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Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some | Dylan Ratigan - 0 views

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    How did America come to accept having two classes of citizens?  When did America give up on the dream of fairness for all? Last night after the television show, I got the chance to sit down with Glenn Greenwald to discuss his new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. Unfairness in America is nothing new.  In fact, it is perfectly acceptable in this culture for us to admire those who we see as becoming successful and powerful by creating value.  At the same time, Americans accept unfairness with one explicit caveat: that each of us has the chance to be one of those people - that each of us has the opportunity to become successful. What Americans are rejecting now is not wealth disparity, but the corrupt and unethical way so much of the money in this country is now being made, with our government, more often than not, simply looking the other way. Well, Americans are saying "no more" to our government explicitly agreeing to legalize and codify that destructive behavior, protecting powerful political and financial elites while prosecuting ordinary Americans over trivial offenses. We are beginning to see a rejection of this unfairness at Occupy Wall Street and other national reform-based movements.  
Asif Sheeraz

Watch Capital Talk - 10th June 2009 - 0 views

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    Aziz A. Munshi Former Law Minister, Justice (R) Saeed uz Zaman Siddiqui Former Chief Justice of Pakistan and S. M. Zafar Former Law Minister in Special episode of Capital Talk and discusses with Hamid Mir.
looks4truth

The case against Nada Prouty - 0 views

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    Hi, I present to you the very political case of Nada Prouty. I invite all questions and active support for Nada's Plight to Justice. http://www.diigo.com/list/looks4truth/sites-for-nada-prouty Thank you, T
thinkahol *

Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leaning, Conspiracy-Oriented Organization? ... - 0 views

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    "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." -Frederick Douglass
Asif Sheeraz

Watch Capital Talk - 18th March 2009 - 0 views

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    Justice (R) Malik Qayyum Former Attorny General, Ali Ahmed Kurd President SCBA, in Fresh episode of Capital Talk and discusses with Hamid Mir.
Asif Sheeraz

Watch Meray Mutabiq - 22nd March 2009 - 0 views

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    Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed, In fresh episode of Meray Mutabiq Talk With Dr Mubashar hassan(PPP), Wajeeh-u-deen Former Chief Justice Sindh High Court.
Asif Sheeraz

Watch Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath - 19th March 2009 - 0 views

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    Kamran Khan present another fresh episode of Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath in Geo TV and talk Javed Jabbar, Ghulam Mustafa Jutoi, Mushahid Hussain Syed PML-Q, Justice (R) Malik Qayyum.
Asif Sheeraz

Watch Bolta Pakistan - 31st March 2009 - 0 views

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    Mushtaq Minhas and Nusrat Javed present another fresh episode of Bolta Pakistan and talk with Monus Elahi PML-Q, Justice MAlik M. Qayyum, Haji Muhammad Ishaq, Senator Pervaiz Rasheed PML-N.
david derouen

Ultimate Civics » Blog Archive » Corporations Are Not Persons - 0 views

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    By Ralph Nader & Carl J. Mayer New York Times, April 9, 1988 Our constitutional rights were intended for real persons, not artificial creations. The Framers knew about corporations but chose not to mention these contrived entities in the Constitution. For them, the document shielded living beings from arbitrary government and endowed them with the right to speak, assemble, and petition. Today, however, corporations enjoy virtually the same umbrella of constitutional protections as individuals do. They have become in effect artificial persons with infinitely greater power than humans. This constitutional equivalence must end. Consider a few noxious developments during the last 10 years. A group of large Boston companies invoked the First Amendment in order to spend lavishly and thus successfully defeat a referendum that would have permitted the legislature to enact a progressive income tax that had no direct effect on the property and business of these companies. An Idaho electrical and plumbing corporation cited the Fourth Amendment and deterred a health and safety investigation. A textile supply company used Fifth Amendment protections and barred retrial in a criminal anti-trust case in Texas. The idea that the Constitution should apply to corporations as it applies to humans had its dubious origins in 1886. The Supreme Court said it did "not wish to hear argument" on whether corporations were "persons" protected by the 14th Amendment, a civil rights amendment designed to safeguard newly emancipated blacks from unfair government treatment. It simply decreed that corporations were persons. Now that is judicial activism. A string of later dissents, by Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas, demonstrated that neither the history nor the language of the 14th Amendment was meant to protect corporations. But it was too late. The genie was out of the bottle and the corporate evolution into personhood was under way. It was not until the 1970's that corporations
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The Koch Brothers Are Getting Nervous - Technorati Politics - 0 views

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    Charles and David Koch seem less confident these days. The brothers - who inherited money from their dad and grew it into America's largest collection of dirty industries - have decided they need to fight back. That's not surprising. Since Koch-sponsored secret meetings were revealed, secret planning with Supreme Court Justices was exposed, and secret funding of right wing groups became apparent, Americans have begun to wonder just how much influence these guys have purchased. Read more: http://technorati.com/politics/article/the-koch-brothers-are-getting-nervous/#ixzz1IXD3a4Zw
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Glenn Greenwald On "America's Lawless Elite" | On Point with Tom Ashbrook - 0 views

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    Glenn Greenwald studied law and spent ten years as a litigator in federal and state courts across the country. Now he's a big two-fisted progressive blogger and columnist for Salon.com. And he's out with a blistering critique of what has happened to American law. We've stopped applying it to everyone, says Greenwald. We've carved out an exemption for Americans in the halls of power. We've created what Greenwald calls a "lawless elite" that is running roughshod over our economy and national policy. Over American law. This hour On Point: Glenn Greenwald, and liberty and justice for some.
Arabica Robusta

Randall Amster: Support the Dominant Paradigm - 0 views

  • Democracy has been rendered a quaint exercise in which we are asked to select which robber baron will loot our resources, which moral entrepreneur will pander to us, and which corporate elitist will decide our fates. What makes this openly fascistic enterprise unique in history is precisely its transparent quality and the ways in which it exists alongside popular conceptions of liberty and justice for all. We don't require leaks to expose this blatant corporatocracy; the empire brazenly stands stark naked before our gerrymandered gaze.
  • The real Dominant Paradigm – the one held by the overwhelming majority of people on the planet – is more decentralized and amorphous, yet is grounded in shared values that merit enunciation. These include: a belief in the virtues of community; a desire to be part of something greater than oneself; a reciprocal relationship with nature and life's essential resources; an aversion to open hostilities and devastating warfare; an interest in the wellbeing of others as a precondition of personal prosperity; an adherence to culturally-transcendent principles such as the Golden Rule; and a willingness to work hard in return for an equitable existence.
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