Weekend Economists Celebrate Harry Potter's 35th Birthday July 31st, 2015

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51. There Is a Degree of Scale to Criminality World-Wide that We've Not Seen Since WWII

Consider the Drug Industry/War, the Finance Industry/War, the Intelligence Industry/War,
the Corporate Industry/War.

Is there any endeavor that isn't touched by some form of warfare, today?

Education has fallen to the Intelligence War--exterminating intelligence at its source.
Agriculture has fallen to the Corporate Wars--between the GMO and pollution, hoarding/starvation, and poisoning through fraud for things like pet food and baby formula...

Has the world ever seen such Greed-driven madness?

And given technology's progress, the tools of oppression, theft, destruction and death are so much more effective, powerful, and controllable than they have ever been.

Religion used to be the only restraint...Christian religion, specifically--and that has fallen to greed, as well.

The USA did serve to mitigate/stymie some of the greed in the world, and now it is the leading source of the madness through its bankster-driven foreign and domestic policies.

This time, it IS different...so much worse than it's ever been before. It feels like that episode from the Star Trek original series: "A Piece of the Action", where an entire planet organized itself on Mafia principles. The only saving grace was that the planet didn't internalize the brutality...it wasn't part of the ethos. The people were trainable...willing to deal.

So, where is our Captain Kirk, to re-educate our 1%? Or at least, eliminate it?