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no more banksters

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Tue Nov 24, 2015, 08:10 AM Nov 2015

The ruthless elites construct the new enemies

In his poem Waiting for the Barbarians, the famous Greek poet Konstantinos Kavafis describes the agony of the ruling class who is waiting for the barbarians to come. And the poem ends: "And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution." So, what do you do when you don't have the useful barbarians? Simply, you construct new ones.

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2015/11/the-ruthless-elites-construct-new.html
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The ruthless elites construct the new enemies (Original Post) no more banksters Nov 2015 OP
Clear and concise. enough Nov 2015 #1

enough

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1. Clear and concise.
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 08:49 AM
Nov 2015

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So, how the new jihadist barbarians are useful to the elites in our era?

1st, they disorientate people from the real enemy, the elites themselves, who are the ones exclusively responsible both for the wars and the absolute mess in the Middle East, as well as for the new conditions based on the Greek experiment.

2nd, they can apply further suppression measures inside the Western societies without significant resistance, in order to justify the elimination of - the excessively advertised in the past - civil liberties. Progressively, no one would be allowed to protest against austerity in the name of security from terror attacks.

3rd, they feed extreme nationalists and fascists. The useful tool which the elites mobilize everytime they need to distract attention away from them. These are now quite useful to do the dirty job, which is to get rid the "unnecessary load" of thousands of desperate refugees, and, confront the Leftist threat which may turn against them.

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