Category Archives: Bad Deeds

Examples of American authoritarian activities. “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” Lord Acton (1834-1902), and Washington, D.C. has too much power concentrated in the authoritarian hands. So much power goes bad and Jim summarizes just some of it.

Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.

Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

Bad Deeds for 10-4-2007

CNN Weatherman Considers Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth to be Fiction – CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano said in response to criticism of Al Fore’s book and movie, An Inconvenient Truth ,”Finally, finally,” before commenting sarcastically that “the Oscars, they give out … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 10-3-2007

AT&T Threatens to Disconnect Subscribers Who Criticize the Company – AT&T has rolled out new Terms of Service for its DSL service that attempts to give AT&T the right to disconnect its own customers who criticize the company on blogs … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-27-2007

ABC News Reporter Alexis Debat Faked His Credentials and Entire Interviews – Little attention has been paid to Debat’s bogus “interviews” with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and others. With all … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-26-2007

US State Department Meddling in Investigation and Instructing Blackwater to Withhold Information – The US State Department is preventing a House committee from disclosing information that could “embarrass” Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki regarding an investigation of alleged corruption within … Continue reading

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Republicans planning to use United Nations as the GOP “sleeper issue”

Republicans planning to use United Nations as the GOP “sleeper issue”– As Reagan used the Panama Canal Treaty as his “issue,” says pollster and author Frank Luntz, so can a 2008 candidate find that “issue.” Suggests Luntz: Because the Republicans … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-24-2007

Top neocon urged Bush to bomb Iran at private White House meeting – Norman Podhoretz, who is among a dwindling class of aggressive defenders of President Bush’s Iraq invasion, argued the United States needed to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities during … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-17-2007

Republicans Swapped Principle for Power – In former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s new book, “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,” Greenspan wrote that Bush essentially left an unbridled GOP Congress to spend money however it saw … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-13-2007

Intel Czar Claim That New Surveillance Law Foiled Terror Plot is False – Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has withdrawn his claim that Congress’s recent authorization of expanded electronic surveillance had helped foil a terror plot in Germany. McConnell … Continue reading

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Joe Barton’s Bad Deeds

Joe Barton’s Bad Deeds – There’s a battle shaping up over the Energy Independence Bill that Congress hopes to pass this fall and it’s not just Dems vs Repubs. The House version, HR 3221 is due to be voted on … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 9-11-2007

Former Justice Department Official and U.S. Attorney Admits There Was a Republican Loyalty Test For Prospective Prosecutors – In written answers to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bradley Schlozman, the former Justice Department official and U.S. attorney who’s been … Continue reading

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