The Godfather USA

[salib]

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/03-05-2006/79790-fascism-0

To be an American citizen is very much like being the child of a wealthy and unscrupulous criminal ‘Godfather,’ who appears to be kind and generous to his own children at home, but is unflinchingly treacherous and murderous in conducting his family business, which is based on coercion, domination, exploitation, and violence. The average US citizen enjoys prosperity and relative freedom, but US prosperity derives in large part from the criminal exploitation of, and frequently the outright murder of, millions of innocent people in developing countries throughout the world.

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According to the US Census report of 1998, 12.7% of the US population lives in poverty, 15.7% lack health insurance, and at least 38% of the wealth in the USA is owned by just one percent of the US population. The personal wealth of Microsoft CEO Bill Gates exceeds that of the total combined wealth of the poorest 45% of US households, which amounts to at least 133 million people. The USA has the highest concentration of individual wealth in all of the industrialized nations, and about three times that of the second-placed nation for concentrated wealth, which is Germany. The USA also leads the world in the number of its citizens who are incarcerated in prisons: one out of seventy-five US males are in prison, of whom 68% belong to racial or ethnic minorities. As of 2003, 12% of the USA’s black males in their twenties were living in prison, compared to 3.7% of the USA’s Hispanic males and 1.6% of the USA’s white males.

[rinsd]

1. Its like a conspiracy theory smorgasboard!

They even threw in Clinton and the Mena airport!

[attaturk]

2. Did someone say "Godfather"?

http://www.rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/

[november3rd]

3. Pravda

It says a lot about the state of journalism and political discourse in the United States when we have to look to Pravda for the relevant statistics measuring distribution of wealth and liberty.

Bill Gates is worth more than the same bottom 45%. That's a statistic you won't hear quoted on the evening news.

Let's replace the government, rewrite the laws, and return the people to power.

Close the Pentagon and indict, try, and convict the war criminals and white collar crooks.

Bush is nothing without his rich backers and their thugs.

Close BushCo, unplug the war machine, and tune out the corporate media.