05-02-09
- Military-Industrial Profiteers:
- The Significance of Ali Al-Marri’s Guilty Plea Bargain Deal (washingtonindependent)
- The Greatest Theft of All Time:
- Durbin: The Banks Own Washington - How It Works (buzzflash)
- Bought-And-Paid-For Democrats (We Know All The Republicans Already Are):
- Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) bows to the insurance industry (theseminal) -- Will oppose a "public option" in the health care program, saying, even though 2/3 of Americans want it, it would be so popular it would hurt insurance companies. Well, guess what, he received $608,709 from the insurance industry in 2007-2008, and that's the way politicians are bought and sold.
- The Whale Galaxy (apod)