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  • U.S. Aviation Crashes Greatly Decreased After ‘Targeted Disabilities’ Initiative Enacted

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 14th, 2025 We haven’t seen a disaster like the crash over the Potomac in almost 25 years, and federal data on U.S. aviation crashes reveal that we’ve tended to experience significantly less crashes, year after year, since those disabled individuals began work at the FAA. To hear Trump’s new administration discuss it, Obama’s and federal data on U.S. aviation crashes policy of hiring people with “targeted disabilities” to serve .in government jobs is proof the country was going to hell following wild left-wing ideas. “Targeted disabilities” is defined by federal government parlance as including problems…

  • Super Rich Tax Havens

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 30th, 2012 The world’s wealthiest individuals may well have up to $32 trillion stashed away in secret tax havens, according to an explosive new report…

  • Whos Buying Barack Obama

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 23rd, 2012Some days ago, The American Spark revealed who is buying the Romney presidential campaign. Now it’s time to unveil who are the top ‘contributors’…

  • Whos Buying Mitt Romney

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 13th, 2012We at The American Spark feel that it is a reporter’s job to tell you what’s really going on in politics and society, and…

  • Us Income Inequality

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 30th, 2012“U.S. income distribution appears to be among the most uneven of all major industrialized countries and the United States appears to be among the…

  • Occupy Berkeley

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 25th, 2012In Nov. 2011, the Police Department at University of California, Berkeley, worked to end a campus protest begun by the Occupy movement. As readers…

  • Drones In Us Airspace

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 20th, 2012The War Department (often euphemistically called the “Defense” Department) has singled out 110 sites in America which may be used as bases for drone…

  • Wal Mart Buying Republicans

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 5th, 2012Perhaps many of you spend money at Wal-Mart, the massive chain store that’s wormed its way into nearly every American town. You may not…

  • Occupy Movement

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2012The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who…

  • Bank Of America Foreclosures Privacy

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 30th, 2012For the right price, corporate lobbyists provide their clients with a political power only dreamed about by theaverage American. Bank of America (BoA) knows…

  • States Diverting Foreclosure Funds

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 24th, 2012Lawmakers in many U.S. states are quietly siphoning funds from a multi-billion dollar foreclosure settlement struck earlier this year between the Big Banks and…

  • Great Recession Hardest On Youth

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 14th, 2012Today’s young people—specifically, those aged 16 through 24—are being especially hard hit by The Great Recession in anumber of different ways, according to a…

  • Drones In Us Airspace

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 7th, 2012The Pentagon is working to expand its use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), commonly called drones, inU.S. airspace. And according to its 25-year UAS…

  • Homeland Security

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2012Everyone in government seems to believe that their greatest — indeed, their most sacred — duty is the maintenence of ‘land Security’.The problem is…

  • Protest Choker

    The photos appear to show a Boston Police Department cop preparing to choke an Occupy Boston protester.By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 22nd, 2012Our self-proclaimed ‘protectors’ are cracking…Take a good look…

  • Sec Cannot Handle Its Money

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 15th, 2012The U.S. Government Accountability Office has “identified significant deficiencies in SEC’s internal control over financial reporting,” according to a recent study. And as this…

  • Wealthy Often Worse People02

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 31st, 2012A very interesting article was published by The London Guardian in November. It bravely – and correctly -pointed out that the wealthy among us…

  • Wealthy Often Worse People

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 23rd, 2012“[The upper class behaves like a person who beats] the neighbors’ expensive cars with a baseball bat, with the sole objective of owning the…

  • Koch Brothers Poison Democracy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 7th, 2012Only the [violent] mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.…

  • It Costs To Meet President

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 29th, 2012 Let’s be honest: America is not a democracy. At best, it is a plutocracy owned by our wealthiest few. And those few buy…

  • Drones In Us Airspace

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 16th, 2012The federal government’s deployment of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) within U.S. airspace is greater than normally recognized and is all but sure to increase…

  • Congressional Millionaires

    Your Subtitle HereBy Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 5th, 2012Why are Congressional lawmakers so clearly out of touch with you and the other 99% of Americans? Perhaps it’s because almost half…

  • Income Inequality

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 26th, 2012The difference between the paltry income earned by U.S. laborers and the massive amounts of money collected by owners of capital has been documented…

  • To Obama

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 20th, 2012The American Spark normally does not actively engage in protest. But recently our online service has felt a need to stop U.S. lawmakers’ mad…