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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 09:07 PM
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Ready Or Not, Here Come The Kleptocratic Bloodsuckers
http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Ready-Or-Not-Here-Come-Th-by-Saman-Mohammadi-101022-753.html

The democratic and security threat to America is not from right-wing militias, or Islamic radicalism, or socialism, but from kleptocrats who hijacked the federal government and looted the country through the misappropriation of public funds in the trillion dollar war on terror, the decades-long war on drugs, the trillion dollar war in Iraq, the multi-billion dollar construction of the domestic surveillance-police state, the nine hundred billion dollar health care bill that primarily benefited insurance companies and drug corporations, and the radically unpopular bailout programs that were passed in Congress at the threat of martial law following the financial crisis in the fall of 2008 that economic experts like James K. Galbraith say was driven by fraud at the highest levels in financial institutions on Wall Street.

The illegal relationship between public officials on both aisles and a few selected corporations and banks is not new in America, but never before have the interests of the two groups been so interconnected, and obvious to the public. This corrupt establishment's criminal hold on power is vulnerable to the point that it can be challenged by even the smallest form of democratic pressure by outraged citizens if they ever decide to outgrow their petty allegiances to their favorite political party, and hit the streets with the kind of righteous rage that is required for the occasion.

Indeed, if the collective awakening of the American people leads to collective action then America's free republic may well be saved from total economic and social destruction, and the dictatorial overhaul of the Western World by globalist conspirators may yet be prevented.

What transpires on American streets in the next couple of years will define the rest of this century, and dare I say, human destiny. The traitorous kleptocrats in Washington D.C. know this very well, and have prepared accordingly. They are ready for the coming popular revolution, and they view any democratic challenge to the rule by Wall Street and America's transnational corporations as a threat to the country itself. As Washington's Blog pointed out last month, "the interests of the government and big business are so closely aligned that some high-level government officials may consider any threat to the bottom line of the big banks and other corporate giants as an existential threat to the nation's security."

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Panaconda Donating Member (672 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 09:10 PM
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1. Consider the kleptocrats
a natural outgrowth of capitalism.

Sort of like pustules forming from an infection.

K&R
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maryf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-10 09:58 AM
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10. Amazingly apt metaphor, nt.
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Scruffy1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 09:13 PM
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2. Yep.
This is how capitalism has always worked.
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safeinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 09:13 PM
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3. Why do people
vote against their own self interest?
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 09:16 PM
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4. Sometimes the choices are too limited,
many times it is laziness and an inability to elicit the truth.
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billlll Donating Member (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 09:57 PM
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6. Racism....they see blacks as the cause of ALL problems
By various logic twists and delusions

GOP doesn't even have to preach it...racism is very virulent on its own.

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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 09:26 PM
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5. They've been here quite awhile. Nevertheless, K & R nt
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iamtechus Donating Member (868 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 11:15 PM
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7. "the nine hundred billion dollar health care bill"
The health care bill pays for itself. The "radically unpopular bailout programs" were acknowledged to be wasteful but necessary by our elected officials but things would have gotten much worse without them.

All it takes is one republican lie to spoil a pretty good rant.
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-10 12:19 AM
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8. Not only were the bank bailouts unnecessary..
they were destructive and have impeded broad economic recovery.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-10 12:30 AM
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9. +100
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