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GREEDIEST AMERICANS LIST FOR 2014 IGNORES BANKSTERS AND HEDGE FUND FRAUDS by Sam Pizzigati

GREEDIEST AMERICANS LIST FOR 2014 IGNORES BANKSTERS AND HEDGE FUND FRAUDS by Sam Pizzigati

“Remembering the Greediest Americans” by Sam Pizzigati, on TruthOut Dec 24, 2014

Click for Source Article by Sam Pizzigati in Truth-Out

Adelson GREEDIEST

Click for Source America’s Greediest: Sheldon Adelson Article

Some people actually work to advance humanity all year long, but others mock such ideas and spend their days chasing massive qwealth while hiding in the shadows.

The inequality weekly for the Institute for Policy Studies has been publishing an annual list of America’s top ten greediest plutocrats young and old.

Among the youngest of America’s 2014 top ten greediest: the 38-year-old Travis Kalanick, the CEO and cofounder of Uber, a taxi-like service that lets travelers hail cars through a mobile phone app in 250 cities = Uber’s worth $40 Billion = “didn’t exist five years ago.”

Click for Article that lists 2014 winners

2014 All-stars of GREED = Keeping our world a staggeringly unequal place.

#1 USA in WEALTH & INCOME INEQUALITY = Political reality = SUPER-RICH BRIBERY OF ELECTED AND BUREAUCRATIC OFFICIALS AND LEGISLATIVE KICKBACKS TO THE SUPER-RICH.

A FEW REAL LIFE FLESH AND BLOOD GREEDY WHO HAVE DECIDED THEY DESERVE PRIVILEGES OVER THE 99+% OF PEOPLE. Here is this year’s greediest of them all who can inspire the rest of us to fight for GREATER EQUALITY IN 2015:

#10 Paige Laurie Dubbert: Walmart Wealth = Granddaughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton’s brother and business partner = Charging wage theft during a divorce — When Walmart has feasted on wage theft for decades.

#9 Ken Langone = #1 oldest on GREEDIEST = 79-year-old Ken Langone who told pope to “cool it” on the “inequality front” = He hates the minimum wage + hates all regulations + hates government looking over his books. He is perhaps the last believer in Trickle Down Job Creators and LOVES Massive Concentrations of personal wealth. = Net worth of $2.6 billion.

#8 Dennis Jones = St. Louis mega millionaire says he SERVES THE POOR by sailing the seas on his $34 million yacht = $170,000/ MONTH he spends keeping his boat ship-shape = Funds paychecks for a 10-person crew.

#7 Micky Arison: Miami Heat owner and owner of Carnival cruise ship Empire = Greediest executive in an exceptionally greedy industry = Carnival incorporated abroad to sidestep USA taxes, labor laws, and safety regulations. + “Pay dirt cheap wages” with minimal benefits + Terminated retirement programs + Snatched tip income from staff + Fired 150 waiters for protesting = MAXIMIZE Arison’s personal fortune to $6+Billion.

#6 Jay Dweck: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley = $4.8 million home. Dweck wants “to improve quality of life using technology.” = Make life sweeter — for the 1% = Live Better Systems markets high-tech marvels to his fellow awesomely affluent.

#5 Phil Knight: Billionaire Nike chairman spent $68 million on a three-building “Performance Center” for Oregon football + A plush temple to touchdowns that boasts 64 55-inch TVs in the main lobby + $7.6 million to construct a hangar for his personal $64.5-million Gulfstream private jet. But Nike empire can’t afford to provide decent workplaces for the company’s huge outsourced workforce = subminimum wages and horrible working conditions. Nike and Knight are still profiting mightily off factories suffering “from persistent problems with wages, work hours, and employee health and safety.”

#4 James Mitchell: The Torture Doc = USA Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture tactics after 9/ll = Mitchell + Partner Jessen Designed the CIA “enhanced interrogation” TORTURE REGIMENT = PAIR Sold CIA officials talking al-Qaeda detainees for a $81 MILLION FORTUNE. BUT THEY FAILED.

#3 Paul Singer: Wall Street’s Top Hedge fund Billionaire = Practicing “vulture investing.” He snaps up the bonds of economically distressed nations at “next to nothing,” then flexes his fortune to force those nations to pay him far more than what he paid. = Congo ended up paying Singer $127 million on $10 million bought debt. = STRONG ARM EXTRACTION. + Singer originally paid $49 million for Argentinian debt BUT wants $832 million.

#2 Travis Kalanick: Getting Uber Rich Quick — see above

#1 Larry Ellison: Owning Everything = Pulls down more compensation than any other corporate CEO in the USA = 2013 income $78.4 Million from Oracle software company = His share is worth $50.6 billion. World’s fifth-richest person. Owns entire neighborhoods in Malibu and the Lake Tahoe area. + $3.9-million home in San Francisco + 23-acre estate $70-million faux 16th-century Japanese emperor’s palace + A real-life Japanese $86-million garden villa in Kyoto + $10.5-million mansion in Rhode Island’s Newport + $42.9-million golf estate in California’s Rancho Mirage + $500 million to buy 98 percent of the Hawaiian island of Lanai.

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CIA = INVENTED BY WALL STREET TO OVERTHROW DEMOCRACIES AND ANY LEADER WHO CROSSES USA OR EUROPE’S DESIRES FOR AIPAC-WALL STREET GREED AND WEALTH EXTRACTION.

CIA = INVENTED BY WALL STREET TO OVERTHROW DEMOCRACIES AND ANY LEADER WHO CROSSES USA OR EUROPE’S DESIRES FOR AIPAC-WALL STREET GREED AND WEALTH EXTRACTION.

WILLIAM CASEY CIA

“Legacy of Ashes-The History of the CIA” — Tim Weiner = Early funding for CIA was begun by James Forrestal and Allen Dulles from private Wall Street and Washington sources — Forrestal used his “old chum,” John W. Snyder, the USA Secretary of Treasury (Truman’s close ally), for $200 Million for CIA to manipulate European elections, beginning with Italy.

Brennan = LATEST OVERTHROW ARTIST = ANY TOOL IS ACCEPTABLE INCLUDING TORTURE AND MURDER = NO ACCOUNTABILITY + EVEN THEIR BUDGET IS UNKNOW TO THE PUBLIC.

CIA = USA GOV disclosed non-military intelligence spending in 2013 figure = $52.6 Billion. Guess is CIA’s 2013 budget = $14.7 billion

CIA “Covert action programs” = $2.6 Billion??

CIA = A MONSTER CREATED IN 1947 BY AIPAC-BANKSTERS TO DO THEIR DIRTY WORK OF REMOVING LEADERSHIP TO ALLOW WARS AND EXPLOITATION OF NATONS AND THEIR RESOURCES!

CIA = Created in 1947 by Congress in National Security Act signed by President Truman for overt and covert methods = Under plan CIA given authority to conduct “subversive operations abroad.”

National Security Act of 1947 = Established CIA = With “no police or law enforcement functions, either at home or abroad”. = VIOLATED WITH TORTURE

“After Scrutiny, C.I.A. Mandate Is Untouched” by Mark Mazzetti Dec 26, 2014

Click for Source Article by Mark Mazzetti in NYT

CIA = Original concept was to be ended after 20 months. Probably to MAKE THE CIA’s OUTRAGEOUS CONCEPTS ACCEPTABLE FOR PASSAGE.

1949 CIA Act authorized use of confidential procedures — exempted from limitations on the use of Federal funds + Exempted CIA from disclosure of its “organization, functions, officials, titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed.” = ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY TO AMERICANS

CIA = Upon request of USA President carries out covert actions to TOPPLE GOVERNMENTS = WaPo says CIA increasingly offensive roles.

CIA = TOPPLE 30+ NATIONS + Nonconsensual human experiments + Extraordinary rendition + Torture/Enhanced interrogation + Targeted Murders + Assassinations + Funding and Training Mercenaries/Terrorists [AQ + ISIS(L)]

CIA = GREAT SUCCESSES FOR AIPAC-BANKSTERS

CIA = BUT Massive security and counterintelligence failures, failures in intelligence analysis, human rights concerns, external investigations and document releases, influencing public opinion and law enforcement, drug trafficking, and lying to Congress. = UNLESS ALL THAT ARE THEIR PLANS AND GOALS TO SATISFY ENDLESSLY GREEDY BANKSTERS.

The National Clandestine Service = OVERTHROW EXPERTS

CIA Director reports to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) — Deals with PRESIDENT and Congress = Virtually NO REAL OVERSIGHT FOR DECADES AT A TIME!

CIA support USA military = CREATING DEMONSTRATIONS AND RIOTS TO BEGIN THE OVERTHROW OF A NATION = LAY GROUNDWORK FOR USA PUPPET GOVERNMENT THAT WILL BETTER SERVEW AIPAC-BANKSTERS IN UK + USA + Greater EU. = National Clandestine Service = Clandestine Covert Action that support of military operations + Manages relationship of CIA and USA Unified Combatant Commands + MANAGES MEDIA + MANAGES TRAINING OF FUTURE AQ-ISIS(L) (established in 1950) talent for use in OVERTHROWS = CHURNS UP FEAR MONGERING AND WARS WHERE NO PROBLEMS EXISTED BEFORE OTHER THAN CRIMINAL DESIRES AND GREED!

National Clandestine Service (NCS) = USES Foreign intelligence to develop new Covert Overthrow Action = Global clandestine actions + Helps in more overt military actions.

Marshall Plan appropriated $685 Million to CIA = Role United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service (the SIS or MI6)

CIA = Psychological Warfare Division (PWD) = Black propaganda

CIA = Covert actions against left-wing movements + CIA overthrew of foreign governments = First during 1953 Iranian coup d’état with UK’s Winston Churchill.

CIA = Credited overthrows in Burma, Guatemala, Laos, Cuba, and Zaïre in support of Mobutu Sese Seko.

Indochina, Tibet and the Vietnam War (1954–1975)

CIA = Mission to Indochina in 1954 = Merger of North and South Vietnam + Laos

CIA = Tibetan program = Political plots + Propaganda distribution + Paramilitary to help Dalai Lama in 1951 and 1956.

CIA = ABUSES 1970s–1990s = Around Watergate ex-CIA burglary — Caused attempts by Congress to assert oversight of CIA activities = Assassinations and attempted assassinations of foreign leaders = Castro + Trujillo + Illegal domestic spying on USA citizens + Nixon’s used CIA to impede the FBI’s investigation of the burglary = “Smoking gun” recording that Nixon ordered Haldeman, to tell CIA that further investigation of Watergate would “open the whole can of worms” about the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba = FBI should not follow the money trail from the burglars to the Committee to Re-elect the President, as it would uncover CIA informants in Mexico. FBI demanded this request in writing but NONE HAPPENED and the smoking gun tapes were made public = Damaging public’s perception of CIA

CIA ABUSES = 1973 Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) James R. Schlesinger commissioned “Family Jewels” report of illegal activities by CIA the Agency. 1974, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the news of the “Family Jewels” leaked to him by William Colby in a front-page NYT article claiming CIA assassinated foreign leaders + illegally did surveillance on 7,000 USA citizens.

CIA = Experimented with LSD on USA/Canadian citizens without their knowledge and observed the results. = All these abuses in 1975, resulted in investigating by USA Senate of CIA by the Church Committee.

CIA = TOLD TO STOP ASSASSINATIONS = President Ford’s Rockefeller (LOL) Commission = Issued an executive order prohibiting the assassination of foreign leaders. Ford had to assure Americans that his administration was not involved with CIA: “There are no people presently employed in the White House who have a relationship with the CIA of which I am personally unaware.”

CIA = Iran-Contra affair = Arms smuggling covert operations = Secret missions in geopolitical OVERTHROWS = All Congress wanted was followup reports.

2004 CIA = LAYERED EVEN MORE SO FROM USA GOVERNMENT = Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 created the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) = ANOTHER LAYER OF BUREAUCRACY BETWEEN CIA AND USA CONGRESS AND EXECUTIVE. On July 30, 2008, President Bush Executive Order strengthen the role of the DNI – Prior to DNI, the CIA reported to the President, with informational briefings to congressional committees.

CIA = Founded Al-Qaeda to FIGHT USSR in AFGHANISTAN in cooperation with Saudi Arabia.

CIA = Insists those who conducted the attacks on 9/ll were not aware that the agency was operating at 7 World Trade Center under the guise of another (unidentified) federal agency = HQs for many notable criminal terrorism investigations.

CIA = Criticized for not having prevented the attacks. But had warned the Bush AIPAC NEOCONS for 4.5 months about the coming attacks, but NEOCONS POO-POOED as BULL CHIOT.

The spymaster had cause for worry. He had endured a public grilling about his role in domestic spying operations by a select committee headed by Senator Frank Church, a Democrat from Idaho, that spent years looking into intelligence abuses. And the Central Intelligence Agency, used to doing what it wanted while keeping Congress mostly in the dark, was in the midst of convulsions that would fundamentally remake its mission.

Nearly four decades later, another Senate committee’s allegations that the C.I.A. has engaged in torture, lying and cover-up have stirred echoes of the Church era — raising the question of whether the agency is in for another period of change.

But the scathing report the Senate Intelligence Committee delivered this month is unlikely to significantly change the role the C.I.A. now plays in running America’s secret wars. A number of factors — from steadfast backing by Congress and the White House to strong public support for clandestine operations — ensure that an agency that has been ascendant since President Obama came into office is not likely to see its mission diminished, either during his waning years in the White House or for some time after that.

The Church Committee’s revelations about the abuses committed by the intelligence community — and a parallel House investigation led by Representative Otis G. Pike of New York — came at the end of America’s wrenching military involvement in Vietnam, and during a period of détente with the Soviet Union. The disclosures of C.I.A. assassination schemes and spying on Vietnam War protesters fueled a post-Watergate fury among many Americans who had grown cynical about secret plots hatched in Washington.

The grim details, shocking at the time, led to a gutting of the agency’s ranks and a ban on assassinations, imposed by President Gerald R. Ford. They also led to the creation of the congressional intelligence committees and a requirement that the C.I.A. regularly report its covert activities to the oversight panels.

By contrast, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s recent report on C.I.A. excesses since the Sept. 11 attacks arrived in the midst of renewed fears of global terrorism, the rise of the Islamic State and grisly beheading videos of American hostages.

Loch K. Johnson, a professor at the University of Georgia and a former Church Committee investigator, said that the committee did its work “in a semi-benign period of international affairs.”

“There wasn’t the same kind of fear in the air,” he said.

A CBS News poll released last week found that though 69 percent of those asked consider waterboarding to be torture, 49 percent think that brutal interrogation methods are sometimes justified. More than half, 57 percent, believe that the tactics are at least sometimes effective in producing valuable intelligence to help stop terrorist attacks.

Senator Angus King, a member of the Intelligence Committee, said that Hollywood depictions of torture have distorted the public’s view of its efficacy.

“Every week, Jack Bauer saves civilization by torturing someone, and it works,” said Mr. King, the independent from Maine, referring to the lead character of the television show “24.”

Mr. King said that he was initially skeptical about the need to release the torture report, but when he spent five straight evenings reading it in a secure room on Capitol Hill he decided that the C.I.A. abuses needed a public airing.

“It went from interest, to a sick feeling, to disgust, and finally to anger,” he said.

But the Obama administration has made clear that it has no plans to make anyone legally accountable for the practices described by the C.I.A. as enhanced interrogation techniques and the Intelligence Committee as torture. The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. this week asking him to appoint a special prosecutor to examine the report’s allegations, but the request will almost certainly be rejected.

And while Senator King called the Intelligence Committee’s report “Church Committee II,” he, like many other Democrats on the Intelligence Committee, remains a broad supporter of the C.I.A.’s paramilitary mission that Mr. Obama has embraced during his time in the White House.

During the presidential campaign in 2008, Mr. Obama railed against the agency’s use of torture and secret prisons during the Bush administration, and shuttered the detention program during his first week in office. But he has empowered the agency in other ways — including allowing its director, not the White House, to make the final decisions about drone strikes in Pakistan.

“Many presidents tend to be smitten with the instruments of the intelligence community. I think Obama was more smitten than most,” said one former senior Obama administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified intelligence matters. “This has been an intelligence presidency in a way we haven’t seen maybe since Eisenhower.” The C.I.A. had shifted from capturing and interrogating terrorism suspects to targeting them with armed drones even before Mr. Obama came to office. It was a tactic championed by Congress at the same time that lawmakers were beginning to criticize the agency’s detention and interrogation program.

The agency carried out its first drone strike in Pakistan in June 2004, weeks after a draft of a damning C.I.A inspector general report about abuses in the agency’s secret prisons began circulating in Washington. In the months that followed, the agency began to refashion itself not as a long-term jailer, but as a secret paramilitary force that could kill terrorism suspects with little controversy.

For the C.I.A., there were far fewer political costs associated with killing terrorists than with capturing and interrogating them. There have now been more than 400 drone strikes in Pakistan, according to statistics compiled by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and the operations have had broad support among Democrats and Republicans. And the C.I.A. continues to carry out drone strikes in Yemen, despite the Obama administration’s declared intention in May 2013 that the drone program be transferred to the Pentagon.

John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, said during his confirmation hearing in 2013 that he wanted to refocus the agency on traditional missions like espionage and analysis. But the effort has been slow going for a number of reasons. For instance, the congressional intelligence committees have vigorously tried to block transferring drone operations to the Pentagon — fighting to keep the C.I.A. in control of aspects of the program.

Mr. Johnson, the University of Georgia professor, was the Church Committee staff member who was eating lunch with Mr. Angleton in 1976 when he fulminated against an interfering Congress. In the years since then, he said during a recent interview, he has often met senior C.I.A. leaders who took a dim view of congressional oversight.

During one dinner he had with William J. Casey, the agency’s director during the Reagan administration who became enmeshed in the Iran-contra scandal, he said that Mr. Casey told him that the role of Congress was to “stay the [expletive] out of my business.” But as much as America’s spies might still complain about their overseers, the years since the Sept. 11 attacks have been an era of broad license — and hefty budgets — not just for the C.I.A., but also for the National Security Agency and other intelligence services. Neither the White House nor the American public has shown an inclination to change that.

And as America’s spying apparatus has grown larger, richer and more powerful than during any other time in its history, it has become ever harder for those keeping watch over it.

“We are 15 people overseeing a $50 billion enterprise,” said Senator King, speaking of his fellow members on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“I can’t tell you I know with certainty every intelligence program this enterprise is engaged in.”

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10 STRATEGIES OF MANIPULATION OF AMERICANS BY THE CORPORATE MEDIA!

10 STRATEGIES OF MANIPULATION OF AMERICANS BY THE CORPORATE MEDIA!

USA MEDIA or MSM = 99.44% PURE AIPAC-WALL STREET-BILLIONAIRE PROPAGANDA AND LIES!

TOTALITARIAN MANIPULATION HUXLEY

Click for Source Article information by Noam Chomsky

NOAM CHOMSKY = RENOWNED MIT PROFESSOR IDENTIFIES TEN CORPORATE MEDIA PROPAGANDA METHODS TO MOLD AMERICANS INTO BELIEVING LIES:

NOAM CHOMSKY = DETECTS THE MOST COMMON STRATEGIES OF INTIMIDATION + DEMEANING + GUILT + DISTRACTION + FAKE PROBLEMS + MAGICAL BS + MAKE US FEEL OR BE STUPID!

AIPAC-WALL STREET-BILLIONAIRE PARASITES DOMINATE AND BRIBE OUR CONGRESS + PRESS/MSM + COURTS + FED + ECONOMY + AMERICANS WITH PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES:

CHOMSKY ON PROAPGANDA

# 1 DISTRACTION STRATEGY = Corporate MEDIA Diverts public attention from important scams of the ELITISTS! = FLOOD AMERICANS WITH BULL CRAP LIES AND PROPAGANDA = Prevent real issues from being discussed + Prevent essential knowledge in Science + Engineering + Economics that can solve real problems. Keep the public busy.

# 2 CREATE FAKE PROBLEMS, THEN OFFER CORPORATE SOLUTIONS = Unfold and intensify violence or bloody attacks to get Americans to accept CLAMPDOWNS on FREEDOMS with security laws and policies. Or create an economic crisis to dismantling of public services or BAILOUT CRIMINALS.

# 3 GRADUAL STRATEGY = Dropper by Dropper of Corporate Propaganda over years to Gain Acceptance of Radically Worse Socioeconomic Conditions = Neoliberalism = MINIMAL MILITARIZED STATE + PRIVATIZATION SCAMS OF PUBLIC + MASSIVE UNEMPLOYMENT + POVERTY + NO DECENT INCOME + NO SECURITY + POLICE STATE

# 4 STRATEGY OF DEFERRING = DELAY “PAINFUL” UNPOPULAR SACRIFICES TO SOME FUTURE TIME FRAME TO GAIN PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE. Public naively expects “everything will be better tomorrow” – Public gets more time to ADJUST TO THEIR LOSSES – BECOME RESIGNED TO DOMINATION BY THE ELITISTS!

# 5 TREAT AMERICANS AS SMALL CHILDREN = Most advertising + speeches have a children’s intonation of implied weakness or mentally deficiency = infantilizing. = Does away with any CRITICAL RESPONSE OR QUESTIONING! (See Silent Weapons for Quiet War ).”

# 6 PLAY WITH EMOTIONS TO SHORT CIRCUIT RATIONAL THINKING = Opens the door to the unconscious for implantation or grafting ideas, desires, fears and anxieties, compulsions, or induce behaviors … TO SATISFY THE CORPORATE ELITISTS!

# 7 KEEP AMERICANS IN IGNORANCE AND HAPPY WITH MEDIOCRITY = Methods for enslavement and control. “We’ll know our DlSlNFORMATlON PROGRAM is complete when everything the American PUBLlC believes is FALSE.” – WiIIiam Casey, ClA DlRECTOR (from his first staff meeting) = LOWER the quality of Education given to everyone except the SUPER-RICH.

# 8 PROMOTE STUPIDITY AS FASHIONABLE TO ENCOURAGE COMPLACENCY AND MEDIOCRITY = ACCEPTANCE OF LOW QUALITY LIFE AND EVEN SLAVERY!

# 9 CREATE AMERICAN SELF-BLAMING FOR THEIR MISFORTUNES = NOT CORPORATE CONTROLLED GOVERNMENT BUT TELL PEOPLE THEY ARE JUST IGNORANT FAILURES + WITH NO ABILITIES + LAZY = Way to prevent rebelling against the CORPORATE STATE SYSTEM = Load up with SELF-GUILT to create depression and inhibit any actions = NO Revolution!

# 10 PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE = Corporations know more about Americans than they know themselves = 50+ YEARS OF RESEARCH to EMPOWER THE SUPER-RICH ELITISTS TO DOMINATE THE MASSES. = Biological Research and Drugs + Neurological Research and Drugs + Applied Psychology and Propaganda = Corporate “system” of sophisticated MIND CONTROL of large populations. SYSTEM exerts greater power over individuals than individuals themselves.

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