in a Police State?
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/are-we-living-police-state

Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/304-justice/16022-focus-gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail

How Conservatives Who Block Minimum Wage Hikes are Destroying the Economy
http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-conservatives-who-block-minimum-wage-hikes-are-destroying-economy

CISPA, the Privacy-Invading Cybersecurity Spying Bill, is Back in Congress
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/14-11

FAA to create 6 drone test sites in US
http://www.washingtonguardian.com/drones-home

Who Tells Us What To Think? Does The Mainstream Media = The Matrix?
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/who-tells-us-what-to-think-does-the-mainstream-media-the-matrix_022013

'Let Us Not Be Deceived': Cornel West Names Obama as 'War Criminal'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/15-4

Student Loan Programs in Crisis
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/business/student-loan-programs-in-crisis-347734.html

When God Is Not Enough: Religious States Have Highest Rates of Anti-Depressant Use
http://www.alternet.org/belief/when-god-not-enough-religious-states-have-highest-rates-anti-depressant-use

Inequality and American democracy
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/16/pers-f16.html

Obama defends drone assassinations in State of the Union address
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/13/sotu-f13.html

02.Nov.2012 - Demonic Possession, New York Crises, Climate Change Gridlock, High School Atheist Club, New World Order, Capitalist Dictatorship, Next President of Austerity, Small Markets Big Money, Vote the Bible Shirts, Fighting Monsanto, We Are Not Powerless

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Shocking Poll - More than Two-Thirds of Republican Voters Believe in Demonic Possession

And less than half think humans are responsible for climate change.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/shocking-poll-more-two-thirds-republican-voters-believe-demonic-possession

1 Not-So-Simple, Pretty Funny Question for the 73% of White Evangelicals Who Will Apparently Be Voting for Romney

A question that deserves an answer before election day.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/1-not-so-simple-pretty-funny-question-73-white-evangelicals-who-will-apparently-be

Residents of New York Face a Huge Range of Crises

Contradictions abound in NYC -- huge swathes of the city are fine, while entire neighborhoods are facing serious shortages.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/residents-new-york-face-huge-range-crises

Climate Change Gridlock: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 1)

Global warming is no longer a fear for the future, it’s threatening human civilization now. But a good portion of humanity doesn’t seem that concerned. On this edition, part 1 of a special 2 part series, Brian Edwards-Tiekert takes us through the climate change that is happening, the political response that isn’t, and the people trying to break the gridlock.

http://www.radioproject.org/2011/06/climate-change-gridlock-where-do-we-go-from-here-part-1/

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Student Duncan Henderson Fights for Two Years to Start Atheist Club at Alabama High School

Student Duncan Henderson has been trying to start an atheist club, called the “freethinker” club, at Auburn Junior High in Auburn, Alabama, but was met with strong resistance for two years.

(spelling corrected here^)

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/christianity/student-duncan-henderson-fights-two-years-start-atheist-club-alabama-high

From Chaos To A New World Order: Words Of Hope At The United Nations

Existing political/economic structures that serve not the people are in decay, a new world order based on universal principles of goodness: justice, equality, unity and freedom Is the call of many around the world.

http://www.countercurrents.org/peebles011112.htm

Capitalist Dictatorship in Romney Campaign

he mainstream media and even Democrats have been slow to call Mitt Romney's deliberate falsehoods "lies." But after just calling them what they are, it is also important to analyze their meaning. Lies on Romney's scale do not simply show contempt for the intelligence of American voters. They show contempt for democracy, and display some of the features of capitalist dictatorship of a sort that was common in the late twentieth century. 

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14295-capitalist-dictatorship-in-romney-campaign

The Source of Romney’s Lying

Exclusive: An enduring mystery about Mitt Romney is why he lies so persistently and with so little shame. Some people blame his business experience or cite the basic dishonesty of politics, but there is also the curious foundation of his Mormon religion which was started by a proven conman, notes Robert Parry.

http://consortiumnews.com/2012/11/01/the-source-of-romneys-lying/

Telling Truths about Israel/Palestine

False national narratives play key roles in controlling human behavior, especially when enforced by an aggressive propaganda system that demonizes factual counter-narratives. That has long been the case as Israel minimized its harsh treatment of Palestinians, but the truth has begun to break through, says Lawrence Davidson.

http://consortiumnews.com/2012/10/28/telling-truths-about-israelpalestine/

The next president of austerity
We know from history that the "lesser evil" is no guarantee against the "greater evil."
http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/01/the-next-president-of-austerity

Small markets, big money
The sports media is moaning about the trade of Oklahoma City Thunder star James Harden to the Houston Rockets--but NBA owners are making out just fine.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/01/small-markets-big-money

WHY DO WE NEED A PRESIDENT ANYWAY?

It wasn’t always a given that we’d have a single executive who has the power to make final decisions about the fate of our country.

http://news.discovery.com/history/president-history-121101.html#mkcpgn=emnws1

Christian group fights Texas for banning ‘Vote the Bible’ shirt at polls

A Christian group in Texas is threatening to file a formal complaint with the Attorney General’s office because a woman who lives near Austin was forced to cover up her “Vote the Bible” T-shirt after election officials suggested that it could be construed as illegal electioneering.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/01/christian-group-fights-texas-for-banning-vote-the-bible-shirt-at-polls

A Grim Warning from Science

One of the things that makes Sandy different from Katrina is that it’s a relatively clean story. The lessons of Katrina were numerous and painful—they had to do with race, with class, with the willful incompetence of a government that had put a professional Arabian horse fancier in charge of its rescue efforts.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/01-8

Corporate Media Breaks Climate Silence, Following Undeniable Sandy Superstorm

As many have now observed, part of the new reality in Sandy's aftermath—whether too slowly, reluctantly or imperfectly—is that many mainstream media outlets, once decidedly resigned to avoid the scientific consensus, are now asking significant questions about the role of human-induced global warming and the impact of climate change and extreme weather.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/01-6

Hurricane Sandy and the Myth of the Big Government-vs.-Small-Government Debate

Quite a shock the other day to look out my window in Jersey City, and see the Hudson River rushing over what used to be the street in front of my building. For nearly three days my dog and I played Robinson Crusoe and Friday, sleepily watching from our little apartment-island while we waited for hot water, cell service, the internet, even elevators to come back on line.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/01-6

Why Monsanto Is Fighting Tooth and Nail Against California's Prop 37

A new poll conducted by the University of Southern California and the LA Times has found that Proposition 37, the GMO labeling initiative has slipped a whopping 17 points since the last poll in September. The proposition continues to lead but only by 2 percentage points with less than a week before the election. Thirteen percent of likely voters are still undecided on whether to require mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms in foods.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/01-4

We Are Not Powerless to Confront Climate Change

Millions of victims of Superstorm Sandy remain without power, but they are not powerless to do something about climate change. The media consistently fail to make the link between extreme weather and global warming. Through this catastrophe, people are increasingly realizing that our climate has changed, and the consequences are dire.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/01-2

Senate likely to revisit cyber bill when Congress returns

Senator Joe Lieberman, one of the authors of the bill, would consider dropping a provision aimed at shoring up protection of critical infrastructure that had raised concerns among Senate Republicans, if that issue could be addressed in an executive order, Jeffrey Ratner, senior adviser for cybersecurity on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/31/us-usa-cyber-legislation-idUSBRE89U1QK20121031

Looking Beyond Election Day: The Issues That Threaten to Derail the Nation

What follows is an overview of the major issues that both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, despite their respective billion dollar war chests, have failed to mention during their extensive campaign trail stumping and televised debates. These are issues that aren't going away anytime soon. Indeed, unless we take a proactive approach to the problems that loom large before us, especially as they relate to America's ongoing transformation into a police state, we may find that they are here to stay.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/looking-beyond-election-day_b_2049168.html

Sandy Forces Climate Change on US Election

The presidential candidates avoided the topic at all their big public forums - except for Romney's Republican national convention joke about how silly it was to try and slow the rise of the oceans (which probably didn't win him many votes on the Jersey Shore this week). Obama did talk climate with MTV last week, but that venue almost defines the issue's fringe status; his other real discussion of it was with Rolling Stone - global warming is, apparently, only for people with earbuds.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/14300-focus-sandy-forces-climate-change-on-us-election

Two diametrically opposed views on the #Occupy movement

Two wildly different takes on the Occupy movement have recently found their way into my Twitter feed. Both deserve careful consideration (watch this blogspace):

http://johnpostill.com/2012/11/01/two-diametrically-opposed-views-on-the-occupy-movement/

When will male politicians take women's rights seriously?

Feminism appears to be back with a vengeance in the UK. Kirsty Styles reports from the UK Feminista lobby of Parliament, and asks how long it will take before the f-word that really rings true in our society is 'fairness'

http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/kirsty-styles/when-will-male-politicians-take-womens-rights-seriously

When Corporations Bankroll Politics, We All Pay The Price

t's a revolting spectacle: the two presidential candidates engaged in a frantic and demeaning scramble for money. By 6 November, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will each have raised more than $1bn. Other groups have already spent a further billion. Every election costs more than the one before; every election, as a result, drags the United States deeper into cronyism and corruption. Whichever candidate takes the most votes, it's the money that wins.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14284-when-corporations-bankroll-politics-we-all-pay-the-price

Why the Protestant Work Ethic Is a Menace to Society

Good riddance to a religious approach that preached salvation through constant hard labor.

http://www.alternet.org/labor/why-protestant-work-ethic-menace-society

The 9 Most Anti-Science Candidates in America

These House and Senate candidates don't like that book learnin'.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/9-most-anti-science-candidates-america

How Christian Fundamentalism Feeds the Toxic Partisanship of US Politics

When evangelicals attack 'the gay agenda' of an anti-bullying event in schools, something is sick in America's religious culture

http://www.alternet.org/how-christian-fundamentalism-feeds-toxic-partisanship-us-politics

Distrust growing among voters in California

US military spending in question

US-Israel conduct Largest Military Drill to date

The Depression Cure That Society Won't Allow

More 'Once in a Lifetime' Weather Events Likely

A Crisis Foretold: Studies Warned New York Infrastructure Critically Threatened by Climate Change

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Without Power and Aid, Low-Income Residents of NYC’s Lower East Side Struggle in Storm’s Aftermath

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David Rohde: Superstorm Sandy Has Exposed New York City’s "Hideous Inequality"

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As Missouri Senate Race Tightens, New Details Emerge on Todd Akin’s Anti-Abortion Past

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Record number of Americans in poverty

Record number of Americans in poverty

By Joseph Kishore
14 September 2011

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The poverty rate in the US soared to 15.1 percent in 2010, its highest level since 1993, according to a report released by the Census Bureau on Tuesday. Household incomes continued to fall sharply, amidst the worst jobs crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the number of people without health insurance increased.
The bureau's report documents a shocking decline in the living standards of millions of people, a devastating indictment of the policies of the Obama administration and the entire political establishment. The new figures cover conditions one year after the supposed beginning of the recovery in June 2009.
The poverty rate increased nearly a full percentage point, from 14.3 percent in 2009. It was the third consecutive annual increase in the poverty rate and the fourth consecutive annual increase in the number of people living in poverty. Last year, there were 46.2 million people living in poverty, defined at the absurdly low level of about $22,000 a year for a family of four and $11,000 a year for an individual.
The number of people earning less than twice the poverty rate (about $44,000 for a family of four) stood at 103 million in 2010, or about 34 percent of the population.
The percentage of children under 18 living in poverty increased from 20.7 percent to 22.0 percent. A total of 16.4 million children live in poverty, equivalent to the population of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston combined.
The total number of people in poverty is equivalent to the combined population of the 50 largest cities in the United States. There are more people in poverty in the US in 2010 than during any year on record going back to 1959.
Since 2007, the poverty rate has increased from 12.5 percent to 15.1 percent, or 2.6 percentage points.

The poverty rate for African-Americans increased at a particularly rapid rate, from 25.8 percent in 2009 to 27.4 percent in 2010.
Millions of people live in what is known as “deep poverty,” with incomes less than 50 percent of the official poverty level (or less than about $11,000 a year for a family of four). The deep poverty rate increased from 6.3 percent in 2009 to 6.7 percent in 2010, an increase of 1.5 million to a total of 20.5 million people.
While children under 18 represent 24.4 percent of the overall population, they make up 36 percent of the population (7.5 million individuals) living in deep poverty.
The absolute number of people living in deep poverty and the deep poverty rate are both at the highest level since the government began tabulating these figures in 1975.
The Census report also documented a continued decline in income for working people, with the real median household income falling to $49,445 in 2010, down 2.3 percent ($1,154) from 2009. Since 2007, the report notes, “real median income has declined 6.4 percent and is 7.1 percent below the median household income peak that occurred in 1999.”
These averages mask the enormous inequality that has become the central feature of American society. The lowest 20 percent of households, with incomes of $20,000 or less, saw their share of total income fall from 3.4 percent to 3.3 percent. The top 20 percent took home more than 50 percent of all money income.
A report by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities notes that since 1999, real income “has fallen 12.1 percent for those at the 10th income percentile but only 1.5 percent for those at the 90th percentile. The income gap between those at the 10th and 90th percentile was this highest on record.”
Since 1999, real household income has fallen 5.5 percent for non-Hispanic whites, 14.6 percent for African Americans, 8.9 percent for Asians and 10.1 percent for Hispanics, according to the Census report.
For men with full-time, year-round jobs, the real median income is about the same today as it was in 1973, having remained largely flat for three decades.
Mass unemployment is a major driving force behind the decline in living standards, as corporations utilize the jobs crisis to push through wage and benefit cuts for those who are able to find work. Since 2007, the number of year-round, full-time workers fell by 9.4 million, a fall without parallel since the Great Depression.
These conditions have continued into 2011. Official unemployment stands at 9.1 percent, with the most recent jobs report from the Labor Department showing zero net job growth last month. The level of long-term unemployment is at a historic high. The percent of the population unemployed increased from 16.1 percent to 16.3 percent.

The number of people without health insurance in the United States was 49.9 million in 2010, an increase of nearly one million over 2009. The rise in the uninsured is a particularly damning exposure of the fraud of Obama's health care “reform,” which was in fact an opening shot in a drive to reduce health care costs for corporations and the government.
The rise in poverty is a product of the long-term decline of American capitalism, combined with the ferocious class war waged by the ruling class, now led by the Obama administration. Mass impoverishment is the outcome of a deliberate policy that has resulted in a vast transfer of wealth into the hands of a small corporate and financial aristocracy.
These indices of mass social distress come at a time of record profits, with corporations sitting on a cash hoard estimated at more than $2 trillion. The government has handed over trillions of dollars to the banks, inflating the stock market while bailing out the wealthy. Far from leading to an economic revival, the conditions for the vast majority of the population have suffered a catastrophic decline.
Amidst clear signs of a world economy sinking into a depression, the response of the ruling class is to push for massive austerity. States and local governments throughout the country are implementing cuts in the most basic programs to prevent poverty. The Michigan state government, for example, passed a measure this month that will cut 41,000 people from welfare assistance, including nearly 30,000 children, beginning October 1.
Meanwhile, after outlining a phony jobs proposal that will do nothing to address the unemployment crisis, the Obama administration is set to propose trillions of dollars in cuts to health care and retirement programs.
The administration has made a point of insisting that a proposal being worked on by a bipartisan budget deficit committee must include deep cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, the main federal health care programs.
To fight against these conditions, the working class must enter into industrial and political struggle.
The Socialist Equality Party calls for emergency measures to eliminate poverty, including a multi-trillion dollar public works program to employ tens of millions of workers in high-paying, productive jobs rebuilding infrastructure and meeting other critical social needs. A livable income to meet all basic needs is a social right that must be guaranteed to everyone.
To pay for this program, the SEP fights for a radical redistribution of wealth, including a 90 percent tax on all incomes over $500,000. Corporations, currently engaged in a hiring strike, must be taken over by the working class and run democratically in the interests of social need.
The implementation of these measures is impossible outside of a direct attack on the interests of the wealthy and on the capitalist two-party system, through the building of a mass socialist political movement of the working class.