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The War has never been over and now its Succeession which will turn into a Civil War over the land. |
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Judged: 1 Tax Time? Not for Giant Corporations March 27, 2011 / http://tinyurl.com/66fckan Sanders Calls for Shared Sacrifice Sanders compiled a list of some of the 10 worst corporate income tax avoiders. 1) Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009. Exxon not only paid no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS, according to its SEC filings.(Source: Exxon Mobil's 2009 shareholder report filed with the SEC here.) 2) Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion.(Source: Forbes.com here, ProPublica here and Treasury here.) 3) Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the United States, it received a $4.1 billion refund from the IRS.(Source: Citizens for Tax Justice here and The New York Times here. Note: despite rumors to the contrary, the Times has stood by its story.) 4) Chevron received a $19 million refund from the IRS last year after it made $10 billion in profits in 2009.(Source: See 2009 Chevron annual report here. Note 15 on page FS-46 of this report shows a U.S. federal income tax liability of $128 million, but that it was able to defer $147 million for a U.S. federal income tax liability of $-19 million) 5) Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last year..(Source: Paul Buchheit, professor, DePaul University, here and Citizens for Tax Justice here.) 6) Valero Energy, the 25th largest company in America with $68 billion in sales last year received a $157 million tax refund check from the IRS and, over the past three years, it received a $134 million tax break from the oil and gas manufacturing tax deduction.(Source: the company's 2009 annual report, pg. 112, here.) 7) Goldman Sachs in 2008 only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.(Source: Bloomberg News here, ProPublica here, Treasury Department here.) 8) Citigroup last year made more than $4 billion in profits but paid no federal income taxes. It received a $2.5 trillion bailout from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury.(Source: Paul Buchheit, professor, DePaul University, here, ProPublica here, Treasury Department here.) 9) ConocoPhillips, the fifth largest oil company in the United States, made $16 billion in profits from 2006 through 2009, but received $451 million in tax breaks through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction.(Sources: Profits can be found here. The deduction can be found on the company's 2010 SEC 10-K report to shareholders on 2009 finances, pg. 127, here) 10) Over the past five years, Carnival Cruise Lines made more than $11 billion in profits, but its federal income tax rate during those years was just 1.1 percent.(Source: The New York Times here) http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/... |
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Tax Time? Not for Giant Corporations March 27, 2011 / http://tinyurl.com/66fckan Sanders Calls for Shared Sacrifice Sanders compiled a list of some of the 10 worst corporate income tax avoiders. 1) Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009. Exxon not only paid no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS, according to its SEC filings.(Source: Exxon Mobil's 2009 shareholder report filed with the SEC here.) 2) Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion.(Source: Forbes.com here, ProPublica here and Treasury here.) 3) Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the United States, it received a $4.1 billion refund from the IRS.(Source: Citizens for Tax Justice here and The New York Times here. Note: despite rumors to the contrary, the Times has stood by its story.) 4) Chevron received a $19 million refund from the IRS last year after it made $10 billion in profits in 2009.(Source: See 2009 Chevron annual report here. Note 15 on page FS-46 of this report shows a U.S. federal income tax liability of $128 million, but that it was able to defer $147 million for a U.S. federal income tax liability of $-19 million) 5) Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last year..(Source: Paul Buchheit, professor, DePaul University, here and Citizens for Tax Justice here.) 6) Valero Energy, the 25th largest company in America with $68 billion in sales last year received a $157 million tax refund check from the IRS and, over the past three years, it received a $134 million tax break from the oil and gas manufacturing tax deduction.(Source: the company's 2009 annual report, pg. 112, here.) 7) Goldman Sachs in 2008 only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.(Source: Bloomberg News here, ProPublica here, Treasury Department here.) 8) Citigroup last year made more than $4 billion in profits but paid no federal income taxes. It received a $2.5 trillion bailout from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury.(Source: Paul Buchheit, professor, DePaul University, here, ProPublica here, Treasury Department here.) 9) ConocoPhillips, the fifth largest oil company in the United States, made $16 billion in profits from 2006 through 2009, but received $451 million in tax breaks through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction.(Sources: Profits can be found here. The deduction can be found on the company's 2010 SEC 10-K report to shareholders on 2009 finances, pg. 127, here) 10) Over the past five years, Carnival Cruise Lines made more than $11 billion in profits, but its federal income tax rate during those years was just 1.1 percent.(Source: The New York Times here) http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/... |
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Jesus rose from the dead and is alive. Jesus always was and always will be. The Bible pulsates with Life and is Not a dead Book. ======= 1 John 2:22 Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist—he denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Moses of Israel won and Pharaoh of Egypt lost. David of Israel won and Goliath of Philistines lost. I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is. |
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Judged: 1 1 1 1. The "Fiscal Cliff" Is A Myth. As Paul Krugman put it, "The looming prospect of spending cuts and tax increases isn't a fiscal crisis. It is, instead, a political crisis brought on by the G.O.P.'s attempt to take the economy hostage."1 Republicans are manufacturing this crisis to pressure Democrats to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and accept painful cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. 2. The Bush Tax Cuts Finally End December 31. If Congress does nothing, the ax will fall on all the Bush tax cuts on New Year's Eve.2 Then, on January 1, the public pressure on John Boehner and House Republicans to extend the middle-class tax cuts (already passed by the Senate and waiting to be signed by President Obama) will become irresistible.3 So the middle-class tax cut will eventually get renewed, and we'll have $823 billion more revenue from the top 2% to do great things with.4 3. The Sequester. The sequester is another political creation, forced on Democrats by Republicans in exchange for lifting the debt ceiling last year to avoid crashing our economy.5 It's a set of cuts (50% to a bloated military budget and 50% to important domestic programs) designed to make both Republicans and Democrats hate it so much that they'd never let it happen.6 And the cuts can be reversed weeks or months into 2013 without causing damage.7 4. The Big Three. Nothing happens to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits on January 1—unless Republicans force painful cuts to beneficiaries in exchange for tax increases on the wealthy, which are going to happen anyway if Congress does NOTHING.8 So, there's literally no reason benefits cuts should be part of the discussion right now. 5. We Should Be Talking About Jobs. The real crisis Americans want Congress to fix is getting people back to work. And with just a fraction of that $823 billion from the wealthiest 2%, we could create jobs for more than 20,000 veterans and pay for the 300,000 teachers and 52,000 first responders, which our communities so desperately need.9 That's not to mention jobs from investing in clean energy and our national infrastructure. |
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Judged: 1 1 krugman was never relevant. Pt 5. Should have been worried about jobs 4 years ago |
Have you ever seen he movie, "Lord of War?" If you can, watch it. It's about weapons' trade. Also, some of us are not asleep and are outraged, but it takes more than a few to fight this horrible corruption that has been going on. All I know is that I feel like I'm helping by sharing some of the info that I've recieved from others. That's what makes the internet such a wonderful tool. |
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You are entitled to your own opinions but Israels main purpose is to wipe out Hamas. This isnt about conquering land if that were the case the Israeli's would have never left Gaza. Hamas is a terroist organization who is using Gaza to attack Israel. So instead of mocking people your anger should be directed at the terrorists in Gaza who hide behind innocent civilians and are backed by Iran. Gaza blood is on Hamas hands. |
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Chagossians
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Chagossians (also Îlois or Chagos Islanders) are the previous inhabitants of the Chagos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory. The Chagossians resided in the islands of Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos, and the Salomon island chain, and had settled in other parts of the Chagos Archipelago, like Egmont Islands and Eagle Islands. Most of the Chagossians now live in Mauritius and the United Kingdom after being deported from their homeland by the British government in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This mass deportation was carried out so that Diego Garcia, the island where most Chagossians lived, could serve as the location for a military base shared between the UK and the United States. Today, there are no Chagossians that live on the island of Diego Garcia, as it is now the site of the military base Camp Justice. The Chagossian people's ancestry is mostly of African heritage, particularly coming from Madagascar, Mozambique and other African nations including Mauritius. There is also a significant proportion of Indian ancestry. The French brought some to the Chagos islands as slaves from Mauritius in 1786. Others arrived as fishermen, farmers, and coconut plantation workers during the 19th century. |
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In 1965, as part of a deal to grant Mauritian independence, the Chagos Archipelago was split off from the Colony and came to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. The territory's new constitution was set out in a statutory instrument imposed unilaterally without any referendum or consultation with the Chagossians and it envisaged no democratic institutions. On April 16, 1971, The United Kingdom issued a policy called BIOT Immigration Ordiance #1 which made it a criminal offense for those without military clearance to be on the islands without a permit.[ |
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Judged: 1 The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America,(owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/... Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen / 23 July 2007 / Audio http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/... |
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Judged: 1 The White House Coup of 1933 The introductory words by FDR are extremely profound given the history of his term in office. On November 24th, 1934, Marine Corp Major General Smedley Butler testified to the McCormack-Dickstein Committee that from July 1933 to September of 1934 he was petitioned by Jerald McGuire, a New York City Broker, to lead a private army of World War 1 veterans to overthrow American democratic rule and establish a fascist government in the White House. The New York Times Headline on Nov 24th 1934 read: “Gen. Butler Bares ‘Fascist Plot’ To Seize Government by Force; Says Bond Salesman, as Representative of Wall St. Group, Asked Him to Lead Army of 500,000 in March on Capital — Those Named Make Angry Denials” Jerald McGuire, was not alone in his desire to be a part of a fascist Coup d’Etat. McGuire was backed by some of the wealthiest capitalists in America at the time. John Buchanan, a specialist on right-wing movements in the 1930’s said,“These super wealthy capitalists wanted to pose such a threat to Roosevelt that he would step aside and if he would not they would execute him.” http://themormonworker.net/past-issues/mw-iss... |
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Judged: 1 1 You +1'd this publicly. Undo Now this is where the Bush Family comes in. Later in the McCormack-Dickstein Committee Hearings the Hamburg-American Line was accused and found guilty ... |
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Judged: 1 1 Butler also named Prescott Bush as one of the conspirators. At the time Bush was along with W. Averell Harriman, E. Roland Harriman and George Herbert Walker, managing partners in Brown Brothers Harriman. Bush was also director of the Harriman Fifteen Corporation. This in turn controlled the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, that owned one-third of a complex of steel-making, coal-mining and zinc-mining activities in Germany and Poland. Friedrich Flick owned the other two-thirds of the operation. Flick was a leading financial supporter of the Nazi Party and in the 1930s donated over seven million marks to the party. A close friend of Heinrich Himmler, Flick also gave the Schutz Staffeinel (SS) 10,000 marks a year. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbutle... |
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Judged: 1 1 CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER / Ronald Reagan Started The Wall Street Takeover of America:/ February 13, 2010 / http://tinyurl.com/ye9hp4j The Monopolization of America You walk into your local convenience store and head to the cold walk-in beer room in the back. The choice is overwhelming. Budweiser, Michelob, Bud Light, Busch Light, Stella Artois, Grolsch, Kirin,Tsingtao, Corona, Negra Modelo, Rolling Rock, Widmer, Miller and Coors. In fact, all of these beers are controlled by two companies. MillerCoors under the direction of South African Breweries (SAB) and AnheuserBusch In Bev. Two multinational corporations controlling the beer choices of 300 million Americans. And it’s not just beer. One single multinational corporation dominates the world supply of eyeglass stores. One dominates the milk supply. Barry Lynn goes down the list of industries. And he finds a similar story across the board. A handful of multinational corporations controlling each industry – or the supply chains of each industry./ http://corporatecrimereporter.com/barrylynn02... |
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