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Out by a u. S. Run state terrorist worse. Than others is it just condemned their villa from the zone that in the United States or one of the terms of abuse is anti american and theres a couple of others like you know more cases theres an array of terms of abuse. Of in the United States you know a very high degree of freedom and so if youre vilified by some commas or who cares to go on to your work anyway these concepts only arise in a culture where if you criticize state power and when i state i mean. More generally not just government but state Corporate Power if you criticize concentrated power youre against the society youre against the people its quite strict in that its used in the United States for another the only Democratic Society where the concert isnt just ridicule. Its a sign of the elements of the elite culture which are the great the glee. The American Dream my many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the 1950 s. And sixtys it was in the biggest growth period in the. American economic history. The gold mate. It was pretty gala tarion growth so the lowest 5th of the population was improving about as much as the upper fiftys. And there were some welfare state measures which improve life for much of the population it was for example possible for a. Black worker to get a decent job in an auto plant. Get a core of children go to school and so on and the same across the board. When the u. S. Was. Primarily a Manufacturing Center it had to be concerned with its own consumers here famously henry ford raised the salary of his worker. That would be able to buy cars. When youre moving into an international plutonic me is the max like to call it blue small percentage of the worlds population thats a gathering increasing wealth what happens to American Consumers of much less concern because most of them arent going to be consuming your products anyway at least on a major basis. Your goals or profit in next quarter or even it if its based on financial manipulation and. High salary high bonuses produce overseas if you have to and produce for the a wealthy classes here and their counterparts abroad what about the rest well theres a term coming into use for them too and theyre called the precariat. Precarious proletariat the working people of the world who live increasingly precarious lives. And its related to the attitude toward the country all together. During the period of great growth of the economy fiftys and sixtys but in fact earlier taxes on the wealthy were far higher corporate taxes were much higher taxes on dividends are much higher simply taxes on wealth for much rare the tax system has been redesigned a so that the taxes that are paid by the very wealthy are reduced and cursed ponderingly the tax burden on the rest of the populations increased. No the shift is towards trying to keep taxes adjust done and wages are not consumption which. Everyone has to do not say and dividends which i go to the rich. The numbers are pretty striking. Now theres a pretext of course theres always a pretext the pretext in this case is well that increases investment and increases jobs but there isnt any evidence for that if you want to increase investment give money to the poor and the working people they have to keep alive so they spend their incomes and that stimulates production and stimulates investment that leads to job growth and so. If youre an ideologist for the masters you have a different line and in fact right now its almost absurd that corporations have money coming out of their pocket. So in fact General Electric are paying 0 taxes and they have enormous profits lets take the profits somewhere else or the for it but not pay taxes and this is common. The major american corporations shift the burden of sustaining a society on to the rest of the population. Solidarity is quite dangerous from the point of view of the masters youre only supposed to care about yourself and not about other people this is quite different from the people they claim are their heroes like adam smith who based is whole approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is a fundamental human trait but that has to be driven out of peoples heads gotta be for yourself father while maxon dont care about others which is ok for the rich and powerful but is devastating for everyone else. Going to take a whole lot of effort to try to drive these basic Human Emotions out of peoples heads. And we see it today in policy formation for example in the attack on Social Security. Social security is based on a principle its based on a principle of solidarity saw terry it is caring for others. A Social Security means i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town can get something to live upon. For much of the population thats where they survive and. Its of no use to the very rich so therefore theres a concerted attempt to destroy it. One of the ways is defunding it you want to destroy some system 1st the fund. Then it will work people be angry they want Something Else thats a standard technique for. Private eyes exam system. We see it in the attack on Public Schools and Public Schools are based on the principle of solidarity. I no longer have children in school theyre grown up but the principle of solidarity says i happily pay taxes so that the kid across the street can go to school thats normal Human Emotion that it drives it out of peoples heads i dont have kids in school why should i pay taxes privatized it so on. The Public Education system all the way from kindergarten to Higher Education is under severe attack i mean thats one of the jewels of american society. You go back to the golden age again the great growth period fiftys and sixtys a lot of that is based on free Public Education. One of the results of the 2nd world war was the g. I. Bill right which enabled veterans remember its a large part of the population and to go to college they would have been able to do otherwise of the century and Free Education where a community is date or nation regularly invest substantial share of it resources in education the investment invariably returned in Better Business and a higher standard of living u. S. Was way in the lead in developing. Extensive mass Public Interest ation at every level. But now more than half the states most of the funding for the colleges comes from tuitions not from the state thats a radical change thats a terrible burden on student it means that students if they dont come from very wealthy families theyre going to leave college with big debt and if you have the dead youre trapped i mean maybe you wanted to become a Public Interest lawyer but youre going to have to go into a Corporate Law firm to pay off those debts and by the time youre part of the culture you know youre not going to get out of it again and thats true cross the border. You know world big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the path and shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. In the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks on the population of belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes come up with strike can put these attacks was a p. R. You see the Police Actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of full streets in belfast at the take more than a 100 innocent civilians women. As the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and its occurrence which the collusion was involved in some of those cases they killers would later be named into then and were getting i think it went to the very very top i think it is for all the water where all the taste since you thought was going on and give the go ahead. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. The isolation whole community. Are you going the right way or are you being led somewhere. Direct. What is true what is faith. In a world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Aura made in the shallowness. In the 1950 s. Is a much poorer society in the news today but no the us could easily handle centrally free mass Higher Education today a much Richer Society cleanse dozen of the resources for. That just whats going on right before our eyes and its the a general attack on the principles that i mean not only are they humane theyre the basis of the prosperity and health of this society. If you look over the history of regulation say the Railroad Regulation Financial Regulation and so on and you find that quite commonly its its either initiated by the economic. Concentrations that are being regulated or its supported by them and the reason is because they know that sooner or later they can take over the regulators. And it ends up with whats called regulatory capture. The business being regulated is in fact running the regulators. Bank lobbyists are actually writing the laws of Financial Regulation gets to that extreme. And thats been happening through history and again its a pretty natural tendency when you just look at the distribution of power. One of the things that expanded enormously in the 1970 s. Is lobbying as the Business World moved sharply to try to control legislation. Business world was pretty upset by the advances in a Public Welfare in the sixtys and in particular by Richard Nixon and its not too will understand that but he was the last new deal president and they regarded that as class treachery. And nixons administration to get the consumer safety legislation safety and Health Regulations in the workplace the e. P. A. The Environmental Protection agency. Business didnt like it of course they did like that taxes. They didnt like the regulation and they began a coordinated effort to try to overcome it. Lobbying sharply increase deregulation began with the rule ferocity. There were no financial crashes in the fiftys and the sixtys because the greater the story apparatus of the new deal was still in place. As a pm to be dismantled under business pressure and political pressure. To get more and more crashes. And it goes on through the years. Seventys sort of starts begin. Eightys really takes off congress was asked to approve federal loan guarantees to the Auto Companies about the want and want to have a 1000000000. 00 all of this is quite safe as long as you know the governments going to come to rescue so takes a reagan instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bailout of American History at the time actually ended his term with so the huge financial crisis the savings and loan crisis and the government moved in and build it out for a kind of 300. 00 in a guy whose favorite animated they are and 999. 00 regulation was dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. And then come see bush and then obama bill in bear stearns is running to the feds to stay afloat president bush today defended the decision to bail out citi group that in may and freddie macin ask for a total after being 1000000. 00 more to sail out could get much bigger than billing even in troubles for the u. S. Economy. And theyre building up the next term. B. Each time the taxpayer is called on to bail out of those who created the crisis increasingly the major financial institutions. In a capitalist economy you would do that in a capitalist system that would worry about the investors who made risky investments but the rich and powerful they dont want to capitalist system they want to be able to run to the nanny state as soon as theyre in trouble and get build a taxpayer its called the too big to fail. I mean there are no will or its economic sue significantly disagree with the course that were following people like just Stiglitz Paul Krugman others none of them were even approached the people picked to fix the crisis were those who created the robert rubin crowd the Goldman Sachs croak they created the crisis are no more powerful than before is that accident well not when you pick those people to create an economic plan and then what do you expect to happen. Meanwhile for the poor let market principles prevail dont expect any help from the government the governments the problem not the solution and so on thats essentially neo liberalism and its has this dual character which goods were right back in economic history one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for the poor. And nothing surprising about this exactly the dynamics you expect if the population allows it to proceed just going to go on and on like this until the next crash which is so much expected that credit agencies which kind of evaluate the. Status of firms are now counting into their calculations the taxpayer bailout that they expect to come in after the next crash which means that the beneficiaries of these Credit Ratings like the big banks they can borrow money more cheaply they can push out smaller competitors and you get more and more concentration everywhere you look policies are done this way which should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone thats what happens when you put power into the hands of a narrow sector of will which will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as youd expect. Be. A. Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. Particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the Political Parties into the pockets of major corporations. The Citizens United this was january 2009 i guess thats a very important decisions prim Court Decision but it has a history and youve got to think about the history. Of 14th amendment has a provision that says no persons rights can be infringed without due process of law. And the intent clearly was to protect freed slaves said ok they have got the protection of the law i dont think its ever been used for freed slaves if ever marginally almost immediately it was used for businesses corporations their rights cant be infringed without due process of law so they gradually became persons under the law. Corporations or state created legal fictions. Maybe theyre good maybe theyre bed but to call them persons is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about a century ago and that extended through the 20th century. As they give corporations rights way beyond what persons have so if say General Motors invests in mexico they get National Rights the rights of the mexican business well the notion of person was expanded to include corporations it was also restricted if you take the 14th amendment literally that no undocumented alien can be deprived of her rights if they are persons. Undocumented aliens who are living here and building their buildings clear lawns and so on theyre not persons. But General Electric is a person an immortal super powerful person this perversion of the young elementary morality and the obvious meaning of the law is quite incredible. In the 1970 s. The courts decided that money is a form of speech. But reverse value and then you won through the years to Citizens United which says that the right of free speech of corporations members spend as much money they want cant be curtailed. Take a look what that means it means that corporations which anyway have been pretty much buying elections are now free to do it with virtually no constraint as tremendous attack on the residue of democracy. Very interesting to read the rulings like Justice Kennedys swing vote his ruling said well look after all the c. B. S. Is given freedom of speech there are corp why shouldnt General Electric be free to spend as much when it is they want. I mean its true that c. B. S. Has given freedom of speech but theyre supposed to be performing a Public Service thats why thats what the press is supposed to be in General Electric is trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. Critical decisions and it puts the country in a position where business power is greatly extended beyond what it always was this is part of the vicious cycle the Supreme Court justice are put in by reactionary president s who get in there because theyre funded by business and thats the way the cycle works. Well it finally happened donald trump has been impeached by the house of representatives in complete opposition to what the founders envisioned the articles voted on where along party lines it is highly unlikely the senate will vote to remove the president from office so what is the point of this entire exercise. And were going to fulfill the repeated promises. To the people and promise to be there with all but. 3 but. 3. Now you want to 1st. No. The whole. Big day. I had a spiritual experience. And i had the little girl that died in the fire sent here collins. To save my dear old son were looking for a kidney reaching. 54 years old age but 21 years old go through all. The crime i didnt commit. I always knew that he was innocent doesnt read to them stupid nobody would listen. You know your. Trial was pretty much you for. Your head im guilty before the trial. Tell you nobody. Not. Im. Not a people you will learn a little. Of truth through to me has room for germany im so for something. I knew she was in there and i knew exactly what i was doing. People life. Sometimes theres no explanation. Understanding of shell is that its a money loser from day one but it doesnt matter in the us because all the creditors to lend money into the shell industry are constantly being bailed out by this. That prints money thats why they do it for the fees its great for the banks but its not an energy play in a lot of business its a sinkhole here as you point out in argentina so they cant just print their way out of a losing situation and the economy is already a bit fragile you dont want to add another loser into the mix like shale drilling void a completely. Russian officials revealed the identity of the gunman who killed who and injured 5 in a shooting near the federal Security Service building in central moscow we spoke to the father of the attack and. Lately he became very secretive and also got some kind of strange beast an accident he used to tell me that he liked shooting to give the speech become almost a school. After more than 3 years of deadlock and numerous rejections the u. K. Parliament finally backs Prime Minister parsed johnsons prexy withdrawal agreement