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Shoppers Ignore Armed Robber

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The Plutocracy Strikes Back: The pathologies of rule by a handful of billionaires

http://www.juancole.com/2014/09/plutocracy-pathologies-billionaires.html

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The Plutocracy Strikes Back: The Pathologies of Rule by a Handful of Billionaires

By Steve Fraser via Tomdispatch.com George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth …

The whistleblower and the national security robber barons

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/314823-the-whistleblower-and-the-national-security-robber-barons

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"NSA is an out-of-control monster, Snowden contends. Top brass lie to Congress. . Massive, intrusive surveillance of phone calls, email, web searches, Facebook accounts accompanied by secret orders of a secret court compromise and transform powerful American telecommunications network operators and Internet behemoths into spy engines."

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The whistleblower and the national security robber barons

National Security Administration whistleblower Edward Snowden fits the mold too well. By coming forward to journalist Glenn Greenwald and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, Snowden creates news and commands attention from Obama Administration,...