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Electrogravitics - A Description of a Better Overunity ("Free Energy")

Electrogravitics... This technology was being developed and tested in all major... more

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This is one of the best description of banking crisis. The banks were selling oregano as weed

Matt Taibbi tells it like it is!!! http://www.democraticunderground.com/101715757... more

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Rewritten Headlines: Eddie Murphy to LSD

All the news that's fit to rewrite.

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Presidential Candidate Rocky Anderson Speaks At Occupy Wall Street Strategy Meeting

March 09, C-SPAN Courtesy of MOXNews

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NDAA and the Constitution – Part 3_ War and Repeal

War and Repeal http://youtu.be/l6mPqpbMuAo

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semper fi vote or die

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/17093487/voter-former-marine-protests-voter-id-law... more

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War on Women

Apparently the G.O.P in all it's wisdom has decided that rather than providing... more

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NDAA and the Constitution – Part 2: Shut Up! You Don’t Get a Lawyer!

Shut Up! You Don’t Get a Lawyer!? http://youtu.be/llxtS0JlwKM

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American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Founder Identified BY FBI As Communist Party Member

AIPAC Founder I.L. Kenen identified in FBI documents as Cleveland member of the... more

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NDAA and the US Constitution – Part 1: Romney & Gingrich

This video series takes a critical look at the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act... more

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NSA whistle-blower: Obama “worse than Bush”

Thomas Drake, the whistle-blower whom the Obama administration tried and failed to... more

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Can the Government Force Suspects To Decrypt Incriminating Files?

In October 2010, law enforcement agents pursuing a child pornography investigation... more

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Truth Dig - Chris Hedges gave this talk Saturday night in Washington, D.C., at the Occupy AIPAC protest. Please read article and share, following is an excerpt.
AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent:

"...The battle for justice in the Middle East is our battle. It is part of the great battle against the corporate forces of death that reign over us—the fossil fuel industry, the weapons manufacturers, the security and surveillance state, the speculators on Wall Street, the oligarchic elites who assault our poor, our working men and women, our children, one in four of whom depend on food stamps to eat, the elites who are destroying our ecosystem with its trees, its air and its water and throwing into doubt our survival as a species.

What is being done in Gaza, the world’s largest open-air prison, is a pale reflection of what is slowly happening to the rest of us. It is a window into the rise of the global security state, our new governing system that the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls “inverted totalitarianism.” It is a reflection of a world where the powerful are not bound by law, either on Wall Street or in the shattered remains of the countries we invade and occupy, including Iraq with its hundreds of thousands of dead. And one of the greatest purveyors of this demented ideology of violence for the sake of violence, this flagrant disregard for the rule of domestic and international law, is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.

I spent seven years in the Middle East. I was the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. I lived for two of those seven years in Jerusalem. AIPAC does not speak for Jews or for Israel. It is a mouthpiece for right-wing ideologues, some of whom hold power in Israel and some of whom hold power in Washington, who believe that because they have the capacity to war wage they have a right to wage war, whose loyalty, in the end, is not to the citizens of Israel or Palestine or the United States but the corporate elites, the defense contractors, those who make war a business, those who have turned ordinary Palestinians, Israelis and Americans, along with hundreds of millions of the world’s poor, into commodities to exploit, repress and control..."

Please read more at : http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/aipac_works_for_the_1_percent_20120304/Truth Dig - Chris Hedges gave this talk Saturday night in Washington, D.C., at the... more

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If You Or A Family Member Received Medical Care From Alleged Medicaper Leader Dr. Jacques Roy, Here Are Some People Who Can Help

Some helpful advice

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USA #1? 40 Embarrassing Things That America Is The Best In The World At

Is the USA still #1? Well, there are many things that America is still the best in... more

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Welcome to the 1 percent recovery

That elite sliver reaped 93 percent of the post-recession income gains. Is extreme inequality America's new normal?

There was a brief debate focused on the following question: Would the gains of the economy continue to accrue to the top 1 percent once the recovery started, or would they have a weak post-recession showing in terms of raw income growth as well as income share of the economy? The top 1 percent had a rough Great Recession. They absorbed 50 percent of the income losses, and their share of income dropped from 23.5 percent to 18.1 percent. Was this a new state of affairs, or would the 1 percent bounce back in 2010?

We finally have the estimated data for 2010 by income percentile, and it turns out that the top 1 percent had a fantastic year. The data is in the World Top Income Database, as well as Emmanuel Saez’s updated “Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States” (as well as the excel spreadsheet on his webpage). Timothy Noah has a first set of responses here. The takeaway quote from Saez is, “the top 1 percent captured 93 percent of the income gains in the first year of recovery.”

The bottom 90 percent of Americans lost $127, the bottom 99 percent of Americans gained $80, and the top 1 percent gained $105,637. The bottom 99 percent is net positive for the year due to around $125 in average capital gains. They can take comfort in efforts by the right to set the capital gains tax to 0 percent, which would have netted them an additional couple dozen bucks.

(Also, just to show “the top 1 percent captured 93 percent of the income gains in the first year of recovery” isn’t some sort of stats juke, you can take $105,637 and divide it by the the number you get when you add $80 times 99 to $105,637 times 1. That number is 93 percent, which is the share of income gains the 1 percent took home.)

And if this wasn’t obvious, you can see the gains become quite high the farther you walk up the inequality ladder. When we discuss things like the Buffett Rule or taxing capital gains as ordinary income, it is important to see how top-heavy that capital gains distribution actually is.

This should also be put in the historical frame of looking at 2002 onward. I’m going to normalize some percentiles by their average income in 2002 and show how they have moved going into and out of the recession. This takes the income distribution in 2002 as granted — and any movements from there on out reflect changes from that income. I’m going to exclude capital gains for this chart to show it’s a deeper phenomenon than the stock market, though the effects are the same in either case (click through for larger image): http://rortybomb.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/saez_chart.png?w=640&h=368

The Great Recession dropped income for the bottom 99 percent by 11.6 percent, completely wiping out the meager gains of the Bush years. And crucially, while 2010 was a year of continued stagnation for the economy as a whole, the 1 percent began to show strong gains even when capital gains are excluded.

As you can imagine, this has increased the percentage of the economic pie that the top 1 percent takes home. As Saez notes, “excluding realized capital gains, the top decile share in 2010 is equal to 46.3 percent, higher than in 2007.”

There are two things worth mentioning. There’s an interesting debate within left-liberal circles about whether or not elite economic interests benefit from a weak recovery, benefit more from a strong recovery, are vaguely indifferent to the United States economy, are impotent during the recession, or are more interested in pursuing other agendas during the instability caused by mass unemployment. These numbers are certainly a point for the argument that the rich are doing just fine, and to whatever extent they’d be doing better with more robust growth and employment, it isn’t putting a damper on their earnings.

It’s also worth mentioning that, pre-recession, inequality hadn’t been that high since the Great Depression, and we are quickly returning to that state. It’s important to remember that a series of choices were made during the New Deal to react to runaway inequality, including changes to progressive taxation, financial regulation, monetary policy, labor unionization, and the provisioning of public goods and guaranteed social insurance. A battle will be fought over the next decade — it’s already been fought for the past three years — on all these fronts. The subsequent resolution will determine how broadly shared prosperity is going forward and whether our economy will continue to be as unstable as it has been.

http://www.salon.com/2012/03/05/welcome_to_the_1_percent_recovery/singleton/That elite sliver reaped 93 percent of the post-recession income gains. Is extreme... more

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Andrew Breitbart: Just Another Weird Death?

I don't know if he was killed, but if you look at the huge list of other... more

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Ron Paul Revolution: THE GREAT AWAKENING

"Truth is treason in the empire of lies."

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A history of the Israeli nuclear weapons program - The Third Temple's Holy of Holies

This paper is a history of the Israeli nuclear weapons program drawn from a review of... more

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$Energy expert Daniel Fine, MIT. discusses North Carolina's Shale gas and hydraulic fracturing - video$

Energy expert Daniel Fine, MIT. discusses North Carolina's Shale gas and hydraulic fracturing

Dr. Daniel Fine of the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy discusses North... more

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