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To continue my rants & replies: the article notes
The final truth is as income and wealth have risen to the top, so has political power. The reason all of this is proving so difficult to get across is the super-rich, such as the Koch brothers, have been using their billions to corrupt politics, hoodwink the public, and enlarge and entrench their outsized fortunes. They’re bankrolling Republicans who are mounting showdowns and threatening shutdowns, and who want the public to believe government spending is the problem.
They are behind the Republican shakedown.
And that's another of my "standard rants". What is this "invisible hand" that's behind things like censorship and responsible for the drivel we see on TV and total lack of any fair coverage of news?
When the Nazis took power the Propaganda Ministry was established almost immediately. It was charged with enforcing Nazi doctrine on the people and controlling public opinion.
"I consider radio to be the most modern and the most crucial instrument for influencing the masses.." was a famous and important quote from Goebbels.
So too with Fox News and such. It's in ALL the Amerikan media (Internet, tv, radio, newspapers). So who's OUR Goebbels? Nobody knows.
Now that the EPA cannot protect the environment and the FDA cannot protect us, "privatization" is running free and loose thanks to government "downsizing" of anything that was effective and useful for our protection and well being, thus the BP disaster (from a long series of safety violations and illegal shortcuts) and other under-reported industrial accidents.
I fear that someday we'll learn how corn sweetener is more hazardous than Cyclamates,Saccharin, (Nutrasweet), or Sucralose (Splenda). But there will be no reparations for all those hurt, injured or sickened by it, unless some ambulance-chaser lawyers leave something for the victims after their class-action suit (thus the TV commercials for asbestos litigation and such).
That's why my main totem animal is a ferret. They're enthusiastic, silly and happy, qualities needed to endure this "economy".
Re: It's the top 0.5 to 5%, not 20%
To continue my rants & replies: the article notes
And that's another of my "standard rants". What is this "invisible hand" that's behind things like censorship and responsible for the drivel we see on TV and total lack of any fair coverage of news?
At least in WW II, we knew Dr. Joseph Goebbels was propaganda minister
So too with Fox News and such. It's in ALL the Amerikan media (Internet, tv, radio, newspapers). So who's OUR Goebbels? Nobody knows.
Now that the EPA cannot protect the environment and the FDA cannot protect us, "privatization" is running free and loose thanks to government "downsizing" of anything that was effective and useful for our protection and well being, thus the BP disaster (from a long series of safety violations and illegal shortcuts) and other under-reported industrial accidents.
I fear that someday we'll learn how corn sweetener is more hazardous
than Cyclamates, Saccharin, (Nutrasweet), or Sucralose (Splenda). But there will be no reparations for all those hurt, injured or sickened by it, unless some ambulance-chaser lawyers leave something for the victims after their class-action suit (thus the TV commercials for asbestos litigation and such).
That's why my main totem animal is a ferret. They're enthusiastic, silly and happy, qualities needed to endure this "economy".
thank you and goodnight.