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Thom's blog
Who will be this Generation's Thomas Jefferson?
We could be looking at the end of the American experiment, and it has gone so far that it'll take a political revolution to set things right again.
This is the brave new world we live in thanks to the Supreme Court and it's doctrine of money as speech and corporations as people. Two billionaires - two oil barons - now have just as much power, arguably even more power, than America's two main political parties. But the Kochs are just one example of a very big problem. And that problem is the near total takeover of our political system by plutocrats.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, "Since Citizens United was decided in 2010, there has been more than $1 billion in super PAC spending. Just 195 individuals and their spouses gave almost 60 percent of that money - more than $600 million."
On the state level corporate influence has become so pervasive that in Kansas Governor Sam Brownback submitted his state budget to Koch-funded lobbyists weeks before he submitted it to his own state's legislature.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The GOP declares war on Native Americans (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Daily Take: Will a new Thomas Jefferson come forward to save American Democracy?
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Billionaires give Thom nightmares!
Article: " Fascism Anyone?" by Laurence W. Britt (The 14 Characteristics of Fascism).
Hour Two: Thom's thoughts on Michelle Obama not wearing a head scarf in Saudi Arabia
Hour Three: The story of Gilgamesh - plus, the re-writing of Wikipedia Article: " Ur, Iraq" by Global Heritage
Fund. Quote: "The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor" - Voltaire. |
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Has the United States become a plutocracy?
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