Friday, November 5, 2010

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Corporate cash does funny things to people. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) got into office by pledging to fight "special interests," but just a decade or so later, he's running one of the biggest special interest shows in Washington. It's easy to see the appeal. As the fancy funding backing the Tea Party demonstrates, big money buys big things—from elections to populist outrage.


In a piece for Mother Jones, Kate Sheppard details some of DeMint's serious campaign finance flip-floppery. During his first bid for Congress in 1998, DeMint denounced the Political Action Committee (PAC) mechanism as a tool deployed by "special interests" that "corrupts" the electoral process. But today, DeMint is the single most important figure and fundraiser for Senate Tea Party races. He has endorsed and pledged millions of dollars to support fringe right-wingers Senate candidates Christine O'Donnell (Delaware) and Rand Paul (Kentucky). DeMint has funneled this money through his own Political Action Committee (PAC) known as the Senate Conservatives Fund. DeMint even pledged to "fight for reforms that allow only individual contributions to campaigns."


But as I note in a blog for Campaign for America's Future, DeMint isn't the only power player pouring money into the Tea Party. DeMint's 12 Tea Party Senate candidates have reaped over $4.6 million from Wall Street for this election—excluding Wall Street cash that has been funneled through DeMint's PAC. So much for all that grassroots rage against bailed-out elites.


The Tea Party bubble


And Wall Street's new Tea Party investment might just be the next big economic bubble. Joshua Holland at AlterNet surveys the campaign contributions of America's bailout barons. The 23 firms that received at least $1 billion in bailout money from taxpayers spent $1.4 million on campaign contributions—in September alone.


And these are just campaign contributions, which are essentially unaffected by the high court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The real corporate money is running through front-groups that run their own ads—not the official campaigns operated by political candidates. And these front-groups don't have to disclose where their money comes from.


Writing for Campus Progress, Simeon Tally highlights a frightening trend toward secrecy in U.S. elections, fueled by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. Back in 2004, 98 percent of outside groups disclosed who their donors were. Today, that number is just 32 percent. We're not just fighting corporate money bombs, we're fighting secret corporate money bombs.


Who really has the advantage?


While there's been much debate over who really comes out on top thanks to the post-Citizens United rules, Jesse Zwick notes for The Washington Independent, these stories are only talking about direct campaign contributions. Some might argue that Democrats have an advantage in disclosed funding, but Republicans have a six-to-one advantage money flowing through outside groups.


But wait, there's more!



  • Check out Matthew Reichbach and Trip Jennings' reporting for The New Mexico Independent on the fact that all of this spending from outside groups usually means money from outside the states where candidates are running. Outside expenditures have swelled to $5 million in two New Mexico House races—both in relatively cheap media markets.

  • AlterNet has been running loads of stories on crooked corporate cash, covering everything from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's dirty dealings with AIG to the political spending habits of bailed-out banks. Joshua Holland rounds up eight of the articles here for AlterNet.

  • Comic artist Matt Bors makes light of America's new "growth industries" at Campus Progress, pointing to makers of anonymous political attack ads.



On election day Wisconsin voters will fire a shot heard around the world.
Senator Russ Feingold is the leading champion in the Senate of the battle
against the corruptions of special interest money that pollute the politics
of the nation.


If the oceans of outside money invading Wisconsin defeat Senator Feingold,
it will be one more tragic proof that our country is becoming a land that
where the power is controlled by the money.


Russ Feingold is the conscience of the Senate.


He has spent a lifetime standing courageously against a corrupted system
that far too ofen has turned Washington into a house of ill repute run by
closed fundraisers, secret meetings, and sweetheart deals bought in backroom
auctions.


Workers lose their jobs. Neighbors lose their homes. Women lose a fair day's
pay for a fair day's work. The poor lose their dignity. This dirty dance
goes on because the people with the money run the show, while the people
suffering the pain are left out in the cold.


Russ Feingold is the conscience of the Senate because he battles against
this system. He is now under attack by outside money pouring into Wisconsin
from special interests galore who want to keep the dirty system in place.
Once there were two leaders who stood together in this epic battle to
cleanse our system: John McCain and Russ Feingold.


Now McCain seeks reelection in Arizona by courting the special interests he
once deplored, while Feingold battles on
without compromising his belief that our government should be for the
people, not only for the people with the money.


Now the Supreme Court has virtually legalized the buying of America in the
Citizens United case by permitting unlimited campaign spending by special
interests that now flow, largely from secret donations, like rivers of mud,
onto television every day, financing character attacks on leaders such as
Russ Feingold.


Polls reveal that this horrific decision is opposed by more than 80% of
independents and more than 50% of Republicans, as well as Democrats. Why do
so many politicians with less courage and integrity than Russ Feingold
surrender the battle for cleaner campaigns? The answer is simple: they want
the money, and they fear the money.


Not Russ Feingold, who sails into gale force winds against special interest
money pouring into Wisconsin to defeat him -- for the very reason that he is
the conscience of the Senate.


It took true courage and patriotism for Russ Feingold to fight against the
power of this ocean of special interest money, like Mr. Smith in Frank
Capra's movie about Washington, knowing all along that this money would be
pouring into Wisconsin to destroy him, as it is today.


Frank Rich wrote brilliantly in last Sunday's New York Times about how so
little has changed in Washington, despite so many promises for change. I
have long argued that we live in one of the historical epochs like the
Gilded Age, where greed runs rampant and good people are crushed. Our
democracy itself is threatened by a lobbyist industrial complex even more
dangerous than the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us
about, because it permeates every corner of our civic life.


This is why those who brought our economy to the brink of a new Depression
earn vast fortunes for their failures, protected by their campaign money and
defended by their high-priced lobbyists.


Russ Feingold is the conscience of the Senate because he is willing to risk
and lose his seat in the Senate, to fight for his vision of our Republic.


When the going got tough and the money was flowing John McCain became the hero
in war who took the coward's way out in politics, while Russ Feingold stands
taller than the tallest tree against the blizzard of bad money pouring into
Wisconsin to destroy him.


Who is attacking Russ Feingold today? Those who want to export jobs to slave
wage nations. Those who want to prevent women from getting fair pay for good
work. Those who want insurance premiums and credit card interest rates to
rise. Those who want students to pay more for loans, while small business
cannot get loans from bailed out bankers making multimillion dollar
fortunes. Those who want to foreclose homes without any respect for the rule
of law.


Russ Feingold is under attack by those who want the power of their money to
buy the special favors of our government.


I am not particularly proud of many Democrats today, but I am very proud to
call Russ Feingold the conscience of the Senate, the David of political
reform who must not be destroyed by the Goliath of dirty money.







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Corporate cash does funny things to people. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) got into office by pledging to fight "special interests," but just a decade or so later, he's running one of the biggest special interest shows in Washington. It's easy to see the appeal. As the fancy funding backing the Tea Party demonstrates, big money buys big things—from elections to populist outrage.


In a piece for Mother Jones, Kate Sheppard details some of DeMint's serious campaign finance flip-floppery. During his first bid for Congress in 1998, DeMint denounced the Political Action Committee (PAC) mechanism as a tool deployed by "special interests" that "corrupts" the electoral process. But today, DeMint is the single most important figure and fundraiser for Senate Tea Party races. He has endorsed and pledged millions of dollars to support fringe right-wingers Senate candidates Christine O'Donnell (Delaware) and Rand Paul (Kentucky). DeMint has funneled this money through his own Political Action Committee (PAC) known as the Senate Conservatives Fund. DeMint even pledged to "fight for reforms that allow only individual contributions to campaigns."


But as I note in a blog for Campaign for America's Future, DeMint isn't the only power player pouring money into the Tea Party. DeMint's 12 Tea Party Senate candidates have reaped over $4.6 million from Wall Street for this election—excluding Wall Street cash that has been funneled through DeMint's PAC. So much for all that grassroots rage against bailed-out elites.


The Tea Party bubble


And Wall Street's new Tea Party investment might just be the next big economic bubble. Joshua Holland at AlterNet surveys the campaign contributions of America's bailout barons. The 23 firms that received at least $1 billion in bailout money from taxpayers spent $1.4 million on campaign contributions—in September alone.


And these are just campaign contributions, which are essentially unaffected by the high court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The real corporate money is running through front-groups that run their own ads—not the official campaigns operated by political candidates. And these front-groups don't have to disclose where their money comes from.


Writing for Campus Progress, Simeon Tally highlights a frightening trend toward secrecy in U.S. elections, fueled by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. Back in 2004, 98 percent of outside groups disclosed who their donors were. Today, that number is just 32 percent. We're not just fighting corporate money bombs, we're fighting secret corporate money bombs.


Who really has the advantage?


While there's been much debate over who really comes out on top thanks to the post-Citizens United rules, Jesse Zwick notes for The Washington Independent, these stories are only talking about direct campaign contributions. Some might argue that Democrats have an advantage in disclosed funding, but Republicans have a six-to-one advantage money flowing through outside groups.


But wait, there's more!



  • Check out Matthew Reichbach and Trip Jennings' reporting for The New Mexico Independent on the fact that all of this spending from outside groups usually means money from outside the states where candidates are running. Outside expenditures have swelled to $5 million in two New Mexico House races—both in relatively cheap media markets.

  • AlterNet has been running loads of stories on crooked corporate cash, covering everything from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's dirty dealings with AIG to the political spending habits of bailed-out banks. Joshua Holland rounds up eight of the articles here for AlterNet.

  • Comic artist Matt Bors makes light of America's new "growth industries" at Campus Progress, pointing to makers of anonymous political attack ads.



On election day Wisconsin voters will fire a shot heard around the world.
Senator Russ Feingold is the leading champion in the Senate of the battle
against the corruptions of special interest money that pollute the politics
of the nation.


If the oceans of outside money invading Wisconsin defeat Senator Feingold,
it will be one more tragic proof that our country is becoming a land that
where the power is controlled by the money.


Russ Feingold is the conscience of the Senate.


He has spent a lifetime standing courageously against a corrupted system
that far too ofen has turned Washington into a house of ill repute run by
closed fundraisers, secret meetings, and sweetheart deals bought in backroom
auctions.


Workers lose their jobs. Neighbors lose their homes. Women lose a fair day's
pay for a fair day's work. The poor lose their dignity. This dirty dance
goes on because the people with the money run the show, while the people
suffering the pain are left out in the cold.


Russ Feingold is the conscience of the Senate because he battles against
this system. He is now under attack by outside money pouring into Wisconsin
from special interests galore who want to keep the dirty system in place.
Once there were two leaders who stood together in this epic battle to
cleanse our system: John McCain and Russ Feingold.


Now McCain seeks reelection in Arizona by courting the special interests he
once deplored, while Feingold battles on
without compromising his belief that our government should be for the
people, not only for the people with the money.


Now the Supreme Court has virtually legalized the buying of America in the
Citizens United case by permitting unlimited campaign spending by special
interests that now flow, largely from secret donations, like rivers of mud,
onto television every day, financing character attacks on leaders such as
Russ Feingold.


Polls reveal that this horrific decision is opposed by more than 80% of
independents and more than 50% of Republicans, as well as Democrats. Why do
so many politicians with less courage and integrity than Russ Feingold
surrender the battle for cleaner campaigns? The answer is simple: they want
the money, and they fear the money.


Not Russ Feingold, who sails into gale force winds against special interest
money pouring into Wisconsin to defeat him -- for the very reason that he is
the conscience of the Senate.


It took true courage and patriotism for Russ Feingold to fight against the
power of this ocean of special interest money, like Mr. Smith in Frank
Capra's movie about Washington, knowing all along that this money would be
pouring into Wisconsin to destroy him, as it is today.


Frank Rich wrote brilliantly in last Sunday's New York Times about how so
little has changed in Washington, despite so many promises for change. I
have long argued that we live in one of the historical epochs like the
Gilded Age, where greed runs rampant and good people are crushed. Our
democracy itself is threatened by a lobbyist industrial complex even more
dangerous than the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us
about, because it permeates every corner of our civic life.


This is why those who brought our economy to the brink of a new Depression
earn vast fortunes for their failures, protected by their campaign money and
defended by their high-priced lobbyists.


Russ Feingold is the conscience of the Senate because he is willing to risk
and lose his seat in the Senate, to fight for his vision of our Republic.


When the going got tough and the money was flowing John McCain became the hero
in war who took the coward's way out in politics, while Russ Feingold stands
taller than the tallest tree against the blizzard of bad money pouring into
Wisconsin to destroy him.


Who is attacking Russ Feingold today? Those who want to export jobs to slave
wage nations. Those who want to prevent women from getting fair pay for good
work. Those who want insurance premiums and credit card interest rates to
rise. Those who want students to pay more for loans, while small business
cannot get loans from bailed out bankers making multimillion dollar
fortunes. Those who want to foreclose homes without any respect for the rule
of law.


Russ Feingold is under attack by those who want the power of their money to
buy the special favors of our government.


I am not particularly proud of many Democrats today, but I am very proud to
call Russ Feingold the conscience of the Senate, the David of political
reform who must not be destroyed by the Goliath of dirty money.







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Corporate cash does funny things to people. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) got into office by pledging to fight "special interests," but just a decade or so later, he's running one of the biggest special interest shows in Washington. It's easy to see the appeal. As the fancy funding backing the Tea Party demonstrates, big money buys big things—from elections to populist outrage.


In a piece for Mother Jones, Kate Sheppard details some of DeMint's serious campaign finance flip-floppery. During his first bid for Congress in 1998, DeMint denounced the Political Action Committee (PAC) mechanism as a tool deployed by "special interests" that "corrupts" the electoral process. But today, DeMint is the single most important figure and fundraiser for Senate Tea Party races. He has endorsed and pledged millions of dollars to support fringe right-wingers Senate candidates Christine O'Donnell (Delaware) and Rand Paul (Kentucky). DeMint has funneled this money through his own Political Action Committee (PAC) known as the Senate Conservatives Fund. DeMint even pledged to "fight for reforms that allow only individual contributions to campaigns."


But as I note in a blog for Campaign for America's Future, DeMint isn't the only power player pouring money into the Tea Party. DeMint's 12 Tea Party Senate candidates have reaped over $4.6 million from Wall Street for this election—excluding Wall Street cash that has been funneled through DeMint's PAC. So much for all that grassroots rage against bailed-out elites.


The Tea Party bubble


And Wall Street's new Tea Party investment might just be the next big economic bubble. Joshua Holland at AlterNet surveys the campaign contributions of America's bailout barons. The 23 firms that received at least $1 billion in bailout money from taxpayers spent $1.4 million on campaign contributions—in September alone.


And these are just campaign contributions, which are essentially unaffected by the high court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The real corporate money is running through front-groups that run their own ads—not the official campaigns operated by political candidates. And these front-groups don't have to disclose where their money comes from.


Writing for Campus Progress, Simeon Tally highlights a frightening trend toward secrecy in U.S. elections, fueled by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. Back in 2004, 98 percent of outside groups disclosed who their donors were. Today, that number is just 32 percent. We're not just fighting corporate money bombs, we're fighting secret corporate money bombs.


Who really has the advantage?


While there's been much debate over who really comes out on top thanks to the post-Citizens United rules, Jesse Zwick notes for The Washington Independent, these stories are only talking about direct campaign contributions. Some might argue that Democrats have an advantage in disclosed funding, but Republicans have a six-to-one advantage money flowing through outside groups.


But wait, there's more!



  • Check out Matthew Reichbach and Trip Jennings' reporting for The New Mexico Independent on the fact that all of this spending from outside groups usually means money from outside the states where candidates are running. Outside expenditures have swelled to $5 million in two New Mexico House races—both in relatively cheap media markets.

  • AlterNet has been running loads of stories on crooked corporate cash, covering everything from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's dirty dealings with AIG to the political spending habits of bailed-out banks. Joshua Holland rounds up eight of the articles here for AlterNet.

  • Comic artist Matt Bors makes light of America's new "growth industries" at Campus Progress, pointing to makers of anonymous political attack ads.



On election day Wisconsin voters will fire a shot heard around the world.
Senator Russ Feingold is the leading champion in the Senate of the battle
against the corruptions of special interest money that pollute the politics
of the nation.


If the oceans of outside money invading Wisconsin defeat Senator Feingold,
it will be one more tragic proof that our country is becoming a land that
where the power is controlled by the money.


Russ Feingold is the conscience of the Senate.


He has spent a lifetime standing courageously against a corrupted system
that far too ofen has turned Washington into a house of ill repute run by
closed fundraisers, secret meetings, and sweetheart deals bought in backroom
auctions.


Workers lose their jobs. Neighbors lose their homes. Women lose a fair day's
pay for a fair day's work. The poor lose their dignity. This dirty dance
goes on because the people with the money run the show, while the people
suffering the pain are left out in the cold.


Russ Feingold is the conscience of the Senate because he battles against
this system. He is now under attack by outside money pouring into Wisconsin
from special interests galore who want to keep the dirty system in place.
Once there were two leaders who stood together in this epic battle to
cleanse our system: John McCain and Russ Feingold.


Now McCain seeks reelection in Arizona by courting the special interests he
once deplored, while Feingold battles on
without compromising his belief that our government should be for the
people, not only for the people with the money.


Now the Supreme Court has virtually legalized the buying of America in the
Citizens United case by permitting unlimited campaign spending by special
interests that now flow, largely from secret donations, like rivers of mud,
onto television every day, financing character attacks on leaders such as
Russ Feingold.


Polls reveal that this horrific decision is opposed by more than 80% of
independents and more than 50% of Republicans, as well as Democrats. Why do
so many politicians with less courage and integrity than Russ Feingold
surrender the battle for cleaner campaigns? The answer is simple: they want
the money, and they fear the money.


Not Russ Feingold, who sails into gale force winds against special interest
money pouring into Wisconsin to defeat him -- for the very reason that he is
the conscience of the Senate.


It took true courage and patriotism for Russ Feingold to fight against the
power of this ocean of special interest money, like Mr. Smith in Frank
Capra's movie about Washington, knowing all along that this money would be
pouring into Wisconsin to destroy him, as it is today.


Frank Rich wrote brilliantly in last Sunday's New York Times about how so
little has changed in Washington, despite so many promises for change. I
have long argued that we live in one of the historical epochs like the
Gilded Age, where greed runs rampant and good people are crushed. Our
democracy itself is threatened by a lobbyist industrial complex even more
dangerous than the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us
about, because it permeates every corner of our civic life.


This is why those who brought our economy to the brink of a new Depression
earn vast fortunes for their failures, protected by their campaign money and
defended by their high-priced lobbyists.


Russ Feingold is the conscience of the Senate because he is willing to risk
and lose his seat in the Senate, to fight for his vision of our Republic.


When the going got tough and the money was flowing John McCain became the hero
in war who took the coward's way out in politics, while Russ Feingold stands
taller than the tallest tree against the blizzard of bad money pouring into
Wisconsin to destroy him.


Who is attacking Russ Feingold today? Those who want to export jobs to slave
wage nations. Those who want to prevent women from getting fair pay for good
work. Those who want insurance premiums and credit card interest rates to
rise. Those who want students to pay more for loans, while small business
cannot get loans from bailed out bankers making multimillion dollar
fortunes. Those who want to foreclose homes without any respect for the rule
of law.


Russ Feingold is under attack by those who want the power of their money to
buy the special favors of our government.


I am not particularly proud of many Democrats today, but I am very proud to
call Russ Feingold the conscience of the Senate, the David of political
reform who must not be destroyed by the Goliath of dirty money.







eric seiger

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I started this venture sometime ago. I was free, and had internet to myself, and all the time in the world. So I tried to make money online. I was new, and didn't know much about scams. All the search engines showed data entry and survey sites that promised to pay 100$ a day. There were so many of them. All of them shared one thing: a starting fee. There was a long list of testimonials and how people have gotten mega rich using their site.

Many disappointments and wasted hours later, I finally earned money from internet. Imagine my surprise and glee. So well, I decided to put down all that I've learnt about making money online, for all the people out there who are trying to earn money through internet.

1. Get a pay pal, or e-gold account or moneybookers. Most companies pay through paypal, or e-gold

2. Get a new email address. As I will explain later, nothing in this life is free. When you sign up for free offers, you will get lots of spam mails. So if you have an email address for this purpose only, it will not hurt your personal email.

3. Become a member of forums that holds discussions on money making websites, and rates them. This is also a great way to build your downline.

4. Be suspicious of any site that asks you for money. Make sure you don't pay any site before thoroughly researching them. And even if you decide to pay them, make sure its a small amount. Chances are, if a site asks you for money, its a scam.

5. Don't expect to earn a lot the first month. It will take time for you to explore the sites, and decide the ones that you trust.

6. Familiarize yourself with the internet money making jargon. Some of them are explained here.

7. There are many different types of sites that pay you to perform some action. Cashback sites pay you to shop through them, or sign up through them, reward sites are the same.

8. PTRs: Paid to read mails sites. They pay you to read mails and click on the links. There are some really good ones, and some scams. The problem lies in identifying the ones that actually pay and the scams. Usually, you can easily identify the scams, because they either pay a lot per mail (which is not possible) and the sites with bigger payouts, take forever.

9. HYIP means high yield investment programs. They require investments. Again look before you leap

10. Referrals mean people who sign up through you. Downline means people you have referred. Downline has levels. You refer people, and they refer more people, this is how downline is created.

11. There are sites that pay you to write. If you enjoy writing, you can try some of those as well.

12. There are also freelancing sites where people post their projects, and writers/programmers bid for the projects. The bidder is then selected by the person who posted the project and is paid by him.

13. Once you've been paid by a site, or once you've decided which ones you want to work with, you can start promoting your referral links, so that you build your downline. Most sites promise a percentage of your referral's earnings, so your earning escalate as your downline builds.

14. Blog means web log. There are many free blogging sites, that allow you to create your log. This log can be about anything of interest to you or you can list all the sites that paid you, and also show payment proof. You can sign up for Google adsense, and allow them to show ads on your blog. Promote your blog as much as you can, you will build downline, as well, plus if people click on google ads, you will make money.

15. Best of luck.



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