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Week of September 25, 2011 Is Twitter blocking Occupy Wall Street from trending in the USA? Google who was censoring OWS , now it's Twitter. We must remember that they are part of corporate America who depends highly on Wall Street to make billions.Twenty House Democrats call for investigation of Justice Thomas "Rebellion Has Arrived In America" Gee, Bloggers Have Been Right? (Book-Cooking by Banks) At Countrywide, protecting mortgage fraud involved firing whistleblowers If Ford Factory Workers Gave Up Cost-of-Living Raises, Why Does CEO Get $26 Million? Right-Wing Viciously Attacks FLOTUS for Shopping at 'Target' Occupy Wall Street: Brooklyn Bridge occupied, mass arrests, solidarity events Michele Bachmann blames Obama for Arab Spring. Yes, 'blames.' The persistent golden parachute Wall Street readies assault on Elizabeth Warren Rick Santorum's Stump Speech Includes Nod To Fracking Company Directly Paying Him The Past Year Boehner Pushes For Energy Department Loan For Home District Company Amidst Solyndra Scandal Citing No Evidence, Perry Says Info On Awlaki Raid 'Probably' Came From Gitmo Say what! - Stashing Cash in Tax Havens Grows Harder for the Rich
Banks Successfully Lobbied For Weaker Bailout Repayment Rules So They Could Pay Bonuses Mayor Bloomberg Claims 'Occupy Wall Street' Protesters Are Targeting Bankers Who 'Are Struggling To Make Ends Meet' Outsize Severance Continues for Executives Despite Failed Tenures In Response To A String Of Sexual Assaults, New York Police Tell Women To Cover Up Instead Of Catching The Attacker Rep. Darrell Issa issues government demand for anti-government ads Charles Koch: Social Security for me, but not for thee GOP's Latest Funding Cuts Package Riddled With Same Old Ideological Riders Google Censors Our #OccupyWallStreet Report Bailed-Out, Not Lending, Not Paying Taxes, Rolling in Profits, US Parasitic BofA's New $5 Fee Regulations aren't to blame for the 'uncovery' Romney defends flip-flopping, says it's a habit he formed 'in the private sector' GOP's Draft Budget Empowers Insurers To Flaunt Consumer Protections, Increases Health Costs Breaking Their Promise To Focus On Job Creation, House GOP Proposes Slashing Job Training Programs Blame Greed, Not Obama For Rise In Health Insurance Premiums Newt Gingrich's Tax Policy: Cut Newt Gingrich's Taxes Tea Party - Clear And Present Danger To America Occupy Wall Street growing rapidly Maine Elections Chief Uses GOP List To Intimidate Student Voters And Encourage Them To Re-Register In Another State NASA's Hansen: "If We Stay on With Business as Usual, the Southern U.S. Will Become Almost Uninhabitable." Boehner's District Suffers From E. Coli Outbreak As House Republicans Try To Gut Food Safety Schools Say No To Tea Party's Constitution Lessons The Wisconsin GOP's Clever Plan to Block Scott Walker's Recall Well, it damn sure took them (Americans) long enough! - Americans see Republicans as favoring 'haves' over 'have-nots'
Sponsor Of North Carolina'ois Anti-Gay Marriage Ban Falsified Medical Credentials Study: Majority Of Young Evangelicals Have Pre-Marital Sex, Exposing Flaws With Right-Wing Attacks On Sex Ed Is the United States a Police State? Health Insurance Costs Rising Much Faster than Wages Landrieu opposes Obama jobs plan over ending oil-industry tax breaks When Democrats Prey on Workers, But Protect the Wealthy While Holding Disaster Aid Hostage, Cantor Lobbied FEMA To Quickly Help His District Judge Receives Over 17 Year Sentence For Role In 'Cash For Kids' Private Prisons Scandal Study: Pre-Retirees Don't Appreciate Medicare Until They Have It REPORT: Big Oil Clings To Tax Breaks While Hoarding Cash Romney's Plan To Get Businesses More Customers: Corporate Tax Cuts And Deregulation Tainted Cantaloupes Cause Deadliest Food Outbreak In A Decade As GOP Continues Fight To Gut Food Safety Laws Read this one carefully - College Republicans Disappointed More Young People Are Insured Under Health Care Reform Law
A Corporate Tax Rule that Cost U.S. $10 Billion and Helped Double Revenues... Overseas Sharp Rise In Premiums Exposes Health Insurers' Greed Americans Dislike the Tea Party More Than Ever Before Does Cantor do this just for comedy? - Rep. Cantor's Convenient Interest In "Commonality" With Obama
Pepper-Spraying Cop Accused of Abusing Bush Protesters in 2004 Study: China Trade Did More Damage To US Economy Than Anyone Knew REPORT: Big Oil Clings To Tax Breaks While Hoarding Cash 21 States Suing Over Health Reform Accept Its Funding, Including Perry's Texas Top Alabama Lawmaker Apologizes For Calling Blacks 'Aborigines' Now does this take balls or what!? - Cantor wants his district's disaster aid from FEMA. Now.
Solyndra 'Scandal' About Big Oil, King Coal Power And Intimidation Ryan: Republicans Should Double Down On My Budget This has to be poetic justice - Maine legislators, governor registered to vote using law they killed
Boehner's own 'fiscal experts' agree that the Republican position on taxes is unworkable Asked If He's Racist, Sheriff Joe Says, 'I'm Not Going To Talk About My Personal Life' Santorum's Explanation For The Financial Crisis: 'It Wasn't Deregulation...It Was Government Regulation' Big Bank Cuts Costs Via Layoffs And Smaller Cups, While Increasing Bonus Pool OK, Sen. Shelby: Let's Tell the Truth About Jobs and Regulations Jon Stewart Talks Tough To GOP Base: 'Your Candidates Aren't The Problem - It's You' REPORT: How The Right-Wing Uses Misleading Numbers To Claim The Rich Are Unfairly Taxed Internal NYPD Rift Over Aggressive Tactics Used Against Peaceful #OccupyWallStreet Protesters? Bloomberg Blames Lack of Confidence on the Threat of Bankers Going to Prison Mainstream Ignores Occupy Wall Street Five of Boehner's Six "Fiscal Experts" Agree: Deficit Reduction Requires Revenue Increases No Confidence Men: 62 Percent Have Little Or No Confidence In GOP Leaders On Debt What Free Market? Subsidies Have Always Been a Big Part of Energy Industry, New Report Shows Ryan to unveil budget reforms Wall Street paid millions to deficit hawks who don't want to tax Wall Street Economic Collapse, Financial Manipulation and the Dollar Crisis The Money Masters: Behind the Global Debt Crisis BBC Speechless As Trader Tells Truth: "The Collapse Is Coming... And Goldman Rules The World" Shutdown and Hostage-Taking -- It Is NOT Both Sides Doing It Converting Medicare to Premium Support Would Likely Lead to Two-Tier Health Care System Pentagon talks layoffs, while private defense executives rake in millions CNN hackery: Paul Ryan's lack of popularity means he's popular Disaster victims angry over latest Republican hostage-taking of FEMA The Top Ten Lethal Legislators and the Dirty Secrets Behind Their Clean Air Attacks Perry Appointees May Raid Public School Funds To Give Oil Refineries $135 Million Tax Break Rick Scott Makes Fun Of Obama For Using A Teleprompter While Reading From A Teleprompter It's Much Worse than 2008 KWN Special - James Turk: "We are Looking at Another Lehman" The Corporate Takeover of the 2012 Presidential Election Let's Look At Class Warfare and The 51% Who 'Don't Pay Any Taxes' The Fact Checker Fails: Washington Post Okays McConnell's Lies, While Dissing Bill Clinton’s Truths Michael Gerson Thinks Asking the Rich to Pay Their Fair Share in Taxes Isn't a Good Democratic Message Wall Street Journal Readers Name US Chamber of Commerce in the "Top Corruption-Related Story of the Year" George Will: The Republican Party Has Become Too Southern Buffett has replaced Soros as Republicans' billionaire boogeyman Government Claims AIG 'Gamed the Tax System' During Court Hearing, Conservative Fifth Circuit Chief Judge Shouts Down Progressive Colleague, Telling Him To 'Shut Up' Big Businesses, Not the Poor, are Federal Freeloaders Michigan Republican took job-creation tax breaks, cut jobs After Gutting Public School Budget, Ohio Republicans Try To Give Private Schools More Than $100 Million Bottom 60% of Americans lost wealth between 1983 and 2009 Week of September 18, 2011 GOP Celebrates Birthday Of "Pledge To America" By Breaking It YEP! THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING, ALRIGHT! DOJ: Perry's Texas redistricting plan intentionally discriminates The Hidden Hands in Redistricting: Corporations and Other Powerful Interests Cantor Claims Victims 'Need To Know' Disaster Relief Funds Are 'There For Them' After Repeatedly Holding Funds Hostage Republicans Bash No Child Left Behind, Then Bash Obama For Trying To Unravel It Boehner Pans Tea Party Congressmen Who Defied Him As 'Know It Alls' Nervous Breakdown? 21 Signs That Something Big Is About To Happen In The Financial World Big Business supporters in Congress keep whacking away at public safeguards Regulators Weaken Dodd-Frank Draft Regs, Allow More Risk Conservatives say it out loud: They really hate democracy Troy Davis Executed, While CEO Responsible for Deaths of 29 Miners Sails Free Fox in the School House: Rupert Murdoch Wants to Teach Your Kids! Things have got to be really bad for this to happen - House Republicans Seek Budget Advice From Phil 'Mental Recession' Gramm
As GOP Cracks Down On Student Voters, Study Finds Zero Student Voter Fraud Financial Reform Vindicated: Banks See Credit Scores Downgraded Due To Doubts They'll Be Bailed Out BP back from political exile, giving big in 2012 U.S. Pays 62% of Afghanistan's Government Expenses Donor to Lindsey Graham Indicted for Illegal Campaign Contributions, Fraud GOP Leaders To Bernanke: Don't Try And Improve The Economy Again Mitt Romney says he's one of 'us' in the middle-class Amazon Forced Employees To Work Brutal Hours In 100 Degree Warehouse Or Face Termination UNORGANIZED workers look like.Rick Santorum Endorses Pennsylvania Election Scheme Because It Will Rig Presidential Election For Republicans Forbes: Koch Brothers Now Worth $50 Billion After Calling Obama's Taxes On The Rich 'Class Warfare,' Romney Calls For Raising Taxes On The Poor Due To Health Cuts, Miscarriage No Longer Considered An 'Emergency' For Medicaid Patients In Washington State What The Neocons Don't Ask: How Much Will It Cost To Stay In Iraq? House GOP Votes Down Resolution Containing Disaster Relief Funds It Promised Not To Hold Hostage One In Four Millionaires Pays Lower Taxes Than The Median Middle-Class Household Lies, Damn Lies, and Average Tax Rates Tax Dodging Corporations Form Coalition To Call For Lower Corporate Taxes Obama's plan a massive tax cut Congressional Millionaires To Weigh Obama's Proposed 'Buffett Rule' It's Official: Obama Has Deported More Than A Million Unauthorized Immigrants Hoyer: Republicans would see country 'fail' to defeat Obama's reelection bid FLASHBACK: Speaker Gingrich Denounced "Class Warfare" While Cutting Medicare To Fund Tax Cuts For The Rich Despite Record Number Of Millionaires, Daniels Claims 'There Are A Lot Fewer, Under Obama Defending Decision Not To Investigate News Corp., Issa Contradicts Own Claim That He Knows Rupert Murdoch Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests More Zombie Lies: GOP Candidates Bring Back False Claim That Higher Tax Rates On The Rich Destroy Jobs Rep. Fleming Calls On Poor People To Shoulder More Of The Tax Burden Perry Used Taxpayer Money To Subsidize Family Vacations, Presidential Campaign Events Rich People and Corporations: The GOP's Trillion-Dollar "Failed Stimulus" The Federal Debt As Criminal Scam, The Federal Reserve As Criminal Syndicate The US Treasury and Federal Reserve Are Running A Criminal Operation Members of Congress Triple Their Private-Sector Income The Wealthy Have Waged Class Warfare on the Working Class for Decades Sheriff Joe Arpaio announces 'posse' to investigate Obama's birth certificate yet again Medicare Is Better At Controlling Costs Than Private Insurers Three Years After The Financial Crash, GOP Candidates Revive Desire To Privatize Social Security Gitcher Voter Suppression History Right Here The GOP's Favorite Lies About The Jobs Market Google CEO Schmidt Admits It's DEMAND That Creates Jobs Paul Ryan Supports Plan to Let Unemployed Work for Free Ralph Nader Promises To Challenge President Obama In Primary Why the White House changed course Tea Party Rep. Apparently Spends $200K To 'Feed His Family' (VIDEO) Multi-Millionaire Rep. Says He Can't Afford A Tax Hike Because He Only Has $400K A Year After Feeding Family David Vitter Denounces 'Crony Capitalism' While Begging For Subsidies For His Favorite Firms Paul Ryan Insults Our Intelligence Yet Again Why There Are Protests On Wall Street: Their Actions Impoverished More Than 60 Million People Paul Ryan Calls For Increasing Taxes On Middle Class But Dismisses Millionaires Tax As 'Class Warfare' Unelected, Unaccountable, Unrepentant: The Federal Reserve Is Using Your Money To Bail Out European Commercial Banks Once Again Financial Terrorists Strike Again: Federal Reserve (US Taxpayers) Bail Out Big European Banks Yet Again Geithner Gets Told To Blow It Out His Azz America Is "A Two-Party Dictatorship Unless You're Worth Billions of Dollars" Obama Sells Out American Workers, Pushes NAFTA-Style Trade Policy Despite 2008 Promise (Video) Republicans Call for Gutting Social Security, Adding Trillions to Debt Steve King: Unemployment in America caused by 'a nation of slackers' only one job for every five looking .House GOP Rejects Tax Cuts For Middle Class Week of September 11, 2011 Scott Walker retains lawyers, stays silent in FBI corruption probe FBI Raid Involving Walker Campaign Records May Foretell Bigger Threat Eric Cantor on jobs bill: Don't 'cram it down people's throats' Auto industry loans worked, Cantor angry about that Why the health industry wants to raise the Medicare eligibility age: P-R-O-F-I-T Kansas And Oklahoma Want To Use ACA [Affordable Care Act] Funds To Pay Down Deficit Suskind book: Geithner ignored Obama directive on Citigroup John Boehner's tired old jobs rhetoric collides with reality Republicans step up voter suppression efforts in run up to 2012 Report: What Happens If The Tea Party Wins Perry Brags About Texas' Tax System That Charges The Poor Four Times As Much As The Rich The Neocons Who Brought You Iraq Don't Want U.S. Troops To Leave The $2 Billion UBS Incident: 'Rogue Trader' My Ass Wake Up And Smell The Banking Fraud & Corruption Boehner's Funding From Coal Up 2,400% The Latest Republican Plan to Steal a Presidential Election May Just Work Cantor Claims 'No One' Is Holding Disaster Relief Hostage After Senate GOP Blocks Disaster Relief Republicans Push New $1 Trillion Tax Cut Windfall for the Wealthy Obama bigger tax cutter than Bush Three Years After Lehman Bros. Collapsed, Republicans Refuse To Implement Wall Street Reform After Voting For Bank Bailouts And Against Wall Street Reform, Boehner Blasts 'Too Big To Fail' Banks GOP Rep. Calls Labor Law The 'Economic Death Penalty' As House Votes To Protect Union-Busting Defying GOP's Doomsday Predictions, Medicare Advantage Enrollment Increases, Premiums Fall NE Republicans looking to move state to winner-take-all distribution of electoral votes FBI raids home of former top aide to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker In Battle Over Job Creation Ideas, GOP Offers Deregulation Of Pythons Someone Forgot To Tell Australia About Regulatory Uncertainty Giant Sucking Sound Part 2? The NAFTA Of The Pacific Will Soon Allow Millions More American Jobs To Be Shipped Overseas How About an Offset for War Funding? GOP Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett Proposes Rigging The Electoral College For Republicans Issa: We Won't Investigate News Corp's Alleged Hacking Of 9/11 Victims Because We Don't Want To Pick On The Media If You Want To Cut Health Care Costs, You Probably Shouldn't Adopt The Health Industry's Favorite Idea Privatized Social Security System Cited By GOP Candidates Works For The Rich, But Is 'Very Bad' For Everyone Else Even Cass Sunstein Says GOP's Proposed Regulatory Moratorium Would Be "Like a Nuclear Bomb" Big Business Front Group Kills 26 Of 30 Bills It Targeted In California Legislature With Record Number Of Americans Falling Into Poverty, Rand Paul Says The Poor Are Getting Rich Study: Private Service Contracts Cost Government Almost Double Expense of In-House Staff Here goes that damn "Republican" President again!! - surrendering to the GOP before they even point their gun. White House says Obama would sign pieces of jobs package
Perry Wants To Build Afghanistan's Infrastructure, Opposes Obama Plan To Build America's GOP leadership puts protecting special tax breaks ahead of creating jobs On Third Anniversary Of The 2008 Financial Crisis, GOP Candidates Pledge To 'Free Up' Wall Street The Coal Industry Backs Boehner with $1.5 Million in Donations - "We Think He Is Good for Business" Susan Hassol, Director of Climate Communication: The Science Has Never Been More Compelling, the Public Never So Misled Record Number Of People In Poverty In 2010 Perry's 'Ponzi Scheme' Kept 14 Million Seniors Out Of Poverty Last Year CBO Director: Affordable Care Act Is Slowing Medicare Spending Advocacy Group Files Ethics Complaint Against Darrell Issa GOP Lawmakers Used Taxpayer Money To Fund Leadership Training From Hate Group After Helping Banks Water Down Dodd-Frank, Scott Brown Tries To Claim He's A Wall Street Reformer Obama Proposes Cutting Oil and Gas Subsidies $41 Billion to Help Fund Jobs Package Rick Perry: Let's "Free Up" Wall Street - Because That Worked in 2008 Missing: Tons of US-Supplied Nuclear Weapons Material The Most Anti-Environment Congress in History Romney Promises to Outlaw Political Contributions from Union Dues Cantor To Obama: Let's Nix More Than Half Your Jobs Bill
Cantor Admits Shutdown Fights Harm Economy Republicans are so petty they want to cut bike safety Kerry Cancels Fundraisers, Vows To Avoid Lobbyists While On Super Committee We Don't Have Deficit Reduction Because Republicans Don't Want It Cantor Voted For Billions To Rebuild Schools In Iraq, Now Opposes Funding School Construction In America Texas Power Company Sues EPA To Cover For Bad Coal Plant Investment Why Congress Won't Pass A Jobs Bill: 'Obama Is On The Ropes; Why Do We Appear Ready To Hand Him A Win?' GOP Reveals Depth of Voter-Exclusion Plan GOP grumbles about jobs plan House GOP To Obama: Thanks For Ideas On Jobs, We'll Pick It Apart And Get Back To You Fine Print in Health Care Law Allows Insurance Companies to Choose Who Examines Their Disputed Decisions Plutocracy with a Philanthropic Face Bernanke: I Should Be Removed As ChairSatan Today JPMorgan Pays $88 Million in Fines for Trading with Enemies If 9-11 Had Happened When a Democrat Was President, Would the Republicans Have Impeached Him or Her? Terrorism Expert: Since 9/11, Only 33 Deaths From Muslim Terrorism Vs. 150,000 Deaths From Murders Week of September 4, 2011 The New GOP: Anti-Kids, Anti-Jobs, Anti-Business ... and Anti-Republican Mark Zandi: Obama plan would add 1.9 million jobs Paul Ryan Mocks Senior Citizen Handcuffed At His Town Hall: 'I Hope He's Taking His Blood Pressure Medication' arrested for the questions they asked Ryan .Cantor to Obama: Please don't take it to the American people GOP Reps. Dismiss Tax Cut For Working Americans In Favor Of Giveaways To Corporations Obama Offers Up Medicare, Medicaid Cuts To Help Pay For $447 Billion Jobs Package Big Oil Kills Jobs For Profits GOP Policy Chairman Tom Price: Obama's Payroll Tax Cut For Working Families Is 'Class Warfare' Wisconsin State Worker Fired After Telling Coworkers About Controversial Voter ID Policy Banks Throw Tantrum Over Federal Lawsuit, Walk Out Of Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Talks Wall Street Bankers Whine That They Shouldn't Have To Pay For Their Fraud GOP Voted For $50 Billion To Rebuild Iraq Without Cuts, Now Insist On Cuts To Offset Funding To Rebuild America Widow Alleges Bank Of America Called Her 48 Times A Day To Remind Her Of Dead Husband's Debt How health costs wiped out a full decade of income increases Dear Paul Ryan, I'd Like To Ask You A Question But I Don't Want To Be Arrested The Richest 0.1% Have Launched A War On Us - It's Time To Fight Back And Hold These 400 Billionaires Personally Responsible For Our Economic Crisis Historically High Oil Exports Helping Keep Gas Prices High U.S. Chamber Sets Up Fake Grassroots Group In Favor Of Keystone XL Guess Who Called Opponents 'Extremist Group,' Urged Supporters To 'Take Them Out': Michele Bachmann Major Banks Allegedly Engaged In $6 Billion Mortgage Insurance Kickback Scheme $4 Gas: Brought to You by Wall Street Sen. McConnell Takes Just One Day To Violate His Own "No-Politics Zone" Around Jobs Rep. Cantor Admits House Republicans Have Not Been Focused On Jobs The GOP Agenda Becomes Fox News Programming Obama is the Best Republican President Since Lincoln Apocalyptic GOP Is Dragging Us Into a Civil War Paul Ryan faces protests at pay-to-view event Romney's Economic Plan Includes $6.6 Trillion Tax Cut For The Rich And Corporations Wisconsin Dept. Of Transportation Memo Tells Staff Not To Mention Free Voter ID Cards Unless People Ask For It Dick Cheney Still Thinks Saddam Hussein Was Involved in 9/11 only defense he, Bush and the rest of the GOP have for attacking Iraq.Texas Applies For Health Reform Waiver That Benefits Insurers Nancy Pelosi blasts GOP silence never miss a chance to rebutt an Obama speech, so why are they avoiding this one? The answer is simple! Because their "fix" for a shortage of jobs is the same as their "fix" for every thing else: tax cuts ! In other words, they don't have a jobs plan.State Prosecutors to Offer Bankers Grant of Immunity From Serious Charges Mitt Romney Compares Unions Making Campaign Donations to a 'Form of Corruption' A 'culture of accountability' aimed only at poor people As Ohio GOPers Cut Public Union Salaries, Records Show Republican Staffers Received Pay Raises Up To 37 Percent During Secret Retreat With Billionaires, Koch Lobbyist Admits Tea Party Group 'Designed' To Elect Republicans In 2010 Goldman Sachs Gave Sen. Shelby $5,000 The Day After He Denounced The CFPB As 'Dangerous' Donors to Senate GOP super committee members seek tax cuts, tax breaks Did A Top GOP Staffer For Sen. Grassley Cover Up Evidence Of News Corp Hacking In The U.S.? Regulators Poised to Soften New Bank Rules Obama and Jobs: Why I Don't Believe Him Anymore U.S. Has Weakest Labor Protections In The OECD Candidates Head To SC To Sit At Jim DeMint's Right Hand REPORT: The American Middle Class Was Built By Unions And It Will Decline Without Them FBI Issues Small Aircraft Warning On Day Of Mysterious Marine One Grounding Pima County GOP To Critics Of Gun Raffle: Screw It, We're Raffling A Second Gun, Too The Republican Party Wishes You a Happy Labor Day! On Labor Day, Republicans Are Committed to Helping Create Jobs Overseas - Not in Ohio Tea party Republicans cheer federal investment in Texas rail project CEOs Rewarded for Corporate Tax Dodging Can Anyone Tackle Our Tax-Dodging CEOs? Full-Blown Civil War Erupts On Wall Street: As Reality Finally Hits The Financial Elite, They Start Turning On Each Other Job One for Debt Panel? Pay for America's 9/11 Wars Looks Like Obama Intends To Propose A Jobs Program That Gets People To Work For Free Brutal Look At The "Cult Of GOP" By A Former GOP Staffer Domestic drilling hits record high, yet GOP blames gas prices on Obama's 'anti-drilling' policies Dick Cheney wants you to forget Bachmann 'Open To' Elimination Of Corporate Income Tax
