Part II — Who is telling all those lies…and why?
They met on the mall in Washington, that renowned place for great assemblies. They were baby-boomers and beyond and overwhelmingly white. (Maybe when you call a Liberal African-American President, raised by white grandparents a ‘racist” as Glenn Beck did, you may turn away people of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Media'
The Grand Illusion
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Lobbying, Media, Politics
Part I – Looming disaster and how we got here
The Tea Party Movement is neither a movement nor has it anything to do with the traditions of freedom represented by the American Revolution. It is in fact, ironically, about the impulse of an uneducated and badly led society to permit the restriction of its own [...]
Tags: Americans for Prosperity·Dick Armey·FreedomWorks·Glenn Beck·Koch Industries·neocon·Neocons·tea party·tea party rallies·tea party rally
Restoring Honor? How About Restoring Sanity?
August 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Media, Politics, Wall Street
It is probably not a good idea to give any publicity to this inane plan of Glenn Beck’s to hold a “Restoring Honor” meeting at the Washington Mall but it is an appropriate starting point.
Glenn Beck is probably the most vocal and radical–some, many, say crazy–commentator on the Obama Administration’s policies. He literally has [...]
Tags: Glenn Beck·Neocon Republican rally·Restoring Honor·Tea Party Washington rally·Washington rally
Creating Jobs in the United States
August 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Labor, Media, Politics, jobs
There are several problems with the current jobs situation and those are in addition to the fact that one out of approximately 8 people you see walking down the street is either unemployed or has only a part-time job. Of course, for some people, the idea of a part-time job is difficult to imagine, as [...]
Tags: Bush Free Trade and Employment policies·IT·jobs·Neocon outsourcing policies·outsourcing jobs to foreign workers·outsourcing to India and China in 2010
Disciples of Fear
August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Media, Politics
Beware of the Age of Fear.
Not the dark, unreasoning fear, the fear of the unknown, the fear of poverty, destitution and calamitous disaster. No, not that fear. Not even one, all-encompassing fear—not the phobic kind of fear that paralyzes every movement.
No…we are not talking about that age-old, traditional fear…the fear of hell fire [...]
Tags: fear·Neocon fear mongering·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservatives spreading fear
The Rich Are Winning
August 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, Media, Politics
When we look at the past year and a half since President Obama and his staff have come to office, we can only shake our heads and wonder.
We wonder whether the United States of America is headed for its final hour, for an era of disgrace and shame and stupidity beyond the fall of [...]
Tags: Neocon oligarchs·Plutocracy·tax policy·the economy·the top one percent of income earners
The “R” Word
August 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Human Rights, Media, Politics, Populism
In 1917, after generations of serfdom, oppression, starvation and genocide, the people of Czarist Russia took matters into their own hands. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, transported through Eastern Europe into Russia on a sealed train brought the remedy to the problems of all the peasants…organization and force. He brought a system of organization to establish a [...]
The Neocons
August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Science & Technology, Wall Street, taxes
When the current American Right Wing propaganda machine heats up it is very difficult to sift through the lies and the deliberate distractions to go directly to the facts. There are a dozen obfuscations along the way. And not merely for the overview of the last ten years, but for each single affront to American [...]
Tags: Karl Rove·Neocon politics·the Neconservative movement·the Neoconservative political theory·The Neoconservative Republican Party·the Neoconservatives·the Tea Party
The Current Common Wisdom Is Wrong
July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Wall Street, jobs
We often refer to the “common wisdom” in society, the general knowledge passed on by word of mouth locally, regionally and eventually expressed in print or on television…and after which people say…oh, yeah, that makes sense.
The fact is that the common wisdom often works because the underlying rules are pretty clear in most situations. [...]
Tags: common wisdom on the economy·cutbacks in social programs·economic austerity·Economics·Neocons obstructing the economy·stimulating the economy·stimulus
Wall Street Journal: Unemployment Benefits Are Bad for America
July 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics, Wall Street
In a recent article entitled “Stimulating Unemployment” the Wall Street Journal inadvertently showed its true colors. Black. They would like us all to wear black as a symbol of the death of the Middle Class which they are applauding and encouraging at every turn.
It is quite (more than) probable that it is the work [...]
Tags: Conservative obstructionism·Fox News Channel·jobs·Ruper Murdoch·the Wall Street Journal·unemployment benefits·unemployment insurance
Net Neutrality–Free Speech on the Internet
July 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Courts and the Law, Economics, Media, Politics, Science & Technology
Someone asked recently, “What can I do?” when it comes to issues of political and economic power being used as a wedge or leverage against the average American.
Sometimes there is very little anyone can do. For instance, the Supreme Court recently made several rulings setting back established law 60 or 70 years. It [...]
Tags: communications over the Internet·FCC·freedom of speech·net neutrality·Telecom lobbying·the Internet
Expansion, Not Austerity
July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Human Rights, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Wall Street, jobs, taxes, wars and militarism
We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with tax cuts for the rich, while continuing Republican spending and starting two wars.
Of course, it is an absurd idea that we must all gather in hushed tones around former Reagan-Republican [...]
Tags: Corporatism·neocon·Neocons·obstruction of unemployment benefits·Scott Brown·the Neocon Party·the Peterson-Pew Commission·unemployment benefits
The Disturbing Nonsense of the Powerful Right Wing Media
June 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Entertainment, Media, Politics
The Right Wing media has an overwhelming advantage over the commentary that comes from the Left. First of all, 90% of all radio programming that involves commentary is Right Wing commentary. That is, factually, 91% of all radio talk programming or commentary is identified as conservative talk radio. They don’t try to hide that [...]
Tags: Corporatist media. Right Wing media networks·Fox News Channel·Neoconservative propaganda·Right wing media·Right Wing radio
Budget Cuts–Coming After Your Social Security
June 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Economics, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Wall Street, jobs, taxes, wars and militarism
It is time to pay attention to the Peterson Commission. And you had better pay attention and tell your friends and have them tell their friends. Because the Peterson Commission is coming to get your Social Security. Not yours…yours. Yes, you there, the relatively young person who is about to start gathering funds to retire.
Unless [...]
Tags: budget deficits·government cost-cutting·the economy·the Great Recession·the Peterson-Pew Commission·The Presdent's Commission on Reducing the Federal Budget Deficit
“Please, Sir, May I Have Another!”
June 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Lobbying, Media, Politics, jobs, taxes
The Republicans in Congress have their paddles out and are ready, if we let them, to make us walk the line again, while the Neocon frat boys in the Chamber of Commerce, in Congress and on Wall Street deliver a good spanking like the one they handed the country in 2007-2008.
Yes, these cartoon [...]
Tags: Corporatism·jobs·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·political gamesmanship·Right Wing obstruction·tax cuts·unemployment insurance