Parasite Class, Iraqi Killing Fields, Infragard & More!

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Wed, 05/27/2009 - 5:00pm

Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know." A look at the "parasite" class . . .  "In 2007, the year the new Survey of OECD Report: Gap between Rich, Poor Growing: OECD Report: Gap between Rich, Poor GrowingConsumer Finances data cover, a family needed to sport a net worth of at least $8.3 million to enter the nation’s richest 1 percent. Together, these top 1 percent families held a collective net worth of $21.9 trillion, $3.5 trillion more than the net worth of all the families in the nation’s bottom 90 percent combined." -- http://toomuchonline.org
What's troubling about these statistics?  How do the rich gain from invalidating gay marriage?  What allows the truly rich to remain invisible? When will we value generosity and the security it provides?  And stop lionizing the parasites?

Also, Deaths in Iraq rival "Killing Fields" of Cambodia.  Millions dead.  And the bombing will go on . .. and on . .. and on? NAFTA to be expanded?  The role of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) born of the "war on terror."  How is the government conscripting the private sector and individuals to spy on us? Find out about InfraGard.   More military aid to Latin America? If you oppose the Iraq war, your bank account could be frozen?  All in Project Censored 2009.

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