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Category Archives: Human Rights Abuse
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.
Authoritarian Domination by 2030 in US!
In 2030, the entire world is condemned to extreme inequality, slavery, baby farms with women dressed in red and world domination as originally planned in 1997. Continue reading
Predatory Capitalism: Chaining It?, Embracing It?, Controlling it?, Saving it?, Replacing It!
Any nation with either an authoritarian political system or an authoritarian economic system, like predatory capitalism, is susceptible to totalitarianism. Continue reading
Survival of Our Democratic Republic – Expanding Human Rights …
Contriving to limit rights is about control and power over others. It’s about arrogance and imaginary supremacy over others. It’s about maximizing inequality! It’s about destroying our democracy! Continue reading
End The Authoritarian Nightmare – Cage The Rampaging Republican Elephant!!!
The Republican Party is populated by almost all those in America who tested as highly prejudicial and authoritarian as documented in Dean’s new book. As Dean documents, They are not going away and the rest of us will need to stand up, en masse, to keep these confirmed authoritarians under control FROM THIS ELECTION FORWARD! Continue reading
Systemic Change IS Necessary for Maximizing Equality
Right-wing authoritarianism has been corrupting our critical national systems so as to end our long-term democratic experiment to maximize equality. Citizens have suffered needlessly for decades and we must stop the authoritarian’s final push to maximize inequality in their favor. Continue reading
Authoritarian Nations – They Grow Slowly and Imperceptibly
In summary, a 400 year-old authoritarian economic system gave birth to our authoritarian policing system to put property rights over human rights, legalized massive looting, stealthily stole ownership of the citizen’s government and is maneuvering to turn it into a fascist-like totalitarian state. Continue reading
The American Revolution and Great Depression of the 21st Century
Tens of millions of citizens have nothing left to lose! The knee of our right-wing authoritarian oppressors are on the necks of all citizens/workers. Removing that knee of our failed systems requires historically massive public action and political participation. Continue reading
Inequality of Endless Growth vs Justice of Universal Wellbeing
Quotes from “Outgrowing growth: why quality of life, not GDP, should be our measure of success” The world’s right-wing authoritarian, self-enriching, gobble-up, neoliberal, abusive, form of capitalism is based on never ending growth and has birthed massive inequality and the … Continue reading
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American Capitalism’s Immoral Response to COVID-19
Quotes from The Virus and Capitalism. America’s unique, right-wing authoritarian, self-enriching, gobble-up, neoliberal, form of capitalism is helping it’s wealthy owners again while ignoring and abusing most citizens. Back in 2008, the neoliberal puppets bailed out the banks and screwed families out … Continue reading
Fascist Politics for Protecting and Empowering a Demagogue
The distinct strategies of fascist politics include: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intellectualism, unreality, hierarchy, and victimhood. Other strategies also included are law and order, sexual anxiety, appealing to the heartland, and dismantling public welfare and unity. Below is summary of … Continue reading
Ending This Long Era of Worsening Injustice
RE: Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean and Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean … Since – Brown v Board of Education in 1954 that caused Virginia to shut down all public education for a short time and initiated a … Continue reading
Implementing the 1980 Koch Platform May Happen With a Consitutional Convention?
Back in 1980, the Koch brothers documented their Libertarian goals when David Koch ran for Vice President by preparing their campaign platform. Below are key “excerpts” from their platform. For contrast, I’ve added [my 2 cents]. “We urge the repeal … Continue reading
Privatizing Publicly Funded Resources Abuses Citizens – It Puts Profit Before People
Putting profit before people has led to decades of poisoning our air, our water and our soil. Some of this abuse has resulted from privatization of public resources. Blind allegiance to profit has also led to torturing of gifted individuals … Continue reading
Reclaim Justice for America – Register, Educate, VOTE #REV
Which candidates will speak loudly and repeatedly about long-term, still-growing, massive, widespread, injustices in America? There are those who believe inequality is normal and ordained. God is at the top, followed by white male Christianists, then everyone else based on … Continue reading
Our Mass Murdering Domestic Terrorists and Their Enablers
Who are these people using WMDs for mass murder in America? They are men who have been taught that there is a social heirarchy with God at the top. After God comes white, Christianist, males, then everyone else based on … Continue reading
Federal Spending for Sustaining Instead of Destroying LIFE
$700 Billion for the Pentagon – Where Will All That Federal Money Come From? A Few Taps on a Keyboard. DJT just signed a bill to provide $700 Billion for the Pentagon in FY2018 while Congress is working on a … Continue reading
Policy Priorities for Winning in November with the New American Majority (NAM)
RE: Brown Is The New White by Steve Phillips (This is my kind of book. Filled with quantitative and qualitative details, and progressive policies for the mind, and, more importantly, backed up and supported by progressive values for the soul.) … Continue reading
Hidden Threats Strain Both the Earth’s Life-sustaining Resources and Life Itself
Unsustainable economic growth and its systemic impacts on the wealth gap, human population, and Earth’s climate are enslaving and abusing all Peoples. Wage theft, debt slavery, and expanding poverty drive the exponential growth of the income and wealth gap and … Continue reading
Ending American Authoritarianism – A Hybridization of Orwell and Huxley Dystopias, and Resisting It Through Radical Imagination
Henry Giroux re-evaluates the works of Orwell and Huxley compares them to the new American Authoritarianism and proposes actions to reverse it. Both authors provide insight into the merging of the totalitarian elements that constitute a new and more hybridized … Continue reading
Pro-war, Regime Change, Neocons Have Controlled our Interventionist Foreign Policy for Decades
Back in January, 2007, as The Shrub, GWB, began his final year in office I wrote a blog post titled Bush’s Administration has Neocons Everywhere According to Bush and Rumsfeld. In September of last year, I wrote another posting called, … Continue reading
Supressing Hope Is Futile – Integrity, Moral Values, and Insurrectional Democracy
Externalizing hope will defeat the casino capitalism of the authoritarian right. Here are three requirements for getting there: 1. Progressives who deny their core values, lose, and can’t inspire the underpaid, overworked, debt ridden, and generally oppressed to take action. … Continue reading
Erik Prince Still Free, Ferguson Police Abuse, Who Can’t Vote in Texas, Corp Attack On Democracy, NPR Part of Problem, Doughnut Economics
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 10/26 Christianist Erik Prince Remains Free as Blackwater Guards Convicted for Killing 14 Iraqis in Massacre First of all, Erik Prince is a radical right-wing Christian supremacist who, from the very beginning of the so-called … Continue reading
Why Do The ONE% Keep Getting Richer?
An updated report on growing income inequality between America’s profit makers and profit takers shows the growth of income for the profit takers – the top ONE%, who are making at least $394,000/year for 2012. The table below shows how … Continue reading
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What’s Really Best for an ‘Unwanted’?
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks … Continue reading
Supporters of DOMA, Prop 8, and Texas Special Session SB 5 – How Their Authoritarian World View Can Predict Their Actions
While driving home from lunch today and listening to the discussion on NPR’s ‘Talk of the Nation’, the strong unreasonable comments of a caller disturbed me. This caller was stating that overruling California’s Proposition 8 was not right. Prop 8 … Continue reading
Minimum Wage, Wage Theft and The Free Market at Work – Is it Fixable?
The post 80’s ideas of keeping the minimum wage suppressed and not rewarding workers, profit creators, for their productivity increases of the last three decades must stop. The decisions of the supply side free market and most of its leaders, … Continue reading
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The Dakota Indians Lost to the ONE% in the 1860s – Can Today’s 99% Check and Balance Today’s ONE%?
A recent episode of This American Life was about the Dakota War of 1862. This war resulted in the final expulsion of the Dakota Indians from their ancestral home in Minnesota. It took years of lies, trickery, swindles, war, and … Continue reading
Destroying America’s Soul – The Devil’s Budget
In his latest article, George Lakoff discusses how The Devils Budget proposed by the opponents to President Obama will eventually destroy the soul of our democracy by defunding all of its Public infrastructure: public protection, public empowerment, public education, public … Continue reading
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The Aurora, Colorado, Shootings – Fear Based Gun Ownership Fulfills an Authoritarian Need to Severely Punish Those Not Like Them
Those most likely to become authoritarians (social dominators or followers) are raised from a young age in a strict-father environment where violent punishment is used aggressively. And, according to James Dobson, the sooner it is applied, the better. Dread of … Continue reading
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In Support of Mayors Against Illegal Guns – Stop Domestic Terrorism
Americans are more likely to be killed by domestic terrorists with guns than international terrorists with bombs. When will we redirect our national resources to reflect this higher threat to American lives? Sign the petition … Also, here’s my message … Continue reading
The “Bad Barrel” for All U.S. Presidents – Some Try to Resist, Authoritarians Enhance It
What changed many of the promises of candidate Obama into either inaction or the adverse actions of President Obama? Here’s how I put it to the President recently. RE: The Obamas by Jodi Kantor Mr. President, While listening to an … Continue reading
Authoritarian Control Requires War, a War Mentality, Enemies, and a Vivid Imagination
WAR … WAR … WAR … WAR I guess the authoritarian wars began in 1971 when President Nixon launched the war on drugs to combat the heroine addictions of our Vietnam veterans. This 40 year war has not been won … Continue reading
America’s Growing Authoritarian Police State Revealed by Response to OWS
In three previous articles, I have discussed the growing American police state. This police state is supported by an authoritarian worldview and is promoted by the “bad barrel” structure of today’s police departments. In a recent article by former Police … Continue reading
Republican Senators – Shameless, Spineless, or Without Conscience?
RE: Most Republican Senators voted yesterday to pass the Paul Ryan Budget Plan for the wealthy. Tonight, I sent the following note to Texas Senator Cornyn, who voted for the plan: Transferring more wealth to the top 2 percent by … Continue reading
Fear Mongering Over Debt and Deficits – It’s Happened Before, Why Then, Why Now?
Why are we, as a nation, no longer expressing concern about the employment deficit? Because the media and the politicians are all fear mongering about deficit spending, the national debt, and terminating state employees and/or their benefits to fix their … Continue reading
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Violence Against Americans by Americans – Individual Action Is Only Part of the Story
Individual actions result from the influences of many factors. This is referred to as “systemic causation.” Some factors are genetic but many are external: parents, spouses, siblings, other relatives, friends, scout leaders, religious leaders, teachers, bosses, books, movies, radio, TV, … Continue reading
Tax Breaks For The Mega and Ultra Rich – Stopping Their Takeover of Our Democracy
An article about Congress deciding its next pay raise, had this to say about the richest 235 of them: Senators had a median reportable net worth of $1.79 million in 2008, the last year such data were available, down from … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 9-8-2010
Confused Tea Party People – The Tea Party people say they’re angry about socialism, but maybe they’re really angry about capitalism. If there’s a sense of being looked down upon, it’s that sense of failure that’s built into a … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 9-3-2010
Fewer Jobs, Larger Deficits if Republicans Were in Charge – According to a study in Newsweek, the things that Republicans have said they want to do won’t actually boost employment or reduce deficits. In fact, much the opposite. If … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 8-26-2010
Rick Perry’s Bomb about Bombs: Perry Lies or He Doesn’t Know Where the Border Lies – In an interview about border security, Texas Gov. Rick Perry told Fox News that bombs exploded in El Paso. “You’ve got bullets hitting … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 8-25-2010
Rick Perry: University Regents Jobs Open to the Highest Bidders – Over the past decade, the men and women chosen by Rick Perry to serve as regents of the state’s universities have given his campaigns a total of at … Continue reading
Reality and Howard Dean’s Hopeful Optimism
Governor Dean, Your optimism is admirable relative to achieving a compromise between those that have such strong ‘feelings’ over the civic center in NY. However, history shows that right-wing authoritarians (RWA), not just their leaders, don’t compromise. They do not … Continue reading
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Bad Deeds for 8-16-2010
Rick Perry Afraid to Interview With Texas Newspaper Editorial Boards – In not-so-shocking news, Rick Perry’s campaign declared that the governor won’t be bothering with newspaper editorial boards before the November election. This was Perry’s modus operandi in the … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 8-13-2010
For Newt Gingrich, “Family Values” is Just a Phrase He Likes to Use – According to Newt’s second wife Marianne Gingrich: “He asked me to marry him way too early,” she revealed. “And he wasn’t divorced yet [from his … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 8-6-2010
Republican Jobs Plan: Bigger Tax [Breaks] For The Rich – After opposing, stalling, stonewalling and filibustering almost every recession-related bill for the past year, Republican lawmakers have finally proposed a jobs plan of their own: a bigger, more expensive … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 8-5-2010
A quote worth remembering in these times: “I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.” — Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956 Republicans Defeat Bill to Aid 9/11 … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 7-30-2010
Republican Fiscal Policies Are a Bad Investment – According to Moody’s Analytics (hardly a left-wing group), for every dollar of government money spent on extending the Bush tax cuts, there’s only a 32-cent return on investment in terms of … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 7-23-2010
Rick Perry Likes the Death Penalty But Doesn’t Care Much for Science or “Experts†– Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004 for a fire that killed his three daughters. Prosecutors argued that Willingham deliberately set the 1991 blaze … Continue reading
RWA Lies Got Us Into Iraq, Killed ACORN, and Almost Killed Health Care Reform – Guess What’s Next
Fearmongering and Noble Lies are primary tools for the right-wing authoritarians (RWA). Just think back to last year and all the RWA fearmongering and lies about health care and how it barely became law. It wasn’t so much about the … Continue reading
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Bad Deeds for 7-12-2010
Go forth and spread the truth. Rick Perry’s Texas is Failing Us on Child Hunger – Texas is No. 1 in child hunger. KXAS, the NBC TV affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth, says “Texas leads the nation in child hunger.†… Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-29-2010
Republicans Are Opposing Responsible Natural Gas Operations – Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a means of natural gas extraction employed in deep natural gas well drilling. Once a well is drilled, millions of gallons of water, sand and proprietary chemicals … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-16-2010
BP Gambled on Shortcuts: Profit First, Safety Last – In a letter to BP CEO Tony Hayward, Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., noted at least five questionable decisions BP made in the days leading up to … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-14-2010
Rand Paul Says He Certified; Maybe He Meant to Say “Certifiable†– The national panel that approves doctors as board certified said U.S. Senate Republican candidate Rand Paul isn’t on the list, even though he has campaigned as holding … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-9-2010
John Culberson Says Gulf Oil Spill is a ‘Statistical Anomaly’ – In a letter to President Obama, Culberson says that the “Deepwater Horizon incident was a terrible human tragedy with devastating environmental consequences,” but not terrible enough for President … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-7-2010
Arizona City Councilman/Talk-Show Host Doesn’t Like Black or Brown Faces on Mural – The leader of a group of artists says he was ordered to lighten the skin tones of children depicted in an outdoor mural covering two walls … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-1-2010
BP CEO Says There Are No Plumes of Oil; Disregards Scientists – During a tour of a BP PLC staging area for cleanup workers, CEO Tony Hayward said the company’s sampling showed “no evidence” that oil was suspended in … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 5-27-2010
Palin Endorsee Plagiarized President Obama’s Speech – Vaughn Ward, a GOP candidate for Idaho’s First Congressional district who is endorsed by Sarah Palin, is facing charges that he swiped key passages from Barack Obama’s iconic 2004 Democratic National Convention … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 5-20-2010
Oil Hits Louisiana Wetlands – Crude oil spread through fragile US marshlands Thursday, a month after a drilling rig blast released a devastating spill that now threatens Florida, Cuba and even beyond. Photos Costly, Time-Consuming Test of Cement … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4/29/2010
Voters Conned into Switching to the Republican Party – Since mid-March, at least 99 written complaints have been submitted to state elections officials by Orange County residents who say they were registered to vote Republican without their consent. The … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4/28/2010
New Oklahoma Law Allows Doctors to Lie About Health of Unborn Babies– A new law in Oklahoma protects doctors from malpractice suits if they decide not to inform the parents of a unborn baby that the fetus has birth … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4/27/2010
The Party of No … Credibility – American right-wing leaders are responding to complaints about their adherents’ insults, threats, and acts of violence by claiming that such problems occur on the left as well. Of course, they don’t dare … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4/12/2010
Oklahoma Conservatives, Lawmakers Plot Anti-Federal Militia – Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like to create a new volunteer militia to help defend against what they … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4/9/2010
Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld Knew Many Guantanamo Prisoners Were Innocent – Former US president George W. Bush and his top aides were accused Friday of covering up that many Guantanamo Bay detainees were innocent, amid fears releasing them could … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4/8/2010
Fox News Got Man Worked Up to Make Death Threat According to His Mother – Gregory Giusti was arrested Wednesday afternoon for threatening Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi over recent healthcare legislation. His 83-year-old mother blames Fox News … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4/6/2010
General Electric and Exxon Mobil Paid No Income Taxes in 2009 – Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year. “Most egregious,†Forbes notes, is General Electric, which “generated $10.3 billion in … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4/2/2010
Doctor Refuses To Treat Obama Supporters – Florida urologist Jack Cassell posted a sign on his office door reading, “If you voted for Obama … seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your health care begin right now, not in … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/31/2010
Bush-Appointed Federal Election Commissioner Helped Republican Party Conceal Role in 2004 Vote Suppression – Caroline Hunter, a Bush-appointed Federal Election Commissioner who remains in office, provided misleading statements under oath in an effort to conceal Republican National Committee involvement … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/30/2010
Here’s What Some Government Investment in Infrastructure Can Do Problem is, it’s in China. Wuhan Station, March 23, 2010 And For Contrast: Detroit Michigan Central Station, August 11, 2009 Koch Industries and Other Oil Companies Funding Climate … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/29/2010
Republican National Committee Chairman Refuses to Sign Joint Civility Statement with Democratic Counterpart – The Republican National Committee has rejected a proposal from its Democratic counterpart to sign a joint “civility” statement. Various members of the Democratic National Committee … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/26/2010
But, first a thought on the future: Voting is like driving a car … Choose (D) to move forward, Or (R) to go backward. The above is from a bumper sticker I saw. And now, the Bad Deeds: Lousy … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/24/2010
Republican Representative Thinks You Should Not Have the Right to Vote for Your Senators – Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is calling for a strong re-assertion of state’s rights against Congress — in the form of a Constitutional amendment to … Continue reading
Amazing – Health Care Passes!!!!!!!!!
Earlier this evening, Frank Schaeffer in his latest blog posting, predicted this moment. Being the eternal pessimist, I was surprised when it happened. The right-wing authoritarians, all 212 of them, have failed to block the correction of America’s biggest human … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/12/2010
Earmark Hypocrisy – In the years leading up to their seizure of power in 1994 it seemed that Republicans care about eliminating pork more than almost anything. But after the election, it was a different story. Not only did … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/2/2010
Use of Filibuster Threat Explodes – The frequency of filibusters — plus threats to use them — are measured by the number of times the upper chamber votes on cloture. Such votes test the majority’s ability to hold together … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2/23/2010
Rep. Steve King To Conservatives: ‘Implode’ IRS Offices – Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told a crowd at CPAC on Saturday that he could “empathize” with the suicide bomber who last week attacked an IRS office in Austin by flying … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2/22/2010
Top 10% Doing Just Great Thanks to the Bottom 90% – Last week I showed you how the wealthy have made out like bandits. Between 2001 and 2007, the 400 richest taxpayers doubled their annual incomes to an average … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2/10/2010
Sir John Houghton Misquoted Climate-Change Skeptics have been quoting Sir John Houghton, who played a critical role in establishing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), as saying, “Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen.” The quotation has … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 1/22/2010
Weak Actions on Wall Street and Weak Health Care Policies Make People Upset – Massachusetts voters who backed Barack Obama in the presidential election a year ago and either switched support to Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown or simply … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 1/19/2010
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes – Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company. The sights are used … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 12-21-2009
Before we get to the bad deeds, I would like to pass on a couple of comments on the Senate Health Care Bill that I spotted: – Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa): He vowed … Continue reading