Surviving Capitalism (Not) : President Obama catches Netanyahu bribing republican congressmen to change their Iran votes

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
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Monday, January 4, 2016

President Obama catches Netanyahu bribing republican congressmen to change their Iran votes

Click here to access article by Bill Palmer from Daily News Bin.

While it’s not uncommon for members of congress to offer each other political favors in exchange for votes on various bills, it’s an entirely different legal matter when those offers come from a foreign head of state.

I am only posting this because corporate media refuses to do so and because it conveniently lies behind a paywall at the Wall Street Journal. It is only another illustration of the subversion and corruption of the US government (no, it's not your government unless your are rich) by people with money regardless if they live here in the US or in some foreign country. Normally, the Israelis rely on all expense paid junkets to Israel where they wine and dine Congressmen and Senators to influence their votes to serve Israeli interests.