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B of A – Protest Target – 47 Years Ago!

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November 05 – November 11, 2011

Yesterday, it was the Counter Culture.
Today, it’s… all about us.

Est. 1964 Re-Incarnated by Popular Demand

This is the original, 60’s, counter culture, LA Free Press. Today’s Best Alternative View & Our Old Hippie Headlines, Too! A Head Trip for Smart Minds.

Been There. Done That.

Now, A Chance to Get it Right.

November 05 – November 11, 2011

Published throughout the Week

The OWS Movement is not the ‘Arab Spring’, but it may be ‘America’s Salvation’.

The LA Free Press brings a unique perspective to a Movement that may change your life forever…

And Here Is The Documentation Assembled By The Critics Of Cato of The Cato Institute

Part of the “Critiques of Libertarianism” site.
http://world.std.com/~mhuben/libindex.html

Last updated 08/27/10.

The Cato Institute is a “libertarian” quasi-academic think-tank that acts as a mouthpiece for the globalism, corporatism, and neoliberalism of its corporate and conservative funders. There is no significant participation in Cato by its tiny libertarian minority. These libertarians do not fund Cato or affect its goals. Cato is a creature of corporations and foundations.

The major purpose of the Cato Institute is to provide propaganda and soundbites for conservative and libertarian politicians and journalists conveniently free of reference to funders such as tobacco, fossil fuel, investment, media, medical, and other regulated industries.

Cato is one of the most blatant examples of “simulated rationality”, as described in Phil Agre’s The Crisis of Public Reason. Arguments need only be plausibly rational to an uninformed listener. Only a tiny percentage will notice that they are being mislead. That’s all that’s needed to manage public opinion.

Links

A Critical Assessment of “Lies, Damned Lies, & 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths”.

The Cato Institute, heavily funded by tobacco companies, hired Levy and Marimont to denounce statistics about smoking related deaths. This article refutes their key arguments, finding them unscientific and inflammatory.

Media Moguls on Board: Murdoch, Malone and the Cato Institute

An Extra! (the magazine of FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting ) article that describes how media giants use Cato to lobby Congress for corporate welfare and legal monopolization.

Why Privatizing Social Security Would Hurt Women

An Institute For Women’s Policy Research rebuttal to Cato Institute proposals and claims about Social Security privatization.

An Analysis Of The Cato Institute’s “The Case Against a Tennessee Income Tax”
Senate finance panel examines Cato report, recognizes propaganda

Citizens For Tax Justice lay open the shoddy errors behind this typical example of the claims Cato makes. The Tennessee Senate finance panel also identified a large number of other errors.

Who knew? The Swedish model is working.

Paul Krugman points out that CATO and other conservatives were dead wrong in their predictions for Sweden, and that big welfare states do sometimes work well. From The Unofficial Paul Krugman Archive.

Libertarian Think Tanks

Tom Tomorrow’s “This Modern World” gives credit where it is due.

Do Windmills Eat Birds?

David Case, executive editor of TomPaine.com, exposes a quotation out of context by CATO in a case of pretend environmental concern.

Millionaires One and All

(PDF) Details the fallacies underlying the CATO Social Security Calculator. Under realistic assumptions, you’d accumulate 1/10th to 1/30th of what CATO estimates. Part of The Social Security Network.

Rethinking the Think Tanks

Sierra Magazine’s article detailing the corporate financing of anti-environmental propaganda from thinktanks like Cato.

Internet Bunk: The Junk Science Page

The CATO Institute is a corporate front that employs Steven Milloy to tarbrush opponents scientific arguments as “Junk Science”. Robert Todd Carroll’s excellent The Skeptic’s Dictionary details Milloy’s unscientific part in this PR campaign.

Read more…

Yesterday, it was the Counter Culture. Today it’s
********* Tuesday, August 31, 2010 *******
**********More Here @ 3 pm (PST)*****

Est. 1964 Re-Incarnated by Public Demand

This is the original, 60’s, counter culture, LA Free Press. Today’s Best Alternative View & Our Old Hippie Headlines, Too! A Head Trip for Smart Minds.

(This article refers directly to today’s issue of the Los Angeles Free Press. If you have not yet seen it, please, before reading further, click HERE.)

Yesterday, it was the Counter Culture. Today it’s…

all about who’s looking into our life and why, and how we, individually and collectively, have come to say no way, no more.

by Steven M. Finger

Our first day of a new 3-day Series… you thought someone was looking over your shoulder, or invisibly at you right through this computer screen… and you were right.  But, on this side, you’re not alone.  All across this nation, individuals saddled sadly with those same feelings have had enough, have taken to letting the sunshine in to the dark corners – risk or not to what else it might expose of them, or them to – in order to restore their own privacy and the liberties on which this country was founded.

Today we give but a small, small sample of what has been going on.  Tomorrow, more cheerfully, we’ll move to the rising tide of personal protest.

Our point, as usual:  if you know it, so do most of us… the ‘counter’ culture is not coming… it IS here.  Stop waiting, actively seek out and join the protest, you will find the strength in numbers that you’ve been hoping for… rise up, look Big Brother in the face, and tell him, directly “no way, no more”.

And all of  us will be that much happier to you here tomorrow.

Here are the keywords to our thinking today: ACLU, Surveillance Society, Big Brother, Kevin Drum, personal privacy, ATT, Verizon, Art Kunkin, CATO Institute, L.A. Free Press, Los Angeles Free Press, Critiques of Libertarianism, Changing Society, Self-Improvement, Social Change, Society & Culture

Here are links to today’s items:

[1] ACLU Study Highlights U.S. Surveillance Society

[2] Every Click You Make, Big Brother Is Watching You

[3] What if Verizon Could Censor Your Telephone Conversations: Why Net Neutrality Matters

[4] The L.A. Free Press Presents The Two Sides Of The “Libertarian” Cato Institute

[5]  How Big Brother Began

[6] And Here Is The Documentation Assembled By The Critics Of Cato of The Cato Institute

Perpetual motion machine

Tuesday, July 6, 2010 – Here’s what ties all of our articles together today

Today, we start out with a note re: our quintessential holiday, July 4th, and end with a thought about our quintessential way of life – Capitalism.  (Think you will enjoy this last one – demonstrating how easily we accept our thoroughly changed culture – it’s a YouTube presentation.)
In between these two, are new directions taken by both our military and our banks – no change to be made, we are going to go down this road.  And, this next article – on the New York Times – may indicate why an outcry might be muffled.  But that’s not the only reason I included it; I thought it was important – as the author did – to provide an idea of how the establishment’s press figures into steering the thoughts of our fellow citizens.  (It’s one thing to have a day celebrating independence, and quite another to have an independent press.)
Finally, a story of independence converted to dependence and, perhaps, a push in the wrong direction.  There are underwater currents and waterways that these little guys won’t be able to ride on their way out – will that make it impossible for them ever to come back to where they belong?