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Plutocracy: Government by the wealthy.
I want my country back!!! End Plutocracy!
All of the complaints about the transfer of wealth to the already wealthy are the results of Plutocracy.
Corporations are not the problem. Capitalism is not the problem. The Wealthy polluters wanting regulations reduced or eliminnated, Wealthy Financiers wanting a bailout, Wealthy Executives wanting tax cuts, Wealthy Mine Operators wanting safety regulations reduced, and Wealthy Meat processors allowed to add "Pink Slime" to ground beef and using their wealth to get what they want is the problem.
The Wealthy "Govern" by hiring Lobbiests and by donating to support the (re)election of Legislators who pass laws that benefit them and by donating to OPPOSE the (re)election of Legislators who don't pass laws wanted by the Wealthy.
I want my country back!!! End Plutocracy!
The "vote" has been taken from us, we have no "real" vote. Our "vote" is a sham done on corporate controlled "voting" machines that is changed without our permision, "counted" by corporate controlled scanners so our "vote" comes out the way the oligarchs want..
To make sure they get what they want, they also choose the candidates, all corporate puppets who do not represent the working people. Pay not attention to what they say when running for office, they will say what you want to hear, instead, see how they have voted, see what actions they support. Talk is cheap and Obama talked about "hope and change" but that's not what we got, we got instead another Bush and more endless, illegal wars and occupations and more money shifted to the rich and big corporations.
MONEY is what has the real voice in America, them that got's the money has the ear of "our" representatives, we are mere "taxpayers" and cannon fodder for their endless, illegal wars for oil and other resources.
If you really think that your vote can change policy, I have some ocean front property to sell you cheap in Arizona.
Your kidding aren't you?
Why do you think they call it the CRIMINAL justice system?
Because "justice" here is CRIMINAL!
There are two kinds of "justice" in America, one for us, the "criminal" type, and another for the rich and big corporations, the "Justice" type.Smoke a bit of dried herb and your sent to prison, cheat millions of people out of billions of dollars and you go free to continue your "work".
There is NO "justice" in America!
Palindromedary, Another Excellent article! Between yourself and Teneraansis, your intellect teaches with understanding, wisdom, and no-nonsense. This is very much a no-nonsense situation as people gather and are abused and locked up for their Constitutional right through peaceful Revolution.The military, "the people's" own U.S. military, need be brought back to their side in order to protect the people and clean the nations of all those who work for the 1% including the 1%, and we are hoping the people, including the military, will eventually come to see that this is the only way. The people will change nothing by forming new political parties, other than become corrupt themselves as we have seen throughout history. Why? Because the 1% run each and every system in the world and when a world leader steps out of line in doing something wonderful for the people as President Kennedy and President Abraham Lincoln did in applying quantitative easing (for which they were both murdered) for the people, they do not last long on this earth for having other nations' militaries thrown at their own.
This is what happened; President Lincoln tried to free the slaves in the south. He went to the London bankers and asked for the funds to finance his war effort. The London bankers said to him: 'Yes, we will lend you the money at 20% interest per annum (per year). President Lincoln then retorted figuratively speaking to "go fly a kite." President Lincoln then turned around and utilized quantitative easing by creating his own funds to finance the war effort. For that the 1% murdered him. That is why he was loved. Not because he won the war against the south but because he got the people out from underfoot to the British bankers. And they were the 1% then whose decendants are today ruling the world.
So the U.S. military and its various sections must align themselves back with the people, otherwise one would have nothing more than a civil war which would accomplish nothing. We could say that the U.S. had a split military at the time of the civil war and we would be quite correct. But now, today, you have only one U.S. military albeit presently in the hands of the 1%. President Lincoln did not even have this advantage.
The American civil war brought about no change in the economy, not only because the plantation farmers in the south did not want to work industrially with the merchants in the north, but because Abraham Lincoln could no longer continue with his quantitative easing program for the people. The ones in Washington worked against him in more ways than one and so Washington, D.C., already had by that time became a cesspool of workers within the millions of eyes working for the great 1% which Benjamin Franklin had already warned the people about. To make life even all the harder, the Mafia got to work in the government, threatening, and working with payoffs to those who eventually came onto their own bankrolls.
You can reason with the people, but some people will nontheless dig in their heels and go contrary to all logic and sensibility. Many people are estranged of good common sense. This is why most past Revolutions have brought about an element of change, but have really not dealt with the problem, nor brought about a viable and long standing solution.
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(I may bold this later to make it easier to read but for now I have words highlighted)
ALL OUT REVOLT !!!
I selected no, but I don't know what a BANSTER is. LOL
And What Does the New World After the Revolution Look Like?
An inexperienced driver loses control of his new automobile and plows its front end into a brick building. The damage to the car is severe, but an assessment on the vehicle dictates that it is more cost efficient to repair the vehicle rather than write it off. And so finally the insurance company decides to entrust the repair of the vehicle to a competent auto body repair shop.
This scenario repeats itself daily thousands of times world-wide. However in this analogy the only thing we will do differently from what an insurance company usually does is that WE WILL NOT RETURN THE REPAIRED VEHICLE BACK INTO THE HANDS OF THE INEXPERIENCED DRIVER, BUT RATHER ENTRUST THE AUTOMOBILE INTO THE HANDS OF SOMEONE WITH A DRIVING RECORD TO MATCH AND WORTHY OF HANDLING A NEW VEHICLE!
The inexperienced driver is the current financial order. The automobile they drive is this world. The damage they do is to the people they govern and the earth's environment. The price the people pay for being governed without competency is their shattered lives and the erosion of earth as their habitat. The new driver is the New Guard which is changing and ready to take over the wheel.
The restoration of the vehicle is...
* the removal of the money system to occur after quantitative easing on behalf of the people has restored economic balance to the people. It will translate into the abolition of taxes, usury and debts,
* the introduction of the purchase order as means of payment,
* the people's free access to food, housing, transportation, clothing, etc. etc. etc.,
* a restoration of truth in that the people will be taught in truth.
The above of which will create...
* a society without crime,
* a restoration of true love,
* a restoration of true justice, which makes allowance for forgiveness, compassion, and restitution,
* peace among nations, which will see their borders become increasingly irrelevant,
* a restoration of the sisterhood of man as an equal partner to that of the brotherhood,
* allowance for benefiting from man's brain capacity without government and corporate red tape,
* PEACE in the family, the nation, and the world.
Many qualified soul structures are standing by to take over from the "old (neglectful-in-their-duty) guards," who failed to protect the interests of the people for a decent livelihood. So now, at the end of this millennium the old guard will be forced to step aside, and the direction this world will be going becomes corrected to assure this "automobile" will be steered into a place of its intended destiny: A NEW WORLD IN PEACE!
For their own good the people of this earth just better get used to the fact that these "qualified soul structures" consist of leaders (seen or unseen by the public eye).
They will not be prosecuted unless they do something stupid. But they have lawyers to fix their "mistakes". God bless the occupy protesters. Wish this 68 year old Vietnam Era Veteran could walk with them.
Wow I see allot of fancy jabber jawing soap boxing here today.
Is the better nature a start sure it is.
"BroRock" is not the bad fish he is just caught in the bad guy’s ocean. We all have allowed the ocean to become what it is out of our own greed or complacence. I believe with the people squarely behind him "BroRock" will make a more radical stand against the in bedded corruptors of this system mostly corporate owned courts, law makers and government heads. When a nations media owners do spin stories instead of truth and news it muddles the whole situation. Thank GOD for Thom. Two things "BroRock" must do is appoint SCJ and reform elections to public funding only. Love has been missing while most folks choose to worship wealth or power. OWS is bringing the lost love back to America and the world Yee Haa.
Agreed and Greenspan was one of the worst Pushed hard for Free not fair markets and trade and Letting markets 'take care of things ' Well they did and they led US to disaster / global crash / depression / 700 billion TARP scam Lies about Iraq
Voters made it all possible Gullible uninformed lazy too busy clueless whatever the case
The Only power we have left is the vote and our voices Speaking out- pushing them till they listem People power works It has in Wis Gov Walker may be recalled.. IN Ohio Gov Kasich- Gov Scott in Fla Obama changed his tone with SS /Medicare deep cuts because we spoke up -demanded .our rights . More to come IF we do not get lazy - or give up Must Keep strong thru Nov 2012 Hammer them often www.congress.gov www.whitehouse.gov 202 456 1111 9- 5 M-F
www.factcheck.org www.politifact.com Read Andrew Bacevich Former Colonel who's son died in Iraq . He tells real story of US military power structure / Bush admin / Generals who wage wars / US massive war machine that makes billions off death & suffering . Iraq war was a GIFT to AL Quada / Bin laden Making more enemies than ever . Thank Bush Cheney Rice and Rummy
Why did they get to walk away Unscathed dumping and blaming all on Obama ? Justice has not been served Goldman rules Wall ST-why do they get a pass ? This is where our rage & distrust comes from We see crime / fraud pay handsomely again and again..
Will the "progressive" arrests and prosecutions begin with Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers, the corporate party Democrats' financial gurus who engineered the removal of the wall between banking and unlimited theft that Bill Clinton signed into law — the biggest pump and dump gangster fraud in history? Will the "progressives" prosecute Clinton for that, and for his war crimes too?
After jailing or hanging Rubin, Summers, Clinton and lots more Democrats, and proceeding on though the prosecutions of the Cheney/Bush Regime that the Democrat majority wouldn't do when they could have, will the "progressives" then MoveOn to prosecute Obama for his protecting and rewarding the corporate criminals who provided his POTUS installation, and for Obama's war crimes that the "progressive" perpetual war party vote relabeled "necessary" and "humanitarian" crimes?
There's nothing more disingenuous than the corporate party (D) dedicated "progressive" liberals are.
http://www.chenangogreens.org
I think banksters will be prosecuted only if President Obama is re-elected. The chances of a republican president jailing them is ZERO.
I voted no..because I don't think they will be punished...but I wish they would be!
they have broken the trust of our people
Mainly I voted YES because I want to promote that answer to get it to happen. If things just stay the same, of course it will be NO!
Right now I have no faith in our election process at all. There is so much election disenfranchisement going on and so much Corporate money going into TV advertising that will lie and obfuscate, that I see no chance for us to get people in government who will work for the changes we need. Several days ago I spent a chunk of my time filing out a questionnaire to start a campaign to have an election over the internet. The thing is, even if we could get most people who vote to participate, it still won't work because we still have to cast our votes within the current system, which is so rigged!
I just hope I am wrong!
Thom,
You are a hero in every sense of the work.
hi Thom your one page asks for opinions on how occupy will unfold.......
just as any closed minded hate filled individual arguing for the pros of this system. the elite due to ignorance will do everything they can to put us down.. never will they accept the views of the left, or that maybe they have been wrong and brainwashed, even if God told them directly. Considering they own the government and hence the police and military things will not change without major bloodshed. people have been trained and brainwashed to be sheep and its so very sad that most will go away at the first signs of the billy bat or tear gaz. oh how i pray nightly for a peaceful solution but only God can stop this now..
hi Thom your one page asks for opinions on how occupy will unfold.......
just as any closed minded hate filled individual arguing for the pros of this system. the elite due to ignorance will do everything they can to put us down.. never will they accept the views of the left, or that maybe they have been wrong and brainwashed, even if God told them directly. Considering they own the government and hence the police and military things will not change without major bloodshed. people have been trained and brainwashed to be sheep and its so very sad that most will go away at the first signs of the billy bat or tear gaz. oh how i pray nightly for a peaceful solution but only God can stop this now..
"The meek shall inherit the earth?"
Yeah, maybe, but all they will get is leftovers...if that. It might end up being a burned out cinder and cesspool...who will want that?
I think the problem is, and always has been, that the meek are their own biggest problem...they're meek. They let the Romans...or anyone else run roughshod over them. The Romans still control a large part of the population, after all these years, because they were able to control propaganda...feed people with "don't worry about your miserable and bleak existence of exploitation here on earth because you will get your rewards in heaven"...and "give unto Caeser...what is Caesars"....and "don't rebel against your masters". If you pride yourself for being meek...Jesus-like, if you will, then the few who excel at being greedy and rapacious along with devious and cunning will love it that you are so easily psyched into inferior positions that makes it easy for them to take advantage of you. But then, those aspiring saints are often conflicted with the want of material things, tempted by the devil perhaps, and resort to a kind of hypocritical existence. Some have even "risien?" to such saintly heights as heads of banks and big-time gamblers of OPM (other people's money) at Wall Street. They may see themselves as "doing God's work" and despise all of the little people who are nothing but a bunch of lazy losers who deserve their plight....greedy little maggots who think they deserve to have a decent shelter, food, and medical care.
The modern-day Roman Empire continues to psyche us into a kind of voluntary slavery...tempting us with the tantalizing dreams of having the good life...with all of the material things we are induced to want. Constant psychological pressure to want this or that by marketing hype...a constant barrage of advertizing..honed by legions of psychologists on the payroll of these companies...keep us all addicted to collecting so many things that they mostly end up as cluttering junk...we need bigger houses to hold it all. The psychological marketing of real estate and banks to get you hooked into believing you have to sell your soul, rather your future, into buying a house...or maybe even "moving up" keep you hypnotized, zombie-like, into signing on the dotted line.
And then, when we are all indebted to the gills, indebted to a life of slavery, of debts we owe, and a continued history of squeezing the wages and salaries to our inability to feed our families, the gamblers wreck the markets, valuations of our "investments" fall but our liabilities continue. We are caught between a rock and a hard place...and the rich have the gall to claim that it is all "our fault". What? For going along and believing in the capitalist religion and marketing ploys that the rich entrapped us with in the first place? When advertising deviates from just informing people of the availability of their products to psychologically hooking you into believing you can't live without it, or you will smell bad, or you will look silly because you are the only one on the block without it, or it will save your life, your sex life, or your economic well-being then the rich, who strove to benefit from deceiving you, should not be able to turn around and blame the people for being impoverished because of their marketing hype. Real Estate and bankers were especially bad at convincing us that we had better buy now or never be able to buy a house because the prices would continually go out of sight. Many of these real estate people and banksters knew that their house of cards would, or "the bubble", would eventually disintegrate leaving millions in the condition they are in now. They knew it! They planned it! And now they need to suffer our wrath! The many against the few who screwed us for their selfish greed!
yes, indeed, but you should form the new party anyway, and right away...
Thanks Thom,
Liberals look to move forward while Conservatives just say NO.
Proud to be a Liberal.
Let's work with http://www.getmoneyout.com - to get DC cleaned up by a Constitutional Amendment.
The military may be goone, but there will still be contractors (mercenaries) from Xe, DynCorp, etc., in Iraq in perpetuity. Forever and Ever, Amen.
My current optimism obliges me to thank the following for having enough extreme sociopathic behaviour,...... "greed and thirst for power,"...... to piss off the whole world. Their self-puffery has finally created an atmosphere conducive for the rebirth of DEMOCRACY.
Dick and George ,Phil and Wendy, Charles and David, Roger and Rupert, John, Sam, Anthony, Clarence and Antonin, Rush... the list goes on but all so infamous we only need the first names.
By the way more corp. media denial......"So far, probably fewer people have participated in all of them combined...."occupy protests"... than attended one Tea Party rally. GEORGE WILLS... Gannett ...in a local paper!
Intertesting comment by first person. It's most unfortunate that conflict is a way of life over in Iraq!! For a President to make a horrible decision to invade Iraq and the dollars he spent to convince the public "there is a need" to invade Iraq!!!!! What really gets to me is those d________ Republicans and constant vocal concern on the size of the debt!! I guess any person with any kind of common sense would agree with the conservatives, "not!" I certainly hope and pray the troops, all of them, will be out of Iraq by the end of this year! Actually, it's sad our troops have stayed this long. To ponder on how many troops have been killed and injuried, it truly hurts deep down!!!! I am a Viet-Nam veteran and I have a handle on what I am talking about!! It' also time we get our butts out of Aftganastan (sp?). I questioned what have we as a nation really accomplished! Consider the money, the troops killed and all the lives that have been changed due injury, war is hell and nobody wins!!!!!!!
"Too Big to Fail" Statement is a Contradiction Mind Bender! It is widely in use among (lying or ignorant) politicians to justify trillions of dollars to be handed over under banking control, allegedly to re-capitalize banks with funds for lending to the public, and all this under the auspices of a Government having to "borrow" the trillions against the taxpayers with interest, from the banks (in this case Federal Reserve) in the first place.
Explain this: If the Federal Reserve, which is a bank, can create trillions for the Government to hand over to other "banks" (too big to fail) then why bail them out while these other banks have the same power to create funds as the Federal Reserve Bank? All "toxic" loans were at the time created as new funds "out of thin air" by these "other banks", considered "too big to fail." So then, why bail a bank out which by its very nature is incapable of failing as it sits on its own infinite source of funds available "with the stroke of a pen," or a "click on a computer mouse"?
Whow!! Is the action of "bailing out banks" ever a wagon load full of contradictions. When the banks received all this bail-out money, they did not spend it on infusing the public with credit in the form of new loans, they spent it on their cronies, the stockholders and investors, to bail them out from falling stock prices, and in that manner funding them with all this "free" money to snap up lots of gold for an even greater financial windfall to themselves as gold has risen to over $1.800.00/ounce. Criminal activity, in my opinion. From that a whole bunch more super-rich individuals are today the legitimate owners of many more billions in their own personal offshore bank accounts as a consequence of this fraud. But that is merely a sorry side-story of the "too big to fail" philosophy.
The mind-bender aspect of this phrase lies in the fact that firstly: a bank cannot fail!! Bankers want the public to believe this, and so the ignorant politicians believe it, thinking they have to come to the rescue of a bank! A bank's business is the creation of funds out of thin air as they are legally permitted to multiply their deposits by a factor of 10 or more, and have those amounts then available for lending to the public. They create funds like a steel mill produces steel and have no requirement for becoming "rescued" by any government.
When a politician says "too big to fail", he (or she) presents to the public the false assumption that a bank operates like any other business - subject to balancing income and expenditures, which is a false assumption. These uninformed politicians use the lie as an excuse to fleece the taxpayers and saddle them with trillions of more unnecessary debt, which translates into an increase in taxes upon the present and future generations. The politician is either a lying crook or sincerely duped. The latter is probably so in most cases.
And is there any wonder that the fleeced 99% of this world's population are beginning to rise up against these thieving crooks? Should we succeed to let these dear people understand exactly what is being done to them by the defunct lying system, then their motivation for an effective rebellion will multiply at the expense of the fleecing 1%.