"the true one-world government wears a suit and hangs out at the G-8"
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The fact is that everybody likes to talk about the importance of local government until local government actually tries to govern. That's what happened with the Greeks on a national scale. In this country, you will hear politicians rail about "devolving" government to the states, which is fine with them, until the states decide that they will protect their citizens against environmental poisons. You will hear state politicians railing about the benefits of city and county governments, until their campaign contributors want to build a road or log the forest. We are at a dangerous tipping point between the power of organized wealth and the strength of our political institutions. Alas, in fact, we may be past it.
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The very idea of government -- self-government and otherwise -- is under a kind of unprecedented assault. For all the hooting and hollering on the right about the threat of "one-world government," the true one-world government wears a suit and hangs out at the G-8. It is moving beyond popular control in a hundred different ways, large and small, in places as big as Greece and as small as Denton, Texas. It is all one, anti-democratic continuum, and it is goddamned dangerous.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a36522/how-all-government-is-local-and-thats-how-it-dies/
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...at the Bohemian Grove.
Justice Thomas reported a wealth of gifts
In the last six years he has accepted free items valued at $42,200, the most on the high court.
Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage
Los Angeles Times, December 31, 2004|
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts since joining the high court, including $1,200 worth of tires, valuable historical items and a $5,000 personal check to help pay a relative's education expenses.
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[font color="green"]He also took a free trip aboard a private jet to the exclusive Bohemian Grove club in Northern California -- arranged by a wealthy Texas real estate investor who helped run an advocacy group that filed briefs with the Supreme Court. [/font color]
Those and other gifts were disclosed by Thomas under a 1978 federal ethics law that requires high-ranking government officials, including the nine Supreme Court justices, to file a report each year that lists gifts, money and other items they have received.
Thomas has reported accepting much more valuable gifts than his Supreme Court colleagues over the last six years, according to their disclosure forms on file at the court.
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http://articles.latimes.com/2004/dec/31/nation/na-gifts31
It's a good bet that Clarence's Sugar Daddy, er, um, host!... has kept the receipts, and the pictures of the big guy cavorting with Moloch, sort of as a souvenir more than an IOU.
