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MASTERS OF ECONOMIC CORRUPTION EXPOSED

“A report released today by US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has revealed the names of 18 former and current directors from Federal Reserve Banks who directly benefited from financial bailouts after the 2008 crisis. The Reserve directors worked in banks and corporations that collectively received over $4 trillion in bailout money allocated by the Federal Reserve,” begins a piece at Common Dreams.

But wait — shouldn’t this be a major headline at all of our mass media sites?  Oops, that would be too revealing, going against the major propaganda in the Land of the Free.

The Federal Reserve system, composed of banksters who secretly award themselves low interest or no interest loans they turn around and invest in high interest paper, while controlling the money supply and leaving us peasants on the hook for it, is about as corrupt as any financial system we could imagine at LUV News.  Maybe putting the Mafia in charge of the economy would be worse, but we’re not so sure.

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Despite the pretense of “free press” in the Land of the Free, we get only a slanted opinion from our mass media. Capitalism and the capitalists dominate and control the dictionaries, textbooks, daily city newspapers, TV stations, nearly all of the radio stations, cable companies, satellite companies, publishing houses/magazines by volume, in short, all but a smidgeon of print and electronic information.

To protect the ruling Forces of Greed (FOG), responsibilities for crimes are largely delegated to corporations which cannot be imprisoned or executed, no matter how many people they poison, electrocute, mutilate or murder in the pursuit of profit at any cost. Should a prosecutor get a wild notion of taking one of the FOG to court, they should be advised that the FOG make the laws, and the laws are pretty much air tight. Their go-fers in the White House and Congress sit up and roll over on command, providing backup when necessary, should a new law be needed.

In the 1930′s Al Capone and Adolph Hitler identified as capitalists, and both made it clear they despised communists (Hitler by putting them in the death camps long before he got to the Jews). Henry Ford and other industrialists greatly admired Hitler and supported his efforts (Ford provided thousands of trucks used in the invasion of France). Modern capitalists closely adhere to Capone’s “You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”

The first love of our ruling FOG is fascism, but Hitler gave the word such a bad connotation that they now choose to be fascists who go by the euphemism “capitalist.” When you control the dictionaries, words mean whatever you want them to mean, and many meanings have changed over the decades to cover up the creeping fascism-that-is-not-named.

Part of the indoctrination of Americans from birth is the demonization of the word socialism, seen by the ruling FOG as a means for the masses to redistribute their wealth through an outbreak of the dreaded democracy. And it is their wealth — all of it. Don’t take my word for it, ask them.

Paul Street has a piece, here, which goes beyond the economic propaganda, defining our dilemma, and giving us a road map out of our dire straits, should we choose to organize and struggle in that direction. —Jack Balkwill

Mario Piperni on the Dark Side

Another Republican Leaves A Party That’s Come “Unhinged”

June 13, 2012 By mario piperni

My question is, what took so long?

I’m a life-long Republican. My political affiliation has been woven intrinsically into the very fabric of my being.

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Today, however, I am a registered Republican no longer.

I came to the decision to leave the GOP not with a heavy heart, but with a broken one.

I reached this point through a long series of awakenings and realizations- a path marked by literally years of wrestling with, and finally accepting, the political implications of a number of difficult truths. It involved ever-increasing levels of cognitive dissonance, as I tried to square my experiences, concerns, and knowledge, with my continued loyalty to the GOP.

As a local GOP official after President Obama’s election, I had a front-row seat as it became infected by a dangerous and virulent form of political rabies.

In the grip of this contagion, the Republican Party has come unhinged. Its fevered hallucinations involve threats from imaginary communists and socialists who, seemingly, lurk around every corner. Climate change—a reality recognized by every single significant scientific body and academy in the world—is a liberal conspiracy conjured up by Al Gore and other leftists who want to destroy America. Large numbers of Republicans—the notorious birthers—believe that the President was not born in the United States. Even worse, few figures in the GOP have the courage to confront them.

Republican economic policies are also indefensible. The GOP constantly claims that its opponents are engaged in “class warfare,” but this is an exercise in projection. In Republican proposals, the wealthy win, and the rest of us lose—one only has to look at Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget to see that.

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Ultimately, leaving the GOP was necessary in order to maintain my own integrity. Leaving is also a public act of personal protest. I am under no illusions about its broader significance—it will have no impact on the trajectory of the political narrative in this nation. But that does not make it futile. On the contrary, as the shadows lengthen, such minor individual acts of defiance and dissent are more critical now than ever before.

Perhaps, one day, a reformed and responsible Republican Party will reemerge.

But until then, the GOP and I have reached a parting of the ways. In the poignant words of “Kathleen Mavourneen,” an old Irish ballad: “It may be for years, and it may be forever”

The move by the Republican Party to the dark side is not a recent one. It has been a steady march to the hard right since Reagan’s time in office, although it must be said that it has sped up exponentially with the election of Barack Obama. That said, my thinking is that while skin color plays some part in the right’s politics of lunacy during the last four years (e.g. birtherism), I’m not sure it would be all that different if Hillary had won in 2008. A look at the last thirty years of Republican evolution devolution indicates that no matter which Democrat won in the last election, the GOP and their media minions were primed and ready to forgo their last shred of integrity and go for an all out assault on anything and everything that blocked their way to power. And it goes without saying that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United made that job much easier.

It is not likely that the Republican Party will come to their senses at any time soon, if ever. The right’s indoctrination process has been a successful one which is why any attempt at reasonable, fact-based debate with most conservatives is, for the most part, an exercise in futility. They can’t hear you.

They really can’t hear you.

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Humor: The Borowitz Report

In Emergency Session, U.N. Declares Florida a Rogue State

Status of Democracy ‘Fragile,’ Spokesperson Says

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – Calling the status of democracy in the Sunshine State “fragile at best,” the United Nations met in emergency session today to declare Florida a rogue state.

The actions by Florida Gov. Rick Scott to purge the voter rolls in his state might have inspired the vote by the U.N., but as the spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General said, “We’ve had problems with elections in Florida before.”

The vote means the U.N. could soon dispatch a team of observers to Florida, led by diplomats from such democracies as Egypt and Libya.

Gov. Scott’s voter purge was only the latest in a series of events “that reveal a near-total breakdown of the rule of law in Florida,” the U.N. spokesperson said.

“This is a state where people have been killed for carrying Skittles and iced tea, or had their faces eaten off by zombies high on bath salts,” he said.  “And now this thing with Rick Scott.”

In other Florida news, former Gov. Jeb Bush yesterday risked alienating his fellow Republicans by making what Fox News called “a series of dangerously sane remarks.”

In stating that the current Republican Party would not be hospitable to the likes of Ronald Reagan, Fox reported, “Jeb Bush displayed a level of sanity that makes most of his fellow Republicans extremely uncomfortable.”

Mr. Bush was said to be huddling with his advisers to come up with a statement unhinged enough to win his way back into the hearts of the Republican mainstream, perhaps by advocating legal marriage between a man and an assault rifle.

Elsewhere on the political scene, President Obama today said he “misspoke” when he said last week that the private sector of the economy was fine: “What I meant to say was that Mitt Romney is a dick.”

And after a woman was arrested for cooking meth in a Missouri Walmart, the company released the following statement: “Walmart has a strict policy against American-made products.”