"WE THE CORPORATIONS......." (the end of America; the biggest decision in the history of America won't be televised on the corporate owned media...except for Olbermann/Maddow/Schultz...if you watch rightwing media, boy did YOU pick the wrong horse! You've been HAD by them, because they're not conservative...like I've been telling you.)
...btw...there was virtually ZERO coverage of this in rightwing media!
This is in the above montage of videos, but it deserves a spot by itself:
In Landmark Campaign Finance Ruling, Supreme Court Removes Limits on Corporate Campaign Spending
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court rules corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money to elect and defeat candidates. One lawmaker describes it as the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case justifying slavery. We speak with constitutional law professor, Jamin Raskin.
Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the dissenters:
Today’s decision is backwards in many senses. It elevates the majority’s agenda over the litigants’ submissions, facial attacks over as-applied claims, broad constitutional theories over narrow statutory grounds, individual dissenting opinions over precedential holdings, assertion over tradition, absolutism over empiricism, rhetoric over reality. Our colleagues have arrived at the conclusion that Austin must be overruled and that §203 is facially unconstitutional only after mischaracterizing both the reach and rationale of those authorities, and after bypassing or ignoring rules of judicial restraint used to cabin the Court’s lawmaking power. … At bottom, the Court’s opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.
Citizens United Decision: ‘A Rejection Of The Common Sense Of The American People’
DENY corporations 'persondhood': make the recent SCOTUS decision MOOT! Move to amend the Constitution to permanently deny these mere 'legal abstractions' the power to buy OUR government !
Jim Hightower: 'A Black-Robed' Coup d'Etat'
Supreme Court's Ruling Would Allow Bin Laden to Donate to Sarah Palin's Presidential Campaign - Greg Palast
Constitutional Amendment Considered In Response To Supreme Court Decision On Campaign Finance (VIDEO)
The Corporation
International arrest warrants requested at the Hague for Bush & Co.: International Criminal Court Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, Gonzales
The Radicalization Of America By GOP Operatives And America's Future, Part 1
Feeling the Hate in Tel Aviv -- The Sequel to the Video YouTube Censored
Max Blumenthal and Jesse Rosenfeld interview young Tel Aviv residents about Iran, Obama and right-wing laws limiting the speech rights of their Palestinian-Israeli neighbors. The shocking responses reflect the deepening of racist and authoritarian trends in Israeli society. This is the sequel to "Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem," the video banned by YouTube, Vimeo and the Huffington Post after topping 400,000 hits.
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk
Game Over.
ReplyDeleteYeah, forget about 9/11 - this is worse!
ReplyDeleteLaughed out loud at this one:
ReplyDeleteBluebear2 [Moderator] 16 hours ago
Glad to hear your dad is doing better.
You're being shadowed by banksters and antennae salesmen!
That was in response to this:
ReplyDeleteBig Dan [Moderator] 16 hours ago
I have to tell you this weird story:
Today I was in a Bank of America, I took some money out of my credit union account and was putting it in my BOA account. I noticed the BOA manager in line behind me. There was a person, then the BOA manager then a guy and another guy. So I joked, "Don't think you can skip me because you're the manager". Then she said: "Oh, I'm like one of the people. I like to see what the people say in line. I'm not skipping anybody." So I said to her: "Hey, did you get any more bailouts lately?" And the guy behind her said, "The government FORCED BOA to take a bailout." I said, "You're telling me the govt just walked up to BOA for no reason and said 'We have to bail you out'? Do you work for BOA, too? Or are you an agent provocateur in line here, too?" Then the manager said: "The govt forced us to buy Merril Lynch". Then I said, "I saw a video on youtube where she said BOA fired her for forgiving a $15 charge for paying their bill over the phone to people who had no money, what kind of a bank does that?" And the guys said: "They have to make money." And I said, "You can't make money off people who don't have any money. And they made tens of billions of dollars in penalties they keep dreaming up to screw their customers." People in line started watching us.
What do you think of that? When I was leaving, I said to the guy: "C'ya!" And he said: "Look that up: the govt forced BOA to do all that." And I said, "Yeah, that's because they were 'too big to fail, and they were failing', I look up everything."
What the hell is a BOA apologist and a manager doing in line with me at a bank? wtf?
THAT is fucking WEIRD, isn't it? I'm not imagining how weird that was, right???
I'm walking out of a bank yelling at people? wtf?
Seriously: what's going on at Bank of America? They have people like that in lines behind you? I really let them have it, huh?
ReplyDeleteBut that shouldn't happen. Shouldn't you just walk in a bank and it's "normal"? Like, you just go in and deposit or withdraw something? Not get into arguments with the manager and shills in line behind you?
Actually, that same manager, about a few months ago, I went in because (I think I told you this) I put CASH in slightly after 2:00pm, and that night I bought gas. The next day I had a negative balance. That SAME BOA manager said: "Oh! That's because you deposited the cash after 2pm!"
ReplyDeleteI said: "So, wait: I put CASH in a teller in person at 2:15 and it didn't go in that day? Then I bought gas at 9pm 7 hours later...AND THAT WAS IMMEDIATE? You people are just making up rules to make more penalties! Why didn't the gas purchase ALSO go to the next day like my cash deposit? So you could bounce it and get a $39 penalty?"
That was the SAME manager btw!
I am effen livid over this. The Supreme Court Of The FASCIST United States has now come out in the open. I hope all ChiMeriKans can understand the consequences of this Nazi tactic.
ReplyDeleteAll insurgencies come about because their country is being occupied.
And then I said: "How come if 4 things bounce, but 3 can be paid and 1 bounce, you bounce all 4?" They had no answer for that.
ReplyDeleteMy example was: you have $100 in your account, you have a transaction for $101 and 3 transactions for $1/each. BOA will bounce all FOUR transactions $39x4=$156 penalty, instead of paying the THREE $1 transactions and bouncing only the $101 transaction for only ONE $39 fine.
So, BOA MAXIMIZES the penalties, the SORT them for maximum penalty! They FIRST pay the largest one so you have a negative balance so all other transactions also bounce!
She said: "Well, we sort it by how they come in".
I said: "Then how come the other day I put cash in at 2:15 and bought gas 7 hours later...and you took out the gas first and bounced it?"
She had no answer. You know what they do when you snag them? They reverse the penalties!
You know what I think? I think she recognized me and got in line in back of me on purpose.
ReplyDeleteHere is the plan the government has for every working stiff out there.....OK all of you taxpaying working fools....hurry up and enjoy your measley 2 day weekend (you will be dead tired for 1 1/2 of those two days because you got up early every day of the week and hustled like a dirty whore of a dog so that you could pump the coffers full of tax dollars for them to steal and give away to whomever they wish)..then, come Monday morning you will hate yourself because you have to get the fuck back to work bright and early at a job you hate so fucking much that you can't bear it for another minute, but still you stay for that fucking dollar!...and then start the whole process over again..and again...and again...it only ends when you are an old piece of trash sitting on your porch, rocking back and forth waiting to die..and then the nursing home comes in if you are "lucky", or rather "unlucky" enough to live a few more years and they will simply take the money you were too scared to "enjoy" when you were young because you were saving it for your miserable retirement! The government wants you to suffer this way. It is up to you if you decide to do what they want.
ReplyDeleteOH! I just remembered, here's how it all started:
ReplyDeleteThere was ONE teller waiting on the entire bank full of customers AND all the outdoor lanes of cars.
And I said really loud: "THEY HAVE ONE PERSON WAITING ON THE ENTIRE BANK INSIDE AND OUT??? THEY'RE WORKING THAT POOR GIRL TO DEATH AND GIVING OUT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BONUSES TO CEO'S INSTEAD OF PAYING SOME MORE MINIMUM WAGE CLERKS AND MAKING THEIR CUSTOMERS WAIT IN LINE?"
That's when she got in line in back of me. Now I remember. Then she said: "Too bad so-and-so called off sick today, we only have one person here, and so-and-so is at lunch."
DENY corporations 'persondhood': make the recent SCOTUS decision MOOT! Move to amend the Constitution to permanently deny these mere 'legal abstractions' the power to buy OUR government !
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Citizens Arrested for commiting FREE SPEECH in Washington DC
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4foLKDlcE
ReplyDeleteThis is Joni when music was purely there for the sake of music and NOT for profit!!!!!!!
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk
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Most people don't notice BigDan, or let it slide because they don't have/take the time to right these ripoffs,.. so the bank managers/executives get away with it,.. and the robber barons give them a nice bonus for the "profit". Most people don't go gladiator at the cash registers like you do,.. so they get soaked $$$$.
ReplyDeleteGreenwald is off base in my opinion, on his thoughts on this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/22/citizens_united/index.html
He's actually saying he's "for" the decision.
Therefore, he's saying that freedom of speech = money.
They'd be restricting corporations "freedom of speech" by restricting the money they could give to politicians.
So, it's "equal" that I could give my unlimited $10 and Wal-Mart could give their unlimited $10 BILLION dollars.
So, a homeless man cannot participate in our government because he has no money. They should have a supreme court decision, then, that we have to force homeless people to be given money so they can participate in our democracy.
Greenwald is saying "freedom of speech" - $$$$$. I'm surprised, to be honest.
Where am I ?
ReplyDeleteThis ain't the America I knew!
What are the disclosure requirements?
ReplyDeleteIt is my understanding that to contribute to a PAC you must be a US citizen and you must be on record as having contributed. Greg Palast makes several good points, viz
anyone can go through a PAC's federal disclosure filing and see the name of every individual who put money into it. And every contributor must be a citizen of the USA.
But under today's Supreme Court ruling that corporations can support candidates without limit, there is nothing that stops, say, a Delaware-incorporated handmaiden of the Burmese junta from picking a Congressman or two with a cache of loot masked by a corporate alias.
With no disclosure agreements to at least allow us to identify the perpetrators, what is to prevent the following scenario:
1) All of the major media corporations decide that, for the benefit of their polluting subsidiaries, a totally Republican congress/executive is required.
2) With $10's of Billions from "unidentified sources", but really from Exxon, et al, they flood the airwaves for the next year (or better yet, 2011-2012) with their support ads for their candidates.
3) They, as CBS has in the past, simply refuse to air ads representing ANY opposing views or candidates.
4) The EPA is dissolved, all laws preventing pollution are removed from the books and the corporations go their merry ways doing as they like.
Corporations are, by any way of looking at it, legally constructed, immortal, sociopaths. Money is the ONLY measure of success, and if killing babies made them money (and they could be sure of not being identified), they would do it in a heartbeat; after all, they have done it in the past.
—tgasaway
http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2010/01/22/citizens_united/permalink/9bc31703bb9bb9b81cb247e5ec4ae8a9.html
Know Your Enemy-The Oligarchs
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She was likely trying to take a peek at the top of your head to see if little horns were protruding like it said on the web. She was only try to confirm the veracity of that Internet assumption.
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http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/5364/wigger01.jpg
The flawed thinking of Young Americans for Liberty, in case you were hoodwinked by them:
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In Landmark Campaign Finance Ruling, Supreme Court Removes Limits on Corporate Campaign Spending
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In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court rules corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money to elect and defeat candidates. One lawmaker describes it as the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case justifying slavery. We speak with constitutional law professor, Jamin Raskin.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/22/in_landmark_campaign_finance_ruling_supreme
NADER: Corps Dominating Political Economy Dragging Democracy into Ground & WE'RE PAYING FOR IT
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BEN-TRAITOR-BERNANKE CONFIRMATION IN DOUBT?
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The Radicalization Of America By GOP Operatives And America's Future, Part 1
ReplyDeletehttp://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Radicalization-Of-Amer-by-William-Cormier-090813-987.html
The Bush Administration should be remembered as the 'right wing' administration that proved Karl Marx to have been absolutely correct.
ReplyDeleteOn 17 May 1649, three soldiers were executed on Oliver Cromwell’s orders in Burford churchyard, Oxfordshire, England. They were the leaders of 300 men who belonged to the movement known as the Levellers. They had decided to fight against Cromwell who they considered was betraying the ideals of what the “Civil War”, i.e. the English Revolution, had been about.
http://www.marxist.com/last-stand-of-the-levellers.htm
Jim Hightower: 'A Black-Robed' Coup d'Etat'
ReplyDeletehttp://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2010/01/jim-hightower-black-robed-coup-detat.html
Supreme Court's Ruling Would Allow Bin Laden to Donate to Sarah Palin's Presidential Campaign
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What if we led a movement of all smart people out of America? Who wanted health care?
ReplyDeleteStudent: ‘Beating So Bad Thought I Was Going To Die’
ReplyDeletePosted: 8:22 am EST January 22, 2010Updated: 7:24 pm EST January 22, 2010
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh police Chief Nate Harper said three plainclothes officers have been reassigned during an internal investigation into the beating of an 18-year-old student violinist from the city's Creative and Performing Arts High School.
~snip~
"I was accused for something I never had anything to do with," said Miles, an honor student at CAPA. "I was completely innocent. They couldn't find anything."
Police took Miles to a Pittsburgh hospital for treatment. The student said he had to go back after he was released from custody.
~snip~
Video at link,..
http://www.wpxi.com/news/22311848/detail.html
dude is BOA like the only bank in your town or what? Are you on chex system or something? i have 4 different banks; any one of them pisses me off an it's "i'd like to close my account, please"
ReplyDeleteyou should see the look on their faces when you say that, what's the commercial again? PRICELESS!
A landmark Supreme Court decision -- and you can take that to the bank.
ReplyDeleteOf course, now candidates will have to ....
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/freedom-of-speech-2010/