1) Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009.  Exxon not only paid no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS.

2) Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS in 2010, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Fed of nearly $1 trillion. 

3) Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the US,…

The highest paid rogues in what is quickly becoming the greatest oligarchy in the world. The top five American criminals CEO are: 

1) John Hammergren, McKesson Corporation: $145,266,971. He runs the largest health care firm in the known universe (Gross revenues of $108.7 billion) his take from 2011’s stock options (part of his compensation) - roughly $469 million.

2) Joel F. Gemunder, Omnicare, $98,283,242. Omnicare provides…

Kevin is a chemistry laboratory manager with twenty-two years of professional experience. Through his work as Site Manager for the environmental testing division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL), he began to investigate the tragedy of September 11^th, 2001. Ryan was fired by…

1) Mark Pincus: The Zynga online gaming goliath, wants it all. Money and power. Pincus had spent the previous four years prior to 2011 building up Zynga. The Pincus personal net worth? Forbes put that at $2 billion.

In March 2011, Pincus sold off a chunk of his Zynga shares and cleared a neat $110 million.

This lucrative sale in no way loosened the Pincus lock-grip over Zynga. The Harvard MBA had structured the company’s stock to make him the only owner of…

These are the rich Criminals who represent you.

The hard times that most Americans continue to experience don't seem to be making an impact on their representatives in Washington. Why? Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House more than doubled from $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation-adjusted 2009 dollars, excluding home equity.

Members of Congress have been getting richer over the last 25 years by kowtowing to the…

1)      47.8% of households that receive food stamps are working, because having a job is not enough to keep them out of poverty.

2)      The number of people on food stamps has increased by 20 million over the past five years. 

3)      10 million more Americans fallen below the poverty line since 2006.

4)      About half of all Americans are now either living in poverty or are considered to be low income.  So is America a "wealthy"…

• For every one job opening, there are four people looking for work.
• Union membership is at a 70-year low.
• Unemployment benefits have saved 3.2 million people from poverty.
• 50% of US workers make less than $26,364 per year.
• When you add up salary and benefits, the average auto worker in Germany makes $67.14 an hour.  In the US, auto workers only make $33.77 an hour in salary and…

 …

9/11 Forest – Come Out of the Trees!

by Amaterasu Solar

In reviewing 9/11 discussions I watch as each weird, improbable tree is pointed to and the 9/11 apologists start hacking it down, nearly always, in the end, saying something on the order of, “Yeah, it was unlikely, but not impossible, so, yeah, it just happened that way.” 

So I stand…

• At a public school in Texas, a 12-year-old girl was arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
• A student in Albuquerque, NM was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket.  The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.
• A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had…