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Thanks Caitlin. You are correct, of course. Jim Garrison came to understand this over the course of his investigation into the JFK assassination. From his May 27, 1969 interview: "The President of the United States is a transient official in the regard of the warfare conglomerate. His assignment is to act as master of ceremonies in the awarding of posthumous medals, to serve when needed as a salesman for the military hardware manufacturers, and to speak as often as possible about the nation's desire for peace. He is not free to trespass on the preserve of the war interests nor even to acknowledge that such an organism exists."

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I'm repeatedly gobsmacked by folks who fall into the seemingly logical trap of nationalism, believing that the idea of countries and national hegemony has remaining significance on a planet where, for example, special economic zones have become a new norm; where corporations run little colonial enclaves of serfs. Any disguise that once partly shielded the reality of direct corporate investor power to rule chunks of this planet and its workers has been pulled back, such that the oft-heard phrase "BlackRock owns everything" has evolved from metaphor or approximation to harsh reality. Forget Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama et al. These figureheads are fully enrolled proponents of Mussolini's construction of Fascismo -- il matrimonio di commercio e governo.

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