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woo me with science's JournalIMO the good news is that people *are* waking up.
We all do it in our own time. There's great woe over the low voting turnout, but I choose to take it as a sign that people are realizing that the game is rigged...and that's a good thing (not the low turnout itself, but the awareness...).
People just don't know yet what to *do* about it. But becoming aware of it is an important step.
The propaganda machine tries very hard to make the conversation all about Obama himself or Obama haters, or "timid" Dems, or lazy voters....ANYTHING to keep the conversation away from the real groundbreaking realization we all need to come to, which is that the parties are purchased and working together now for corporate interests.
Once sufficient numbers of us realize that....can see through the propaganda and realize that the game has changed and the goals of our politicians aren't what they keep telling us they are....we can start uniting to rally around policies rather than parties and rid ourselves of this con game.
Simplest and clearest summary I have seen yet.
I really think we have entered a largely post-democratic, post-partisan era of politics in America....all the carefully orchestrated theater and propaganda for the masses notwithstanding.
This important thread has now been tagged "doubleplusungood"
and is being worked by the corporate brigade.
I am proud of DU for not engaging them. They are mostly having to answer one another to try to create illusions of consensus.
Watch the patterns.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025767160
It's time to teach, teach, teach. The real political game is not the one they tell us it is.
+1000000 Separate news networks, separate radio stations, separate call-in lines
for community discussions. Amd the steady stream of Two Minutes Hate on discussion boards like this. If someone who molests a child in Oklahoma happens to be a Republican, you can be sure we will hear about it here....and if that person turns out to have been a Democrat, you know it will lead at Free Republic.
It's sick, and it's orchestrated.
We are managed like circus animals.
It is good to see clear, honest statements of what is being done to us.
This corporate coup succeeds by convincing citizens that their own party is still working for them and that it's just the other side's fault.
Until we catch up to the fact that they own both parties, and the Red vs. Blue is a con game, they'll continue to keep us occupied with these sham elections instead of uniting against and for policies rather than teams.
+1 We live in a propaganda state,
just as surely have citizens in every other state that has gone authoritarian. These corporatists are working on nothing less than dismantling democracy.
Criminals who build surveillance machines also build propaganda machines.
of what we are really dealing with:
Obama taps "cognitive infiltrator" Cass Sunstein for Committee to create "trust" in NSA:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023512796
Salon: Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal: Cass Sunstein wants the government to "cognitively infiltrate" anti-government groups
http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/sunstein_2/
The US government's online campaigns of disinformation, manipulation, and smear.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024560097
Snowden: ‘Training Guide’ for GCHQ, NSA Agents Infiltrating and Disrupting Alternative Media Online
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/25/snowden-training-guide-for-gchq-nsa-agents-infiltrating-and-disrupting-alternative-media-online/
The influx of corporate propaganda-spouting posters is blatant and unnatural.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3189367
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023262111
The goal of the propaganda assaults across the internet is not to convince anyone of anything.*
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023359801
The government figured out sockpuppet management but not "persona management."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023358242
The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4159454
Seventeen techniques for truth suppression.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4249741
Just do some Googling on astroturfing - big organizations have some sophisticated tools.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1208351
Jaw-dropping corruption by our own government,
under a Democratic administration. The Third Way is not what it pretends to be. We are dealing with slimy corporate sociopaths and criminals...in the financial castles and in our own government.
One of the ongoing myths about the financial crisis is that the government is outmatched by the legal talent representing the banks. But Fleischmann was impressed by the lead attorney in her case,a litigator named Richard Elias. "He sounded like he had been a securities lawyer for 10 years," she says. "This actually looked like his idea of fun – like he couldn't wait to run with this case."
She gave Elias and his team detailed information about everything she'd seen: the edict against e-mails, the sabotaging of the diligence process, the bullying, the written warnings that were ignored, all of it. She assumed that it wouldn't be long before the bank was hauled into court.
Instead, the government decided to help Chase bury the evidence. It began when Holder's office scheduled a press conference for the morning of September 24th, 2013, to announce sweeping civil-fraud charges against the bank, all laid out in a detailed complaint drafted by the U.S. attorney's Sacramento office. But that morning the presser was suddenly canceled, and no complaint was filed. According to later news reports, Dimon had personally called Associate Attorney General Tony West, the third-ranking official in the Justice Department, and asked to reopen negotiations to settle the case out of court.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106#ixzz3IJnvzrej
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Matt Taibbi: The biggest financial cover-up in history
Meet the woman JPMorgan Chase paid one of the largest fines in American history to keep from talking.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106
Fleischmann is a tall, thin, quick-witted securities lawyer in her late thirties, with long blond hair, pale-blue eyes and an infectious sense of humor that has survived some very tough times. She's had to struggle to find work despite some striking skills and qualifications, a common symptom of a not-so-common condition called being a whistle-blower.
....
She was blocked at every turn: by asleep-on-the-job regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission, by a court system that allowed Chase to use its billions to bury her evidence, and, finally, by officials like outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, the chief architect of the crazily elaborate government policy of surrender, secrecy and cover-up. "Every time I had a chance to talk, something always got in the way," Fleischmann says.
This past year she watched as Holder's Justice Department struck a series of historic settlement deals with Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America. The root bargain in these deals was cash for secrecy. The banks paid big fines, without trials or even judges – only secret negotiations that typically ended with the public shown nothing but vague, quasi-official papers called "statements of facts," which were conveniently devoid of anything like actual facts.
And now, with Holder about to leave office and his Justice Department reportedly wrapping up its final settlements, the state is effectively putting the finishing touches on what will amount to a sweeping, industrywide effort to bury the facts of a whole generation of Wall Street corruption. "I could be sued into bankruptcy," she says. "I could lose my license to practice law. I could lose everything. But if we don't start speaking up, then this really is all we're going to get: the biggest financial cover-up in history."
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I liked this post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025767160
Need something to vote for.
People have learned that Red versus Blue is a con game. The relevant issue isn't Red versus Blue or lazy citizens. The relevant issue is predatory corporate policies. It's a cynical corporate con game to blame citizens for not wanting to line up to drink poison.
No matter which party is elected, we keep getting the same overall direction of austerity, TPP, TISA, mass surveillance, "Kill Lists," indefinite detention, secret laws, secret courts, corporate education, drilling, fracking, new wars in Syria and Iraq, a TRILLION dollar ramping up of nuclear weapons when our president is signing ANOTHER round of food stamp cuts and a farm bill based on "pension smoothing." Not a single major banker in the mortgage collapse/theft held accountable, journalists and whistleblowers under assault, mass propaganda machines...It goes on and on and on.
People don't want to go in this direction. Seventy-six percent of them say we are going in the wrong direction. So they keep trying to switch parties, or trash it all and start over, but they keep getting the same direction anyway.
When people have two terrible options, they tend to lurch back and forth between them in protest. Or give up.
Time to stop pretending that the problem is insufficient bullying of people to vote for pols who don't represent them. We have to fix a corrupt system so that they actually have something to vote for.
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