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In the 435-member House of Representatives, 123 elected officials earned at least one million dollars last year, according to recently released financial records made public each year. Next door in the ornate Senate, whose blue-blooded pedigree includes a Kennedy and a Rockefeller, one in three people are millionaires. By comparison, less than one percent of Americans make seven-figure incomes.:
Source: Millionaires Fill US Congress Halls, Agence France Press, June 30, 2004 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6418.htm =
"The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and monied corporations, and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling and riding over the plundered plowman and the beggar... Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) =
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of. : Confucius =
Democracy [is] when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers: Aristotle =
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. -- Walter Anderson === Jim Rogers Calls Most Big U.S. Banks "Bankrupt" By Jonathan Stempel "Governments are making mistakes," he said. "They're saying to all the banks, you don't have to tell us your situation. You can continue to use your balance sheet that is phony.... All these guys are bankrupt, they're still worrying about their bonuses, they're still trying to pay their dividends, and the whole system is weakened."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21447.htm === What is to be Done? The End of the Washington Consensus By Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers Austerity and "fiscal responsibility" are for other countries. America acts ruthlessly in its own economic interest at any given moment of time. It freely spends more than it earns, flooding the global economy with what has now risen to $4 trillion in U.S. government debt to foreign central banks.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21450.htm === We Told You By David Sirota Please, forgive me for saying it. I know it's a tad annoying, but it has to be said to America's ruling class in this humble column space. Because if it's not said here you can bet it won't be said anywhere else in the media, and it needs to be said somewhere on behalf of the millions of citizens who were right.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21454.htm === What Exactly is Money? A separation of truth and myth about our monetary system By Jon Ronnquist === Obama and Daschle Should Opt for Single-Payer By Rose Ann Demoro === If G.M. Was a Canadian Company It Wouldn't Be Asking for Help By Dean Baker === Barack Obama: "America's First Jewish President" By James Petras According to a nationally prominent Zionist spokesperson, former Congressman, Federal Judge, White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton and early backer of Obama, Abner Mikvner, "Barack Obama is the first Jewish President". Mikvner's affirmation reflects both Obama's one-sided and longstanding commitment to the State of Israel and loyalty to the Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC) in the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21449.htm === Rahm Emanuel and Jesse Jackson Jr Face New Revelations in Governor Rod Blagojevich Scandal By James Bone in Chicago === NATO: Forces kill 4 civilians in Afghanistan: NATO troops fired on a civilian bus Friday in central Afghanistan that refused warnings to stop, killing four passengers, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
http://tinyurl.com/5ucolj ===
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Four UK occupation force members killed in Afghanistan: === US: Iran buying Russian arms via Belarus: === Iran arrests nuclear employees suspected of spying: === Ahmadinejad: Zionists' crimes stem from their anger: === Obama adopting old US tactics of 'deception and fraud': Iran cleric: A senior Iranian cleric described President-elect Barack Obama yesterday as a novice who was adopting old US tactics of "deception and fraud", underscoring Iran's scepticism about prospects for change in US policy.
http://tinyurl.com/5bl2jl === In case you missed it : Study alleges US sets aside own security interest for Israel's: === An Israeli in Gaza: An Interview with Jeff Halper: : As an Israeli and the head of an Israeli peace organization (ICAHD - The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions), I was asked by the Free Gaza Movement organizers to take part in their action to Break the Siege of Gaza by sailing two boats from Cyprus to Gaza City port
http://www.counterpunch.org/barat12122008.html === Jimmy Carter regrets not meeting with Hezbollah: Jimmy Carter said Friday he would have been "delighted" to meet with Hezbollah officials during his visit to Lebanon and regretted the militant group's leaders refuse to meet with current or former American presidents.
http://www.newsobserver.com/1635/story/1331785.html === Uganda says AU occupatiuon forces to quit Somalia if Ethiopian occupation forces go: Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Thursday broke the news that the AU force would also leave and promised to help the Ugandan and Burundian peacekeepers, numbering around 3,000, to pull out.
http://tinyurl.com/5g5kbm === 'Thousands' desert Somalia forces: === EU Buys Second Irish Vote On Lisbon Treaty: === Correa Defaults on Ecuador Bonds, Seeks Restructuring: Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa halted payment on foreign bonds he calls "illegal" and "illegitimate," putting the South American country in default for a second time in a decade.
http://tinyurl.com/6zugqf === Jackson Jr. denies he was involved in scheme: === Daschle's Lobbyist Wife Might Complicate New Post: Daschle's new position might be complicated by his wife, Linda Hall Daschle, who is a registered lobbyist with the Washington firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz.
http://tinyurl.com/5ftrpa === More Americans Believe in the Devil, Hell and Angels than in Darwin's Theory of Evolution: === Ex-Nasdaq chair arrested on fraud charge in NYC: === Auto Bailout: White House to the Rescue?: === Georgia, Texas Banks Shut as Foreclosures Rise; Toll Reaches 25: === Fed Refuses to Disclose Recipients of $2 Trillion - === Fear triggers gold shortage: === US homelessness, hunger rising: === Credit crunch? What credit crunch?: ===
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