There is always a question whether or not to give any kind of attention to the show-off–the kid who acts out in class because he doesn’t get enough attention at home. The kid whom everyone shuns either withdraws into his shell or becomes the one who disrupts things for others. Not necessarily the funny kid, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Media'
Glenn Beck: Clown Prince of Propaganda
October 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Media, Politics
Tags: Fox News Channel·Glenn Beck·Glenn Beck and Right Wing Radio·Glenn Beck biography·Glenn Beck politics·Glenn Beck's Restoring America rally·Neoconservative Glenn Beck
One Nation Rally. October 2, 2010, the National Mall, Washington D.C.
September 30th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism
If you can attend, it is this weekend. It will be the biggest event on the Mall in many years, a very large number of organizations, including the many various state chapters of the Democratic Party will be busing in people to the Mall for this assembly. It is both significant and also important that as [...]
Tags: Democratic Rally in Washington on Oct 2·One Nation March on Washington on Oct 2nd·One Nation Rally. October 2·Progressive Rally in Washington on Oct 2·Union rally in Washington on October 2
The Danger in a Republican Takeover of Government
September 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Lobbying, Media, Politics
It is pretty clear now what is happening. The Republicans, so close to a literal takeover of the government under Bush and Cheney (see Presidential rule # 51) have decided that they will attempt a literal political coup. Some of the statements made by the new Tea Party Republican Senatorial candidates (they are all Republicans) [...]
Tags: Christine O'Donnell·dangerous Neocon Republican Candidates·Joe Miller·Marco Rubio·Neocon Republican coup·Republican Senatorial candidates·Republican takeover of Congress·Sharron Angle·tea party candidates
Attack of the Neocon Obstructionists
September 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Media, Politics, taxes
In Professor Paul Krugman’s blog on the Internet, “Conscience of a Liberal” there are usually a number of very imaginative and often very enlightening comments from very knowledgeable people. It is a learning experience for both those who believe, and those of us who do not believe, in the serious value of economics. Or, as [...]
Tags: economic blog·Krugman·Neocon obstruction techniques·neocon propaganda·New York Times blogs
Politics: Save Yourself First – Part II
September 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes
They will always try to get you with words and slogans. Words and slogans are fun but they aren’t facts. The rich are funding much of the media and a whole host of hidden propaganda machines. And they are creating buzz words to influence your thinking. Two of the key words to watch out for [...]
Tags: austerity·budget deficits·cutting Medicare·cutting social services·Neoconservative politics·Social Security·taxes
Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I
September 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet movement of long, dark-windowed vehicles. They move quietly to centers of activity where bright lights outline the architecture and gowned women and men in expensive suits emerge, smiling and laughing. The [...]
Tags: austerity·billiionaires·Class warfare·Medicare·Neoconservatism·obstructionism·Social Security·tax breaks for the wealthy·taxes·the rich
A Proven 80-year-old Plan for Recovery
September 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Media, Politics, Wall Street
The American People, according to polls, have now floundered their way into a strong majority willing to literally destroy their lives and those of their children. The latest polls show many Right Wing Republicans ahead in the polls. This is beyond stupidity. If the Republicans were advocating a return to moderation, one might think that, [...]
Tags: Beck·economic development·FDR·job creation·jobs·Koch·Murdoch·Neocon obstruction·Neocons·Obama reconstruction plan·the Great Bush Recession·the New Deal
The Grand Illusion, Part II
September 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes
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 [...]
Tags: Americans for Prosperity·Charles Koch·David H. Koch·Dick Armey·FreedomWorks·Glenn Beck·Koch Industries·Neocon rallies·Restoring Honor·tea party
The Grand Illusion
August 30th, 2010 · Comments Off · 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 [...]
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 · Comments Off · 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, jobs, Labor, Media, Politics
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 · Comments Off · 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 · Comments Off · 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 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Science & Technology, taxes, Wall Street
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