About Andy Hailey
Vietnam Vet, UT El Paso Grad, Retired Aerospace Engineer, former union rep, kid of a WWII WASP, Vet for Peace, universist, web admin, blogger - helping to expose America’s growing Authoritarianism.
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Suggested Reading Week Ending 7/20 Tea Party Has Become a Religion, Stopping the Devil Incarnate is It’s Goal Interview with Billionaire Nick Hanhauer – The Pitchforks Are Coming The Human Price of Neocon Havoc Thinking Dangerously in an Age of Political … Continue reading →
When FDR and LBJ passed laws which maximized equality by providing protections such as Social Security, the right to unionize, and medicare, corporations only saw added costs for doing business. While America helped rebuild the world after WWII, these costs … Continue reading →
- Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/everything-you-need-to-know-about-millennials-political-views/371053/" title="Their results give us an especially illuminating window into the strategies that progressive Democratic organizations and candidates may use this fall to win support from this important electoral bloc." target="_blank">How to Win Millennials: Equality, Climate Change, and Gay Marriage</a>, <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23804-oligarchy-as-american-as-poisoned-apple-pie" title="What the Constitution is to States, TPP is to Nations" target="_blank">Oligarchy: As American as Poisoned Apple Pie</a>
- Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/tag/powell-memo/" title="Koch Brothers, ALEC, ..." target="_blank">All posts on The Powell Memo</a>
Posted in Corporate Intrusion
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Tagged Individual or Systemic Causation, Privateering, The Powell Memo
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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 →
Economic neoliberalism, or free market fundamentalism, has been at work for decades in America transferring more and more wealth from the masses to the ONE%. Privatization of all that is public (SS, Medicare, pensions, etc.), or putting it on the … Continue reading →
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 →
- Related Web Article: <a href="https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/01/edward-snowden-join-daniel-ellsberg-others-freedom-press-foundations-board-directors" title="Dedicated to helping support and defend public-interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption, and law-breaking in government." target="_blank">Edward Snowden To Join Daniel Ellsberg, Others on Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Board of Directors</a>
Posted in Authoritarianism, Media-Info Control
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… social change is happening and growing inequality is the great enabler. Relative to Bill Moyer’s 8 stages of successful social change and postings in Popular Resistance, we are in Stage 6, “Majority Public Support.†According to the review of … Continue reading →
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 →
The following quote is from a blog posting by Marc Farinella : “Two final points from Lakoff; here’s the first: Don’t be fooled by contested concepts,which are abstract ideals such as fairness, justice, caring, equality, and liberty that appear to … Continue reading →
Progressives claiming that right-wing authoritarians are irrational is like right-wing authoritarians claiming minorities are mentally inferior to whites. They both ignore basic biology. The human brain works the exact same away in every human without physical brain damage. This is … Continue reading →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ThinkingPoints_Chapter4.pdf" title="Our earliest experience with being governed is in our families" target="_blank">THE NATION AS FAMILY</a>
Posted in Nurturant State, Strict-father State
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Tagged Individual or Systemic Causation
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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 →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/joe-stiglitz-people-who-break-rules-have-raked-huge-profits-and-wealth-and-its-sickening-our" target="_blank" title="Joseph Stiglitz's remarks to the AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles on September 8">The People Who Break the Rules Have Raked in Huge Profits and Wealth and It's Sickening Our Politics</a>
Posted in Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse, Labor Power Loss
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Tagged Mega Rich RWA
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Andy Hailey