There is resistance to the Corporatcy within this country, and loud well known and respected voices do speak out against it. They are the only insider information we'll get as the Corporate Media certainly wouldn't out their payroll masters, the rest of from foreign nations, of course filtered by the Corporate ISP's for our viewing enjoyment. Graphics are not alienated on the web site view- Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyunderground/message/4371
WEALTHOCRACY  A piece from Common Dreams begins "Starting next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin oral arguments in a case many are calling "the next Citizens United" for its potential to vastly enhance the power of money in politics beyond its already lethal hold. Apparently, the constantly insecure Robber Barons who own and control every aspect of our government feel they don't have quite enough influence  ________________________________  SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT A BARGAINING CHIP  As George Carlin warned us years ago, they're coming for your Social Security, and they'll get it, eventually.  ________________________________    ________________________________  In today's opinion piece, Glen Ford explains what's really behind the government shutdown.----Jodda Mitchell                                                          The Shutdown Game                                                                           by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Whatâs at stake in the partial âshutdownâ of government? Certainly not Obamacare, which was never in danger. Itâs all an exercise in drawing fake lines in the sandbox, so that the bipartisan business of gutting entitlement programs can recommence. Next stop: Grand Bargain junction. âThe sanctity of U.S. Treasury notes is what holds the nation â and its global empire â together.â The government shutdown battle is more like a Civil War reenactment than the real thing. A face-saving bargain will soon be struck, returning 825,000 furloughed federal employees to their jobs at wages that have been frozen for the past two years â not by the Republicans, but on President Obamaâs orders. The clock has been stuck with both hands on âausterityâ since Obama came fully out of the closet as a GOP fellow-traveler following the 2010 midterm elections. From that moment on, Republican-imposed gridlock has been the only barrier to Obamaâs long-sought Grand Bargain to eviscerate entitlement programs. When the current theatrics are over, Obamacare will remain intact and the president will be back on his ever-rightward stride. The GOP will take Obama up on his offer, earlier this year, to cut Social Security and will probably be offered other bits and pieces of the social safety net in the interest of âshared sacrificeâ and domestic peace. In the interim, while the reenactors haul their cannons around the cow pasture, waiting for the rich people who call themselves âmarketsâ to signal an end to the charade, rest assured that national security is sacrosanct. âWhen the current theatrics are over, Obamacare will remain intact and the president will be back on his ever-rightward stride.â For example, the pause in some government spending will have minimal effect on the National Security Agencyâs spying on Americans and the rest of the Earthâs inhabitants. The NSA circulated a memo stating that its âintelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance activities required to support national or military requirements necessary for national securityâ are exempt from the fiscal exercise, as are all programs that are necessary for âprotection of life and property.â Presumably, that means President Obama can still spend next Tuesday morning selecting the weekâs victims for his Kill List. Protection of property being the prime directive of both wings of the Corporate Party, democracy will remain in shutdown mode in Detroit and all of Michiganâs largely Black cities, whatever happens on Capitol Hill. The markets are hungry to devour the nationâs pension funds, and have chosen Black locales to perfect the model, secure in the knowledge that nobody of consequence will raise a finger to stop them from filching the nest-eggs of the undeserving classes. The disenfranchisement of Detroit under the iron rule of a corporate lawyer is simply another form of âshared sacrificeâ necessitated by austerity â which is why the Obama administration challenges voter ID cards in North Carolina but does not deploy the Justice Department to re-enfranchise the majority of Blacks in the state of Michigan, whose votes have been rendered worthless. Detroitâs ability to borrow money â or, in this case, to be stripped of every asset of value for the benefit of Wall Street bankers â trumps citizenship rights, every time. âThe markets are hungry to devour the nationâs pension funds.â The same logic will dictate that the Republicans turn the spigot back on. Forget about social justice, the rule of law, and political decorum. The sanctity of U.S. Treasury notes is what holds the nation â and its global empire â together. As the âliberalâ economist Paul Krugman writes, âFinancial markets have long treated U.S. bonds as the ultimate safe asset; the assumption that America will always honor its debts is the bedrock on which the world financial system rests.â Which is another way of saying that the U.S. maintains its supremacy in the world, not merely by force of arms, but through the artificial supremacy of the dollar, as the world reserve currency. Should the dollar fall from its pedestal, the Empire would have to go out with guns blazing. Or, alternatively, the U.S. would be compelled to adjust to simply being one nation among many on the planet â a prospect too horrible to contemplate. Therefore, for the sake of the almighty dollar (blessed be its name) â and because the shutdown has already achieved its purposes â the GOP will call a halt to its action before any money-changers get hurt. The Republicans will have shown their willingness to fight The Obama. Obama will appear to be defending the people from The Republicans. And then they will both slash away at social spending, as was the intention, all along. 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