The Global Debt Crisis: How We Got in It and How to Get Out

by Ellen Brown http://tinyurl.com/EHB-Debt

American Banks 'High' On Drug Money: How a Whistleblower Blew the Lid Off Wachovia-Drug Cartel Money Laundering Scheme By Clarence Walker
A fraud investigator helped expose the shocking world of multi-billion dollar drug

laundering by American banks and the surprising lack of oversight by the Feds.

http://tinyurl.com/BanksHighDrugs

The interest for Public Banking  in Colorado is growing, as representatives of several organizations, including Colorado Move to Amend, Public Banking Institute, Colorado Enterprise Fund, Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, Colorado Progressive Coalition, Rocky Mountain Micro Finance Institute, and Bell Policy Center, gathered together with 2 Colorado State Representatives on Thursday, June 2nd,  to discuss if and why a "Main Street Partnership Bank" (aka "Public Banking") is necessary. All those who spoke agreed that funding to the State institutions has nearly dried up; loans to small business and other needy institutions are down sharply, and there appears to be no end in sight to the downturn. We will keep you posted of further developments in this area.

For more information on Public Banking, please see this website:

www.publicbankinginstitute.org  

If you are interested in helping with this project, please contact Michael Melio, or Ken Roberts for more information.

Supreme Court Rules for Wal-Mart, Against Complainants in Sex Discrimination Case http://tinyurl.com/Sup5-WalMart
 

Citizens United, an Assault on Our Democracy, Needs a Constitutional Amendment http://tinyurl.com/CUvFEC-PK

Virginia Law & Business Review
Why We Should Stop Teaching DODGE v. FORD

Some find [the] picture of the corporation as an engine for increasing
shareholder wealth to be quite attractive. Nobel Prize-winning economist
Milton Friedman famously praised this view of corporate purpose in his 1970
New York Times essay, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its
Profits." To others, the idea of the corporation as a relentless profit-seeking
machine seems less appealing. In 2004, Joel Bakan published The Corporation:
The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, a book accompanied by an award 

winning documentary film of the same name. Bakan's thesis is that corporations
are indeed dedicated to maximizing shareholder wealth, without regard
to law, ethics, or the interests of society. Thus, as Bakan argues, corporations
are "dangerously psychopathic" entities.

http://www.virginialawbusrev.org/VLBR3-1pdfs/Stout.pdf 

Compilers Note (from David Cobb)

The Supreme Court of Virginia stated in 1809 that if an applicant for a corporate charter's "object is merely private or selfish; if it is detrimental to, or not promotive of, the public good, they have no adequate claim upon the legislature for the privileges." Currie's Administrator v. Mutual Assurance, 14 Va. 315, 347 (1809).  Document here

[Back in 1809, both houses of the legislature had to approve all corporate charters! Today, for $50 and a 10 minute form, you can be incorporated!] 

Massey Energy: Groups Call On Beau Biden To Revoke Coal Company's Corporate Charter  http://tinyurl.com/RevkCorpCharMassey

For more information on revoking corporate charters, read "Challenging Corporate 

Rule: The Petition to Revoke Unocal's Charter as a Guide to Citizen Action"
By Robert Benson http://cipa-apex.org/books/Challenging_Corp_Rul/default.asp  

Progressive Democrats of America launches their campaign to "End corporate rule". http://tinyurl.com/pda-EndCorpRule

Philadelphia Sheriff Candidate Would Turn Selective Enforcement on Its Head. One brave candidate for Sheriff in Philadelphia refuses to enforce foreclosure orders. http://tinyurl.com/PhilSher-Enfor

No Tax Holiday for Multinational Corporations
http://www.truth-out.org/no-tax-holiday-multinational-corporations/1307797781
 

The Military as a Jobs Program: There are More Efficient Ways to Stimulate the Economy by Ellen Brown http://tinyurl.com/EHB-MIC

A 'Dictator' Governor Sets Out to Cut Wages, Slash Benefits and Destroy Public Unions By John Nichols http://tinyurl.com/Dictator-JN

Local Economies: An Alternative Solution to the Budget Crisis
By Ellen Brown, Reader Supported News
http://tinyurl.com/EHB-LocEconAltToCuts

America's Debt, The Role of the State, And the Fight for Survival
http://tinyurl.com/AmericasDebt

Death by Budget Cut: Why Conservatives and Some Dems Have Blood on Their Hands By Rania Khalek
http://tinyurl.com/DeathByCuts

As Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas burn, corporations profiting from fossil fuel extraction and production continue to deny reality.

Climate of Denial: Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison? http://tinyurl.com/ClimDenial

5 WikiLeaks Revelations Exposing the Rapidly Growing Corporatism Dominating American Diplomacy Abroad  http://tinyurl.com/Wiki-Corp

The Secret $8 Billion Wireless Scam: How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System http://tinyurl.com/WirelessScam-ATTVer

The Rise of Benefit Corporations (Some good news) 
http://www.thenation.com/article/161261/rise-benefit-corporations 

The Rise of Corporations by Anup Shah
http://www.globalissues.org/article/234/the-rise-of-corporations

Corporate America Is Hoarding Tons of Cash: Why In the World Would Obama Think About Giving Them More Tax Cuts?
http://tinyurl.com/CorpHoardingCash 

Folks:

The corporate media will not do anything at all to raise awareness of MtA (but 

they will give all the exposure in the world to Astroturf groups like the Tea 

Party).  I say this as a long-time media watcher (and former editor-in-chief of 

the second largest newspaper in Central Florida).  The few legitimate media 

outlets provide the only hope of that.  It isn't about finding some single 

individual to write a story about - it's about not providing oxygen to anything 

that [mega-] corporations don't like. 
Why do you think that corruption is as endemic as it is?

Policy for the corporate media is set by the Business Roundtable - which is also 

the primary organization responsible for the offshor[ing] and outsourcing of 

millions of [American] jobs as well as grossly inflated CEO compensation.

For additional, corroborating details see:

www.progressiveliving.org/mass_media_and_politics.htm

Best,
Ken Roberts, Colorado Move to Amend.

Canadian artist, Bruce Cockburn, may be the only singer / song writer to write a song about the International Monetary Fund, the "IMF". Warning, the "f" word is used. Watch and listen here

Bruce Cockburn "Call it democracy" (w/ subtitles)