Common Dreams – by Robert Scheer

Barack Obama’s Justice Department on Monday announced that Citigroup would pay $7 billion in fines, a move that will avoid a humiliating trial dealing with the seamy financial products the bank had marketed to an unsuspecting public, causing vast damage to the economy.

Citigroup is the too-big-to-fail bank that was allowed to form only when Bill Clinton signed legislation reversing the sensible restraints on Wall Street instituted by President Franklin Roosevelt to avoid another Great Depression.    Continue reading “Citigroup: The Original Gangsta”

TVliesWaking Times – by Sigmund Fraud

The mainstream media is aging and collapsing under the weight of its own hubris and arrogance. Now entirely formulaic in presentation and predictable in substance, the ‘major’ outlets of news, which are monopolized under only a small handful of corporations, serve the purpose of misleading the public on important issues and manufacturing consent for government and the oligarchs.

The public is still largely numb to this reality, and in a wicked catch-22 for modern man, many people are still addicted to the very media that serves as the primary weapon of social control against them. The tide is turning, however, and to help break the spell we bring you this comprehensive list of 14 tactics used against the public by the mainstream media to coerce consensus, divide, conquer, ridicule and stifle truthful or meaningful conversation about the state of our world.    Continue reading “14 Tactics Used by the Mainstream Media to Manufacture Consent for the Oligarchy”

It Ain’t Holy Water

Burger King has concocted yet another way to have it your way: a gay pride burger.

The Proud Whopper, as it’s called, comes wrapped in a rainbow colored wrapper with this inscription: “We are all the same inside.” It will be sold through Thursday at one Burger King restaurant on San Francisco’s Market Street, that was at the heart of the route for last weekend’s 44th annual San Francisco Pride Celebration & Parade.   Continue reading “Have It Your Gay”

BoehnerWestern Journalism – by B. Christopher Agee

According to a Fox News report, House Speaker John Boehner is preparing a lawsuit against Barack Obama alleging he has abused his power as the nation’s chief executive. To be clear, the GOP leader said his aim is not to impeach the president as some in his party have recommended.

“This is not about impeachment,” he confirmed; “it’s about him faithfully executing the laws of this country.”   Continue reading “Boehner Sues Obama For Abuse Of Power”

Cellphone-related injuries sent three times as many people to emergency rooms in 2010 than in 2005.The Guardian – by Jon Swaine

The US supreme court delivered a landmark endorsement of electronic privacy on Wednesday, ruling that police must obtain a warrant to search the contents of cellphones seized from people they have arrested.

All nine justices joined the ruling on a case hailed by civil liberties campaigners as a crucial test of the rights of individuals to be protected against intrusion into their ever-expanding digital lives.   Continue reading “Supreme court endorses cellphone privacy rights in sweeping ruling”

Common Dreams – by Peter Hart

With Iraq in crisis, many corporate news accounts treat the US war there as if it was something that was done to us, and the ensuing chaos proof that the good intentions of a US superpower cannot overcome tribal grievances.

Michael Crowley‘s cover story for Time (6/19/14), “The End of Iraq,” might be the quintessential example. He writes:   Continue reading “TIME on Iraq War: What Did We Do to Deserve This?”