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from www.furnitureforthepeople.com/freepress.htm In his book Why Economies Grow economist Jeff Madrick talked about how inequality is changing the country. Politics determines economic outcomes - campaign contributions give the edge to those who can afford the entrée. It goes even deeper. What's emerged full-blown is the military-industrial complex famously predicted and feared by President Eisenhower fifty years ago. It's no longer possible to tell where the corporate world ends and government begins. The poster boy for this new elite is Richard Cheney. As the head of Halliburton, he made a fortune from the influence and access gained through his earlier service in government. Then Halliburton corporation gets favored and confidential treatment soon after Mr. Cheney becomes George Bush's vice president. Now the big construction company Bechtel receives a contract that could pay three quarters of a billion dollars for work in post-war Iraq. Bechtel gives lots of money to politicians, mostly to Republicans. On its board is George Schultz, who ran Bechtel before he became President Reagan's Secretary of state. One of Bechtel's senior vice presidents is a former general who serves on the Defense Policy Board along with other hawks like Richard Perle and James Woolsey who wanted war with Iraq and got it. They advise the Pentagon and then turn around and make money out of their defense contacts. These fellows are all honorable men, I am sure - but they call for war with all the ferocity of non-combatants and then turn around and feed on the corpse of war. Illegal? Not in our system. Unsavory? No matter how you slice it. But the main point is this: America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own, and they are privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies, and rewards - flow in one direction - up. And the people Jeff Madrick talked about - whose faith in the fairness of the American way of life is the bulwark of our country - are left outside, looking in. - Bill Moyers Bill Moyers @ Democracy Now: "Big Media is Ravenous...These Conglomerates are an Empire, and they are Imperial." Bill Moyers @ You Tube: NCMR 2007 -- PART 2 |
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OPTIONS to the Democrans and Rebublicrats:
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"...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive... it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government...it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...
...invasions on the rights of people...waging War against us...destroy[ing] the lives of our people...In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress...Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury...a Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free People...deaf to the voice of justice..."
The Declaration of Independence
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...AND what of Anarchism?
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How did the government spend your tax money?: www.nationalpriorities.org/taxes/IncomeTaxCHart04.html
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'I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.' R. Nixon
'I don't recall.' R. Reagan
'No new taxes.' G. H. W. Bush
'I did not do that.' B. Clinton
'It would be much easier if I were dictator.' G. W. Bush www.votetoimpeach.org/
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"The greatest purveyor of violence on the Earth is my own government." Martin Luther King Jr.
"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of this great nation." G.W. Bush
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Two of the laws of politics which came out of the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, which I like to cite:
The First Watergate Law of American Politics states: "No matter how paranoid you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."
The Second Watergate Law states: "Don't believe anything until it's been officially denied."
Both laws are still on the books. William Blum
Author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II and Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
www.zmag.org/ForeignPol/blumtop.htm www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/ www.addictedtowar.com/dorrel.html www.americanempireproject.com/index.htm www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/Empire_PeoplesHx.html Rant Archive 11 U.S. Empire/Foreign Policy Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
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What may become
of our future
under
the Patriot Act,
"Big Brother," and
"Total Information Awareness"?
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that give up liberty to obtain safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety."
"If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag." "No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other." Justice in War-Time (1916), Bertrand Russell Russell, when asked if he thought fascism would take hold in America one day, said that we only need to look to America's policies and actions abroad, supporting fascist dictatorial rule over democracy, to know that fascism will "come home to roost."
more rants form minds we admire
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