Saturday 18 October 2014

Whole families run for seats in Ukraine’s parliament, president hands down precinct to son : These politicians came to power on the wave of promises to cleanse the ranks of officialdom from those who had been propelled there by family relations, but now they are working hard to feather lucrative nests in the system of state rule for their children, brothers and godparents.

The biggest crook of them all Petro Poroshenko 
 

Congress Ignores Obama's Broad Executive Power Use - Except on Guantanamo : It's not that Obama is exerting presidential power. It's how he chooses to exert it that disturbs Congress and The Washington Post. When presidential power is used to extend empire, to spread violence or to bomb sovereign nations, it always seems permissible to Congress and the corporate media. But using presidential power to help people, to close Guantánamo, "dramatically" upsets the controlling interests in Congress and the media.

America's resident liar in chief 

Time to Make Corporations Pay Taxes They're Avoiding : Blue-ribbon corporations are deserting our country “to avoid paying taxes but expect to keep receiving the full array of benefits that being American confers, and that everyone else is paying for,” Fortune magazine reports. That’s right, Fortune wrote it; not Pravda.

The crooks that the government is in bed with 
 

No flights for F-35s until 2018 — Already 10 years in the works, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter stealth jets that have cost the Department of Defense hundreds of billions of dollars are being pushed back by two years, with the latest update suggesting the fleet will be ready in 2018 : RT USA

The disaster that is the Lockheed Martin JSF F 35 another lemon to follow the F 22 

No flights for F-35s until 2018 — Already 10 years in the works, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter stealth jets that have cost the Department of Defense hundreds of billions of dollars are being pushed back by two years, with the latest update suggesting the fleet will be ready in 2018 : RT USA

The disaster that is the Lockheed Martin JSF F 35 another lemon to follow the F 22