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		<title>Our Pro-Corporate Supreme Court</title>
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			<title>David Starkey - Dallas, TX says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I do NOT advocate violence. If the election is won by the conservatives, by a margin smaller than the number of disenfranchised , I do NOT advocate the taking up of arms to prevent the userpation of the will of the people. I strongly urge that all lebal means be utilized. But I also stronly urge that the overthrow of the government be taken WITH UTMOST SERIOUSNESS.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David Starkey - Dallas, TX</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:52:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>David Starkey - Dallas, TX says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There is only ONE Constitutional requirement of a Supreme Court Justice - GOOD BEHAVIOR. Voting FOR the Bush v Gore decision - BAD behavior. Refusing to Recuse, when clearly called for - AMORAL behavior. Stating "I don't see a right to privacy", thus VIOLATING THE NINTH AMENDMENT FROM THE BENCH - INCOMPETENT behavior. Voting FOR the Citizens United decision - TREASONOUS behavior. REMOVE THE TRAITORS WHO STABBED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THE BACK INSTEAD OF PROTECTING THEM!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David Starkey - Dallas, TX</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:48:12 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>fhunter says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sandra Day O'Connor saw RED FLAGS about the "Hanging ChadsÁ, and she was right! The thing I did not understood that she did not see RED FLAGS about the butterfly ballots; the thousands of voters disenfranchised by Jeb; the hundreds of messed up military ballots,etc. She made a PARTY LINE vote and responsible for the horrors of the W. presidency.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>fhunter</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:21:07 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>reiverpacific says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Wow, I suspect you are making that up, not calling you a liar, but why would she want a Republican? Nominated by Clinton and she wanted a Republican President...I don't think so! Sorry, you are right there. 'Scuse appalling typing skills and a bad finger/memory day to give honorable self red face. It was SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR of course, who made that statement and voted with the Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy majority to halt the Florida vote count. She made no secret of being a Dimwits and Mrs D' admirer at the time and did indeed make that statement I mistakenly ascribed to Ginsberg (I remember it well and noted it at the time). In fact she was made to regret her decision later after her retirement when he turned out to be such a Godawful president (She was an old-fashioned "Country Club" Republican). It apparently haunted her greatly subsequently. Still, I appreciate you calling me on my error and givin' me the opportunity to correct it. This is all off the top of my occasionally foggy head and proves that I need to proof my posts ever more carefully before hittin' the "Send" button.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>reiverpacific</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:24:54 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>edge says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Wow, I suspect you are making that up, not calling you a liar, but why would she want a Republican? Nominated by Clinton and she wanted a Republican President...I don't think so!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>edge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:57:23 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pernsey says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The right wing are extremists, great article!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pernsey</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:04:12 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pernsey says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ More Fox news spin!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pernsey</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:02:14 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>reiverpacific says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Good statement. Get rid of the Electoral College system for a start! It was originated to tilt the vote en masse in the days when white property holders were the only voters. When they could show 600,000 in a million bodies- a slave representing 2/3rds of a human being then but could not vote themselves, this counted as a bloc-vote at the convenience of the "Mastahs". It doesn't belong in a 21st century quest for democracy any more than corporate person-hood, which began with a clerk's error in the 1890's and has been used ever since to accommodate the owner-class. They are tied together and used to work US elections to the point of saying "Well my vote won't count so I won't vote", not realizing that they are part of a bloc of votes, willing or no, that will count more than they can understand. Trouble is that most US "Citizens" and occasional voters have never heard of the Electoral Colleges; a nice name for "Grassroots bamboozlement" and presently working just fine.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>reiverpacific</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:43:42 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Excellent report! This should be freely passed around; I shared it on facebook. People sure seem to protect their bliss though and don't like to hear anything that they consider "negative". Unfortunately, today much of the truths that are hidden and ignored by the press and the airwaves are bummers, but to ignore the truth is to only delay (and often to allow the situation to decay to a point where its irreversible) the destructive outcome to our democracy. Without truth, how do we vote? how does a democracy have a chance?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>reiverpacific says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ For a kickoff, the article didn't "Start off" with Dimwits vs Gore. It began with direct reference to Citizens United, then to the age of the oldest members, then Obamacare and EVENTUALLY to Gore's 500,000 vote majority over Dimwits who was then selected by the Court that stopped the recount (whose Tallahassee volunteers were subject to a planeload of goons flown in on Ken Boy's private jet to threaten and harass the counters). And remember the revealing statement by Ruth Bader Ginsberg that She "hoped to see a Republican in the White House when she retires". No bias eh? And Katherine Harris' skullduggery in declaring the election when several counties were still counting. And the purged voter rolls, and blacks being turned away by cops: -shall I continue??? Talk about not knowing your facts or rewriting history into fantasy....!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>reiverpacific</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:06:56 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bruce Gruber says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We the DOLLARS ... of the multinational corporations and chamber of commerce flacks, in order to form a more profitable capital model, assure freedom from regulation, minimize the cost of labor, insure control of legal impositions, maximize investment of public monies in 'outsourced' privatization contracts from government, and abolish consideration of human outcomes derived from extraction and exploitation, and insure the Blessings of control and Profit, do invest in, ordain, purchase and establish this newly accomplished Constitution for the United States of America ... in our self-interest as the Deserving and Special People of that experiment in Representative Democracy.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bruce Gruber</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:51:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>maddave says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Paul. This Supreme Court thing is right on par with my fears and trepidations regarding a disastrous war with Iran! (There can be nothing BUT a disastrous war with Iran!) A wrong move in either direction will have grave repercussions for this country. Consequently, comparing Obama's track record* alongside Romney's promises - in these two issues alone - I see no alternative to my voting early and often for Obama! *(1) Obama appointed two solid Justices to the Supreme Court while Romney hired Robert Bork as his "Judicial Advisor". (2) Obama & (Mrs) Clinton are actively seeking a peaceful solution to the Iran-Israel confrontation while Romney keeps rattling his empty sabre scabbard.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>maddave</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:05:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>chrisconnolly says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Refreshing to hear intellectuals comment on the sell out of our democracy and the potential foreclosure on real person rights. We are losing the battle against big money. Big money has always been able to yell louder through lobbyists activities, but now they are blatantly lying through anonymously and unlimited funded campaign ads. The Robert court is carelessly blinded to the needs and rights of we the people. Will we the people see through this corporate charlatan's slight of hand or will we lose all vestiges of our democracy to smoke and mirrors? The writing is on the wall and this interview is trying to elucidate what's at stake. Hopefully Americans haven't become completely illiterate.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>chrisconnolly</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:37:34 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>oakes721 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Corporations United (C.U.) was speeding down the road, looking over its shoulder, unable to watch where it was going (to avoid the laws so well-designed to protect people from speed demons). So C.U. did what it does best ~ and bought the traffic cop ~ but there was still traffic slowing down it's potential, so it raised the price of gas ~ so they bought smaller cars..,did I mention that C.U. drives a tank? There were still pedestrians who had the nerve to try to get to work. So he fired a lot of people and moved their jobs overseas and installed cameras (I.C.U.s) on the street corners to watch after them like a Big Brother would. After a while, they gave up looking for work, so the streets were pretty empty ~ although full of pot holes from all the tank traffic which they weren't intended for. One day the tank stopped running. It was broke down because a part from overseas that had failed. It was a part that used to be made here and had been tested. The part had been made in the very factory, whose workers had been fired, that now ordered those parts (cheaper) from overseas in order to avoid the regulations that put a wrinkle in their obese bottom line. A phone call (re-routed overseas) found that the local towing business had to close since there were no more work cars needed or workers to buy them. Although now stranded (other dog-eat-dog corporations wouldn't help to save their own playground), C.U. is still looking over its shoulder, still on the run, still at large.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>oakes721</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:14:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>timmuggs says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There are already laws in place to prevent non-citizens of the USA from contributing to US elections. The question is not, "are corporations persons?". The question is: "are corporations citizens?" The biggest shareholders of CItibank are the Saudi Royal Family. Sovereign wealth funds of China, Russia, Kuwait etc hold huge blocks of US corporations. Any non-US billionaire can buy a front company on the New York Stock Exchange and start influencing elections. Reframe the question: Are corporations citizens? Is any corporation listed on a US exchange able to influence US elections? What is the legality of non-citizens in contributing to elections? That is the way to address this problem.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>timmuggs</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:56:07 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>edge says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When you start out with the ridiculous notion that the Supreme Court gave the election to Bush you have missed the FACT that they protected the votes of all Floridians and not just a few that were stupid enough to not vote properly! ALL of Florida's votes were in jeopardy of not being counted if Florida did not certify its vote that day! Talk about not knowing the laws regarding elections...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>edge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:43:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pbbrodie says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I wish I could give your comment 1,000 thumbs up!!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pbbrodie</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:07:00 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>cordleycoit says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Face it we are owned, bought sold and bartered,we belong to the corporations.Ev ery need and desire is controlled by advertizing and our money masters control just about every word we read, speak, our accent betray our class our sexual preferences are molded, refined by image makers, psychologists and sociologists. Our diet shaped by DNA arranging scientists and psychologists shaping us more like hogs than humans. That the courts belong to oligarchs is nothing new: look at the Athenian Empire or Rome as it shifted to empire. Soon our children will be playing Cowboys and slaves.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>cordleycoit</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:12:06 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>apollobartender says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[My contention exactly, which ironically I just wrote about over the weekend that I do believe the reason the middle class is where Obama starts with the fix is because that is where we will get everything else fixed. There is so much overwhelmingly wrong with the system and it has been happening through the decades, the people will be able to vocalize once they are unstrapped from homelessness, joblessness etc. http://blogitiks.com/2012/09/15/the-republican-scampaign-of-2012.aspx]]></description>
			<dc:creator>apollobartender</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:07:18 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Erdajean says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["The state need not permit its own creature to consume it." So why are we watching the jackal that is the U.S.Supreme Court slaughter and devour this country without taking some direct and forceful action? Who of us would sit and watch a beast tear one of our loved ones to shreds without taking the creature on with all the strength and courage we can muster? Why are we not in the streets? (Of course under all the furtively-passe d new laws we'd probably go to prison forever -- but can they jail us ALL?) We need protests by millions -- and where are they? Are we in effect "giving the consent of the governed" to the destruction of life and liberty as we know it? What a disgrace and a dishonor to all who have died to build and maintain a democracy -- so this generation can abandon it to the scum of the earth. Because we lack the heart and will to offer opposition? If so, we deserve whatever comes to us.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Erdajean</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:40:13 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dyannne says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The video stops at 22.51 and will not move past that point. Disappointing.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dyannne</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:32:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>reiverpacific says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As a commoner not versed in the high wire acts of judicial gymnastics, it sounds to me like the constitution is being increasingly used as the puck or basketball to be manipulated by the most apt at rapid-fire exchange with access to selective justice going to the most nimble. Ask Leonard Peltier and many others who happened to be on the wrong side thereof at the wrong time, including a dear friend of mine who was jailed for nine days for, as far as I could make out, "Unspecified" charges -he didn't even blow a DUI level of alcohol in the wee bag test-, when he stumbled into a newly cleared ditch walking home from a bar (they wouldn't let me go to court and challenge the judge, who was a former acquaintance of mine, lest I "disrupt" the smoothly-biased wheels of lockup none too gently but armed with facts and arguments based on judicial precedence). And this is at a county level, so go figure the bloody great club that the detestable Scalia gets to wield -on a whim or at will it seems!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>reiverpacific</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:34:35 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>maddave says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Part 2 Finally, with economic globalization now a reality and ---given the easy portability of cash &n assets internationally ---, one doubts that there is ANY major corporation in the USA that remains purely an American entity ( ¿person? ). My question is: If international corporations - GE, Toyota-USA, Exon Mobile; CityCorp; Monsanto; etc. can donate unlimited money to influence domestic elections, then why shouldn't illegal immigrants be allowed to register and vote as well?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>maddave</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:20:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>maddave says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Part #1 The above article is fine, but lets look at the conservatives' election agenda. They claim that they are "only ensuring against voter fraud" when they purge voter polls, cut back on early voting, and pass voter ID laws --- all of which ensure that millions of old, young and poor citizens, predominately liberals, will be disenfranchised . BTW: The instance of voter fraud in our elections is zip-point-shit ... which is a very low number by any standard. (Statistically it's 0.00000001%). The legal fight is on, and the final decision will certainly be made by the Roberts court. Which way will it come down? The first clue is the Court's Citizens United decision which foolishly opened the financial floodgates to allow US Corporations to slather unlimited, ¿secret? money on the candidates of their choice (more on in another comment below). Further, CITIZENS UNITED does not preclude foreign governments and overseas interests from ALSO buying influence in this massive, ¿secret? American auction-of-legi slators and executives. For example, harbor NO doubts whatsoever that international drug cartels are giving financial support to benighted, clueless US candidates who FAVOR the mindless continuation of our losing (for us) and profitable (for them) war on drugs? And they are surely not alone.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>maddave</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:08:20 -0800</pubDate>
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