Front page news is that for the first time in 18 years, images of flag draped coffins returning from Bush War II (illegal since Bush War I) will be allowed on local media outlets.
Let's see: 2009 - 18 years = 1991 =
before the institutionalization of euphemistic hyperedited propaganda into the media, the reporting, the work place, the school room, and public awareness.
"Collateral Damage"? "Team Leaders"? "Reality TV"? "Total Quality Management"? "Gulf War Syndrome (just don't call it "Gulf War" it's "Operation Blatant Scam")."
If you aren't old enough to remember clearly the Reagan/Bush scams of the 80's, perhaps you remember the Bush scams of the 90's and beyond.
Perhaps you remember that Nirvana was the last gasp of rocknroll/punk/originality in the last gasp of the music industry before the corporate clones and Nirvanawannabes took over... forever. (Doncha love American Idull and Hannah Disneyannah?)
So NOOOOOOOOoooooooowooooowowooowwoowowoww after ALL this time, after all the ignored warnings, after all the INYERFACE yer fucked messages from the POWERS THAT BE, after they have had their fun screwing you over and rubbing your face in it, meanwhile "dumbing down" the populace in the name of "Teach To The Corporate Script" and "Leave No Consumer Sucker Behind," even after the complete downfall of everything they held dear despite all the evidence of blatant fraud and hollow promises, there are STILL some holdouts who object to the notion that the American public is one paycheck, one illness and one heartbeat away from being in complete SERFITUDE to the CORPORATE MASTERS that hold all the house of credit CARDS, propping up the American economy for unknown and unreliable reasons by overseas interests.
Unbelievable.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090406_resist_or_become_serfs/The corporate state, and the political and intellectual class that served the corporate state, constructed a financial and political system based on illusions. Corporations engaged in pyramid lending that created fictitious assets. These fictitious assets became collateral for more bank lending. The elite skimmed off hundreds of millions in bonuses, commissions and salaries from this fictitious wealth. Politicians, who dutifully served corporate interests rather than those of citizens, were showered with campaign contributions and given lucrative jobs when they left office. Universities, knowing it was not good business to challenge corporatism, muted any voices of conscience while they went begging for corporate donations and grants. Deceptive loans and credit card debt fueled the binges of a consumer society and hid falling wages and the loss of manufacturing jobs.
The Obama administration, rather than chart a new course, is intent on re-inflating the bubble. The trillions of dollars of government funds being spent to sustain these corrupt corporations could have renovated our economy. We could have saved tens of millions of Americans from poverty. The government could have, as consumer activist Ralph Nader has pointed out, started 10 new banks with $35 billion each and a 10-to-1 leverage to open credit markets. Vast, unimaginable sums are being placed into these dirty corporate hands without oversight. And they will use this money as they always have—to enrich themselves at our expense.
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“These are signs of hyper decay,” Nader said from his office in Washington. “You spend this kind of money and do not know if it will work.”
“Bankrupt corporate capitalism is on its way to bankrupting the socialism that is trying to save it,” Nader added. “That is the end stage. If they no longer have socialism to save them then we are into feudalism. We are into private police, gated communities and serfs with a 21st century nomenclature.”
The bullet to our head, inevitable if we do not radically alter course, will be sudden. We have been borrowing at the rate of more than $2 billion a day over the last 10 years, and at some point it has to stop. The moment China, the oil-rich states and other international investors stop buying treasury bonds the dollar will become junk. Inflation will rocket upward. We will become Weimar Germany. A furious and sustained backlash by a betrayed and angry populace, one unprepared intellectually and psychologically for collapse, will sweep aside the Democrats and most of the Republicans. A cabal of proto-fascist misfits, from Christian demagogues to simpletons like Sarah Palin to loudmouth talk show hosts, who we naively dismiss as buffoons, will find a following with promises of revenge and moral renewal. The elites, the ones with their Harvard Business School degrees and expensive vocabularies, will retreat into their sheltered enclaves of privilege and comfort. We will be left bereft and abandoned outside the gates.
Good Night and Good Luck.
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