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On Christmas Eve, the Obama administration pledged to provide unlimited financial assistance to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The eleventh-hour move allows the government to exceed the current $400 billion cap on emergency aid without seeking permission from a bailout-weary Congress. As the administration was making this open-ended financial commitment, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac disclosed that 12 top executives will receive $42 million in compensation packages. This includes up to $6 million each to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's chief executives.On Christmas Eve, the Obama administration pledged to provide unlimited financial... more
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E-mail messages obtained by the New York Times show that statements by dozens of lawmakers entered into the official record of the House debate on healthcare were ghostwritten, in whole or part, by lobbyists for biotechnology company Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotech companies. The company estimates that 42 House members picked up some of its talking points — 22 Republicans and 20 Democrats.E-mail messages obtained by the New York Times show that statements by dozens of... more
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The time is now. America is waking up. Resistance is the order of the day. I could feel it with growing certainty as I read the numerous and gratifying responses to my call for a national strike here on HuffPost. So many smart people offering so many good ideas. Even my detractors acknowledged the underlying issues I put forth.
This notion was reaffirmed on August 28 when Bill Maher interviewed Bill Moyers on a special edition of HBO's "Real Time". "The Democratic Party has become like the Republican Party, deeply influenced by corporate money," Moyers said. A short while later he added: "You really have two corporate parties who in their own way and their own time are serving the interests of basically a narrow set of economic interests in the country." In other words, it's the people versus the corporate state.
You hear it more and more, sometimes spoken in code, sometimes spelled out as clearly as a neon sign. We have reached the tipping point. The enemy has been identified. It's not left versus right it's democracy versus greed. This realization sits there like an unexploded bomb. We stare at it, waiting only for someone to light the match.
(article goes on into how to take the power back.)The time is now. America is waking up. Resistance is the order of the day. I could... more
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