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Category Archives: Media-Info Control
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
Waking Up To The Authoritarian Stealth Plan in America – Before It’s Too Late
Waking up before it’s too late as the pattern of authoritarianism enfolds us. We should be alarmed, but the stealth plan of the authoritarian movement, the odd normalization of its aberrations, has not triggered those limbic regions of our brain that signal us to action. 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
American History of Authoritarian Coups: Ending the Cycle
We need to break authoritarian driven cycle & prevent any future authoritarian coups. We need more democracy in our political & economic systems. 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
News Media “Bad Barrels” And the Parable of the Frog in Boiling Water
Professor Phillip Zimbardo, who conducted the Stanford Prison experiment in his younger days and has since written about what he’s learned, The Lucifer Effect – Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, coined the phrase “bad barrel.” A bad barrel is … Continue reading
Fighting the PRIVATIZATION of Publicly Owned Documents Can Be Deadly
While corporate bankers get bailed out with public funds for their greedy mistakes and with Net Neutrality changed to enhance corporate greed, citizens are being arrested for protesting economic, social, racial, and environmental injustices (Poor Peoples Campaign), and gifted children, … Continue reading
Killing The RT Messenger to Void An Alternate Message
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression. For if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” — Revolutionary activist Thomas Paine “We will not walk in … Continue reading
Leasons Learned Early by Key Libertarian Messenger Contribute to America’s Dystopia
I’ve been reading Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, by Nancy MacLean. Yesterday, I read about some of the lessons learned by James Buchanan. Mr. Buchanan is the main subject of the … Continue reading
A New Costly Cold War?
Are profit-centric media and supporting profit-centric defense contractors promoting a new cold war, via Russian Hack hysteria, and boosting support for more defense spending? Are regime change neocons fanning the flames for a new cold war to remove Putin from … Continue reading
Who’s The Real Enemy of Our Democracy? Widdle Donnie Thwimpie or ???
The distraction of Widdle Donnie Thwimpie is all over the news as the worst ever candidate for an American president, while mainstream media ignores the real enemy of our democracy: This should be no surprise. The corporate take over of … Continue reading
To What Degree Will November Election Complete Corporate Coup of America?
Now that the party primaries are over, it appears that the profit centric MSM has guided the voters quite convincingly. We ended up with the candidates which both media’s profit masters most approve of and which voters have the lowest … Continue reading
Trump Ascendency Should Be No Surprise
It is a natural result of many factors including, but not limited to: – Decades of repeating that “government IS the problem” and predatory privatization of our government – Decades of disempowering the people’s government while empowering the excessively wealthy … 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
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
Inequality is Worse Than You Think, Why So Many Accept It, and The Inevitible Progressive Revolution
From: Peak Inequality: The .01% and The Impoverishment of Society: Beyond these baseline costs, looking at moderate costs for a family of four owning a home in a median family area, with one car, education and retirement costs factored in, … 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
Unconstitutional Gerrymandering, RGA Funneling Corp Dark Money, Privatizing Public TV, The First Slip of Corp Media, Citizen Actions Against Abuse
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 10/12 Federal Court Strikes Down One of the Most Aggressive Gerrymanders in the Country One of the most aggressive gerrymanders in the country is unconstitutional, according to a divided three-judge panel in Virginia. In 2012, … Continue reading
Peoples Climate March, Flood Wall $reet, Embedded Neocons Force War, Students Challenge Conservative Authority, Journalists Manipulated to Support War, Wall $teet Manipulates NYC Fed , Freedom for Us and the Citizens of Gaza
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 9/28 The People’s Climate The People’s Climate March on September 21 was a watershed for the emerging global climate movement, with more than 400,000 people taking to the streets of New York City. But New … Continue reading
Neoliberal, Free Market Fundamentalist, Ideology of The 1971 Powell Memo Reflected in Koch Brother’s 1980 Manifesto
Decades later, Lewis Powell codified Vice President Wallace’s “method” in The Powell Memo of 1971. The result was a proliferation of conservative think tanks like the Cato institute, thousands of talking heads all over commercial media, Fox News, hate radio, … Continue reading
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Edward Snowden Exposed Our Authoritarian – Dual – State
The following are excerpts are from a recent article by Chris Hedges: Snowden, we are told, could have reformed from the inside. He could have gone to his superiors or Congress or the courts. But Snowden had numerous examples—including the … Continue reading
Maximizing Profit Morfs The Fourth Estate Into Stooge for Hire.
For some time, I have been promoting the use of profit-free media for news. There is a long list of such sources in the sidebar of this blog which I update frequently. As I experienced recently, Twitter was the major … Continue reading
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The Danger of American Fascism – Then and Now
Back in August 2006, I wrote a post called, “Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?” I think we are much closer to knowing our answer now and President Obama’s progressive inauguration speech provided a glimpse of the beginning of the end of this corporate threat to America. Continue reading
Why Are Some Americans More Concerned About Consuming Than Preserving Their Democracy?
The excerpts below are from a recent article by Henry Giroux, titled “Why Don’t Americans Care About Democracy at Home?” The basic answer is “economic Darwinism,” which “promotes a politics of cruelty,” “undermines all forms of solidarity capable of challenging … Continue reading
Federal Income Taxes – Is Tax Foundation Impartial?
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “CBO data for 2007 (the most recent year available) suggest that 80 percent of U.S. households pay federal tax at a lower rate than the Tax Foundation’s estimated “average†federal tax … 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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Bad Deeds for 8-29-2010
Putting the Relationship Between Americans, Muslims, and Al Qaeda into Perspective – Should we blame everyone in the big green circle for the actions of those in the little black dot? Fox News Jumps to Conclusions, Then Tells … 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
Bad Deeds for 8-24-2010
Rick Perry’s Habitual Secret Keeping – As you probably know, Texas Governor Rick Perry’s schedule for the first six months of 2010 showed an average of seven hours of state work per week and 38 weekdays with “no state … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 8-17-2010
Anti-tax, Anti-Spending Republican Takes Tax Money for Himself – A Republican north Texas state representative who rails against the evils of runaway government spending admitted Monday that he has pocketed thousands of dollars in taxpayer money for travel expenses … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 8-10-2010
Conservative Says Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is a Liberal Plot – The Theory of Relativity was Albert Einstein’s formulation in the early 20th century that gave rise to the famous theorem that E=mc2. But if you’re a conservative, like … 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 8-3-2010
In Rick Perry’s Texas, There is Only One Inspector for Every 4,586 Oil and Gas Wells – In Texas, there are 86 inspectors for 394,365 oil and gas wells, including 282,150 active wells. As of May 28, 2010, these … 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
Nothing but Shirley Sherrod in the News This Week – What’s Up with That?
The Shirley Sherrod story started on Monday with the release of a heavily edited video about a life experience which occurred decades ago. This story was released by a right-wing authoritarian (RWA) web site known for its lies. By Wednesday … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 7-21-2010
The Myth of Republicans’ Economic Stewardship – Just days after the Washington Post documented that George W. Bush presided over the worst eight-year economic performance in the modern American presidency, the New York Times in January featured an analysis … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 7-8-2010
Republican Says Fox News Helps Us Get Our Message Out ‘Unfiltered’ – Last month, former Republican Senator George Allen spoke at a luncheon of the conservative Heritage Foundation about how Republicans need to use Fox News as the one … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 7-6-2010
FEC Finds Right-Wing Film Group Free From Disclosure Rules – A little-noticed Federal Election Commission ruling that expands the definition of “media” to include a partisan film production group is the latest in a series of actions eroding legislative … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-21-2010
More Than 100 U.S. House Republicans Feel Sorry for BP – 100-plus other House members of the Republican Study Committee labeled the $20 billion trust fund for repairing the damage caused by BP a “Chicago-style shakedown†only a day … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 6-17-2010
Limbaugh’s Solution to Childhood Hunger: Kids Should ‘Dumpster Dive’ – Responding to an article Wednesday at AOL.com that reports 16 million children will go hungry this summer once free or subsidized school lunches are no longer available, Limbaugh suggested: … 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 6-2-2010
Arizona Governor Lies About Her Father’s Death – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer made the following comment to The Arizona Republic newspaper while talking about the criticism she has taken since signing the new immigration law that makes it a … 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 5-19-2009
All-Time Hypocrisy Award Winner – Republican Rep. Mark Souder, an ardent “family values” congressman, not only had an extramarital affair with a staffer; he recorded a video with his mistress about sexual abstinence education. Rewriting History – Social … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 5-17-2010
Rick Perry Rental Mansion Costs Texas $600,000 While He Tells State to Cut Costs – With the state facing a budget shortfall of at least $11 billion, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has spent almost $600,000 in public money during … Continue reading
Bad Deeds Special: The Enemies of Internet Freedom
AT&T Front Group Plans Campaign of Lies – AT&T front group Americans for Prosperity is stooping to new lows in fearmongering. It announced a $1.4 million advertising plan to try to convince Americans that the FCC is plotting to … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 5-11-2010
Waste From Overkill: The U.S. Navy Battle Fleet is Larger Than the Next 13 Navies Combined – Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked in a weekend speech at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas, “Does the number of warships … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4/30/2010
Rush Limbaugh Lies About Big Branch Mine – Rush Limbaugh lambasted the Mine Workers (UMWA) for not protecting their members who, he claimed worked at the Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va., where 29 coal miners were … 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 4/15/2010
Tea Parties Were Created as a Republican Political Ploy – The Tea Party has been billed as an organic grassroots operation, but a newly uncovered document obtained by Politico suggests the movement has been successfully co-opted as a Republican … 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 4/4/2010
Doctor Against Treating Obama Supporters Admits Not Knowing What’s In Health Reform Bill – Dr. Jack Cassell, the Orlando urologist who put a sign on his door letting patients know he doesn’t want to have to treat them if … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 4/1/2010
First, some Good News: Raising the Bar: Barney Frank Permanently Bans Staff From Communicating With Aide-Turned-Lobbyist – House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has instituted a permanent ban on committee staff communication with Peter Roberson, an aide … 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 3/26/2010
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 3/25/2010
Sean Hannity is Using Veterans to Scam Us – The following is from VeteransToday.com: For the last several years, Sean Hannity and the Freedom Alliance “charity†have conducted “Freedom Concerts†across America. They’ve told you that they are raising … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/22/2010
First, the Good News: How to Win in November: Just Three Words – “Tell the Truth†– The truth is very important, but I don’t think you need me to tell you that. What I feel we all need … 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 3/19/2010
Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership President is No Rocket Scientist – Voicing concern about the cancellation of NASA’s troubled Constellation program, Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership president Bob Mitchell said the following at a luncheon at the new Holiday … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/18/2010, But First …
We interrupt the Bad Deeds for these announcements: The Top Ten Immediate Good Deeds You’ll Get When Health Care Reform Passes – As soon as health care reform passes, the American people will see immediate benefits. The legislation will: … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/15/2010
Karl Rove: I can’t stop lying – NBC was the latest stop on Karl Rove’s book tour for ‘Courage and Consequence.’ Revising history has been his main focus recently, and this morning’s interview with Tom Brokaw focused on Iraqi … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/11/2010
Fox News Inaccurately Reporting State Board of Education Action – Fox News in recent days has repeatedly broadcast highly inaccurate information about the State Board of Education’s efforts to adopt the new social studies curriculum standards. Here are the … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 3/3/2010
Interference Seen in Blackwater Inquiry – An official at the United States Embassy in Iraq has told federal prosecutors that he believes that State Department officials sought to block any serious investigation of the 2007 shooting episode in which … 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 2/17/2010
Texas Triumph of Ignorance (Texas, Meet the Flintstones) – Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2/16/2010
Limbaugh Stays on the Ugly Side – During his Feb. 15 broadcast, Rush Limbaugh spun his reality-bending spiel after suggesting that big-box retail chain Walmart lobbies Washington lawmakers to keep Obama from “nationalizing” them — a statement that, if … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2/12/2010
Rewriting History – At their recent meeting, Texas State Board of Education member Don McLeroy proposed amendment after amendment on social issues to the document that teams of professional educators had drawn up over 12 months, in what would … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2/11/2010
Limbaugh to Republican Party: ‘Be proud of being the party of no’ – President Obama has asked Republican leaders to meet for a bipartisan summit to discuss health care legislation. Rush Limbaugh warned Republicans this was merely a “trap,” … 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 2/9/2010
Republican Officials Call Bush Administration Liars – Last week, several top Republican officials accused Obama Attorney General Holder of essentially fabricating a claim that the Bush administration’s Department of Justice successfully tried 300 individuals on terrorism-related charges using the … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2/5/2010
Invoking ‘Literacy Test,’ Tea Party Opening Speaker Suggests Blacks be Kept From Voting – The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a “literacy test” to protect America from presidents like Obama — a … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 2/3/2010
Fox Cuts Away in the Middle of Obama Town Hall Live Feed to Air Critic’s Views – For the second time in less than a week, Fox News on Tuesday cut away from a live broadcast of a presidential … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 1/29/2010
Poll Shows That Americans Are Pretty Clueless About Politics – In the latest installment of the Pew Research Center’s News IQ Quiz, just 32% know that the Senate passed its version of the legislation without a single Republican vote. … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 1/26/2010
Republican Party Sends Fundraising Letter Disguised as ‘Census’ Form – The Republican Party is seeking input and money from GOP voters — seemingly under the guise of the U.S. Census Bureau. “Strengthening our Party for the 2010 elections is … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 1/12/2010
The Falsehoods of the Conservative Noise Machine vs. Reality Conservatives make a lot of noise in hope that if they shout loud enough and often enough, you’ll believe it’s true. Well, the American people aren’t buying it. Here are … Continue reading
Bad Deeds for 1/7/2010
Top Republican Strategist Can’t Name One Thing Republicans Have Done for the Country in 20 Years – Yesterday, I told you about the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, who when asked for a specific recommendation on how … Continue reading