Question: What do Rupert Murdoch, Muammar el-Qaddaffi, Bashar al-Assad and the Koch Brothers have in common?
Answer: Everything. Well -- at least, everything that really matters.
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On Murdoch, see bluejessamine's excellent diary on how Murdoch is trying to control what people hear and think.
On Assad and Qaddaffi -- just read a newspaper to learn how they're sending their forces to murder anyone expressing dissent.
On the Koch Bros, because this was so delicious and merits reposting:
http://youtu.be/...
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One and the same. Tell 'em -- no serenade 'em -- "Keep your f*cking tea." Oh, -- you can probably include Florida's anti-democracy Governor Rick Scott in with this bunch, per SemDem's diary on the profoundly disturbing new law in Florida meant to disenfranchise countless thousands, perhaps millions of registered voters along with those not yet registered, most of whom would be expected to vote Democratic.
What the world needs now is a real democratic uprising. Tahrir Square gone global.