Polish pop star Dorota Rabczewska has been charged by Warsaw prosecut

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Thanks, but that doesn't make me feel any better to know that most Democratic politicians are also bought and paid for! That's why many important issues, like the bloody antiwar movement are almost invisible. Protesters against Iraq, Afghanistan, and the billions plowed into the Military Industrial Complex, cannot find any political advocates except for ones that are treated as novelties, like Dennis Kucinich.

That's because they are novelties. Protesters are marginalized by definition.

Since this mess in the Gulf became the hot issue, we've learned that BP has hired almost as many Democrats as Republicans on their boards, and as consultants; and they, and other oil companies, give the orders to government regulators like the Minerals Management Service. We are living in an age of Oligarchy, and the political dramas between two competing political parties are not much more than theatre to appease the majority and make them think they have a real say in events that shape our lives.

That's right....a sucker is born every minute. Some people have to be really naive to think that poltitics is more important than economics.

When push comes to shove, as this BP example is demonstrating, the corporation is going to decide what they have to do to stop the leak, what dispersing chemicals to use, and how much they should pay in reparations to areas affected by the oil damage. And this will be guided by their PR efforts to repair company image, not because of what politicians or so called government watchdogs have to say.

And in this case, government lacks the will and expertise to do any better. Calling this Obama's Katrina is an insult to Katrina!