Monday, July 23, 2012
Rachel's "Gang Stalking 2010" (Videos) - JeffPolachek.com
Rachel's "Gang Stalking 2010" (Videos) - JeffPolachek.com: "Rachel's "Gang Stalking 2010" (Videos)
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Rachel's "Gang Stalking 2010" (Videos)
Spy Files | American Civil Liberties Union
Spy Files | American Civil Liberties Union
Today the government is spying on Americans in ways the founders of our country never could have imagined. The FBI, federal intelligence agencies, themilitary, state and local police, private companies, and even firemen and emergency medical technicians are gathering incredible amounts of personal information about ordinary Americans that can be used to construct vast dossiers that can be widely shared with a simple mouse-click through new institutions likeJoint Terrorism Task Forces, fusion centers, and public-private partnerships. The fear of terrorism has led to a new era of overzealous police intelligence activity directed, as in the past, against political activists, racial and religious minorities, and immigrants.
This surveillance activity is not directed solely at suspected terrorists and criminals. It's directed at all of us. Increasingly, the government is engaged in suspicionless surveillance that vacuums up and tracks sensitive information about innocent people. Even more disturbingly, as the government's surveillance powers have grown more intrusive and more powerful, the restrictions on many of those powers have been weakened or eliminated. And this surveillance often takes place in secret, with little or no oversight by the courts, by legislatures, or by the public.
Right Wingers Are More of a Threat to Gun Owners Than Liberals
Right Wingers Are More of a Threat to Gun Owners Than Liberals
Conservative bloggers were riled about the gun ban at the Aurora CO theater where the shooting tragedy occurred.
It turned out that presidential hopeful, Mit Romney's Baine capital management owned the movie theater and are the management who put the gun ban in place.
Conservative bloggers were riled about the gun ban at the Aurora CO theater where the shooting tragedy occurred.
It turned out that presidential hopeful, Mit Romney's Baine capital management owned the movie theater and are the management who put the gun ban in place.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Hardball: Former Senate candidate pledges allegiance to alternative gov.
Here is a new congressional hopeful abandoning the republicans for the
ALT American party. She is now too far right for the Republicans.
I didn't know that was possible. Republicans are getting weird.
This is why the Tea Party really is too weird for America and their
offbeat stance on issues is not a passing phase.
ALT American party. She is now too far right for the Republicans.
I didn't know that was possible. Republicans are getting weird.
This is why the Tea Party really is too weird for America and their
offbeat stance on issues is not a passing phase.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Weimar America: Four Major Ways We're Following In Germany's Fascist Footsteps | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
Weimar America: Four Major Ways We're Following In Germany's Fascist Footsteps | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
Weimar America: Four Major Ways We're Following In Germany's Fascist Footsteps
July 5, 2012 |
Photo Credit: Bill Barber
Most Americans have never heard of the Weimar Republic, Germany's democratic interlude between World War I and World War II. Those who have usually see it as a prologue to the horrors of Nazi Germany, an unstable transition between imperialism and fascism. In this view, Hitler's rise to power is treated as an inevitable outcome of the Great Depression, rather than the result of a decision by right-wing politicians to make him chancellor in early 1933.
Historians reject teleological approaches to studying the past. No outcome is inevitable, even if some are more likely than others. Rather than looking for predictable outcomes, we ought to be looking to the past to understand how systems operate, especially liberal capitalist democracies. In that sense, Weimar Germany holds many useful lessons for contemporary Americans. In particular, there are four major points of similarity between Weimar Germany and Weimar America worth examining.
1. Austerity. Today's German leaders preach the virtues of austerity. They justify their opposition to the inflationary, growth-creating policies that Europe desperately needs by pointing to the hyperinflation that occurred in 1923, and became one of the most enduring memories of the Weimar Republic. Yet the austerity policies enacted after the onset of the Depression produced the worst of Germany's economic crisis, while also destabilizing the country's politics. Cuts to wages, benefits and public programs dramatically worsened unemployment, hunger and suffering.
So far, austerity in America has largely taken place at the state and local levels. However, the federal government is now working on undemocratic national austerity plans, in the form of so-called "trigger cuts" slated to take effect at the end of 2012. In addition, there's the Bowles-Simpson austerity plan to slash Medicare and SocialSecurity benefits along with a host of other public programs; and the Ryan Budget, a blueprint for widespread federal austerity should the Republicans win control of the Congress and the White House in November.
But it was also Germany in 1932.
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