Source – healthandmoneynews.wordpress.com – “…Congress passed a 50,000 per year “Diversity Visa” to allow lucky recipients a free pass and welfare for life from third world countries around the world. No qualifications needed! Over 15 million people sign up for it annually. The 1965 Immigration Reform Act allows 1.2 million immigrants annually” US Congress Has…
Source – kunstler.com – “…The Times is celebrating the New York State legislature’s passage of harsh new laws against sexual harassment: Sex Harassment Laws Toughened in New York: ‘Finally, This Is Happening.’ Can you guess what the unintended consequences of this “happening” will be? I’ll tell you: men who run companies (there are some) will…
Source – oftwominds.com – ‘…The system is broken, and the managerial elite will keep it broken because it serves their interests to keep it broken. Unfortunately we’ll all suffer when the managerial elite is no longer able to stave off the dire fiscal consequences of their self-serving leadership” America’s Managerial Elite Has Failed, But We…
Source – commondreams.org – “…The top one percent owns nearly $30 trillion of assets while the bottom half owns less than nothing…Three wealthiest people in America have as much wealth as the bottom 50 percent” ‘Eye-Popping’: Analysis Shows Top 1% Gained $21 Trillion in Wealth Since 1989 While Bottom Half Lost $900 Billion – By…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…I have long held that America’s Deep State–the permanent, un-elected government and its many proxies and public-private partnerships–is riven by warring elites. There is no purpose in making the conflict public, so the battles are waged in private, behind closed doors” The Self-Destructive Trajectory of Overly Successful Empires – By Charles…
Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com – “…Nearly two-thirds of private prison contracts mandate that state and local governments maintain a certain occupancy rate – usually 90 percent – or require taxpayers to pay for empty beds…Sen. Marco Rubio is one of the biggest beneficiaries” How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…We have zero diplomacy, only threats. Indeed threats are America’s hallmark. Threats of war. Threats of sanctions. The President of the United States gives away other countries’ territories and decides who is to be the president of Venezuela. Today’s America is scared to death of peaceful competition and imposes tariffs on…
Source – tomdispatch.com – ‘…Consider this: the world’s richest 1% own 45% of total wealth on this planet. In contrast, 64% of the population (with an average of $10,000 in wealth to their name) holds less than 2%. And to widen the inequality picture a bit more, the world’s richest 10%, those having at least…
Source – commondreams.org – ‘…The unknown and unrecognized people who harvest our food are on the lowest rung of the income ladder despite the critical role they play in our lives. Near the top of the income ladder are people who gamble on the prices of food via the commodities market and those who drain…
Source – caitlinjohnstone.com – ‘…End the wars. Stop exploiting patriots who sign up to defend the homeland and constitution as some mercenary force for private corporations” SM: …Join the Army. Travel to exotic places, meet interesting people….& kill them The US Army Asked Twitter How Service Has Impacted People. The Answers Were Gut-Wrenching – By…
Source – original.antiwar.com – ‘…Pence engaged in some genuine truth-telling that revealed the nature of military service in a time of forever war. He informed the cadets that “It is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life…This should have been a controversial statement, an alarming…
Source – rielpolitk.com – “..Consumer culture fans the flames of incessant need, while Banker’s bait their hooks and lie in wait. Never a though of attempting to live within ones means or the wholesale rejection of a system that persists in eating its own. The trend continues as long as the band plays on, that…
Source – robertreich.org – “…While the wealthy and powerful are coddled with public largesse, the rest of us are thrown into the jaws of an unforgiving economic system…Around 60 percent of America’s wealth is now inherited. Many of today’s superrich have never worked a day in their lives” Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the…
Source – commondreams.org – “…These informed, concerned people—who don’t have to worry about a living wage, not having health insurance, being gouged by payday loans, and having no savings—were called “the contented classes” in The Culture of Contentment, a book by the late progressive Harvard economist John Kenneth Gailbraith. His main point—until the contented classes…
Source – truthdig.com – “…The posturing by carefully packaged political personalities. This burlesque is anti-politics masquerading as politics. Its disingenuousness, obvious to most of the country, is what made Trump’s crude taunts and ridiculing of the system so attractive to betrayed voters. Trump may be inept, vile and a con artist, but in this system…
Source – theburningplatform.com – “…When any government becomes almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting—whether that evil takes the form of war, terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity—that government has lost its claim…
Source – mybudget360.com – “…The biggest scam of the century revolves around the massive growth in debt…Americans have been put into a sleepwalking state where they were drunk on debt induced spending while slowly and surely our manufacturing base was removed from the country…Banks and Wall Street have not cut back and have gone the…
Source – oftwominds.com – ‘…The sacrifices required to live in high-cost urban areas are no longer worth it: traffic congestion, long commutes, high-stress jobs, homelessness and decaying infrastructure are outweighing the benefits of hipster urbanism. Although it’s verboten to mention this in the we’re so fabulous local media, many of these high-cost urban regions are…
Source – bracingviews.com – “…Public schools represent one of the bedrock institutions of American democracy. Yet as a society we’ve stood aside as the very institutions that actually made America great were gutted and undermined by short-term thinking, corporate greed, and unconscionable disrespect for our collective future” The Death of Education in America – By…
Source – original.antiwar.com – “…Former president says peaceful China ‘ahead of us in almost every way…The only US president to complete his term without war, military attack or occupation has called the United States “the most warlike nation in the history of the world” Jimmy Carter: US ‘Most Warlike Nation in History of the World’ …
Source – commondreams.org – “…One of the themes of the superb writing of Henry Giroux is that more and more Americans are becoming “disposable,” recognized as either commodities or criminals by the more fortunate members of society. There seems to be a method to the madness of winner-take-all capitalism. The following steps, whether due to greed or…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…The same entities (Deep State, permanent government, the oligarchy, the Borg, whatever term you like) that targeted Trump with the phony Russia collusion narrative want Assange’s scalp nailed to the wall…An essential role in Assange’s betrayal by Moreno was played by Trump’s Veep Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “The Obama regime’s protection of a black criminal has enraged the Chicago Police who are demanding a federal investigation into (Kim Foxx) Cook County’s top prosecutor for dismissing the case after being contacted by Michelle Obama’s aide…According to a Breitbart news report, the Zionist Jew George Soros helped with a $408,000…
Source – theautomaticearth.com – ‘… I’ve just been, like hopefully many people are, so sad and angry and despondent today, all day. The entire world watched the music die today, and never realized it, and a man much smarter and braver and real than any of us is out there paying for our sins, and…
Source – tomdispatch.com – ‘…Vast numbers of lobbyists and eye-popping amounts of lobbying money now are at the heart of the American political system. In 2018 alone, the 50 biggest lobbying outfits, largely representing big companies, business associations, and banks, spent $540 million, and the grand total for lobbying that year alone was $3.4 billion”…
Source – wakingtimes.com – “…The Twilight Zone was…a show that captured imaginations; challenged moral hypocrisy and societal prejudices; and railed against inhumanity, racism, prejudice, the mechanization of human beings by way of their technology, tyrants of all shapes and colors, a passive populace, war, injustice, the surveillance state, corporate greed. Fifty years later, with so…
Source – theatlantic.com – “…Supreme Court Powell was well known as a proponent of corporate interests…a confidential memo he wrote that went public the year before began serving indicates as much. “The time has come,” he wrote to the director of the Chamber of Commerce, “for the wisdom, ingenuity and resources of American business to…
Source – internationalman.com – “…America” as a concept, no longer exists in the USA…Over the last century, the Deep State, which is corporatist in origin, has grown and has done a first rate job of introducing a combination of socialism and fascism, a bit at a time. This has slowly destroyed the economy, education and…
Source – humansarefree.com – “…The government is making it illegal to be homeless and illegal to help those who are homeless…It is illegal (or in the process of becoming illegal) to feed hungry people in 71 cities across the United States, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless” (SM: The Homeless represent one of…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…The citizenry that vowed never to be ruled by an aristocracy that controlled the government and finance as a means of self-enrichment, is now so distracted by social fragmentation that the citizenry is blind to their servitude to a new and formidably informal financial aristocracy” While the Nation Fragments Socially, the…
