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Middle Class Death Watch -- 33 Frightening Economic Developments

Posted on: Sep 18, 2011, Source: Amped Status

Downward mobility, homelessness spreading to the middle class, 200,000 public employees laid off? Here are some frightening trends to keep an eye on.

Debt, Debt, Debt: 90% of Americans Experience Income Decline As Wealth Gets Sucked Back Into Top .1% -- Debt Explodes As We Try to Make Ends Meet

Posted on: Aug 14, 2011, Source: Amped Status

Americans have made up for the decline in income by taking on large amounts of debt.

Americans Don't Realize Just How Badly We're Getting Screwed by the Top 0.1 Percent Hoarding the Country's Wealth

Posted on: Aug 14, 2011, Source: Amped Status

With an unprecedented sum of wealth held within the top one-tenth of one percent of the US population, we now have the most severe inequality of wealth in US history.

Meet the Global Financial Elites Controlling $46 Trillion In Wealth

Posted on: Aug 11, 2011, Source: Amped Status

The economic elite have at least $46 trillion in wealth – but who are they? We look at the people and the industries picking the pockets of the working class.

That 'Official' Poverty Rate? It's Much Worse than You Think

Posted on: Sep 22, 2010, Source: AlterNet

The shocking poverty statistics released last week tell only part of the story.

The U.S. War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Maintain Trillion Dollar Racket

Posted on: Jun 15, 2010, Source: DavidDeGraw.org

Four ways to see the true drivers of current wars around the world.

Was Last Week's Market Crash a Direct Attack By Financial Terrorists?

Posted on: May 10, 2010, Source: Amped Status

In a market where 70 percent of all trades are executed by computer algorithms via High Frequency Trading, Goldman Sachs has the power to make the market crash or rise at will.

The Financial Terrorists Who Destroyed Our Economy Will Pay Zero in Taxes -- and Get $33 Billion in Refunds

Posted on: Apr 18, 2010, Source: Amped Status

You and I are working our asses off, paying 30% of our limited income in taxes. Not the banks that triggered the financial crisis.

The Most Powerful Destructive Corporate Business Club Most Americans Have Never Heard of

Posted on: Mar 11, 2010, Source: Amped Status

The Business Roundtable, an organization representing Fortune 500 CEOs, is at the heart of the Economic Elite's power center.

The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth -- What's It Going to Take to Get It Back?

Posted on: Feb 16, 2010, Source: Amped Status

The U.S. already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis -- and it's gotten even worse.

The Economic Elite Have Engineered an Extraordinary Coup, Threatening the Very Existence of the Middle Class

Posted on: Feb 14, 2010, Source: Amped Status

The economic elite have robbed us all. The amount of suffering in the United States of America is literally a crime against humanity.

Obama Far Outdoes Bush in Escalating War -- The Numbers Will Surprise You

Posted on: Dec 8, 2009, Source: Amped Status

Increasing numbers of deployed soldiers, mercenaries and drones all add up to Obama being more of a war president than Bush, in terms of hard numbers.

15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams

Posted on: Nov 21, 2009, Source: Amped Status

Are we nearing a tipping point as rapacious elites push a heavily armed populace too far?

What If Fox News Covered Other Protests the Way They Covered the Tea Parties?

Posted on: Apr 16, 2009, Source: Amped Status

Just think what we wouldn't have had to endure if we had this kind of coverage of the 2000 election, Iraq, spying and the list goes on.