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Congress Is Literally a Bunch of Telemarketers

2016-05-04T19:34:05.706Z

So does that mean the American government is just one giant corporation running a multi-level marketing scheme? Represent.us: https://www.youtube.com/user/Un...

Voting Is A Choice Between A Pink Dildo & A Purple Dildo

2012-09-09T23:09:58.320Z

Major Banks Rigging Rates and Selling Risky Swaps- Explained

2012-06-28T22:13:56.505Z

In-depth report into the latest U.K banking scandals which primarily is being focused on Barclays Bank, but could also greatly damage the investment and financial city of London and around the World, where the practices of rigging and selling risky swaps is rife...

Occupy Congress List of Demands 17th January 2012

2012-01-17T21:54:59.453Z

The Occupy Congress Washington D.C January 17th 2012 list of demands and suggestions for other Occupy groups.

Thom Hartmann: Why Fox News has the Right to Lie to Us

2011-10-26T18:12:51.435Z

Ever wonder why it is that Fox News can lie over and over again - yet continue to call itself "News"? It's because Fox News is a corporation - and ever since that 1886 Supreme Court case of Southern Pacific Railroad versus Santa Clara County when a rogue court reporter named JC Bancroft Davis slipped corporate personhood into the legal record - the courts have ruled time and time again that corporations - since they have all the rights that actual people have - could also lie just like people can.

Except for one time. Back in 1998 - a political activist named Mark Kasky sued Nike alleging that Nike was lying to its customers by publishing in the San Francisco Examiner a letter assuring everyone that the corporation's workers around the world enjoy basic labor rights like a minimum wage - health and safety regulations - and equal opportunity employment. Kasky knew this claim wasn't true. A 1996 audit of the Nike revealed that workers in Vietnam were routinely exposed to cancer-causing chemicals that were illegal in the United States. And a Mothers Jones article later cited a Nike-funded study that found, "evidence of physical and verbal abuse and sexual harassment at nine of its contract factories in Indonesia." After realizing he and thousands of other Nike customers were lied to and were buying Nike products under false assumptions - Kasky took the corporation to court. And in 2002 - Kasky won his case before the California Supreme Court which ruled that Nike did indeed break laws against unfair competition and false advertising...