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.

 

News Media “Bad Barrels” And the Parable of the Frog in Boiling Water

Posted on June 22, 2018 by Andy Hailey

Professor Phillip Zimbardo, who conducted the Stanford Prison experiment in his younger days and has since written about what he’s learned, The Lucifer Effect – Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, coined the phrase “bad barrel.” A bad barrel is … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/something-stinks-when-exit-polls-and-official-counts-dont-match/" target="_blank" title="Media exit polls suggested in 2016 Democrats were going to win ...">Red-shift: Something stinks when exit polls and official counts don’t match</a>
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Fighting the PRIVATIZATION of Publicly Owned Documents Can Be Deadly

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Andy Hailey

While corporate bankers get bailed out with public funds for their greedy mistakes and with Net Neutrality changed to enhance corporate greed, citizens are being arrested for protesting economic, social, racial, and environmental injustices (Poor Peoples Campaign), and gifted children, … Continue reading →

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Implementing the 1980 Koch Platform May Happen With a Consitutional Convention?

Posted on May 27, 2018 by Andy Hailey

Back in 1980, the Koch brothers documented their Libertarian goals when David Koch ran for Vice President by preparing their campaign platform. Below are key “excerpts” from their platform. For contrast, I’ve added [my 2 cents]. “We urge the repeal … Continue reading →

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Privatizing Publicly Funded Resources Abuses Citizens – It Puts Profit Before People

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Andy Hailey

Putting profit before people has led to decades of poisoning our air, our water and our soil. Some of this abuse has resulted from privatization of public resources. Blind allegiance to profit has also led to torturing of gifted individuals … Continue reading →

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More on How We Got Into The DJT Political Swamp – It Has Little to Do With Russia

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Andy Hailey

In 1970, income and wealth inequality were at historical lows. The income tax tables had over 25 brackets with the top marginal rate of 74%. Campaign funding was limited to the presidential campaigns and lobbyists were few and far between. … Continue reading →

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Democracy In Chains – Adding Corporate Veto Power to America’s Checks and Balances

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Andy Hailey

From the last chapter of Democracy In Chains, by Nancy MacLean, here is how the Koch Brothers and their elite Libertarian cadre are increasing their, white, billionaire, veto power over govt and majority rule: 1. By mandatory and ubiquitous Arbitration … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/122645/rehabilitationists-libertarian-movement-undo-new-deal" target="_blank" title="How a small band of determined legal academics set out to persuade the Supreme Court to undo the New Deal—and have almost won" >The Rehabilitationists</a>
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The Libertarian Stealth War On America’s Democracy

Posted on July 2, 2017 by Andy Hailey

After decades of refining his extreme, right-wing, ideas on control by the wealthy, James McGill Buchanan, professor at the University of Virginia and head of his very own Thomas Jefferson Center for Political Economy and Social Philosophy department, joined forces … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2017/5/12/donald_trump_orders_election_integrity_commission" target="_blank" title="Kobach has pushed for the strictest voter identification laws in the country">Donald Trump Orders "Election Integrity" Commission Headed by Architects of Voter Suppression</a>
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A New Costly Cold War?

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Andy Hailey

Are profit-centric media and supporting profit-centric defense contractors promoting a new cold war, via Russian Hack hysteria, and boosting support for more defense spending? Are regime change neocons fanning the flames for a new cold war to remove Putin from … Continue reading →

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Greedy Free Market Fundamentalism is Killing Our Middle Class

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Andy Hailey

What is killing our middle class is the replacement of a more SHARING economic system, which considers all STAKEholders in the economic system, with a free market fundamentalism, or neoliberal economic policies based on maximizing GREED for the few! Greedy … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://hedricksmith.com/books/who-stole-the-american-dream/" target="_blank">Who Stole The American Dream</a>, <a href="http://billmoyers.com/content/%E2%80%AAcapitalism-hits-the-fan-a-lecture-by-richard-wolff-on-the-economic-meltdown%E2%80%AC/" target="_blank">Capitalism Hits the Fan</a>
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Who’s The Real Enemy of Our Democracy? Widdle Donnie Thwimpie or ???

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Andy Hailey

The distraction of Widdle Donnie Thwimpie is all over the news as the worst ever candidate for an American president, while mainstream media ignores the real enemy of our democracy: This should be no surprise. The corporate take over of … Continue reading →

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