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 3-27-07

Embattled AG Alberto Gonzales now accused in teen sex scandal ‘cover-up’ in Texas – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, both already under siege for other matters, are now being accused of failing to prosecute officers of … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-26-07

GSA Chief Accused of Using Agency to Aid GOP – Witnesses have told congressional investigators that Lurita Doan, the Bush-appointed chief of the General Services Administration, joined in a videoconference earlier this year organized by one of Karl Rove’s deputies, … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-23-07

E-Mails Show Focused Effort to Replace US Attorney with Rove Aide – Some of the thousands of pages of e-mails released this week by the Bush administration underscore the extraordinary planning and effort, at the highest levels of the Justice … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-21-07

Tom DeLay Denies What is in His Own Book – Here is what happened during a Chris Matthews’ interview of Tom DeLay today: Chris Matthews grilled DeLay about passages in his book where he apparently ripped into fellow corrupt Texan … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-20-07

CIA leak prosecutor Fitzgerald was ranked below ‘strong’ and ‘loyal’ prosecutors on Justice chart – U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had ‘not distinguished themselves’ on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-19-07

White House Did not probe Plame leak as promised by Bush – James Knodell, Director of the Office of Security at the White House, revealed that the administration had never launched an internal probe to determine the source for the … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-17-07

Hewlett-Packard Co. executives fraudulently obtained private information from a public utility, accessed computer data without permission and comitted identity theft; now get slap on wrist – Regular citizens would be jailed and fined, rich executives got 96 hours of community … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-13-07

White House Said to Prompt Prosecutor Firings – In a public reversal, the White House has conceded that top administration officials, including President Bush, were directly involved from the outset in the decision late last year to dismiss several U.S. … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-9-07

Republican Congressman Knew of Problems at Walter Reed Hospital But Kept it Quiet – The top Republican who previously chaired the committee that wrote Defense Department budget bills admitted yesterday that he was aware of many problems at the Walter … Continue reading

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Bad Deeds for 3-8-07

Internal Memos Tell US Officials How to Discuss Climate Change – Internal memorandums circulated in the Alaskan division of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service appear to require government biologists or other employees traveling in countries around the Arctic not … Continue reading

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