Empire - The Rise of the Oligarchs

[99th_Monkey]

This could NOT be more timely IMHO. We've been had big-time by
domestic economic terrorists. Where is our Smedley Butler?

#t=26

[Billy Budd]

1. Milk of Amnesia

Americans love their historical amnesia.

Unable to reconcile the myth (the US stands for freedom and democracy) with reality (the US murders large numbers of innocent people in order to steal their resources), they choose to forget. And in forgetting their own history, as Santayana warned, they are condemned to repeat it.

[newthinking]

2. Excellent video

Thanks 99th!

[CtDemoFarmer]

4. Ditto 99th

Excellent!

[SmittynMo]

3. Excellent listen

And sadly, we're still as susceptible now as we were then. Greedy 1%!!!!

[uhnope]

5. Oh the Irony. Al Jazeera Media Network funded by the House of Thani, ruling family of Qatar

[truth2power]

6. And the message? n/t

[uhnope]

7. Message? Consider the source

[truth2power]

10. Fail.

[uhnope]

11. very articulate, but propaganda about US "oligarchy" would be more effective

from some different source than an oil monarchy that only let women start voting 15 years ago and requires women to get a man's permission to get a driver's license. That's worse than a fail, it's a human rights disaster.

[Uncle Joe]

8. If you watch the Erik Prince interview segment you can literally see him start sweating in

trying to rationalize his "business model" of for profit mercenaries now willing to work for and train U.S. competitors and adversaries.

There is no national loyalty with such a creation and Prince has fallen a long way from being a Navy Seal.

Thanks for the thread, 99th_Monkey.

[99th_Monkey]

9. "National loyalty" of corporations is a "quaint notion"

by some other talking head in the video... i don't know name, but just saying.