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In reply to the discussion: I don't like conservatives. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)65. Thank you, Sir. It would be an privilege for me.
Here's one of many things I'd be honored to hear you expound upon, the guy who pegged the One Percent before it was cool:
The Origins of the Overclass
By Steve Kangas
The wealthy have always used many methods to accumulate wealth, but it was not until the mid-1970s that these methods coalesced into a superbly organized, cohesive and efficient machine. After 1975, it became greater than the sum of its parts, a smooth flowing organization of advocacy groups, lobbyists, think tanks, conservative foundations, and PR firms that hurtled the richest 1 percent into the stratosphere.
The origins of this machine, interestingly enough, can be traced back to the CIA. This is not to say the machine is a formal CIA operation, complete with code name and signed documents. (Although such evidence may yet surface and previously unthinkable domestic operations such as MK-ULTRA, CHAOS and MOCKINGBIRD show this to be a distinct possibility.) But what we do know already indicts the CIA strongly enough. Its principle creators were Irving Kristol, Paul Weyrich, William Simon, Richard Mellon Scaife, Frank Shakespeare, William F. Buckley, Jr., the Rockefeller family, and more. Almost all the machine's creators had CIA backgrounds.
During the 1970s, these men would take the propaganda and operational techniques they had learned in the Cold War and apply them to the Class War. Therefore it is no surprise that the American version of the machine bears an uncanny resemblance to the foreign versions designed to fight communism. The CIA's expert and comprehensive organization of the business class would succeed beyond their wildest dreams. In 1975, the richest 1 percent owned 22 percent of Americas wealth. By 1992, they would nearly double that, to 42 percent the highest level of inequality in the 20th century.
How did this alliance start? The CIA has always recruited the nations elite: millionaire businessmen, Wall Street brokers, members of the national news media, and Ivy League scholars. During World War II, General "Wild Bill" Donovan became chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA. Donovan recruited so exclusively from the nations rich and powerful that members eventually came to joke that "OSS" stood for "Oh, so social!"
CONTINUED...
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html
PS: Along with all that stuff outta Sam Adams, that Old Style is about my favorite domestic. It would be a blast... Thanks, Jackpine Radical.
The Origins of the Overclass
By Steve Kangas
The wealthy have always used many methods to accumulate wealth, but it was not until the mid-1970s that these methods coalesced into a superbly organized, cohesive and efficient machine. After 1975, it became greater than the sum of its parts, a smooth flowing organization of advocacy groups, lobbyists, think tanks, conservative foundations, and PR firms that hurtled the richest 1 percent into the stratosphere.
The origins of this machine, interestingly enough, can be traced back to the CIA. This is not to say the machine is a formal CIA operation, complete with code name and signed documents. (Although such evidence may yet surface and previously unthinkable domestic operations such as MK-ULTRA, CHAOS and MOCKINGBIRD show this to be a distinct possibility.) But what we do know already indicts the CIA strongly enough. Its principle creators were Irving Kristol, Paul Weyrich, William Simon, Richard Mellon Scaife, Frank Shakespeare, William F. Buckley, Jr., the Rockefeller family, and more. Almost all the machine's creators had CIA backgrounds.
During the 1970s, these men would take the propaganda and operational techniques they had learned in the Cold War and apply them to the Class War. Therefore it is no surprise that the American version of the machine bears an uncanny resemblance to the foreign versions designed to fight communism. The CIA's expert and comprehensive organization of the business class would succeed beyond their wildest dreams. In 1975, the richest 1 percent owned 22 percent of Americas wealth. By 1992, they would nearly double that, to 42 percent the highest level of inequality in the 20th century.
How did this alliance start? The CIA has always recruited the nations elite: millionaire businessmen, Wall Street brokers, members of the national news media, and Ivy League scholars. During World War II, General "Wild Bill" Donovan became chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA. Donovan recruited so exclusively from the nations rich and powerful that members eventually came to joke that "OSS" stood for "Oh, so social!"
CONTINUED...
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html
PS: Along with all that stuff outta Sam Adams, that Old Style is about my favorite domestic. It would be a blast... Thanks, Jackpine Radical.
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I bought that book but just the chapters chilled my blood. I gave it away to a young person to read.
freshwest
Dec 2011
#19
Conservatism's most recent champion actually stated that "Money trumps peace."
Octafish
Dec 2011
#63
How Ayn Rand Seduced Generations of Young Men and Helped Make the U.S. Into a Selfish, Greedy Nation
Octafish
Dec 2011
#70
We have two parties. They have their own, let them stay there and reform it. I think we
sabrina 1
Dec 2011
#93
Personally, I try not to denigrate anyone; however, I don't have a whole lot of patience
Bogart
Dec 2011
#68
It has nothing to do with where I am going. Per your request, I "expanded on that."
Bogart
Dec 2011
#96
Just to be clear, I'm a Kennedy Democrat. Eleanor Roosevelt thought him too conservative.
Octafish
Dec 2011
#88
I don't either. Here's the thing about the rest - You can force politicians to think and act one way
bigtree
Dec 2011
#34
I do my best to try not to find out if someone is a republican so I won't take an attitude
ThomThom
Dec 2011
#39
Between inability to see shades of gray and inability to see and accept facts, I dislike them too.
Thor_MN
Dec 2011
#44
I don't like corporate fascists. Here in Wisconsin we have Weimar Republicans, we are at war.
bobthedrummer
Dec 2011
#52
What you said. And many thanks to you Wisconsinites for getting this push back started against these
lib_wit_it
Dec 2011
#54
Well, a lot of people claim that what you say is true, but I'm not so sure. If someone supports a
lib_wit_it
Dec 2011
#60
My family and self were viewed as less than human for decades. We became a longitudinal "research"
bobthedrummer
Dec 2011
#94
Putting money above people is a natural consequence of our capitalist system
ChillbertKChesterton
Dec 2011
#73