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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 10:07 AM
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The Country is Getting Mugged-By BILL MOYERS
The Country is Getting Mugged
Ask the Chamber of Commerce: Why is Too Much Not Enough?


By BILL MOYERS and MICHAEL WINSHIP

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This elite organization of oligarchs has been emboldened by the Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case, which now allows corporations to spend freely on political campaigns right up until Election Day, and by the chamber's recent success contributing a million dollars for ads supporting Republican Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

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So with the spring comes anonymous greed run rampant. "In the past a lot of companies and wealthy individuals stood on the sidelines" of politics, a corporate lawyer at Washington's influential law firm Covington & Burling told the Times.

"That cloud has been lifted," he said.

As the sun sets on democracy.

No wonder demonstrators outside that health insurance meeting in Washington this week surrounded the hotel with yellow crime scene tape.

The entire country is being mugged.


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http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083680
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Zoeisright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 11:00 AM
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1. GETTING mugged??
We've BEEN mugged by 30 years of repuke ruin. This is just more of the same.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 11:22 AM
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2. We are War Slaves for Church-State Inc.
Our innocent victims, domestic & foreign, ARE Jesus Christ.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 11:23 AM
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3. Bill Moyers is mugginig us?
Oh...never mind. :blush:

k/r
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 11:25 AM
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4. Lord Save Us From Your Followers
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