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Crackdown on Corporate Crime --a 12 step program- Ralph Nader
Nader Proposes Crackdown on Corporate Crime, Fraud and Abuse
The US needs to crackdown on corporate crime, fraud and abuse that have in the last four years looted and drained trillions of dollars from workers, investors, pension holders and consumers. Among the reforms needed are resources to prosecute and convict the corporate executive crooks and to democratize corporate governance so shareholders have real power; pay back ill-gotten gains; rein in executive pay; and enact corporate sunshine laws, among others.
Below are twelve initial steps for an effective crackdown on corporate crime, fraud and abuse. The Nader campaign will return to this issue and expand the discussion on the solution to corporate crime and abuse.
Twelve Steps to an Effective Crackdown on Corporate Crime
Increase Corporate Crime Prosecution Budgets:
Ban Corporate Criminals from Government Contracts:
Crack Down on Corporate Tax Avoidance:
Democratize Corporate Governance:
Expand Corporate Disclosure:
Rein in Excessive Executive Pay:
Fix the Pension System:
Restore the Rights of Defrauded Investors:
Regulate Derivatives Trading:
End Conflicts of Interest on Wall Street:
Track the Extent and Cost of Corporate Crime:
Foster a National Discussion on Corporate Power:
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Political Issues that Matter - Ralph Nader's Views on the Issues
looking at Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez they have integrity and bring so much to the presidential Campaign they deserve a look...
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Ralph Nader, "Back on the table"!
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New Statesman - Obama, the prince of bait-and-switch
The US and its allies are dropping record numbers of bombs on Afghanistan. This is not news. In the first half of this year, 1,853 bombs were dropped: more than all the bombs of 2006 and most of 2007. "The most frequently used bombs," the Air Force Times reports, "are the 500lb and 2,000lb satellite-guided . . ." Without this one-sided onslaught, the resurgence of the Taliban, it is clear, might not have happened. Even Hamid Karzai, America's and Britain's puppet, has said so. The presence and the aggression of foreigners have all but united a resistance that now includes former warlords once on the CIA's payroll.
The scandal of this would be headline news, were it not for what George W Bush's former spokesman Scott McClellan has called "complicit enablers" - journalists who serve as little more than official amplifiers. Having declared Afghanistan a "good war", the complicit enablers are now anointing Barack Obama as he tours the bloodfests in Afghanistan and Iraq. What they never say is that Obama is a bomber.
In the New York Times on 14 July, in an article spun to appear as if he is ending the war in Iraq, Obama demanded more war in Afghan istan and, in effect, an invasion of Pakistan. He wants more combat troops, more helicopters, more bombs. Bush may be on his way out, but the Republicans have built an ideological machine that transcends the loss of electoral power - because their collaborators are, as the American writer Mike Whitney put it succinctly, "bait-and-switch" Democrats, of whom Obama is the prince. The US and its allies are dropping record numbers of bombs on Afghanistan. This is not news. In the first half of this year, 1,853 bom... more -
Matt Gonzalez - Natl Latino Congreso- Ralph Nader's VP
Listen to how intelligent this man is, Nader Gonzalez have more integrity in a pinky finger than the rest of the candidates combined
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Obama Betray-US
on a roll Obama continues to slide right and he's gonna be hurting from true progressives who will not vote for a centrist,,
After the Obama Betrayal
By GREGORY KAFOURY
From The New York Times to The Huffington Post, from Counterpunch.org to The Nation, the outcry is the same: Obama is not the man he presented himself to be.
As he now panders to seemingly any right-wing group that can fill a room, his staff is arranging fundraisers where the cover charge is $30,000. Bob Herbert of the NYT echos the "disillusion" of "many of Obama's strongest supporters who are uneasy, upset, dismayed and even angry."
Across the progressive spectrum, the consensus is that Obama has abandoned any prospect for a transformational presidency, breathed life into a moribund and discredited right-wing, and incomprehensibly placed his very election at risk.
Most crucially, Obama has made the utterly cynical calculation that there is no price to be paid for abandoning his base, that the mantra of Anybody But Bush seamlessly melds into Anybody But McCain, that progressives will simply surrender.
So sure is Obama that progressives will bear any insult that he has taken to channeling the odious Jeanne Kirkpatrick of the Reagan era, denouncing those "counter-culturalists" who opposed the imperial wars from Vietnam to El Salvador and Nicaragua as the "blame America" crowd.
If Obama's analysis of progressives is correct, we can expect another depressing campaign, what Herbert calls "the terminal emptiness of politics as usual," followed by a presidency that honors right-wing ideology while serving corporate power.
But what if Obama is wrong? What if progressives have a breaking point? We have seen a revolt against Obama's FISA/Telecom betrayal play out on Obama's website, but the candidate has already responded to those dismayed supporters by essentially blowing them off. Is this a "deal-breaker," he asks, as if to say, "What are you going to do about it?"
There are some who suggest doing something. John Nichols of The Nation suggests a coordinated push to get Ralph Nader into a debate with Obama and McCain. Google and YouTube are sponsoring a debate in New Orleans this fall, and the bar is set at 10% support. Nader is at 6% according to CNN, and those who would vote for him if he were competitive was 14% in a recent Fox poll. It is vastly easier to go from 14% to 30% than to go from nothing to 14%.
Nader would be -- to say the least -- a formidable presence in any debate. Once one gets beyond the caricature of Nader promoted by the political establishment, one sees a candidate who has intimate knowledge of every aspect of our corporate government, because we learn about an institution not by yielding to it, but by opposing it, something Nader alone has done for decades. Further, he is a man who has never flattered us, never pandered to our baser instincts and never lied to us.
The prospect of such a debate would get Obama's attention; the reality of it might shift the center of our politics as nothing else holds the promise of doing.
For those who do not wish to go gently, there is an alternative.
Gregory Kafoury is a trial lawyer and political activist in Portland, Oregon. He can be reached at kafoury@kafourymcdougal.com. on a roll Obama continues to slide right and he's gonna be hurting from true progressives who will not vote for a centrist,, ... more -
: ( Swap the Donkey for a Weasel Democratic sell outs
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It's The Snow Globe Bubble Boy!
You have got to check this out...thankfully this was never and has never been in my job description!
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