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Conservation of government

Conservation of government refers to the principle that the amount of "whatever it is that government needs to do" is roughly constant for a given configuration of geography, demographics, and resources.
As a result, attempts to reduce the size of "big government" only outsource the targeted tasks to the private sector, increasing the size of private, for-profit government,Lakoff, p. 63: 'The principle here is the "conservation of government." Deregulation and privatization do not eliminate government; they only make it unaccountable and take away its moral mission.' and/or reducing the quantity and quality of government services, having a disproportionate effect on the poor and middle class.[https://web.archive.org/web/20190826022924/https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and Sharon Parrott, Aviva Aron-Dine, et al., "Trump budget deeply cuts health, housing, other assistance for low- and moderate-income families," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 
Feb. 14, 2018, accessed Aug. 26, 2019.] The public mind is not often enough drawn to the idea that a corporation is a government, reaching for power like any other. While a corporation is nominally accountable to any shareholders it may have, it is not accountable to the public interest. In their very charters, for-profit corporations are notably without any interest in furthering the public good.
Describing this outsourcing to the private sector as "Privateering"Privateering, not Privatizing by Peter D. Moss is a way to bring public attention to the offensive nature of unjust enrichment, which may otherwise be cloaked in Tea Party terms such as "opportunity" and "deregulation."
==See also==
*Privatization
*Small government
==Further reading==
*Lakoff, George: The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain, 2008, Viking, New York
==References==
Category:United States politics
Conservatipedia

Conservatipedia was a blog owned by Chris Francis. It was believed to be a parody, though nothing of that nature has ever been proven (see Poe's law). In a post answering the satire question, Francis said: "It must be hard for seculars to handle the fact that there are real people out there that follow God's words and live by it."https://web.archive.org/web/20090904183452/http://www.conservatipedia.com/2008/01/answering-my-critics.html
There wasn't any indication of parody found in the HTML code of the site. Rumours have circulated that were members from Conservapedia who wanted to help support the site and write with a more offensive tone. The site used the slogan: "battling the liberal bias of the internet".
== 2008 U.S. election ==
Conservatipedia endorsed Mike Huckabee as the candidate of choice for the Republican Party. It called John McCain a "filthy liberal"John McCain was a filthy liberal and Mitt Romney a "filthy mormon"Mitt Romney Finally Quits. Links to Mike Huckabee's website were found under the conservative links menu. Huckabee is also suspected of being a parodist.
==Claims==
The blogger declared such things as:
*"Madonna has AIDS," which he claimed is divine punishment for having anal sex. 
*"A strong belief in our Lord Jesus Christ is really the only cure for aids."
*"All Moslems should be put into concentration camps."
*"Atheists are out to get your children".
==Reaction==
A few people commented on the blog posts, and seemed to be roughly split between those who believed it to be a parody and those who were just horrified.
==The party's over==
The final post on the blog, dated to October 31st, 2013, explicitly stated the blog was an example of Poe's law in action, though the author statedhttp://www.conservatipedia.com/2013/01/did-you-get-job-yet-damn-hipsters.html he did mix in his own beliefs. So, that's it, folks.
==External links==
*Conservatipedia (archive snapshot)
==References==
Category:Conservapedia
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Conservative Daily News

The Conservative Daily News is a conservative news and opinion website. According to the website, it was founded by Rich Mitchell in 2009 under the domain name plainhardtruth.com, which now links to a Blues band under the name "Plain Hard Truth."
On 24 October 2016, Snopes.com called the Conservative Daily News 'disreputable', after it falsely claimed that Russia would start World War III in 24 hours unless President Barack Obama stopped 'smearing' Russia: Obviously, the war that the Conservative Daily News attempted to predict didn’t happen.
==References==
category:Media
Conservative bias

Conservative bias is the tendency in the conservative mindset to ignore criticism of and inherent problems with conservatism and to exaggerate perceived problems with rival views. Reporters and editors at conservative news sources prefer reporting news stories in which ideologically conservative politicians or members of demographics likely to support them appear as "victims" of liberalism. More generally, replace "conservative" with any political, philosophical, scientific, or religious ideology, and you'll probably find that the same is true. Righteous victimhood is emotionally powerful. 
==Conservative bias in English language news media==
In the USA, most talk radio stations take a conservative tone. Most of these stations deny that conservative talk radio is in the majority; Thom Hartmann, a well-known liberal talk radio figure, almost has that field to himself.
In Britain and the U.S., many newspapers and other news outlets, specifically cable news networks, are owned by corporations, of which Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is portrayed as the archetype. This is cited as a factor in said news outlets being biased against socialism in their reporting and editorial stance, unlike non-corporate-owned papers such as the People's Weekly World in the U.S. or the Morning Star in Britain.
In Canada, newspapers have a history of endorsing the Conservative Party of Canada well over the party's polling popularity.Dwayne Winseck, "Lopsided coverage and support of the Conservative Party exemplifies the tilted playing field of electoral politics." Policy Options, November 3rd, 2015. Accessed June 19th, 2019.
The editorial stances on cable news outlets run from Al Jazeera and MSNBC on the left to Fox News on the right. Fox News, a.k.a. "Faux News," "Fox So-Called News," etc., has a definite conservative bias (any outlet which, until recentlyFox News Drops ‘Fair and Balanced’ Motto, took to calling itself "fair and balanced" should be regarded with suspicion); to cite just one example, during the 2000 U.S. presidential election it called Florida for George W. Bush at a time when polls had Al Gore in the lead.How Bush's man at Fox News worked to shape the outcome of the US election November 17, 2000, 
==See also==
*Liberal bias
*Conservative correctness
==References==
Category:Media
Category:Conservatism
Conspicuous consumption

Conspicuous consumption is a phrase popularized by the American sociologist and economist It refers generally to the public display of economic purchasing power to acquire and consume luxury goods, as a means to display the consumer's membership in a superior social class. Other forms of conspicuous consumption include invidious consumption, meant to provoke the envy of other people; and conspicuous compassion, the ostentatious display of charitable donations, often in exchange for public monuments and buildings bearing the donor's name, in an attempt to enhance the prestige of the owner. The theory of conspicuous consumption was developed by Veblen in his well known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).Veblen, Thorstein, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899)
==References==
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Category:Economics
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Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?

Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? is a made-for-TV schlockumentary promoting Moon landing hoax conspiracy theories that aired first in February 2001 on the Fox Network (not to be confused with Fox News). It's sometimes credited with rekindling the popularity of the hoax allegations.
The one thing it gets right is its main title: that is, it is a conspiracy theory. One might as well create a "documentary" titled Baseless Speculation: Is The Earth Really Round?. Again, the answer is Yes to both.
== Featured individuals ==
Partial list:
* Bill Kaysing
* Brian O'Leary
* Ralph René
* Bart Sibrel (that was before the famous punch)
== External links ==
* Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? on IMDb
* Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax, Phil Plait's review on the old Bad Astronomy website
* DID WE LAND ON THE MOON? A Debunking of the Moon Hoax Theory, Robert A. Braeunig's Rocket and Space Technology pages
* Are Apollo Moon Photos Fake?, an analysis of the photographs used in the program by Ian Goddard
* More of the same by a University of Wisconsin geologist
* An excellent parody on YouTube
Category:Films
Category:Conspiracy theories
Category:Moon
Category:Schlockumentaries
Constance Cumbey

Constance Cumbey is the author of the 1983 book The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow, the book which largely launched the evangelical Christian scare over the New Age. Cumbey located the origins of the New Age movement in the esoteric occultist writings of Benjamin Creme and Alice Bailey who were awaiting the coming of a new "messiah" named Maitreya. Cumbey considered the New Age a possible route to the rise of the "Antichrist" and "Maitreya" a likely candidate.
One of her claims was that the rainbow sticker, commonly used as a gay rights symbol, was actually a secret identifier used by New Agers to identify each other.When actually, they use the Papyrus font.
Constance Cumbey has accused Texe Marrs"Texe Marrs Disinformation for the 'New Age'" and Pat Robertson"What Was Pat Robertson's Real Agenda?" of wholesale plagiarism from her book.
==References==
Category:Conspiracy theorists
Category:Living people
Constitution

Constitution is the stat in D&D which determines how many hit points your character has... though in legal circles it can also mean the basic governing law of a state, which sets out (usually, though not always, in the form of a single document) the principles by which the state's government is organized, who is subject to it, and what the laws of the state can and cannot govern. Most countries have one, though some states, such as the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Israel, have no specific, entrenched constitutional document, relying instead on existing legislation, case law, and the doctrine of parliamentary supremacy as the basis for the rule of law. In these countries, legislation and case law relating to government powers and the rule of law are loosely referred to as constitutional law.
Though the term seems to mostly be a product of late medieval and early modern jurisprudence, the elements of constitutions go as far back as early law codes such as the Twelve Tables of Rome and the Hammurabi Code of Babylonia. Modern examples range from the relatively brief constitutions of the United States or Germany, to the extensive proposed European Union constitution, to the somewhat nebulous common law-based body of legislation that makes up the British constitution. In the countries with a brief constitution, the text is really vague, so they have a Supreme Court that makes up the rules as they go along – kind of like when your big brother taught you how to play Monopoly when you were a kid.
In the United States, when liberals and moderates are appointed to federal jobs, they put their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution. When conservatives are appointed to such posts, they put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
Magna Carta (which was not 'signed' by King John, and which was only in operation for a few weeks) and its successors were not a constitution in the modern sense, though they are considered to have formed the beginnings of the British Constitution.
==See also==
*Common law
*Judicial review — one process by which laws are evaluated for their constitutionality.
*Rule of law — not all constitutions guarantee this, but you basically can't have it without one.
*United States Constitution
 
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Category:Government
Category:Law
Consumer

A consumer is an end user of a product or service.
In modern capitalist economies, it is important that they truly "consume" the product, and throw it away, so they will have to buy another one. This keeps the cogs of the invisible hand turning and the pin factories hustling and bustling.
In kinder, gentler systems, they are also considered to be "people," and as such, to have "certain inalienable rights" not to be consumed themselves by the product or service — but this is a moot point, as in such systems they are not actually allowed any "products" to be "consumed" by; this would distract them from their task of being "liberated" from "oppression."Disclaimer: This refers exclusively to totalitarian communism in practice.
==See also==
*Consumerism
*Planned obsolescence
==References==
category:economics
Contactee

A contactee is someone who claims to have met extraterrestrials. It is most often used to describe those who claim some sort of ongoing contact, reporting messages from the aliens and eventually generally describing their experiences in vaguely religious or mystical terms. It is basically the concept of "medium" or "channeler" recycled for the space age.
One of the first, and thus most well-known, of the contactees was George Adamski, who claimed to have met a man from Venus while out in the California desert in the 1940s. Many of his descriptions of flying to the mild-climated planets Venus and Saturn, and the civilised societies encountered there were later shown to be completely different from the hard data reported by space probes. This may or may not be because his claims are very similar to the science fiction novel Pioneers of Space, written in 1949 by one G. Adamski.Marc Hallet, Why I can say that Adamski was a Liar, Skeptic Report Many claims of contact came after Adamski published his books; most of the contactees had less information to impart than did Adamski, and only Howard Menger supplied photographs - and composed music that he claimed to have heard on Venus.Howard Menger - Authentic Music From Another Planet (1957) - Track 2 - Marla on YouTube Cynthia Appleton, meanwhile, brought forth something far more substantial from her benevolent Space Brother friends - a baby.THE SPACE BABY
==See also==
*Billy Meier (pants on fire)
*Raëlism
*Alien abduction
*The Aetherius Society
==References==
Category:Ufology
Contagious Diseases Acts

The Contagious Diseases Acts were numerous bills passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1864 to regulate prostitution on the grounds that sexually transmitted infections were a significant threat to the military. It is known for being one of the major influences for 20th century feminism due to its questionable means of regulation.http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/contagious.html
==Background==
By the mid-19th century, the new ideal of women as the "Angel of the Home" became dominant across the United Kingdom, resulting in women finding it harder to seek employment in industry. This led to many resorting to prostitution, with 1863 police figures estimating 27,411 to be in the profession in England and Wales alone. With jingoism dominating the Victorian foreign policy, a moral panic was started where venereal diseases were seen as being the greatest threat to any nation's military (while a significant portion of the soldiery were infected, the very un-sexy cholera and dysentery killed far more off the battlefield than combat).https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/albion/article/opposition-to-the-contagious-diseases-acts-18641886/DE5835FF1E35B5F46D99EAFEC0475A31
Interestingly, it was not permitted for a British soldier to have sex in this era in the first place, so it says more about the quality of the soldiery than just the attitudes of the people.
==Controversy==
With an increasing number of prostitutes on the streets, the sanest problem-solving action by the jingoists was to arrest prostitutes around docks, thoroughly examine them, and then quarantine the infected for several weeks in sub-standard hospital wards before sending them back onto the streets.https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2012/oct/19/history-science The flaw of the Acts was that only women were subject to it, meaning there was no means of preventing infected men from having sex with those same freshly-treated prostitutes, thus failing to actually prevent the spread of the diseases. The feminist criticism of the time was that the legislators were too concerned with ruining the man's reputation (in both arresting him for soliciting prostitutes and in letting the neighborhood know he had syphilis). After two decades of accusations of breaching human rights, it was finally repealed.
==References==
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Containment

Containment refers to the United States foreign policy toward the Soviet Union following World War II and through to the USSR's collapse in the early 1990s. The origin of the doctrine is a 1946 cable from George Kennan to the US Treasury Department, in which the diplomat Kennan described concepts that would comprise the basis of American foreign policy with regards to the USSR; among these were the ideas that the Soviet Union viewed itself to be in "perpetual war" with capitalism, and that social democracy and communism were incompatible.Kennan's telegram The State Department then analyzed Kennan's telegram and proposed policy recommendations to President Harry Truman. Their report recommended "restraining and confining" Soviet influence. This rather vague statement allowed the United States to enforce "Democracy" on a worldwide scale, the effects of this being the basis, and justification, for the Cold War. 
==Truman Doctrine==
The following year, 1947, saw massive unrest in Greece and Turkey; in both nations, a communist movement was gaining traction. Truman requested $400 million in aid to grant to Greece and Turkey to fight against the communist "subversion."Truman's address to Congress Truman's request (made in the form of a speech to Congress) represented the first official instance of containment policy, and the policy of providing aid to governments of nations in which the threat of communist uprising was significant is known as the Truman Doctrine.
==Wars==
The United States has fought two major wars in attempting to "contain" the spread of Soviet influence (i.e. communism): the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Neither is remembered fondly.
The Korean War guaranteed the retention of South Korea in the capitalist camp. In this sense, it was a success, as the nation was a critical prop in the region, buttressing the rise of a booming Japan and in latter years becoming one of the most technologically advanced economies on the planet. However, it failed to affect North Korea, and the war led to the creation of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, in addition to winning the dangerous resentment of the batshit-crazy Kim Jong-il.
Vietnam... well, on the bright side, it inspired a lot of pretty good music. And, with a few exceptions (namely The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Platoon [before Charlie Sheen became insane], and Full Metal Jacket), some pretty mediocre films.
==See also==
*Communism
==External links==
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==References==
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Contract With America

The Contract With America (also known as the "Contract on America") was a series of ironically Satanic bullshit electioneering platform points formed by Newt Gingrich in the runup to the 1994 mid-term elections in the United States. Some, such as welfare reform (read: gutting) and a moratorium on regulation, had been GOP talking points for several years. 
Gingrich had been grooming potential congressional candidates, and his Contract was a unifying theme among them. While there were almost certainly other reasons involved, he and his proteges succeeded in taking control of the House of Representatives. However, the U.S. Constitution's much-derided system of checks and balances came through and most of the bills implementing reforms advocated in the Contract were stopped in the Senate.
==See also==
*Great Recession
==External links==
*Contract scorecard by PBS - Which parts have become law?
Category:United States politics
Contributive income

Contributive income is a proposition of the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, an ancient member of french's communist party, the PCF. It is described as an income given to people who engage in activities that has interest for the collectivity, whether this activities are already paid or not. It would then reward work of employees and the work of unemployed people. Contributive income is also complementary with basic income.
It will apparently be experimented in a French territory called Plaine Commune.http://www.leparisien.fr/villetaneuse-93430/plaine-commune-veut-tester-le-revenu-contributif-11-01-2017-6554634.php
==See also==
*Basic income
==References==
Category:Economics