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Tom Sullivan

Tom Sullivan
Hometown: Asheville, NC
Interests: Take Back America, Progressive Vision, Revitalizing Democracy
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It's All About Efficiency!

U.S. Government policy needs to focus on efficiency for the most rapid recovery from our current crisis. I'm talking about the stuff that should be happening no matter what you think of the bailout.

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Colorado to Review How It Purges Voters’ Names

nytimes.com — "...The announcement came in response to an article in The New York Times describing how election officials in Colorado and eight other states were screening voter registration applications or removing people from the voter rolls in ways that seemed to violate federal law..."

You are being Robbed

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Who Owns The Federal Reserve?

globalresearch.ca — The financial engineers of the US Kleptocracy appointed Ben Bernanke, an expert on the depression, to replace Alan Greenspan.

How fortunate, almost as if they knew what was coming even while they were pumping toxic debt into the Globalized banking system they created.

You are being robbed.

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How Is the Financial Crisis Affecting Cities?

The financial crisis has dug in its heels and Treasury’s plan to buy up troubled assets hasn’t been able to dislodge them. more »

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Tales from the Tippers

The most important American election in recent memory will be here in less than 30 days. With deepening crises at home and abroad, millions of previously disengaged citizens are tuning in to try to make sense of it all.

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Ten Sacrifices We, and the Next President, Will Face

At Tuesday night’s debate, the presidential candidates were asked a question that I believe deserves much more attention.

"BROKAW: Sen. McCain, for you, we have our first question from the Internet tonight. A child of the Depression, 78-year-old Fiora from Chicago. more »

Top 10 Follow-Up Questions Not Asked by Brokaw.

1) Senator McCain, you do realize that 'prioritize' does not also mean 'doing everything at once', don't you?

2) What in the love of pete is "clean coal"?

3) Senator, with all due respect, can you respond to a question without ending with "my friends"?

4) What exactly did you mean by the term "that one"?

5) So a simple "yes" or "no" please- should health care be a commodity??? more »

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The Real Economy Strikes Back

So much for the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Stocks are tanking across the world. Clearly, once the bailout passed, investors took a good look at the real economy and dove for the mattresses. We’re headed into a great reckoning. And at the heart of that, as argued in our new op-ad in the New York Times, is this country’s unsustainable global economic strategy. more »

Ten-Point Program for Systemic Economic Transformation

TEN-POINT PROGRAM FOR SYSTEMIC ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION

1. Nonviolent secession of North American bioregions from the American empire, breaking the power of its criminal federal government that has seceded from the American people, and is actively violating human and natural rights throughout the planet. more »

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Weekend Watchdog Wrapup

Well, it looks like another 0-for-3 weekend for the watchdog, as most of the questions focused less on the economy and more on the presidential race and campaign tactics. more »

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The bottomless well of evil

I just incinerated a comment. I hardly ever do that (when I do it's usually someone pointing out a typo; I fix the error then erase the evidence of my crime...). But, before I deleted it, I copied it, because you need to see it:

By Payday Loan Advocate | October 3rd, 2008 - 1:40am GMT more »