Sunday, April 27, 2014

There's Hope for our First Amendment

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Links of interest

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Study says Elite Impact US Govt while Individuals have Little Influence 4/21/14

NSA Spying Story Wins Pulitzer 4/15/14

NYT Abramson: "The Obama years are a benchmark for a new level of secrecy and control." 4/12/14

NBC Loses Second Investigative Reporter 4/11/14

Senate Repubs want Select Benghazi Comm 4/9/14

Morell Testifies on Benghazi Talking Points 4/2/14

ATF Meets Deadline on Fast & Furious Info 4/1/14

April 9, 2014 AP: :White House and federal govt. win "award" for their censorship

March 31, 2014 Bloomberg defends Obama administration on Benghazi and spends an hour answering Attkisson's questions in wide-ranging conversation

March 30, 2014 Columbia Journalism Review report on how the press sometimes pushes prescription drugs with deadly results

March 29, 2014 Bloomberg answers wide-ranging questions in Sarasota Town Hall lecture

March 25, 2014 NYT reporter: "Obama administration is greatest enemy of press freedom" in a generation

March 24, 2014: NYT: Pay-by-the-click Journalism Model

Is Press going too far in cooperating with government censorship requests?

CBS Exclusive: Alleged scheme targets free military tuition assistance at taxpayer expense

CBS: Massive Farm Bill contains new Christmas tree fee and a billion dollars a page in spending.

CBS Exclusive: IG still investigating alleged missing gun from Brian Terry Fast and Furious murder. Jan. 21, 2014

March 24, 2014: NYT: Pay-by-the-click Journalism Model

CBS Exclusive: IG still investigating alleged missing gun from Brian Terry Fast and Furious murder. Jan. 21, 2014

Oops! Article says government mistakenly sends reporter memo on how to deny Freedom of Information requests

First post-Benghazi assignment for new military team

CNN, Fox and al-Jazeera America among top searched news sources on Google

Iraq city falls fully into al-Qaeda group's hands

NSA won't say whether it spies on Congress

Why the press shouldn't dismiss vaccine safety skeptics

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“I, Richard "Ricardo Carlos" Charles, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Politics As Usual

(And what to do about it)

12 Numbers Which Prove That Americans Are Sick And Tired Of Politics As Usual

By Michael Snyder, on April 24th, 2014

The American people are increasingly waking up to the fact that nothing ever seems to change in Washington D.C. no matter which political party is in power. In fact, as you will see later on in this article, an all-time high 53 percent of all Americans believe that neither party "represents the American people".

Over the past several decades, we have sent a Bush, a Clinton, another Bush and an Obama to the White House, but the policies coming out of Washington have remained pretty much the same the entire time.

The mainstream media would have us believe that the Republicans and the Democrats are constantly fighting like cats and dogs, but the truth is that the Republicans want to take us to the same place that the Democrats want to take us - just a little more slowly perhaps.

And behind the scenes, Republicans and Democrats have a good time with one another and they are ultimately controlled by the same set of oligarchs.

The Americans people are really starting to recognize what a sham our system has become, and the numbers show that they are quite fed up with it.

I truly wish that things were different. When I was much younger, I was actively involved in politics and I enthusiastically campaigned for certain candidates. But then when they got to Washington D.C., they never did most of the things that they promised to do during their campaigns.

I was quite bewildered by this. At the time, I concluded that we just needed to send even more "good politicians" to D.C. and then things would finally turn around.

But things never did turn around. No matter which party had the upper hand, the same garbage continued to spew forth from Washington.

Ultimately, like millions of other Americans, I have come to see that there is not really much of a difference between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi on one side, and John Boehner, John McCain, Mitch McConnell and Jeb Bush on the other side.

Sure, if you listen to their campaign speeches you might be tempted to think that they were polar opposites, but when you watch what they actually do there is not that much that really separates them.

Fortunately, large numbers of Americans are starting to see through this disgusting charade.

Most of our politicians are con men that tell us what we want to hear during their campaigns, and then after they are elected they forget all about us.

Dissatisfaction with these politicians has risen to unprecedented levels in recent years, and that could be a good thing. The following are 12 numbers which prove that Americans are sick and tired of politics as usual...

#1 A national Rasmussen Reports survey has found that an all-time high 53 percent of all Americans believe that neither major political party "represents the American people".
#2 According to a Real Clear Politics average of national polls, only 29 percent of Americans believe that the country is heading in the right direction.
#3 According to a Real Clear Politics average of national polls, Americans disapprove of the job that Barack Obama is doing by a 52.2 to 43.7 percent margin.
#4 According to a Real Clear Politics average of national polls, Americans disapprove of the job that Congress is doing by a 77.6 percent to 14.2 percent margin.
#5 52 percent of Americans "do not think the economy is fair to those willing to work hard".
#6 65 percent of Americans are dissatisfied "with the U.S. system of government and its effectiveness". That is the highest level of dissatisfaction that Gallup has ever recorded.
#7 Only 4 percent of Americans believe that it would "change Congress for the worse" if every member was voted out during the next election.
#8 An all-time low 31 percent of Americans identify themselves as Democrats.
#9 An all-time low 25 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans.
#10 An all-time high 42 percent of Americans identify themselves as Independents.
#11 60 percent of Americans report feeling "angry or irritable". Two years ago that number was at 50 percent.
#12 70 percent of Americans do not have confidence that the federal government will "make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014".
Of course at the heart of much of this dissatisfaction are the continuing problems in our economy.

For example, check out the Gallup daily employment tracking survey that you can find right here.

As you can see, the payroll to population number (those Americans working 30 hours a week or more) has been flat-lining in the low forties for more than four years now.

The truth is that there never has been an employment recovery in this nation since the last recession.

For much more on all this, please see my previous article entitled "This Is What Employment In America Really Looks Like…"

The last wave of the economic crisis really devastated the middle class, and as a result record numbers of Americans have become dependent on the government.

As I mentioned in one recent article, ten years ago the number of women working outnumbered the number of women on food stamps by more than a 2 to 1 margin.

But now the number of women on food stamps actually exceeds the number of women that have jobs.

No wonder so many Americans are so angry. Things are not nearly as good as they used to be.

Unfortunately, even though so many people are angry and frustrated, there is very little consensus on the solutions to our problems.

Many Americans even want to throw out the principles that this country was founded upon entirely.

For example, one recent survey discovered that 59 percent of all Americans believe that the U.S. Constitution is "outdated".

That is a very chilling number. We live at a time when Americans are becoming increasingly ignorant about who we are, where we came from and how we get here.

And a lot of our fellow citizens do not even know how our system of government works.

One survey actually found that only 25 percent of all Americans knew how long U.S. Senators are elected for (6 years), and only 20 percent of all Americans knew how many U.S. senators there are (100).

In the final analysis, it is hard to be optimistic about a political solution to any of our major problems in the near future.

Most of our politicians are deeply corrupt, the American people are incredibly angry and are deeply divided, and the vast majority of campaigns for federal office are won by the candidate that raises the most money.

But perhaps there is something that I am missing. So what do you think?

Do you believe that there is hope that we can get Washington D.C. turned around in the near future?

Please feel free to share your thoughts by posting a comment below...

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/12-numbers-which-prove-that-americans-are-sick-and-tired-of-politics-as-usual

Here's what we the people can do:

2014: Time to elect Constitutional Independent Representatives.

Regards,

Richard <Ricardo Carlos> Charles

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