Upworthy has an excellent infographic, potraying the money movements happening in current 2012 american elections.
It turns out that, on average, it costs $88,000 to buy an election.
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The wealthiest Americans believe they've earned their money through hard work and innovation, and that they're the most productive members of society. For the most part they're wrong. As the facts below will show, they're not nearly as productive as middl ...[
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World Bank policies have devastated the Third World. Between 1984 and l990, developing countries under SAPs transferred $178 billion to Western commercial banks. So enormous was the capital drain from the South that one former Bank director remarked: ...[
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David Wong of cracked.com has hilarious things to say about rich people, and their reaction to poor people.
"...All of a sudden, it's like you can't make huge amounts of money without people getting all pissed off about it. And it's only going to get wor ...[
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An American soldier dies every day and a half, on average, in Iraq or Afghanistan. Veterans kill themselves at a rate of one every 80 minutes. More than 6,500 veteran suicides are logged every year ...[
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Very similar to how U.S. Troops are currently in Uganda for a 'humanitarian' mission to fight some local groups, Russian anti-terror troops have arrived in syria.
A Russian military unit has arrived in Syria, according to Russian news reports, a developm ...[
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US campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says elements of Syria's armed opposition have carried out serious human rights abuses, including kidnapping, torture and execution.
The group says the "brutal tactics" of the government cannot justify abuses by ...[
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The first airing of Julian Assange's new political show has been released on RT.com today.
Julian Assange is interviewing Nasrallah, leader of Hezboullah, talking to him from a hiding place from Lebanon.
Assange asks serious questions that concerns th ...[
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Currently, super rich, and the small segment which earns $1 million or more every year, pay lower taxes than the middle class who earns less.
The so-called ...[
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arge chunks of Cuban funds held by the US as part of the blockade against the island nation have been stolen, reports Cuban newspaper Granma. Castro ...[
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In the local election of Innsbruck, the Austrian Pirate Party has sent shockwaves by taking its first Austrian seat, finishing at 3.8% in the election.
This caused frontpage news in Austria ...[
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