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Winner of the 2000 Presidential Election: Al Gore

In November, 2001 the The New York Times buried the fact that Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush in a statewide recount of Florida "no matter what standard was chosen to judge voter intent." Six years later, the majority of Americans are still unaware that Al Gore actually won the 2000 election. Thom Hartmann, a contributor at CommonDreams.org explains, "The reason is a small percentage of Republican spin, and a large percentage of journalistic cowardice in the mainstream media, following 9/11. This cowardice is limited to the USA, as the story was extensively covered mostly by the rest of the world.

Public Interest in News Topics Beyond Control of Mainstream Media ?

U.S. Middle Class In Survival Mode As World Economies Shift

Considering the lack of public interest in US election theft, it's not a "collective yawn" we hear, it's the silence between the last dying gasps from the US middle class, who's families must:

Work multiple jobs to survive
Compete with living wage jobs shipped overseas
Overcome a 50% percent divorce rate
Swallow the corporate toxification of the environment
Cope with the cost health care

These are the issues threating marriage and family, revealing the real causes of voter apathy towards the currently broken political system called the "United States of America."

Framers of the US Constitution granted advantages to the upper-class, concentrating wealth in the hands of a few, helping to fund the industrial revolution. Alexander Hamilton and Robert Morris succeeded in their plans, creating federal laws, giving the "upper-class" tax advantages at the expense of the common man. ("The Whiskey Rebellion" by William Hogeland, American History 101) This original tax revenue designed to pay off the nation's war debt was further used to fund corporate projects on a national scale.

Concentration of Wealth Without Regulation is The Ultimate Weapon

Recent satellite photos of two key economic centers from the last world war:

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Berlin, Germany, EU

One city is almost wiped out, the other is not. Who wins ?

As the middle class is busy trying to survive, there's little time left to understand the larger patterns and forces at work.

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