The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Exposed: Senator Dianne Feinstein's Husband Is Selling Post Offices to Friends
University of California Regent Richard Blum has built vastly over-budget municipal airports, tunnels and bridges and sold high-tech weaponry in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now he's liquidating U.S. post offices for private gain.
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Global Power Project, Part 9: Banking on Influence With Morgan Stanley
The bank that has committed a raft of fraud, illegal foreclosures, energy price fixings and food market speculations took in more than $107 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds in the bailouts.
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Global Power Project, Part 8: Banking on Influence with Wells Fargo
As the world's largest bank, Wells Fargo is able to commit countless crimes -- fraud, illegal foreclosures, money laundering, you name it -- and continues to get away with them by paying relatively small fines.
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Global Power Project, Part 7: Banking on Influence with Citigroup
Citigroup, the largest single recipient of US taxpayer bailout funds with some $476 billion in cash and guarantees, didn't just defraud investors: it foreclosed on hundreds of U.S. military members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Global Power Project, Part 6: Banking on Influence With Bank of America
Bank of America and others continue to get "backdoor bailouts" through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which acts as a legal guarantor and protector of the Wall Street chain gang of criminal conglomerates.
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Global Power Project, Part 5: Banking on Influence With Goldman Sachs
We examined a total of 83 individuals at Goldman Sachs, including executives, members of the board of directors and several advisory boards, to uncover their connections within some of the world's powerful institutions.
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Global Power Project, Part 2: Identifying the Institutions of Control
From Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission to the Council on Foreign Relations, International Chamber of Commerce and Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie foundations, here are the institutions that shaped our current power structure.
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Revealed: State Dept's Keystone Assessment Linked to Big Oil
The State Department's environmental impact statement on the Keystone XL pipeline was written by a private consulting firm paid by the pipeline’s owner, Transcanada, with links to ExxonMobil, BP and Koch Industries.
