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Republican Scandals (mon),
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Freedom and Liberty (wed), the
corporate power grab and corruption (thur) and the evils of monopoly media (fri)
There are links to over 250 stories and blogs organized into 41 specific categories for quick reference. It is a resource for those who produce campaign literature, press releases, speeches, blogs and letters-to-the-editor.
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THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER
Make no mistake about it. Everything that is happening today - and will happen tomorrow - is about money and power. Mega-billion corporations have replaced fiefdoms. Billionaires, CEO's and Politicians have replaced the Lords and Royalty. The Church is coming back. We are returning to a feudal system complete with endless wars.
It is fueled by CEO
gluttony and run by a cooperative of a few hundred like-minded people and a few thousand minions.
They own an increasing majority of both political parties, Congress, the White House and the media. And there is not a damn thing you can do about it because they own the new electronic ballot boxes, too.So what is The
Motivation of the Multinationals?
Who Owns America?
*The Military-Industrial Empire
*CEO compensation soars
*New Whirlpool-Maytag merger - 75% of market. Feds and media ignor monoply potential.
LOBBYISTS are the heart and soul of
How the corporations Run the government
Earmarks and pork is what it is all about
NEW LAWS TO BENEFIT THE CORPORATIONS
*Republican "pension reform" law guts pension fund protections
*Senate considers gutting food safety and state consumer protection laws
House guts food safety labeling
Clean Air Act Gutted by EPA
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (taxpayers) assumes
retirement liabilities
"Consumer Protection Act of 2005" works miracles for banks
Congress Gives Away $130 Billion in Corporate Taxes
Medicare Drug Benefit encapsulates the corruption of Republican Washington,
Dumping social programs onto
Christian churches.
Protect pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits.
Federal limitations (Tort Reform among others) of an individual's
right to sue a
corporation;
DEREGULATION AND PRIVATIZATION
*Feds block state consumer protections
*FCC eliminates broadband DSL competition in Verizon areas
*IRS authorizes tax preparers to sell personal tax return info
*15 million Brits wiped-out in "private" social security debacle
*Flordia's solution to corporate pollution
The extremes of 'free trade'
Banks hate real competition - here comes Wal Mart
Chromium Industry Withheld Health-Risk Data
Electricity and the failure of deregulation
The results are in - head-to-head private company vs government bureaucracy.
You lost.
Massive 'fire sale' of
national forests and other public land
Gutting of
EPA,
labor, safety and employee rights regulations
Elimination of usury laws, monopoly controls, and government
inspections
CORPORATE WELFARE
It is accompanied by a
massive increase in both
direct and indirect corporate
welfare
CORPORATE TAX FRAUD
*Kraft Foods gets $1 Billion Tax Benefit
*3,800 GSA contractors skip-out on $1.4 billion in tax payments
Private Utilities Collect for Taxes They Never PayH&R Block
Investment and
taxscandals
American Companies Repatriate Massive Sums Earned Abroad Tax Free
CORPORATE CRIME
*Corporations owe $38 billion in fines and penalties for criminal acts
*Corporate crime injustice
*Summary of Enron trial after seven weeks
*Exxon exposed
*Iraq Reconstruction - one the the largest financial scandals of all time
Hey. Let's blow the tops off the Appalachian Mountains
21 Die - Coal Mining Company Finds Itself "Not Guilty"
They
lie(Nortel Networks $2.4B lie), cheat, and
steal (Grand theft Bagdad) with near
immunity and
impunity (The death of corporate reform), amid corporate media silence.
Corruption in government contracts, especially
Pentagon and
FEMA
34 Corporations Escape Justice
The executives take "fall" while the Corporations go free
Five years later Qwest VP gets
60 days home detention and $250,000 fine for stealing $2.9 million
Ten Month limited home confinement for principle in Adelphia multi-billion fraud
Oil Company Greed
Exxon Refuses to pay court judgement for 17 years
Oil Company Welfare
DaimlerChrysler AG seizes Ohio homes
Teen Science Fair - fast food ice dirtier than toilet water
I cannot find a single thing that attempts to total corporate welfare or tax breaks since 2002. This
2005 site offers at least some information
THE CORPORATE WAR ON ITS EMPLOYEES
*America, Inc. attacks workers - Lock out!
*Large Corporatiions refuse to pay overtime
AND (envelope, please) THE LOSERS ARE:
The Forbes 40,000,000
37 Million Poor in America
Add in the hungry
Middle class wipeout
Phoney Government Statistics
Class war winners
Top incomes up 497%. Average Incomes Down according to Federal Reserve