"I get up every morning and I try and figure out how to screw with the labor unions."

[midnight]

If you wondered how more and more middle class slip into poverty-read more.

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/10/12646/rick-berman-exposed-new-audio-detailing-tactics-against-environment

[yeoman6987]

1. Disappointing. I thought it was Walker.

I really did. What a commercial possibility for the Democratic Nominee.....but alas it wasn't Walker. Drat!

[midnight]

11. Mr. Walker most likely received his speaking points at this lecture.

[tblue37]

16. My first thought, too. nt

[n2doc]

20. Walker doesn't do any independent scheming

He waits for his orders.

[Sherman A1]

2. What a charming individual

[czarjak]

3. Work for a living and vote republican....

True definition of insanity.

[midnight]

12. I agree. Teaching the history of labor is an important part of economics.

[MisterP]

13. so if someone’s spending their energy and political capital to break SS and Medicare, pass the TPP,

maintain H1B visas, increase military spending, fracking, and has already had the next taxpayer bailout of Wall Street gamblers passed, we shouldn't vote for them, correct?

[blkmusclmachine]

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[Bill USA]

5. great post, great intelligence. Recommend 100x, bookmarked.

... this one's a 'keeper'. I recommend to everybody to have a place (hard drive, flash drive, Word file, personal web-site) to save really good articles. You can use them in the future when you get into 'discussions' with Cons on the internet.


I have a website (free on Google's hosting service) solely to save links andor copies of good articles which I can use later in 'discussions' with Conservatives. I recommend this to everybody. Even the very good articles it's easy to forget 'who said it' or who wrote it so you can find it again using Google search.

It really helps in the heat of battle to be able to quote an article (especially one which has inside info andor is written by a former GOP insider who gave it up and tell's all (e.g. David Brock, Mike Lofgren, Bruce Bartlett).

[F4lconF16]

8. +1000. Back up everything, every time. Eventually it will be lost.

Everytime I bookmark an article, it gets put into a queue. The links in the queue are then sorted on a weekly basis into different subjects, types of pages, etc. I then go to the sites, save the entire webpage as a .pdf file (and any necessary links from that page as well).

The PDFs are then titled and filed into an external hard drive that also is backed up to cloud storage once a month. Everything is kept neat and organized, and it's wonderfully easy to reference if I need to make a point or cite a statistic.

The other nice thing about having them all in PDFs is that they are searchable, so if the drive is indexed, you can search within the webpages for keywords, etc.

[99th_Monkey]

6. Wow.

That certainly does look exactly like the RW playbook indeed.

and it is both illuminating and nauseating to see it written down from their perspective

[Triana]

7. The Corporate Bully Whose Front Groups, Willful Distortions Hate-Mongering Poisoned U.S. Politics

The Corporate Bully Whose Front Groups, Willful Distortions and Hate-Mongering Has Poisoned U.S. Politics
: Meet Richard Berman

“Why don’t we know who one of the most powerful people in America is? What he has done? Why '60 Minutes' called him Dr. Evil?” asks Saru Jayaraman, a leader in a growing national movement of restaurant workers demanding better pay and working conditions.

Dr. Evil is Richard Berman, a Washington-based lawyer-turned-hitman for Big Food who pioneered and still deploys many of the most intentionally deceptive, inflammatory and anti-democratic tactics used in corporate propaganda campaigns today. For nearly four decades, Berman’s attacks have tried to smear, discredit and destroy public-interest causes and groups by a toxic brew of industry front groups, distortion-filled attacks, ridicule and bullying to stoke prejudice and hatred as a means of turning the public’s attention and regulators away from his paymasters’ business practices.

Take his effort to cripple the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and defame the character of its CEO, Wayne Pacelle. He ran a television ad during the 2013 Academy Awards telling people not to give to HSUS. He created a YouTube video viewed 1.7 million times calling Pacelle “the Bernie Madoff of the charity world.” He set up a non-profit front group called Humane Watch to undermine donations intended for the HSUS and a website attacking its funding. He even threatened the Better Business Bureau to drop HSUS' accreditation under the business group's Wise Giving Alliance, and then attacked BBB when it refused to do so.

Astute observers have concluded that Berman is guilty of the sins he regularly accuses others of. Legitimate watchdog groups, such as CharityNavigator.org, have characterized his web of non-profit front groups, which take in millions in tax-deductible corporate donations, as the fake charities. Tax law experts contacted by Bloomberg.com said his operation was comparable to Madoff’s, a shell game of financial transfers enriching Berman that likely violated tax laws. Investigative reporters have even traced e-mails from front groups who deny they’re working with him back to his office.

THE REST:

http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/richard-bermans-propaganda-wars-take-us-politics-gutter?page=0%2C2

[midnight]

19. Great input-thanks.

[ancianita]

9. For over 20 years. That tells me that my instincts are not CT, but right on. Thanks. nt

[RufusTFirefly]

10. Look closely and you'll see a number of his techniques used on this very site n/t

[MisterP]

14. he's so fun: he's also Penn and Teller's main source and ideologue (after Ayn Rand)

http://www.bermanexposed.org/
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Berman
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Penn_and_Teller

[midnight]

17. Your second link shows Koch corporation familiar with their style of business via front groups.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Front_groups

[freshwest]

18. Great sources, all of them. Thanks.

[Curmudgeoness]

15. This makes me more suspicious

of every poll, quoted fact, or so-called scientific evidence that I see. It looks like they are hiding so deep in layers of organizations that you can't know where the info is coming from. You have no idea whether things are coming from someone with these tactics, or it they are legitimate. We will have to be very careful with what we believe knowing these tactics.