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The plutocrats and oligarchs are winning while America's democratic values are fading away, American journalist and political commentator Bill Moyers notes, calling his compatriots to struggle for democracy.
American corporatocrats were not shy about using the crisis of 9/11 in 2001 to pursue own vested interests, US prominent journalist and managing editor of Moyers & Company Bill Moyers underscores.
"Across the land, the faces of Americans of every stripe were stained with tears. Here in New York, we still were attending memorial services for our firemen and police. But in the nation's capital, within sight of a smoldering Pentagon that had been struck by one of the hijacked planes, the predator class was hard at work pursuing private plunder at public expense, gold-diggers in the ashes of tragedy exploiting our fear, sorrow, and loss," Moyers writes in his latest essay for BillMoyers.com.
American plutocrats were struggling for tax cuts and big breaks. They wanted special trade benefits and the ability to exploit the country's resources limitlessly.
Incredible as it may seem, American business and political "mercenaries" rushed to seize all the opportunities provided by the crisis.
Remarkably, it was America's Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman who taught his followers: "There is enormous inertia — a tyranny of the status quo — in private and especially governmental arrangements.
Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around."
Unfortunately, a winner-take-all-economy has resulted in weakening of the country's democratic institutions. America's plutocrats have been changing the system according to their needs and "separating themselves... from the common course of American life."
"The $1.15 trillion spending bill passed by Congress last Friday and quickly signed by President Obama is just the latest triumph in the plutocratic management of politics that has accelerated since 9/11," Bill Moyers notes, adding that the bill is actually a bonanza for those who pour money into the US electoral process.
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The journalist calls attention to the fact that the 2,000-page bill included extended tax breaks for big business, a provision that allows corporations not to disclose their political spending and benefits to the fossil fuel industry.
"The plutocrats and oligarchs are winning... Did any voter in any district or state in the last Congressional election vote to... allow corporations to hide their political contributions? To add $1.4 trillion to the national debt? Of course not," Moyers emphasizes.
It seems that powerful corporations and bankers established a sort of "Secret State" inside the US. They are manipulating the people, civil servants and policymakers just like political puppeteers of the popular British television series
Secret State based on the political drama "A Very British Coup," the journalist notes.
"Without healthy democratic politics serving a moral order, all these are imperiled by the ferocious appetites of private power and greed," Moyers warns, urging his readers to "find a place for yourself, at whatever level, wherever you are, in the struggle for democracy."
& For What
The 'WARS' against people everywhere have been going on for centuries, that much is not in dispute. What is becoming the most urgent war-crime is that those who are being targeted have gone from political and military attacks upon 'nation-states' to the current blind and determined attacks upon women and children, worldwide, as well as on the politics of any and all states that refuse to convert to Islam. “... the “War on Terror” — has led to a dramatic increase in death and suffering from terrorism.” “... Before the 2003 U.S. invasion, do you know how many suicide attacks there were in Iraq? None. In the country’s history there had never been one. But since the 2003 invasion, there have been 1,892. In Iraq, prior to the start of the Iraq war, there were reportedly just over 1.5 million Christians living in that country. And yet shortly after the war started, more than one million of them fled to Syria. That didn’t work out well. Today fewer than half a million Christians remain and yet are being exterminated by groups like ISIS.” Millions have died in Iraq and throughout the Middle East as a result of modern U.S. imperialism. Current estimates suggest that at least 1.3 million died in the U.S. invasion of Iraq. “These figures dwarf the roughly 3,000 people who tragically died in the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.” All told the U.S. has spent more than $6 Trillion on the War on Terror The War on Terror Has Created 6500% More Terrorism [Link] This came about because LBJ declared “the War on Poverty” which increased poverty by thousands of times and was followed later-on by the War on Crime, which produced nationally expanded crime-rates and created hundreds of more crimes than we had before we created that fake war: The War on Drugs gave the CIA full control of drugs coming into the U.S., which accounted for huge increases in the use and abuse of drugs both legal and illegal, nationwide... This was the template that was used to create THE U.S. WAR ON TERROR and of course, given the successes of all the previously phony “WARS” that increased whatever was being targeted everywhere: Hell it's no wonder that there has been a six-thousand, 500 percent increase in “Terror” which is still growing by leaps and bounds. The above is only the prelude for what the U.S. series of illegally declared WARS, has done to open the gates to international wars against all the people on the planet that have so far refused to convert to Islam. After the U.S. began to try and put together a nation that could survive against the Barbarian's in Old-World Europe, augmented by the slavery and the savagery of Seventh Century Islam a constitution was created to protect Americans from diatribes and the global-threats that have haunted 'the old-world' since time immemorial. Women at the time were not 'free' in the sense that American women were beginning to be, before we allowed the patriarchal-axe to fall again on women, in the U.S., under the dictates of political-correctness compounded by the machismo-but fake rules for both children and women, that have been growing like Kudzu since the new Millennium began anew. On top of all this background information, comes news of the latest attack upon every person, women and children in particular, in America, by the threat of beheading for anyone who refuses to dump their personnel beliefs in order to embrace “Islam”, or be killed. This heresy must be met and exterminated wherever it exists today. The Muslim Brotherhood has existed for a very long time, inside the United States. The FBI has been monitoring and tracking their illegal and treasonous activities for roughly twenty years. The FBI and the USI have amassed all the information needed to arrest and charge the Muslim Brotherhood for what they are doing inside the United States—yet they have NOT acted to protect the people of the U.S. from this barbarically criminal pack of savages. Why has this government NOT acted? This is more of the same governmental silence that could have stopped these traitors to the constitution and to humanity at the root, long, long ago. Moreover since the government won't act, they have consigned our women our children and what's left of the men here, to absolute slavery to this doctrine of pure hate and murder, for the rest of of their natural lives: All because America's officers are afraid of these savages. Watch this video and decide for yourself to demand that the fake-government here takes drastic and permanent action against the financial and political treason's being committed everywhere throughout the U.S. This is what's at stake in the video below. Have you got an hour and twenty minutes to devote to understanding exactly what you and I are facing now? We have been told: “It's only ballot or bullet” - believe it! The Great Deception New World Order & Muslim Brotherhood [Link] If you'd like to see what embracing these savages will create for us: Then take a look at what the 5,000 year old Damascus has been reduced to: Thanks to their refusal to embrace the uncompromising belief system that's being demanded at the point of beheading's for anyone who refuses “To Convert” or Die”. Apocalyptic scenes of Damascus suburb obliterated by violent clashes (RT EXCLUSIVE DRONE FOOTAGE) [Link] What's at stake here and now is not about religion. Islam is not a religion: read the Koran. It's an ideology based on hate and permanent war until the entire planet has been totally converted. Because of their stated belief's and their prohibitions against any freedom for either women or children; Islam, violates the entire U.S. Constitution on every level. Because “Islam” outlaws every other religious belief on the planet, Islam must be censored and outlawed as having any credence anywhere inside the U.S. ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION THESE MUSLUIM AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS BEGININING WITH CAIR MUST BE CONSIDERED TRESONOUS Anything that promotes or sponsor's or anything that assists in this Islamic takedown of the United States must be charged with this crime and treated accordingly. This includes the homegrown cancer of Political-Correctness along with the practitioners of LGBTQ that has also infected every American institution in this country. This would of course involve the arrest of Obama, as both a Muslim and a homosexual, who impersonates being a heterosexual living in a homosexual union with a man who dresses as a woman. The current TREATS' against Americans, are actionable under the U.S. Constitution, because of all the rights that the very existence of Islam seeks to negate, which is a blasphemy upon the earth and the peoples of the world that reject Islam wherever that cancer is seeking to grow. I've lived for over a three-quarters of a century, but I never thought that I'd ever see the day when Americans would ever tolerate even half of what we've apparently swallowed to date. All I know for certain is that I will not surrender or 'get on my knees' to these cowards, or anyone else, that insists on their right to murder anyone that disagrees with them and that includes the traitors wearing US uniforms that are cranking up everything they think they can do to everyone of us. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! kirwanstudios@outlook.com