Monday, March 08, 2004
There they go again
Pining for the good old days; the "traditional" values our current corporatist robber baron conservatives adore:
Casual related reading: past and present.
(note: Los Angeles Times articles cited below are mirror linked. No subscription required.)
1- Envoy Had Been a Target Before his CIA wife’s cover was blown, White House directed efforts to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV. By Tom Brune, [Newsday] LINK
2- Political Bargains. By Sam Uretsky [Progressive Populist]: "When the UN measured the efficiency of health care distribution programs, the US finished behind Costa Rica, and in a statistical dead heat with Slovenia." ~ LINK
3- Bush Campaign Ads Brought to You by Special Interests; Industries That Give to Bush Get Their Money’s Worth. [Public Citizen] LINK
4- The Collapse of the Middle Class by Representative Bernie Sanders (VT) [Common Dreams] LINK
5- Black Box Voting.org - LINK
5A- Black Box Votes: Blog on issues of black box voting. - LINK
6- Trip With Cheney Puts Ethics Spotlight on Scalia
Friends; hunt ducks together, even as the justice is set to hear the Vice President's case. By David G. Savage [Los Angeles Times] LINK
7- Pick Up Your Swords -- It's Time To Slay the Corporate-Media Beast. By Rick Mercier [Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Virginia)] LINK
8- Supreme Court Justice Scalia Bans Media From 'Free Speech' Event [Associated Press] LINK
9- White House Silenced Experts Who Questioned Iraq Intel Info Six Months Before War. By Jason Leopold [Common Dreams] LINK
10- Coming Soon to a Town Near You and You and ... Kudzu-like Expansion of Wal-Mart Transforms Rural Life, Landscape. By Jean Marbella [Baltimore Sun] LINK
11- Settlement With Predatory Lender Cheats Borrowers a Second Time. [Public Citizen] LINK
12- Just Like Russia - RURAL ROUTES | by Margot Ford McMillen [Progressive Populist]: "The guys who inherit wealth and land get big government handouts in the form of loans, rebates and subsidies." ~ LINK
13- Nation of Hypocrites on Labor Rights; The U.S. has no Reason to be Proud of how it Treats its Workers, who often are Denied Gains they Won Long Ago. By Julius Getman and F. Ray Marshall [Los Angeles Times] LINK
14- Human Rights Are Dying on the Vine. By Eric Schlosser [Los Angeles Times] LINK
15- Minimum Wages and the Human Commodity. By John Buell [Common Dreams] LINK
The fruits of of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build colossal fortunes
16- As Economy Gains, Outsourcing Surges. By Hiawatha Bray [Boston Globe]: "At the call center where Mancenon works, the company sends workers through "Amspeak" training courses. The schooling seeks to purge workers' voices of "foreign" accents and familiarize them with the latest American slang." ~ LINK
17- Too Much in the Hands of Too Few. By Carol Goar [Toronto Star]: "PLUTOCRACY IS one of those words that seems to belong to a bygone era." ~ LINK
robber baron - n. 1. One of the American industrial or financial magnates of the latter 19th century who became wealthy by unethical means, such as questionable stock-market operations and exploitation of labor. 2. A feudal lord who robbed travelers passing through his domain.*
*definition: American Heritage Dictionary
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We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized...The newspapers are subsidized or muzzled; public opinion silenced; business prostrate, our homes covered with mortgages, labor impovershed, and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists. The urban workman are denied the right of organization for self-protection; imported pauperized labor beats down their wages;... The fruits of of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build colossal fortunes...From the same prolific womb of government injustice we breed two classes - paupers and millionaires. ~ Ignatius Donnelly - St. Louis, Missouri ~ 1892
Casual related reading: past and present.
(note: Los Angeles Times articles cited below are mirror linked. No subscription required.)
1- Envoy Had Been a Target Before his CIA wife’s cover was blown, White House directed efforts to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV. By Tom Brune, [Newsday] LINK
2- Political Bargains. By Sam Uretsky [Progressive Populist]: "When the UN measured the efficiency of health care distribution programs, the US finished behind Costa Rica, and in a statistical dead heat with Slovenia." ~ LINK
3- Bush Campaign Ads Brought to You by Special Interests; Industries That Give to Bush Get Their Money’s Worth. [Public Citizen] LINK
4- The Collapse of the Middle Class by Representative Bernie Sanders (VT) [Common Dreams] LINK
5- Black Box Voting.org - LINK
5A- Black Box Votes: Blog on issues of black box voting. - LINK
6- Trip With Cheney Puts Ethics Spotlight on Scalia
Friends; hunt ducks together, even as the justice is set to hear the Vice President's case. By David G. Savage [Los Angeles Times] LINK
7- Pick Up Your Swords -- It's Time To Slay the Corporate-Media Beast. By Rick Mercier [Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Virginia)] LINK
8- Supreme Court Justice Scalia Bans Media From 'Free Speech' Event [Associated Press] LINK
9- White House Silenced Experts Who Questioned Iraq Intel Info Six Months Before War. By Jason Leopold [Common Dreams] LINK
10- Coming Soon to a Town Near You and You and ... Kudzu-like Expansion of Wal-Mart Transforms Rural Life, Landscape. By Jean Marbella [Baltimore Sun] LINK
11- Settlement With Predatory Lender Cheats Borrowers a Second Time. [Public Citizen] LINK
12- Just Like Russia - RURAL ROUTES | by Margot Ford McMillen [Progressive Populist]: "The guys who inherit wealth and land get big government handouts in the form of loans, rebates and subsidies." ~ LINK
13- Nation of Hypocrites on Labor Rights; The U.S. has no Reason to be Proud of how it Treats its Workers, who often are Denied Gains they Won Long Ago. By Julius Getman and F. Ray Marshall [Los Angeles Times] LINK
14- Human Rights Are Dying on the Vine. By Eric Schlosser [Los Angeles Times] LINK
15- Minimum Wages and the Human Commodity. By John Buell [Common Dreams] LINK
The fruits of of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build colossal fortunes
16- As Economy Gains, Outsourcing Surges. By Hiawatha Bray [Boston Globe]: "At the call center where Mancenon works, the company sends workers through "Amspeak" training courses. The schooling seeks to purge workers' voices of "foreign" accents and familiarize them with the latest American slang." ~ LINK
17- Too Much in the Hands of Too Few. By Carol Goar [Toronto Star]: "PLUTOCRACY IS one of those words that seems to belong to a bygone era." ~ LINK
robber baron - n. 1. One of the American industrial or financial magnates of the latter 19th century who became wealthy by unethical means, such as questionable stock-market operations and exploitation of labor. 2. A feudal lord who robbed travelers passing through his domain.**definition: American Heritage Dictionary
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