Updated Project for Old American Century for 2006

14 Points of Fascism

In his original article, "Fascism Anyone?",  Laurence Britt (interview) compared the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet and  identified 14 characteristics common to those fascist regimes. This page is a collection of news articles dating from the start of the Bush presidency divided into topics relating to each of the 14 points of fascism. Further analysis of American Fascism done by the POAC can be read here

Read the all 14 points at Project for the Old AmericanCentury

Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Was the 2004 Election Stolen
by Robert Kennedy Jr.

Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election watching the returns on television and wondering how the exit polls, which predicted an overwheming victory for John Kerry, had gotten it so wrong. By midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for George Bush -- and the next day, lacking enough evidence to contest the results, Kerry conceded. Republicans derided anyone who expressed doubts about Bush's victory as nut cases in "tin foil hats," while the national media, with few exceptions, did little to question the validity of the election. The Washington Post immediately dismissed allegations of fraud as "conspiracy theories,"(1) and the New York Times declared that "there is no evidence of vote theft or errors on a large scale."(2)

But despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004. Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad(3) never received their ballots -- or received them too late to vote(4) -- after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state of the art Web site used

Indymedia potluck and training!!!
I hope you can come join us for a fun and informative
evening ;)

Save the date June 11 from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at Access
Sacramento, which is located at 4623 T St. in
Sacramento.

The first hour we'll have a Potluck/Networking
Time: Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 6:00pm PST
Get out the votes, because 51% is not enough!
CRANKS AND KOOKS: KERRY WON IN '04 ... HEAR ONE OF THEM--LARRY DAVID--TELL YOU THE STONE-COLD EVIDENCE THAT, YEP, GEORGE BUSH STOLE IT IN 2004. AGAIN.
Armed Madhouse, the new book by Greg Palast: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
THE CON

Kerry Won. Now Get Over It . . .

...because they're putting '08 in their pocket. Republicans just seem to
have that winning spirit. They also have caging lists, felons of the future,
rotting ballots, snuffed canaries, and a lock on the votes of Kissinger-
Americans and the undead.
It's Almost Unanimous
Confessions of a Repentant Republican

"I supported George W. Bush in the presidential election in 2000, believing then that he best reflected my love for America and for our tradition of liberty. I supported the war in Afghanistan. In March of 2003, I believed that the invasion of Iraq was justified based upon pre-war revelations presented to Congress and to the American people. Acordingly, the indictments contained herein apply, first and foremost, to myself.

This Just in to Faux "News"


Coming up after this break, we will have a hard hitting, incisive, probing interview with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. We here at Faux could ask the easy questions - you know - about the torture memos, the Patriot Act, NSA spying - any number of easy subjects which the liberal media would ask. No, we here at Faux, The "Fair and Balanced" network will ask the tough, hard-hitting questions for which we are known ...
El Hechizado (The Bewitched)
El Hechizado Hombre (The Bewitched Man), By Francisco Goya, circa 1798

Democrats Fuming Over Feingold

"'Feingold's grandstanding screwed the pooch and played into Bill Frist's hands,' the aide said. 'Thank God Dems punted this down the field. Frist was going to force Democrats to vote on a resolution Feingold had kept a big secret and he would've split the caucus on an issue that needed time to get the whole caucus to support. Russ Feingold had only one person's interest in mind with his Sunday bombshell, and those were his own. he practically handed a victory to a Bush Whitehouse that desperately needs a win'" ... read more
If Faux "News" Happened to be Around During ...
The Big Bang



The U.S. Revolution

Are Broadcasters Doing Enough to Inform Voters?
How satisfied are you with local television coverage of elections? Are broadcasters doing enough to inform voters? California Common Cause invites you to join a panel discussion and public forum that addresses these questions and more. The event, entitled "How Do We Engage Voters? Television Coverage of the Upcoming 2006 Election," is a free public interest forum to be held on March 9th from 6-9 pm at Sacramento State University, Redwood Room. This unique event will be co-hosted by Sacramento State University, the Institute for the Study of Politics and Media, the Sacramento Media Group of California Common Cause, The Sacramento League of Women Voters, Democracy Matters and Access Sacramento.
Time: Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 5:00pm PST
Sac Bee covers basement "briefing"
Folks,

To my surprise the Saturday 1/21 Bee covered the basement Democratic Domestic Spying "briefing" convened by John Conyers.

It was on the same page as Karl Rove's RNC rantings against Republicans.

Both articles were equal in size, neither written by Bee reporters (so you won't find them at SacBee.com).

I've written the Bee to thank them and encourage them to continue reporting fairly.

I've also written NPR and PBS to slam them for not reporting.

I encourage you to call or write the Bee to continue fair and even reporting. http://www.sacbee.com/static/live/opinion/letters_form.html
Mirror, mirror on the wall ...


... who's the biggest duplicitous, and disengenuous blowhard on TV of them all?

Guess number one
Bush administration annexes internet
Bush administration annexes internet

By Kieren McCarthy (kieren at kmccarthy.eclipse.co.uk)
Published Friday 1st July 2005 10:41 GMT

An extraordinary statement by the US government has sent shockwaves around the internet world and thrown the future of the network into doubt.
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The Russert Watch: Ken Mehlman Gets the E-ZPass Treatment
The Russert Watch: Ken Mehlman Gets the E-ZPass Treatment

06.06.2005 Arianna Huffington

As expected, the latest edition of Meet the Press, featuring RNC chair Ken Mehlman, was another classic example of why host Tim Russert is fast becoming journalism’s answer to the “E-ZPass,” those electronic tags that allow drivers to go through toll booths without having to stop. On the show today, Mehlman was allowed to distort, twist, manipulate, obfuscate and "disassemble" his way through every stop on the disinformation highway.
Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform
"A democracy can die of too many lies"

Television journalist Bill Moyers blasts flag-wearing phonies, reporters who parrot the government line, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's "dangerous" campaign to silence dissenting voices.

Editor's note: This is excerpted from an address given by Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis, Mo., on Sunday. It was broadcast on the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!
A Million-Word March for Media Reform
A Million-Word March for Media Reform

By Danny Schechter
MediaChannel.org

ST. LOUIS, MO., May 15 — Outside the window was the great Arch of Exploration, St. Louis's national monument honoring Thomas Jefferson and his patronage of the Lewis and Clark expedition that mapped out our continent for major change back in the early days of the 18th century.
The American Press