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.

 

Bad Deeds for 4-1-2008

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Jim Vogas

Texas Prosecutes Little Old Ladies for Voter Fraud – Willie Ray was a 69-year-old African-American City Council member from Texarkana who wanted her granddaughter, Jamillah Johnson, to learn about civil rights and voting during the 2004 presidential election. The pair … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 1-18-2008

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Jim Vogas

Mitch McConnell Calls Himself an Environmental Leader While Helping Oil and Gas Companies Generate Dirty Energy – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has received more than half a million dollars in campaign contributions from the oil and gas lobbyists who … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for: 1-17-2008

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Jim Vogas

Charity Paid US Commander $100,000 While Cutting Wounded Veterans Budget – A charity that has been accused of ripping off veterans — and donors — paid a former commander of the United States Armed Forces to endorse it, before he … Continue reading →

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If You Are Not Going to Play By My (Corporate) Rules, I’ll Take My Toys (Business) and Leave

Posted on December 28, 2007 by Andy Hailey

In a recent posting, I pointed out that Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was very concerned for the big oil CEOs while Congress was attempting to increase their tax burden and reduce their profit by 0.6 percent a year over three … Continue reading →

  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=389" target="_blank" title="It should be obvious that with all the power we the people have in this republic, we are also its weakest link. ">The Power of Our Republic - Are We The People Squandering It?</a>
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Senator Kay Bailey-Hutchison – CEOs Are Her Real Concern

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Andy Hailey

In Congress is drilling a dry hole, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison tries to scare us into supporting the poor abused CEOs of the oil industry. I couldn’t resist. I had to send her the following message via her web site. … Continue reading →

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The Power of Our Republic – Are We The People Squandering It?

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Andy Hailey

I believe this nation will only survive as a republic by upholding all the extraordinary and very thoughtful measures our Founding Fathers, of the late 1700s, established in our Constitution. I also believe, as they did, that “we the people” … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers" target="_blank" title="The normal division of branches is into the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial.">Separation of Powers</a>, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/13/k-street-project/" target="_blank" title="If You Don’t Know About the K Street Project, You Don’t Know Jack">The K Street Project</a>
  • Related Web Site: <a href="http://uselectionatlas.org/" target="_blank" title="Also results for governors and senators">David Leip's Atlas of U. S. Presidential Elections</a>
  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.progressiveu.org/011043-the-unitary-executive-s-violation-of-the-separation-of-powers" target="_blank" title="The Bush administrations attempt to acquire nearly unlimited power in the Executive branch is a violation of the Constitution and of the separation of powers principle it is based upon.">The Unitary Executive’s Violation of the Separation of Powers</a>
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Bush Appointees Create Third Class of Worker – And Exempts Them from Union Representation

Posted on October 8, 2006 by Andy Hailey

On October 3, 2006, the five member National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled by a 3 to 2 vote to ‘clarify’ the definition of a ‘supervisor’ to favor employers and oppose employees. The vote had three Bush appointees supporting the … Continue reading →

  • Related NPR Stories: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6193870" target="_blank" title="The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that nurses with certain responsibilities are supervisors, and therefore barred from joining unions">Labor Board Decision May Slash Union Membership</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://edworkforce.house.gov/democrats/pdf/NLRBreport071306.pdf" target="_blank" title="President Bush’s National Labor Relations Board Rolls Back Labor Protections">WORKERS’ RIGHTS UNDER ATTACK BY BUSH ADMINISTRATION</a>
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Meet the “Security-Industrial Complex”

Posted on February 2, 2006 by Andy Hailey

To get an understanding of what this information sharing can mean, watch this visualization of the future under the post 9/11 “security-industrial complex”. Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/10/1545230" target="_blank" title="More than ever before, the details about our lives are no longer our own.">Democracy Now! review</a>, <a href="http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3731" target="_blank" title="More on Choice Point"> Webcast (Library of Congress)</a>
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More Corporate Failure – And a Win for Labor?

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Andy Hailey

In Has America’s Greatest Generation Begat The Failure Generation?, I summarized the introduction to “The Rise of the Rogue Executive,” where the authors point out, “Business scandals are just another part of the stream of daily news that is full … Continue reading →

  • Recent NPR Story: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5056527" target="_blank" title=""December 16, 2005 · In Los Angeles, a federal grand jury has handed down an indictment to Ralph's supermarket chain.>Ralph's Supermarkets Charged in Labor Dispute</a>
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Bush Cronies – The End of the Federal Government as we know it?

Posted on October 19, 2005 by Andy Hailey

This new commission will decide what federal agencies should be eliminated for ‘not producing results’ and only an act of Congress can cancel a majority decision of the commission. Continue reading →

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