MIDDLE CLASSES AROUND THE WORLD FACE A GROWING CRISIS

September 19, 2014 by concisepolitics

MIDDLE CLASSES AROUND THE WORLD FACE A GROWING CRISIS

Chris Hedges Has 15 Minutes to Start a Revolution

Chris Hedges = The prevailing power structure

Chris Hedges = “the abject surrender of our political class … to cash-rich lobbying groups.”

Click for Source Video on TruthDig by Chris Hedges

CONFIRMED BY PAUL FARRELL OF MARTKETWATCH!

THE GOALS OF THE 1% – WHO WILL DIRECT THIS GROWING CRlSlS?

OUR DECADE FROM HELL WILL GET WORSE by PAUL FARRELL, MarketWatch Dec 13, 2011

Click for Source Article By Paul Farrell on Martket Watch

2016. Reaganomics capitalism self-destructs, crashes, bank bankruptcies “But what if history is not cyclical and slow-moving but arrhythmic,” asks Ferguson. “What if collapse does not arrive over a number of centuries but comes suddenly,” too rapid to respond in time. True to form, a new conservative president will keep ignoring the lessons of history. And, as Jared Diamond’s warns in “Collapse:” “One of the disturbing facts of history is that so many civilizations share a sharp curve of decline … demise may begin only a decade or two after it reaches its peak in population, wealth and power.”

2017. Class war and revoIution: Rich class loses big, surrenders Warren Buffett saw the revolution long ago: “There’s cIass warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich cIass, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” But by the 2016 presidential election, political rage explodes into a new American CiviI War over lnequality. The gaping INCOME gap pops a bubble, causes economic coIIapse. RlOTS spread preventing another massive bailout of our too-greedy-to-fail banks. New depression lgnites cIass rebeIIion.

2018. The Fed and Wall Street banks collapse, Glass-Steagall reinstated We were Warned: Leaders need “the courage to practice long-term thinking, make bold, courageous, anticipatory decisions at a time when problems have become perceptible but before they reach crisis proportions.” Instead, they fail to act boldly, delay. History tells us leaders act in short-term self-interest, not long-term public interests, especially politicians backed by $Billionaires who see only quarterly earnings, year-end bonuses, next election.

The Elitists want to take us into wars to weaken AMERICA and create a POLICE STATE in America.

Click for More Articles by Paul Farrell on Market Watch

“The pitchforks ARE coming”

— Nick Hanauer, Multi-millionaire warns his fellow Oligarchs what is coming down the pipe = most Powerful conflict in human societies is the battle over the concentration of wealth and power. = Trickle-Down is a GIANT LIE!

Click for Source Article on Politico

SCOTLAND = WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE

September 18, 2014 by concisepolitics

SCOTLAND = WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE

What the US Could Learn From Scotland’s Anti-Austerity Independence Vote by John Nichols on September 18, 2014

Click for Source Article by John Nichols in THE NATION

SCOTLAND = WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE

SCOTLAND = No matter how VOTE GOES, there can be no doubt “the atmosphere in Scotland is extraordinary.” — Herald

SCOTLAND = Extraordinary Engagement of the PEOPLE = Massive Voter registration 97% of eligible Scots are registered = a “testament to a movement which has been engaging with thousands of people over the past two years.” = Vote is “a huge opportunity to restore democracy.”

SCOTLAND = The lesson for USA is start scheduling high-stakes national referendums on fundamental questions regarding the nation’s future? = MANY MILLIONS OF NEW VOTERS WILL TURNOUT.

SCOTLAND = American political campaigns = Pettiness and NO IDEAS

FACT: 2013 Gallup Poll = 68% of Americans favor national referendums on vital issues.

SCOTLAND = Expanded electorate. to 16 year olds.

SCOTLAND = Simple Clarity in ballot design and wording matters immensely

SCOTLAND = 2000 electoral meltdown in Florida with butterfly ballots and hanging chads.

SCOTLAND = One issue on the ballot = “yes” or “no” on the question: Should Scotland be an independent country?

SCOTLAND = Limited Spending + Lots of grassroots campaigning.

SCOTLAND = Scotland strictly limits campaign spending + No thirty-second TV or radio spots = LOW COSTS for the campaigners + NO negative advertising flooding the airwaves.

SCOTLAND = Changes character of the campaign as voters are NOT Exhausted and Disenchantment on Election Day. = Scots are remarkably enthusiastic.

SCOTLAND = Lots of debates + Take lots of questions from journalists and citizens.

SCOTLAND = Scottish television and radio programs and opinion pages featured daily debates. + In smallest communities there were organized events.

SCOTLAND = Easy voting = Electoral Commission has run its own “You Can’t Miss It” campaign to increase voter registration and participation = all jurisdictions use same sets of rules regarding who can vote, when and where voting takes place and how votes are counted.

SCOTLAND = Majority rule = NO BS “super majorities” that foster frustration. = Voters believe the process is fair and that their ballot could be decisive.

SCOTLAND = ALREADY HAS CONCESSIONS FROM THE UK AND WILL GET MORE = WIN OR LOSE

SCOTLAND = US officials BETTER START FAVORING national referendums on critical issues soon, using the systematic approach Scotland has taken.

SCOTLAND = Independence referendum could end 307-year union with England.

SCOTLAND = Dreamed of for decades = FREEDOM = “Fifty years I fought for this.”

A Poll TOO CLOSE = BUT ONE suggests “NO” might win.

SCOTLAND = What currency will Nation of Scotland use? EURO or BITCOIN or maybe the POUND

SCOTLAND = Yes vote = 18 months of negotiations with London to lead to Independence Day on March 24, 2016.

SCOTLAND = America has confidence and Scotland is “getting it, they’re walking tall.”

SCOTLAND = No campaigners said they swayed enough undecided voters to stave off independence. = Last-minute offer from Britain’s main political parties for more powers for Scotland if they reject secession.

SCOTLAND = “Whatever happens, Scotland is going to be different.”

SCOTLAND = Suffered Anti-independence push by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown

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SCOTLAND = PETER WATT, LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD = I think the UK kingdom is largely bankrupt.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12391

SCOTLAND = UNION of the two countries wasn’t a very popular thing at the time. — PETER WATT = It was an agreement between the two crowns.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = The currency of this union, has kind of begun to decline in the last two or three decades.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = The Conservative Party (the Tories), the Labour Party, and the Liberal Democrats–have all inflicted policies on Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland which have really been to the detriment of the majority of the population. = Similar to USA = Benefit the super-rich = Create high levels of unemployment + Rise of the corporate sector as taking over the state.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = The Labour Party no longer exists its “the red Tories”

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = The three parties in England essentially all agree on the main issues. = 9,000 pounds/year for one year of university education, but in Scotland they couldn’t pass that. = Labour Party sold out on education = Deepening of neoliberal policies of Blair to Brown to Tory agenda.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = Tony Blair started five wars, military invasions + Tony Blair, the Labour Party, supported increasing expansion into the West Bank by Israel + The sale of armaments to Saudi Arabia and to Israel.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = In Scotland there are more panda bears then there are Tory members of Parliament. Yet Scotland is expected to suffer under a Tory government for decades.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = This is a question of democracy, the people in Scotland should get the government that they vote for. BBC + Media establishment + Westminster elites don’t want Democracy.

FACT = Scotland sits on huge oil reserves

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = One of the myths peddled by the BBC is that suddenly the Royal Bank of Scotland is going to pack its bags and leave for the city of London. It’s simply untrue. The Royal Bank of Scotland issued a letter to all its employees saying they were going to pack up and move their central office to London, but there was no issue of jobs suddenly leaving. The Royal Bank of Scotland, who saw their profits rise by about 15% while homes in USA were being foreclosed.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = It is all part of the scare campaign. Here’s the Scots again, ungrateful and pushing for these things. + There’s no way they could ever make it on their own.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = 3 leaders of London’s main parties, Tweedledee, Tweedledum, and Tweedle Dumber–that’s Cameron, Miliband, and Clegg–all rushed to Scotland to say, we don’t want you to leave.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = Even if there is a “no” vote for the status quo, but things can never be the same after this. Growing up in Scotland you have this sense of disempowerment — Nothing you can do to change it. Margaret Thatcher said there is no alternative, there is no such thing as society. Drummed into you from a very early age there was nothing you could do to change things. And, of course, that continues. = Young people in Scotland today known nothing else but suddenly they have a stake in Scotland’s future.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = I certainly think it’s a step in the right direction because the present setup is so corrupt, rich state, rich government is massively corrupt and massively undemocratic. And any attempt to redress that imbalance is a positive thing.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = It’s NOT about nationalism, It’s about social justice. It’s about getting nuclear arms out of Scotland, weapons of mass destruction. And it’s about protecting the National Health Service. The Labour Party pledged to continue with the austerity cuts = Labour Party OFFERS NO alternative anymore.

SCOTLAND = Peter Watt = Labour Party voters have moved towards the idea of independence, because the Scottish National Party, certainly not a perfect party — it’s the SNP which are filling the boots of Labour, because Labour has completely and utterly abandoned its project.

MEDIA = MASSIVE FEAR CAMPAIGN ON AMERICANS + THEN POUND INTO AMERICANS THAT THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS MASSIVE OVERWHELMING WAR AND MURDER OF THOSE “MUSLIMS!”

September 18, 2014 by concisepolitics

MEDIA = MASSIVE FEAR CAMPAIGN ON AMERICANS + THEN POUND INTO AMERICANS THAT THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS MASSIVE OVERWHELMING WAR AND MURDER OF THOSE “MUSLIMS!” = MSM CREATES A FEAR FRENZY + KNEE-JERK MILITARY RESPONSE

Media Failing to Provide Substantive Debate on ISIS = Mainstream media is working to manufacturing consent for further FAKED WARS in Syria and Iraq – INTERVIEW OF Deepa Kumar and Peter Hart on THE REAL NEWS NETWORK Sept 17, 2014 by Charming Peries, Exec. Producer

Click to View Video Interview and transcript on The Real News Network

Deepa Kumar, Associate Professor, Rutgers University, in Media Studies and Middle Eastern Studies. Newest book, “Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire” looks at how the Media and Military use the “Muslim enemy” to meet the goals of empire. = Neoliberal globalization = “War on terror (A TACTIC)” = Politics of Empire and 9ll

Peter Hart is the Director at FAIR and is co-host and producer of FAIR’s syndicated radio show CounterSpin. His book, “The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly”

SHARMINI PERIES, EXEC. PRODUCER, TRNN: If 9ll and AQ Contract Killers were used to justification 2 U.S. WARS/INVASIONS. Now 13 years later ISIS(L) Contract Murderers provide another justification 2 MORE USELESS WARS in Iraq and Syria. Both AQ and ISIS(L) are funded by BIG OIL MONARCHS = Saudi Arabia and Qatar and others!

Obama’s ISIL speech led to the mainstream media (MSM) doing the usual TALKING POINTS Warmongering (in Noam Chomsky’s words), manufacturing consent among the disengaged general public by threatening an imminent murder of (“EVERY AMERICANS” according to Lindsey Graham) American(s) with the threat around every corner. Fear Mongering to justify the Expenditure of $Trillions of Middle Class Money = Destroy them before they destroy us –repeated again and again. And ISIS(L) beheadings (like SAUDIS did 19 times in August) intensifies the fear.

Today General Dempsey admitted in a Senate hearing that if the coalition against ISIS fails, he will be urging President Obama to send U.S. ground forces.

PERIES: Peter Hart did a very detailed demonstration of the warmongering in a FAIR article. Tell us what you found.

HART: The notion that ISIS(L) will attack Americans is unfounded as experts say ISIS(L) intentions lie in the Middle East. The MSMs and politicians Fear Mongering using the Beheadings as fodder drum up intensity for doing something militarily. The public opinion shift after the beheading videos was quite dramatic and it is multiplied by the MSM.

HART: Secondly, we hear over and over again that Barack Obama is reluctant to strike, reluctant to use the military. But Obama’s record is one of constant military threat and military action, from Pakistan to Yemen to Afghanistan, to Libya. This president is NOT reluctant to use military force. But MSM repeats this Lie and these two pernicious themes and it’s no wonder the public is primed for MORE MURDER AND MAYHEM! Oddly, Americans support the Bombings but don’t think it’s going to work = Americans are muddled by the MSM message underscoring that media have driven the public to Bombing and Murder using Middle Class funds.

PERIES: Obama was supposed to be the peace president, able to handle Islamophobia because of his own family background and living in Indonesia. What is your response Deepa?

KUMAR: We have seen an escalation of anti-Muslim racism and anti-Arab racism this summer starting with Israel’s relentless propaganda and MURDER of 2,1OO+ PALESTINIANS. It was wholesale demonization to justify the slaughter.

MSM focuses on the OUTRAGEOUS and the beheadings fits their MODEL to elevate HATE of Muslims. A Zogby poll found 27% of Americans are favorable towards Muslims.

Obama was elected by a public fed up with Bush’s warmongering and WMD LIES! And Americans have a growing weariness from 13 years of WARS (Afghanistan continues) that has transferred $6 Trillion in Middle Class wealth to Multinational Billionaires and their Corporations. So, last year, when Obama proposed an intervention into Syria it was largely scuttled because the public outcry.

ISIS(L) was FUNDED by our SO-CALLED FRIENDS in QATAR ($3 BILLION says WaPo) and SAUDI ARABIA and SOME AMERICAN FUNDING. Of course, ISIS(L) are just CONTRACTS PAID to do OVERWHELMING VIOLENCE and MURDERERS. That is CENTRAL to the MSM HYPE and plays a very useful role for U.S. imperialism and is used to justify interventions abroad. MSM ignores the fact such interventions have FAILED MISERABLY from Vietnam to Iraq to Yemen to Libya to Somalia…. Perhaps the USA and BIG OIL MONARCHS goal is to produced SPLINTERED WEAK FAILED STATES that are easy to DOMINATE AND EXPLOIT!

PERIES: Many polls have documented the disbelief Americans have about the MSM, yet they listen to it. Why?

HART: Obama refused to stop the MURDERS and OVERWHELMING VIOLENCE by ISRAEL in Palestine, but no MSM pundits demanding that Obama do something to stop suffering in Gaza. 190,000 Syrians have been MURDERED and the MSM hardly notices but instead MAGNIFIES 3 TACTICALLY GRUESOME BEHEADINGS. MSM has no sense of BALANCE or COMMON SENSE and conveys this WARPED VIEW TO AMERICANS as the way it SHOULD BE. But that is HOW PROPAGANDA WORKS for a TUNED OUT AUDIENCE! The MSM pundits and Politicians all emphasize the USA BOMBINGS AND MURDERS = “we must bomb somewhere now.” MSM plays A MASSIVE and intimate role in choosing WAR OVER NEGOTIATED PEACE. If you watch television news for any length of time, you see a parade of generals and former generals and former military officials who are only there to talk about what kind of war we might wage in Iraq and in Syria, not whether this is a good idea, not whether this will achieve any particular goals, not whether it will bring about a peaceful resolution.

MSM SKIPS PAST NEGOTIATIONS AND DEBATE = Skips debating peaceful negotiations and goes DIRECTLY TO WHAT KIND OF WAR WE SHOULD MAKE and never asking does WAR even MAKE SENSE and will it create EVEN MORE ENEMIES?

MSM = GOES STRAIGHT TO # of BOMBING + # of TROOPS ON THE GROUND + WHO SHOULD WE BE IN BED WITH ON THIS WAR OR THAT WAR? and never MENTIONS THE $TRILLIONS IN WEALTH WARS DRAIN from the MIDDLE CLASS.

FACT: MSM is in BUSINESS of MANUFACTURING consent for USA war-making

MSM use the same TECHNIQUES in Afghanistan (2001-2002) and in Iraq (2002-2003) = MSM HELPED FAKE WMDs (NYT + WaPo + TV) and make FAKED AND USELESS WARS FOR TRANSFERRING WEALTH FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS TO THE SUPER-RICH! = SCAQRE THGE CHIOT OUT OF AMERICANS POSING FAKED THREATS = LISA GRAHAM = “WE WILL ALL BE KILLED!!” + THEN POUND IN THAT THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS MASSIVE OVERWHELMING WAR AND MURDER OF THOSE “MUSLIMS!” = “To teach them a LESSON!”