Obama Breaks Promise for Five Day Public Inspection; Signs Corporate 'Health' Welfare Bill

Obama promised five days for public consideration, discussion, and informed opinions about bills reaching the President before he would sign them into law.

Obama promised the identities online of lobbyists and corporations that would benefit from tax increases, including how much these corporations would benefit.

The amount American taxpayers lose from the “health” insurance company welfare bill compared with universal health care that eliminates corporate middle-men is between $100 and $300 billion every year.

Obama violated his promise and quickly signed the bill; denying the public the transparency he promised. Twelve states immediately filed lawsuits; claiming the forcing of Americans to purchase a product of specific corporations as obviously outside the spirit and letter of federal government authority written in the US Constitution. The IRS will enforce payment to health companies by hiring new agents.'

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The C-SPAN Lie: See Eight Clips of Obama Promising Televised Healthcare Negotiations

Google 'Open' Memo Betrays Deep Corporate Delusion

Google has sent itself a memo as part of an ongoing effort to perpetuate the self-delusion that it's the world's most open company.

Monday afternoon, at the official Google blog, Google vp Jonathan "Perfect Ad" Rosenberg published an email he recently sent to company staffers under the heading "the meaning of open." Like so many others, Google enjoys telling the world how open it is, but Rosenberg believes the company should go a step further. He strives to actually explain what the word means - and to follow that explanation to the letter.'

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Obama's Incredible Record of Betrayal

I've lost count of how many times Barack Obama has claimed he was going to change the way Washington does business, how he was going to cut off the role of the big corporate lobbyists, stop government use of secrecy to cover for illegal actions, make government more accountable and transparent, stop corruption, and end cronyism. The record indicates that all these are part of the Big Lie--a concerted effort to deceive his own followers and the nation. Only the establishment media is silent about this growing dichotomy. None of the White House press corps dares question him in public about his backtracking. The Republican opposition (who backed these same evil practices when they were in power) has taken notice, but not as much as principled liberals who feel betrayed by his promises of change. This week I'll start off by reviewing the magnitude of the hypocrisy and deception. It's an impressive listing.

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Two Main Parties ‘Collude’ to Have Bigger Donations Kept Secret

Hundreds of donations to political parties are to be kept secret under plans being slipped through the House of Lords.

Labour and the Conservatives have been accused of collusion over plans to raise the threshold above which parties must report donations from £5,000 to £7,500. The move is opposed by heavyweight figures such as Lord Neill of Bladen, former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, who said that there was no real justification for the increase.

The Electoral Commission has said: “An increase of this level has the potential to reduce public confidence in the transparency and integrity of political funding.”

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