Democracy Now! (9 am), for September 19, 2011 - 9:00am
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"Occupy Wall Street": Thousands March in NYC Financial District, Set Up Protest Encampment; David Graeber: The Debt of the American Poor Should Be Forgiven; “They Just Started Shooting Us From Everywhere”: Scores of Protesters Killed in Yemen; Noam Chomsky on the Legality of NATO’s Bombing of Libya and the Scramble for Oil; Noam Chomsky: The U.S. & Israel Strongly Oppose "Rise of Any Meaningful Democracy" in Middle East; Noam Chomsky: 2012 GOP Candidates Views are "Off the International Spectrum of Sane Behavior."
Today's Headlines
Obama Proposes New "Buffett Tax" on Millionaires
Yemen Intensifies Government Crackdown With Scores Killed in 48 Hours
Gaddafi Forces Claim Hundreds Killed In NATO Air Strike, Claim Capture of 17 European Mercenaries
U.S. Accuses Pakistani Government of Ties To Taliban-Linked Militants Blamed For Embassy Attack
United Nations Requests $350 Million in Flood Relief Aid for Pakistan
Former FBI Director Calls For Troy Davis Execution To Be Put Off
Banking Giant UBS Loses $2.3 Billion in Unauthorized Trades
Book: Tim Geithner Ignored Presidential Order to Consider Dissolving Citigroup
Report: U.S. Cannot Account For Nearly Three Tons of Nuclear Material Shipped Overseas
Palestinian President Mahoud Abbas Arrives in New York Vowing to Seek Full U.N. Membership
U.S. Hikers Remain Detained Following Religious Delegation’s Visit to Iran
Brazil: Two Men Arrested in Connection With Amazon Environmentalist Murders
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Apparently this is what the etsemeed Willis was talkin' 'bout.
In the '60s when I was in school we worried about power concentrations in the Communist Party giving ever reinforcing Stalinism. Now we have to worry about concentrations of power on the Right, in the corporatists, the super rich, big media as en-ln-abeled by a wrong headed judiciary, the military industrial prison complex giving rise to a new/old form of Fascism.
Our own corruption given has given us a third world problem. Wealth concentrations and political power go hand in hand as the people are left on wayside.
Letting the banks have all that money was dangerous. It let them go on playing economically debilitating money games. Henry Ford boasted that he made a product which his employees could afford to own. Why wasn't a stipulation attached that the big banks bailouts had to be invested in manufacturing, services and in research calculated to contribute to these?
George pope
San Mateo CA
writing from Ghana