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Total Incompetence of Career Politicians
Total Incompetence of Career Politicians Someone really needs to do a study on people who seem to want to rule the world yet have absolutely no clue what they are doing, which is really 98% of all politicians. What drives these people? Is it just greed to sell influence and get outrageous speaking fees? Until […]
An Oligarchy Has Broken Our Democracy. It Must Be Dislodged
An Oligarchy Has Broken Our Democracy. It Must Be Dislodged January 18, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “The Guardian” – Each new election year promises change. We will choose a new president and new representatives in Congress; fresh faces will make their appearances in Washington DC, while old ones disappear. But what about the people who […]
Federally Funded Think Tank Explains How U.S. Government Could Attack Decentralized Digital Currencies
Federally Funded Think Tank Explains How U.S. Government Could Attack Decentralized Digital Currencies The RAND report goes one step further and suggests that governments should use advanced technical means to actively disrupt virtual currencies. That includes terrorist groups, but also peaceful deployments of digital currencies by other non-state actors, and a general war on privacy […]
Playing the Government’s Game: When It Comes to Violence, We All Lose
Playing the Government’s Game: When It Comes to Violence, We All Lose By John Whitehead, constitutional and civil rights attorney, the Rutherford Institute. “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because […]
America 2016: What Happens When a Nation Gives Too Much Political Power to the Super Rich
America 2016: What Happens When a Nation Gives Too Much Political Power to the Super Rich Sheldon Adelson. (East Coast Gambler / CC BY 2.0) As the high-powered shenanigans of Las Vegas casino mogul and GOP bankroller Sheldon Adelson show, “Oligarchy, rule by the few, also tends to become rule by the monstrously self-centered,” Paul Krugman writes […]
The War on Encryption and Bitcoin – Nothing to Do with Terrorism, Everything to Do with State Control
The War on Encryption and Bitcoin – Nothing to Do with Terrorism, Everything to Do with State Control In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with […]
Verging on Plutocracy? Getting Real About the Unelected Dictatorship
Verging on Plutocracy? Getting Real About the Unelected Dictatorship In politics as in medicine, excessively mild remedies are typically based on overly placid diagnoses. Look, for example, at the highly esteemed Columbia University historian Eric Foner’s recent letter of congratulations and advice to Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in The Nation. As I have argued […]
VIDEO: Chris Hedges on the Big Lie of Neoliberalism and the Very Real Threat of a President Trump
VIDEO: Chris Hedges on the Big Lie of Neoliberalism and the Very Real Threat of a President Trump Chris Hedges doesn’t spare Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton or even Bernie Sanders in this wide-ranging take on the big swindle of neoliberalism and his warning for the future in the hands of a “rapacious oligarchic elite.” Hedges […]
The Oligarch Recovery – Low Income Americans Can’t Afford to Live in Any Metro Area
The Oligarch Recovery – Low Income Americans Can’t Afford to Live in Any Metro Area We were told we needed to bail out Wall Street in order to save Main Street. Well the results are in… Wall Street has never done better, and Main Street has never done worse. From the Huffington Post: Low-income workers and their […]
America’s Biggest Lie – Dictatorship Or Democracy?
America’s Biggest Lie – Dictatorship Or Democracy? The Deceit About Being A ‘Republic’ Versus A ‘Democracy’ One of my recent articles at several sites, “Jimmy Carter Is Correct That the U.S. Is No Longer a Democracy” generated many reader-comments (such as here) saying things like, “The US has always been a republic. There are no true democracies in the modern world.” This […]
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery” Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally-syndicated radio show The Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter […]
Concentrated Wealth + Widespread Stupidity = End Of Democracy
Concentrated Wealth + Widespread Stupidity = End Of Democracy Today’s America is not a democracy: “Dark Money Groups Are Funded By Dark Money Groups That Fund Dark Money Groups That Fund…” That terrific investigative news report by Paul Blumenthal at Huffington Post, on 9 November 2013,penetrated beyond what the U.S. oligarchy — or more traditionally called aristocracy — […]
The Constitution of the EU’s Dictatorship
The Constitution of the EU’s Dictatorship It’s here: http://www.esm.europa.eu/pdf/ESM Treaty consolidated 13-03-2014.pdf That’s the treaty establishing (which was originally done in 2012) the ultimate lending-fund for what the EU now officially considers to be a permanent economic crisis in Europe, of member-nations that are experiencing “severe financing problems,” and that are therefore continually ripe for […]
Former Senator Opines on the Incredible Corruption in America and the Fourth Branch of Government
Former Senator Opines on the Incredible Corruption in America and the Fourth Branch of Government On a more personal level, how can public service be promoted as an ideal to young people when this sewer corrupts our Republic? At this point in early twenty-first-century America, the greatest service our nation’s young people could provide is […]
Capitalism Has Devolved Into Looting
Capitalism Has Devolved Into Looting In the Western World Capitalism Has Devolved Into Looting …when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that […]
