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Cromag's Blog – August 2009 Archive (3)

Fascism Coming to a Court Near You: Corporate-Personhood & the Roberts’ Court

This health care battle within our communities has little to do with health-care and everything to do with corporate power. I hope people in the town hall meetings wake up and smell the fascism. Corporate interests are polluting some peoples views so they cannot see the real issues through their smog.

Fascism Coming to a Court Near You:

Corporate-Personhood and the Roberts’ Court

As the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: “A system of… Continue

Added by Cromag on August 10, 2009 at 2:31pm — 2 Comments

NO MORE FEEDS PLEASE! How abundant information is making us fat.

by Tad Toulis

Fat David by Scholz & Friends, Hamburg, Germany

Lately I've been unusually cranky: It may be the frustrations of a difficult marketplace where economic adversity forces one to tolerate the otherwise intolerable. It may be the extra hours of summer sunlight here in the Pacific Northwest, which brings about an initial euphoria that can descend into mania. But with a gnawing conviction, I've come to… Continue

Added by Cromag on August 7, 2009 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

The Inner Workings of Systemic U.S.Corruption (Amicus Brief)

Laid out in this brief is a summary of how unchecked corporate political spending corrupts our system and distorts our economy. The brief is an effort to block CITIZENS UNITED (aka corporations), from successfully appealing to overturn laws that restrict them from contributing even more political money to influence their agendas. It's ironic that in a time of deep recession, --caused by corporate rent seeking and outright fraud-- that we have to… Continue

Added by Cromag on August 5, 2009 at 1:03am — 1 Comment