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Jim Hightower, Truthout: "Citigroup has just announced that its profits for just the first three months of this year totaled an incredible $4.4 billion, Goldman Sachs' haul was $3.5 billion, JPMorgan Chase grabbed $3.3 billion and Bank of America took $3.2 billion."

http://www.truthout.org/wall-street-profits-subsidies-and-lobbyists59172



Rep. Bob Ney After Prison: "Money Is the Problem"

Video

Laura Flanders, GRITtv: "Get the money out of Washington. It's an ongoing refrain now, from the left and even from those in the Tea Party movement. Too much corruption, too little trust. Jack Abramoff, the superstar lobbyist whose spectacular fall brought down then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was the very public face of the problem of lobbying when he headed off to jail, and he is the subject of Alex Gibney's newest documentary, 'Casino Jack and the United States of Money.'"

http://www.truthout.org/rep-bob-ney-after-prison-money-problem-video59191



Wall Street's Big Banks Are the Problem

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Why is the Federal Trade Commission threatening Apple with a possible lawsuit for abusing its economic power, but not even raising an eyebrow about the huge and growing economic (and political) muscle of JP Morgan Chase or any of the other four remaining giant banks on Wall Street?"

http://robertreich.org/post/572112065/apple-isnt-the-problem-wall-streets-big-banks-are

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Kagan: - Goldman Sachs - Shifting Court to Right?

By Institute for Public Accuracy

"A narrow elite is imposing itself through the legal system, and ordinary Americans need to start asserting themselves."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25412.htm



Obama's Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Will Move the Court to the Right

During her confirmation hearing for solicitor general, Kagan agreed with Senator Lindsey Graham that the president can hold suspected terrorists indefinitely during wartime, and the entire world is a battlefield.

http://snipurl.com/w5jxu


From Information Clearing House



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