Video highlights from the Netroots Nation panel, Undoing Citizens United: A Comprehensive Plan to Prevent Corporations from Buying Elections.

Major Neill Franklin, the Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, talks with us about the panel on marijuana policy at Netroots Nation, California’s Proposition 19, and the prohibition of cannabis.

ICE agents surprise Netroots Nation attendees with a checkpoint to search for illegal European immigrants.

For years the existence of a network of sophisticated underground “cities” has been a rumour. Now some of the civilian builders come forward to tell the real story.

Free market fundamentalists say the real problem with our financial sector is that they are over-regulated. If we just let the banks regulate themselves that we wouldn’t have any problems. Rush Limbaugh says Goldman Sachs is the victim. The government caused the problems with all of their rules and regulations.

An excerpt from my April 7, 2010 post called, Was the Financial Meltdown Manufactured By Banks-Too-Big-To-Fail? Yes, many of us in the investment business were talking about the probability of scams and frauds due to CDO insurance long before the SEC made its move.