No one should ever have so much wealth that they can manipulate the fate of entire nations, and yet it is SOP in the land of the free:
Ten Ways Billionaires Who Hate You Are Manipulating You Right Now by @thewisewolf
1) The first manipulation is the illusion of choice. You think you have two parties representing different visions for America but both parties are funded by the same billionaires, vote for the same surveillance bills, approve the same defense budgets, and serve the same corporate interests. The choice you are given is which color tie the puppet wears, not who controls the strings.
2) The second manipulation is emotional hijacking. The news does not inform you, it activates you. Every story is framed to trigger fear or anger or disgust because those emotions bypass your rational thinking and make you easier to control. You are not watching journalism. You are being subjected to psychological operations designed to keep you in a constant state of agitation.
3) The third manipulation is tribal sorting. The algorithm learns what makes you angry and feeds you more of it until your entire worldview is shaped by outrage at the other side. You are sorted into a tribe not because you chose it but because keeping you tribal keeps you predictable and profitable.
4) The fourth manipulation is false scarcity. You are told resources are limited and the other tribe is taking what belongs to you. Immigrants are stealing your jobs. Welfare recipients are draining your taxes. The other party is destroying your healthcare. Meanwhile the billionaire class has more wealth than any humans in history and could solve most of these problems tomorrow if they wanted to.
5) The fifth manipulation is memory holing. Stories that threaten powerful interests get buried or forgotten within days. Exposed crimes result in no consequences. Historical context that would help you understand the present is never taught. You are kept in a perpetual present with no past to learn from and no future to plan for.
6) The sixth manipulation is controlled opposition. The voices you think are fighting for you are often funded by the same interests they pretend to oppose. The outrage merchant on your side of the aisle is playing a character designed to keep you engaged and angry and tuned in while nothing ever actually changes.
7) The seventh manipulation is the Overton window. The range of acceptable opinion is artificially narrowed so that anything outside it seems extreme. Ideas that were mainstream fifty years ago are now treated as radical. Ideas that serve elite interests are treated as moderate common sense. You are not choosing your beliefs from the full range of human thought. You are choosing from a menu they wrote.
8) The eighth manipulation is learned helplessness. You are shown so many problems with no solutions that you eventually give up and accept that nothing can change. This is intentional. A population that believes resistance is futile does not resist. They scroll and complain and feel superior for understanding how bad things are while doing absolutely nothing about it.
9) The ninth manipulation is identity capture. Your political affiliation becomes your identity, and any attack on your party feels like an attack on you personally. This makes you defend politicians and policies that harm you because admitting they are wrong would mean admitting you were wrong, and your ego will not allow that.
10) The tenth manipulation is the most insidious of all: you are manipulated into believing you are too smart to be manipulated. Every person reading this thinks the manipulations I described apply to other people, the stupid people, the brainwashed people on the other side. That certainty is itself a manipulation. The moment you believe you are immune is the moment you become most vulnerable
If anyone can afford to hand a ^donation^ of $100,000,000 to get the puppet they want to be their frontman/woman into power should be audited, by an outside company, because anyone who can do that on a regular basis is definitely not being taxed nearly enough. One hundred million could save dozens lives, could house dozens of homeless, could turn a city into using clean energy and cut pollution immensely. Could stop huge bills for hospital treatments. But, no, they give it for a man whose morals are so low they could wear a top hat and still walk under a flea's belly without it noticing.
Where do they get so much money from? Where did it come from in the first place? Who left it to them? Did they know what would be done with that money? Are they spinning in their graves at the uses their money is being put to? Or was it all made from corrupt dealings in the first place?
The US of A is not the land of the free, it is the land where money talks and ethics died along with the few good men who had a vision, until along came the conmen/women who spoke the creed that greed was good, but only for them, they rest of you are meant to scrape, crawl and beg for crumbs whileyhe corrupt live the extremely high life through keeping you down and profiting from the work YOU do that keeps them wealthy while doing nothing but interfering in governments for the fun of it because they have too much time on their jewel encrusted hands.
Are you not merely describing the industry, perhaps older than what is commonly traced to cave dwellers as being 'the oldest profession'...No not prostitution, I'm referencing Public Relations....
yup! which is why we needed words like 'kakistocrats' and 'kakistocracy.' but we (the people) keep letting them get away with their nonsense. we're addicted to our subservience and could use an intervention.
“The 1% control everything” .. Nope! The 99% control everything, just ask the local municipal regulators who enact the eviction laws, and you will find that all the names are in the 99% lemmings.
Bush, who attacked Iraq with a million dead, was not elected but selected after losing the public vote. Trump, who lost the public vote by 3 million, was selected in a system devised by the slave owners who wrote the Constitution to block the "consent of the governed. Clinton blocked Sanders, who was more popular than her and all polls showed crushing Trump, and prevented the public from voting their choice. The voters are not the villain but the victims of a system devised by the enslaver oligarchy to guard against democracy.
Agree, but I still feel it is no excuse to vote for a man as openly hateful and pro-oligarchy as Trump. Wanting others to be harmed is disgusting. Wanting others to be punished in place of the oligarchs and continuing to worship the oligarchs is disgusting. That said, yes the system is rigged and very deliberately so.
Well, Sistah, consider the way the chosenites have enriched themselves past and present: slavery, blood diamonds, gambling, banking, war investments, etc.
in other words, as you said, to benefit ONLY themselves.
I don't think you quite grasp the magnitude (or depth) or our wealth inequality. For someone with $37 Billion in wealth (Miram Adelson), $100 Million is about 0.2% of her wealth. That is equivalent to $200 for someone with $100,000 in the bank.
People like Adelson look at the rest of us as if we were insects.
We grasp it just fine and are well aware what they use their ill-gained wealth for, you insult our intelligence by saying we don't grasp the magnitude of her wealth, we do, and we also grasp the magnitude of those who have twice as much than her. Money that they could use for the good of others and still not miss it, but they use to help themselves and a bunch of thugs instead.
They have a plan. They do not just do it for fun. They do it for power. They are greedy, they don’t share. Millions of humans are killed all over the world for their plans.
If you go to your bank and deposit your Money to pay the owners of the planet, that should tell you who has won the Monopoly game.
It’s all about Money, and the power of Money…. that is the only manipulation that counts…
One last thing… if you deposit your Money into your bank, and withdraw the deposit immediately, and you have less Money than you did when you deposited it, should tell you who has won the game.
True. It once was deposit some money, forget about for a few years and when you went backyou hada nice little pile of interest on top of your original deposit. Now leave a nice sum for a few years and, when you go back you owe the bank money and your deposit is owed up because of all the charges from the bank.
And - WHO OWNS THE BANKS?
Forget what it says on the plate out front ie. The bankif England, The Bankof Scotland, The Bank of NSW,the ba of wherever, they have been taken over,usually very quietly by some Israelis dual citizens of anywhere else.
This leads me to wonder just who the hell owns the banks our counties borrow from, and what happens when the interest rates are so high a country cannot keep up? Who, then, owns that country?
A wee addition: Do not say it cannot happen, countries have become bankrupt a d have had to be bailed out by other countries -do those countries now own the one they bailed out?
You got it just about right. But the main insinuation is that , in general, Osraelis own most of the money through corporations, and thus own everything, including most of the mortgages and interests collected in the universe. Didn’t they state that they are the Masters of the Universe? And when you own the company stores, you are the Master indeed.
Such bigotry is hate speech and is the enemy of free speech: "The idea that banks worldwide have been quietly taken over by Israeli dual citizens is entirely fabricated.
It’s a conspiracy theory rooted in prejudice, not fact." Anti-semitic bigotry is the enemy of human rights. It should be banned as the precursor to hate crimes and the enemy of human rights and free speech.
Please listen to what Miriam Adelson and other dual citizen Israel see and do and try telling us they do not have a stranglehold on American politics. Review Trumps speech at the Israeli Knesset Oct 23, 25 and try telling us he is not bought and paid for by pro Israelis. Miriam is so pleased with her purchase that she wants four more years. Why not? Her $250 million dollar investment has primed the pump for billions in US dollars and bombs to genocide the Palestinians.
It cannot be anti-semitic if it has anything to do with Israelis who are the least semitic people in the world. You're right about one thing Israelis should be banned from using anti-semitism as their victim card, there are no semitic israelis, just zionists.
I just saw a video on Sabby Sab who talked with the folks at Public Banking Institute.org in North Dakota. Because ND had a state bank not affiliated with the federal banking system they weathered better than majority of states in US! They have lots and lots of job opportunities in North Dakota!! The banks loan North Dakota people to create small to medium sized businesses! They have a system that sounds like what all US states should be doing. It is what the founders wanted. I think Hamilton might have come up with the central banking system for US. There were lots of arguments against it. Anyways I thought I would pass this info on in case others want to check it out.
Money is the symbol of property; property was invented, to replace the commons, about 12,000 yrs ago and resulted in a new world (we call civilization) of haves and have nots, leading to inequality, poverty, hierarchy, top down rule, religion to justify, and war to protect and expand the property of the haves. If we want to change this system, we have to abolish private property (not personal possessions but accumuolations of wealth, land, etc used to make more money and increase the gap between haves and have nots. We must work for a world where there are none rich, none poor, and this means abolishing not only private property (wealth) but circuolating money, which can then be accumulated and concentrated. Who was that guy who wrote about his?
May I share your words of the 10 manipulations? This is the clearest and easiest to understand written words of truth in one place and I would like to share it every day…
That's defanging demorialization talking ennui, they strive hard to make us feel this way, that way we won't bother fighting back or trying to save what we have which is far and away better than what they have in store for us.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
There are only few good men (and women). The majority of humanity are "useless eaters" who willingly or unwillingly sold their souls long time ago. Too many humans are just useful idiots who work against their own interests and too stupid and corrupt to even realize it. I personally think humanity is beyond redemption. For sure "western" world is. Maybe there will be divine intervention, cataclysmic space event destroying Earth, or space aliens coming to teach us a lesson. Not sure humanity is capable of rescuing itself. There are many good humans (like on this blog), but is it enough?
Agree. But when I say stupid, I do not mean uneducated. Professional education and itelligence are two different things. A plumber or a truck driver can be many times more intelligent, compassionate, and self-aware than a lawyer, MD, or a quantum physicist. Germans are good example. Well educated professionals mostly good in what they do professionally, but truly a nation of stupid destructive people with tunnel vision. Exceptions of course exist like everywhere.
The majority of humans are decent people, even those who have been misled, manipulated, lied to. Anytime you look around, you will see people helping each other, opening doors for each other, feeding each other. It's the human baseline.
The minority of people, those who've given into some sort of sick lust for power, those are the ones who have sold their souls. It takes a lifetime to undo the human baseline - it takes a narrative of 'To those have, God will give more' and the absurd notion that wealth = godliness.
We have been sickened by religion and propaganda and belief in the rights of kings - but if you are ever down on your luck, find the poors. They're the ones who will always give you a hand up.
The majority of humans may be decent (not evil). No way to measure that. However, that is not enough for a complex unstable system such as human society to survive. One must also do the RIGHT thing almost ALL the time. Excuses such as we were misled, manipulated, lied to is NOT an excuse. Why do people have brains and hearts? Being intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually lazy is NOT an excuse. Many "good and decent" people have created disasters simply by not doing what is right. As the old saying goes "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions". Or as MLK said "the real tragedy is in the silence of good people". One must do the RIGHT thing and not just say we are NOT evil. Being lazy is not an excuse.
I think most people here (and elsewhere) are disappointed with the state of humanity, but we are all warriors and will never give up to evil (west, israel). And who normal would not be disappointed with the state of humanity today.
The solution is to get local, get self-dependent, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards, mayors office, and town councils, get to know your sheriff, get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get moving, get doing, and, if so inclined, get God.
Detailed:
Don't build a bigger fence to keep our your neighbor, build a bigger table.
The only winning move is not to play their sick game. They thrive on our energy and fear, angst, doubt, and dread they stir in us. The one thing these emotional vampires hate the most is for their manipulation and terrorism to get ignored. Cut down your TV & internet usage by 97%, go local, and all of their terror goes away meanwhile we become stronger as they flail around in angst. Here’s how:
Civilization, goes and old maxim, is never more than three meals away from barbarism—once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. Therefore, the baseline of preparedness is as follows:
Put all your support behind your local farmers, then become your own. A garden in every lawn should be standard. You can no longer trust anything from a corporation, so cutting out reliance on a retailer is a good place to start thinking about your resiliency. ‘Incorporated’ City water isn’t viable either for its quality or reliability, so wells must be dug (there is no resource more important in your life than clean water, hands down).
Beyond that, begin ending your dependence on their enslavement protocol Federal Notes by creating local currencies and discovering the lost art of bartering, and again start - these cannot be emphasized enough - stitching together webs of alliances with your neighbors for resiliency, defense, and resource sharing (they might grow what you do not and vice versa)—put the “common unity” back in community, and get control of those town councils and school boards (the one place we still hold all of the cards) and get your kids out of them. Finally: stop eating, listening to, and watching things that are bad for your mind, body, and spirit, and, if so inclined, spend a good chunk of your time on your knees each day.
Finally: Fear not. Live your life. Find your happiness. Turn your back on those who would gleefully turn it into misery. Win the game by refusing to play theirs.
All of the above is a recipe for success. Let's get to work building a future worth living in, together, because if we do not, Harari & Co will ensure we will not have one.
I think plutocracy risks normalizing it or granting it a shield of historical acceptability. It’s pathocracy: rule by pathological individuals. That’s the whole of the problem.
Agree. Is there any government on earth that isn't run by wealth influencing it? Good and bad governments of all the different systems are corrupt. Human nature gravitates to power and wealth.
Sure. The city government of Salem, Oregon. Though the more people the government ostensibly represents the more it tends to escape the influence of the populace.
When I was a kid in the USA of 1960's labor was strong. They still are but they have chosen daffy and corrupt leaders so they are being directed away from their self interests.
Yes, remember when working usually the Father of the family had one job, wages high enough to raise a family, provide food, shelter, buy a car, vacation.
My Father had five children, I had one Son, my Son has zero children. Meanwhile CEO wages are hundreds of times the avg. wage of the workers.
The shareholders are paid dividends while workers see zero raises. Now we fight to make hamburgers for the wealthy and clean their toilets for 7.25 an hr. MLK, Fred Hampton were killed for learning this is about class struggle not racial struggle that the Oligarchs use against us. WOKE a tool of the Oligarchs.
Not familiar. Left, moderate, or right? Urban, suburban, rural? How large is the population? Lots of problems in the city (budget, homeless, etc.) or well run?
Corrupt labor leadership another example of the problem, IMO.
Actually, Realty Seeker, both Russia and China have democratic socialism that run their governments, with China having its own Chinese characteristics. In both countries, citizens..rich or poor...PAY THEIR TAXES. I'd rather live in St. Petersburg (most beautiful city in the world, very clean, and I've been to over 30 countries) or Chongqing (biggest city in the world, 31+ billion people, with ZERO pollution, no gas stations, and not one overweight person), than anywhere else on the planet. My once wonderful city, Portland, OR. is becoming harder to live in by the passing of each day.
Russia and China do not have democratic socialism. Russia is essentially a dictatorship with a strong system of stolen wealth within the oligarchy. The people do not benefit from this system in any shared way. China is a communist state with some recent capitalism, "Chinese characteristics." Again, the Chinese Communist Party is corrupt with a disproportionate amount of wealth. The vast majority of its population does not benefit significantly, though some improvements have been made. I have never seen anything about the reality of who pays their taxes in Russia or China, so I have no comment.
So sorry about Portland, OR. The inmates have taken over the asylum and the Feds are making a mess of things. I'm glad you have found two oasis cities within two countries whose systems you are mistaken about. PS: Russia is in the midst of an aggressive, deadly imperialist war. China is adding/opening coal power plants every week or two. Neither country is high on free speech and political differences. Both meddle in various parts of the world, similar to the US.
No. It really is plutocracy. Not calling it out means we don't have to address the wealth inequality and the differing access to ownership to land, resources and industry (all monopolized by billionaries). So no, plutocracy isn't "socially acceptable" and to say they are just "sick people" that are "wrong in the head" is an excuse not to act on systemic issues (it always is).
Just use pathocracy. It identifies the problem better than, “ oh, it’s just rich people doing what they do, ya know? Good ole rascally rich people…” Pathocracy: know the word. If society could handle pathologics, they wouldn’t be running the world right now.
No, it's a plutocracy. A plutocrat is someone who has political power based on wealth. That is the situation we are in: our political leaders are either extremely wealthy themselves or in thrall to extremely wealthy donors why buy influence.
A pathocrat would be someone who has political power based on having a disease. There is no such animal. Pathocracy is your own neologism and you can keep it for yourself.
It may be true that some people with political power behave in ways that are unhealthy for society at large, i.e., sociopathic. But that doesn't mean that everyone in a leadership position is a sociopath.
No, your definition of what a pathocrat is is glaring, empirically, demonstrably incorrect and I’m just going to ✅ you, direct people towards “Political Ponerology” for more information, and then block you for being a bad faith moron.
Who ever voted for homelessness, endless wars, skyrocketing costs of living and inaction on environmental issues? It doesn't matter who we voted for, this is what we got.
Meanwhile Adelson and Saban tell us about how they buy politicians of all stripes.
And then we in the west have the nerve to criticize other governments, and bring our so-called democracy at the barrels of guns.
It is horrible and infuriating that Israeli billionaires or any other billionaires have so much control over the US Empire. Even worse are all the other governments that tow the line and go along with the US and Israel because they either want to stay rich or they want to maintain power or they are just afraid of what those lunatics will do if anyone resists. We all need ot resist, but clearly, it is difficult to know just how to do that. At least, hopefully, we will all keep trying.
Unfortunately wealth took the place of kindness and ethics, and along came these ^gurus^ telling us they could show us how to become wealthy, and that wealth is good. What happened then was people found themselves working longer hours, even when they were at home work intervened and the only people who gained were the bosses whose four hour lunches became cruises on their new yacht that workers paid for by being fooled into believing working sixteen hour days would make you rich, but taxes made short work of that, while the bosses could now afford to pay tax accountants to get them tax relief on all sorts of things which should be illegal, but they now had enough to ^donate^ to the government's taxation minister, who generously agreed to all these concessions the ^donor^ bribed him for. Simple ;-)
Of course let's not overlook the Zionist billionaires' manipulation of American universities is no trivial matter. Miriam Adelson funds a number of pet projects among them Campus Watch, Faculty Watch, and Canary Mission; Bill Ackman threatens to withhold millions in donations to his two-time alma mater Harvard unless it cracks down on student protests, while he doxxes students participating in them; and the self same Harvard, ostensibly standing up for academic freedom, quietly caves upon accusations of anti-semitism on campus, accommodating the Zionists through such measures as adopting the well justifiably criticized and intellectually vacant IHRA definition of anti-semitism which stands to curb academic inquiry, discussion, and criticism of Israel and Zionism. Uh, Harvard, you still have an accredited law school, don't you?
Of course, the fundamental tenet underlying "Zionist Billionaires Openly Acknowledge..." is that everything in America is for sale, and a lot of the highest bidders are, fittingly, aggrandizing Zionists, hell, that's how they started out in Palestine in the early part of the last century.
>>"Of course, the fundamental tenet underlying "Zionist Billionaires Openly Acknowledge..." is that everything in America is for sale, and a lot of the highest bidders are, fittingly, aggrandizing Zionists, hell, that's how they started out in Palestine in the early part of the last century."
Well put, the only difference being those in Gaza and the West Bank are being openly starved, killed, we're not that there - yet- but with Renee Good and others, we're on the scorecard. Did you catch the "60 Minutes" interview last evening with that sociopath head of ICE in Minneapolis?
The number of Israeli-American Orgs out there is ridiculous. Even just the Wikipedia page on Zionist Organizations in the US is extensive. Illustrative of just how deeply the sickness has permeated the tissues and capillaries of the society.
And now you know why I support the Green Party. We can’t be bought don’t take corporate donations and sure as heck not AIPAC. Corporate media gate keeps our candidates so you won’t here them explain things like you read in this post. BOTH parties are owned. When do people wake up that trying to ‘reform’ the parties won’t work given the current system. Change comes from third parties that answer to YOU the voter not big money or special interests. It’s in our bylaws!!!
I would love it IF women had options, like living wages, child care so they could raise a child. That isn't happening in the u.s. Children live in cars, depend on free school lunches IF the state still funds them. We suck at raising children. I would not have a child today.
Why? Can't you make up your own mind what you want to do with your own body? Why have the government interfere with your personal choices? Or are you into micro-managing women's bodies and forcing them to act as you tell them to keep them in their place? (Sounds like a Trump supporter to me.)
I hope the Green party there in the US does not mutate into war-worshiping militaristic idiots like Green party of Germany. Remember Annalena 360 (degrees)! A great example how once noble party morphs into pure evil also thanks to their love of zionists and hollowcaust industry. Whatever Germans touch they destroy it.
Oz had five parties when I arrived here, now we're down to two plus Greens and independents, the two that obviously had donations of course, which were given with attachments are Labor and Coalition (which are two that came together in the hope of collecting enough votes between them to stay in power).
Right, Davina. The only encouraging thing is the declining percentage of first preference votes gained by the two major parties. The worrying thing is One Nation's increasing share of that vote,according to recent polling. Big corporate money goes to the Lib/Labor duopoly. Corruption by any other name.
It goes like this: two fully corrupt political parties, owned by big money - the democratic party and the republican party, dupe Americans into believing they represent them. But instead this is what happens, called the Ratchet effect:
- Democrats Block Movement Back to the Left
- Republicans Then turn everything to the Right
So American politics for the last number of decades has kept on moving to the Right, until we ended up with both corrupt political parties endorsing and supporting a genocide in GAZA, and amazingly, people like Bernie Sanders still insisting his followers vote Democrat - while children in Gaza were being shot in the head by IDF snipers and bombed in their tents in mass numbers.
It's called the Ratchet effect. Trump will be out of office soon - maybe even by this year. But the Ratchet Effect, it's not leaving any time soon.
I hope we can toss the duopoly and throw the Ratchet Effect out, but we'll need to pull the whole damn thing down and rid ourselves of all the billionaires' money first.
Perhaps we can use Adelson and Saban's billions to rebuild Gaza as they, the Palestinians would have it rebuilt. Tax them for the mess they caused by their using their money to bomb Gaza, they owe it to Gazans to rebuild it for them.
I think Adelson, Saban, AIPAC, J Street and all similar people and organizations should rebuild Gaza and pay reparations since it's their Zionism that is the primary cause for the genocide. But unless we rid ourselves of the capitalist system and the fascist regimes first, it probably won't happen.
Yes, I see no other way : ( I spent 4800$ on the traitor Bernie thinking it was our only hope for a sign that we could make change knowing he would not be allowed to make change. That would have been the signal change is possible with the current system. Bernie not only failed us he failed the future : ( Bernie if you are reading this I want my money back, I was stupid twice. I am planning on making a video burning the autographed book he sent me after being stupid. Bernie burned us and now I am burning you. I like that title. I have never burned a book, Fahrenheit 451 : )
I felt betrayed by Sanders as well. And he pulls it off very cleverly. Many Americans have no idea the full extent of how he betrays them. Similar to the Democrat party itself. With many democrats, there will be a great deal of talk about how they support something that is popular with the majority of Americans - but all you need to do is look at their votes in congress, or actions as POTUS, to really understand what is going on.
So true. You can hear the Demoncrats now trying to setup Harris to run hahahhahahha. They don't want to win. Vance is a horrible evil scumbag and neither of them would do anything for working people. Who is our Champion, if we don't know who it is now, we don't have one : (
Looks like these phony fucks are up to their old tricks. The worst part about this militarized ICE invasion of American streets - is not that they'll probably be forced out of Minnesota. The worst part is it will only be temporary - because you got these traitors to our American Constitution and the American people continuing to fund this Gestapo force because they know down the road, it will serve the Oligarchy and their corrupt party even more.
Unless ICE is abolished, the US will have officially become a police state - that the democratic party did jack shit about. But what else is new? You'll still have idiots screaming we need to keep voting blue no matter who - because I don't know, it could get worse than supporting genocide and endless wars, or militarized goon squads roaming American streets ...
This really is becoming an Abraham Lincoln moment in America. Not sure how we're going to get out of this other than massive amounts of pain and even bloodshed. :(
Fully agree. But I also think the "west" is in the terminal phase of a "dying star". As the inevitable death of the genocidal west nears it will lash out causing more wars and chaos. This is similar to when dying star expands into red giant (due to increased inner temperature quickly spending all its fusion "fuel") and then or implodes/collapses into insignificant corpse aka "white dwarf" or explodes into supernova event taking the entire humanity out. It all depends on the critical mass (number of corrupt human idiots on this planet). But there is a cosmic/divine justice. A way for the Universe to get rid of useless undeserving self-destructive species. Nothing lasts forever.
Believe me, Kathleen, we're a plutocratic state too. Lobbyists generally get the policies and decisions they want. The reactionary media back them. And Australia is far, far too close to tRump's America. Historically always have been, sadly.
Yes, that's why I put the "ha,ha" - AU is a U.S. military outpost for their (coming) attack on China, it's time to kick them out to avoid messy consequences.
Better not, we already have more than we can provide for, especially when rice and cotton growers were allowed here and they cause water to be diverted from rivers, taking more than they're allowed rate by building huge collection dams. Of course someone along the way pocketed a nice tax free donation.
And That's how it works because ethics died as greed grew.
Come now, you love me and now you don't want me : ( I do understand, the Nation of Caitlin will be a very difficult project. Wouldn't that be fun, like minded, peaceful, kind, loving, and caring people all in one nation. Soon the Oligarchs would invade, divide us and destroy us. : (
If we let them. Isn't that always the case? There are far more of us than there are of them, all they have is money, whereas we have our survival at stake.
Caitlin: "For me they’re just evidence that the world is ruled by wealthy sociopaths, and that western democracy is an illusion".
It was always thus. From the inception of the settler colonial state of America up to now. Remember the Constitution written by white men of property for white men of property... for the people by the people was always a myth of propaganda to throw sand in the eyes of the masses. And didn't they believe it!
Of course the rolling stone has gathered a lot of moss on its way! Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is for the oligarchs and those who willingly serve them.
So few people have read the Constitution to know what you are saying is true. In fact I read an article about the u.s. revolution being triggered by the likes of Geo. Hero Washington not abiding by the British Gov. going west to murder indigenous people the British saw as resource not unlike other colonies. My family came to the u.s. in 1632 Mass. having been imprisoned in the tower of London for speaking out against the Church of England. Option, we hang you, or you leave for the New World. Unfortunately for the indigenous my family came to Mass. moved stealing land all the way to Ca. along the Ohio river valley ending up in Oregon with a Glacier named after my family. Towns and Univ. building named in every state. I am not without sin. : (
I could not agree more, however, over the past 20-plus years, I have been attacked by Democrats nearly every time I pointed out their complicity and hypocrisy in our failing government, hearing "why are you going after the good guys?" Regarding our political class being on the take, see trackaipac.com to see who is on the $$$ take. I recall being rather shocked when I first looked at this information.
I think you mean Dale. He does mean well though. I just disagree with him on how we get there now. Dale hates when I reply with Who is our Champion? : )
The US is a gigantic Mafia organization run by Oligarchs and Zionists. There is no rule of law only the Law of the Jungle. Morality takes 3rd place to Money but a zombified public does not have a clue.
"The world is ruled by wealthy sociopaths, and... western democracy is an illusion."
It most certainly is. You'd think all these open declarations by the billionaires would enrage more people and get them into the streets, tearing down the corrupt system once and for all. I keep hoping and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...
The greatest crimes are not when the law is broken but when the law itself legalizes criminality: "Everything Hitler did was legal." MLK. Open bribery has been legalized, creating under the mask of democracy a powerful plutocracy. Only a united people can dismantle this criminal system that makes of crime a legal right.
No one should ever have so much wealth that they can manipulate the fate of entire nations, and yet it is SOP in the land of the free:
Ten Ways Billionaires Who Hate You Are Manipulating You Right Now by @thewisewolf
1) The first manipulation is the illusion of choice. You think you have two parties representing different visions for America but both parties are funded by the same billionaires, vote for the same surveillance bills, approve the same defense budgets, and serve the same corporate interests. The choice you are given is which color tie the puppet wears, not who controls the strings.
2) The second manipulation is emotional hijacking. The news does not inform you, it activates you. Every story is framed to trigger fear or anger or disgust because those emotions bypass your rational thinking and make you easier to control. You are not watching journalism. You are being subjected to psychological operations designed to keep you in a constant state of agitation.
3) The third manipulation is tribal sorting. The algorithm learns what makes you angry and feeds you more of it until your entire worldview is shaped by outrage at the other side. You are sorted into a tribe not because you chose it but because keeping you tribal keeps you predictable and profitable.
4) The fourth manipulation is false scarcity. You are told resources are limited and the other tribe is taking what belongs to you. Immigrants are stealing your jobs. Welfare recipients are draining your taxes. The other party is destroying your healthcare. Meanwhile the billionaire class has more wealth than any humans in history and could solve most of these problems tomorrow if they wanted to.
5) The fifth manipulation is memory holing. Stories that threaten powerful interests get buried or forgotten within days. Exposed crimes result in no consequences. Historical context that would help you understand the present is never taught. You are kept in a perpetual present with no past to learn from and no future to plan for.
6) The sixth manipulation is controlled opposition. The voices you think are fighting for you are often funded by the same interests they pretend to oppose. The outrage merchant on your side of the aisle is playing a character designed to keep you engaged and angry and tuned in while nothing ever actually changes.
7) The seventh manipulation is the Overton window. The range of acceptable opinion is artificially narrowed so that anything outside it seems extreme. Ideas that were mainstream fifty years ago are now treated as radical. Ideas that serve elite interests are treated as moderate common sense. You are not choosing your beliefs from the full range of human thought. You are choosing from a menu they wrote.
8) The eighth manipulation is learned helplessness. You are shown so many problems with no solutions that you eventually give up and accept that nothing can change. This is intentional. A population that believes resistance is futile does not resist. They scroll and complain and feel superior for understanding how bad things are while doing absolutely nothing about it.
9) The ninth manipulation is identity capture. Your political affiliation becomes your identity, and any attack on your party feels like an attack on you personally. This makes you defend politicians and policies that harm you because admitting they are wrong would mean admitting you were wrong, and your ego will not allow that.
10) The tenth manipulation is the most insidious of all: you are manipulated into believing you are too smart to be manipulated. Every person reading this thinks the manipulations I described apply to other people, the stupid people, the brainwashed people on the other side. That certainty is itself a manipulation. The moment you believe you are immune is the moment you become most vulnerable
If anyone can afford to hand a ^donation^ of $100,000,000 to get the puppet they want to be their frontman/woman into power should be audited, by an outside company, because anyone who can do that on a regular basis is definitely not being taxed nearly enough. One hundred million could save dozens lives, could house dozens of homeless, could turn a city into using clean energy and cut pollution immensely. Could stop huge bills for hospital treatments. But, no, they give it for a man whose morals are so low they could wear a top hat and still walk under a flea's belly without it noticing.
Where do they get so much money from? Where did it come from in the first place? Who left it to them? Did they know what would be done with that money? Are they spinning in their graves at the uses their money is being put to? Or was it all made from corrupt dealings in the first place?
The US of A is not the land of the free, it is the land where money talks and ethics died along with the few good men who had a vision, until along came the conmen/women who spoke the creed that greed was good, but only for them, they rest of you are meant to scrape, crawl and beg for crumbs whileyhe corrupt live the extremely high life through keeping you down and profiting from the work YOU do that keeps them wealthy while doing nothing but interfering in governments for the fun of it because they have too much time on their jewel encrusted hands.
In this system there is no “outside” company. Corruption is core to this system, which ensures the regulations favor the most corrupt.
Are you not merely describing the industry, perhaps older than what is commonly traced to cave dwellers as being 'the oldest profession'...No not prostitution, I'm referencing Public Relations....
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yup! which is why we needed words like 'kakistocrats' and 'kakistocracy.' but we (the people) keep letting them get away with their nonsense. we're addicted to our subservience and could use an intervention.
Agree Davina, there is a lot more information on how the 1% control just about everything in this incfedible analysis: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/everything-you-watch-or-read-is-owned
TriTorch,
“The 1% control everything” .. Nope! The 99% control everything, just ask the local municipal regulators who enact the eviction laws, and you will find that all the names are in the 99% lemmings.
Lemmings is right. Members of the public voted for this situation.
“Members of the public voted for this situation”.
Bingo!
If only the public recognized that condition, we could hope things could change. “Be the change you want to see in the world”
Exactly this. It's the reason I keep on keeping on here and on Threads and BlueSky....
Bush, who attacked Iraq with a million dead, was not elected but selected after losing the public vote. Trump, who lost the public vote by 3 million, was selected in a system devised by the slave owners who wrote the Constitution to block the "consent of the governed. Clinton blocked Sanders, who was more popular than her and all polls showed crushing Trump, and prevented the public from voting their choice. The voters are not the villain but the victims of a system devised by the enslaver oligarchy to guard against democracy.
Agree, but I still feel it is no excuse to vote for a man as openly hateful and pro-oligarchy as Trump. Wanting others to be harmed is disgusting. Wanting others to be punished in place of the oligarchs and continuing to worship the oligarchs is disgusting. That said, yes the system is rigged and very deliberately so.
Hi Davina
The Adelsons made their fortune in the worst possible way: by stealing the wages of people with gambling addictions.
Well, it stood to reason that it would not be something that was good for anyone but themselves.
Well, Sistah, consider the way the chosenites have enriched themselves past and present: slavery, blood diamonds, gambling, banking, war investments, etc.
in other words, as you said, to benefit ONLY themselves.
I don't think you quite grasp the magnitude (or depth) or our wealth inequality. For someone with $37 Billion in wealth (Miram Adelson), $100 Million is about 0.2% of her wealth. That is equivalent to $200 for someone with $100,000 in the bank.
People like Adelson look at the rest of us as if we were insects.
We grasp it just fine and are well aware what they use their ill-gained wealth for, you insult our intelligence by saying we don't grasp the magnitude of her wealth, we do, and we also grasp the magnitude of those who have twice as much than her. Money that they could use for the good of others and still not miss it, but they use to help themselves and a bunch of thugs instead.
We get it, be assured of that.
They have a plan. They do not just do it for fun. They do it for power. They are greedy, they don’t share. Millions of humans are killed all over the world for their plans.
If you go to your bank and deposit your Money to pay the owners of the planet, that should tell you who has won the Monopoly game.
It’s all about Money, and the power of Money…. that is the only manipulation that counts…
One last thing… if you deposit your Money into your bank, and withdraw the deposit immediately, and you have less Money than you did when you deposited it, should tell you who has won the game.
True. It once was deposit some money, forget about for a few years and when you went backyou hada nice little pile of interest on top of your original deposit. Now leave a nice sum for a few years and, when you go back you owe the bank money and your deposit is owed up because of all the charges from the bank.
And - WHO OWNS THE BANKS?
Forget what it says on the plate out front ie. The bankif England, The Bankof Scotland, The Bank of NSW,the ba of wherever, they have been taken over,usually very quietly by some Israelis dual citizens of anywhere else.
This leads me to wonder just who the hell owns the banks our counties borrow from, and what happens when the interest rates are so high a country cannot keep up? Who, then, owns that country?
A wee addition: Do not say it cannot happen, countries have become bankrupt a d have had to be bailed out by other countries -do those countries now own the one they bailed out?
You got it just about right. But the main insinuation is that , in general, Osraelis own most of the money through corporations, and thus own everything, including most of the mortgages and interests collected in the universe. Didn’t they state that they are the Masters of the Universe? And when you own the company stores, you are the Master indeed.
Such bigotry is hate speech and is the enemy of free speech: "The idea that banks worldwide have been quietly taken over by Israeli dual citizens is entirely fabricated.
It’s a conspiracy theory rooted in prejudice, not fact." Anti-semitic bigotry is the enemy of human rights. It should be banned as the precursor to hate crimes and the enemy of human rights and free speech.
Anti Zionism is not anti semtic/anti Jew.
Please listen to what Miriam Adelson and other dual citizen Israel see and do and try telling us they do not have a stranglehold on American politics. Review Trumps speech at the Israeli Knesset Oct 23, 25 and try telling us he is not bought and paid for by pro Israelis. Miriam is so pleased with her purchase that she wants four more years. Why not? Her $250 million dollar investment has primed the pump for billions in US dollars and bombs to genocide the Palestinians.
It cannot be anti-semitic if it has anything to do with Israelis who are the least semitic people in the world. You're right about one thing Israelis should be banned from using anti-semitism as their victim card, there are no semitic israelis, just zionists.
I just saw a video on Sabby Sab who talked with the folks at Public Banking Institute.org in North Dakota. Because ND had a state bank not affiliated with the federal banking system they weathered better than majority of states in US! They have lots and lots of job opportunities in North Dakota!! The banks loan North Dakota people to create small to medium sized businesses! They have a system that sounds like what all US states should be doing. It is what the founders wanted. I think Hamilton might have come up with the central banking system for US. There were lots of arguments against it. Anyways I thought I would pass this info on in case others want to check it out.
Money is the symbol of property; property was invented, to replace the commons, about 12,000 yrs ago and resulted in a new world (we call civilization) of haves and have nots, leading to inequality, poverty, hierarchy, top down rule, religion to justify, and war to protect and expand the property of the haves. If we want to change this system, we have to abolish private property (not personal possessions but accumuolations of wealth, land, etc used to make more money and increase the gap between haves and have nots. We must work for a world where there are none rich, none poor, and this means abolishing not only private property (wealth) but circuolating money, which can then be accumulated and concentrated. Who was that guy who wrote about his?
Money talks, the lack of it walks. No Money , you get to see the great outdoors firsthand.
Quoting Chomsky’s description of the three most important things in life ….. Money, then Money, and finally ….??????
I agree with most of your comments, if not all of them to a point. Not sure about your last question???
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Wow! Great layout of mental control. Have you posted this as an essay?
Thank you Chuck, yes, this is just a smaller oart of a masterful analysis done by @🐺The Wise Wolf, you can find it here:
https://tritorch.substack.com/p/everything-you-watch-or-read-is-owned
I think you will find that worth every second of your time.
May I share your words of the 10 manipulations? This is the clearest and easiest to understand written words of truth in one place and I would like to share it every day…
Yes of course, please do and credit, The Wise Wolf. They are an excerpt of a larger fantastic analysis here: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/everything-you-watch-or-read-is-owned
I think you will find that well worth your time.
Thank you
Now *that* is accurate.
Israel is a Terrorist State. Those who support it are terrorists.
It's not worth saving.
That's defanging demorialization talking ennui, they strive hard to make us feel this way, that way we won't bother fighting back or trying to save what we have which is far and away better than what they have in store for us.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Solution, do something good.
There are only few good men (and women). The majority of humanity are "useless eaters" who willingly or unwillingly sold their souls long time ago. Too many humans are just useful idiots who work against their own interests and too stupid and corrupt to even realize it. I personally think humanity is beyond redemption. For sure "western" world is. Maybe there will be divine intervention, cataclysmic space event destroying Earth, or space aliens coming to teach us a lesson. Not sure humanity is capable of rescuing itself. There are many good humans (like on this blog), but is it enough?
To be fair, it is in the interest of the rulers that the people be trained to be and kept stupid.
Agree. But when I say stupid, I do not mean uneducated. Professional education and itelligence are two different things. A plumber or a truck driver can be many times more intelligent, compassionate, and self-aware than a lawyer, MD, or a quantum physicist. Germans are good example. Well educated professionals mostly good in what they do professionally, but truly a nation of stupid destructive people with tunnel vision. Exceptions of course exist like everywhere.
No argument from me.
Nick, that's simply not true.
The majority of humans are decent people, even those who have been misled, manipulated, lied to. Anytime you look around, you will see people helping each other, opening doors for each other, feeding each other. It's the human baseline.
The minority of people, those who've given into some sort of sick lust for power, those are the ones who have sold their souls. It takes a lifetime to undo the human baseline - it takes a narrative of 'To those have, God will give more' and the absurd notion that wealth = godliness.
We have been sickened by religion and propaganda and belief in the rights of kings - but if you are ever down on your luck, find the poors. They're the ones who will always give you a hand up.
The majority of humans may be decent (not evil). No way to measure that. However, that is not enough for a complex unstable system such as human society to survive. One must also do the RIGHT thing almost ALL the time. Excuses such as we were misled, manipulated, lied to is NOT an excuse. Why do people have brains and hearts? Being intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually lazy is NOT an excuse. Many "good and decent" people have created disasters simply by not doing what is right. As the old saying goes "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions". Or as MLK said "the real tragedy is in the silence of good people". One must do the RIGHT thing and not just say we are NOT evil. Being lazy is not an excuse.
You are blaming the slaves for the crimes of the masters.
I think you think I wrote that out of disappointment or defeat.
Yeah, you could say that. Can you explain what you meant
I think most people here (and elsewhere) are disappointed with the state of humanity, but we are all warriors and will never give up to evil (west, israel). And who normal would not be disappointed with the state of humanity today.
What happened to my comment?
Did you reply to me Rob? This comment is the only one i sed
👍 I think joint contender for ‘most insidious’ is 8)…….
The solution is to get local, get self-dependent, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards, mayors office, and town councils, get to know your sheriff, get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get moving, get doing, and, if so inclined, get God.
Detailed:
Don't build a bigger fence to keep our your neighbor, build a bigger table.
The only winning move is not to play their sick game. They thrive on our energy and fear, angst, doubt, and dread they stir in us. The one thing these emotional vampires hate the most is for their manipulation and terrorism to get ignored. Cut down your TV & internet usage by 97%, go local, and all of their terror goes away meanwhile we become stronger as they flail around in angst. Here’s how:
Civilization, goes and old maxim, is never more than three meals away from barbarism—once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. Therefore, the baseline of preparedness is as follows:
Put all your support behind your local farmers, then become your own. A garden in every lawn should be standard. You can no longer trust anything from a corporation, so cutting out reliance on a retailer is a good place to start thinking about your resiliency. ‘Incorporated’ City water isn’t viable either for its quality or reliability, so wells must be dug (there is no resource more important in your life than clean water, hands down).
Beyond that, begin ending your dependence on their enslavement protocol Federal Notes by creating local currencies and discovering the lost art of bartering, and again start - these cannot be emphasized enough - stitching together webs of alliances with your neighbors for resiliency, defense, and resource sharing (they might grow what you do not and vice versa)—put the “common unity” back in community, and get control of those town councils and school boards (the one place we still hold all of the cards) and get your kids out of them. Finally: stop eating, listening to, and watching things that are bad for your mind, body, and spirit, and, if so inclined, spend a good chunk of your time on your knees each day.
Finally: Fear not. Live your life. Find your happiness. Turn your back on those who would gleefully turn it into misery. Win the game by refusing to play theirs.
All of the above is a recipe for success. Let's get to work building a future worth living in, together, because if we do not, Harari & Co will ensure we will not have one.
Epstein who? Save Greenland!
I think plutocracy risks normalizing it or granting it a shield of historical acceptability. It’s pathocracy: rule by pathological individuals. That’s the whole of the problem.
Right on! Money and power are the ultimate addiction and those who are addicted will do ANYTHING to get their next fix.
Agree. Is there any government on earth that isn't run by wealth influencing it? Good and bad governments of all the different systems are corrupt. Human nature gravitates to power and wealth.
Sure. The city government of Salem, Oregon. Though the more people the government ostensibly represents the more it tends to escape the influence of the populace.
When I was a kid in the USA of 1960's labor was strong. They still are but they have chosen daffy and corrupt leaders so they are being directed away from their self interests.
Yes, remember when working usually the Father of the family had one job, wages high enough to raise a family, provide food, shelter, buy a car, vacation.
My Father had five children, I had one Son, my Son has zero children. Meanwhile CEO wages are hundreds of times the avg. wage of the workers.
The shareholders are paid dividends while workers see zero raises. Now we fight to make hamburgers for the wealthy and clean their toilets for 7.25 an hr. MLK, Fred Hampton were killed for learning this is about class struggle not racial struggle that the Oligarchs use against us. WOKE a tool of the Oligarchs.
Not familiar. Left, moderate, or right? Urban, suburban, rural? How large is the population? Lots of problems in the city (budget, homeless, etc.) or well run?
Corrupt labor leadership another example of the problem, IMO.
Actually, Realty Seeker, both Russia and China have democratic socialism that run their governments, with China having its own Chinese characteristics. In both countries, citizens..rich or poor...PAY THEIR TAXES. I'd rather live in St. Petersburg (most beautiful city in the world, very clean, and I've been to over 30 countries) or Chongqing (biggest city in the world, 31+ billion people, with ZERO pollution, no gas stations, and not one overweight person), than anywhere else on the planet. My once wonderful city, Portland, OR. is becoming harder to live in by the passing of each day.
Russia and China do not have democratic socialism. Russia is essentially a dictatorship with a strong system of stolen wealth within the oligarchy. The people do not benefit from this system in any shared way. China is a communist state with some recent capitalism, "Chinese characteristics." Again, the Chinese Communist Party is corrupt with a disproportionate amount of wealth. The vast majority of its population does not benefit significantly, though some improvements have been made. I have never seen anything about the reality of who pays their taxes in Russia or China, so I have no comment.
So sorry about Portland, OR. The inmates have taken over the asylum and the Feds are making a mess of things. I'm glad you have found two oasis cities within two countries whose systems you are mistaken about. PS: Russia is in the midst of an aggressive, deadly imperialist war. China is adding/opening coal power plants every week or two. Neither country is high on free speech and political differences. Both meddle in various parts of the world, similar to the US.
That is just lazy, cynical nihilism. Get a life.
Only if you consider pathology natural. It’s a disease, but it is naturally occurring.
No. It really is plutocracy. Not calling it out means we don't have to address the wealth inequality and the differing access to ownership to land, resources and industry (all monopolized by billionaries). So no, plutocracy isn't "socially acceptable" and to say they are just "sick people" that are "wrong in the head" is an excuse not to act on systemic issues (it always is).
Just because you don’t know what “pathocracy” means doesn’t mean you have to be so proud of the fact. Its embarrassing.
no, society can handle sick people as long as they aren't in power. Plutocracy, by definition, is sick in its quest to dominate.
Just use pathocracy. It identifies the problem better than, “ oh, it’s just rich people doing what they do, ya know? Good ole rascally rich people…” Pathocracy: know the word. If society could handle pathologics, they wouldn’t be running the world right now.
No, it's a plutocracy. A plutocrat is someone who has political power based on wealth. That is the situation we are in: our political leaders are either extremely wealthy themselves or in thrall to extremely wealthy donors why buy influence.
A pathocrat would be someone who has political power based on having a disease. There is no such animal. Pathocracy is your own neologism and you can keep it for yourself.
It may be true that some people with political power behave in ways that are unhealthy for society at large, i.e., sociopathic. But that doesn't mean that everyone in a leadership position is a sociopath.
No, your definition of what a pathocrat is is glaring, empirically, demonstrably incorrect and I’m just going to ✅ you, direct people towards “Political Ponerology” for more information, and then block you for being a bad faith moron.
The whole western world is a plutocracy.
Who ever voted for homelessness, endless wars, skyrocketing costs of living and inaction on environmental issues? It doesn't matter who we voted for, this is what we got.
Meanwhile Adelson and Saban tell us about how they buy politicians of all stripes.
And then we in the west have the nerve to criticize other governments, and bring our so-called democracy at the barrels of guns.
It is horrible and infuriating that Israeli billionaires or any other billionaires have so much control over the US Empire. Even worse are all the other governments that tow the line and go along with the US and Israel because they either want to stay rich or they want to maintain power or they are just afraid of what those lunatics will do if anyone resists. We all need ot resist, but clearly, it is difficult to know just how to do that. At least, hopefully, we will all keep trying.
Unfortunately wealth took the place of kindness and ethics, and along came these ^gurus^ telling us they could show us how to become wealthy, and that wealth is good. What happened then was people found themselves working longer hours, even when they were at home work intervened and the only people who gained were the bosses whose four hour lunches became cruises on their new yacht that workers paid for by being fooled into believing working sixteen hour days would make you rich, but taxes made short work of that, while the bosses could now afford to pay tax accountants to get them tax relief on all sorts of things which should be illegal, but they now had enough to ^donate^ to the government's taxation minister, who generously agreed to all these concessions the ^donor^ bribed him for. Simple ;-)
Even more unfortunately, too many people bought their stories.
And continue to do so.
Martin Luther King was murdered for knowing that. : ( Fred Hampton as well.
Of course let's not overlook the Zionist billionaires' manipulation of American universities is no trivial matter. Miriam Adelson funds a number of pet projects among them Campus Watch, Faculty Watch, and Canary Mission; Bill Ackman threatens to withhold millions in donations to his two-time alma mater Harvard unless it cracks down on student protests, while he doxxes students participating in them; and the self same Harvard, ostensibly standing up for academic freedom, quietly caves upon accusations of anti-semitism on campus, accommodating the Zionists through such measures as adopting the well justifiably criticized and intellectually vacant IHRA definition of anti-semitism which stands to curb academic inquiry, discussion, and criticism of Israel and Zionism. Uh, Harvard, you still have an accredited law school, don't you?
Of course, the fundamental tenet underlying "Zionist Billionaires Openly Acknowledge..." is that everything in America is for sale, and a lot of the highest bidders are, fittingly, aggrandizing Zionists, hell, that's how they started out in Palestine in the early part of the last century.
>>"Of course, the fundamental tenet underlying "Zionist Billionaires Openly Acknowledge..." is that everything in America is for sale, and a lot of the highest bidders are, fittingly, aggrandizing Zionists, hell, that's how they started out in Palestine in the early part of the last century."
Very true XK! Well said!
We are all Palestinian now.
Well put, the only difference being those in Gaza and the West Bank are being openly starved, killed, we're not that there - yet- but with Renee Good and others, we're on the scorecard. Did you catch the "60 Minutes" interview last evening with that sociopath head of ICE in Minneapolis?
The number of Israeli-American Orgs out there is ridiculous. Even just the Wikipedia page on Zionist Organizations in the US is extensive. Illustrative of just how deeply the sickness has permeated the tissues and capillaries of the society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Zionist_organizations_in_the_United_States#:~:text=A%20*%20American%20Israel%20Public%20Affairs%20Committee,*%20Anti%2DDefamation%20League%20(1%20C%2C%2011%20P)
Isn't Wiki owned by the israeli's ?
Possibly. But if so, they're not known to be shy about advertising their organizational dominance.
And now you know why I support the Green Party. We can’t be bought don’t take corporate donations and sure as heck not AIPAC. Corporate media gate keeps our candidates so you won’t here them explain things like you read in this post. BOTH parties are owned. When do people wake up that trying to ‘reform’ the parties won’t work given the current system. Change comes from third parties that answer to YOU the voter not big money or special interests. It’s in our bylaws!!!
People, planet and peace--that's the Green Party. Not endless wars for oil and genocides for land grabs and the destruction of our planet.
If the green Party is Anti Abortion I will vote for them
I would love it IF women had options, like living wages, child care so they could raise a child. That isn't happening in the u.s. Children live in cars, depend on free school lunches IF the state still funds them. We suck at raising children. I would not have a child today.
The issue is past Gays guns and Gods. The issue is Traitors to another Terrorist country that are bought. Abort Israel.
Not agreeing at 100% is what they rely on.
Why? Can't you make up your own mind what you want to do with your own body? Why have the government interfere with your personal choices? Or are you into micro-managing women's bodies and forcing them to act as you tell them to keep them in their place? (Sounds like a Trump supporter to me.)
no, you wouldn't.
I hope the Green party there in the US does not mutate into war-worshiping militaristic idiots like Green party of Germany. Remember Annalena 360 (degrees)! A great example how once noble party morphs into pure evil also thanks to their love of zionists and hollowcaust industry. Whatever Germans touch they destroy it.
The Greens in Germany learned that kowtowing to the American Empire was the price of getting a share of power.
Needless to say, their knees hit the floor with a resounding thud.
Oz had five parties when I arrived here, now we're down to two plus Greens and independents, the two that obviously had donations of course, which were given with attachments are Labor and Coalition (which are two that came together in the hope of collecting enough votes between them to stay in power).
Right, Davina. The only encouraging thing is the declining percentage of first preference votes gained by the two major parties. The worrying thing is One Nation's increasing share of that vote,according to recent polling. Big corporate money goes to the Lib/Labor duopoly. Corruption by any other name.
Very disconcerting to see the latest polls Hanson up to 22%, Greens down to 11%.
I haven't been in Oz for a while and not followed the politics closely but am shocked by the above. I assume the MSM is by and large responsible.
MSM lies, let's hope this another to cause disillusion.
"The Ratchet Effect" in politics:
It goes like this: two fully corrupt political parties, owned by big money - the democratic party and the republican party, dupe Americans into believing they represent them. But instead this is what happens, called the Ratchet effect:
- Democrats Block Movement Back to the Left
- Republicans Then turn everything to the Right
So American politics for the last number of decades has kept on moving to the Right, until we ended up with both corrupt political parties endorsing and supporting a genocide in GAZA, and amazingly, people like Bernie Sanders still insisting his followers vote Democrat - while children in Gaza were being shot in the head by IDF snipers and bombed in their tents in mass numbers.
It's called the Ratchet effect. Trump will be out of office soon - maybe even by this year. But the Ratchet Effect, it's not leaving any time soon.
I hope we can toss the duopoly and throw the Ratchet Effect out, but we'll need to pull the whole damn thing down and rid ourselves of all the billionaires' money first.
Perhaps we can use Adelson and Saban's billions to rebuild Gaza as they, the Palestinians would have it rebuilt. Tax them for the mess they caused by their using their money to bomb Gaza, they owe it to Gazans to rebuild it for them.
I think Adelson, Saban, AIPAC, J Street and all similar people and organizations should rebuild Gaza and pay reparations since it's their Zionism that is the primary cause for the genocide. But unless we rid ourselves of the capitalist system and the fascist regimes first, it probably won't happen.
I love you, are you sure you won't have me : (
Yes, I see no other way : ( I spent 4800$ on the traitor Bernie thinking it was our only hope for a sign that we could make change knowing he would not be allowed to make change. That would have been the signal change is possible with the current system. Bernie not only failed us he failed the future : ( Bernie if you are reading this I want my money back, I was stupid twice. I am planning on making a video burning the autographed book he sent me after being stupid. Bernie burned us and now I am burning you. I like that title. I have never burned a book, Fahrenheit 451 : )
I felt betrayed by Sanders as well. And he pulls it off very cleverly. Many Americans have no idea the full extent of how he betrays them. Similar to the Democrat party itself. With many democrats, there will be a great deal of talk about how they support something that is popular with the majority of Americans - but all you need to do is look at their votes in congress, or actions as POTUS, to really understand what is going on.
So true. You can hear the Demoncrats now trying to setup Harris to run hahahhahahha. They don't want to win. Vance is a horrible evil scumbag and neither of them would do anything for working people. Who is our Champion, if we don't know who it is now, we don't have one : (
75 Democrats Express ‘Gratitude’ to ICE in Antisemitism Vote Amid LA Riots: https://www.newsweek.com/75-democrats-house-antisemitism-resolution-ice-gratitude-2083177
Fury Grows Over Democrats Who Won’t Back ICE Funding Freeze: https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrats-ice-funding
Looks like these phony fucks are up to their old tricks. The worst part about this militarized ICE invasion of American streets - is not that they'll probably be forced out of Minnesota. The worst part is it will only be temporary - because you got these traitors to our American Constitution and the American people continuing to fund this Gestapo force because they know down the road, it will serve the Oligarchy and their corrupt party even more.
Unless ICE is abolished, the US will have officially become a police state - that the democratic party did jack shit about. But what else is new? You'll still have idiots screaming we need to keep voting blue no matter who - because I don't know, it could get worse than supporting genocide and endless wars, or militarized goon squads roaming American streets ...
This really is becoming an Abraham Lincoln moment in America. Not sure how we're going to get out of this other than massive amounts of pain and even bloodshed. :(
Fully agree. But I also think the "west" is in the terminal phase of a "dying star". As the inevitable death of the genocidal west nears it will lash out causing more wars and chaos. This is similar to when dying star expands into red giant (due to increased inner temperature quickly spending all its fusion "fuel") and then or implodes/collapses into insignificant corpse aka "white dwarf" or explodes into supernova event taking the entire humanity out. It all depends on the critical mass (number of corrupt human idiots on this planet). But there is a cosmic/divine justice. A way for the Universe to get rid of useless undeserving self-destructive species. Nothing lasts forever.
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That's exactly right, about the hidden power structure in USA. Let's all move to Australia. (ha,ha)
Believe me, Kathleen, we're a plutocratic state too. Lobbyists generally get the policies and decisions they want. The reactionary media back them. And Australia is far, far too close to tRump's America. Historically always have been, sadly.
Yes, that's why I put the "ha,ha" - AU is a U.S. military outpost for their (coming) attack on China, it's time to kick them out to avoid messy consequences.
Couldn't agree more.
Better not, we already have more than we can provide for, especially when rice and cotton growers were allowed here and they cause water to be diverted from rivers, taking more than they're allowed rate by building huge collection dams. Of course someone along the way pocketed a nice tax free donation.
And That's how it works because ethics died as greed grew.
Come now, you love me and now you don't want me : ( I do understand, the Nation of Caitlin will be a very difficult project. Wouldn't that be fun, like minded, peaceful, kind, loving, and caring people all in one nation. Soon the Oligarchs would invade, divide us and destroy us. : (
If you mean Oz wanted America, maybe they were fooled for a while but many of us were not.
If we let them. Isn't that always the case? There are far more of us than there are of them, all they have is money, whereas we have our survival at stake.
Caitlin: "For me they’re just evidence that the world is ruled by wealthy sociopaths, and that western democracy is an illusion".
It was always thus. From the inception of the settler colonial state of America up to now. Remember the Constitution written by white men of property for white men of property... for the people by the people was always a myth of propaganda to throw sand in the eyes of the masses. And didn't they believe it!
Of course the rolling stone has gathered a lot of moss on its way! Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is for the oligarchs and those who willingly serve them.
When a country states the have taken over a country by using the words ^Manifest Destiny^ we should have known it was a sham from day one.
So few people have read the Constitution to know what you are saying is true. In fact I read an article about the u.s. revolution being triggered by the likes of Geo. Hero Washington not abiding by the British Gov. going west to murder indigenous people the British saw as resource not unlike other colonies. My family came to the u.s. in 1632 Mass. having been imprisoned in the tower of London for speaking out against the Church of England. Option, we hang you, or you leave for the New World. Unfortunately for the indigenous my family came to Mass. moved stealing land all the way to Ca. along the Ohio river valley ending up in Oregon with a Glacier named after my family. Towns and Univ. building named in every state. I am not without sin. : (
The biography is an interesting book, related or not : )
Zionist millionaires openly admit their $$$ influence on our sham democracy and those who swear allegiance to the constitution allow it to stand.
It's because they're all on the take. Eliminate the billionaires--eliminate the sham politicians.
I could not agree more, however, over the past 20-plus years, I have been attacked by Democrats nearly every time I pointed out their complicity and hypocrisy in our failing government, hearing "why are you going after the good guys?" Regarding our political class being on the take, see trackaipac.com to see who is on the $$$ take. I recall being rather shocked when I first looked at this information.
I think you mean Dale. He does mean well though. I just disagree with him on how we get there now. Dale hates when I reply with Who is our Champion? : )
I think you mean Billionaires. Millions only allow you to buy groceries now.
The US is a gigantic Mafia organization run by Oligarchs and Zionists. There is no rule of law only the Law of the Jungle. Morality takes 3rd place to Money but a zombified public does not have a clue.
A wannabe dictator's paradise come true.
"The world is ruled by wealthy sociopaths, and... western democracy is an illusion."
It most certainly is. You'd think all these open declarations by the billionaires would enrage more people and get them into the streets, tearing down the corrupt system once and for all. I keep hoping and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...
>>"I keep hoping and waiting...and waiting...and waiting..."
Me too!
FUCK ISRAEL FREE PALESTINE
They own the trusted media so this news will be suppressed. Most people don't care anyway.
The greatest crimes are not when the law is broken but when the law itself legalizes criminality: "Everything Hitler did was legal." MLK. Open bribery has been legalized, creating under the mask of democracy a powerful plutocracy. Only a united people can dismantle this criminal system that makes of crime a legal right.