Authoritarianism: Bloggers sounding the warning.

HuffPo :

Today in Bill Clinton's Bipartisan Love-In Blows Up in His Face, Arianna writes,

"Hooray! Good for Bill Clinton. He finally called Fox News and the right-wing on their BS, right? Well, sort of.

...I'm glad the Chris Wallace interview is flying all over the internet, but I really hope that one person who will watch it over and over again is Bill Clinton. And that on the fifth or sixth viewing it might occur to him that the more cover he gives Bush and his cronies, the more they're able to increase and entrench their power. Power they use to destroy everything that Clinton purports to stand for."

There is a fundamental point here. I, and many others, think that the Democratic leadership has profoundly misjudged the nature and intentions of the conservative movement. John Dean, in his book Conservatives Without Conscience, warns that we are witnessing the rise of an authoritarian government, and Kevin Phillips, in American Theocracy, warns that the current Republican leadership is intent on bringing about a theocracy. This is not politics-as-usual. THIS is what the bloggers are so shrill about.

Read on...

[Crooks and Liars]
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Vintage BBC broadcasting equipment - photos. Cory Doctorow:  Stuart sez, "Matthew Sylvester, a BBC engineer, has upload to flickr batch of work photos from the pre-nineties including the first satellite uplink dish in the UK. Lots of cool looking old machinary and control rooms in places like Bristol that really demonstrates the effort that the BBC used to have to go through to get video and film from the field onto the screen in the days before video-phones."
Link (Thanks, Stuart!)



By noemail@noemail.org (Cory Doctorow). [Boing Boing]
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No Longer No. 1, and No Wonder . On the surface, two studies out this week seem to raise warning flags about the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. By Steven Pearlstein. [washingtonpost.com - U.S. Economy]
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