Debt Rattle July 3 2016
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 3 2016]Slick Willy rides again:
“So the Attorney General of the United States just happened to run into the former president of the United States who just so happens to be married to a woman running for president, who just happens to be under federal investigation and they just happened to have a 30 minute meeting aboard a government owned airplane and we’re to believe that all they talked about was their grandchildren?
If you believe that, there’s a bridge in Brooklyn you may want to consider buying.”
Loretta Lynch, how unethical are we? The Attorney-General of the United States doing this? What part of your last name do you not understand?
She was recommended for the job by Eric Holder. Yeah, like that’s a good reference (not)!
“She was a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2005.”
https://www.blackenterprise.com/news/10-facts-about-loretta-lynch/
Yet another member of the Federal Reserve, and another shining example of an upright Ivy Leaguer, just like Hitlery. Harvard Law School must be so proud!
One giant revolving door: “Ex T-Man Geithner Cashing in on Wall Street”.
How many of you think Geithner feels any guilt or shame? Do psychopaths feel guilt or shame? Not part of their vocabulary.
“What is remarkable is that in the face of rising resentment by the “losers” from neoliberalism – the 99 Percent – only the nationalist right-wing parties have criticized the EU’s neoliberalism and the T-TIP. The formerly left-wing Socialist parties of France and Spain, German Social Democrats, Greek Socialists and so forth have endorsed the neoliberal, pro-financial program of austerity and rollbacks on labor union power, wages and pensions.
So the riddle is, how did originally pro-labor parties become anti-labor?”
They get corrupted over time.
“The same thing may be said of political parties. Every party that identified with the left in the Progressive Era – the Labour and Socialists parties of Europe, and the progressive Democrats in the United States – have now moved to the neoliberal right as it has become part of “the establishment.”
It is as if left and right parties have switched positions politically. The socialist left is not protesting against eurozone austerity, but is applauding it. Like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in Britain, they have become Thatcherite, pushing privatization and corporatism.
For example, last week the Democratic National Committee rejected Bernie Sanders’ urging that the platform for this year’s elections reject the TPP and TTIP.
This leaves it to Donald Trump to denounce the Democrats as supporting corporatism at the expense of labor. It puts him in the position of Nigel Farage in Britain or Marine Le Pen in France, or the nationalists in Austria and Hungary.”
This leaves it to Donald Trump to denounce the Democrats as supporting corporatism at the expense of labor. It puts him in the position of Nigel Farage in Britain or Marine Le Pen in France, or the nationalists in Austria and Hungary.”
The Silence of the Left: Brexit, Euro-Austerity and the T-TIP
An upside down world. But “Bernie Sanders’ camp was able to place restoring the Glass-Steagall Act in the final draft of the Democratic Platform and get a unanimous vote on the measure from the Drafting Committee.”
Clinton Says Wall Street Banks Aren’t the Threat, But Her Platform Writers Think They are
No end to the Russian propaganda here. General Petr Pavel, the chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, says Russia equates liberal democracy with weakness and only respects power. In an interview with RFE/RL in Brussels on May 24, the Czech general said that the alliance must be ready to act when necessary.
Russian actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine show their intentions. They prop up Assad in Syria by bombing civilians, not ISIS. Anything you hear about Russia being good at heart is just bullshit but its always on the Automatic Earth.
@ Babble
The only bullshit here is coming from your keyboard.
Go drink your kool-aide some where else; Ilargi is firmly rooted in the real world; not the fantasy of western propaganda.Babble – I’m pretty sure you’ve been into the sauce. Paul Craig Roberts:
“We are constantly informed by the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, numerous senators and representatives, by NATO commanders, by EU politicians, by presstitutes, and others, that “Russia has invaded Ukraine.”
Take a minute and think about this extraordinary lie. Clearly, evidence is no longer a factor in determining what is occurring. Assertion only rules. Take a second to look outside The Matrix. Is it really possible that Ukraine would still exist if Russia invaded? I would bet my life that within 60 hours of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine would again be part of Russia.
Remember August 2008 when the US and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian army invaded the peacekeeping realm of South Ossetia, killing Russian peace-keeping troops and Ossetian civilians. Putin was at the Beijing Olympics, but Russian armed forces quickly smashed the American/Israeli trained and equipped Georgian army. Putin held Georgia in his palm.
What did Putin do after delivering this lesson in the superiority of Russian arms? He released Georgia and returned home.
So how is it that Putin, according to the entirety of the Western political establishment and media whores, is determined to rebuild the Soviet Empire? Putin held Georgia. No power on earth could have forced him to release Georgia. But Putin withdrew Russia’s forces and released the country. The former Georgian president is now an American operative in Ukraine.
If you consider the number of outsiders, including US citizens and the former president of Georgia, who serve in the Ukrainian government, it raises questions about the so-called “Maidan Revolution” in February 2014. If this really was a popular uprising, and not a Washington orchestrated coup, why is there such a shortage of Ukrainians to form the new government that foreign citizens have to be brought in to rule the country?”
Report to Supporters: The British Woke UP — Can The Americans?
“July 4th is America’s most important national holiday celebrating American independence from Great Britain. On July 4th, 1776, America’s Founding Fathers declared that the Thirteen Colonies were no longer colonies but an independent country in which the Rights of Englishmen would prevail for all citizens and not only for King George’s administrators. […]
In this American assertion of self-determination citizens of Great Britain were not allowed to vote. Therefore, according to Washington’s position on the votes in Crimea and in eastern Ukraine – the former Russian territories of Donetsk and Luhansk – America’s Declaration of Independence was “illegitimate and illegal.”
If I remember correctly, I don’t think the native population of Hawaii had a vote, nor the American Indians, nor the Hispanic people inhabiting California and Texas. These lands were just stolen by the “exceptional ones”. Ain’t it just like bullies to be paranoid? It is because of what they’ve done that they worry about others doing the same.
@ Raleigh
The 4th of July holiday was begun in 1915; as a propaganda tool to ensure immigrants to the U.S. were properly inculcated with patriotic fervor.
Most all of the history you and I was taught had nothing what-so-ever to do with history as it went down. This is an excellent view;
https://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12266V. Arnold – yes, it all depends on who writes the history. I like what the author said: “So slavery provides the fuel for the development of this modern society that some are able to enjoy, which is one of the reasons why when I used to have conversations with certain friends from abroad about how they wanted to build a society like the United States, well, I would say, well, you know, find millions of people to work for free for a few centuries and you can have a modern society too.”
And I found it interesting as well that young children from the U.K. (whose parents had either died or had signed their children’s lives away) were brought to the U.S. to work in the fields, by the thousands, but at least they got their freedom when they turned 21. And the U.K. got rid of their convicts too, sold them off to slave in the fields; why house and feed them when you can make a profit selling them off to the Americas.
History just keeps repeating over and over. We all live in a form of slavery, even though many don’t realize it. That there was a split between England and the colonies re slavery is not surprising. Follow the money. Same with the Syrian refugees. Follow the money. They’re not doing this out of compassion.
@ Raleigh
Yes, Gerald Horne is a joy to listen to and in that episode he was introduced by Howard Zinn. The genuine history of the U.S. is fascinating, if not horrific. I can’t even imagine what it would have been like if we were taught the real deal way back when.
And yes, most of us who were employees (with very few exceptions) were wage slaves; emphasis on the word slave. I never could quite buy the Protestant work ethic though, and when laid off, I usually ran out the unemployment compensation for the full 90 days. Working in manufacturing, lay-offs were frequent. 😉
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