$3.5 Billion Was Spent On Corporate Lobbying In 2010. What Did It Buy? 8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance. The ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance.Bruce E.
LevineAlterNet Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination. Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it. A 2010 Gallup poll asked Americans “Do you think the Social Security system will be able to pay you a benefit when you retire?” How exactly has American society subdued young Americans? 1. Today in the United States, two-thirds of graduating seniors at four-year colleges have student-loan debt, including over 62 percent of public university graduates. 2.
The 5 Most Blatantly Corrupt Industries in the World . . . And What YOU Can Do About It. Corruption is everywhere, but nowhere is it so blatant and so deep-seated as in the 5 following industries: Banking, Energy, Agriculture/Biotech, Media, and Healthcare.
Conspicuously missing from this list, of course, is politics. The reason that politics was not included is because political corruption is very rarely confined to the political arena. It is almost entirely the result of financial lobby and backing, so I decided to focus on the industries behind the issue, rather than the politicians themselves. Hopefully you will find this article eye-opening, as well as empowering in your effort to affect change today.1) Banking – Did you know: All money comes into circulation through an interest-based loan from either the Federal Reserve or another private bank.
As a result, there is more debt than money in our economy. Every time a loan is repaid, interest (wealth) is transferred from the working class to the ownership class. The Solution? At least in the short term. Sources : Timeline of the Rothschild family. The Rothschilds have been in control of the world for a very long time, their tentacles reaching into many aspects of our daily lives, as is documented in the following timeline.
However, before you jump to the timeline, please read this invaluable introduction which will tell you who the Rothschilds are as oppose to who they claim to be. The Rothschilds claim that they are Jewish, when in fact they are Khazars. They are from a country called Khazaria, which occupied the land locked between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which is now predominantly occupied by Georgia.
The reason the Rothschilds claim to be Jewish is that the Khazars under the instruction of the King, converted to the Jewish faith in 740 A.D., but of course that did not include converting their Asiatic Mongolian genes to the genes of the Jewish people. You will find that approximately 90% of people in the world today who call themselves Jews are actually Khazars, or as they like to be known, Ashkenazi Jews.
It’s The Distribution System, Stupid! In his popular book Guns, Germs & Steel, geographer Jared Diamond traces the rise of agriculture creating a surplus food supply, which allowed specialization of labor, leading to human civilization.
All consequent economic developments, from private property to derivatives, concern this issue of distributing a society’s surplus. The American presidential campaign has generated a variety of schemes for distributing the resources of humanity’s largest economy. In order to understand them, it is helpful to understand a bit about distributions.
Most readers will be familiar with the bell curve. A pool of any items distributed randomly will yield a graph shaped somewhat like a bell. As does a recent Tax Policy Center map of American income distribution. Efficiency American’s agricultural percentage of workers has dwindled from nearly all, to relatively few. A decade ago, I interviewed a representative of the National Association of Manufacturers in D.C. Efficiency produces a ski jump graph.