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tex-wyo-dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:14 PM
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I'm curious...what games are the oligarchy playing now exactly?
What is their endgame?

Do they see a tremendous profiting opportunity that they are helping to orchestrate, or have they just lost control on the situation?

Inquiring minds what to know...
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:15 PM
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1. This is how empires die, and it is so dang predicable
it is a script, almost.

That is the game they are playing... the US is dying as an empire.

And right now they just said... folks you got an unstable government structure...
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tex-wyo-dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:20 PM
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4. Possibly...but the US is still the largest economy in the world...
(Unless China is now and I missed it). Why would they do this or allow it to happen? Surely it will hurt them in the process.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:21 PM
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5. Actuially the Eurozone
and the Chinese Middle Class is actually larger than ours, by raw numbers together with India.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:22 PM
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7. I believe the EU is ahead.
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bluestate10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:39 PM
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11. You are wrong. The GDP of the US alone on North America is
larger than all of the Eurozone.
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StarsInHerHair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:43 PM
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12. they believe they will become Trillionaires
they also want to privatize everything & charge tolls, fees, etc. Like they did in post Soviet Russia, same playbook, basically.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 12:16 AM
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16. The elites and the powerbrokers are globalists...
They operate on a global scale. Corporations are global now and it's a world market. There is
no use for an empire in global economy. In fact, empires are contradictory to the success of
global corporations. Empires are full of educated, free people who expect decent wages, benefits,
free speech and fair working conditions.

Globalists need a world full of peasants who are willing to work for a few dollars a day under
harsh, pitiful circumstances. It's cheaper that way and good for profits. How in the world could
a globally suppressed worker pool exist if we've got well-paid workers strutting around in the United
States--raising the bar for everyone?

These bastards want the bar lowered.

There is no use for the United States empire any longer. We are a drag on the goals of the globalists.
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:17 PM
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2.  more oil speculation.
Price hikes at the pump in sight.
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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:25 PM
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9. But But Oil Went Down In The Market Yesterday....
We didn't even get one days drop at the pump.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:20 PM
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3. Same as it has been. Shock doctrine.
Milton Freidman utopia.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:21 PM
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6. More interest for banks. But they fucked it up like everything else teabaggers do.
Edited on Fri Aug-05-11 10:22 PM by lonestarnot
Oh then there is destroy Mr. President and undo any good that he done for the economy.
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FarCenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:23 PM
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8. A characteristic of oligarchies is that there are always contending factions
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tex-wyo-dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:35 PM
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10. ah...I think you may have something, FarCenter...
We may be witnessing the wealthy factions going to war.

At everyone else's expense, of course.
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indurancevile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 12:37 AM
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18. I agree. The global ruling class is fighting each other. Or you could say, the capitalists are
Edited on Sat Aug-06-11 12:39 AM by indurancevile
fighting each other.

Question is, what entities are on which teams? As the politics involved are byzantine.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:45 PM
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13. Entitlement reform:
Imagine Medicare converted to a voucher program--billions of public dollars shunted to private insurers, a higher cost for seniors and worse care. Imagine Social Security reformed to individual accounts as Bush would have had them. I don't think either of these will happen, but the push will be for some replacement of wholly public services with government subsidized private services. Charter schools or Medicare Part D from the perspective of the pharmaceutical industry are good examples of this.
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tex-wyo-dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:48 PM
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15. Bingo! I think that is one of the major goals...n/t
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 10:45 PM
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14. They have to create the illusion that people are making money...
by inflating the dollar. That way, they can get two workers for the price of one.
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indurancevile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 12:36 AM
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17. The game they're playing is called Global Restructuring.
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