Reply #109: In case you haven't looked lately, the corporations ARE the US Fed Gov [View All]

[arendt]

Preface: I think we agree about facts, and disagree about
motivations. I am much more cynical about how phony
the top level of US government has become in the last
25 years. The people do not control this government.

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The corporations have complete control of this country.
They loot the treasury, laugh at the regulations, have
their crooked judges fix any problems.

They own both political parties. Look at how effectively
the DLC, with media help, purged any activist from the
Democratic field. What is left are two rich pro-corporate
suits.

> The Bermudas ARE the US, under the power of the US federal government.
> Every corporation has at least one government that sponsors it.

No. Every government in the world today has at least one
corporation that sponsors it. In the US today, the GOP is
sponsored by the Oil Industry and the Military Industrial
Complex.

> The US or Europe controls the offshore havens, it's just a loophole
> they let them use.

You need to read "Hot Money and the Politics of Debt" by
a Canadian named Naylor.

Governments have been overthrown by intelligence services.
The spooks needed money and front companies. They set
them up in offshore havens.

Those fronts became self-funding rather quickly, uses drug
and arms smuggling. Then the spooks went "off the reservation".
They started undermining the governments that set them up.

The CIA undermined Carter, and helped Bush Sr into office.
The Mossad looked the other way while Rabin was killed by
an ultra-orthodox. Now they work hand in glove with the
criminal Sharon.

> The idea that fundamentalism is going to sweep the nation or
> that people will tune out Survivor to watch Pat Robertson is laughable!

Like the Nazis, when the majority sees the price of opposing
these thugs, they will shut up and "convert". They may not believe,
but they will obey. And, the thugs will control the spoils, so a lot of
people will sell out for goodies or for more than mere sustenance.

Do you think more than 10% of Germany were die-hard Nazis?
No. They were just secular folks. But you get religion real fast
when the Gestapo starts checking your background.

arendt