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Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America (video with summary)
(courtesy of Carol Davidek-Waller) We’re sending our money to Washington, D.C. and Wall Street, but we have the power to bring it back. “How do I protect my own assets from the corruption. So I started my own investment advisory company” and financial software firm. The aim is to decentralize power and money via the…
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Dow Constantine, Marcie Maxwell speak to 41st LD Dems on transportation, replacing Maxwell
King County Executive Dow Constantine spoke to the 41st LD Democrats Wednesday night. He said that King County is the 13th largest county in the country. It has a population of over 2,000,000 people, making it more populous than 13 or 14 states (each of which has two US senators). King County accounts for about…
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Language settled for I-594: background checks for gun purchases
The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility announced today that a judge gave final approval to the language of their ballot initiative, I-594, which will establish background checks for gun purchases. Gun rights groups had litigated to change the wording of the initiative to something more favorable. The original proposed wording of the ballot initiative was…
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Protect Social Security, not the 1%
Representatives Rick Larsen and Jim McDermott have signed the Ciccline letter “Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Chained Consumer Price Index should not be used to calculate cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits.” And Rep. McDermott has signed several other letters in support of Social Security (see table below). But no Washington State…
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Letter to the editor in right wing newspaper
The editorials and cartoons of the local newspaper, the Bellevue Reporter, almost always have an anti-government and anti-taxation message. During the 2010 election cycle, when the high earner’s income tax initiative I-1098 was on the ballot, they published a cartoon depicting government as a fat pig. In response to one of their recent anti-government editorials…
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For-profit health care is cruel and immoral!
Insurance Company Gets F-ed Over By Another Cancer Patient Eventually, people will look back to our age and wonder: how could people be so uncivilized that they let people suffer and die without adequate health care?
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Money in Politics
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Ted Koppel and Tonya Britton on Privatization
Tonya Britton -· “…I’m all for business. I’ve spent the past 15 years working tirelessly on behalf of business – big business, small business. corporations. mom & pops. retail. restaurants. the service industry. manufacturing. healthcare. I just think there are some things in this world that do not need to be run by companies and…
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Shift Change: meaningful movie about worker owership, Bellevue July 25
Meaningful Movies/Eastside screens Shift Change on July 25 at 6:30PM at Holy Cross Lutheran, 4315 129th Pl. SE, Bellevue, WA 98006, near the corner of Newport Way and Factoria Blvd. in South Bellevue SHIFT CHANGE At a time when many are disillusioned with big banks and big business, and growing inequity in our country, employee…
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U.S. Corporations Pay A Lower Tax Rate Than Middle Class Families
See Thanks To ‘Loopholes’ U.S. Corporations Pay A Lower Tax Rate Than Middle Class Families (VIDEO)