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jjx4 commented on the blog post National Credit Union Administration Sues JPMorgan Chase for Misleading Offering Materials In Sales of RMBSs
Maybe there will be some justice as a result of this action. Their taking this action is one of the reasons I belong to a credit union.
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jjx4 commented on the diary post Giffords, Guns and Glocks by Thomas Philip Davis.
Rep. Giffords should sue the federal government for creating an unsafe workplace for her to do her work.
You can’t do public service if the public space in at the mercy of anyone who can get their hands on an automatic weapon, which is practically anyone!
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jjx4 commented on the diary post Excessive Oil Speculation: Wall Street’s Tax on Us by Robert Weissman.
The Miami Herald, May 25,2011– WASHINGTON — When oil prices hit a record $147 a barrel in July 2008, the Bush administration leaned on Saudi Arabia to pump more crude in hopes that a flood of new crude would drive the price down. The Saudis complied, but not before warning that oil already was plentiful [...]
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jjx4 commented on the blog post Ron Paul Reminds Nation that President Commands Armed Forces, Not the Other Way Around
If a president did as Ron Paul says he’d do, the top brass of the US military would treat it as a bluff and threaten to resign. (This may have been where Obama was early in his presidency.)
A president isn’t free to make that decision. Also, presidents have to do what big business wants.
Hence a MILITARY-CORPORATE COMPLEX is in charge. Each threatens it can bring everything crashing down unless things go as they want.
So, who’s in charge in our “democracy”? Not the people and not elected leaders like the president.
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