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	<title>Restoring Social Balance &#187; Corporate Media and Interest Groups</title>
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		<title>ACORN and Tea Parties &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/acorn-and-tea-parties-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		ACORN and the National Tea Party Federation were/are both community organizers in their own separate ways.  However, neither organized communities in the natural sense of that word.   People who belong to each other due to their living situation forms a community, independently of class, beliefs, education, etc., etc.  ACORN and NTPF each catered to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN and Tea Parties &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/acorn-and-tea-parties-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		I recently stumbled upon some old news about ACORN, the now defunct organization whose main purpose was to register the disenfranchised to vote.  The alleged purpose of the now popular Tea Parties is to protest centralized government.  With the advantage of hindsight I was struck by the similarities between ACORN and the National Tea Party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The National Tea Party Federation</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/the-national-tea-party-federation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		On the face of it, turning Tea Parties into a federation is a good thing from my perspective as a staunch advocate of federation.  However, this movement towards &#8220;Federation&#8221; actually reinforces my earlier criticisms of the Tea Parties as special interest groups.  It is really akin to putting lipstick on a pig.
For those who don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring Cultural Balance &#8211; Become Paternal Skeptics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		We have devalued our belonging to people and place as our allegiance to paternal sources has grown.  These allegiances include political parties, corporations and interest groups.  We trust in these paternal sources, particularly as represented by corporate media and think tanks, while skeptical of human nature.  This reverses where the &#8220;innocent until proven guilty&#8221; focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty and Tyranny &#8211; Prudent Misinformation Methods</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/liberty-and-tyranny-prudent-misinformation-methods/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/liberty-and-tyranny-prudent-misinformation-methods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		In the last entry I stated that Mark Levin focuses more of his second chapter, &#8220;Prudence and Progress,&#8221; villainizing a bogeyman he calls a Statist (read, Modern Liberal) rather than focusing on explaining his own position.  I also explained what Levin&#8217;s &#8220;ordered liberty&#8221; probably means to him, based on a few sparse statements and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty and Tyranny &#8211; Initial Misinformation Purpose</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/liberty-and-tyranny-initial-misinformation-purpose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/liberty-and-tyranny-initial-misinformation-purpose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		Last week I began with a deconstruction of Mark Levin&#8217;s Liberty and Tyranny, going over the three basic types of information (dogma, omission, distortion) found in the first chapter.  To recap, Levin takes a dogmatic approach to knowledge and politics, which historically retards progress and prevents learning from experience.  A center point of Chapter One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misinformation Principle #7</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/misinformation-principle-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/misinformation-principle-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[002 Misinformation]]></category>
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		Even as I post this I am at work on a new book in which the order of these principles will be different.  I&#8217;ll continue with the order I have started and then group the misinformation principles in their new order before moving on to the deconstruction of Liberty and Tyranny.
Misinformation Principle #7 is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misinformation Principle #6</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/misinformation-principle-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/misinformation-principle-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[002 Misinformation]]></category>
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		The sixth misinformation principle is that misinformation requires more resources than information.  Rumors can be started without much effort, but the most useful misinformation persuades people to ignore, deny or reinterpret what their own experiences would otherwise be telling them.
In Systems out of Balance I report on the almost comical activities of Monsanto in regards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misinformation Principle #5</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/misinformation-principle-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/misinformation-principle-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[002 Misinformation]]></category>
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		The recent series about how the founding fathers deplored political parties leads well into the next misinformation principle.  We are misinformed through dogma or branding and nothing illustrates that better than party or think tank ideologies.
Humans are an incredibly diverse species.  To put this in perspective, bees are among the most social organisms in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Founding Fathers&#8217; Big Mistake</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/our-founding-fathers-big-mistake/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/our-founding-fathers-big-mistake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		Let us assume that every interest group starts with the noble intent of our founding fathers.  Many also share the same mistake made by the founding fathers.  Uncovering how the founding fathers made their mistake clears up one general misconception I&#8217;ve seen from several sources lately, and two misconceptions embedded in the recent Hartford Tea [...]]]></description>
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