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freshwest

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6. From the link:
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 10:26 AM
Jul 2012

Last edited Sun Jul 22, 2012, 11:56 AM - Edit history (1)

"The problem here is that the assets of these countries are held by a small number of wealthy individuals while the debts are shouldered by the ordinary people of these countries through their governments," the report says.

Note, it was not the welfare queens, unions, poor, socialized medicine or social safety nets that did it. Instead it was the people who profited from their labor and the planet's resouces That is a proof of FDR's warning:

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group...”

In order to work together peacefully in cooperation, we pay taxes through our government; but like a temporary gastric bypass gone wrong, the nutrients are not being returned to the body politic, so it has been reduced to the point of feebleness. Thus they are above our leaders who are bound by their position in this body. Some like Obama and Warren, tried to rein them in by calling to reduce the bypass by going after overseas tax havens, and are called by the ravenous rich 'socialists' and 'anti-business.'

One of Barack's very first actions was to go after tax havens overseas, which began a hailstorm of media criticism in his first months and they then instituted a very dangerous game, since their billions pay for many supporters willing to kill for them. They have not stopped railing against him in vicious terms and have now achieved their goal of convincing both the left and right parts of the population that government's mere existence is the problem and not them.

The belief of the people that government should stand between them and these groups has existed for hundreds of years, as an association that they could have some input. Clearly, the rich minority are secretive about where their money comes from, which is us, in order to not inflame the majority against them. Instead, they pay media to inflame us against each other. They created the Tea Party by media to continue the flow of wealth to them without stopping. The spirits of the people we fought in WW2 now keep Americans busy by media mass hypnosis about God, Guns, Gays and Gynecology, going after each other, to take their minds off of where the money went:

"The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence.

His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power...

They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest.

Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."

-- U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944

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A tale of £13 trillion in hidden wealth [View all] Stinky The Clown Jul 2012 OP
This is absolutely disgusting.... nc4bo Jul 2012 #1
Everybody should read the article. Mimosa Jul 2012 #2
K&R drm604 Jul 2012 #3
Be sure to share the story on FB FreakinDJ Jul 2012 #4
Please do. I have no Facebook account. Stinky The Clown Jul 2012 #5
Tweeted ... sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #32
From the link: freshwest Jul 2012 #6
Great post! scarletwoman Jul 2012 #12
I wish people knew MORE about that and LESS what media tells them. Thanks for your comment on it. freshwest Jul 2012 #13
The vast majority in this country are utterly clueless. And the plutocrat-controlled corporate media scarletwoman Jul 2012 #16
+1,000 malaise Jul 2012 #25
Great post n/t Tsiyu Jul 2012 #20
Excellent post. And it looks like they have accomplished the goal outlined in the last paragraph of sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #33
You're welcome to make one of it. But as far as the Greeks, when I talked to Europeans, they said... freshwest Jul 2012 #34
That is pretty amazing and appalling.. ananda Jul 2012 #7
13 trillion pounds; 21 trillion dollars muriel_volestrangler Jul 2012 #8
Could be up to $31 trillion - the article says 13 to 20 trillion pounds aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2012 #21
I saw that error right after posting. I was in a hurry and chose to leave it. Stinky The Clown Jul 2012 #28
This is soooooo Republican Berlum Jul 2012 #9
They're planning to use it anytime now to create jobs lunatica Jul 2012 #10
They've already created jobs. They've reduced people to hiring on to kill other people. freshwest Jul 2012 #23
Your headline is innaccurate - it's 13 trillion in British POUNDS, 21 trillion in U.S. DOLLARS. scarletwoman Jul 2012 #11
I knew that right after I posted. I chose to leave it. Stinky The Clown Jul 2012 #27
No problem, part of why I posted the correction was for the other readers of the thread, so they'd scarletwoman Jul 2012 #29
the comments section is definitely worth reading n/t grasswire Jul 2012 #14
They Give New Meaning to Hoarding otohara Jul 2012 #15
Lucy Komisar has done an excellent job of covering offshoring wealth. Octafish Jul 2012 #17
The greatest enemies of civilization are no longer countries or nations aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2012 #18
This is the reality we are faced with today. freshwest Jul 2012 #22
Thanks for this eye-opener Tsiyu Jul 2012 #19
This needs to be posted often lunatica Jul 2012 #24
Was on local news here malaise Jul 2012 #26
Do you mind telling me where? Big city, national or local franchise? How did they introuduce it? freshwest Jul 2012 #36
I'm in Kingston malaise Jul 2012 #38
Thanks. So they didn't make a big deal of it, huh? freshwest Jul 2012 #40
kr HiPointDem Jul 2012 #30
The human race is living on scraps agent46 Jul 2012 #31
K&R for an important thread that actually matters to all our lives. n/t Egalitarian Thug Jul 2012 #35
Blockade the Cayman Islands and their like, to send a warning to Switzerland. Zalatix Jul 2012 #37
Very informative... ljm2002 Jul 2012 #39
+1 freshwest Jul 2012 #41
John Nichols mentioned this at his speech in Milwaukee tonight dragonlady Jul 2012 #42
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