Category Archives: Corporate Intrusion

Is corporate power being protected to avoid criminal prosecution? Are political campaign funds coming mostly from large corporations and very rich benefactors? Is the government awarding contracts to those corporations that helped during the campaign without using normal government contracting guidelines? Are most of the lobbyists at the seat of the government funded by the corporations and rich benefactors? Are the ears of government leaders going to the highest bidder? When will the Cabinet be expanded to include the Department of Business? Will the requirements for the Cabinet be expanded to include a masters in Business Administration? How far is too far?

Corporate intrusion is the erosion of representative governance through the massive funding from the ONE% (Citizens United) to elect their preferred representatives, vast numbers of corporate lobbyists to deliver daily corporate demands to their representatives, and predatory privatization of, among other public resources, our public education system.

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.

 

Progressives, “Conservatives Without Conscience” and Checks and Balances

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Andy Hailey

Institutions, which humans create, tend to reflect the values of the humans that created/control them. These institutions can be corrupt and harmful or they can do good. The difference is whether the individuals in charge of the institution feel empathy … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik19-2009mar19,0,351773.column" target="_blank" title="With financial crisis and scandal as backdrop, Americans are questioning whether plutocrats are either indispensable or deserving">The belief that the wealthy are worthy is waning</a>
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Bad Deeds for 3-17-2009

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Jim Vogas

CNBC Has Been Doing Public Relations for Wall Street. Time to Fix CNBC! – Financial news networks like CNBC that promoted Wall Street propaganda and then blamed the financial crisis on “losers” who couldn’t make their mortgage payments. Now we’re … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 3-12-2009

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Jim Vogas

To Conservatives, Bipartisanship is Forcing Others to Agree With Them – From the Conservative Political Action Conference, “To us, bipartisanship is them being forced to agree with us, after we have politically cleaned their clocks and beaten them.” Yes, that … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 3-11-2009

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Jim Vogas

Disabled Men Forced into ‘Fight Club’ by Staff at Texas State Facility: Police – Profoundly disabled young men were forced into “fight club” style battles by the people hired to care for them at the Corpus Christi State School, police … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 3-4-2009

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Jim Vogas

Ex-Leaders of Countrywide Financial Profit From Bad Loans – Fairly or not, Countrywide Financial and its top executives would be on most lists of those who share blame for the nation’s economic crisis. After all, the banking behemoth made risky … Continue reading →

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The “Twin Peaks” of Consumer Debt

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Andy Hailey

  HOUSEHOLD DEBT AS A PERCENTAGE OF GDP Household debt: Credit card debt, car loans, personal loans and home mortgages   According to NPR’s Morning Edition, Columbia professor David Beim said this about his chart: The problem is us. The … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.comstockfunds.com/files/NLPP00000%5C177.pdf" target="_blank" title="Data Subject To Revisions By The Federal Reserve Board">Household Debt as a % of GDP from Ned Davis Research, Inc.</a>
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Bad Deeds for 2-27-2009

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Jim Vogas

Big Banks Try to Stop Help for Struggling Homeowners – Big banks, scrambling to prevent the government from forcing them to rewrite mortgages for struggling homeowners, are using their lobbying clout to press the Obama administration and Congress to scale … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 2-25-2009

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Jim Vogas

Joe Barton Too Busy Tweeting to Pay Attention to President’s Speech; Blames It On a Staffer – During President Obama’s address to Congress, there was Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), in whose name this text message was sent at about the … Continue reading →

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Stop Trickling on My Boots and Telling Me It’s Raining

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Andy Shanks

“There’s class warfare, all right but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning,” Warren Buffet, CEO Berkshire Hathaway and third richest man in the United States.    In 2006 Mr. Buffet compiled a spreadsheet on … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 2-17-2009

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Jim Vogas

Conservative Columnist Makes Stuff Up About Global Warming – Syndicated columnist George Will presents only one piece of evidence in his Sunday piece denying global warming — and he gets it wrong. Will writes: As global levels of sea ice … Continue reading →

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