US citizens: phone your senators and congresscritter, and say to co-sponsor S.J.Res.18 & H.J.Res.21, for constitutional amendments to cancel the Corporations United (*) decision.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

^* To call it what it really is.

SEC lawyer James Kidney, in his retirement speech, rebuked the agency for timidity against the executives of the companies it is supposed to regulate.

US citizens: phone the Republican leaders in the House of Representatives to extend unemployment benefits.

The US is in a "gilded age" again because concentration of income to a wealthy few has gone back up to what it was a century ago.

Sri Lanka has imprisoned several women accused simply of having some sort of relationship with a suspected Tamil nationalist leader.

The Bush forces did similar things in Iraq.