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The Media and Our “Ignorant, Credulous and Propagandized People”
The Media and Our “Ignorant, Credulous and Propagandized People” I find it sad and sickening that most Americans, and the corporate media that shapes them, are more concerned about the effects of Russian “meddling” on our “democracy” than they are about our own home-grown oligarchs, who are not only meddling, but have bought Congress and […]
Do U.S. Oligarchs Exist? Not in Mainstream Media
Do U.S. Oligarchs Exist? Not in Mainstream Media We hear incessantly about Russian oligarchs. But do they also exist in the United States? You wouldn’t know it by watching cable news, says Jeff Cohen. TV news shows are good at getting viewers riled up. Day and night, I hear the anchors on CNN and MSNBC […]
Insanity Fatigue
Insanity Fatigue Oligarchs, though they speak of deconstructing the administrative state, actually increase deficits and the size and power of law enforcement and the military to protect their global business interests and ensure domestic social control. The parts of the state that serve the common good wither in the name of deregulation and austerity. The […]
Behind Vancouver’s Housing Bubble: How Canadian Casinos Are Use To Launder Millions In Chinese Drug Money
Behind Vancouver’s Housing Bubble: How Canadian Casinos Are Use To Launder Millions In Chinese Drug Money Nearly two years after we first observed that Vancouver‘s soaring real estate market is nothing but a bubbling melange of criminal Chinese oligarch “hot money”, desperate to get parked offshore in any piece of real estate, but mostly in […]
Has George Soros Committed Treason?
Has George Soros Committed Treason? “His only legitimacy is his wallet.” https://www.rt.com/usa/366579-soros-orgs-driving-trump-protests/ The press prostitutes continue to lie to us. They pretend that the anti-Trump protests are real spontaneous events although the prostitutes know that the “protests” are orchestrated by George Soros and front groups for the Oligarchy such as change.org and other fake progressive […]
Bowing to America’s Oligarchs
Bowing to America’s Oligarchs Commerce Secretary (and Hyatt Hotel heiress) Penny Pritzker was treated with kid gloves and spared tough questions at the National Press Club, showing how America treats its own oligarchs, writes Sam Husseini. Apparently, other countries, but not the U.S., have oligarchs. Billionaire and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker came and went to the […]
The Color Counterrevolution Cometh
The Color Counterrevolution Cometh Alex Podesta Had Sun Tsu co-authored a treatise on the art of sports with Capt. Obvious, a quote from that seminal work would probably read as follows: If your team keeps playing an offensive game and keeps losing, eventually it will end up playing a defensive game, and will lose that […]
Is it Government or Oligarchs?
Is it Government or Oligarchs? QUESTION: Martin, I am a capitalist and what we have today is the least efficient form of capitalism. Actually it is quite a destructive and dangerous form of capitalism when the concentration of power reaches this level. I think that in all these years that I thought we were talking about different […]
The New Mind Control
The New Mind Control The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do March 02, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “Aeon” – Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity’s future. In The Iron Heel (1908), the American writer […]
How the Public Get Suckered
How the Public Get Suckered The US aristocracy’s control over all the mainstream ‘news’ is ironclad – and this includes the political magazines, such as National Review, and The Nation; as well as ‘intellectual’ magazines, such as Harpers and The Atlantic. American ‘news’ media stifle democracy in America; they’re not part of democracy, in America. They’re like poison that’s presented as being ‘medicine’ […]
When it Really Mattered, Ben Bernanke Coddled, Protected & Bailed Out Financial Criminals
When it Really Mattered, Ben Bernanke Coddled, Protected & Bailed Out Financial Criminals Most of you will have seen Ben Bernanke’s recent crocodile tears regarding how he wished more individuals were held responsible, for you know, destroying the American middle class and handing over the nation to a handful of criminal oligarchs. As David Dayen notes, he […]
Time to Trade in Your Jag, Benz, BMW for a Dented Econobox: Days of Rage Are Coming
Time to Trade in Your Jag, Benz, BMW for a Dented Econobox: Days of Rage Are Coming The resistance will take the form of subverting the signifiers of wealth that exemplify the few who have benefited so greatly while everyone else lost ground. It’s time to trade in your Jag, Mercedes, BMW (and maybe your […]
The Care and Feeding of a Financial Black Hole
The Care and Feeding of a Financial Black Hole A while ago I had the pleasure of hearing Sergey Glazyev—economist, politician, member of the Academy of Sciences, adviser to Pres. Putin—say something that very much confirmed my own thinking. He said that anyone who knows mathematics can see that the United States is on the […]
