This morning it occurred to me that maybe a good way of countering a lot of the Republican't candidate ads would be to use reverse psychology. Such as, "I have done exhaustive research and I can safely say I can find no evidence that my opponent is an idiot." or "Contrary to the opinion of many there is no provable direct relationship between my opponent and the massive amounts of corporate money."

Does anyone here think I have something, or do you believe in moon monkeys from mars?

Please reply yes or no to the first part of the question only. ;-)

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Every step of the way, I remember that Salon's Glenn Greenwald joined Jonathan Turley in endorsing Citizens United. Moreover, Greenwald went much further. He sneered at his readers, whose comments were nearly 100% negative on his article. He said they disagreed with even the dissenting votes, which he interpreted as accepting both the personhood of corporations and the speech quality of spending money. He then added that it was not important if money was corrupting or even destroying electoral democracy - because he was, unlike his readers, a "First Amendment absolutist." However, he hypocritically does not endorse rolling back the various laws against campaigning within 100 feet of a polling place on Election Day. Those laws clearly limit all forms of speech - talking, pamphleting, you name it - and they're exclusively to protect the integrity of elections. But they're harder to obfuscate about.

Greenwald also said the Citzens United case would probably not have much effect on elections - that Salon's readers were hysterical about that, in addition to that being a moot issue, since elections are not a right, but spending on them is.

To sum up: his facts were wrong. His prediction was wrong. His argument was dishonest and hypocritical. And people still suck up to him (as they do to Turley). It's not just the Supreme Court we have issues with.

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... was up til 3 last night reading The Halliburton Agenda by Dan Briody (author of The Iron Triangle).
Nightmarish reading. KBR, Halliburton subsidiary has a diabolical, criminal, very political, century-long history that travels the globe -- from underground in Libya, to the route of the planned Caspian Sea Pipeline through the Balkans, fond retreat of certain schemers. Couldn't sleep at all after reading that the company that just destroyed one quarter of our nation's coastline and life-source waters was paid a king's ransom in unaccounted for money to drill to the earth's core and sample the magma there --- ! ! ! Now there is a blow-out. Wretched greed, when will thy thrist be quenched? When will you respect the gift of Life and the Planet we all live together on? We Americans are simply pawns. Will our few remaining trustworthy leaders not stop the lock-step march of the Endless War & Hate machine in time?

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Ditto!!! Well stated. Greed has no conscience.

Why are liberal-minded people surprised that the country is moving farther and farther to the right? Information (and by consequence, truth) is a commodity. He who controls the commodity, controls the "truth."

Premise #1: Nearly all of the information we use to form our opinions about public policy comes to us via some form of news media (radio, internet, television). This information has already been filtered, processed, and packaged. Essentially, you get someone else's interpretation of a "news" event.

Premise #2: Nearly every forum for distributing information runs with the same goal in mind: to make a profit (even this one). Thus, money impacts (directly or indirectly) the presentation of news. The larger the news outlet, the greater the impact of financial pressures.

Conclusion: The ultimate source of information is whomever is paying the bills.

We live in a highly caffeinated, internet-speed society. Most people don't want to spend two hours a day investigating the ultimate veracity of "news." If you package something the right way to the right people, they will accept it.

That's how the conservative right can persuade people--the same people who should logically be their sworn enemies--that they actually represent them. Why do you think corporations like Verizon and Proctor & Gamble spend BILLIONS of dollars a year on advertising? Because it's effective!!

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All I can say is buy-local and shift the balance in your area, but WE as a small subset who only purchase local sustainable meat is not large enough to tip the balance...we need governmental break ups of these companies and the business in general.

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