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God defend our free land As in centuries past, poets often speak the truth.
(Source: weirdinwellington)
ACTA You should be able to keep your eye on both balls. Some of us have. (Via fuckyeahdementia.)
(Source: mrdistracted)
SOPA is just the next round in the War On. Like drugs and terror, piracy is the excuse. Expansion of the police state remains the real goal.
The protest movements are indeed against Big Business—a perfectly justified cause—and against “governments”. What they have really divined, however, albeit a bit late in the day, is that they have for decades bought into a fraudulent democracy: they dutifully vote for political parties—which then hand their democratic mandate and people’s power to the banks and the derivative traders and the rating agencies, all three backed up by the slovenly and dishonest coterie of “experts” from America’s top universities and “think tanks”, who maintain the fiction that this is a crisis of globalization rather than a massive financial con trick foisted on the voters.
Robert Fisk: ‘Bankers are the dictators of the west’, The Independent
Still off base: Tony Blair
Tony’s still not right, but he’s closer than David is. Yet, of all the politicians spouting about personal responsibility, none have taken responsibility for the divisive societal developments that they have spurred on or overseen, which are, in my mind, greater contributing factors to the riots.
… you are left with about 30%–40% of working age Americans productively employed. And everyone else lives off them.
That is the real economic crisis (mirrored in most other Western countries) and all brought about by the corrupt depredations of government over many decades. It was long hidden by the combination of government borrowing (consuming now what should have been productive investment for the future, and thus stolen from future retirees), an expanding working age population and, for a time, the desire of China and other Asian countries to grow their industry by providing loans to Western countries to buy the output (loans, which they now realize, will not be repaid). All of those ameliorating factors have now reversed and the grand ponzi scheme of post WWII Western governments is fully exposed.
‘BazzaMcKenzie’, commenting on The Daily Telegraph’s website on the US debt crisis
