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NAFTA / Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) / North American Competitiveness Council (NACC)

  • A North American security perimeter on the horizon (January 11, 2010) "NAFTA has extended from economic integration into a political and regional security pact which has been achieved through the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America, Plan Mexico, as well as other initiatives. "
  • Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA (December 30, 2009) "Taking shape under the radar of the respective governments and without public knowledge or consideration, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) - headquartered in Washington - aims to integrate the three nations into a single political, economic, and security bloc."

USA

  • Contempt of Congress: America wants to throw the bums out (February 13, 2010) "Favorable numbers for Congress have sunk as low as 15 percent in many polls; unfavorable numbers have risen to 70 percent and approach 80 percent in many polls. (...) It is part of a continuing climate of contempt for Congress that has been steadily growing as Congress appears out of touch with the nation, bought and paid for by lobbyists and corrupt to the core in the eyes of large numbers of voters."
  • We're All In This Together (February 12, 2010) "From 1968 until returning in 1995 as a retiree, I lived outside the US (...) Coming back to America in 1995, I experienced a culture shock (...) With the rise of the obscene Bush regime, I became frantic in my search for what possible changes could have taken place that would permit such a blatantly criminal administration to exist"
  • Becoming a Third World Country (February 10, 2010) "All these changes, it needs to be said, would be inevitable at this point even if the industrial world depended on renewable resources and had a stable, sustainable relationship with the planetary biosphere that supports all our lives. The United States has played its recent hands in the game of empire very badly indeed"
  • Slavery in US Prisons (February 10, 2010) "Today, with African Americans composing over 75% of Angola's 5,108 prisoners, prison guards known as "free men," a forced 40-hour workweek, and four cents an hour as minimum wage, the resemblance to antebellum U.S. slavery is striking."
  • Coercive Confinement = "The Disappeared" in the USA? (February 8, 2010) "the lawyer was disbarred and held in contempt and placed in "coercive custody." In essence that meant that if he (...) dropped the case, he would be free to leave jail and go home. (...) Fine is approaching the first anniversary of the start of his period of "coercive confinement.""
  • How Many More Are Innocent? (February 8, 2010) "America's 250th DNA exoneration raises questions about how often we send the wrong person to prison."
  • Our Secret Government (February 7, 2010) "The CIA is not an intelligence agency. In fact, it acts largely as an anti-intelligence agency, producing only that information wanted by policymakers to support their plans and suppressing information that does not support those plans. As the covert action arm of the president, the CIA uses disinformation, much of it aimed at the U.S. public, to mold opinion."
  • Endgame (February 5, 2010) "many of the things most of us in this country have treated as permanent fixtures are likely to go away over the years immediately before us, as the United States transforms itself into a Third World country."
  • Incarceration Nation: Prisons are America's growth industry (January 28, 2010) "Inside the borders of the United States resides a separate nation of 2.3 million people. (...) We lead the world, by a wide margin, in the number of citizens in prison. (...) a new prison opens every week somewhere in America (...) Eighty percent of all arrests are drug related"
  • Obama's screwing of American workers and his and Hillary's links to India (January 15, 2010) "The media, which acts in lockstep with major corporate owners like Microsoft and General Electric in pushing for the import of low-wage Indian information technology and other high-technology workers into the United States on H1-B visas, did not want anyone focused on the deal worked out between President Obama and Singh."
  • The Garden State (January 14, 2010) "On Monday of this week the New Jersey Legislature approved the legalization of medical marijuana, making it the 14th state in the union to take such steps."
  • Six million Americans live on food stamps (January 8, 2010) "Some six million Americans - one in 50 people in the US - are living on no income other than $100 or $200 a month in food stamps"
  • Given Everything That's Happened, Shouldn't We At Least ASK? (January 4, 2010) "recently declassified documents show that in the 1960's, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil"
  • Gandhi and The Dalai Lama Are Not Opposed to Guns (January 2, 2010) "A little research showed me that the Second Amendment had more to do with freedom than historical militias. Here's what the Founding Fathers actually said about arms:"
  • The Great Marginalization: Planning for Poverty in America? (November 28, 2009)
  • The Constitutional Bankruptcy of our Republic (November 28, 2009)
  • The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society (November 18, 2009) AmpedStatus report. Også som PDF. Afsnit: "I: U.S. Societal Breakdown II: Environmental Crisis III: The Obama Myth IV: Economic Coup - Theft of Trillions V: National Emergency"
  • The "Real" unemployment rate in the US is now 22% (November 16, 2009) "Regarding the self-employed, I spoke to a BLS representative and they indicate that self-employed are included in the unemployment rate. "
  • Ugly Truth: Most U.S. Kids Sentenced to Die In Prison Are Black (November 11, 2009)
  • How the 40 year drop in the minimum wage helped cause obesity (November 10, 2009)
  • Statistics: Wealth in America (and in Congress) (November 10, 2009) "Of the 535 members of Congress, over 44% - 237 to be exact - are millionaires. "
  • Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life - Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised. Then Beck discovered him (Sepember 16, 2009) Om den såkaldte "tea-bagger" bevægelse i USA
  • The New Mr. America: Bankrupt, Diseased and Running Out of Options (July 24, 2009)
  • Top Scientists Want Research Free From Politics (February 14, 2008) "Leading U.S. scientists called on Congress Thursday to make sure the next president does not do what they say the George W. Bush Administration has done: censor, suppress and falsify important environmental and health research."
  • USA: It Did Happen Here: American Citizen Tortured, Convicted of Thought Crime (August 23, 2007) "Padilla rotted in solitary confinement--in a military brig--for three and a half years. (...) No family visits. No lawyer. They subjected him to sensory deprivation, covering his eyes and ears to make him lose his mind. And still no trial. "

Lobbyisme

  • K Street Thrived In 2009: The Proof Is In The Numbers (January 20, 2010) "The lobbying industry demonstrated its resilience last year in the face of the recession and is fully expected to smash previous spending records."
  • Capital City (January, 2010) "A year after the biggest bailout in US history, Wall Street lobbyists don't just have influence in Washington. They own it lock, stock, and barrel. (...) Technically it's known as the FIRE lobby - Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate"
  • Colo. firm employs most retired officers from mentor program (December 29, 2009) "No other defense consulting firm employs more "senior mentors" than Durango. Of the 59 former officers who work for Durango, 15 also serve as mentors, a USA TODAY investigation found. As Durango associates, the retired officers are paid to help private companies win and administer Pentagon contracts."
  • Health care profiteers: A billion-dollar lobby (December 22, 2009) "health care lobbyists have spent more than $396 million this year to influence senators and congressmen engaged in passing the health care restructuring legislation, and $862 million in 2008-2009 combined. With the frenzy of lobbying in the last quarter of 2009, the two-year total will go well beyond $1 billion."
  • Lobbyists pushed off advisory panels - White House initiative to limit influence could affect thousands (November 27, 2009) "Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration"
  • In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists' (November 14, 2009) "(congress s)tatements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world's largest biotechnology companies."

Stemme-maskiner

  • Wanna play the shell game with your votes? (December 19, 2009) "Not only was Instant Runoffs (also known as ranked voting) a new concept, there were stealth indications about the possibility that "they" had found a new way to deprive Americans of their voting rights in a sneaky, underhanded, and obscure way."
  • Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released (October 20, 2009) "What was revealed was thousands of lines of MS-SQL source code that appears to control or at least influence the logical flow of the election ..."
  • The Death of Democracy -- Or -- May the Best Hacker Win (October 27, 2000) "Tests of computer vote-counting systems used in Illinois from 1983-1987, which tested tens of thousands of ballots, revealed significant errors in the computer counting in more than twenty percent of the tests." (...) "Fulle added, 'Nothing in the law [Illinois] requires that the count be accurate.'"

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