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Since Corporate CEO’s Have Wrecked the Economy and Corrupted Our Government With Showers of Money, What’s Wrong With This Picture? Historical Graph: CEO Pay

CEO’s have shipped tens of millions of our jobs away, on an average of one to three million a year, which has severely weakened our tax base, and redistributed trillions of dollars from the 99 to the 1 percent, leading to the greatest maldistribution of income and wealth in US history, and a nation teetering on third world status. They’ve poisoned us with genetically modified food, led us into wars with lies, polluted our air and caused an outbreak of Autism in the process, and gutted the US economy as badly as any butcher would a deer.

They’ve corrupted our government to the point where it is now a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.

They’ve corrupted both the conservative and the liberal wings of the US Supreme Court so that only one of the two wings of the 1 percent are represented and big money will almost always win in that court against the people and the US Constitution.

CEO’s have run their businesses into the ground and have been forced to take trillions of dollars in bailout money from the US government and the Federal Reserve.

Something corrupt and rotten is going on here. The graph below suggests the average CEO pay rate has been heading in the wrong direction for sixty-three years. The graph is also in error. This morning a new study by the Economic Policy Institute came out that shows CEO pay to be 273 times greater than average worker pay, and not 204, which the graph below shows. Perhaps CEO pay compared to average worker pay should be closer to 1:1, or better yet, 1/4:1.

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The Republican and Democratic Leaders Are Impressed With The Latest Economic Indicators

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Video: History of the Koch Brothers Tea Party, How They Rig the Game

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What’s Wrong With This Picture? Home Values Shoot Up At the Highest Rate in 10 Years

Yesterday, numerous corporate media outlets continued to show amazement at the recovery of the housing market. Home prices shot up last month at the highest rate in ten years. Here’s what they didn’t report.

The number of mortgage applications represents the demand of buyers to purchase homes, such as houses and condos. From May 5 to June 16 2013, the number of mortgage applications dropped -4.41 percent. What’s more, the number of mortgage applications has remained near historic lows for years. So how can the demand for homes drop while the prices of homes sky rockets?

It’s easy. The big banks, with the approval of the Obama Justice Department, have conspired to take almost two million homes off the market during the last two years. In other words, they’re violating US laws, such as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The big banks have also slowed, and in some cases stopped, foreclosing on homeowners in an effort to push home prices higher.

This all redistributes income from the 99 to the 1 percent. First of all, those trillions of dollars of worthless bonds backed by home loans will regain value as the 99 percent pay illegally inflated prices for homes, and those bonds are almost all owned by the 1 percent and the institutional investors (such as Goldman Sachs and hedge funds). Governments and the Federal Reserve own a ton of them, too.

Of course, the 99 percent are now paying for homes at artificially and illegally inflated prices, and the banks and their wealthy shareholders and worthless CEOs are reaping all the profits of this conspiracy in restraint of trade.

The situation is worse for home buyers than I’m stressing because the illegal curtailment of supply is pushing home prices up; buyers are bidding against one another for an artificially dwindling supply of homes. That also means they’re bidding up the price of home mortgages, the interest rates, which are also rising. It’s a perfect scam since the US Department of Justice won’t do anything about it.

In other words, through illegal actions, and with US government blessings, the banksters are making huge profits on homes they’ve forclosed on and with artificially and illegally rising interest rates.

Check out the link below for the number of mortgage applications.

Data: mortgage applications

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Then and Now: Labor Unionization and US Income Distribution

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The Corporate Welfare Walmart Receives Per Store

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Breaking News: Patriotic Activists Set 40 Tons of GMO Beet Plants Ablaze

The corporate media refuses to report that activists have destroyed 40 tons of GMO beet plants via arson. The beet fields are in Eastern Oregon. Obviously, the Oregon patriots must’ve decided to destroy Monsanto‘s poison before it was allowed to destroy them, their neighbors and their families. Numerous studies show GMO crops are extremely harmful to human health, yet President Obama continues his onslaught against middle class America by supporting Monsanto.

Click the link below for the complete story.

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It’s Time to Raise the Minimum Wage! Who Could Possibly Oppose That?

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Congressman Alan Grayson on the Trans Pacific Partnership: A New Free Trade Treaty Intended to Screw the Middle Class Again

On behalf of Wall Street and other members of the 1 percent, President Obama continues his war against the middle class by continuing to secretly negotiate the Trans Pacific Partnership, a free trade treaty that has been called “Nafta on steroids” by Nation magazine. Besides negotiators from eleven nations, 600 corporate lobbyists are the only other participants allowed to see what’s going on in these negotiations.

Leaked documents show the negotiators are aiming to raise the prices of prescription medications, create a favorable environment to lower labor costs, rob lesser developed nations of their natural resources, and to kill Internet freedom, especially in the United States. The later is the last bastion of finding truth in what’s going on in the world since the corporate media is loaded with corporate propaganda and lies. These are just a few of the things that we will be made to suffer through if the treaty becomes law.

There’s only one representative in Congress who has seen the text of what’s been negotiated through this secretive income transfer agreement, Congressman Alan Grayson. He said, “There is no national security purpose in keeping this text secret.”

So why is this treaty being negotiated in secret?

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