Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol) - Natasha Bedingfield

What You Waiting For? (Gwen Stefani) - Franz Ferdinand

LoveStoned (Justin Timberlake) - The Hoosiers

Crazy (Gnarls Barklkey) - The Kooks/Nelly Furtado

Rehab (Amy Winehouse) - Paolo Nutini/Girls Aloud

Hey Ya! (Outkast) - Will Young/Razorlight

Maneater (Nelly Furtado) - Boy Kill Boy

Umbrella (Rihanna ft. Jay-Z) - Biffy Clyro

American Boy (Estelle ft. Kanye West) - Sam Sparro

Girlfriend (Avril Lavigne) - The Pigeon Detectives

Violet Hill (Coldplay) - Pendulum

Hung Up (Madonna) - The Enemy

Push the Button (Sugababes) - Orson

Gold Digger (Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx) - The Automatic

Cry Me A River (Justin Timberlake) - Lost Prophets

With Or Without You (U2) - Keane

Numb (Linkin Park) - Jamelia

Sweet Child Of Mine (Guns N Roses) - Mylo

Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson) - Robyn

Feel Good Inc (Gorillaz) - Kano

Hips Don't Lie (Shakira) - The Fray

That's Not My Name (The Ting Tings) - Dizzee Rascal

Take A Bow (Rihanna) - Ne-Yo

Don't Cha (Pussycat Dolls) - Will Young

Dirrtylicious (mash up of Dirrty - Christina Aguilera ft. Redman and Bootylicious - Destiny's Child) - Keane

A las 11:10 glosamos dos premios otorgados ayer a los escritores Juan José Millas (Nacional de Narrativa por su obra El Mundo) y Carlos Fuentes (Quijote de la Mancha). Después Aurita García y Concha López están con nosotros en Ni Brujas ni Marujas.

A las 12:10 Juan Poncini llega cargado de Los Legajos de Juan, unos minutos cargados de reflexión y argumentos.  En Yo Leo, tú Lees, Carmen, bibliotecaria de la Biblioteca Sancho Panza nos aconseja la lectura de Que es el qué, de Dave Eggers.

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Tras el bloque se servicio público, entrevistamos a Pedro Martínez, vicepresidente de FEMASAN (Federación Madrileña de Asociaciones Pro Salud Mental), organización que el pasado fin de semana se movilizó en Madrid bajo el lema "Salud mental para todos".

Terminamos con un tema delicioso, Novembro, del grupo Vossanau, que dentro de poco visitará Calle Real. Antes Vossanau se denominaban "nomadas urbanos" esta es su actuacion en TVE

Gracias, como siempre, por estar ahí.

Recuerda que puedes volver a escuchar Calle Real a partir de las 22:30h.

Puedes sintonizar RADIO VILLALBA en el 107.4 FM o en Internet haciendo click AQUI

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 terkenal, flanker brand, atau merek yang frekuensi pembeliannya rendah, serta apabila pemasar membidik pasar sasaran yang luas. Sementara itu, frekuensi diutamakan apabila ada pesaing-pesaing yang kuat, ada cerita yang agak kompleks yang mesti disampaikan, resistensi konsumen yang tinggi, atau frekuensi pembelian produk tinggi.

Banyak pengiklan percaya bahwa audiens sasaran perlu dibombardir exposure iklan agar iklan bisa berdampak. Pengulangan yang terlalu sedikit akan dianggap sia-sia, karena tak akan sempat mendapat perhatian. Namun, sebagian lainnya meragukan pentingnya pengulangan iklan. Mereka percaya bahwa begitu orang melihat beberapa kali, maka konsumen mungkin bertindak seperti yang dikehendaki pengiklan, mengacuhkan atau justru merasa terganggu.  Lantaran hal-hal di atas berkaitan dengan pemilihan media, muncullah profesi baru: media planner.

Perencana media mesti tahu kemampuan masing-masing jenis media untuk men-deliver reach, frekuensi dan dampak. Dalam memilih media tertentu, perencana media umumnya menggunakan beberapa pertimbangan berikut:

-         Kebiasaan media audiens sasaran: Misalnya, untuk menjangkau kaum remaja, radio dan teve dianggap lebih efektif.

-         Produk:  Iklan busana wanita paling tepat dipajang di majalah berwarna, sementara kamera Polaroid bisa didemokan penggunaannya lewat teve.  Berbagai jenis media punya keunggulan masing-masing dalam visualisasi, warna, derajat kepercayaan, demonstrasi, serta kemampuan menjelaskan.

-         Pesan : Pesan promosi obral besar-besaran keesokan hari lebih tepat ada di radio, koran, dan teve. Pesan berisikan data-data teknis  mungkin memerlukan majalah khusus atau surat (mailing).

-         Biaya: Teve sangat mahal, sementara iklan koran relatif tak mahal. Namun yang lebih penting adalah biaya-per-seribu-eksposur (cost-per-thousand exposures). Perlu dibedakan istilah sirkulasi, audiens, audiens efektif, dan effective ad-exposed audience.

Omg, my friends have introduced me to an awesome anime - Ouran High School Host Club! I love it sooo much now and is now officially my new fav anime. So cool and really funny at the same time. My fav character(s) are Hikaru and Kaoru coz they are the funniest but it's so sad (in a way) how Hikaru likes Haruhi. I really want him to be with her except then Kaoru will be left out so she has to go with Tamaki (and that leaves Kyouya for Hui Jun).

Moving on, Hamish and Andy are doing another Caravan of Courage! It'll be so cool, I loved it when they did it last year.

Also, I got 98% on my Theory exam! I am so happy coz I needed it to pass Grade 6 for my piano exam so now I have! I was so worried that I wouldn't do well and I've done so much better than I actually thought. My dad wasn't exactly helpful either coz when I asked him what he thought I would get he said 70%. Thanks dad.

At school, we're starting Flash animation which is the most fun ever! And it was really funny coz my teacher showed us some really good flash movies. Here's one of them: http://www.endofworld.net/ It's really funny and another one is Animator vs Animation (1 and 2). Google it, it's hilarious.

It's getting really annoying coz for Speech Night the whole school's got to sing one long Andrew Lloyd Webber medly. Alright, his songs are okay, but it is just so boring. And annoying. And the conductor is weird (lol).

Well, gtg now. Bye for now!

My name is Alexia, and this is the page for my internet radio station, currently called ALEXIASAURUS WRECKS.

After each broadcast, I will post its playlist on this site.

Happy listening!

"Big Hands," Crass

"At the Cost of an Animal," Dropdead

"Professional Mindfuckers," His Hero Is Gone

"Sugarcoated Yet It Festers Inside," Witch Hunt

"Who's Calling the Shots," Aus-Rotten

"Fear," Cress

"Excommunicated," Infernal Stronghold

"Mervyns," Spazz

"I'm Not Anti-Girls, Girls are Anti-me," Surf Nazis Must Die

"I Luv I Jah," Bad Brains

"Hellbound," The Skuds

"No Motivation," Obgyn

"Luzifers Ghilom," Amon Düül II

"Take Your City Back," Antischism

"Dirty Girl," Boy Meets Hermaphrodite

"2 Wheel Nation," Acid King III

"We Multiply," AIDS Wolf

"One More Night," Can

"Spitfire," Doseone

"Me And Hitler," Man Is The Bastard

"Lost Parts Stinging Me So Cold," Melt-Banana

"Do They Owe Us a Living," Crass

"Uncontrolled Passion," Die Kreuzen

"I Am a Doctor," Fear

"Shack Up," A Certain Ratio

"Sorry For Laughing," Josef K

"American Made Death Squad," Behind Enemy Lines

"Jaws Is Comin," Boy Meets Hermaphrodite

"Speed Racer," Devo

"Largactyl," Amebix

"The Second Rape," Aus-Rotten

"Bitch, Bitch, Bitch," Chaos UK

"Betrayed Again," Fuck on the Beach

I've never really been out west (South Dakota and Wyoming, hoorah) and I'd love to be able to see the mountains.  And I'm not fond of flying, by any means.  I'd much prefer to take the 43 hour train ride where I can get up and walk around and look out the window and actually see stuff.

As I mentioned before, I want to scope out the radio market out there.  From what I hear from fellow students/co-workers who have interned in L.A., it's a lot different and far more relaxed.  I figure that if I actually have a degree in radio and know my way around a station and a board and ProTools/production equipment, I have a better chance than the people who appear and say, "I want to be in radio. I'm getting on air now."
I'm starting to save money for this trip...among other things.

A big one of those things is a new camera. Camera numero tres (I know there are several accent marks in that, but whatever).  I am sad without my camera, there is a lot going on that I'd like to document and I can't! Ugh, frustration.
Also, I'd like to be knitting more than I am, but, uh, yeah. Not happening. More frustration!

I can't wait for Wednesday.
a) Desmond is getting neutered. This means that he probably won't be so angry when he's not sleeping or eating. Seriously, this cat is nuts. We're hoping that it calms him down.
b) I get paid! I can go grocery shopping and buy things like dishwasher detergent and toilet paper. And milk.
c) I am meeting up with Sam's cousin at Pompei, a tasty restaurant by UIC, so that we can continue the interviews for her paper.
d) Project Runway and America's Next Top Model are on. Uhm, heck yes. Grocery shopping will be moved around ANTM, possibly.
e) Wednesday is the day right before Thursday...and Thursday nights are Office nights! Yay!

So I've got this pretty new paper journal (Gasp! They still make those! What for?!) that Maya bought for me. It's calling to me to write and draw in it, and that is what I'll do.

Sorry kids, it's a lot of stuff that won't be in here. Hah!

TalkRadiox already has an FM outlet with the Detour Talk, a micro FM that has several transmitters up and plans for a tower in a future.  So far relationship was gone very well, with lots of feedback in the two months or so we've been on there.

Now, TRX has added two new Part 15 AM affiliates.  1700 AM in Albany, Oregon and 1650 AM in McKinney, TX.  Oh sure both of these stations may be broadcasting out about 5 blocks or so (I really don't know).  But it shows the plan that we have at TRX is really starting to move along.

Hopefully we can continue to add more of these Part 15 outlets as TRX grows.  Creating a network of original content and syndicating it out (think NPR or Pacifica) is what we're aiming for.

The signals may be small, but the potential is big.

Je sais pas pourquoi que je parle du chanteur sur mon site, mais dans le fond, c'est parce que j'aime mes lecteurs et quelqu'un (souvent) tape ce nom sur des moteurs de recherches. Peut-être qu'il s'inquiète de la santé de ce dernier... J'en voyais l'importance ce soir d'en parler.

Un bon début de blogue n'est-ce pas de vous parler de l'ex chanteur à la voix qui pouvait vous faire ronronner une madame de 56 ans de Montréal-Nord en 1981 après une belle visite chez Steinberg.

Toujours est-il que... (Belle expression) qu'il est temps de vous offrir le 2ème DTF de la saison 2008. Un show qui s'est bien déroulé et qui a carburé au Mojito et à l'eau Perrier.

Il est question de quoi dans ce deuxième opus ?

Avec comme invitée Marilou... (non pas la chanteuse, mais une experte en RCR)

• Alanis Morissette
• Élection
• RCR (réanimaton cardio respiratoire)
• Le Journal de Mourial
• TQS (encore)
• Du Hockey
• ETC

Encore une fois... Bonne écoute et ensemble nous allons très facilement battre la programmation de TQS...

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Question comme ça... est-ce que j'ai bel et bien parlé d'Evan Joanness.... bordel... je vais dormir de ce pas.

It’s all about chess on episode 36, with interviews with three members of the QUB Chess Club, Chris Millar, Steve Scannell and Ciara Pugh. Since the club was brought back to life in 2005, its players have found great success, winning the title of Irish University Champions last year and Ulster Club Champions this year. This month, several of the Queen’s players head to Greece for a Europe-wide tournament. In today’s episode, Chris, Steve and Ciara talk about their entry into the world of chess, their stress levels, their game faces, their addictions, and their strategies for victory.

Tapi pagi ini sungguh menarik menerima satu email berisi basic question. Nama pengirim tidak saya cantumkan ya, sebagai perlindungan. Tapi kalo anda juga member dari group yang saya ikuti, anda pasti akan tau email ini bersumber dari group yang mana. Inti pertanyaan adalah kebingungan si penanya tentang pemanfaatan automatic antenna tuner. Silahkan anda liat sendiri email seutuhnya di bagian bawah ya.

Saya menangkap kesan bahwa ternyata kualitas level SIAGA di kita dan US ternyata ngga jauh-jauh amat. Pertanyaan saat ujian memang sangat teoritis. Dan itu pasti bisa di jawab oleh si penanya tadi. Tapi topik mengenai automatic antenna tuner adalah fakta di lapangan yang tidak masuk dalam ujian. Dan si penanya mengalami kesulitan. Saya melihat itu kondisinya setara dengan YB-land. Jadi tetap terus bersemangat bagi anda-anda para radio amatir new comer, bahwa radio amatir US saja seperti itu kok. Tidak selalu expatriat lebih unggul dari kita. Garis start kita nggak jauh sama mereka. Asal kita mau progresif, pasti kita lebih pinter dari mereka. Saya ngga cantumkan beberapa email yang membalas pertanyaan itu. Tapi sesungguhnya banyak jawaban yang lucu juga.

Jadi, tetep semangat ya. Jangan merasa ham radio negara lain lebih unggul dari kita.

OK, I'll admit I'm new at this but I was just told something that I don't understand and hopefully someone might be able to explain it to me. I am working with a new radio setup (well, new antenna and radio that has been hooked up but until recently not used much). Anyhow, I thought I understood/was using my antenna tuner properly but I guess not. So what I'm doing is..I hooked the tuner between the transceiver and antenna. I key the transmitter (in SSB) and push/hold the tuner button (it's an LDG z-100 ATU). Anyhow, I hear the relays click but the green SWR light never lights up..the manual says this means the tuner can't match the impedance. OK, so here's where I'm confused... my radio also has a SWR meter built in...if, after the antenna tuner is done I key the transmitter the SWR on the radio says my SWR is 1. So I was told that SSB doesn't radiate RF so checking the SWR in SSB mode is meaningless. So, if this is the case...how to people transmit
in SSB (i.e. if no RF radiates) and second, if this is incorrect... how are you supposed to check the SWR of the antenna? Thanks...

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Turn off your screen, dim down the lights, and enjoy this short radio drama about hapless comedian Jack Parma's last night on stage.

Australia's Ten Network, which releases its annual report this week, is expected to announce earnings are down around 10 percent due to failed new programs and a general ratings drop.

Meanwhile, a round of staff cuts has been executed in ACP Magazines by PBL Media chief executive Ian Law. Mr Law would not say if there would be further cuts, but said the redundancies in publicity and events at ACP were "simply part of an ongoing process to adjust the cost base of the business to the prevailing market, and to pursue best practice".

There was good news for community radio. McNair Ingenuity research found that more people were listening to community radio despite an overall drop in radio performance. Deb Welch, President of the Community Broadcoasting Association of Australia said: "The survey results and listener comments suggest that as the mass media market fragments and as listeners become more aware of the possibilities of what is out there, some are rejecting what they see as narrow music formats and heavily networked programs on commercial radio."

“HAVE YOU SEEN THE STARS TONITE” has landed and

the 2 CD Special set Have You Seen The Circus Tent Tonite

with over 900 rock and roll photos and the Cathy Richardson 70 minute interview, has landed too!

http://www.takemetoacircustent.net

http://www.amazon.com (The books are proudly featured here)

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE- JEFFERSON STARSHIP- Great Society- Take Me To A Circus Tent

Have You Seen The Stars Tonite

Have You Seen The Circus Tent Tonite

Quality Rock & Roll Airplane

style.

Greetings from Air Rock Patrol:

I hope you had the opportunity to enjoy a 3 day weekend.  Thanks for coming along our daily journey to Rock & Roll Island.

Before we get to our flight I have to get serious for a moment.  Alexei Cherepanov, a 19-year-old draft pick of the National Hockey League New York Rangers passed away.  Details were not very strong but it is thought to be heart related.  The tragedy gets worse.  It is believed the facility he was playing in (overseas) did not have an ambulance on the premises.  They lost 15-20 minutes of time waiting for one to arrive.  To his family the deepest sorrow.

Rock & Roll today comes in picture form.  Thank you to Rob Mayes from the U.K. for letting me show his great work!

Enjoy the new photos on the board and remember we have almost 700 on our flights!  All copyrighted and with 100 percent permission.

Enjoy!  got to go rock and roll.

Please fly here for Rock Photos Jefferson Style:

http://www.takemetoacircustent.net/index.php?pr=J.Airshow_Photos_10J_Jeffersons_Take_Off

Please spread the

word:

The 2 new Jefferson projects have arrived!

Thanks as always!

Relax and have fun!

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE-

JEFFERSON STARSHIP- Great Society-

Take Me To A Circus Tent

I look forward to hearing you later!

The book is Take Me To A Circus Tent (The Jefferson Airplane Flight Manual) W/93 photos, 32 interviews, 543 pages, and a myriad of 5 star reviews!

Please remember at any moment on an Aircast it can be a rare memory from the Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, KBC, Wooden Ships, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner to name several.  Maybe another picture previously unseen from the Rock Tent Vault sees daylight from Herb Greene or Don Aters.

Wishing you a great day,

CF

13th October 2008 with Alex & Tom
featured album: of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Las Escarlatinas - El Diván
Stanley Brinks - Taking The Life Out Of This Town
Jeffrey Lewis - The Complete History of Communism Pts 1 & 2
Sebadoh - Sickles & Hammers
Blueboy - Self Portrait
The Bank Holidays - Cheating, Cheating
The Pancakes - Jane and Jenny
Melt Banana - Cat Brain Land
The Winter Club - Mix Tapes That Lucy Made
Micah P. Hinson - Dyin' Alone
Of Montreal - Id Engager
Dillinger Escape Plan with Mike Patton - When Good Dogs Do Bad Things
The Rosie Taylor Project - A Good Cafe On George Street
Shitmat - Fido Dido vs. Simon Mayo
Holy Fuck - Safari
Hubbard - The Switch Up
Smog - To Be Of Use
Pony Up! - The Truth About Cats & Dogs (Is That They Die)
Soiled Mattress & The Springs - Tidal Wave
Of Montreal - Gallery Piece
Of Montreal - For Our Elegant Caste
The Zebras - A Day On Black Mountain Road
Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive (Skatebard remix)
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Chimaerica
Alex's Jazz Corner Miles Davis - Rated X (from The Complete On The Corner Sessions, 2007, Sony Legacy)
Bracken - Martenside
Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh
Low - Dust on the Window
Oval - Line Extension

Last FM is like your own personal radio station that tries to come up with the music you like. It's free, which is great and when you listen to music you can rate it, love it or ban it and the station will eventually evolve into exactly the kind of music you like. You can get it to start playing music by selecting an artist or a topic. If you want to listen to songs about Christmas, just key in Christmas, if you want to listen to my songs or artists like me, select artist and enter Luigi Cappel.

As a songwriter, artist or band, you can set up your own site where you can upload your music and videos and people can listen to your music. Just go to the Music Manager section and start creating your page. I have 1 1/2 albums up there so far. Greenhouse and Reflections which is only half complete so far.

So here's the problem. I have entered 3 artists who have influenced me, particularly on certain songs. They are Don Henly (in particular my song Only Memories Survive), Willie Nelson and Jimmy Webb. The problem I have is in being objective when I listen to myself. So perhaps you can have a listen to some of my songs on one of my sites and tell me who you think I sound like. You can here them at Last FM by entereing my name, you can hear some at MySpace and more at Music Forte.

If you can be bothered, it would be great if you can give me feedback on what artists you think I sound like so I can add them into my sites to help people who like those artists find me. I'll be happy to return the favor of course.

There are many benefits of understanding who you are like. If you know who you sound like, you can look for gigs where people like that kind of music. You can get a better idea of who to pitch your songs to as a songwriter and you can guide potential fans to your music online.

Wow what a wicked show we had today! Again, congrats to all our winners. Sam McSorley our resident medical herbalist came in to talk about remedies for insomnia, the cause and how you can do simple things to alleviate it like not watching TV an hour before bed and drinking coffee and tea at that time too. Sounds like the warning you got as a kid - not allowed to swim until an hour after eating. Sound advice! Do you suffer from insomnia? Have a listen to Sam and get yourself sorted:

Sam McSorley - Medical Herbalist on Insomnia

Jason Gunn joined us to talk a bit about his experiences with insomnia and whether he actually owns a gun. Turns out he grew up in a rural area and was partial to shooting cans with a slug gun, but that's about it. Always fascinating and insightful, take a listen to that Gunn we'd all like to own:

Jason Gunn - Interview

Would you please put your hands together for the one and only... Mr. Rodney Hide! He burst into the studio wanting to 'go nuts', Rodney's like a tightly coiled spring, he was jumping off the walls. It was great having him in the studio, he gave us the lowdown on the Winston whistle blowing issue, some of ACTs policies and even a story about Peter Dunne's student address at our very own Univeristy of Canterbury's caf 30 years ago about the price of sausage rolls! Genius, check it out:

Rodney Hide live in studio on Breakfast With Spanky

And lastly, we had Dave from PHAT '09 on the dog and bone for an update. For all you need to know about this awesome event on the West Coast, check out the podcast:

Dave - PHAT '09 - update

TOMORROW'S SHOW

We'll have Maria Walls in for the Rialto Cinema film pick of the week, Russel Norman will join us to tell whether the Greens really think the Trading Emissions Scheme is a waste of time and we'll be replaying Dr. Hitchcock's great interview with Courtenay Taylor from a little band you may have heard of called The Dandy Warhols.

Tune into it, not out of it.

On Saturday afternoon the fabulous Kitchen Sisters (a.k.a. Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) presented their "favorite things" to an exhausted and admiring crowd; somehow they coaxed all 400 of us to stand up and join in rousing renditions of Sixteen Tons and A Little Help from My Friends. That night Homelands' pal Chris Brookes was named this year's "Audio Luminary" (that's the festival's lifetime achievement award) -- if you've never heard his work PLEASE check him out. A good place to start is an award-winning piece he did as part of our Worlds of Difference series called A Map of the Sea.

Sandy, Cecilia, and I snuck away from time to time to talk about our next project. We'd like to do a multimedia series on hunger. As with WORKING, we'll want to focus on individual human beings. It's a timely topic, sad to say: the number of hungry people around the world is now nearly 900 million, and rising. With the economic mess, water shortages, food and fuel price volatility, rising populations, and climate change, things are unlikely to improve in the near term. If you have thoughts about the topic, or if you have ideas on who might support the project, please let us know!

Jon

P.S. Next up on WORKING is Kelly McEvers' profile of a pirate who robs ships in Indonesia's Strait of Malacca. It's scheduled for Thursday, October 23. If you want a reminder, go to our website and sign up for our mailing list.

É só acessar a Rádio Fla, pedir sua música e curtir o som!

Sim! Esse post é só pra jabá mermo! Mas de livre e espontânea vontade; porque realmente gosto do que os caras fazem!

SRN

2.  Earache

3.  Music to My Ears

Son 1 aged 4 up in the night with his sore throat and raging temperature.  Called for me at 1230.  I went in and told him off for waking me up “Mummy’s going to be poorly if she doesn’t get some sleep soon.”  He needed Ibuprofen but it was downstairs and I was too tired to get out of his bed.  He woke again at 0130 and down I padded to get it. I gave it to him and we both fell asleep in his single bed, with me getting up at 6.  Son 1 woke when I was in the shower, and was over-tired, fractious, whiney and tearful.  We decided against the New Nursery.  He’s only 4, and Wonder Nanny is now here on Mondays.  Son 1 didn’t care about that.  He just wanted me to stay home.

But I had to leave early  because I had an important Out-of-Office meeting first thing.  I was picking up a colleague and then driving across The Big Town to get there.  New black suit (I took the trousers up last night = a Good Thing)  and three inch heels.  I felt almost pre-baby.  Had a call at The Office from Wonder Nanny. When did Son 1 last have Calpol because he was complaining that his ear hurt.  Son 1 came on the phone. “Are you all right?” “No. I’m not. I want you.”  I raced through my work and sorted out a pile to do at home.  I got back mid-afternoon.  Both boys were asleep.  Son 2 aged 13m woke, came downstairs with Wonder Nanny, sat in my arms and clapped, smiling.  Son 1 woke while I was trying to do some work and make some phone calls, pushed away my pile of papers and sat on my lap crying.  

The Man is planning Business Trips this week and next - during my week off.  I am trying to be positive and reasonable.   Son 1 says his ear hurts when he yawns.  The Man’s going to have to take him to the doctor tomorrow.    I went for a run. Full moon, but I ran down to the bridge over the river;  street-lit all the way so very little chance to enjoy the moonlight.  I resurrected the radio I used to run with BC.  New batteries, and I popped it into the money belt I always wore to carry it.  Ah.  The waist strap needed letting out two inches.  Hmph.  However. It was great to have music and company.  And I’ve been out twice in three days.

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Watch this video by Naomi Wolfe. Is this happening right now in our country, the United States of America? She says, "October 1st (2008) in America, a coup took place."

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Naomi Wolf said in this radio program that the recent bail-out bill was too large (too many pages) for any of the legislators to read fully before voting for it. She said it contains a huge amount of money that goes to the President of the United States without oversight, and this follows him obtaining the legal right to control 3,000 armed troops to do his bidding in this country, answerable only to him. She says the President can declare martial law and command his personal army against the citizens of the USA.

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The video is of an interview with Naomi Wolf author of "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries" given October 4, 2008 on Mind Over Matters, KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle.

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One year ago, Naomi Wolf said, "Every would-be despot does the same ten things ... ten classic steps that any would-be dicatator puts in place are under way in the United States right now."

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Watch the talk by Naomi Wolf on "The End of America" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc. This talk from a year ago is also as frightening as the radio interview of a few days ago. But, the one from a few days ago says they've already put these things into place.

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Listen to the talk by Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot" given October 11, 2007 at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus.
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Downloadable audio mp3 of this talk can be found at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/25782

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I read this list, if not this article, last year. While watching and listening to these videos, I googled the ten steps a dictator takes and found the article. The ten steps all matched what was happening in our country a year ago.

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1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy

2. Create a gulag

3. Develop a thug caste

4. Set up an internal surveillance system

5. Harass citizens' groups

6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release

7. Target key individuals

8. Control the press

9. Dissent equals treason

10. Suspend the rule of law

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Here is the link - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment You can read the article after the fold:

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Fascist America, in 10 easy steps

From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all

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• Naomi Wolf
• The Guardian,
• Tuesday April 24 2007
• Article history

Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down: the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened some limits on travel, and took certain activists into custody.They were not figuring these things out as they went along. If you look at history, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open society into a dictatorship. That blueprint has been used again and again in more and less bloody, more and less terrifying ways. But it is always effective. It is very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy - but history shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be willing to take the 10 steps.

As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United States by the Bush administration.

Because Americans like me were born in freedom, we have a hard time even considering that it is possible for us to become as unfree - domestically - as many other nations. Because we no longer learn much about our rights or our system of government - the task of being aware of the constitution has been outsourced from citizens' ownership to being the domain of professionals such as lawyers and professors - we scarcely recognise the checks and balances that the founders put in place, even as they are being systematically dismantled. Because we don't learn much about European history, the setting up of a department of "homeland" security - remember who else was keen on the word "homeland" - didn't raise the alarm bells it might have.

It is my argument that, beneath our very noses, George Bush and his administration are using time-tested tactics to close down an open society. It is time for us to be willing to think the unthinkable - as the author and political journalist Joe Conason, has put it, that it can happen here. And that we are further along than we realise.

Conason eloquently warned of the danger of American authoritarianism. I am arguing that we need also to look at the lessons of European and other kinds of fascism to understand the potential seriousness of the events we see unfolding in the US.

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy

After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it. We were told we were now on a "war footing"; we were in a "global war" against a "global caliphate" intending to "wipe out civilisation". There have been other times of crisis in which the US accepted limits on civil liberties, such as during the civil war, when Lincoln declared martial law, and the second world war, when thousands of Japanese-American citizens were interned. But this situation, as Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda notes, is unprecedented: all our other wars had an endpoint, so the pendulum was able to swing back toward freedom; this war is defined as open-ended in time and without national boundaries in space - the globe itself is the battlefield. "This time," Fein says, "there will be no defined end."

Creating a terrifying threat - hydra-like, secretive, evil - is an old trick. It can, like Hitler's invocation of a communist threat to the nation's security, be based on actual events (one Wisconsin academic has faced calls for his dismissal because he noted, among other things, that the alleged communist arson, the Reichstag fire of February 1933, was swiftly followed in Nazi Germany by passage of the Enabling Act, which replaced constitutional law with an open-ended state of emergency). Or the terrifying threat can be based, like the National Socialist evocation of the "global conspiracy of world Jewry", on myth.

It is not that global Islamist terrorism is not a severe danger; of course it is. I am arguing rather that the language used to convey the nature of the threat is different in a country such as Spain - which has also suffered violent terrorist attacks - than it is in America. Spanish citizens know that they face a grave security threat; what we as American citizens believe is that we are potentially threatened with the end of civilisation as we know it. Of course, this makes us more willing to accept restrictions on our freedoms.

2. Create a gulag

Once you have got everyone scared, the next step is to create a prison system outside the rule of law (as Bush put it, he wanted the American detention centre at Guantánamo Bay to be situated in legal "outer space") - where torture takes place.

At first, the people who are sent there are seen by citizens as outsiders: troublemakers, spies, "enemies of the people" or "criminals". Initially, citizens tend to support the secret prison system; it makes them feel safer and they do not identify with the prisoners. But soon enough, civil society leaders - opposition members, labour activists, clergy and journalists - are arrested and sent there as well.

This process took place in fascist shifts or anti-democracy crackdowns ranging from Italy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s to the Latin American coups of the 1970s and beyond. It is standard practice for closing down an open society or crushing a pro-democracy uprising.

With its jails in Iraq and Afghanistan, and, of course, Guantánamo in Cuba, where detainees are abused, and kept indefinitely without trial and without access to the due process of the law, America certainly has its gulag now. Bush and his allies in Congress recently announced they would issue no information about the secret CIA "black site" prisons throughout the world, which are used to incarcerate people who have been seized off the street.

Gulags in history tend to metastasise, becoming ever larger and more secretive, ever more deadly and formalised. We know from first-hand accounts, photographs, videos and government documents that people, innocent and guilty, have been tortured in the US-run prisons we are aware of and those we can't investigate adequately.

But Americans still assume this system and detainee abuses involve only scary brown people with whom they don't generally identify. It was brave of the conservative pundit William Safire to quote the anti-Nazi pastor Martin Niemöller, who had been seized as a political prisoner: "First they came for the Jews." Most Americans don't understand yet that the destruction of the rule of law at Guantánamo set a dangerous precedent for them, too.

By the way, the establishment of military tribunals that deny prisoners due process tends to come early on in a fascist shift. Mussolini and Stalin set up such tribunals. On April 24 1934, the Nazis, too, set up the People's Court, which also bypassed the judicial system: prisoners were held indefinitely, often in isolation, and tortured, without being charged with offences, and were subjected to show trials. Eventually, the Special Courts became a parallel system that put pressure on the regular courts to abandon the rule of law in favour of Nazi ideology when making decisions.

3. Develop a thug caste

When leaders who seek what I call a "fascist shift" want to close down an open society, they send paramilitary groups of scary young men out to terrorise citizens. The Blackshirts roamed the Italian countryside beating up communists; the Brownshirts staged violent rallies throughout Germany. This paramilitary force is especially important in a democracy: you need citizens to fear thug violence and so you need thugs who are free from prosecution.

The years following 9/11 have proved a bonanza for America's security contractors, with the Bush administration outsourcing areas of work that traditionally fell to the US military. In the process, contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars have been issued for security work by mercenaries at home and abroad. In Iraq, some of these contract operatives have been accused of involvement in torturing prisoners, harassing journalists and firing on Iraqi civilians. Under Order 17, issued to regulate contractors in Iraq by the one-time US administrator in Baghdad, Paul Bremer, these contractors are immune from prosecution

Yes, but that is in Iraq, you could argue; however, after Hurricane Katrina, the Department of Homeland Security hired and deployed hundreds of armed private security guards in New Orleans. The investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill interviewed one unnamed guard who reported having fired on unarmed civilians in the city. It was a natural disaster that underlay that episode - but the administration's endless war on terror means ongoing scope for what are in effect privately contracted armies to take on crisis and emergency management at home in US cities.

Thugs in America? Groups of angry young Republican men, dressed in identical shirts and trousers, menaced poll workers counting the votes in Florida in 2000. If you are reading history, you can imagine that there can be a need for "public order" on the next election day. Say there are protests, or a threat, on the day of an election; history would not rule out the presence of a private security firm at a polling station "to restore public order".

4. Set up an internal surveillance system

In Mussolini's Italy, in Nazi Germany, in communist East Germany, in communist China - in every closed society - secret police spy on ordinary people and encourage neighbours to spy on neighbours. The Stasi needed to keep only a minority of East Germans under surveillance to convince a majority that they themselves were being watched.

In 2005 and 2006, when James Risen and Eric Lichtblau wrote in the New York Times about a secret state programme to wiretap citizens' phones, read their emails and follow international financial transactions, it became clear to ordinary Americans that they, too, could be under state scrutiny.

In closed societies, this surveillance is cast as being about "national security"; the true function is to keep citizens docile and inhibit their activism and dissent.

5. Harass citizens' groups

The fifth thing you do is related to step four - you infiltrate and harass citizens' groups. It can be trivial: a church in Pasadena, whose minister preached that Jesus was in favour of peace, found itself being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, while churches that got Republicans out to vote, which is equally illegal under US tax law, have been left alone.

Other harassment is more serious: the American Civil Liberties Union reports that thousands of ordinary American anti-war, environmental and other groups have been infiltrated by agents: a secret Pentagon database includes more than four dozen peaceful anti-war meetings, rallies or marches by American citizens in its category of 1,500 "suspicious incidents". The equally secret Counterintelligence Field Activity (Cifa) agency of the Department of Defense has been gathering information about domestic organisations engaged in peaceful political activities: Cifa is supposed to track "potential terrorist threats" as it watches ordinary US citizen activists. A little-noticed new law has redefined activism such as animal rights protests as "terrorism". So the definition of "terrorist" slowly expands to include the opposition.

6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release

This scares people. It is a kind of cat-and-mouse game. Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the investigative reporters who wrote China Wakes: the Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, describe pro-democracy activists in China, such as Wei Jingsheng, being arrested and released many times. In a closing or closed society there is a "list" of dissidents and opposition leaders: you are targeted in this way once you are on the list, and it is hard to get off the list.

In 2004, America's Transportation Security Administration confirmed that it had a list of passengers who were targeted for security searches or worse if they tried to fly. People who have found themselves on the list? Two middle-aged women peace activists in San Francisco; liberal Senator Edward Kennedy; a member of Venezuela's government - after Venezuela's president had criticised Bush; and thousands of ordinary US citizens.

Professor Walter F Murphy is emeritus of Princeton University; he is one of the foremost constitutional scholars in the nation and author of the classic Constitutional Democracy. Murphy is also a decorated former marine, and he is not even especially politically liberal. But on March 1 this year, he was denied a boarding pass at Newark, "because I was on the Terrorist Watch list".

"Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that," asked the airline employee.

"I explained," said Murphy, "that I had not so marched but had, in September 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the constitution."

"That'll do it," the man said.

Anti-war marcher? Potential terrorist. Support the constitution? Potential terrorist. History shows that the categories of "enemy of the people" tend to expand ever deeper into civil life.

James Yee, a US citizen, was the Muslim chaplain at Guantánamo who was accused of mishandling classified documents. He was harassed by the US military before the charges against him were dropped. Yee has been detained and released several times. He is still of interest.

Brandon Mayfield, a US citizen and lawyer in Oregon, was mistakenly identified as a possible terrorist. His house was secretly broken into and his computer seized. Though he is innocent of the accusation against him, he is still on the list.

It is a standard practice of fascist societies that once you are on the list, you can't get off.

7. Target key individuals

Threaten civil servants, artists and academics with job loss if they don't toe the line. Mussolini went after the rectors of state universities who did not conform to the fascist line; so did Joseph Goebbels, who purged academics who were not pro-Nazi; so did Chile's Augusto Pinochet; so does the Chinese communist Politburo in punishing pro-democracy students and professors.

Academe is a tinderbox of activism, so those seeking a fascist shift punish academics and students with professional loss if they do not "coordinate", in Goebbels' term, ideologically. Since civil servants are the sector of society most vulnerable to being fired by a given regime, they are also a group that fascists typically "coordinate" early on: the Reich Law for the Re-establishment of a Professional Civil Service was passed on April 7 1933.

Bush supporters in state legislatures in several states put pressure on regents at state universities to penalise or fire academics who have been critical of the administration. As for civil servants, the Bush administration has derailed the career of one military lawyer who spoke up for fair trials for detainees, while an administration official publicly intimidated the law firms that represent detainees pro bono by threatening to call for their major corporate clients to boycott them.

Elsewhere, a CIA contract worker who said in a closed blog that "waterboarding is torture" was stripped of the security clearance she needed in order to do her job.

Most recently, the administration purged eight US attorneys for what looks like insufficient political loyalty. When Goebbels purged the civil service in April 1933, attorneys were "coordinated" too, a step that eased the way of the increasingly brutal laws to follow.

8. Control the press

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the 30s, East Germany in the 50s, Czechoslovakia in the 60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the 70s, China in the 80s and 90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists. They threaten and harass them in more open societies that they are seeking to close, and they arrest them and worse in societies that have been closed already.

The Committee to Protect Journalists says arrests of US journalists are at an all-time high: Josh Wolf (no relation), a blogger in San Francisco, has been put in jail for a year for refusing to turn over video of an anti-war demonstration; Homeland Security brought a criminal complaint against reporter Greg Palast, claiming he threatened "critical infrastructure" when he and a TV producer were filming victims of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. Palast had written a bestseller critical of the Bush administration.

Other reporters and writers have been punished in other ways. Joseph C Wilson accused Bush, in a New York Times op-ed, of leading the country to war on the basis of a false charge that Saddam Hussein had acquired yellowcake uranium in Niger. His wife, Valerie Plame, was outed as a CIA spy - a form of retaliation that ended her career.

Prosecution and job loss are nothing, though, compared with how the US is treating journalists seeking to cover the conflict in Iraq in an unbiased way. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented multiple accounts of the US military in Iraq firing upon or threatening to fire upon unembedded (meaning independent) reporters and camera operators from organisations ranging from al-Jazeera to the BBC. While westerners may question the accounts by al-Jazeera, they should pay attention to the accounts of reporters such as the BBC's Kate Adie. In some cases reporters have been wounded or killed, including ITN's Terry Lloyd in 2003. Both CBS and the Associated Press in Iraq had staff members seized by the US military and taken to violent prisons; the news organisations were unable to see the evidence against their staffers.

Over time in closing societies, real news is supplanted by fake news and false documents. Pinochet showed Chilean citizens falsified documents to back up his claim that terrorists had been about to attack the nation. The yellowcake charge, too, was based on forged papers.

You won't have a shutdown of news in modern America - it is not possible. But you can have, as Frank Rich and Sidney Blumenthal have pointed out, a steady stream of lies polluting the news well. What you already have is a White House directing a stream of false information that is so relentless that it is increasingly hard to sort out truth from untruth. In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

9. Dissent equals treason

Cast dissent as "treason" and criticism as "espionage'. Every closing society does this, just as it elaborates laws that increasingly criminalise certain kinds of speech and expand the definition of "spy" and "traitor". When Bill Keller, the publisher of the New York Times, ran the Lichtblau/Risen stories, Bush called the Times' leaking of classified information "disgraceful", while Republicans in Congress called for Keller to be charged with treason, and rightwing commentators and news outlets kept up the "treason" drumbeat. Some commentators, as Conason noted, reminded readers smugly that one penalty for violating the Espionage Act is execution.

Conason is right to note how serious a threat that attack represented. It is also important to recall that the 1938 Moscow show trial accused the editor of Izvestia, Nikolai Bukharin, of treason; Bukharin was, in fact, executed. And it is important to remind Americans that when the 1917 Espionage Act was last widely invoked, during the infamous 1919 Palmer Raids, leftist activists were arrested without warrants in sweeping roundups, kept in jail for up to five months, and "beaten, starved, suffocated, tortured and threatened with death", according to the historian Myra MacPherson. After that, dissent was muted in America for a decade.

In Stalin's Soviet Union, dissidents were "enemies of the people". National Socialists called those who supported Weimar democracy "November traitors".

And here is where the circle closes: most Americans do not realise that since September of last year - when Congress wrongly, foolishly, passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 - the president has the power to call any US citizen an "enemy combatant". He has the power to define what "enemy combatant" means. The president can also delegate to anyone he chooses in the executive branch the right to define "enemy combatant" any way he or she wants and then seize Americans accordingly.

Even if you or I are American citizens, even if we turn out to be completely innocent of what he has accused us of doing, he has the power to have us seized as we are changing planes at Newark tomorrow, or have us taken with a knock on the door; ship you or me to a navy brig; and keep you or me in isolation, possibly for months, while awaiting trial. (Prolonged isolation, as psychiatrists know, triggers psychosis in otherwise mentally healthy prisoners. That is why Stalin's gulag had an isolation cell, like Guantánamo's, in every satellite prison. Camp 6, the newest, most brutal facility at Guantánamo, is all isolation cells.)

We US citizens will get a trial eventually - for now. But legal rights activists at the Center for Constitutional Rights say that the Bush administration is trying increasingly aggressively to find ways to get around giving even US citizens fair trials. "Enemy combatant" is a status offence - it is not even something you have to have done. "We have absolutely moved over into a preventive detention model - you look like you could do something bad, you might do something bad, so we're going to hold you," says a spokeswoman of the CCR.

Most Americans surely do not get this yet. No wonder: it is hard to believe, even though it is true. In every closing society, at a certain point there are some high-profile arrests - usually of opposition leaders, clergy and journalists. Then everything goes quiet. After those arrests, there are still newspapers, courts, TV and radio, and the facades of a civil society. There just isn't real dissent. There just isn't freedom. If you look at history, just before those arrests is where we are now.

10. Suspend the rule of law

The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 gave the president new powers over the national guard. This means that in a national emergency - which the president now has enhanced powers to declare - he can send Michigan's militia to enforce a state of emergency that he has declared in Oregon, over the objections of the state's governor and its citizens.

Even as Americans were focused on Britney Spears's meltdown and the question of who fathered Anna Nicole's baby, the New York Times editorialised about this shift: "A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night ... Beyond actual insurrection, the president may now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or any 'other condition'."

Critics see this as a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act - which was meant to restrain the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement. The Democratic senator Patrick Leahy says the bill encourages a president to declare federal martial law. It also violates the very reason the founders set up our system of government as they did: having seen citizens bullied by a monarch's soldiers, the founders were terrified of exactly this kind of concentration of militias' power over American people in the hands of an oppressive executive or faction.

Of course, the United States is not vulnerable to the violent, total closing-down of the system that followed Mussolini's march on Rome or Hitler's roundup of political prisoners. Our democratic habits are too resilient, and our military and judiciary too independent, for any kind of scenario like that.

Rather, as other critics are noting, our experiment in democracy could be closed down by a process of erosion.

It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile of barbed wire against the sky. In the early days, things look normal on the surface; peasants were celebrating harvest festivals in Calabria in 1922; people were shopping and going to the movies in Berlin in 1931. Early on, as WH Auden put it, the horror is always elsewhere - while someone is being tortured, children are skating, ships are sailing: "dogs go on with their doggy life ... How everything turns away/ Quite leisurely from the disaster."

As Americans turn away quite leisurely, keeping tuned to internet shopping and American Idol, the foundations of democracy are being fatally corroded. Something has changed profoundly that weakens us unprecedentedly: our democratic traditions, independent judiciary and free press do their work today in a context in which we are "at war" in a "long war" - a war without end, on a battlefield described as the globe, in a context that gives the president - without US citizens realising it yet - the power over US citizens of freedom or long solitary incarceration, on his say-so alone.

That means a hollowness has been expanding under the foundation of all these still- free-looking institutions - and this foundation can give way under certain kinds of pressure. To prevent such an outcome, we have to think about the "what ifs".

What if, in a year and a half, there is another attack - say, God forbid, a dirty bomb? The executive can declare a state of emergency. History shows that any leader, of any party, will be tempted to maintain emergency powers after the crisis has passed. With the gutting of traditional checks and balances, we are no less endangered by a President Hillary than by a President Giuliani - because any executive will be tempted to enforce his or her will through edict rather than the arduous, uncertain process of democratic negotiation and compromise.

What if the publisher of a major US newspaper were charged with treason or espionage, as a rightwing effort seemed to threaten Keller with last year? What if he or she got 10 years in jail? What would the newspapers look like the next day? Judging from history, they would not cease publishing; but they would suddenly be very polite.

Right now, only a handful of patriots are trying to hold back the tide of tyranny for the rest of us - staff at the Center for Constitutional Rights, who faced death threats for representing the detainees yet persisted all the way to the Supreme Court; activists at the American Civil Liberties Union; and prominent conservatives trying to roll back the corrosive new laws, under the banner of a new group called the American Freedom Agenda. This small, disparate collection of people needs everybody's help, including that of Europeans and others internationally who are willing to put pressure on the administration because they can see what a US unrestrained by real democracy at home can mean for the rest of the world.

We need to look at history and face the "what ifs". For if we keep going down this road, the "end of America" could come for each of us in a different way, at a different moment; each of us might have a different moment when we feel forced to look back and think: that is how it was before - and this is the way it is now.

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands ... is the definition of tyranny," wrote James Madison. We still have the choice to stop going down this road; we can stand our ground and fight for our nation, and take up the banner the founders asked us to carry.

· Naomi Wolf's The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot will be published by Chelsea Green in September.

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