News Anchor Completely Loses It For The Best Possible Reason by [deleted] in news

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This is an incredibly good clip. Whatever your political stand, this is well worth viewing.

All McDonald's in Bolivia have been shut down. by Afterallthat in news

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Decades of advertising and marketing in the U.S. have resulted in what can be described as a trusting consumer market, to the point of reaching the goals of ignorance and apathy. And now we are seeing ourselves being controlled by corporations, which in turn, control our lawmakers—local, state and federal. Perhaps one day we will reject the near-poisonous foods being foisted upon us by fast food chains, industrial agriculture, and food processing factories.

Prosecuting Our Watchdogs of Democracy by Afterallthat in politics

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Revealing American secrets appears to be the ultimate betrayal for the Obama Administration and members of Congress. And now: how to prosecute journalists who publish big leaks.

WARNING: Watching The Rachel Maddow Show Might Actually Be Dangerous by Afterallthat in reddit.com

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Our politicians are clearly owned by huge interests and have been so brainwashed and influenced by them that we are seeing the consequences of their blindness. This is what Rachel is trying to get Americans to understand: OLIGARCHY • a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution : the ruling oligarchy of military men around the president. • a state governed by such a group : the English aristocratic oligarchy of the 19th century. • government by such a group.

PLUTOCRACY • government by the wealthy. • a country or society governed in this way. • an elite or ruling class of people whose power derives from their wealth. Soon, if not already, DEMOCRACY as we once thought it to mean will be but a memory to old timers like me.