The U.S. House of Represenatives, home to many beneficiaries of gerrymandering.

Now a part of an American lexicon often heard in Washington’s K Street bars and among “inside-the-beltway” crowds, the term is seen as a combination of the governor’s name and the word “salamander,” because of the salamander-like shape one electoral district took on after the redistricting.
Elected governor in 1810, Gerry signed the redistricting bill two years later, enabling greater and perhaps disproportionate Republican representation in the Massachusetts legislature.
The controversial move has become a favorite across the country among incumbent parties, which pack opposition voters into districts already lost in an effort to minimize the opposition’s influence over the state’s broader electorate.”

“Earlier this week, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus endorsed a Republican plan to rig the next presidential election to make it nearly impossible for the Democratic candidate to win the White House, no matter who the American people vote for. The election-rigging plan, which would allocate electoral votes by congressional district rather than by states as a whole in a handful of states that consistently vote for Democratic presidential candidates, would have allowed Mitt Romney to narrowly win the Electoral College last November despite losing the popular vote by nearly four points.” Think Progress Justice Jan. 16, 2013. Yet, the main street media refuses to report these facts because they’re protecting their corporate masters. Like if this doesn’t matter. These GLOBAL COIRPORATIONS want us living in DARK CAVES in total silence. They have become the HIGH PRIEST and they rule the world.

Fiscal Cliff Trojan (via Market Shadows)

There's no cliff, there's no crisis. Excellent talk with Michael Hudson. Fiscal Cliff Trojan By Michael Hudson November 25, 2012 Fiscal Cliff An Artificial Crisis Michael Hudson: Fiscal cliff was manufactured to shift more of the burden of the crisis onto ordinary people. Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR…

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Armed guards in schools? Reaction to NRA is swift and strong. (via The Christian Science Monitor)

Gun-control advocates responded swiftly – and negatively – to the National Rifle Association’s unusual presentation Friday to the media calling for armed guards in the nation’s schools. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, cochair of the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, said the NRA “offered…

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