About Andy Hailey
Vietnam Vet, UT El Paso Grad, Retired Aerospace Engineer, former union rep, 60's Republican now progressive, web admin, blogger.
The government not only has PRISM, but there is also NUCLEON, MAINWAY and MARINA. The first two collect content from the internet and phone calls. The other two collect metadata from phone calls and the internet. This data collecting is … Continue reading →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_story_2.html" target="_blank" title="A republic, Madam, if you can keep it">10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free</a>
Posted in Obsession with National Security
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Right-wing authoritarians (RWA) – those blocking progress in both houses of our Congress and conniving with ALEC to write oppressive state laws – are not only all about ‘me-my-mine,’ they are also ‘rugged individualists’ with no need for others who … Continue reading →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://occupydemocrats.com/heritage-foundation-letter-to-congress-gop-dont-legislate-just-distract-americans/" target="_blank" title="The letter, specifically addressed to House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, glorifies the negative media hype surrounding the White House">Heritage Foundation Letter to GOP: Don’t Legislate, Just Distract Americans</a>
Posted in Authoritarianism
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(Unless otherwise noted, this posting includes extensive excerpts from Appendix VII, The New Patriotism, of the The 15% Solution, by ‘Jonathan Westminster,’ which is a penname for Steven Jonas. The second edition of this book that was just published, does … Continue reading →
- Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=7291" title="Imagine if the House of Representatives was dissolved and replaced by a Council of America’s most powerful CEOs" target="_blank">The Danger of American Fascism – Then and Now</a>, <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=92" title="John Dean Exposes The Authoritarians that Are Leading the Way" target="_blank">“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?â€</a>
- More ...: <a href="http://www.puntopress.com/jonas-the-15-solution-hits-main-distribution/" target="_blank" title="How the Republican Religious Right Took COntrol of the US, 1981-2022">The 15% Solution, second edition</a>
Posted in Protect & Empower
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Tagged Single-party State
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As we all know, our right-wing minority controlled Congress and many right-wing state leaders have opposed every effort of President Obama. The election of a gaggle of Tea Party members to Congress in 2010 reinforced this opposition and Mitch McConnell … Continue reading →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/drbob/Comment%20on%20the%20Tea%20Party.pdf" target="_blank" title="Tea Party exemplifies right-wing authoritarianism">Comment on the Tea Party Movement</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/13/ann-coulter-gop-deserves-to-die_n_3435052.html" target="_blank" title="the only thing left for people like you and me to do, Sean, is to punish the people who destroyed America.">GOP 'Deserves To Die' If It Backs Immigration Reform</a>, <a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/18587-racist-roots-of-gop-war-on-obama" title="A key point is to slash help to what the Right sees as "undeserving" Americans, especially people of color." target="_blank">Racist Roots of GOP War on Obama</a>
- Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/McDonnell-Fornicator-Paper-Makes-Race-Interesting-56318427.html" target="_blank" title="The Republican Party's Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of the Decade">McDonnell "Fornicator" Paper Makes Race Interesting</a>
Posted in Authoritarianism
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Professor Richard D. Wolff, author and self trained Marxist economist, and journalist Hedrick Smith, author of Who Stole the American Dream, have both detailed how we have gone from the Greatest Generation of WWII to the first generation that will … Continue reading →
The following is from Thom Hartmann: You need to know this. For decades, unions have been fighting to preserve workers’ rights, but that fight just got a lot more difficult. [Thursday], two separate events illustrated just how extreme the war … Continue reading →
The following is a slightly longer version of my letter to The White House. Mr. President, I’ll be 65 in a few days. I’ve seen and experienced parts of America’s history which you may have only read about. Also since … Continue reading →
- Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=7253" title="We need two parties more alike, centrist, but with Democrats who can talk their progressive values" target="_blank">Our Two Major Political Parties – The Illusion and Realities of Their Essences</a>
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2012/12/america-is-officially-a-center-left-country-young-turks.html" title="The opinion polls show the country trending significantly leftward" target="_blank">America is officially a Center-Left Country (Young Turks)</a>
Posted in Politics
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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 →
Throughout this blog, postings have provided details about the strict father and nurturant parent worldviews. Charts in some of those postings show how the dominance of one or the other of these two worldviews affects our economy. Not only did … Continue reading →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/38813/george_lakoff's_freedom_frame" title="The battle to define freedom is being fought by warriors with radically different world views." target="_blank">George Lakoff's Freedom Frame</a>
Posted in Authoritarianism, Protect & Empower
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(This blog posting comes from portions of Who Stole the American Dream by Hedrick Smith.) The history of the transition from company funded pensions to employee self-directed 401Ks and the limited success of 401Ks shows vividly that the destruction of … Continue reading →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123137714796462913.html" title="After watching her account drop 44% last year ..." target="_blank">Big Slide in 401(k)s Spurs Calls for Change</a>, <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14639-corporations-write-our-laws-and-profit-from-human-misery" title="Corporations write our laws and determine how we structure our society. We have all become victims. " target="_blank">Corporations Write Our Laws and Profit From Our Misery</a>, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/401k-revolution-and-inequality" title="median retirement savings today stand at a paltry $44,000." target="_blank">How America’s 401(k) Revolution Rewarded the Rich and Turned the Rest of Us Into Big Losers</a>
- Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=7099" title="What we need, instead of privatization, is additional revenue" target="_blank">Corporate Governance of Social Security & Medicare – An Abominable Idea for Senior Welfare</a>
Posted in Corporate Intrusion
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Tagged Privateering
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Andy Hailey