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I support Right to Die.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/decided-sister-die-accident-now-130000045.html


"Strong personal faith and support for choice at the end of life are not
mutually exclusive. In fact, I support the legalisation of assisted dying because
of my religious beliefs, not in spite of them. And I know I am far from alone."


George Carey
former Archbishop of Canterbury
in an article in "Isle of Man Today" (Link)

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I support Right to Die.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/decided-sister-die-accident-now-130000045.html


"Strong personal faith and support for choice at the end of life are not
mutually exclusive. In fact, I support the legalisation of assisted dying because
of my religious beliefs, not in spite of them. And I know I am far from alone."


George Carey
former Archbishop of Canterbury
in an article in "Isle of Man Today" (Link)

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When my primary care Doc's assistant, a health pro I and my wife have an intense degree of respect and love for, was put into a position of assessing suicidality in my case, with newly developed intense pain, an inoperable spine and cancer that might or might not be encroaching on the spine and hip, I told her that as a mental health clinician who carried 2 pro licenses, I had never had a client complete a successful suicide or even take it to a serious effort, though, ironically, every member of my family of origin had died by their own hand, though the paperwork may not be accurate in my younger brother's case, whom I believe was shot by his roommate.

I told her that my politics of self-determination were that a person needs to be in the clearest of mind possible when making such decisions, but that the ultimate decision to exit and when, belongs to us all individually. Abolition ended slavery, and no one owns another.

None of my colleagues throughout my career could claim to be free of clients who'd died by suicide.

Maybe I was lucky, but I pursued these issues through the eyes of someone who respected the clients' rights to make that choice but was simultaneously tasked with helping them find reasons not to exit prematurely.

I further told her that in my view, none of us had any control or say in how and when we were brought into this place, for better or for worse, and at least the exit ought to involve some say-so from us. It is, after all, OUR fucking exit. Religious zealotry aside and boundary violations not considered as just...

 

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Ubiquitous nanoplastics found to cause Parkinson’s disease​

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Monopoly and Fascism in America Today​

Today, things are even worse than in FDR’s time.

“The top 1 percent of families captured 58 percent of total real income growth per family from 2009 to 2014,” wrote economist Emmanuel Saez for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.4

In large part, the concentration of both wealth and income has come about in the era since the Reagan presidency and the introduction of “Reaganomics.” In the 40 years prior to Reagan, income and wealth among working people was growing at a faster rate than it was for the top 1%. Since Reaganomics was instituted—a system within which we’re still operating— the wealth and income of the top 1% has exploded.

When Reagan came into office in 1981 and welcomed the monopolists back into government, everything shifted. Where we once had wide and celebrated local and regional diversity in beer brewing, for example (remember “Milwaukee’s Finest” and when Coors had to be smuggled out of Colorado?), today we have instead two corporations that produce over 90% of all the beer consumed in the United States, and one of the two, Anheuser-Busch, is now largely owned by Belgian and Brazilian investors.5

If you want to relax with the internet instead of a beer, that marketplace is also highly concentrated.

While South Koreans get internet speeds 200 times faster than what most Americans get, and pay only $27 a month for their service, Susan P. Crawford, author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age and former board member of ICANN, told me that the average American consumer pays around $90 a month for a cell phone with a data plan, compared with the European aver- age of just $19 (and the coverage is better and the data is both faster and unlimited).

Why? Because the European Union doesn’t tolerate monopolies as the United States does. There are hundreds of small and feisty competitors across the continent.

On Wall Street, the 20 biggest banks own assets equivalent to 84% of the nation’s entire gross domestic product (GDP). And just 12 of those banks own 70% of all the banking assets. That means our entire banking system relies on just a few whales that must be saved at all costs from going belly up, or else the entire system goes belly up.

And consider our food industry. According to Tom Philpott at Mother Jones magazine, agriculture oligopolies exist from farm to shelf. Just four companies control 90% of the grain trade. Just three companies control 70% of the American beef industry. And just four companies control 58% of the US pork and chicken producing and processing industries.

On the retail side, Walmart controls a quarter of the entire US grocery market. And just four companies produce 75% of our breakfast cereal, 75% of our snack foods, 60% of our cookies, and half of all the ice cream sold in supermarkets around the nation.

Then there’s the health insurance market. Just four health insurance companies—UnitedHealth Group, WellPoint, Aetna, and Humana—control three-quarters of the entire health insurance market. And, as a 2007 study by the group Health Care for America Now uncovered, in 38 states, just two insurers con- trolled 57% of the market. In 15 states, one insurer controlled 60% of the market.

Since there’s no functional competition in such a market, prices continue to go higher and higher while the profits for these whales skyrocket too.

In the cellular phone market, just four companies—AT&T Mobile, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and Sprint Nextel— control 89% of the market. And in the internet arena, just a single corporation—Comcast—controls more than half of the market.

As Adam Smith pointed out, and the Founders of this republic well knew, capitalism is a game that can work for the average person and the small business, but only when the rules of the game are set that way. Re-rig those rules to give disproportionate power to the very wealthy, and we slide into what Franklin Roosevelt called fascism.

Since money often equals political power, and political power can be used to rewrite the rules of business and tax law to further concentrate and enhance wealth and income for those paying the lobbyists and members of Congress, this situation not only represents the economic threat of making the marketplace more fragile and liable to crashes like what happened in 1929 but also represents a threat to democracy itself.

Most Americans would be highly offended if the NFL rules were changed to allow whichever team had the most money to have an extra three players on the field at all times. But that’s exactly what Reaganomics and its deregulation have brought us in our marketplaces; it’s the staggering difficulty that every small business in America faces today.

To understand how to fix this situation so that America’s small businesses and middle class can once again thrive, it’s important to understand the factors at play that created the vibrant, localized American economy that was the hallmark of mid-20th-century America.

from Hartmann's book on the history of Monopoly

 

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Dave Emory's 27-part series on JFK Revisited, with Jim DiEugenio​

Dave Emory's Record Breaking 27-part Salute to Oliver Stone's JFK Revisited and JFK: Destiny Betrayed. Featuring Jim DiEugenio, David Talbot, John Newman, Gary Aguilar, Lisa Pease, and Paul Bleau.

	For The Record #1262 Interview #1 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1263 Interview #2 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1264 Interview #3 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1265 Interview #4 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1266 Interview #5 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1267 Interview #6 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1268 Interview #7 with Jim DiEugenio
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	For The Record #1271 Interview #10 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1272 Interview #11 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1273 Interview #12 with Jim DiEugenio and Dr. Gary Aguilar
	For The Record #1274 Interview #13 with Jim DiEugenio and Dr. Gary Aguilar
	For The Record #1275 Interview #14 with Jim DiEugenio and Paul Bleau
	For The Record #1276 Interview #15 with Jim DiEugenio and Paul Bleau
	For The Record #1279 Interview #16 with Jim DiEugenio and John Newman
	For The Record #1280 Interview #17 with Jim DiEugenio and John Newman
	For The Record #1281 Interview #18 with Jim DiEugenio and David Talbot
	For The Record #1282 Interview #19 with Jim DiEugenio and David Talbot
	For The Record #1283 Interview #20 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1284 Interview #21 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1285 Interview #22 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1286 Interview #23 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1287 Interview #24 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1288 Interview #25 with Jim DiEugenio
	For The Record #1289 Interview #26 with Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease
	For The Record #1290 Interview #27 with Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease

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Dave Emory's 27-part series on JFK Revisited, with Jim DiEugenio

Jim DiEugenio's 27-part series on JFK Revisited, with Dave Emory

www.kennedysandking.com

 

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Ubiquitous nanoplastics found to cause Parkinson’s disease​

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Finally the corporations are outed for destroying their own cash source.

I guess it eventually happens to every invasive species short-sighted by greed and feeding frenzies; they ultimately kill off their own hosts and wither into nothingness.

Another step forward in our glacier-paced evolution.

Those planning to be around for a while ought to buckle up.

Y'all can have my seat and life jacket; I doubt I'll be around that long.

 

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Monopoly and Fascism in America Today​

Today, things are even worse than in FDR’s time.

“The top 1 percent of families captured 58 percent of total real income growth per family from 2009 to 2014,” wrote economist Emmanuel Saez for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.4

In large part, the concentration of both wealth and income has come about in the era since the Reagan presidency and the introduction of “Reaganomics.” In the 40 years prior to Reagan, income and wealth among working people was growing at a faster rate than it was for the top 1%. Since Reaganomics was instituted—a system within which we’re still operating— the wealth and income of the top 1% has exploded.

When Reagan came into office in 1981 and welcomed the monopolists back into government, everything shifted. Where we once had wide and celebrated local and regional diversity in beer brewing, for example (remember “Milwaukee’s Finest” and when Coors had to be smuggled out of Colorado?), today we have instead two corporations that produce over 90% of all the beer consumed in the United States, and one of the two, Anheuser-Busch, is now largely owned by Belgian and Brazilian investors.5

If you want to relax with the internet instead of a beer, that marketplace is also highly concentrated.

While South Koreans get internet speeds 200 times faster than what most Americans get, and pay only $27 a month for their service, Susan P. Crawford, author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age and former board member of ICANN, told me that the average American consumer pays around $90 a month for a cell phone with a data plan, compared with the European aver- age of just $19 (and the coverage is better and the data is both faster and unlimited).

Why? Because the European Union doesn’t tolerate monopolies as the United States does. There are hundreds of small and feisty competitors across the continent.

On Wall Street, the 20 biggest banks own assets equivalent to 84% of the nation’s entire gross domestic product (GDP). And just 12 of those banks own 70% of all the banking assets. That means our entire banking system relies on just a few whales that must be saved at all costs from going belly up, or else the entire system goes belly up.

And consider our food industry. According to Tom Philpott at Mother Jones magazine, agriculture oligopolies exist from farm to shelf. Just four companies control 90% of the grain trade. Just three companies control 70% of the American beef industry. And just four companies control 58% of the US pork and chicken producing and processing industries.

On the retail side, Walmart controls a quarter of the entire US grocery market. And just four companies produce 75% of our breakfast cereal, 75% of our snack foods, 60% of our cookies, and half of all the ice cream sold in supermarkets around the nation.

Then there’s the health insurance market. Just four health insurance companies—UnitedHealth Group, WellPoint, Aetna, and Humana—control three-quarters of the entire health insurance market. And, as a 2007 study by the group Health Care for America Now uncovered, in 38 states, just two insurers con- trolled 57% of the market. In 15 states, one insurer controlled 60% of the market.

Since there’s no functional competition in such a market, prices continue to go higher and higher while the profits for these whales skyrocket too.

In the cellular phone market, just four companies—AT&T Mobile, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and Sprint Nextel— control 89% of the market. And in the internet arena, just a single corporation—Comcast—controls more than half of the market.

As Adam Smith pointed out, and the Founders of this republic well knew, capitalism is a game that can work for the average person and the small business, but only when the rules of the game are set that way. Re-rig those rules to give disproportionate power to the very wealthy, and we slide into what Franklin Roosevelt called fascism.

Since money often equals political power, and political power can be used to rewrite the rules of business and tax law to further concentrate and enhance wealth and income for those paying the lobbyists and members of Congress, this situation not only represents the economic threat of making the marketplace more fragile and liable to crashes like what happened in 1929 but also represents a threat to democracy itself.

Most Americans would be highly offended if the NFL rules were changed to allow whichever team had the most money to have an extra three players on the field at all times. But that’s exactly what Reaganomics and its deregulation have brought us in our marketplaces; it’s the staggering difficulty that every small business in America faces today.

To understand how to fix this situation so that America’s small businesses and middle class can once again thrive, it’s important to understand the factors at play that created the vibrant, localized American economy that was the hallmark of mid-20th-century America.

from Hartmann's book on the history of Monopoly

 

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Why Has America Tolerated Six Illegitimate GOP Presidents?

“Power at any cost” has been the Republican slogan ever since Nixon’s attempts to assassinate Castro in 1960 to beat JFK in that year’s election…

hartmannreport.com

As we watch the Trump campaign prepare to replace 50,000 civil servants with fascist toadies if he wins the White House, it’s important to remember that Dwight Eisenhower was the last Republican president who believed in democracy, the rule of law, and that government should prioritize what the people want.

From 1960 to today a series of leaders within the Republican Party have abandoned the democracy that American soldiers fought the Revolutionary War to secure, the Civil War to defend here at home, and World War II in Europe and the Pacific to defend around the world.

This has brought us a series of criminal Republican presidents and corrupt Republican Supreme Court justices, who’ve legalized political bribery while devastating voting and civil rights.

None of this was a mistake or an accident, because none of these people truly believed in democracy.

This rejection of democracy and turn toward criminality and it’s logical end-point, fascism, started in the modern GOP with Richard Nixon.

He took millions in now-well-documented bribes both while Vice President to Eisenhower and as President (his VP, Spiro Agnew, resigned rather than go to prison for taking bribes). Nixon saw public service as a way to bathe himself in money, power, and adulation.

He didn’t care a bit about democracy.

As Lamar Waldron and I point out in detail in Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, then-President Eisenhower’s then-Vice President, Richard Nixon, was getting beat up badly in the 1960 election by his opponent, Senator John F. Kennedy.

Most of it had to do with Cuba, where mobsters affiliated with Nixon for decades had just lost fortunes, millions and millions of dollars in annual revenue.

After the Cuban revolution of 1959, Castro came to the US to seek military and economic aid for his island nation; Eisenhower left town, forcing Castro to meet instead with VP Nixon.

Given that Castro had just overthrown the dictator Batista, a friend of both Nixon and Nixon’s mafia patrons, the Vice President essentially blew off Castro, sending him into the welcoming arms of Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union.

Thus, throughout the 1960 presidential race, Senator Kennedy pounded on Vice President Nixon for having “let Cuba go communist” on his watch. In response, Vice President Nixon put together a series of CIA and Mafia plots to assassinate Castro, timed to happen before the November 1960 election.

His hope was that if the Eisenhower/Nixon administration could be seen as having successfully overthrown Castro in 1960 it would de-fang JFK’s attacks and make Nixon — who Eisenhower had put in charge of Cuba policy — a national hero just in time for the election.

Nixon figured that would be enough to help him beat JFK at the polls. It was going to be his “October Surprise.” (The remnant of this scheme was the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.)

For Nixon democracy was just an inconvenience, an obstacle to be conquered. He never really believed in it.

You can imagine Nixon’s frustration when plot after plot was bungled or foiled and, by election day, Castro was still happily ensconced in the Havana presidential palace. This appears to be the moment Nixon decided that, if he had a chance to run for president again, he’d not just consider a CIA-Mafia plot but would embrace far more extreme measures.

Thus began the first Republican plot to commit full-out treason to win a presidential election.

It started in the summer of 1968, when President Lyndon Johnson was desperately trying to end the Vietnam war. It had turned into both a personal and political nightmare for him, and his vice president, Hubert Humphrey, was running for President in the election that year against a “reinvented” Richard Nixon.

Johnson spent most of late 1967 and early 1968 working back-channels to North and South Vietnam, and by the summer of 1968 had a tentative agreement from both for what promised to be a lasting peace deal they’d both sign that fall.

But Richard Nixon knew that if he could block that peace deal, it would kill VP Hubert Humphrey’s chances of winning the 1968 election. So, Nixon sent envoys from his campaign to talk to South Vietnamese leaders to encourage them not to attend upcoming peace talks in Paris.

The bribe was straightforward: Nixon promised South Vietnam’s corrupt politicians that he’d give them a richer deal when he was President than LBJ could give them then.

The FBI had been wiretapping these international communications and told LBJ about Nixon’s effort to prolong the Vietnam War. Thus, just three days before the 1968 election, President Johnson phoned the Republican Senate leader, Everett Dirksen, (you can listen to the entire conversation here):

President Johnson: “Some of our folks, including some of the old China lobby, are going to the Vietnamese embassy and saying please notify the [South Vietnamese] president that if he’ll hold out ’til November 2nd they could get a better deal. Now, I’m reading their hand. I don’t want to get this in the campaign. And they oughtn’t to be doin’ this, Everett. This is treason.”
Sen. Dirksen: “I know.”

Those tapes were only released by the LBJ library in the past decade, and that’s Richard Nixon who Lyndon Johnson was accusing of treason.

At that point, for President Johnson, it was no longer about getting Humphrey elected. By then Nixon’s plan had already worked and Humphrey was way down in the polls because the war was ongoing.

Instead, Johnson was desperately trying to salvage the peace talks to stop the death and carnage as soon as possible. He literally couldn’t sleep.

In a phone call to Nixon himself just before the election, LBJ begged him to stop sabotaging the peace process, noting that he was almost certainly going to win the election and inherit the war anyway. Instead, Nixon publicly announced that LBJ’s efforts were “in shambles.”

But South Vietnam had taken Nixon’s deal and boycotted the peace talks, the war continued, and Nixon won the White House thanks to it.

An additional twenty-two thousand American soldiers, and an additional million-plus Vietnamese died because of Nixon’s 1968 treason, and he left it to Jerry Ford to end the war and evacuate the American soldiers.

Nixon appointed Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell, and William Rehnquist to the Supreme Court, pushing it hard to the right and setting up the predecessors of Citizens United.

Rehnquist, we later learned, didn’t believe any more in democracy than did Nixon. He’d made his chops in the GOP with Operation Eagle Eye, standing outside polling places in Hispanic and Native American precincts in Arizona challenging every voter who showed up there’s right to cast a ballot.

Nixon was never held to account for that treason, and when the LBJ library released the tapes and documentation long after his and LBJ’s deaths it was barely noticed by the American press.

Gerald Ford, who succeeded Nixon, was never elected to the White House (he was appointed to replace VP Spiro Agnew, after Agnew was indicted for decades of taking bribes), and thus would never have been President had it not been for Richard Nixon’s treason.

Ford pardoned Nixon and appointed John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court.

Next up was Ronald Reagan. He not only didn’t believe in democracy, he didn’t even believe in the American government.

Like Trump, he ridiculed public service like joining the military or getting a job with a government agency; he joked that there were no smart or competent people in government because if there had been, private industry would have already hired them away.

So, if you don’t believe in democracy and you think the US government is a joke, it’s not a big deal to betray your country to get the wealth, power, and fame that goes with the presidency.

During the Carter/Reagan election battle of 1980, then-President Carter had reached a deal with newly-elected Iranian President Abdolhassan Bani-Sadr to release the fifty-two hostages held by students at the American Embassy in Tehran.

Bani-Sadr was a moderate and, as he explained in an editorial for The Christian Science Monitor, successfully ran for President that summer on the popular position of releasing the hostages:

“I openly opposed the hostage-taking throughout the election campaign…. I won the election with over 76 percent of the vote…. Other candidates also were openly against hostage-taking, and overall, 96 percent of votes in that election were given to candidates who were against it [hostage-taking].”

Carter was confident that with Bani-Sadr’s help, he could end the embarrassing hostage crisis that had been a thorn in his political side ever since it began in November of 1979.

But, like Nixon, behind Carter’s back the Reagan campaign worked out a deal with the head of Iran’s radical faction — Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini — to keep the hostages in captivity until after the 1980 Presidential election. Khomeini needed spare parts for American weapons systems the Shah had purchased for Iran, and the Reagan campaign was happy to promise them.

This was the second act of treason by a Republican wanting to become president.

The Reagan campaign’s secret negotiations with Khomeini — the so-called 1980 “Iran/Contra Scandal” — sabotaged President Carter’s and Iranian President Bani-Sadr’s attempts to free the hostages. As President Bani-Sadr told The Christian Science Monitor in March of 2013:

“After arriving in France [in 1981], I told a BBC reporter that I had left Iran to expose the symbiotic relationship between Khomeinism and Reaganism.
“Ayatollah Khomeini and Ronald Reagan had organized a clandestine negotiation, later known as the ‘October Surprise,’ which prevented the attempts by myself and then-US President Jimmy Carter to free the hostages before the 1980 US presidential election took place. The fact that they were not released tipped the results of the election in favor of Reagan.”

And Reagan’s treason — just like Nixon’s treason — worked perfectly, putting a third Republican president in office after Nixon and Ford. Neither Nixon nor Reagan believed in or held up democracy and the rule of law that underpins it as a value.

The Iran hostage crisis continued and torpedoed Jimmy Carter’s re-election hopes. And the same day Reagan took the oath of office — to the minute, as Reagan put his hand on the bible, by way of Iran’s acknowledging the deal — the American hostages in Iran were released.

Keeping his side of the deal, Reagan began selling the Iranians weapons and spare parts in 1981 (and using the money to illegally fund rightwing neofascist death squad “Contras” in Nicaragua) and continued until he was busted for it in 1986, producing the so-called “Iran Contra” scandal.

Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony Kennedy to the Supreme Court, solidifying its rightwing tilt. We’d learn, in the Bush v Gore case in 2000 when they awarded the White House to the son of Reagan’s VP, that none of the three of them valued democracy.

And, like Nixon, Reagan was never held to account for the criminal and treasonous actions that brought him to office.

After Reagan, Bush senior was elected but, like Jerry Ford, Bush was only President because he’d served as Vice President under Reagan. And, of course, the naked racism of his Willie Horton ads helped keep him in office.

The criminal investigation into Iran/Contra came to a head with independent prosecutor Lawrence Walsh subpoenaing President George HW Bush after having already obtained convictions for Weinberger, Ollie North and others.

For the first time in history, the President of the United States could go to jail for criminal conspiracy. Bush was sweating.

Bush’s attorney general, Bill Barr, suggested he pardon all six co-conspirators — who could point a finger at Bush — to kill the investigation. Bush did it on Christmas Eve, hoping to avoid the news cycle because of the holiday.

Nonetheless, the screaming headline across the New York Times front page on December 25, 1992, said it all: “THE PARDONS: BUSH PARDONS 6 IN IRAN AFFAIR, ABORTING A WEINBERGER TRIAL; PROSECUTOR ASSAILS 'COVER-UP’”

If the October Surprise hadn’t hoodwinked voters in 1980, you can bet Bush senior would never have been elected in 1988.

That’s four illegitimate Republican presidents.

President GHW Bush appointed Clarence Thomas and David Souter to the Supreme Court. We learned quickly that Thomas doesn’t value democracy. We now know his wife actively worked to subvert it, in fact.

Which brings us to George W. Bush, the man who was given the White House by five Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court.

In the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision in 2000 that stopped the Florida recount  and thus handed George W. Bush the presidency, Justice Antonin Scalia (appointed by Bush’s father’s boss) wrote in his opinion:

“The counting of votes … does in my view threaten irreparable harm to petitioner [George W. Bush], and to the country, by casting a cloud upon what he [Bush] claims to be the legitimacy of his election.”

Apparently, denying the presidency to Al Gore, the guy who actually won the most votes in Florida and won the popular vote nationwide by over a half-million, did not constitute “irreparable harm” to Scalia or the media.

And apparently it wasn’t important that Scalia’s son worked for a law firm that was defending George W. Bush before the high court (with no Scalia recusal).

Just like it wasn’t important that Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife worked on the Bush transition team — before the Supreme Court shut down the recount in Florida — and was busy accepting resumes from people who would serve in the Bush White House if her husband stopped the recount in Florida…which he did. There was no Thomas recusal, either.

None of them believed in democracy.

More than a year after the election a consortium of newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and USA Today did their own recount of the vote in Florida — manually counting every vote in a process that took almost a year — and concluded that Al Gore did indeed win the presidency in 2000.

As the November 12th, 2001 article in The New York Times read:

“If all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards and combined with the results of an examination of overvotes, Mr. Gore would have won.”

That little bit of info was slipped into the seventeenth paragraph of the Times story so that it would attract as little attention as possible, because the 9/11 attacks had happened just weeks earlier and the publishers of the big newspapers feared that burdening Americans with the plain truth that George W. Bush lost the election would further hurt a nation already in crisis.

To compound the crime, Bush could only have gotten as close to Gore in the election as he did because his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, had ordered his Secretary of State, Kathrine Harris, to purge at least 57,000 mostly-Black voters from the state’s voter rolls just before the election.

Tens of thousands of African Americans showed up to vote and were turned away from the polls in that election in Florida. BBC covered it extensively, although the American media didn’t seem interested.

So, for the third time in 4 decades, Republicans took the White House under illegitimate electoral circumstances. Even President Carter was shocked by the brazenness of that one. And Jeb Bush and the GOP were never held to account for that crime against democracy.*

President George W. Bush appointed Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. Alito not only doesn’t believe in democracy, he also doesn’t believe in a woman’s right to get an abortion. He’d put a judge like himself between a woman and her doctor, with a police officer and a prison to enforce his decree.

Most recently, in 2016, Trump ally Kris Kobach and Republican Secretaries of State across the nation used Interstate Crosscheck to purge millions of legitimate voters — most people of color — from the voting rolls just in time for the Clinton/Trump election.

Meanwhile, Russian oligarchs and the Russian state, and possibly pro-Trump groups or nations in the Middle East, funded a widespread program to flood social media with pro-Trump, anti-Clinton messages from accounts posing as Americans, as documented by Robert Mueller’s investigation.

And on top of that, we learned in 2020 that Republican campaign data on the 2016 election, including which states needed a little help via phony influencers on Facebook and other social media, was not only given to Russian spy and oligarch Konstantin Kilimnik by Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort, but Kilimnik transferred it to Russian intelligence.

Even with all that treasonous help from Russia, Donald Trump still lost the national vote by nearly 3 million votes but came to power in 2016 through the electoral college, an artifact of the Founding era designed to keep slavery safe in colonial America.**

And then, in 2021, after losing to Joe Biden by 7 million votes, Trump mounted a seditious effort to overturn the election he’d just lost.

Trump didn’t believe in democracy in the least; he openly fawned over autocratic and fascistic states and their leaders.

After Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans blocked President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump filled Garland’s spot with Neil Gorsuch, the son of Reagan’s disgraced former EPA administrator, Anne Gorsuch.

For reasons that are still unclear, shortly after Trump mentioned Kennedy’s son to him publicly at the Gorsuch ceremony, Justice Kennedy decided to resign. Whether it had anything to do with young Justin Kennedy — then working at Deutsche Bank and having signed off on over a billion dollars in corrupt loans to Trump — is still unknown, and Kennedy, still in good health, isn’t talking.

Kennedy was replaced by “Blackout” Brett Kavanaugh, who had previously worked in the Bush White House. Republicans refused to turn over 95 percent of Kavanaugh’s papers to the Senate Judiciary Committee and jammed through his nomination after an epic meltdown on live television.

When Ruth Bader Ginsberg died just before the 2020 election, McConnell decided his “Garland Rule” was irrelevant and jammed through Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett in about six weeks; she was sworn in on October 27, 2020. When Democrats raised questions about Barrett’s role as a “Handmaid” (what she called herself) in a bizarre Catholic cult they were brushed aside.

Trump appointed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanuagh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. We now know none of the three of them believe in democracy, either.

Fifty-four years of Republican presidents using treason to achieve the White House (or inheriting it from one who did) has transformed America and dramatically weakened our democracy.

Those presidents have contributed their own damages to the rule of law and democracy in America, but their cynical Supreme Court appointments have arguably done the most lasting damage.

Republican appointees on the Court during this time have gutted the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, union rights, the Affordable Care Act, and legalized Republican voter purges. They legalized the bribery of politicians by billionaires and corporations.

In short, they’ve done everything they can to weaken democracy and enforce minority rule in America.

One of their wives appears to have been involved in the January 6th attempted overthrow of our electoral process and thus our republic. Republican justices and judges openly flaunt the judicial code of ethics and routinely hand decisions to the GOP’s largest donors.

Today’s fascistic behavior by elected Republicans and their appointees on the courts has a long history, deeply rooted in multiple acts of treachery and treason. “Power at any cost” has been their slogan ever since Nixon’s attempts to assassinate Castro in 1960 to beat JFK in that year’s election.

Democracy? They laugh.

Which is why it’s time to call the Republican Party what it is: a criminal enterprise embracing fascism to hang onto power, a threat to our republic, and a danger to all life on Earth.

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*For more detail, this is extensively documented and footnoted in my book The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America.

**This is covered in depth in my book The Hidden History of the War On Voting.

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The Uniparty and Cowboy War​

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On social media there has been a lot of discussion in the last year about the political theory of a war between the two rival elite factions of the American establishment since the 1960s known as “The Yankee and Cowboy War,” plus who is behind its current version, and how it’s affecting the Trump movement. So far, I haven’t seen a full explanation on how the war between the elites started and how it then morphed into a Uniparty war on Trump and his movement, nor how and why the conservative “cowboy” corporate elites from the 60s-70s ended their secret war against the liberal “yankee” eastern elites — by merging step by step during the 1980s-90s into the Uniparty of today.
The following tells the details on the history of the Cowboy and Yankee War theory between the two main factions of American elites in the 1960s-70s, how it then changed and merged to become the Uniparty, and where we are today with their supposed war against the neo-Cowboy Trump movement.
Mike Benz who worked in the Trump administration has been one of the people writing a lot about The Yankee and Cowboy War political theory on X.com along with his expositions on the “censorship industry” that has arisen in the last handful of years as a supposed part of that war. The censorship industry seems to be mostly comprised of academics and ex-government people seeking to make money off of selling their services to corporations and political elites who want certain information pushed and other information pulled from the public “conversation” by any means available. Either through propaganda, intimidation, bribery, or more and more by software programs and AI.

The Yankee and Cowboy War was a political non-fiction book from the early 1970s written by the ex-president of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Carl Oglesby, which was the prime mover of the anti-war movement in the 1960s:

Oglesby first came into contact with members of SDS in Ann Arbor in 1964. He wrote a critical article on American foreign policy in the Far East in the University of Michigan’s campus magazine. SDSers read it, and went to meet Carl at his family home to see if he might become a supporter of the SDS. As Oglebsy put it, “We talked. I got to thinking about things. As a writer, I needed a mode of action […] I saw that people were already moving, so I joined up.” He left Bendix in 1965 and became a full-time Research, Information, Publications (RIP) worker for SDS.
After leaving the SDS he became an important writer, teacher, and political theorist, at M.I.T. and Dartmouth College. Oglesby was forced out of SDS in 1969, after more left-wing members accused him of “being ‘trapped in our early, bourgeois stage’ and for not progressing into ‘a Marxist–Leninist perspective.’”
In 1970 he was a featured speaker at the “Left/Right Festival of Liberation” organized by the California Libertarian Alliance. This type of bridge building was not unlike Oglesby; three years earlier, he had written that, “…in a strong sense, the Old Right and the New Left are morally and politically coordinate.”
Oglesby moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he founded the Assassination Information Bureau, an organization that has been credited with bringing about the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations. He wrote several books on the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the various competing theories that attempt to explain it. According to Oglesby, Kennedy was killed by “a rightist conspiracy formed out of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, the Syndicate, and a Cowboy oligarchy, supported by renegade CIA and FBI agents.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Oglesby

In The Cowboy and Yankee War the author says that his theory, which became a popular topic and inspired books by other writers and academics, was based on the work of two highly influential political writers: Historian Prof. Carroll Quigley, who taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Georgetown — and whom Bill Clinton cited as an influential mentor; and the seminal work of the sociologist who coined the concept of The Power Elite in his book of that name, C. Wright Mills.
To really understand the concepts Oglesby writes about in The Cowboy and Yankee War it is necessary to be familiar with the theories of Quigley and Mills in order to get a fuller picture of which Ogelsby only gives a sketch of in his book.
C. Wright Mills is famous for his socio-political theory of The Power Elite, which states that America is ruled by a ruling class of moneyed elites who are led by a group among them which he calls The Power Elite. That theory is similar to James Burnham’s previously stated and still very influential theory of political power in America which he called The Managerial Elite. The difference between them is that Burnham taught that a class of corporate managers, the CEOs and directors of large corporations, had taken power away from the older elite Eastern establishment class aka the “old money” families of the North East who came to prominence during The Gilded Age and before. The old money elites had dominated banking, industry, and politics in America since the Civil War, but as giant corporations became very large their managers came to replace the old money families in political influence. The idea was that there were so many shareholders of huge corporations that the original rich owners, like a Rockefeller or a Mellon, their shares were watered down in the giving out to heirs of newer generations, and they lost control of their corporations to a managerial class who run the corporations.
Some later journalists and sociologists then claimed to have disproved Burnham’s theory by showing through their research into stock ownership, which Burnham had no access to when he came up with his theory, that the old moneyed families of The Gilded Age, in reality, mostly retained control through family offices, holding companies, and foundations. Just because you didn’t see a member of the original family as an executive or director, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are not in control, i.e., they have representatives as executives and directors.
That new data was incorporated into sociologist C. Wright Mills theory of The Power Elite, which postulates that the top leaders of various sectors of society socialize together and thereby have formed a cohesive and covalent bond as a ruling “elite class” in America.
Prof. Carroll Quigley in his books speaks about how the politics of the 20th century until the early 1960s, when he published, was very similar to what Mills had written. He said he was given access to the private historical files of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he revealed that the history of the 20th century was a story of an “Eastern Establishment” which had controlled American politics through various means at their disposal.

How the ruling class rules according to Mills, Quigley, Domhoff & other experts of Power Structure Research
Quigley also taught that there arose a new elite class of rich and influential people after WWII, most of them from outside the Northeast elite class who had different social and political values than the old New York-Boston-Newport-Philadelphia-Washington nexus. The new elite class made their fortunes in the military-industrial complex (MIC), and in extractive industries (mining, oil, gas), land development, etc., mostly in what is called the Sun Belt states. Their political worldviews were similar to the old pre-world war more libertarian, populist, and right-wing of the GOP who opposed American involvement in the world wars, and who called themselves nationalists. Those right-wing libertarians and populists included many Democrats from southern and western states who didn’t abandon the Democrat party till the 1960s-80s. They were attached to different political parties because of the region of the country they were from, but socially and politically they shared a similar conservative, religious, libertarian, and populist outlook. Their political leaders were people like Barry Goldwater from the GOP, or LBJ and Lloyd Bentsen from the Democrats.
Those socio-political theories and histories by Mills and Quigley shaped Oglesby’s “Yankee and Cowboy War” theory which posits that a conservative and libertarian elite class, mostly made up of a newer moneyed social class (rich after 1900) based mostly in the south, the Midwest, Texas and California, whose membership included Democrats and Republicans, were at war with the older moneyed fiscally conservative but culturally liberal Eastern Establishment elites, for control of the government — in order to control government spending for their own agendas.
The Eastern Establishment aka Yankee elites were similar to the Sun Belt Cowboy elites, in that both were represented in both political parties, e.g., eastern elites like Nelson Rockefeller and George HW Bush were in the GOP while other eastern elites like Averell Harriman and the Kennedy family were Democrats. They were a single social class connected by long time family and business ties who had been the ruling class in America since the Civil War. They were being challenged for control of government by the newly rich conservative and libertarians mostly from the Sun Belt. That is what The Yankee and Cowboy War is about, specifically focusing on how that war led to the Kennedy killings, Watergate, among other things.
One thing he talks about is how he believes the mafia aka The Syndicate, was aligned with and worked with a group from the Cowboy faction of elites in the JFK assassination. That idea is based on the history of The Syndicate seeing themselves being betrayed by JFK after he allowed RFK as his Attorney General, to “go after organized crime,” which was mostly controlled by the Syndicate.
JFK had previously developed relationships with a few leading members of the Syndicate through various family and social connections in Las Vegas and Chicago, (e.g., his family owned the massive Merchandise Mart in Chicago, they sold it in 1998 for $1 billion in today’s dollars) and his father Joseph Kennedy had connections going back to the prohibition era when organized crime worked with the legal liquor business in America, Canada, and Great Britain to get past the alcohol ban in America by selling “medicinal alcohol.” The law said that medicinal alcohol was legal, so organized crime and the previous legal liquor businesses worked together to make, or import alcohol and sale it on a massive scale supposedly as medicine by adding something “medicinal,” like ginger extract. They got away with it by paying off corrupt police and government officials. After prohibition ended they were so well stocked that they were able to then dominate the legal liquor business in America, of which Joseph Kennedy became a major player.
JFK also had a close friendship with Frank Sinatra and his “Rat Pack” of celebrity pals. JFK’s sister Patricia married a member of Sinatra’s Rat Pack, movie star Peter Lawford. All of them famously mingled with leading members of The Syndicate in their Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe resorts. Those Syndicate leaders were said by Syndicate researchers to be angry with Frank Sinatra because he had promised them that if they helped JFK win Illinois with their influence over unions and the Chicago political machine, that they would have a pal in the White House. Instead they were investigated and made a public spectacle out of by RFK. That led to their being involved in their assassination plots according to the researchers and Oglesby.
The two political factions, Yankees and Cowboys, were then noticed by academic researchers to have ended their war in the 1980s. Researchers were trying to prove if the Yankee and Cowboy thesis was viable in the 1980s under Reagan by researching the financial associations, politicial donations, prep-school and elite college associations, memberships in elite clubs and the Social Register, etc., of leading members of the “Cowboy” aka conservative elites. They discovered that more than 50% of elites associated with “cowboy conservative politics” came from the Eastern Establishment aka Yankee elite. In other words, the Cowboy elites and Yankee elites merged by the 1980s.
Not all of them merged of course, but most of each ruling class appears to have merged and ended their factional war, with causalities from the Kennedy’s to Nixon and Howard Hughes. The research showed that the people financing the conservative elite organizations in the 1980s, was in fact many rich Eastern Wall St. related elites, which explained why their merger could more openly be seen in public by their coming together in the Reagan-Bush administrations. They ruled the country for 12 straight years after the Cowboy faction ended their war with and then joined the Wall St. faction. George HW Bush, Reagan’s VP, came from a family that was a quintessentially Eastern Establishment Wall St. dynasty, directly connected to the Rockefeller oil empire and the entire old money elite of NYC-Philadelphia-Newport-Palm Beach “society.”
In policies and personnel Reagan’s presidency was clearly a merger of conservative Goldwater and liberal Rockefeller Republicans, Cowboys and Yankees. The Democrats were at that time still under the dominance of a liberal elite coalition with Labor Unions, and whose Southern Democrat contingency had been leaving the Democrats for the GOP since the 1960s. That sped up in the 70’s and 80’s when the GOP reached out to the Christian evangelical community. The religious community had not been very political until abortion galvanized them. The GOP consciously created space in the GOP for the large evangelical community of ex-Southern Democrats to transform the GOP into full support for “Christian family values” by aligning with prominent Christian evangelicals and TV celebrity preachers.
Look at the membership of The Heritage Foundation, a traditionally conservative cowboy elite political group, whose members are also members of traditionally Yankee elite groups like The Council on Foreign Relations. The Yankees and Cowboys in the Democratic party, exemplified by JFK and LBJ respectively, their elite's control over the party had always been challenged by Labor unions, progressives and leftists. Then in the 1950s-60s by women’s rights groups, African American groups, student groups, antiwar groups, gay rights groups, and so on.
Liberal elites had always been aligned with both parties with families and businesses supporting the GOP and the Democrats as a way to try to control politics in America. That history is written about in Prof. Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, he showed how Wall St. and the “Eastern Establishment” had always tried to control politicians and organizations from all political parties at the national level. From communists to the farthest right-wingers, they were almost always there behind the scenes, trying to guide the leadership by financial support and creating media outlets for them under their own control. Their merger with the cowboy conservatives in the GOP was in part to make it easier for them to control political power in America. But there were still anti-establishment Democrats they had to contend with after the 1960s had radically transformed America.
The Democratic Party changed and thereby became harder to control during the 1960s countercultural revolution. Rich families had traditionally been represented generationally in trying to rule over America, but the cultural transformation of the 1960s led many children of the elites to rebel against “the system.” Young heirs of the richest families were becoming hippies, new agers, yogis, leftists, communists, drop-outs, and were often intent on using their family money to support leftist causes. This led to the success of the left in moving Congress to make new laws to protect consumers, minorities and women’s rights — but especially worrisome to the corporate elites were their anti-war attitudes and their radical environmentalism.
Younger college age Rockefeller family members famously came out as anti-oil because of the environmental damage they said their oil companies were causing. Patty Hearst joined up with a revolutionary leftist group that had kidnapped her. Ford and Mellon heirs dropped out moved to India and became yogis like Steve Jobs would do in the future. The world was changing, and in large part this was behind the merger of the Cowboys and Yankees, they united to fight the seemingly, inevitable at the time, rising tide of revolt against their rule.
After Jimmy Carter’s landslide loss to Reagan some leading Democrats were apparently then invited and joined the then newly merged cowboy and yankee elites in the GOP. This can be seen most clearly with the creation of The Democratic Leadership Council by “Third Way” centrist New Democrats, whose mission it was, they said, to convince the Democratic party to leave The New Left and Labor coalition. Because, after all, hadn’t the massive success of the Reagan Revolution, which was in reality simply the merger of Cowboy and Yankee elites, hadn’t that shown that the Democratic party was on a losing path for the future, they pleaded. If the Democrats wanted to win and gain power, wouldn’t it be smarter to join up with the Wall St. corporate elites? That was the New Democrats message.
And they convinced the Democrat party elites that they were right. They were rewarded by their gaining exactly what they were trying to achieve, the support of the corporate (merged) elites for 1st the Clinton/Gore and then the Obama/Biden administrations. They wanted someone other than Biden for 2020 but felt they were left no choice because of Bernie Sanders popularity, which they were totally against, plus the lack of support by the public for the Uniparty candidates. The Clinton people were running the Kamala Harris campaign but she clearly had no chance, so they then hoped that Buttigeig or Klobuchar would gain popularity.
When it was clear it was going to go to Bernie Sanders if all of them stayed in, they got the other candidates to pull out and put all their support behind Biden. Michael Bloomberg’s candidacy had been their failed attempt at a Hail Mary because they really didn’t want Biden because they knew the political baggage he was carrying — his son and brother’s business ties being widely known. They were able to keep that under wraps through the liberal media’s desire for a Democrat win, but they knew it would eventually come out.
The Uniparty was born 1st with 2 seasons of Clinton/Gore and then 2 seasons of Bush/Cheney, like it had been agreed upon. It looked like they had plans for another 2 seasons of Hillary and then 2 seasons of Jeb. Obama’s popularity must have surprised them, and then Trump really surprised them. But in one sense America had always had a uniparty. After the southern elites lost power to the northern eastern establishment elites in the Civil War, till the 1950s, the political power in Washington D.C. had mostly been a battle between rival eastern establishment elites — Rockefellers vs Morgans vs Fords vs Mellons, etc. They fought each other, not too harshly, over how they would rule over America, and then the world. But at the end of the day they lived in their own shared social world, intermarrying with each other’s families almost exclusively. A world of mansions and yachts, of relentless travels on cruise ships to Europe and the world, of gaining noble titles by marrying into the European aristocracy, of debutante balls, of exclusive clubs, of exclusive prep-schools and exclusive colleges, of exclusive Wall St. brokerage houses, law firms, insurance firms, investment firms, private banks, massive industrial concerns, whose inherited businesses and wealth-based class was interrupted every so often by the inclusion of the newly rich who joined their ranks.
They ruled over America not only by the sheer massive scale of their wealth but also by the planning of their hired teams of business advisors, lawyers, accountants, private armies (Detective agencies) and hired politicians. When the average family was making a few thousand dollars a year they were making tens and hundreds of millions. The scale of their wealth was something the world had never seen before.
There used to be something called the “Society Pages” in newspapers, which were gossip and highlights of the lives of the ruling class. But as time went on the lives of the ruling class were replaced in the newspapers, which the elites owned, by the lives of movie celebrities. Since the beginning till WWII, Hollywood had been churning out movie after movie about the lives of the rich East Coast elites, portraying them as silly eccentrics, or as greedy and evil. Ever since, they have tried to keep their lives as private as possible, trying to disappear from the public’s imagination. When widely admired academics like C. Wright Mills and Carroll Quigley shined a light on them and their control over America, many academics with ties to the elite families rushed to claim their books as “outside the mainstream and therefore irrelevant” even though they showed irrefutable academic proof of their claims.
The Uniparty was born when the Democratic party left its traditional alliance with Labor after Southern Democrats defected to the GOP. They joined the cowboy and yankee corporate elites from the GOP whose goals are many but includes keeping the working class from gaining enough power to challenge their political agendas. Another of their agendas is to create a unipolar world order, with them in charge. Most of the politicians in the Democratic party and many in the GOP serve the interests of the merged Uniparty corporate elite class who are striving to rule the world for “justice” and “democracy.”
So where does Donald J. Trump fit into all this?
When the Cowboys and Yankees merged in the Reagan Revolution — not all of the cowboy conservatives liked it, even though it appeared they did by their associations and donations. There were still many devout Christians, conservative/libertarians, and conservative/populists, who wanted to stick to their principles. They wanted American policy to favor Americans, they didn’t want America to be the leader of a global police force, or a global economic union, or a force for social or cultural change around the world by social engineering and military intervention. They wanted American politicians and policies to be focused on the concerns of Americans. Trump comes out of that milieu, his father was a supporter of Barry Goldwater, the leader of the Cowboys in their war against the Yankees in the 1950s-70s.
When the Uniparty under Clinton and Bush II set off to conquer the world for the creation of a worldwide economic and political union, aka NWO, the Neoliberal World Order, those older cowboy conservatives and libertarians who didn’t like the Uniparty, along with younger socially conservative populists and Christians aka neo-Cowboys, rallied against the Uniparty led by old cowboys like Ron Paul and others of his ilk. Some of them very rich and influential. They then came together under Trump after he proved himself to them to fight a new “Uniparty and Cowboy War.”
Trump and his neo-Cowboy MAGA are fighting for control of the American government and by extension want to stop supporting what is left of the tattering wannabe Unipolar Neoliberal World Order.
If they win, will they really try to stop the forming of the full Unipolar Neoliberal World Order? That was a pie in the sky agenda when first attempted in the 1970s through to the Obama years. It is an even further out-of-reach pie now. Ever since the Internet has been able to inform billions of people every day about the American control over the world, it has made so many of them so angry and wanting out of the American orbit, that they are joining together to oppose America. Whether it is for religious, nationalist, or economic reasons — they want out of the American Neoliberal World Order aka Pax Americana aka Rules Based Order — because on the internet they are shown every day that the Rules Based Order in reality means that “America makes the rules while we follow their orders.”
A unipolar world is now out of the question because of that. Yet the Uniparty is stuck in a rut trying to make it come true — because a lot of people are making a lot of money by that attempt. Meanwhile, the economy tumbles, wars start and grow, causing massive destruction and havoc on a mass scale, while millions of people end up on the streets living or burning and looting.
This is not a good thing for the elites, but that is what happens when you can’t read the writing on the wall. In the past the elite class was careful to not be seen as the cause of suffering around the world by control over mass media. They can’t hide that anymore because of the wide access around the world to the Internet. Which is why censorship is so important to them now.


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