Trickle Down Tyranny (54 page)

Campaign donors, 141–44, 206–7

Canada, 10, 51, 198

Canter, David S., 116

Cap-and-trade legislation, 37, 78, 222, 227

Capital gains tax, 76–77, 99

Capitalism

Alinsky’s desire to end, 117

Cloward-Piven strategy to eliminate, 102

OWS call for prohibition of, 106

Capone, Al, 160

Carbon dioxide emissions, 11, 222, 223, 224, 227–28

Carbon monoxide emissions, 222–23

Cargill, 187

Carney, Jay, 33, 154

Carter, Jimmy, 27, 151, 161

Carville, James, 47

Castro, Fidel, 156, 184, 186, 187, 197, 198, 242, 264

Castro, Raul, 186

CBS, 33, 46

Ceccaldi, Marcel, 160

Censorship by default, 44

Center for American Progress, 103, 233

Center for Military Readiness, 171

Center for Public Integrity, 141

CERN.
See
European Organization for Nuclear Research

Cerrado, 228–29, 231

CFR.
See
Council on Foreign Relations

CFTC.
See
Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Chamber of Commerce, U.S., 134, 216–17

Charles, Prince, 196

Chavez, Hugo, 21, 187–92, 197, 198, 199, 217, 242

Chicago, 116, 132, 137, 141, 160

Chicago Sun-Times,
51

Chicago Tribune,
116

China, 9, 20, 102, 132, 134, 172, 201, 209, 211, 212, 233, 262, 264

Holdren’s dealings with, 80

Immelt’s dealings with, 78, 80

space program of, 80

U.S. economic policy criticized by, 95–96

U.S. foreign policy and, 3, 4

China Nuclear Corporation, 78

Christian, Charlie, 203

Christians

in Egypt, 5, 178–79

Islamist radicals
vs.,
118

OWS movement and, 105

terrorism and, 60–64

undermining of, 39

Christie, Chris, 85

Chrysler, 27, 108, 188, 209

Chu, Steven, 10, 213, 234

Churchill, Winston, 196–97

CIA, 47, 58, 131, 132, 152, 158, 182, 239–40

Citigroup, 82, 85

Citizens Against Government Waste, 35

Citizens for Tax Justice, 79

Clapper, James, 178

Clapton, Eric, 203

Clark, Jessica, 142

Clark, Wesley, 156

Clean Air Act, 222–23

Climate change.
See
Global warming

Climategate scandal, 47, 225

Climate Research Unit, 226

Clinton, Bill, 45, 46, 47, 85, 124, 137, 140, 146, 150, 156, 160, 183, 220, 241

economic policy of, 87–88

law license voluntarily surrendered by, 26

military cuts under, 2, 8, 9

Clinton, Hillary, 147, 161

Alinsky’s influence on, 115, 117, 149–50

on al-Assad, 176

on Ghadafi assassination, 6, 159

Libyan situation and, 148

CLOUD experiment, 226

Cloward-Piven strategy, 102

CNN, 46, 49, 54, 105, 187

Coalition for Democratic Unity, 190

Coca-Cola, 187

Coe, Frank, 131

Cohen, William, 137, 140

Cole, James, 252

Colombia, 231, 233

Columbia University, 146, 161, 232

Columbine High School killings, 60

Comex, 92–93

Commission for a Sustainable World Society, 233

Commodities traders, 214, 218–19

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), 218–19

Commonwealth Club of San Francisco (author’s speech at), 44–45

Communism.
See also
Leninism

OWS and, 101, 105, 110

PM
support of, 116–17

spies for, 131–32

Communist Party USA, 131

Communist Youth League, 117

“Community-based approach” to terrorism, 258–59

Conatel, 187

Congress, U.S.

attempts to rein in czars, 128

de facto
dissolution of, 32

Obama’s failure to work with, 266

Project Fast and Furious investigation, 249–50

vs.
the EPA, 227–28

Congressional Black Caucus, 104

Congressional Record,
132

Connecticut, 223

ConocoPhillips, 187, 189–90

Conquest, Robert, 45

Constitution, U.S., 24, 36, 123, 129, 152.
See also
Fifth Amendment; First Amendment; Fourteenth Amendment; Fourth Amendment; Second Amendment

NDAA violation of, 23

proposed budget-balancing amendment, 40

restoring, 18–19, 20

COP-16, 224

Coptic Christians, 178–79

Cordon sanitaire
policy, 50

Corporate cronies, 35–36, 123–44.
See also
Cabinet; Crony capitalism; Czars

kickbacks for, 141–44

Strauss-Kahn case, 135–40

Corporate income tax, 77–81

Correspondents Association Dinner, 46

Corzine, Jon, 85–86, 219

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), 24

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), 85, 87, 89

Covington & Burling, 240

Crane, Chris, 257

Crony capitalism, 19, 69, 79, 83, 84, 93, 97.
See also
Corporate cronies

Crowley, P. J., 189, 191

Cuba, 95, 156, 184–86, 197, 218, 264

Czars, 26, 36, 80, 123–29, 133, 134.
See also
Blair, Dennis; Browner, Carol; DuBois, Joshua; Feinberg, Kenneth; Holdren, John; Immelt, Jeffrey; Rivera, Henry; Sunstein, Cass

Congress’s attempt to rein in, 128

estimated number of, 123

extralegal appointment of, 124

Czech Republic, 3, 4

Daily Beast,
54

Daily Star,
53

Daily Worker,
117

Daley, William M., 132

Dancing with the Stars
(television program), 150

Dar al-Maal al-Islami Trust, 241

Data Protection Act (Britain), 52–53

Dawn
(Pakistani newspaper), 182

“Days of Rage,” 101–2, 110

DEA.
See
Drug Enforcement Agency

Debt, 264, 266

global, 2, 14–15

Goldman Sachs and, 35

growth of under Obama, 34, 40, 69, 71, 80

official
vs.
real obligation, 83

S & P downgrading of, 94–95

Debt ceiling, 94–95

Debt ceiling junta, 73–76, 166, 172

Declaration of Independence, 30, 42

Defense, national.
See
Military

Defense of Marriage Act, 38

DeLacy, Hugh, 131, 132

Delaware, 211–12

Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech
(Sunstein), 126

Democratic National Committee, 113

Democratic National Convention (2008), 119

Democrats

debt ceiling and, 166

labor unions and, 113–14

percentage of media voting for, 46

Republicans compared with, 19

rules for beating, 120–21

Deng, Wendi, 53

Derivatives, financial, 83–84, 88, 89, 93, 219

Detroit News,
134

Developing Communities Project, 116

Devil’s Island, 135

Diana, Princess, 196

Diaz, Jesus E., Jr., 255, 256–57

Dodd, Chris, 89

Dodd-Frank bill, 88–90, 100

Dodson, John, 248–49

Domestic Policy Council, 128

Donnelly, Elaine, 171

Dow Jones average, 94

Dream Act, 255

Dreams from My Father
(Obama), 105

Dreyfus, Alfred (Dreyfus Affair), 135, 136

Drug cartels, 17, 31, 258, 265.
See also
Project Fast and Furious

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), 17, 250

DuBois, Joshua, 127

Duscha, Jim, 111

Ecoanalitica, 188

Economic crisis of 2008, 2, 14, 68, 88, 89, 100, 146

roots of, 81–84

Economy, 2, 34–35, 65, 66–97, 265.
See also
Debt; Taxation

eggheads’ policies and, 145–46