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Category Archives: Corporate Intrusion
Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism
“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.
Bad Deeds for 6-17-2009
“God Bless Charities”: A Fake Street Corner Charity Scamming City Residents – Calvin Tarver recruits workers, gives them T-shirts and loads them up in vans to collect cash all over Houston (including Clear Lake). God Bless Charities reports no taxes … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-11-2009
Over-Paid Insurance CEOs Oppose Public Healthcare Option – The public healthcare option has the potential to make private plans compete and be more affordable by trimming their costs. But the private insurance companies have their obscene CEO paychecks to … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 5-14-2009
The Boy Scouts of America Have Moved On From Helping Little Old Ladies Cross the Street – The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America, is training thousands of young people in skills used to … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 5-13-2009
Ousted Ex-Hospital CEO Battles Health-Care Reform Effort – Rick Scott is the millionaire Republican who is heading up Conservatives for Patients’ Rights (CPR), a new group that plans to spend around $20 million to kill President Obama’s efforts at healthcare … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 5-12-2009
Rep. Pete Sessions Accuses Obama of Deliberately Driving Up Unemployment and Dampening Stock Prices – U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions of Dallas, a member of the House Republican leadership, is accusing President Barack Obama of intentionally driving up unemployment and dampening … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 5-6-2009
Bush Officials Try to Alter Ethics Report – Former Bush administration officials are launching a behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to urge Justice Department leaders to soften an ethics report criticizing lawyers who blessed harsh detainee interrogation tactics, according to two sources … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 5-4-2009
CEO Perks Rise As Pay Falls – U.S. companies remain generous with the perks they give to CEOs, including some that are unfathomable to the average American worker: chauffeured cars, bodyguards, club memberships and free travel in company jets. … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4-30-2009
Candidate for Georgia Governorship Says He’d Kill His Own Son to Secede from U. S. – A Georgia candidate for governor says he has found God and he’s ready to sacrifice his own son in an effort to get his … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4-20-2009
CIA Waterboarded Al Qaeda Suspect 183 Times in 1 Month, Memo Reveals – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (still in U.S. custody) was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah (the man who allegedly fears insects) was waterboarded 83 times … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3-27-2009
Caught on Tape: Bribes, Public Corruption – In one brazen crime in Tennessee, cameras caught then-Hamilton County Sheriff William Horace “Billy” Long taking thousands in bribes and embracing corruption to the core. Upon taking a wad of cash from an … Continue reading
Progressives, “Conservatives Without Conscience” and Checks and Balances
Institutions, which humans create, tend to reflect the values of the humans that created/control them. These institutions can be corrupt and harmful or they can do good. The difference is whether the individuals in charge of the institution feel empathy … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3-17-2009
CNBC Has Been Doing Public Relations for Wall Street. Time to Fix CNBC! – Financial news networks like CNBC that promoted Wall Street propaganda and then blamed the financial crisis on “losers” who couldn’t make their mortgage payments. Now we’re … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3-12-2009
To Conservatives, Bipartisanship is Forcing Others to Agree With Them – From the Conservative Political Action Conference, “To us, bipartisanship is them being forced to agree with us, after we have politically cleaned their clocks and beaten them.†Yes, that … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3-11-2009
Disabled Men Forced into ‘Fight Club’ by Staff at Texas State Facility: Police – Profoundly disabled young men were forced into “fight club” style battles by the people hired to care for them at the Corpus Christi State School, police … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3-4-2009
Ex-Leaders of Countrywide Financial Profit From Bad Loans – Fairly or not, Countrywide Financial and its top executives would be on most lists of those who share blame for the nation’s economic crisis. After all, the banking behemoth made risky … Continue reading
The “Twin Peaks” of Consumer Debt
HOUSEHOLD DEBT AS A PERCENTAGE OF GDP Household debt: Credit card debt, car loans, personal loans and home mortgages According to NPR’s Morning Edition, Columbia professor David Beim said this about his chart: The problem is us. The … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2-27-2009
Big Banks Try to Stop Help for Struggling Homeowners – Big banks, scrambling to prevent the government from forcing them to rewrite mortgages for struggling homeowners, are using their lobbying clout to press the Obama administration and Congress to scale … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2-25-2009
Joe Barton Too Busy Tweeting to Pay Attention to President’s Speech; Blames It On a Staffer – During President Obama’s address to Congress, there was Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), in whose name this text message was sent at about the … Continue reading
Stop Trickling on My Boots and Telling Me It’s Raining
“There’s class warfare, all right but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning,†Warren Buffet, CEO Berkshire Hathaway and third richest man in the United States.  In 2006 Mr. Buffet compiled a spreadsheet on … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2-17-2009
Conservative Columnist Makes Stuff Up About Global Warming – Syndicated columnist George Will presents only one piece of evidence in his Sunday piece denying global warming — and he gets it wrong. Will writes: As global levels of sea ice … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2-12-2009
Creationists Besiege Texas State Board of Education with Calls to Dumb Down Science Education in Texas Public Schools – As we mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the religious right has launched a new and … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2-11-2009
Dirty Bomb Parts and Instructions for Assembly Found in U. S. – A man who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, allegedly had a cache of radioactive materials in his home suitable for building … Continue reading
“You’re On Your Own” with John and Sarah
Senator Obama made the following during his acceptance speech on August 28, 2008: For over two decades, he’s [John McCain] subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy – give more and more to those with the most and hope that … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 8-29-2008
McCain Decides to Continue the Bush Legacy of Destructive Environmental Policies – Senator John McCain just announced his choice for running mate: Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. The following is a statement by Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife … Continue reading
Retraction
I’ve said that there isn’t anything we can do to bring gasoline prices down in the near future. I was wrong.  According to the Washington Post a few oil traders controlled 81% of the oil futures market driving prices … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 8-13-2008
Sucker Fish Go to Aquarium to See Bottom-Feeder – Last night at the Aquarium Restaurant, Karl Rove was the guest of honor at a fundraiser for State Rep. John Davis (R-Clear Lake). (Who would pay to see Karl Rove … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 8/1/2008
US Customs Can Seize Your iPod – US customs have the power to seize your laptop or iPod when entering the country – even with no reason to do so. Although this power has been in place for a while, … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 7/31/2008
To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them – Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 7-17-2008
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Spent $200M To Buy Influence – If you want to know how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have survived scandal and crisis, consider this: Over the past decade, they have spent nearly $200 million on lobbying … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 7-11-2008
Karl Rove’s Contempt for the Constitution and the Public’s Right to Know – Karl Rove defied the subpoena by the House Judiciary Committee to testify on his role in politicizing the Justice Department — and in using the Department to … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 7-2-2008
Almost Like Iraq on a Texas Lawn – Last year, a Houston-area man shot and killed two burglars he saw breaking into his neighbor’s house, even after a 911 dispatcher warned him repeatedly against going outside with his shotgun. Texas … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-23-2008
Energy Speculators Trading on “Dark Markets” – One of the biggest factors in high oil prices, according to many experts, is that investors, such as hedge funds and investment bankers, can use loopholes in commodities law to manipulate the market … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-20-2008
FISA Bill Destroys the Fourth Amendment – Urgent Action Needed Now to Protect and Defend Our Constitution – Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley sees a “very frightening bill” in a “compromise,” just passed by the House, that would update the 1978 … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-19-2008
Rich Hunters Want Polar Bears for Trophies – Just days after polar bears gained new life-saving protections, the powerful Safari Club International sued the federal government. The reason? To once again allow wealthy U.S. hunters to kill struggling polar bears … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-18-2008
Medical Exams Reveal Abuse and Torture of Detainees – Former terrorist suspects detained by the United States were tortured, according to medical examinations detailed in a report released Wednesday by a human rights group. The Massachusetts-based Physicians for Human Rights … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-10-2008
Justice Department Gives Grant Money to Programs Having Political, Social or Religious Connections to the Bush White House – The Justice Department gave a $500,000 federal grant to the World Golf Foundation’s First Tee program, even though Justice Department staffers … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-3-2008
McCain’s New Communication Director Says the President Should Have Near-Dictatorial Powers – Michael Goldfarb, who was just named the Deputy Communications Director of the McCain campaign, said, “[The framers of the Constitution] sought an energetic executive with near dictatorial power … Continue reading
Checks and Balances vs. Abusive Power vs. Freedom
There are two truths that contributed to the creation of our constitution, the laws we strive to live by, and our way of life: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely; Checks and balances are necessary to hold power in … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 5-16-2008
Tennessee Republican Party Smears Michelle Obama – The Tennessee Republican Party has set its sights on Michelle Obama – the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. A new web video highlights her controversial comment earlier this year, saying … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 5-2-2008 – Special John McCain and the Media Edition
The following stories, which touch on things that can have a real impact on our future, cannot generally be found easily in the “popular” media. Not on CNN, CBS, ABC, and certainly not on Fox News. But we can get … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4-25-2008
McCain Opposed Equal Pay for Women Senate Bill – Republican Sen. John McCain, campaigning through poverty-stricken cities and towns, said Wednesday he opposed a Senate bill that sought equal pay for women because it would lead to more lawsuits. The … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4-17-2008
Anti-Evolution Movie Attempts to Link Belief in Evolution to Nazi Genocide – Comedian and former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein’s new documentary movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, will not open until this Friday, but it has already been widely blasted for … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4-16-2008
Merck Drugs Used Ghostwriting to Make it Appear That Research Done by its Employees or Contractors was the Work of Scientists – Merck was using what the JAMA authors call “guest authorship and ghostwriting” to make it appear that research … Continue reading
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison – Corporations Over Civil Rights
I must share this. Back in February, the Senate voted to immunize telecommunications companies for being duped by the Administration into eaves dropping on all kinds of communications. When Senator Hutchison’s vote supporting immunity was reported to me, I sent … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4-2-2008
Bush Administration Suspends Laws Along the U.S./Mexico Border – The Bush/Cheney Administration announced that it will waive environmental and land management laws along 470 miles of the U.S./Mexico border. The REAL ID Act grants Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4-1-2008
Texas Prosecutes Little Old Ladies for Voter Fraud – Willie Ray was a 69-year-old African-American City Council member from Texarkana who wanted her granddaughter, Jamillah Johnson, to learn about civil rights and voting during the 2004 presidential election. The pair … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 1-18-2008
Mitch McConnell Calls Himself an Environmental Leader While Helping Oil and Gas Companies Generate Dirty Energy – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has received more than half a million dollars in campaign contributions from the oil and gas lobbyists who … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for: 1-17-2008
Charity Paid US Commander $100,000 While Cutting Wounded Veterans Budget – A charity that has been accused of ripping off veterans — and donors — paid a former commander of the United States Armed Forces to endorse it, before he … Continue reading
If You Are Not Going to Play By My (Corporate) Rules, I’ll Take My Toys (Business) and Leave
In a recent posting, I pointed out that Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was very concerned for the big oil CEOs while Congress was attempting to increase their tax burden and reduce their profit by 0.6 percent a year over three … Continue reading
Senator Kay Bailey-Hutchison – CEOs Are Her Real Concern
In Congress is drilling a dry hole, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison tries to scare us into supporting the poor abused CEOs of the oil industry. I couldn’t resist. I had to send her the following message via her web site. … Continue reading
The Power of Our Republic – Are We The People Squandering It?
I believe this nation will only survive as a republic by upholding all the extraordinary and very thoughtful measures our Founding Fathers, of the late 1700s, established in our Constitution. I also believe, as they did, that “we the people” … Continue reading
Bush Appointees Create Third Class of Worker – And Exempts Them from Union Representation
On October 3, 2006, the five member National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled by a 3 to 2 vote to ‘clarify’ the definition of a ‘supervisor’ to favor employers and oppose employees. The vote had three Bush appointees supporting the … Continue reading
Meet the “Security-Industrial Complex”
To get an understanding of what this information sharing can mean, watch this visualization of the future under the post 9/11 “security-industrial complex”. Continue reading
More Corporate Failure – And a Win for Labor?
In Has America’s Greatest Generation Begat The Failure Generation?, I summarized the introduction to “The Rise of the Rogue Executive,†where the authors point out, “Business scandals are just another part of the stream of daily news that is full … Continue reading
Bush Cronies – The End of the Federal Government as we know it?
This new commission will decide what federal agencies should be eliminated for ‘not producing results’ and only an act of Congress can cancel a majority decision of the commission. Continue reading
The WAWG Index
This index attempts to ‘measure’ the extent to which the list of 14 characteristics monitored by this blog apply to the United States over time. Â The index will be determined monthly as a percent change from the previous month. … Continue reading
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Purposeful Creation of Bad Investments and Buying Insurance to Protect Creator from Failure of Those Investments
Authentic journalism requires an open mind, getting the details, checking the information against multiple resources to find consistancy and add validity, and time and resources to pull the story together. Here is one journalistic example, of many, done by Planet … Continue reading
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The Right to Take – A Combination of Unlimited Freedom and Excessive Greed
Labor law – right to take from union benefits without paying union dues Funding the Public – right to take citizenship benefits wihtout paying citizenship dues Gun ownership – the right to take lives with military weapons without paying for … Continue reading
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