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Dominionist fascism or corporatist fascism
[Read the article: Holy Constitution!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One wonders how a forgiving must God feel about being the political tool of the rapacious.
Keep in mind that Jesus' pet peeve was religious hypocrisy, and the 'crime' for which he was murdered was opposing that hypocrisy. The Religious Right doesn't just dishonor Jesus' teachings: they're the political descendants of the guys who had him crucified. Jesus wasn't just a librul. He was a leftist.
It appears that we have two distinct types of fascism taking over these days, the Religious and the Corporatist. In fact the Religious type is just a cover for the Corporatist and is their tool. Huckabee has come out as an anti-corporation populist, but it's guaranteed that he'll turn when the moment is opportune. It's a pretty good ruse and plays on the weaknesses of both the rubes and the corporatists.
Of course, if God doesn't exist, He doesn't feel anything at all. It could just be wishful thinking to suppose He might get around to saving us from all this.
Although there are probably as many different interpretations of Strauss's teachings as there are Straussians, the three basic principles that the neocons glean from Strauss and Wohlstetter are:
1) There are a few superior people born to lead and the rest are merely followers who must be deceived and lied to if necessary by these leaders to be directed to the "right" path.
2) The powerful have the right to rule, and America must use its unchallenged power to control the rest of the world in order to enforce our own best interests and prevent any future rivals from emerging.
3) Religion is essential in the masses, as it makes them far easier to manipulate and control, but the true leaders should be free of religion and morality.
Huckabee: "Jesus loves me, and shares my hatred of anybody who gets in my way."
God: "I'm such a tool."
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Stellaa
[Read the article: Bernanke presses the panic button]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Curious, what do they want? Free money?
They've already got that, and it's not enough.
Apparently shoveling huge quantities of money at the obscenely wealthy and letting rapacious finance guys go hog wild isn't a viable long-term economic strategy.
What's left? Tax the middle class to subsidize the rich? We're already doing that. Rack up trillions in national debt. We've done that too.
Apparently we're just not doing nearly enough of it.
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Save yourselves.
[Read the article: Bernanke presses the panic button]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you borrow a million dollars and spend it, it doesn't make you rich. It just makes it look that way. Since there's no way you could ever repay that million dollars, you're actually bankrupt. It'll just take a while for everybody to figure that out.
Multiply this situation by several millions and you begin to get a sense of what's been holding up the US economy the last several years: hot air.
Attend me.
US Nobel Laureate Slams Bush Gov't as "Worst" in American History
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0729-06.htm
I.M.F. Says U.S. Debts Threaten World Economy
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/08/business/08FUND.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=
Bush drives the nation towards bankruptcy.
http://www.rense.com/general49/bankrupt.htm
Drowning, First-Class Style
http://www.tompaine.com/Archive/scontent/8019.html
American trade: hurtling towards the tipping point
http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=6318
Some think the dollar has fallen too far. On the contrary, it has not fallen by enough
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2404984
Bush Wants To Bankrupt America
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3977.htm
Jobs Bloodbath to Come
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/37588278-1bb1-11d9-8af6-00000e2511c8.html
Why would any administration deliberately unbalance the long-term finances of the federal government?
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/001541.html
Derivatives Market Grows 20% to $170 Tln, BIS Says
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aR4pMAz.ogAA&refer=us
This was a couple of years ago. The global investment derivatives market is now hedged to the tune of $400 TRILLION - with a 't', not a 'b'. In other words, the world's financiers have short-sold - i.e, mortgaged - the entire world economy five times over, just to keep it going and to give the planetary economic system the appearance of looking a lot better than it really is. This collection of derivatives hedges is so gigantic that it can never be unwound. So the world is essentially bankrupt. It just hasn't been notified yet.
It's taken three and four years to get from the above articles to the current situation, but the end result has never been in doubt. It was predicted, long in advance. Transnational corporatists have no use for the US as a free country, but only as a vehicle for global military imperialism and as a corpse to bleed dry of its wealth.
Many scholars believe the last fifty years of progressive middle-class freedom and prosperity to have been only a temporary aberration of history, since most of human history has been characterized by large poor populations dominated by small ruling classes. It very much appears that we're about to return to the historical model. The coming economic catastrophe will finally enable the Powers That Be to foreclose on the US economy and federal government, and that will be that.
It hasn't even gotten ugly yet, much less weird ugly. You have to be patient. It will happen. It is happening.
Kassandra was never believed. But she was always right.
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Nulla Sallus
[Read the article: Bernanke presses the panic button]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most people would prefer a recession than inflation
Baloney.
Most people would rather have a job, regardless of how their paycheck is depreciating, because without a job you don't even have any money to depreciate.
People lose jobs in a recession. So most people would rather have inflation than a recession. But we're going to have both, so take your pick.