Our mission is to post stories that are largely or completely ignored by the mainstream media. Our goal is to expose the terrible things that Democrats AND Republicans are doing to ruin this country.
We will also try to throw in some random, interesting stories too just to mix it up every now and then.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
For Profit Prisons: Institutionalized Racism In America! These statistics are insane:
1 in 100 americans are behind bars.
1/3rd of black men will go to prision at some point in their lifetime.
Black americans are 10 times more likely to be jailed for the same drug related crimes.
Q: What is Obama doing about this?
A: Nothing.
Obama Tougher On Marijuana Than Bush - Oaksterdam Raid - More campaign promises broken.
Trillion-Dollar Jet Wasting Your Tax $
Via Wired: “The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the supposed backbone of the Pentagon’s future air arsenal, could need additional years of work and billions of dollars in unplanned fixes, the Air Force and the Government Accountability Office revealed on Tuesday. Congressional testimony by Air Force and Navy leaders, plus a new report by the GAO, heaped bad news on a program that was already almost a decade late, hundreds of billions of dollars over its original budget and vexed by mismanagement, safety woes and rigged test results.
At an estimated $1 trillion to develop, purchase and support through 2050, the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 was already the most expensive conventional weapons program ever even before Tuesday’s bulletins…”.* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur shares the kicker, which is that 12 other countries are looking to buy the plane after it’s completed even though US taxpayers are footing the R & D for the project.
Break Up The Big Banks - Conservative Dallas Fed President
”In its annual report for 2011, issued on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released a startling report revealing that 52 percent of all the assets held by the entire banking industry have now become aggregated into the hands of just five companies, and the top 10 institutions have swollen so large that they possess wealth that equates to roughly half of America’s annual gross domestic product (GDP). It is for those reasons that Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher, who’s otherwise known as a conservative budget hawk, has embraced the radical cause of breaking up the nation’s largest banks and forever ending “too big to fail”
Trayvon Martin 911 Call
Via NPR.org: “Now that 911 recordings show how a white Florida man continued to follow a 17-year-old black boy even after police advised him not to — and captured the sound of the man killing the unarmed youth with a shot to the chest — Trayvon Martin’s family wants the FBI to take over the investigation into his killing…”.* Cenk Uygur, former prosecutor Steve Oh, and Misty Kingma break down the shocking 911 audio with shooter George Zimmerman on The Young Turks
Scary: Private Prison Presentation For Investor
Corrections Corp of America (CCA), a huge private prison business, has a presentation for investors that just might creep you out. How much money is made by locking people up? Ana Kasparian and guest host Michael Shure discuss the prison industrial complex, the failed drug war, and the incentive to push for profits over a safer society.
Dirty Thirty - Corporations Pay To Keep Tax Loopholes Open
Why do so many huge corporations get away with paying no taxes?
Via The Huffington Post: “A report released Wednesday offers one possible explanation: In addition to spending nearly $500 million lobbying in a recent three-year period, those companies spread $41 million to the political campaigns of their friends in Congress. And while most in Congress got a taste, the lion’s share of campaign contributions went to a small group of congressional leaders in positions to stop any proposal to close a corporate tax loophole…”
Matt Taibbi “Bank Of America Is Supposed To Be Buying Back Bad Loans & They’re Not Doing It!” Pension funds are being ripped off because of the fraud of Bank Of America.
Police Attack Occupy Wall Street Protesters On Anniversary In NYC
New York police arrested protesters celebrating the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street by massing on a square near the stock exchange over the weekend. Chaotic scenes unfolded at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan’s financial district overnight Saturday-Sunday when officers broke up the peaceful rally by about 600 people at the site where the Occupy movement started last September.
Damning Report: Obama And The ‘Grand Bargain
How hard did President Obama work to get Republicans and Democrats to come together for a ‘grand bargain’ that would slash Social Security, Medicare, and taxes on the rich and corporations (while raising taxes on the middle class)?
