I've been using the Navy Federal Credit Union for a bit over 40 years. I have refused to use banks since then as I saw them as predators. The credit union gives me free checking, fairly good interest on savings, low interest loans & credit card. It offers Internet banking to include loan applications/approval, credit card activation, pretty much anything a bank does, the Navy Federal CU does better. Unfortunately, the rules for membership are a bit strict as only active duty military or civil servants (I think) can join.

If you haven't joined a credit union and you're using a bank, particulary one of the multi-nationals, I believe that you're making a mistake. You're also feeding the dragon.

If state owned banks are politically difficult to create, a potentially effective alternative is a member owned and controlled not for profit credit union. All profits are returned to member/owners in the form of lower cost loans, higher rates on savings and lower fees.

Many credit unions have also partnered with the SBA to provide member business loans.

I assume big money is stopping states from adopting the North Dakota model.

Is there anything else?

good wake-up-call article, only if people would've listen.. brazzers password

Trump is Fixin’ their Wagon

[He’s punishing the Establishment]

{… a rhyme …}

The Rs’ establishment’s blunder

has ripped their party asunder, -

- by letting The Donald plunder

by borrowing Bernie’s thunder

that politics-as-usual is under

the paragons of wealth, …

… who ‘way too long have in stealth

confused the masses

{their party’s dumb asses}

with the “southern strategy” of Tricky Dick Nixon.

Now Mister Trump their wagon is fixin’.

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The House Republicans are offically on record denying the science of climate change. In fact Paul Ryan's main goal remains the privatization of Social Security. In other words his road map to the future involves transferring trillions into the pockets of a few, all this while the planet continues on a path to a post modern dark age.....and sooner than we expect for sure.

anfge

The finest minds on the planet were telling us this more than 25 years ago .But we didn't listen ! We can have a few more years for some to get incredibly rich and our western lifestyles unaltered ,then it will be over .Greed is the problem follow the money at all costs . We have used more resources in the last 40 years than we have in the last 40 000 and we are not slowing down .This we call progress ,this is progress towards our own demise .

The world needs new leaders now , put us on a new course to sustainability and stewardship . A massive move towards solar and electric vehicles and tax the hydrocarbon economy out of existence and move to using hemp for thousands of products like all the paper you could ever need ,bio-degradable Plastic ,clothing, in fact anything you can make from hydrocarbon's you can make from hemp and it is one of the fastest growing plants on the planet while practically growing anywhere .No wonder there is a massive lobby against it .

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One did Land & Gold, One did Oil & Gasoline +

Both did a Stock Market for POWER.

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do you remember 25 ¢ gas and 30 ¢ oil, Calling the Hog Coat; Gasbuddys

It is by the Grace that I am

It going to be a real Donnybrook

DON'T STOP BELIEVING

Put the Kibosh on The Donald’s Panache

{… a rhyme …}

To the very heavens we plea

that somehow we can flee

from a Trumpian {victory} vic-to-ree.

The Donald’s {strategy} strat-e-gee

brings darkly stark {tragedy} tradj-e-dee.

… Hmmm …

√ Can the convention give Trump its nix

with on-the-floor tricky tricks?

√ {If not:} Can we somehow outvote his troops

of vigorously-supportive stupes?

√ {If not:} Can a Congress put the kibosh

on Trump’s oval-office panache?

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Trump - not the man, but the symbolism he rides to claiming his greatness - is the epitomy of a failed electoral system. Born of money. Boosted into our living rooms as some arrogant, condensending arbitrator of capitalism, and self proclaimed business success with questionable success - a bully pulpit of vulgar insults and hate. the hateful Tea Party ignorant have apparently found their mascot. The irony perhaps is that Trump doesn't hide his world outlook: he hates minorities and women; he is willing to violate the constitution and commit war crimes; he repeated has said Americans are over paid. He is held in reverence by the media, willing to cash in on the circus. The insanity is that the circus is not about one man; rather that Americans have given up and prefer the circus; became numb to stupid - the endless nonsense from the Becks, Savage, and Fox; voting against the gays instead of voting to reduce carbon. America has become a political freak show with a grand prize of 12,000 nuclear warheads.

is the epitomy

#globalnature: Unfortunately, too many people favor Hillary. The bad part is that they do so for reasons other than her voting record. Either they are voting for her just because she is a female and they'd rather have a terrible female in the WH than a good older male (BTW: Bernie is ONLY five years older than Hillary,) or they are voting for her because she has name recognition and has been around a long time so people feel comfortable that she knows DC and can get the job done. Only that they should do the research and find out exactly what job she will get done and for whom.

I just heard on YT that Hillary supporters have been going onto Bernie websites and uploading porn onto his sites then turning him in for having porn on his websites. This goes to show what kind of a person and politician she really is and how low she is willing to go; no ethics, no integrity, no common sense.

Personally, I am rooting for a Bernie upset and that he will win the nomination at a contested convention. It would be very helpful if she were to just be indicted so we can get on with saving the country from a complete collapse into full bore corporate corruption.

If Bernie doesn't get the nomination for whatever reason, I'm voting Green Party and Jill Stein. Mom, too.

a recent Progressive Change Institute survey of likely 2016 voters shows that Americans overwhelmingly support big government solutions to things

There's a shocker. A biased group came up with a survey that proved the point they were formed to prove. I'll bet you believe BP's survey that says that Gulf Coast residents are very happy with BP too.

The irony, of course is that the racism and xenophobia that’s motivated the Republican base for the past few decades hasn’t gone away.

Republicans have already learned that literally, no matter what they do, they will be labelled as racists, bigots, mysoginists, etc... Democrats have yet to realize that those words are thrown around so much nowadays that they've lost all meaning. Calling someone a racist just proves that you've run out of actual arguments against their policies.

Here's what's going to happen. I'm writing this here, so there's a record of my predictions:

1. Hillary will be said to have a lead against Trump for a few months. Trump will close in on that lead. It makes for a more exciting news cycle if the race is close.

2. There will be a lot of protests at the Republican Convention. The protestors will just come across as annoying to most of the country, and will push more people towards Trump than away from him.

3. Bernie will get to give a nice speech at the Democratic Convention. That will be the end of his national spotlight.

4. Democrats will continue to call Republicans racist, homophobic, ignorant, etc. Republicans will continue to not care.

5. The election map will look almost identical to the 2008 map. Hillary will win. The Democrats will take back the Senate. The Republicans will keep the House.

6. Most state governments will stay under Republican control as well.

7. People will pat themselves on the back and talk about how great this country is, now that we finally have a woman president.

8. For 99.9 percent of people, unless they work for the government (like soldiers), literally nothing will change because of this election.