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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
18. Media By Design
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 02:24 PM
Nov 2014

Why the Big Money goes into the Big Lie: It's not just busting unions. They want to bust Democracy.



The plan spelled out, by a lawyer who helped keep cancer covered-up for Big Tobacco and soon-to-be-rewarded with a sinecure on the Supreme Court:



The Lewis Powell Memo - Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy

Greenpeace has the full text of the Lewis Powell Memo available for review, as well as analyses of how Lewis Powell's suggestions have impacted the realms of politics, judicial law, communications and education.

Blogpost by Charlie Cray - August 23, 2011 at 11:20
Greenpeace.org

Forty years ago today, on August 23, 1971, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., an attorney from Richmond, Virginia, drafted a confidential memorandum for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that describes a strategy for the corporate takeover of the dominant public institutions of American society.

Powell and his friend Eugene Sydnor, then-chairman of the Chamber’s education committee, believed the Chamber had to transform itself from a passive business group into a powerful political force capable of taking on what Powell described as a major ongoing “attack on the American free enterprise system.”

An astute observer of the business community and broader social trends, Powell was a former president of the American Bar Association and a board member of tobacco giant Philip Morris and other companies. In his memo, he detailed a series of possible “avenues of action” that the Chamber and the broader business community should take in response to fierce criticism in the media, campus-based protests, and new consumer and environmental laws.

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The overall tone of Powell’s memo reflected a widespread sense of crisis among elites in the business and political communities. “No thoughtful person can question that the American economic system is under broad attack,” he suggested, adding that the attacks were not coming just from a few “extremists of the left,” but also – and most alarmingly -- from “perfectly respectable elements of society,” including leading intellectuals, the media, and politicians.

To meet the challenge, business leaders would have to first recognize the severity of the crisis, and begin marshalling their resources to influence prominent institutions of public opinion and political power -- especially the universities, the media and the courts. The memo emphasized the importance of education, values, and movement-building. Corporations had to reshape the political debate, organize speakers’ bureaus and keep television programs under “constant surveillance.” Most importantly, business needed to recognize that political power must be “assiduously cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used aggressively and with determination – without embarrassment and without the reluctance which has been so characteristic of American business.”

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http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/the-lewis-powell-memo-corporate-blueprint-to-/blog/36466/



In the process, their greed and lies work to destroy the planet, peace and prosperity. Democracy they flattened long ago.

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Captain Beefheart broke my heart with that one. Octafish Nov 2014 #4
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''Great, but Forgotten.'' Octafish Nov 2014 #14
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A terrifyingly accurate comparison. hifiguy Nov 2014 #8
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K&R, thankyou for this. LawDeeDah Nov 2014 #13
You are most welcome, LawDeeDah! Ah...Appearances. Octafish Nov 2014 #15
Again, the M$M was there to save another criminal republican empire. Rex Nov 2014 #16
Media By Design Octafish Nov 2014 #18
BFEE. Americans Crooks in Chief. mylye2222 Nov 2014 #17
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Thank you Sir. Kicking n/t Hotler Nov 2014 #19
Where was he on 11/22/63? Probably another reason. Initech Nov 2014 #20
Trigger happy Dont call me Shirley Nov 2014 #25
Sir, as you know, when I actually tried to contact the IG of the CIA there still wasn't one. K&R bobthedrummer Nov 2014 #21
when the former head of the CIA becomes president, all bets are off..... spanone Nov 2014 #22
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