Headlines: October 17, 2008

FBI LAUNCHES ACORN PROBE

'Joe the Plumber' Becomes Focus of Debate (video)

Third Presidential Debate HQ (Part 2) Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher - Obama vs McCain

Exxon's 2007 Tax Bill: $30 Billion (more than the bottom 50% of wage earners combined)

“Currently, the United States has the second-highest corporate tax rate of all industrial societies, after economically anemic Japan. The U.S. federal rate of taxation is 35 percent, and when the average state and local corporate tax rates are added, American corporations pay, on average, a 39.27 percent tax on their incomes. China is at 25 percent; Mexico is at 28 percent; socialist Sweden is at 28 percent; and prosperous Ireland is at a mere 12.5 percent.”

US President to rescue nine top banks

Compelling Banks To Lend At Bazooka Point

Hawaii ending universal child health care

The Decline and Fall of Gorbachev and the Soviet State

"Lenin's slogan, 'Marxism is Almighty Because It Is True,' was displayed practically everywhere in the former Soviet Union....Marxism were an unavoidable experience for everyone irrespective of age, class, social position, or nationality. Even the convicts in prison, including those on death row, studied the 'Shining Heights' of the 'great liberating teacher.'...In the Soviet Union, Marxism was not thought to be just an economic theory. It pretended to be the universal explanation of nature, life, and society."