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Britain: A Functioning Democracy Itâs Not
Britain: A Functioning Democracy Itâs Not We at the Automatic Earth always try to steer clear of elections as much as possible, because there are no functioning democracies left in the west -no more than there are functioning markets-, and no journalists reporting on them either. Interesting question, by the way: how can a journalist […]
Sucking Spoilt Milk From A Bloated Dead Sow
Sucking Spoilt Milk From A Bloated Dead Sow With US GDP growth âofficiallyâ back where it belongs, in the Arctic zone close to freezing on the surface but much worse in real life, for reasons both Albert Edwards and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (not exactly a pair of Siamese twins) remarked this week; that is, excluding the […]
The End Is Near, Part 1: The âWar On Cashâ
The End Is Near, Part 1: The âWar On Cashâ As the saying goes, you can know a person by the quality of his or her enemies. This is also true of societies, where moral evolution can be traced by simply listing the things on which they declare war. Not so long ago, for instance, […]
Portrait of the American Oligarchy â The Very Troubling Income and Wealth Trends Since 1989
Portrait of the American Oligarchy â The Very Troubling Income and Wealth Trends Since 1989 One of the primary purposes of Liberty Blitzkrieg is to dispel the myth that America is politically a democracy and economically a free market, and prove that it is in fact a centrally planned oligarchy. If the people were well aware of this […]
How America Became an Oligarchy
How America Became an Oligarchy The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You donât. . . . You have owners.                           […]
Peter Thiel Blasts: The American Political System Is “Not A Democracy Or Constitutional Republic”
Peter Thiel Blasts: The American Political System Is “Not A Democracy Or Constitutional Republic” The obvious conclusion that the U.S. is neither a democracy nor a constitutional republic has been a key topic of conversation here at Liberty Blitzkrieg over the past several years. One of the most powerful representations of this unfortunate fact came from an academic study […]
Regime Change: USâ Failing Weapon of International Deception
Regime Change: USâ Failing Weapon of International Deception For years, Winston Churchillâs famous quote, âIt has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried,â has served as Americansâ last word in any political discussion which requires validation of the US government, no matter how corrupt […]
How the Public Are Deceived by the âNewsâ
How the Public Are Deceived by the âNewsâ If the public is systematically lied-to by the Government and by a virtually uniformly cooperative press suppressing key facts in order to pump that lie, such as was the case during 2002 and 2003 in the lead-up to Americaâs invasion of Iraq, then there canât possibly be […]
Global Conflict Intensity Spikes To 7-Year High
Global Conflict Intensity Spikes To 7-Year High If itâs not one geopolitical concern these days itâs invariably another. If todayâs story isnât weak-handed Greece escalating the rhetoric in its hopeless game of chicken with eurozone creditors, itâs ISIS ratcheting up the shock factor in a campaign to scare U.S. coalition partners away from an increasingly ineffectual […]
5 Ways to Unf*ck the World
5 Ways to Unf*ck the World âI rebel; therefore we exist.â âAlbert Camus Hereâs the thing: the earth is not fucked. The earth will go on evolving with or without us. In fact, in many ways it is better off without us. No, itâs the human world thatâs fucked. Either we adapt and overcome by making […]
So How Do We Ever Reach Political Reform?
So How Do We Ever Reach Political Reform? QUESTION:Â okay Martin, So assuming Capitalism (property rights) and (direct) Democracy is the Promised Land, how the Hell do we get there? How do we break the Oligarchy? Cheers, em ANSWER: No matter what system we do create, it will be gamed eventually. If you look at Athens, […]
2015: The War on Our Intuition That Something Is Fundamentally Amiss
2015: The War on Our Intuition That Something Is Fundamentally Amiss In 1967, the rock group Buffalo Springfield recorded a song titled For What Itâs Worthwhich speaks not just to the late 1960s but to the present. Consider the opening lines: Thereâs something happening here What it is ainât exactly clear The ambiguity is not coincidental.When […]
Why are people giving up on democracy? – RN Breakfast – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Why are people giving up on democracy? – RN Breakfast – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). New research shows an increasing level of discontent among western democracies, with a diminishing number of people in Australia who believe voting makes a difference. Matt O’Neil and Tim Roxburgh investigate what this growing disenchantment will mean for world politics in 2015. […]
Things To Do In 2015 When You’re Not Yet Dead – The Automatic Earth
Things To Do In 2015 When You’re Not Yet Dead – The Automatic Earth. America has managed to construct an entirely one-dimensional political system. Thereâs no discernible difference left between left and right, other than in spin language pre-cooked for the sole purpose of faking the concept of elections. Thereâs very right and ultra right. […]
