Steal These Resolutions: Bring Big Telecom Under Control

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Tuesday April 24, 2007 · 5:03 PM PDT

2007/04/24 · 17:03

All of us are familiar to one degree or another with the evils of media concentration, corporate ownership, and deliberate misreporting/bias against elected leaders of the Democratic Party, Democratic candidates, and liberal ideas. There are multiple parts to this problem but, since power flows from the grass roots up, it is necessary for us to push for action through our Party structure. Below the fold are six resolutions you can introduce and support in your local Democratic club, county central committee, and state Democratic Party caucuses to help bring about constructive change:

A Resolution in Support of the Free Flow of Information
A Resolution in Support of Net Neutrality
A Resolution in Support of Returning the Fairness Doctrine, Equal Time Provision, and News and Public Affairs Requirements
A Resolution in Support of Copyright Reform
A Resolution in Opposition to Funding of California Elections by Corporations
A Resolution in Opposition to "Personhood" for Corporations

Details on the resolutions below the fold.

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Monday January 08, 2007 · 5:20 PM PST

2007/01/08 · 17:20

This report from the American Enterprise Institute seems to be a "sneak preview" of the new, revised, updated, overhauled, latest Iraq strategy that will be unveiled in Wednesday's speech (.pdf file):
http://www.aei.org/...

Here is a direct link to the web page with the Executive Summary:
http://www.aei.org/...

And here is the 56-slide version (in pdf format):
http://www.aei.org/...

Note slide 42 regarding "at least 30,000 more Army and Marines per year for the next two years", then continue below.

Airpower

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Sunday January 07, 2007 · 8:36 PM PST

2007/01/07 · 20:36

With potential escalation in Iraq and the desire to see Congress oppose it -- possibly through exercising its power of the purse -- I thought it might be useful to offer a little background on the mechanics of how the Department of Defense gets funded.

First, a word of caution. Military budgeting is a difficult subject to explain because:

(1) the budgeting "system" has many moving parts,
(2) it bumps up against other systems (the Joint Strategic Planning System and the Acquisition Process) each of which has more moving parts,
(3) it is influenced by internal "Pentagon politics" where civilian and military personalities merge and clash, internally and across services, along with conflicting warfighting "theologies"; that is, how the Air Force thinks a war should be fought can be at odds with how the Army believes a war should be fought, and
(4) it constantly changes.

The military budgeting process can only be truly mastered by "living in it," and many people who have lived in it never really mastered it. Also, it has undergone some accelerated changes since I knew it many years ago. The changes were initiated by the recently-departed Secretary of Defense and occurred over the past five years. More below the fold.

Airpower

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Saturday September 16, 2006 · 2:49 PM PDT

2006/09/16 · 14:49

The California Republican Assembly has a website that hopes to function as a virtual headquarters for precinct work: http://www.CRAVictoryTeam.com

Here a politically active person can help without having to wait for party leadership, which may or may not be coming. A special feature of the site is the screen where a volunteer can register and get a list of 10 voters in their area to contact. When they have been contacted, the volunteer can come back for 10 more, and keep coming back as often as one likes. I suspect they have a list of voters from every county in the state. I am curious as to what other data has been matched with it. (I don't know if they check whether or not one is registered as a GOPiger if
someone signs up, but I presume they do.)

LET'S STEAL THIS IDEA AND USE IT OURSELVES!

A Counter-Strategy

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Monday September 11, 2006 · 6:21 PM PDT

2006/09/11 · 18:21

This is my first diary and I am certainly not an expert at the ins and out politics, campaigns, and ads, but I have had a few thoughts on one aspect of this election rolling around my head and I want to share them for consideration. Feedback appreciated.

As we know, the GOPigs are vulnerable on Iraq, the economy, and many other issues. Clearly, the Democratic effort should exploit these vulnerabilities. But a portion of the Democratic effort needs a counter-streategy to negate, or at least blunt, the unfolding GOPig election strategy. That strategy appears to revolve around terrorism, immigration, and turnout.

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