From The Washington Post comes the piece No, `both sides’ aren’t equally to blame for supercommittee failure.

Here’s why the supercommittee is failing, in one sentence: Democrats wanted the rich to pay more in taxes towards deficit reduction, and Republicans wanted the rich to pay less in taxes towards deficit reduction.

Any news outlet that doesn’t convey this basic fact to readers and viewers with total clarity is obscuring, rather than illuminating, what actually happened here.

Of course it is kind of silly to talk compromise.  One side wants to go sharp left and the other side wants to go sharp right, the only possible compromise is to not change direction at all and just go over the looming cliff.  Maybe the cliff you know is better than the cliff you don’t.

Until the American people figure this out and make one side overwhelm the other in an election, there is little hope.

Although, we have seen that when one side is almost overwhelming in control, it may still take protesters taking to the streets to get the politicians to hear the 99% over the rushing sound of the 1%’s money pouring into the campaign coffers and cushy politician retirement packages.  A few hints for financial windfalls on insider trading could go a long way to cover this up as no money is directly changing hands.

He said, she said was enough to put Martha Stewart in jail for insider trading.  However, politicians have made an exemption for themselves, so they can actually do insider trading legally.

According to The Raw Story article Parody ad shows Romney supporting Obama,

In response to Mitt Romney’s misleading ad released on President Barack Obama, the folks at BuzzFeed decided to have a little fun at making their own deceptive commercial.

Here is the parody.

There, take that Mitt Romney.

The Raw Story‘s article Senator plans first ever Internet-fueled filibuster describes Wyden’s fight against these bills.

…Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) will filibuster a bill — the Protect IP Act, which aims to fundamentally change the structure of the Internet — with a little help from his friends and admirers online.

Here is a brief video of Wyden made for promoting his campaign against these bills.

Here is the link to www.StopCensorship.org where you can sign the petition and become part of the filibuster.

One of the paragraphs in the article that caught my attention was the following:

Corporations could also use SOPA claims to force companies to stop processing donations to whistleblower sites like WikiLeaks that post documents protected by copyright or containing trade secrets. The bill would additionally require Internet service providers to “take technically feasible and reasonable measures” to block “rogue” sites from their customers, essentially creating a massive Internet blacklist.

The shutting down of payments to WikiLeaks was exactly the technique that was used to close down WikiLeaks entire operation. Without the disclosures that WikiLeaks made, many governments including the U.S. would be free to continue to tell the lies they have used to trick us into adopting policies that are bad for us. Some of what WikiLeaks has already disclosed is helping us to see the hysterical propaganda against Iran for what it really is. They show that the current head of the IAEA is a puppet of the U.S. government. He seems to be willing to promote the particular lies that the U.S. government wants to promote.

Read the article Seymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused over Iran’s Nuke Program, to see what I mean about the IAEA chief.