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War, Baby! More money in it than peace, per one representative intellectual giant printed in The New York Times:

The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth

The author is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, connected to Big Oil.

My question is simply;

Can anybody name one American Institution that hasn't been completely corrupted in the last thirty years?

It's hard to keep all the other Institutions in line when most of our Congress and Supreme Court are rotten to the core.

And also seem to hate Democracy and the U.S. Constitution.

-90% Jimmy

...when you want to believe Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice.

1. Only a certain Elite are equipped mentally and physically to rule. They are the people without any illusions and are capable of being merciless when circumstances call for it. They do not need other people's approval and are essentailly seekers of power.

2. These Elite, by force of necessity, will be rquired to lie to the Masses to create a make believe situation that will pacify the masses.They should not be swayed by any advice that they are required to tell the truth.

3. Use of violence and other tactics will be necessary to contain the masses. Propaganda and lies are part of the arsenal of the rulers.

Along with these words of wisdom, this man, a jewish escapee from Nazi Germany thought we in America have too many people who are unfit to be considered equal citizens.He advised tolerance with contempt for these people.

It goes without saying that among his disciples he had some of the worthies of this administration: Wolfowitz,Kristol,Ashcroft come to mind.

If you did not read the title of his works, you would think you are reading the pages of Mein Kampf.

That is the bible of our current rulers.Keep this in mind when some
liar gets up and makes an announcement.

-- KlatooBNikto of DemocraticUnderground

... it is the description of a sociopath.

From the comments section for

What We've Lost Since 9/11: Taking down the First Amendment in post-constitutional America

brucebennett > Bassie Kims of Yesteryear • 2 days ago

Speaking of Russia Today, the Obamabots over on "Democratic Underground" consistently refer to RT as "Putin News" and dismiss it as propaganda. However, thanks to RT I found out that Hillary used her position as SoS while on a trip to Russia to lobby for Boeing and that she managed to secure a $3.7 billion contract from the Russian government for them. Boeing's way of saying "Thanks!" was to donate $900,000 to Hillary's campaign war chest.
Since she is the big fave among so many Demos for President I can only presume that the loathsome trashing of our founding document under Bush the Idiot and Obomber will continue if she wins. Of course, whatever Rethug is nominated will do the same or worse.
I think that point that the author made about "wading" into this is wrong. I think we are already up to our armpits in this betrayal and the next decade will just about finish us. With a thoroughly compliant media, totally corrupt politicians, right-ward leaning courts, and a complacent electorate I see little hope in turning this around and we will follow the fate of dozens of imperialistic countries before us.
For some solace read "Shine, Perishing Republic" by the great poet Robinson Jeffers. We are indeed "settling into the mold of our vulgarity, heavily thickening into empire".

SOURCE: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/16-0

No thanks and it is Russian news.

Here's an example from Russell Tice:

RT's coverage on not-affecting-Russia topics is fine.

Their coverage on anything where Russia is affected by the story is not. The folks running the 'network' are well aware of where their funding comes from.

I'll have to take that into consideration.

the American corporate media.

And do what Victoria Addino said:

"Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!!"

As for RT: They publish and air those people America's Corporate McPravda ignore, like Greg Palast and two Koch Brothers.

Yeah, I've heard of such a creature, but haven't seen it in ages.

and although I think the FRC leans right (along with Charlie) this guy told Rose

flat out that Obama had little to ZERO to do with the current uprisings in Iraq and called

blaming him for the mess "totally unfair".

Rose didn't himself, blame Obama, but looked down sheepishly while he asked

Mr. Gelb "How much responsibility President Obama bore"...I was so glad to hear

someone -- a non politician/partisan -- squash the RW Talking point.

a lot; I think he is often in need of sleep when doing his interviews.

I saw the Gelb interview and appreciated his interpretation of the situation.

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Although vis a vis DU, he and Rose might be said to lean right, I think in the overall spectrum of the US, while certainly not to the left, they might be center left.

Rose has often done some very detailed, serious interviews of foreign leaders, notably one with Assad in 2010 (I think) and with American leaders. He is professional enough that it is sometimes hard to see exactly where his biases are.

Biden's position sounds smart.

The difference was that he moved back from partitions, to a conference of all the sectarian elements and supporting countries in the region with the goal that Iraqis could define an inclusive government that may or may not include partitions - and if it did, the Iraqis would draw them - not the US or the coalition. (Warner pointed out that at that point, the amendment was equivilent to the call for a regional summit to help Iraq design an inclusive government that he included (from the Kerry/Feingold resolution in 2006.)

I get the nicety of NOT wanting the Americans to draw lines and understand the echo to colonial line drawing that is one root of the problems there that Kerry and several others required before backing it, but I think the idea that the three main sectarian groups might not be able to exist in a peaceful government may well be an important point that Gelb and Galbraeth made.

OIL.

Agreed. Our media has become completely absurd.

And we are headed down that road, full speed ahead.

Thanks for the thread, kentuck.

Expert, that is, if with war, you get timely commercial breaks, lucrative endorsement deals, and a retirement job as an on-air color man.

So they are basically just talking to themselves

Thanks for the thread, kentuck.