How the right is wrong

The Top Ten Conservative Myths is well worth reading. Yep, conservativemyths.com is a jem.

Communism is only evil when evil men are in charge. The early Christians were communists. -- "And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every
man had need. -- Acts 2: 44-45

The Media Reform Information Center contains a nice graph of media consolidation over the last thirty years.

MoveOn.org has a nice page with lots of links concerning media ownership.

and then there's 5 conservative economic myths that occupy wall street busts.....and then there's the 5 biggest lies about public schools debunked, also from alternet.
What the heck, we'll go with one more from the same source and be reminded why the rich deserve our contempt.

 

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If you're still undecided

It's good to be king. It's pretty damn being rich too. The rich seem to be getting all the breaks, especially tax breaks. The richer a person is in this country, the more tax breaks they get.
When most people think of taxes, they tend to think about Federal taxes, but in all fifty states the rich are taxed at a lower rate than the poor. It sucks to be poor.

The Republicans often sell themselves as fiscally responsible, but the truth of the matter is that the US economy does statistically better under democratic leadership, take a look.

Now let's take a look at the defict and how party leadership effects that. It's pretty obvious that democrats are better at balancing the books. Check out zfacts too. If you'd like a more academic perspective then try this.

You might want to consider or reconsider positions concerning Unions. Middle class income has an extreamly strong correlation to union membership.  Why would anyone be anti-union, besides wealthy business owners and their managers?

There is new call for global democracy. Common Dreams published an article and linked to the Global Democracy Manifesto which doesn't seem to be able to find much if any public awareness. Peace news also covered the story, but who ever heard of them?

There is the Global Democracy Project that seems to be mostly an African grassrots work and Building Global Democracy, but these organizations....

Middle Class

A Pew Research Study has a great graphic....let's see if I can get it in..... okay, I can't, but check ir out!

There's 84 stats that prove the dicline of the middle class, but you have to make your own mind up about what makes it so...

and go figure, US News gives us figures demonstrating that the decline of a middle class is a first world problem.

We the People of these United States of America recognize the corrupting influence of money in our body politic and acknowledge that our elected representatives are unable to reform a corrupted system of campaign finance that they are beholden to,  and therefore do hereby amend the Constitution of The United States in an attempt to restore integrity to our campaign-finance and election processes by:

establishing publicly financed elections to  abolish any undue influences of monied-special-interests,

to ensure that money is never again confused with and equated to free speech,

abolishing the system of legalized bribery of elected represtentatives known as lobbying.

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The above is one initiative of Integrative Activism, a business designed to promote the common good through,
----establishing a more comprehensive charity system supporting those doing good works

---- the creation and promotion of public education campaigns

Asheville Water

The vultures are trying to strip the flesh from Asheville's infra-structure, the water system in particular. Yep, there's big money to be made by a few at the expense of the many. Fortunately there is a good man working to bring the facts into the light. I hope that we rally together and Save Asheville's Water. Hopefully Tim Moffit won't get the evil gang to void our City charter in an act of vengence or desperation.

Don't Roof Rack Me Bro is a video you ought to watch. ABC, CNN and a bunch of others covered the story, like Cognitive Dissidence....a great site!

It's amazing that the Republicons are supporting Mitt Rob-me and Paul Lying, but hey, they have control of most of the voting machines and they have passed some great voter supression laws. Pennsylvania is an incredible case.  Despite overwhelming evidence that there has never beenone documented case of in person voter fraud and explicit language in the state constitution, the judge upheld the law, crazy.

Ohio is playing dirty too, at least the Republicons....