Criminal Robbery Capitalism: salary gap btwn corporate executives and workers exploded in recent years, rising from a ratio of 263-to-1 in 2009 to 325-to-1 last year

25 CEOs Earned More than Companies Paid in Taxes; Wage Gap Increases

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In the fifties, the ratio betwen top and lowest salary was about 42. Today, in a corrupted war cartel capitalism, it is incredible 325.

The findings come just weeks after Congress approved the bipartisan debt deal that excluded any tax hikes on the nation’s wealthiest individuals and corporations.

According to the Institute for Policy Studies, the 25 companies averaged overall profits of $1.9 billion. They include Verizon, Bank of New York Mellon, General Electric, Boeing and eBay.

Eighteen of the companies were found to be operating subsidiaries in countries identified as tax havens.

Rep. Sewell: Republican States systematically discouraging voter participation.

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“There is something in the air looking to disenfranchise and make sure certain segments of the population don’t get out to vote,” she told MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry.

Frm Bush official L. Wilkerson: Il testify if someone arrests and tries Cheney. DemocracyNow.org

an actual criminal, that he was centrally involved in a whole variety not just of war crimes in Iraq, but of domestic crimes, as well, including the authorization of warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens in violation of FISA, which says that you go to jail for five years for each offense, as well as the authorization and implementation of a worldwide torture regime

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“I, unfortunately — and I’ve admitted to this a number of times, publicly and privately — was the person who put together Colin Powell’s presentation at the United Nations Security Council on 5 February, 2003,” Wilkerson said. “It was probably the biggest mistake of my life. I regret it to this day. I regret not having resigned over it.”

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson told Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman that he would participate in a trial even if it meant personal repercussions.

In an interview that aired on NBC Monday, Cheney told Jamie Gangel that unlike President George W. Bush, he did not have a “sickening feeling” when they discovered there were no weapons of mass destruction after the invasion of Iraq.

Iraq invasion and occupation resulted in a genocide of a nation of Iraq.
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