Historical Background:

NY Times: In Nixon’s Tricks, Rove’s Roots and a Blueprint for Bush

Bush's Brain - A Documentary About Karl Rove

Salon: Creepier than Nixon - The man who brought down Richard Nixon says Bush and "co-president" Cheney are an even greater threat to the country.

40th Anniversary of Nixon's Resignation - Stephen commemorates the many achievements of his favorite non-Reagan president, Richard Nixon: 

A Nation Betrayed - A Fond Look Back: '74 - Stephen revisits the events surrounding the Watergate hearings and shares a seldom-heard clip from the infamous Nixon tapes: 

Interviews Stephen did with a couple of the players of the Nixonian Era:

Pat Buchanan - "The Greatest Comeback" author Pat Buchanan offers a firsthand account of President Nixon's handling of the Watergate scandal. (Part 2 of this interview ishere)

John W. Dean - "The Nixon Defense" author John W. Dean discusses the extent of President Nixon's knowledge of the Watergate break-in and ensuing cover-up.

A look at the strange hypocrisy going on at Karl Rove's Fox "News", a truly Nixonian channel...

Daily Show Expose: Right-wing pundits warn that President Obama's use of executive privilege signals a lawless dictatorship, unlike the multiple executive privileges exercised by President Bush: 

Dick Cheney knew Iraq would be a quagmire (& it would fall apart if invaded to topple Saddam) in 1994. So his own words prove him to be a liar...

"Hubris" (Full Film) Iraq War Documentary - Rachel Maddow (02-18-2013): 

BREAKING:

FOX NEWS IS CONTROLLED BY AN OLIGARCH WHOSE ASSOCIATES ARE BEING INVESTIGATED AND BEING CHARGED WITH CRIMES BUT ONLY BY AUTHORITIES OUTSIDE THE US BECAUSE THEY ARE NOW REALLY IN CONTROL OF THE US!!!  ...

Most recently Rupert Murdoch's close family friend was charged with perjury...

Rebekah Brooks...has an interesting history with Murdoch...

In March 2003 she courted controversy -- and hinted at the scandal to come -- when, appearing before a government committee, she admitted that her paper had paid police officers for information. Brooks held the Sun post until 2009 when she was handpicked for the role of News International chief executive by the paper's owner, media magnate Rupert Murdoch.

The pair had been close for many years: Murdoch is said to treat Brooks like a daughter.

Background: THE CASE FOR ENDING FOREIGN AID TO ISRAEL 1

Breaking News:

Gruesome Tales Surface of Israeli Massacres Against Families in Gaza Neighborhood
Visiting what remains of Shujaiya yields evidence of massacres and stories of impossible courage.

Open Letter to Israel’s Supporters: Where Do You Draw the Line Between 'Defense' and Atrocities?
As a human being, where do you draw the line?

Introduction to the current state of the Israel - Gaza "debate:...

Jon tries to have a calm discussion about Israel's ground offensive in the Gaza Strip;

Some people would argue that people shouldn't use words such as Genocide for what Israel is doing. A person might respond 'Read the constitution' (1st Amendment). Which I agree with but the point isn't the RIGHT to use the word Genocide but whether use of this word is accurate or not.

If Israel was NOT occupying the land AND was working towards a peace settlement and were JUST responding to provocation then that is one thing, but by occupying the people & keeping them imprisoned and legally unarmed (allowing only terrorists access to weapons through smuggling) while continuously building settlements ... what they are pursuing is a policy of restriction, like we did with the Native Americans sending them to "reservations", Genocide will, ultimately, be the result. You can't restrict a people build settlements, kill their families and not expect a backlash to which you respond by killing even more people. We already did this with the Native Americans and nowadays seeing a full blooded Native is like being at a zoo. What we did was Genocide. What the Israelis are doing is following in our footsteps and what we are doing is funding them making us, at least partly, responsible to the Genocide of a people which is stretching out of decades as outright massacres seemed to be frowned upon.

Well, frowned upon till recently. With the GOP's media clout the Israeli's have managed to get away with massacres more and more frequently. At the very least we should revoke aid to Israel in protest of thier actions.

Note 1: There are a few individuals in the media that have integrity and, apparently, the freedom to report a large chuck of the events unfolding around us. But these few exceptions simply prove the rule. A few voices here and there can be drowned out (& often is) in a cacophony of voices parroting the weeks talking points.

Note 2: None of these people of integrity are on Fox News. Half truths can be just as harmful as outright lies.

Note 3: There may be more going on than meets the eye... George W. Bush to Raise Money for Group That Converts Jews to Bring About Second Coming of Christ

Satirical Expose Of The Pushback From The Neo-Con Media Channel (Fox News): The Conflict Over Covering the Conflict in Gaza - Members of the media face accusations of bias from both sides of the Israel-Palestine debate, prompting a group to create a glossary of words for reporters to avoid. (6:04)... 

Thoughts:

It probably began withRonald Reagan's executive order (12333) allowing the NSA to collect whatever information it likes which we learned about more recently under Obama with Snowden's "betrayal" which revealed nothing that any political historian didn't already know. Whatever actions were taken in the 1980's forever altered the landscape of American Democracy. FromReagan's criminal subterfuge to his funding death squads in South America (GOP sponsored Genocide), the Constitution was shattered and this was more or less, left uncovered by the media, betraying it's trust of the public, doing what it is specifically NOT supposed to do, i.e.believing the words of politicians while ignoring their actions. By the time Bill Clinton came along the GOP conservatives had destroyed the constitution and were busy unraveling all regulations that could restrict powerful and rich people from stealing and getting away with it. Bill Clinton took part in this by the advice by his master Alan Greenspan who was smart enough to be out of office when the results of his actions began to take proper effect. 

To increase the level of their betrayal the GOP created Fox News to be their propaganda tool. They also consolidated all mainstream media channels by putting GOP members (even actual Senators! Making the creation of news for public consumption and 'doing the American peoples will' a joke) on it's board circumventing anti-monopoly laws (Links: CNN's parent company board - MSNBC seems to just have a plant or two or three), with conservatives posing as liberals and by silencing anti-GOP policy positions where appropriate (done under the GOP administration). The most interesting result of this manipulation is that although acts are being committed with the acceptance with approximately 50-65% of the population, this implicit permission of the people would not exist if the truth were told. Thus we are witnesses to the spectacle of the very rich thieves who are in a sort of public acceptance that the US is a sort of Oligarchy that takes actions for selfish interests and that's OK (all those of a tyrannical mind think like this due to a lack of empathy). So we get little treats of what the "upper echelons"  of society think when people like Alan Greenspan come out and say bluntly, in a carefully outline autobiography, that the Iraq Invasion was for oil. After he wrote, checked, printed and marketed his autobiography his allies - Dick Cheney & the Neo Cons - made him retract his statement (kinda)... and THAT is good news. Although these people are intentionally stealing and/or profiteering using the armed forces, they can't get away with it if the truth comes out. Right now the GOP are hanging on by a thread with their entire strategy relying on the fact that they have createda cult of people who only listen to their media outlets. If that changes they are done for in a bad way. (Ironically, because of their tendency to believe thier leaders like preachers, the people who are religious and are most concerned with truth and honesty are also the worst citizens for a Democracy to have because of how easily thier leaders can manipulate them. Deep religious fervor in politics & genocide seem to go hand and hand. A little skepticism can go a long way.) 
 
Anyways, right now the neo-cons have created such an alternate reality from what's on the ground in Israel and Gaza that we are literally funding an occupation of an innocent majority for the actions of a few which Israel itself have created with their policy of settlement. The outcome of such a policy is JUST Genocide nothing else. We have out own damn history to prove this, for gods sake! 

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THE CASE FOR ENDING FOREIGN AID TO ISRAEL 1

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The GOP & It's Lying Media Wing (Fox News) EXPOSED

Introduction To The Class Warfare Being Waged by The GOP & Fox News On America

Koch Brothers Own A Stake In The Keystone XL Pipeline THAT's Why Fox News is Promoting It!

Previous post that explains this one:  Fox News Has Made Lying It's Main Political Strategy As They Have No Accountability

"Let the record show that on January 16, 2012, the good people of South Carolina booed the Golden Rule." ― Jon Stewart... 

Rumors of The Pope's Secret Life: Reports surface that Pope Francis has been secretly sneaking out at night to help the homeless.  (02:12)...  

Articles:

Pope Francis: Capitalism is “a new tyranny”: "The culture of prosperity deadens us," the pope writes in a document laying out the platform for his papacy

How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion. Can we continue to stand by when food is thrown away while people are starving? This is a case of inequality. Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.

In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting.


POPE FRANCIS’S CHALLENGE TO GLOBAL CAPITALISM
A week after Pope Francis released his first papal exhortation, the innocuously named “Joy of the Gospel,” it is still causing ruptures. Rush Limbaugh dismissed it as “pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the Pope.” At least one Roman Catholic group demanded that Limbaughapologize and retract his remarks, but that seems unlikely. And meanwhile, some conservative economic commentators, while stopping short of echoing Limbaugh’s words, have accused the Pope of misrepresenting global capitalism, and ignoring its role in wealth creation.

Daily Show: The CBO Report - There's only one small problem with Fox News's apocalyptic, CBO report-based predictions.  (02:33):  (Hint: It's wrong. Outright lies would be even more accurate... but calling them liars is apparently not nice!) 

Daily Show: Terror on Bulls#%t Mountain - The residents of Bulls**t Mountain champion the same "job lock" they once railed against.  (02:01):  

Notice at 1:27 into the video the Fox News anchor calls Health Insurance "Free Health Care"... either they are so clueless they don't know what insurance is or they are lying to create hysteria which can ONLY work if thier audience ONLY watches them... and if they are lying then they are doing thier viewers a great disservice and if they ever find out there will be hell to pay. 

Note: If they are talking about the Medicaid increase to help the poorest of families... I'm just speechless. And they call themselves Christian!

Daily Show: Terror on Bulls#%t Mountain - Family First - Family comes first with conservatives, except when it goes up against capitalism.  (03:54):

It's obvious from the above video that the GOP and Fox News don't care about America or Americans or American Families... just attacking Obama... LOSERS.

Note: BTW, notice how the GOP is using 'fine words' to manipulate people while doing the opposite (as in the below video)...   so they are a real life Despotism/Tyranny/Fascist channel and should be observed to understand how these sort of groups are formed (it also indicates that the House is a despotic branch of Government - will explain in more detail later)

Despotism explained by Encyclopedia Britannica: