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The Quiet Coup | America's Unpleasant Truth: We're a Financial Oligarchy! | The Atlanti... - 0 views

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    The finance industry has effectively captured the U.S. government-a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets...Recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that's blocking essential reform.
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  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 30 Sep 09
     
    Classically, a plutocracy was an oligarchy, which is to say a government controlled by the wealthy few. Usually this meant that these 'plutocrats' controlled the executive, legislative and judicial aspects of government, the armed forces, and most of the natural resources.
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Revolution? Or The Realization Of Orwell's Vision? | The Smirking Chimp - 0 views

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    "The government, and the politicians who pretend to represent ordinary Americans, are a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the corporate state. " Corporations, as they endlessly scheme for complete control over the planet's finite resources, will order the planet's social order into whatever structure is necessary to insure corporate dominance over the individual. Orwell recognized the corporate entities driven ambition to abolish represenative government in favor of corporate oligarchy. For anyone who isn't blind it's easy to recognize that representative democracy in the U.S. has been cast aside
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Oligarchy and the Debt Ceiling - 0 views

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The Idiots Who Rule America | Truthdig - 0 views

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    Our oligarchic class is incompetent at governing, managing the economy, coping with natural disasters, educating our young, handling foreign affairs, providing basic services like health care and safeguarding individual rights. That it is still in power, and will remain in power after this election, is a testament to our inability to separate illusion from reality. We still believe in "the experts." They still believe in themselves.
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t r u t h o u t | The Politics of Lying and the Culture of Deceit in Obama's America: T... - 0 views

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    Lies and deceit cause the death of democratic politics, critical thought and civic agency. Contempt for 'truth' is evident in the wild West of FOX News. It's evident in Bush's 'Clear Skies Initiative,' enabling greater industrial air pollution. Language is neutered. Meanings are indeterminate. As Orwell said, "war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength."
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A Centuries-Old Principle: Keep Corporate Money Out of Elections - 0 views

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  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 16 Sep 09
     
    Thomas Jefferson declared his hope to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
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Dissident Voice : Totalitarianism: It Can Happen Here - 0 views

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    "It is by now commonplace to observe that democracy is in a weakened state in the United States. But could it be that the U.S. is no longer a democracy at all, if it ever truly was?"
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