They've all conspired to keep third-party candidates out of the Presidential debates: From the New York Times : When the final presidential debate is held on Long Island on Wednesday night, little attention will be paid to who exactly is spon soring the event: the beer giant Anheuser-Busch; the International Bottled Water Association, a trade group; and EDS, a subsidiary of the technology company Hewlett-Packard.... “We are very concerned,” said George Farah, executive director at Open Debates, a nonpartisan group critical of the commission. “We don’t think that this most sacred forum should be brought to you by Anheuser-Busch.” Corporations are barred from making campaign contributions, but they can donate to the Commission on Presidential Debates, whose two co-chairmen are former heads of the two major political parties. In addition, sponsors receive tickets to the events allowing them to “hobnob with campaign staff advisers and managers who will be senior advisers in the next ad...

...there is no such thing as safe blogging. A few days ago Delaware Liberal asked what are the three biggest threats to our nation and why do we have so many problems? I can finally answer them with a clear head that the single greatest threat to the United States is the rise of corporate " personhood " that subjects the individual to its arbitrary social controls. Why? It is an issue of trust with and between the classes and as Delaware Liberal aptly noted, they have never been further apart in the history of the nation . Well let's start with blogging. It is apparent to me that there is no such thing as being protected or your privacy assured as a blogger or writer when an employer can fire you for anything you do or do not say off hours . And for some there are very real consequences of venting in public. Despite the first amendment social controls excerpt much more effect through corporations and define life within narrowly defined and arbitrary limits than government...

I present this and dedicate it to Martin Luther King as long as You Tube allows it to stay online.....for they like other corporate outlets have censored it repeatedly and censored and suppressed the voice of some of the people, and by doing so, suppress the voice of all the people. For even if a person says something you do not like you should use reason, education, discussion to debate and judge your own moral conscience with them; to discuss these issues. They deserve freedom of expression just as you do. You must not censor the people if you hope to protect the First Amendment of the Constitution, and if you believe in it, as an American company, you want like Larry Page and Google, free expression and information. This film been removed from online forums more times then the controversial movie about Islam called Fitna. If you choose to censor this people, be sure we have read Henry David Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience , repeatedly. And we can use it against the "corpo...