So what does everyone think about the failure of the bailout plan?

Personally, I'm happy. It was nothing more than a band-aid to the severe problems caused by deregulation, in my opinion. While it might be necessary in the short-term, I would only support it if certain steps were taken.

First of all, the rule of pay as you go, promised by the Dems in the 2006 midterms and since forgotten, should be applied to the bailout. I don't think that increasing the national debt by $700,000,000,000 is a good idea, personally. It should be paid for by tax increases, or spending cuts elsewhere.

Secondly, repeal of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which partially repealed Glass-Steagal. That bill, whose final version passed the Senate 90-8 and was signed by the “liberal” President Clinton (according to govtrack.us), is largely responsible for today’s “too big to fail” problem. If even a few banks start going under, we have to bail them out, or the economy goes down with them.

Third, there should be more help for homeowners. Sending a $700,000,000,000 check to the biggest corporations while failing to bail out the middle and working classes, too, is extraordinarily corrupt.

Also, what scores did everyone get on the World’s Smallest Political Quiz? I got 100% on personal issues and 20% on economic issues, so I unsurprisingly fell into the Liberal category.
--Andrew V.

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy? Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: That’s why I say, I like ever American I’m speaking with were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the tax payers looking to bailout.

But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Helping the — Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. Shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americas. A

And trade we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive scary thing. But 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. ALl those things under the umbrella of job creation.

This bailout is a part of that.




She is an excellent speaker, no?
--Chris B.
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Well, the Senate is considering a "new and improved" version of the $700,000,000,000 bailout.

ABC News Article Quote:

The revised package to be voted on in the Senate, which adds $100 billion in tax breaks for businesses and the middle class, temporarily increases the deposit insurance cap from the current $100,000 to $250,000. The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday it was easing the accounting rules in some cases.



An $800,000,000,000 bailout is their idea of an improvement?
--Andrew V.

they just need to fix the mistake the economy made. they dont need to throw out all that money and cause even more inflation
--Chris Biggs

well looks like McCain is playing the blame game with Obama in his sights. I just picked this off my Obama Action Wire on Facebook.

"Monday, the economic bailout plan failed to pass a vote in Congress, and the Dow Jones had its biggest single-day drop in two decades.

As soon as that happened, McCain rushed to say we shouldn't point fingers -- and then in almost the same breath, he blamed Barack.

Tuesday, the Republican Party followed McCain's lead and launched a $5 million ad campaign attacking Barack and the bailout plan.

The bottom line is that with families hurting and banks failing, we need to start helping families and the middle class.

While John McCain is figuring out who else to blame, Barack released a new two-minute ad today outlining an economic plan that will put people like you first.

Watch the ad and post it to your profile. Make sure everyone you know sees Barack's plan to get us out of this crisis.

Barack Obama has consistently called for a solution based on a core set of principles that will address our problems and put middle-class Americans first. He has proven he's a leader who will stay calm and steady during times of crisis.

We cannot solve our economic problems by taking the same path of the last eight years."

I think McCain needs a new strategy.

--Aaron H.

This $800,000,000,000 looting of the treasury passed the house, 268-148.

I hate this Light forsaken corporatocracy....

By the way:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1424

The bill and how Congress voted on it.

Let's hope those corrupt thieves who voted for this looting of the treasury pay for it. I'm fast running out of what little tolerance I have left for Barack Obama and the so-called "liberal" Democratic Party. Even Kucinich voted Aye.
--Andrew V.

Wait a minute... I think I mixed up the bill somewhat. That was definately the Senate vote listed, but I think it was the wrong House resolution...

"This was the March 2008 House vote to pass the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, also called the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. The bill was never approved by the Senate in this form. It was later co-opted by the Senate as the "vehicle" for the quick passage of the economic stimulus bill, by replacing the entire text of the measure with the stimulus bill."



Well, I can't find the correct vote on that website... Here's another from a .gov site that appears to be the correct vote.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml
--Andrew V.

First they went for the terrorists and we did nothing. Then they went for innocent Muslims in the Middle East and we did nothing. Then they started kidnapping people from NATO members (Source: http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/30/world/fg-cia30). Now they're torturing innocent US citizens on US soil.

US Detainee on the edge of insanity: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/detainee_treatment;_ylt=Ak1S7FDFKTwbG4N._5z1_vys0NUE

Quote:

“WASHINGTON - A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

While the treatment of prisoners at detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan and Iraq have long been the subject of human rights complaints and court scrutiny, the documents shed new light on how two American citizens and a legal U.S. resident were treated in military jails inside the United States.

The Bush administration ordered the men to be held in military jails as "enemy combatants" for years of interrogations without criminal charges, which would not have been allowed in civilian jails.

...

Hamdi was captured in Afghanistan in 2001, shipped to Guantanamo and then moved to the U.S. after his citizenship was discovered. He was held and interrogated for three years without charges. The Supreme Court in 2004 rejected the government's attempt to hold him indefinitely without charge. He was released to Saudi Arabia on the condition he give up his U.S. citizenship.

...

Padilla was arrested in 2002 under suspicion he was collaborating with al-Qaida to build a radioactive or "dirty" bomb. He was held as an enemy combatant for more than three years. He was held totally incommunicado for 21 months. His mother was only allowed to see Padilla after she agreed not to alert the media to the visit, according to the documents.”

---

The Constitution doesn't apply to US military brigs on US soil for American citizens? One of the US citizens is literally going insane. Neither of them have been charged with anything worse than credit card fraud, and that trial has apparently been cancelled. No lawyers, no phone calls with families, just years of sensory deprivation and total isolation, and if that doesn’t count as torture it at the very least violates habeas corpus.

For the love of humanity, where does it stop? Conservatives blabbered about it being allowed outside the country for non-citizens, but that pitiful constraint has clearly been broken. Is there any limit to the violations of the Geneva Conventions, the Constitution, Supreme Court rulings, and basic human decency? If you still don't think Bush is guilty of charges meriting impeachment, what would it take to convince you?

A sex scandal? Bush attending a flag-burning party?

And how would you react to a Democratic President torturing US citizens on US soil without charge?
--Andrew V.

What they don't want to talk about
Mon 10:09am
Over the weekend, John McCain's top adviser announced their plan to stop engaging in a debate over the economy and "turn the page" to more direct, personal attacks on Barack Obama.

In the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, they want to change the subject from the central question of this election. Perhaps because the policies McCain supported these past eight years and wants to continue are pretty hard to defend.

But it's not just McCain's role in the current crisis that they're avoiding. The backward economic philosophy and culture of corruption that helped create the current crisis are looking more and more like the other major financial crisis of our time.

During the savings and loan crisis of the late '80s and early '90s, McCain's political favors and aggressive support for deregulation put him at the center of the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan, one of the largest in the country. More than 23,000 investors lost their savings. Overall, the savings and loan crisis required the federal government to bail out the savings of hundreds of thousands of families and ultimately cost American taxpayers $124 billion.

Sound familiar?

In that crisis, John McCain and his political patron, Charles Keating, played central roles that ultimately landed Keating in jail for fraud and McCain in front of the Senate Ethics Committee. The McCain campaign has tried to avoid talking about the scandal, but with so many parallels to the current crisis, McCain's Keating history is relevant and voters deserve to know the facts -- and see for themselves the pattern of poor judgment by John McCain.

So at noon Eastern on Monday, October 6th, we're releasing a 13-minute documentary about the scandal called "Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis" -- it will be available at KeatingEconomics.com, along with background information that every voter should know.

http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo

Watch a preview right now and share it with your friends.

The point of the film and the web site is that John McCain still hasn't learned his lesson.

And this time, McCain's bankrupt economic philosophy has put our economy at the brink of collapse and put millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes.

Watch the video to see why John McCain's failed philosophy and poor judgment is a recipe for deepening the crisis:

http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo

It's no wonder John McCain would rather spend the last month of this election smearing Barack's character instead of talking about the top priority issue for voters.

But if we work together, we can make sure the focus stays on the economy -- and how to fix it.

Please forward this email to everyone you know.

Thanks,

David

David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

P.S. -- The documentary will be live at noon Eastern on Monday, October 6th at http://www.KeatingEconomics.com.

This is a little late but this could be the final domino that has been John McCain's attempt at presidency. His last resort is the same as Bush in '04.

--Aaron H.

Here is a funny incident that happened regarding the republican party that I thought I would share=]:
Me and Lauren S. were in Wyndotte walking around and we passed the Republican Office, and even though it was closed, the lady inside was so desperate for volunteers she came and unlocked the doors. As soon as she found out we were high school students, she started asking us to volunteer. "It is extra credit if you volunteer isn't it?!" Me and Lauren went inside, took some stickers and some postcards (the lady made sure we got both of them). I wanted to see what they would send me, so I signed up for the volunteering. =]. Can't wait to see the flooding of emails I get. All in all, it looks like the republican party is having a hard time in Michigan if they are willing to open up doors for two young girls who cannot even vote.

-- Andi W.

Indeed. There's a good reason McCain more or less pulled out of Michigan. According to http://www.electoral-vote.com/, Obama is leading 56% to 40% there.

Oh, and while we're on the subject, he's leading 343-184 in the Electoral College (though many important states, like Ohio and Florida, are within the margin of error). Obama has an average lead nationally of 8.1%. And it looks like the Democrats are going to score a massive victory in the Senate, too.

Let's hope the Republicans don't succeed in stealing this election like they did in Ohio 2004 and Florida 2000. Thankfully, I believe that Ohio now has a Democratic governor, so they'll be hard pressed to do so there.

Though personally, I think the best conclusion would be Obama winning the Electoral College but losing the popular vote. That might be enough to get some momentum for an amendment eliminating the Electoral College. But it doesn't seem like that's going to happen...
--Andrew V.

I cant post an image so here is the url for it. I'm pretty sure photobucket works on school computers, so enjoy!

Chris Biggs
--Chris Biggs

lol forgot to put it on.

http://media.photobucket.com/image/obama%20pokemon/spsd7224/barack-pokemon.gif?o=1


Chris Biggs[again]

sorry again. that one didnt work [sorry for the accidental spam]

http://s368.photobucket.com/albums/oo121/doktorbiggs/?action=view&current=pres.gif


chris biggs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/detainee_treatment;_ylt=Ak1S7FDFKTwbG4N._5z1_vys0NUE

Here's the link I mentioned in class today.

Also, I should note that one of the two US citizens (apparently the one who nearly went insane), was released without charge after giving up his citizenship. However, this was apparently only revealed to the public recently.
--Andrew V.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1807217/How-Subprime-Really-Worked

A nice and very funny primer on the subprime mortgage debacle.
--Andrew V.

Hey I just found some far-off McCain supporters, similar to those in Slacker Uprising. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itEucdhf4Us

Kyle C.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081016/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestswedenusqaeda

Looks like we killed Al Qaeda's #2. Again.
--Andrew V.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWP8W1Mfjxg


just Michael Moore's suggestions to Obama..
--Lauren S.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/30/news/companies/exxon_earnings/index.htm?cnn=yes

Exxon just broke it's own record and again made the highest profits in one financial quarter of any US company in history.

Clearly US oil companies are too heavily taxed! [/McCain campaign]
--Andrew V.

It's election day!

It all comes down to this.

Let us hope the Republicans don't steal another election. That's the only realistic way they could possibly win this, considering Obama's lead of 7.4% of the popular vote and his massive electoral college lead, according to the polls.
--Andrew V.

Mr. Hoffman:

Elizabeth Hartig:
dont forget to tell hoffman I am co chair of stonewall


thats from Liz



chris biegalski
--chris Biegalski

you have gotta see this!
most hilarious thing ever.
they call it super obama world.
http://superobamaworld.com/
try to play it.
goombas are lipstick pigs.
koopas are lobbyists.
bowser is sarah palin.
mario is well you know.
when you are selecting your world look at the top of the game screen funny comments appear.
oh and last of all the map is the state of alaska.
political satire anyone?
--Aaron Horst

I mentioned in class today that under Eisenhower there was a 91% top marginal income tax rate.

Now, Eisenhower served from 1953–1961 as President.

Source: http://www.truthandpolitics.org/top-rates.php

From the source, here is the income tax data for those years:

Year Rate Taxable
income over--

1953 92 <6> 400,000
1954 91 <7> 400,000
1955 91 <7> 400,000
1956 91 <7> 400,000
1957 91 <7> 400,000
1958 91 <7> 400,000
1959 91 <7> 400,000
1960 91 <7> 400,000
1961 91 <7> 400,000

<6> For 1952-1953, the highest tax rate was subject to a maximum effective rate limitation equal to 88% of statutory "net income."
<7> For 1954-1963, the highest tax rate was subject to a maximum effective rate limitation equal to 87% of statutory "taxable income."



So, if Barack Obama is a socialist, what was Eisenhower? An uber-commie?

Of course, note that $400,000 was obviously worth a lot more back then than today. It would probably have represented the income of the top 1% or less of the population.
--Andrew V.

Dang it, I misposted the table's headings... The space bar didn't carry over after I posted it. Anyway, just look at the link for the correct table.
--Andrew V.

Well, it seems that the rank stench of hypocrisy has returned to capital hill.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/14/13745/633

Quote:

Addressing the conservative Federalist Society last week, Senator Kyl fired the first salvo in the coming battle for the future of the judiciary. Regurgitating tried and untrue Republican talking points about so-called "judicial activism," Kyl warned his audience that he would filibuster Supreme Court nominees he deemed too liberal:


Quote:
Kyl, Arizona's junior senator, expects Obama to appoint judges in the mold of U.S Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and Stephen Breyer. Those justices take a liberal view on cases related to social, law and order and business issues, Kyl said.

"He believes in justices that have empathy," said Kyl, speaking at a Federalist Society meeting in Phoenix. The attorneys group promotes conservative legal principles.

Kyl said if Obama goes with empathetic judges who do not base their decisions on the rule of law and legal precedents but instead the factors in each case, he would try to block those picks via filibuster.

If that seems like a 180 degree turnabout for the junior Senator from Arizona, that's because it is.

Back in 2005, Kyl was at the forefront of then-majority Senate Republicans threatening Democrats with the "nuclear option" rule change to bar future judicial filibusters of Bush appointees.


/quote


Now they love filibusters...

I hate Republicans.

Jon Kyl is the Senate Minority Whip, by the way.
--Andrew V.

President Bush was in Iraq today when, during a press conference, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at him. President Bush ducked down to avoid both shoes.

He's bad at running the country, but he'd make a heck of a dodgeball player.

Here's a video of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfYBGl9q30c
--Jacob B.

Apparently the soles of shoes are considered a horrible insult in Arab culture.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7782422.stm
--Andrew V.

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--chris biggs

aww....

As his time in Washington finally draws to a close, Bush is pushing through some last minute regulations...

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=12896

Quote:

Once a rule is published in the Federal Register, the Obama administration will have limited options for expunging it. It can begin the rule-making process anew, crafting Obama rules to replace the Bush rules, but that approach could take years, requiring time-consuming hearings, scientific fact-finding and inevitable legal wrangling. Or, if the new rules contain legal flaws, a judge might allow the Obama administration to revise them more quickly. Bush's push to gut the Endangered Species Act, for example, was done in laughable haste, with 15 employees given fewer than 36 hours to review and process more than 200,000 public comments. "The ESA rule is enormously vulnerable to a legal challenge on the basis that there was inadequate public notice and comment," says Pope of the Sierra Club. "The people who did that reviewing will be put on a witness stand, and it will become clear to a judge that this was a complete farce." But even that legal process will take time, during which industry will continue to operate under the Bush rules.



This is why we shouldn't leave regulatory powers in the hands of one man. Congress should never have given these powers to the presidency.
--Andrew V.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7810270.stm

Quote:
Israeli troops clash with Hamas

Israeli ground forces are battling Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip, after Israel intensified its operation to halt rocket attacks by militants.

Clashes increased in the north with both sides announcing casualties as Israeli troops in effect surrounded Gaza City and cut the territory in two.

Scores of Israeli tanks are said to have penetrated deep inside Gaza.
End Quote



I despise zionism... All this because an election is coming in Israel? I desperately hope Obama uses the economic collapse as an excuse to cutoff military aid for Israel, but I doubt it will happen. AIPAC is just too powerful a lobbying group.

I'm hearing that even several Arab states are condemning Hamas. It looks like the Palestinians, as always, must face the Israeli acts of aggression on their own. Let us hope Hamas weathers this storm.
--Andrew V.

Well, I found an interesting bailout game that is almost like monopoly, except with no dice and just about unlimited amounts of cash. Wrong decisions lower points and can throw you into a recession.
http://www.thebailoutgame.us/
--Justin

Furniture ad mocking Blagojevich.

tp://kevinunderhill.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451bd4469e20105369be619970b-400wi
--Jacob B.

Oops. A little mistake with copy/paste. At the beginning it's http not tp

Beijing yells at the CPC Qinghai Committee
Today, at about 9 this morning, one of the Communist Party Leaders from Beijing came into Qinghai and yelled at the local communist party. The were informed that the inflation rate and unemployment rate were completely unacceptable and something must be done. They were also told failure is not an option. They were given a deadline, which is 2 turns. They must have this done in two turns or else. Now what the "or else" is we will wait and find out.
--Brett B

The intelectial property laws have been angering many. Many place the blame on the Communist Party saying they should have better regulations on the copy rights. This could cause Communist support to go down and the idea of individual rights to come alive. The Judge plans on "eliminating both physical and intelectual thievery by the bourgois capitalists". The Communist Party plans on getting more regulation on the people breaking the law. We all hope to see this work out correctly in order to keep the country held together.
-Sam B
--anonymous

Labor Union's demands shot down by The Communist Party
The Labor Union Organizers met with the communist party today. They wanted a 6 day work week, a minimum wage, and a pension plan. The Communist Party absolutely refused to have anything to do with these demands. The Communists said the only thing they would consider is giving tax incentives to workers. They did not even think about the Labor Union's demands.
--Brett B

Sinopec has announced that they are loaning out a universal pool of money to smaller businesses. Any profit those businesses receive, 50% of the money is to be returned to Sinopec. It was also announced that new businesses have popped up and are "Now Hiring." They however, have not yet opened. Qinghai Lake Medicine Trade Company employee, Chad R., has announced that Sinopec produces the most pollution of any business.
--Lauren S.

Shady Deals-
Yijia was recently reported trying to make a deal with the Communist Party. They were trying to make the Communist Party look away from the crimes they have been commiting for a large sum of money. The Communist Party declined this offer. The Yijia had little to say on this subject. They has said that the Communists wanted to cut workers. "Our workers are like a family to us. We tried to pay them off. So they would not worry about our "family"", a Yijia official commented. An unidentified memeber of the Communist Party cleared this up. So now the next question is what happens to this "family" and why did the Communists want to cut their jobs when they want to boost the economy and create more jobs? This is terrible after hearing the unemployment rates being high and the leader of Beijing had yelled at the Communist Party Committee for such things.
-Sam B
--anonymous

China is truly glorious. Workers in Chinese factories have the best living standards in the entire world. People against China will have shame on themselves and their family. China will continue to experience economic growth with the help of its excellent workers. China will remain number one.

CPC

Recent reports suggest corruption in chinese media has reached an all time high. Reporters of the chinese radio blog have supossedly been recieving large amounts in bribes to attack the actions of the Communist Party.
--CPC official

Sinopec believes that the Qinghai Lake Medicine Trade Company is being blasphemous in its ideals. Sinopec has asked for technology and they have been turned down. This will not be tolerated.

Sinopec

Sinopec never asked Qinghai Lake Medicine for any help with technology ,but if they did then we would have had no prombelm in helping them; however, with these current comments by Sinopec we are not so sure if we will help them now.
--Qinghai Lake Medicine Trade Com.

Sinopec repeats its statements that it had asked, the company it asked is being a complete blasphemer of our integrity and they should be ashamed of what they are doing in shaming the good name of Sinopec.
--Sinopec
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General Secretary orders killing of Strike Organizers
General Secretary Kyle C was overheard telling Judge Jacob B to kill the leaders of the Labor Union in the even of a strike. This is not the way to go about ending the strike. Kyle C was quoted as saying " I dont care about our workers, we have 1.8 billion of them". Also a CPC memeber, Chris B, was quoted as saying " Minimum wage is capitlisim, bourgeis, bullspit".
--Brett B

General Secretary orders killing of Strike Organizers
General Secretary Kyle C was overheard telling Judge Jacob B to kill the leaders of the Labor Union in the even of a strike. This is not the way to go about ending the strike. Kyle C was quoted as saying " I dont care about our workers, we have 1.8 billion of them". Also a CPC memeber, Chris B, was quoted as saying " Minimum wage is capitlisim, bourgeis, bullspit".
--Brett B

Communism corruption strikes again!
This morning the CPC went to every reporter for the Qinghai People's radio blog and offered them a deal. If they wre to write positive stories about the communist party they would recieve large governement incentives such as money and/or a good job. This is ourtrageous. This is their way of trying to cover up their mistakes with the way they handled the labor union leaders.
--brett b

A man named Wu Yi has been caught smuggling heavy arms into Qinghai from Tibet, thanks to the great aid given by the CPC and the hard work of our own officers. Wu Yi has been tried and found guilty. His sentence of execution has been carried out. I would like to thank our own police and the special officers generously given by the CPC to eliminate crime in the glorious People's Republic of China.
--Judge

The CPC has signed an order to send the Qinghai Lake Medicine Trade Company $50,000,000 for expansion and new high technology research. The CPC has also agreed to send criminals to Lake Medicine Trade Company in order for medical testing. This order was signed by the members of the CPC and the Lake Medicine Trade Company. They are hoping for a 10% increase in profits.
--Lauren S.

CPC interview with Chris B
The interview went just as I had imagined, interesting. A few minutes before the interview me and my colleagues were offered a chance to make money through the government to write only good things about them otherwise have punishment. Sadly I had almost went along with it until the interview. I had sat Chris down and asked him some questions about my last story on cutting jobs with the Yijia group. He had denied any knowledge of this and had made everything seem innocent. He then went forward telling me that Yijia was just offering money so they can do "shady" deals. Then when i asked him about the deals he and his colleagues offered me it was denied. To add to this the Yijia group had said that they will not sucumb to the communist group and will not give into their bribes. Also the Public Works Comissionor had said that the CPC had said that they do not care about the people. So all in all the CPC are fake and lie to their people.
-Sam B
--anonymous

According to the Lake Medicine Trade Company, with the money that was sent to them by the CPC, they have successfully cured coronary disease. However, with the cure of this desease, the CPC has agreed to send criminals for testing.
Sinopec is trying to receive higher technology and help by the Lake Medicine Trade Company, however no agreement has been made.
--Lauren S.

Sinopec is planning on moving Sinopec's headquarters to Saudi Arabia, according to the Lake Medicine Trade Company. "The government is oppressing the workers," says Sinopec owner, Aaron H.
About 5 minutes later, Aaron H. announced to the CPC that none of this was going to happen.
--Lauren S.

The CPC is a wonderful group. They mean no harm in any of their threats. They also think that individual freedoms are wrong. This is all just so wonderful! They offer shady deals only to try to keep harmony and prosperity. Also the CPC is wonderful enough to make my colleague feel threatened for voicing his opinion. I must say, the CPC knows exactly what they are doing.

--Sam B

After talking to the CPC I have realized that my sources of information were wrong and that I was wrong for saying such lies in stories. I would like to appologize to the CPC for any hurt feelings for the stories announced I mean after all i am only a news reporter and i can only go by what is given to me
--sam b

The Communist Party is Threatening Reporters
Today I was threatened by the communist party because of the stories I was writing about the negative impacts of communism. I was threatened with being sent off to Beijing and being forced to attend a brainwashing prison there. My grant for The Qinghai Radio and Television University has been revoked. I am sorry to say that this wonderful country's freedom of the press is being taken away at the drop of a hat. The CPC is ruining China!
--Brett B

Yijia group would like to announce that governor Jennifer Granholm has arrived in Qinghai province and negotiations have begun. We have asked everyone in the province to help her feel as welcome as possible. We also would like to announce that the CPC is ashamed by some things going on in the province and do not wish for her to see them. We are asking what they plan to do to fix these "problems"

--Justin H, President of Yijia Group
--Matt K, CEO of Yijia Group

The CPC has given the Lake Medicine Trade Company 25 convicts in order to be tested on. 20 were killed while receiving the experiments of drug testing, while the other 5 are severely mentally and physically disabled. It is rumored that the Lake Medicine Trade Company is also asking the CPC for more convicts to be tested on, however, the CPC has yet to reply.
In lighter news, according to Chad R. from the Lake Medicine Trade Company, they are opening a new clean, efficient plant in Beijing to help with unemployment and to expand their company.
--Lauren S.

We would like to issue a public statement about what we said above to say that what we said about the CPC is false. We hereby retract the statement we said above and send them our most humblest of apologies.

--Justin H, President of Yijia Group
--Matt K, CEO of Yijia Group

The CPC would like to deny these allegations of illegal testing being done on convicts. The prisoners in question were all killed in a bus crash on a rural road. The Communist party is saddened by this tragedy and would like to extend their condolences to the families of the victims.
--CPC official

Yijia group is sorry for this inconvinence. The President of Yijia group is stupid. As you can see by his statement(s) made above. I have had no say in the announcements above and would like to offer 1 million yen for an apology, sincerly,

--Matt K. CEO of Yijia Group

The "president", if one can call him that, of the Yijia Group is actually a member of the Catholic church. His muslim skullcaps have no authenticity.

-CPC Official

The CPC may deny everything that has happened, however there has been no word for the Lake Medicine Trade Company.
--Lauren S

Recently there was a man caught smuggling in weapons to China. The government took him into custody. After hearing that he wasn't killed in the arrest, a source has told me that the Yijia logo may have been on the boxes of weapons entering the country. As bad as this unconfirmed fact is about the logo questioning can not continue because of the CPC's inability to keep him alive. It was just confirmed that he was killed during interrogation. I will inform readers more when more information becomes known.
--Sam B

There have been reports that the reporter Brett B has been moved from the public works department to the Yijia group.
--concerned chinese citizen

In the context of this simulation, I am a member of the Buddhist religion. I ask for an apology from the CPC for the obviously false statement above, and just after I retracted what I said about them above. I would like to know how this proves relevant to what we are doing as well.

--Justin H, President of Yijia group

We would like to deny any relations with this man, and would kindly ask you to leave Yijia group out of this scandal. Thank you...

--CEO of Yijia Group

The time for freedom has been far too long in coming. The future is now, and those who do not follow it will be swept along like the tide. What of freedom? What of liberty? We Chinese still believe in these things, regardless of what Andrew and the corrupt Communists tell you. A true Republic of the People is one ruled by the people, not an oligarchy. The time for revolution is now. Rise up, rise up! The Public Works Commissioner and his men are dead, for all we know, dead for the sake of liberty. Avenge their deaths, make them not in vain, by throwing off the shackles of Communism and restoring the people's rule to the people's land! Long live the people! Long live China!

-A concerned Communist official

The Lake Medicine company is truely sorry for the bus accidentand is offering any help to the families of the dead
--Chad R.

Down with the communist party. They make false accusations and frame companies that speak out. Where is our freedom? "Long live the people! Long live China!"

-- concerned chinese citizen

We would like to ask the people of China why they allow their CPC officials to be so tight fisted, even in economy. They are so caught up in their cloud that they dont know what they want to do.

Forgot my signature on the above
--a concerned member of Yijia group

The CPC is planning on arresting the leaders of Yijia and nationalizing the companies because of the allegations with the terrorist. The CPC is not risking the chinese people and government. Yijia is denying all ties to the terrorist. The CPC is asking for help from foreign countries and trying to make the country safer.
--Sam B

The CPC is a great body that is wonderful at leading such a powerful country. Long live China

thats ridiculous

Prvious message by the Lake Medicine Company
--Chad R.

The documents leaked by the public works commission officials about the location of Brett Bennet were false and meant to mislead the government.
--CPC official

what does the "almighty" CPC need help for? they seem like they are "making the country safer" by themselves? looks like they are not powerful enough. They are having alot of problems with companies and citizens rising up! If all did this and stood agaisnt the CPC then the people would have the power again. Rise Up! Rise Up my comrads against these Communist scum

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Not the ridiculous one
--Chad R.

Freedom for Tibet!

Agreed