Pornography and American Corporations
last updated 2005-04-18 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

Companies like General Motors, AOL Time Warner, owner of Fox News, and Marriott earn revenue by piping adult movies into Americans' homes and hotel rooms, but you won't see anything about it in their company reports. And you won't hear them talking about the production companies that actually make the films or the performers the producers hire, men and women as young as 18, for sex that is often unprotected. Among the banks currently or previously facilitating the Internet pornography trade: Minotola National Bank of Vineland, N.J.; Heartland Bank of St. Louis, Mo.; Benchmark Bank of Dallas; Amtrade International Bank of Atlanta; and First Data's First Financial Bank, along with a firm known mainly to porn peddlers: Paycom Billing Services of Marina del Rey, Calif.

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U.S. Election Problems
last updated 2004-11-01 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

One million Kerry Votes Already Stolen (before election day).

New electronic voting machines have secret programming instructions that may be set up so that their manufacturers can alter vote tallies during elections, too few people vote, legally registered voters have been removed from electronic state voting rolls, the Help America Vote Act increases likelihood of election fraud, and the Bush administration is seeking to limit voters' rights to sue over voting rights.

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The biggest threat to democracy is proprietary (secretly programmed) computer voting machines!
last updated 2004-09-12 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

New York Times "Making Votes Count" Section describes some of the dangers of flawed computerized voting machines. Democracy is at Risk. Fair elections are endangered by electronic voting machines. Democracy's future is at risk. One electronic voting machine company hacker could potentially rig elections in over 30 states! Fixing Democracy.

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U.S. Campaign System hurts the Economy
last updated 2004-05-31 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

Billionaires for Bush humorously details how the current campaign system works. See Campaign Money Watch for news of legislation written by big money lobbyists.

Read about the Bush Pioneer & Ranger Donors' paybacks from the Bush administration. A dozen big oil companies, including one once headed by Commerce Secretary Don Evans, now control one-quarter of all federal lands leased for oil and gas development in the continental United States despite a law intended to prevent such concentration.

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U.S. Legal System Problems
last updated 2004-05-31 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

The United States leads the per capita rate of persons in prison. 25% of prisoners in the world are in the U.S. Justice in the U.S. is often not just. 1 in every 75 US men are in prison as of June 2004, the highest rate in the world.

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The Israeli - Palestine Conflict
last updated 2004-05-27 by remillar@allwest.net

Israel continues to bulldoze the homes of innocent people. One of the major roadblocks to the Road Map is the question of Palestinian refugee resettlement. The U.S. taxpayers give huge amounts of loans and grants to Israel that go to military equipment.

Palestinian homes are being demolished by Israel. The Israel Committee Against House Demolitions has formed to try to stop it. An Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Holocaust survivor said Sharone's Gaza offensive reminds him of the Holocaust.

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