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Fact Sheet: National Strategy to Internationalize Efforts Against Kleptocracy - 0 views

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    G.W. Bush, 2006, National Strategy to Internationalize Efforts Agaiinst Kleptocracy, Pledging to Congront High-Level, Large-Scale Corruption by Public Officials and Target the Proceeds of their Corrupt Acts (!! hypocrisy !!)
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The Quiet Coup | America's Unpleasant Truth: We're a Financial Oligarchy! | The Atlanti... - 0 views

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    The finance industry has effectively captured the U.S. government-a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets...Recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that's blocking essential reform.
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Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America - 0 views

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    CEOs and others at the top of the corporate ladder engaging in rampant-though often legal-corruption to improve the bottom line and line their own pockets. They gamble with relative abandon on the chance for that "one big one," that "perfect kill." Unfortunately, they're gambling with your money and mine -- without our knowledge or permission.
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t r u t h o u t | The Politics of Lying and the Culture of Deceit in Obama's America: T... - 0 views

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    Lies and deceit cause the death of democratic politics, critical thought and civic agency. Contempt for 'truth' is evident in the wild West of FOX News. It's evident in Bush's 'Clear Skies Initiative,' enabling greater industrial air pollution. Language is neutered. Meanings are indeterminate. As Orwell said, "war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength."
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A Centuries-Old Principle: Keep Corporate Money Out of Elections - 0 views

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    Thomas Jefferson declared his hope to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
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Oligarchy - 0 views

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    Classically, a plutocracy was an oligarchy, which is to say a government controlled by the wealthy few. Usually this meant that these 'plutocrats' controlled the executive, legislative and judicial aspects of government, the armed forces, and most of the natural resources.
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Plutonomy, Plutocracy, and Wealth And Inequality In America | Business Insider - 0 views

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    15 mind-blowing facts about wealth and inequality in America: A slideshow from "Business Insider." Click on "VIEW AS 1 PAGE" unless you want to go insane, viewing 1 slide at a time.
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What the BP spill reveals about U.S. democracy | SocialistWorker.org - 0 views

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    "...big business has cemented an unholy alliance with big government against the interests of ordinary Americans, who, of course, are the great majority of Americans. The great majority of Americans no longer matter."
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Oligarchic Senate Still 'Treasonous' After All These Years - 0 views

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    "Treason is a strong word, but not too strong, rather too weak, to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be."
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